Mixed Media on canvas, stretched and ready to hang.

Signed on the front.

...
We believed it once…
Or... did we?
Was it even real?
Was there ever a game at the arcade called Polybius?
Perhaps on the Atari 2600 with the perma-forked joysticks?
An obscure cartridge in a pile of cartridges
Traded on Friday for E.T.
Swapped on Saturday for Gremlins
Swiped along with Moon Patrol on Sunday.
The graphics...
An obscure memory of a game,
That may or may not have been.
Not PAC Man.
Not Space Invaders.
Before River Raid,
But after Pong.
Block figurine,
Advancing down corridors.
Left,
Right,
Straight ahead.
Pick up the black key
Open the door.
Red lamp, green lamp, black lamp, white lamp.
You die, the walls flash different colours.
Was there ever an objective?
An adversary in black hunting blue man.
Was that it?
Real or fiction?
Or just another Mandela effect
Not dissimilar to the 1996 movie
Shazaam.
A place where things are right,
And the people are nice,
And not so quick
To fork one up.
A planet far far from here.
Perhaps a glitch in this Sim called life.
Where like the game when lives are spent
Scores get tallied and others look
At names on the Hi-Scorer list.
Who did well and who bombed.
…
I need to sort through some old games.
Like right now.