It is unknown to where they are taken - or who takes them.Ĭontainment: Subject remains inactive unless coins are inserted and the “start” button is pressed.Īdditional notes: Subject is named for the Greek historian Polybius (c. After a minimum of four weeks, but no more than six, subject’s game cabinets will be begin to disappear from the arcades as quietly as they had arrived. These men will be uninterested in collecting subject’s coin earnings. Suited men may occasionally be seen retrieving play statistics and other data from subject. Players will also suffer from nausea, sleep disruptions, nightmares, and in extreme cases, suicidal tendencies. Repeated exposure to subject will first cause mild confusion in players before progressing to severe amnesia. Although the fast-paced gameplay may be difficult to follow, subject will quickly garner a following of dedicated players. Just one more behavioural experiment in a long line of many.Modus operandi: Subject will initially present as a limited release title in a select few arcades located in the suburbs of a major city. The opportunity to study the effects of this game alongside the effects perhaps of LSD administered in contact or aerosol form might be too much to pass up on. Video game arcades were a new cultural phenomenon packed with teenagers coming out of the peace movement. So, the creation of a psychedelic, mesmerisingly hypnotic video game that caused a wide range of side effects sounds like something that they would have been extremely interested in. None of this is speculation it is a fact supported by documents know available under the Freedom of Information Act. If it weren't for a 'filing error' that prevented the destruction of 20,000 documents, then I doubt the public would ever have known about MK Ultra at all. Techniques used to manipulate peoples mental state included surreptitious administration of narcotics (most notably LSD), hypnosis, sensory and sleep deprivation, isolation, and even verbal and sexual abuse. This program began in the 1950s and continued until being officially shut down in 1973. Brain washing and mind control to you and me. The purpose of MK Ultra was to conduct covert research into the behavioural engineering of humans. MK Ultra came about as a direct result of this secrecy, using front organisations get access to the American public through institutions such as prisons, hospitals, and even private ventures like whore houses. This gave rise to many black projects, off the books super secret projects that the public was deemed ineligible to know about. Ex-Nazi scientists were pardoned and promoted into aerospace and rocket programs, and indeed into many facets of scientific life, including psychology under the name Project Paperclip. I want to see if there is a possibility that the opportunity was there to create this video game monster.Īfter WWII, the rise of Communism had the West in turmoil, always looking for an edge, always looking for the enemy at home as well as behind the Iron Curtain. Instead of focusing on the total lack of physical evidence, I want to look into the track record of CIA behaviour since the end of World War II and the emergence of video games in popular culture.

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