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From what I've read this Never existed, or did it? I thought I saw a picture of a cabinet once.

Did anyone ever make this game cabinet as a super cool inside arcade nerd joke?
This was even parodied on the Simpsons.

Post your Polybius pictures/stories
http://www.joltcountry.com/polybius.html
 
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From what I've read this Never existed, or did it? I thought I saw a picture of a cabinet once.

Did anyone ever make this game cabinet as a super cool inside arcade nerd joke?
This was even parodied on the Simpsons.

Post your Polybius pictures/stories

One of those fake internet legends and there have been some crumby photoshop pics done.

I've seen one youtube film that someone made of a mock-up Polybius cab and as I recall it was kinda lame.

Anyway in answer to your query I was going to redo my Mame cab as a Polybius. Thought it would be a clever inside joke.
 
All I can say about Polybius is that I grew up in Portland, Oregon (where all the Polybius events supposedly happened) in the 90's, and I never once heard any kind of rumor about it. I'm pretty positive this urban legend was concocted within the last 10 years. This myth has only ever existed on the internet, and never in the area where it supposedly actually happened.
 
Bump. G4 just ran a story on this, and I was about to make a smiliar thread. Does anyone on here have any actual knowledge of this game? I mean, it is listed in the museum...lol
 
I remember tracking it pretty deep a few years back. Basically:

1. Some guy claiming to be the programmer made a long explanation about it on a big gaming forum and gave logical explanations for all of it. Several other people involved also stepped forward. Turned out they were all the same IP and a hoax.

2. I can't find it right off but there was a post somewhere explaining how the whole story seems to be a tribute to an old writer whose supernatural stories always took place in Portland, Oregon and involved the same plot staples. It appeared to be little more than a tribute rumor.

3. Someone connected that the story seemed to be based on real cases for a prototype version of Tempest that caused vertigo in its players, where the level moved instead of the ship. That much was true.

4. One spanish gaming forum I used to frequent claimed to have the real Polybius and it got pretty weird. Someone made a ROM and the other posters extracted Betty Page photos and death mask/raven paintings inside the graphics data. It seems to have also been a hoax, though.

In other words... it's fake, never existed, never will. Some people made tribute games/cabinets and it's a fun bit of the arcade mythos, but don't expect to stumble across a cab in a warehouse anytime soon.
 
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It's as real as Mikey from Life dying from eating "pop rocks" candy or spider eggs in bubble yum (or hubba bubba) gum.

Most likely story:
Probably some mom saw kids playing Tempest and thought it was dizzying...
 
The video could have been great, since the guys that made it had a mock-up machine. They goofed it by having a really long and cornball setup.

Had it been even slightly believable, it would have been really cool.
 
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