POLYBIUS: The Video Game That Doesn’t Exist is an hourlong exploration of the ultimate arcade urban legend: play it, and it’ll drive you insane. The documentary was made by Stuart “Ahoy” Brown, who has mastered a sternly British documentarian voice and applies it mercilessly to the subject of games. [via]
Of the various efforts to implement the legend, Jeff Minter’s is surely the best, though I love the more accurate (albeit rasterized) period stylings of this vectorbeam mockup:
Previously: Gaming urban legends; Nomen Ludi