POLYBIUS: Arcade game that never existed, or mind control experiment?

[Mister Obvious]

I don't find it hard to believe that 1980s Portland, OR may have been used for psychological experiments, after all the west coast is no stranger to such fuckery...

Operation Sea-Spray was a 1950 U.S. Navy secret biological warfare experiment in which Serratia marcescens and Bacillus globigii bacteria were sprayed over the San Francisco Bay Area in California, in order to determine how vulnerable a city like San Francisco may be to a bioweapon attack.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea-Spray

The Stanford prison experiment (SPE) was a psychological experiment conducted in the summer of 1971. It was a two-week simulation of a prison environment that examined the effects of situational variables on participants' reactions and behaviors.

Participants were recruited from the local community with an ad in the newspapers offering $15 per day to male students who wanted to participate in a "psychological study of prison life."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_p...experiment