Discuss.
>>12104376Reddit tier
>>12104376Obvious hoax that was created to shill a retro arcade gaming website.
>>12104376I've played it
gave birth to one of my favorite youtube videos of all timehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Emg09EcatE
>>12104376It was real.>>12104469Like the same hoax about the landfill with tons of buried copies of E.T., Mr. Wise Doubting Thomas?
>>12104786Nobody said that the landfill story was a hoax.Nice try, retard.Also, if Polybius is real, prove it by posting a ROM dump.Oh wait, you can't.
Ahoy's video about Polybius is really good.
>>12104797Nta but there are arcade games that have not been dumped
>>12104807Give some examples.
>>12104814beavis and butthead machine at galloping ghost
>>12104814Yosaku, the very first game released by SNK. You play as a lumberjack who has to chop down trees while avoiding wildlife. It has been copied several times by other developers, but the original SNK game is lost.
>>12104376Not really retro, but I wish there were more legend stories about "lost video games" that aren't just Sonic creepypastas.
>>12104837dammit don't remind me of that anon. it makes me depressed. that game looks so fucking good.
>>12104852>Not really retro, but I wish there were more legend stories about "lost video games" that aren't just Sonic creepypastas.Polybius is probably the most interesting of the vidyagaem urban legends that has not been proven or dis-proven. The original description was that the game was a clone of tempest to a point, with a vector monitor and perhaps looked like an Asteroids Deluxe arcade cab; with a monitor being projected to transparent glass. If it ever was real, it would be easy to say that it could've been an FBI, CIA a private research group (maybe a combination of one of those two) attempt at collecting information on how various sounds, colours and noises could affect an unsuspecting people. Maybe the machine had recording equipment in it that activated a camera behind the monitor? Or maybe it recorded heart/ pulse rates through the game joysticks? perhaps Jeff Minter was contracted to work on this in secret? Given his expertise in music visualization? The man practically invented the music visualizer. I think if this was real, it was used for research and data collection ion a small sample of people. Or it could also be complete bullshit.
I had a mini-heartattack from clicking this thread, thankfully I had my fastacting ploybimedicine on me I downed with holy water
>>12104839And it left behind plenty of evidence of its existence, so there's no doubt that it was a real game.On the other hand, every single shred of so-called evidence of Polybius' existence has been proven to be fake.
>>12104376The myth might be a better story than the mundane truth whatever that is.
>>12104797I think there are at least 2 versions of Polybius made in the 2010s. crappypasta tier "legend" though. no mentions anywhere before the 2000s.
You can tell its bullshit without even digging into the story because the only evidence of it existing is a high quality screenshot.
>>12105641Yeah. People were pointing that out even early on.
I'm kind of sad that this is Polybius for people because the author Polybius is one of my favorite Greek writers.His description of Scipio in front of the ruins of Carthage literally made me tear up
>>12105950kek I can't blame those namedrops, I discovered Pindar from some schizo theory about hidden popes. that was a nice catch.
Maybe it was a location test and the game was never released...
>>12104814Dodonpachi campaignMetal black tarabar edition
Had fun with the machine in my usual place.
>>12104786nta but the E.T. thing was a half-hoax, E.T. was in fact buried there in droves but it was a general warehouse liquidation and it wasn't the only thing buried there.
>>12104376Nothing left to discuss, the definitive video essay on this already exists.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7X6Yeydgygtldr the whole thing was created by the maintainer of an arcade games database website who sent in a "tip" to GameProyou believe there's more to it because your imagination filled in numerous blanks over the years. different fractions of the myth filtered their way through pop culture and came back to you to convince you there was more to its origin than there actually was.let me know if anyone here's a jungian though, we can rap
>>12104376https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsfq2PXTxSA
>>12107127forgor pic
>>12106941At least the search for it brought attention to some cool weird games like >>12107127 as possible candidates, as well as some interesting old newspaper stories about FBI investigators visiting arcades/deaths in arcades.The hunt was fun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF4MBS5a3wQ
They wouldn't have made a game called polybius. It's too weird of a name and people wouldn't pronounce it uniformly. Every early arcade game had an easy name to say
>>12106941>video essayNo thanks, I'm not a faggot.
>>12104786>>12104797Landfill story was never considered a hoax but it was more of an urban legend. Something people always repeated but had no real evidence that it actually happened. It wasn't proven til many years later and even then the original story I heard over 20 years ago was that it was all ET cartridges. Most versions I heard too were that atari took them out to the desert and buried them, not that they wound up in an actual landfill like they filled up some roll off boxes and had them hauled off.
>>12107685>Landfill story was never considered a hoax but it was more of an urban legend. Something people always repeated but had no real evidence that it actually happened. It wasn't proven til many years later and even then the original story I heard over 20 years ago was that it was all ET cartridges. Most versions I heard too were that atari took them out to the desert and buried them, not that they wound up in an actual landfill like they filled up some roll off boxes and had them hauled off.That story has been circulating around since the 80's as far as I know. It is probably true that the "landfill" that was reported as being dumped were ET 2600 carts, because Atari apparently pushed retailers into overstocking cartridges that went by unsold. But the landfills had Pac-Man, and other noteworthy 2600 games. I remember when there were websites devoted to finding the dump sites. If I knew what the addresses were, I would look for them on archive.org.
https://youtu.be/8Rt_3_bQVJU?list=RD8Rt_3_bQVJUMy Dad use to have a copy of ET for the 2600.
>>12107672>video essay >:(>documentary :O
Electric Playground interview with Nolan Bushnell from 1998: https://youtu.be/9fTkjy9dqM8?t=369
>>12107160>They wouldn't have made a game called polybius. It's too weird of a name and people wouldn't pronounce it uniformly. Every early arcade game had an easy name to say
>>12107685I've read that some of the unsold 2600 (mostly ET) carts were crushed up and used as the foundation for one of Atari's own offices.
>>12107672>I'm a zoomer retard with zero attention span.Kill yourself.
>>12104391was from before then dood
>>12104805He utterly and thoroughly debunked the rumor. That video not only convinced me that it never existed, but made the whole thing seem cringe.>named after a Greek historian born in ARCADIA>name translates to “many lives”>developed by a company called Sinnesloschen>company name translates to “senses delete”Come on dude.
>>12107672So you're intentionally avoiding a compilation of well-researched information that explains the scenario. Therefore, you are willfully ignorant and none of your opinions matters. Please identify the rest of your posts so I know they're made by a retarded faggot who doesn't know what he's talking about.
>>12107751that's just devious but with an x and everyone knows you pronounce x as z when it starts the word, y'know like xylophone and xenomorph
>>12108175Yeah, if you wrote it now, people would instantly recognize it as a creepypasta.
>>12104476>>12106839same, can't believe there are posters here who didn't even play polybius
