Ashens and the Polybius Heist (2020) on Netflix

Plot summary

Stuart Ashen is introduced as a sneak-thief who steals rare but worthless items, primarily electronics, for historical preservation. His partner, Benny, works with him but is frustrated at not receiving equal credit for their successes. Benny informs Stuart that he has been researching "Polybius", the famous lost arcade machine that drove players mad, and has obtained an archive photo of the lead developer - whom Stuart recognizes as Jonathan Ashen, his father. Stuart recalls Jonathan abandoning him and his sister to work full-time on a "secret project", telling them that Stuart's grandfather, Woodward, spent his life trying to create a portable organ which did not work, and two coin-shaped tokens which were supposed to grant free play on any arcade machine but in fact shorted out any machine they were put into. Benny has also learned that the Polybius machine may be in the hands of Anthony Agonist, a millionaire businessman with an obsession with the new and modern, and in storage at his facility in the city's Bowthorpe Park Industrial Estate.

Stuart visits a professor at the Institute of Outdated Technology who confirms that Polybius is dangerous, especially in the hands of Agonist, and that the developer was obsessed with completing it, even after it become clear it was causing serious harm, until the military blocked the project.