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Come Play With Us: A Spooky Storytelling Podcast
Gather around the virtual campfire and join us as we listen to spooky stories and creep ourselves out. We believe in the power of great storytelling and we’ve invited our friends to challenge them to scare the shit out of us. We'll rate them to see how they've done, and hopefully we'll still remain friends by the end of the episode.
Come Play With Us: A Spooky Storytelling Podcast
Polybius
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Leila and Ruby
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Episode 36
Today, Leila tells us about the mysterious arcade game that appeared and disappeared in a matter of a month in Portland, Oregon. Travel back to 1981, when Polybius was all the rage, with hoards of kids lining up to play. But its side-effects were no fun and games.
Other media mentioned in the episode:
- Stranger Things, a supernatural, science fiction television series that premiered on Netflix in 2016
- The Last of Us, an action-adventure dystopian video game
- The Manchurian Candidate, a political thriller novel that was released in 1959
- The Ring, a supernatural horror film released in 2002, remake of the 1998 Japanese film Ringu
- Stay Alive, a supernatural horror film directed by William Brent Bell and released in 2006
- Minecraft, a crafting and adventure sandbox game