Never even heard of this up until today, anyone know any backstory or anything else about this?
http://coinop.org/g.aspx/103223/Polybius.html
Never even heard of this up until today, anyone know any backstory or anything else about this?
http://coinop.org/g.aspx/103223/Polybius.html
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Oh, oh, I gotta play this!
Here's a little more fuel for the fire:
http://www.geocities.com/prg017/index.html
hmmm, that guy sure can spell!
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/roundup.aspOriginally Posted by Sylentwulf
An amusing myth, nothing more.
-- Z.
I love the Snopes website. One of the best on the net.
D
But was there ever an actual game named polybius?
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Doh!! No, there wasn't. Read the Snopes link again. And, hey, I got this bridge in Brooklyn I wanna sell you...Originally Posted by Sylentwulf
-- Z.
I think I'll hack an Odyssey2 game's sprites and retitle the resulting mongrel dog of a game "POLYBIUS!"
The excitement of a game. The mind of a computer. The mind control of the CIA and the Illuminati combined. You'll love the Odyssey2. Because you MUST love it. We command it.
Great new sales pitch eh?
POLYBIUS is the hidden game in RE2. You just need to beat the game in under 2 hrs using just the knife. I read it in EGM.
Lost Levels has received about four emails requesting that we cover that game. No joke.
Just for the record, snopes doesn't say anywhere that there was never a game called polybius, just that the hype was untrue, it also says something about high score initials from missile command, but that doesn't mean missile command never existed.Originally Posted by zmweasel
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Not that it hasn't already been said, but...
Polybius is a complete and total hoax.
Selling collection, Atari through XBox. Send a PM with whatever games you're looking for.
Here's what the Snopes link says:Originally Posted by Sylentwulf
You claimed a reference to Missile Command, but there isn't one, which makes me think you're not reading for comprehension.No arcade game called Polybius induced amnesia, caused gamers to wake up screaming in the middle of the night, or attracted the attention of mysterious "men in black" who periodically came to "collect records" from Portland-area machines. This one is just a gag someone invented several years ago which has now become enshrined on the web, another version of the conspiracy rumors involving military intelligence agents visiting arcades to collect stored information from game consoles which date to at least the early 1980s. (Back then we were supposed to watch out for men in black who came around to take down the initials of high scorers at Space Invaders, Asteroids, and Defender.)
The crucial sentence:
How do you interpret that sentence as meaning anything but "There's no such game as Polybius"?This one [Polybius] is just a gag someone invented several years ago...
-- Z.
I think I did, but I don't know where, or when.Originally Posted by BHvrd
Who am I?
How did I get here?
What's going on?
AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
This one [this false story] is just a gag someone invented several years ago....The crucial sentence:
How do you interpret that sentence as meaning anything but "There's no such game as Polybius"?This one [Polybius] is just a gag someone invented several years ago...
-- Z.
That's how I interpret it, since if you take it as you wrote it, then someone invented the game polybius several years ago, meaning it does exist, therefor nullifying your argument.
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Unfortunately, your interpretation of that sentence (and that entire paragraph) is incorrect. You're still not reading for comprehension, alas.Originally Posted by Sylentwulf
At least you now know that Polybius is a hoax, and I'm sure you'll be more skeptical in the future, which is great. There can't be enough skepticism in the world.
-- Z.
Of course I was incorrect, as shown by your stunning display of evidence proving me so. I'm glad at least one of us can come away from this topic a little wiser. Although my original post was intended to find out if polybius was an actual arcade game, not a google-esque search to see if the rumor was true or not (Which I was already well aware of) and my original questions as to wether the game actually existed or not still remains unanswered.
One of us is wiser for having done this post. We have a new depreciation of yet another board member to chalk up to our list.
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Oh, brother, not again.
No, the game never DID exist, does not NOW exist, and never WILL exist, unless someone wants to make a gag game with that title.
Happ now?
"Four o'clock and all is well.....wish I was in bed, Sir."
-- Guard in the Imperial City, Oblivion
If you really were "well aware of" the information about this nonexistent game, and already done your own "Google-esque search," you never would have started this thread at all, because you would've already figured out that Polybius doesn't exist. Your question HAS been answered, over and over again.
I don't "depreciate" you, but I am confused why you've become so hostile toward me after I addressed your question and gave you the credible, reliable source from which I obtained my answer.
-- Z.
I can't believe you guys even seriously discuss this topic.
Of course Polybius exists, the company which created this game was "Sinnesloeschen"; it's German for Erasing Senses; therfore it must be true. A secretive corporate or governemnt conspiracy makes always dumb mistakes like that, they want to keep something top secret, and then they give it away.
I played this game in a bar in Germany in the 80s. I saw the arcade machine, remembered how much fun it was to read Polybius (who wrote a very modern version about the seperation of powers, btw), and I started to play. I remember only a big pink alien on the screen, then I had a blackout...I dunno...I can't remember a thing what happened. The next morning I woke up in a bed, and beside me was a beautiful woman, who said: This was the best sex of my life, you are my hero. Right there I knew something was fishy because all the women I slept with made fun of me afterwards. This women turned out to be Farah Fawcett.
Since then I know Polybius isn't merely an urban myths, and I know that Farah Fawcett is actually an alien, green, pink, I don't care, it just freaks me out. I tried to warn the world, but noone listens.
If I disappear after posting this, please tell the world my story.
I swear to God it's true, it really happened.
Dude, did the President ask you to have a cheeseburger with him afterword?Originally Posted by lendelin