> There even was an East German gaming machine called Poly Play (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly_Play https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly_Play). You can actua

> There even was an East German gaming machine called Poly Play (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly_Play https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly_Play). You can actually play on one of these in the Computer Games Museum in Berlin (really worth a visit). But of all East Germans that I asked, nobody had ever heard about this before, so probably was something produced in very low quantities. An interesting trivium for arcade nerds: A common theory concerning the "conspiracy-surrounded" arcade machine Polybius > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Polybius_(urban_legend)&oldid=868914964 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Polybius_(urban_l... is that its name was actually some misunderstanding/derivation of "Poly Play". Indeed, according to the German news article > https://de.sputniknews.com/panorama/20180113319038539-psychische-kontrolle-computerspiele/ https://de.sputniknews.com/panorama/20180113319038539-psychi... in 1985, about one thousand instances of the Poly Play machine were confiscated in Portland for copyright reasons (which fits the "men in black who took the machines away after a few months" part of the Polybius conspiracy theory). This theory is also mentioned on > https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/polybius https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/polybius "The best answer if it's fake (IF), is that it was based off an obscure, and rare German arcade cabinet called "Poly-Play" which was a collection of eight games including a puzzler and space shooter."