Polybius

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Polybius is a 1981 arcade game that was part of a government-run crowdsourced psychology experiment, with gameplay producing intense psychoactive and addictive effects in the player. These few publicly staged arcade machines were said to have been visited periodically by men in black for the purpose of data-mining the machines and analyzing these effects. Finally, all of these Polybius arcade machines allegedly disappeared from the arcade market.

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THE BLACK VANS CAME
AND DROPPED OFF THE GAMES
IN THE VIDEO ARCADES
[NOW I CAN'T STOP PLAYING]

THE BLACK VANS CAME
THEY DROPPED OFF THE GAMES
GRAPHIC MIND CONTROL
[THEY'RE MESSING WITH OUR BRAINS}

I CAN'T STOP PLAYING AND I'M LOSING MY MIND
TWITCHING AND DROOLING CAN'T SLEEP AT NIGHT

POLYBIUS

THE BLACK VANS CAME
AND PICKED UP THE GAMES
COLLECTED INTEL
ON EVERYONE WHO PLAYED

THE BLACK VANS CAME
AND PICKED UP THE GAMES
FILE CLOSED: DENIAL
MANCHURIAN ARCADE

POLYBIUS

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from ROBOSAPIEN, released January 19, 2018
Nate Moore-Tron: BGVs
Winford "More Human Than Human" Morrisey: Drums
TR: Guitars, Synths, Bass, Drum Machine, Vocals

Recorded by TR. Mixed and Mastered by Tate5000.

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ROBOSAPIEN Minneapolis, Minnesota

We are a collective of robots and robot-human hybrids holding secret meeting (called "shows") to intervene in the destructive activities of humans.

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