[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/vr/ - Retro Games


View post   

File: 25 KB, 490x557, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1439076 No.1439076 [Reply] [Original]

Has anyone heard of this?

>> No.1439079

>>1439076
oh boy, here we go!

>> No.1439083

The video game based on the hit movie, The Grifter!

>> No.1439084

>>1439076
You obviously have because you thought it would be clever and/or witty to make a thread about it.

>> No.1439086

>>1439076
slut.

>> No.1439089

>>1439084
teeheehee

>> No.1439102

>>1439076
Heard of it? I beat it! Then I died.

>> No.1439104
File: 51 KB, 384x512, Polybius.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1439104

>> No.1439106

>>1439104
East German entertainment distribution device for the people.

>> No.1439114
File: 45 KB, 500x375, tumblr_m7rrdyhMzO1rzbf74o1_500.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1439114

>> No.1439117

>>1439076
No.
Literally no one on this board has heard of Polybius.
Faggot.

>> No.1439123

Someone released an indie game of this. Too lazy to post the link.

Nb4 simpsons

>> No.1439145

Notto disu shitto agen.

>> No.1439205

>spoiler: prototype of 3D tempest that gave some kids motion sickness

>> No.1439220

After seeing the negative reaction the game made to candidates such as henry earl we had to pull it from production, with the last machines running its course in Seattle.

source: i designed it, flashing red and blue was eliminated and gameplay dynamics were adopted into the bigger sister project, temptest.

>> No.1439251

shut the fuck up Bill.

>> No.1439324

>>1439076
An amazingly successful marketing stunt by Atari.

>> No.1439432

>>1439104
well now I know what my DIY cab will look like.

>> No.1439524
File: 599 B, 256x224, 236_1[1].png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1439524

>>1439205
Actually, there aren't very consistent descriptions of what the game actually was, and the first recorded writings about the game are from the 2000s. I personally think the whole thing started with the two dudes who actually died playing Berzerk, and the story just got more ridiculous over the years.

>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berzerk_(video_game)#Berzerk_in_popular_culture
>Berzerk was the first video game known to have been involved in the death of a player. In January 1981, 19-year-old Jeff Dailey died of a heart attack soon after posting a score of 16,660 on Berzerk.[6] In October of the following year, Peter Burkowski made the Berzerk top-ten list twice in fifteen minutes, just a few seconds before also dying of a heart attack at the age of 18.[7]

>> No.1439970
File: 10 KB, 331x473, 1391329486200.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1439970

Who hasn't heard of it?

The myths about Polybius aren't real, but the story is based on some (albeit very little) truth.

"Polybius" was the nickname for a prototype Atari Jaguar game that was eventually turned into Tempest 2000. The Polybius prototype didn't have fucking mind control abilities, or anything like that, it just happened to have some flashing colours that could have caused seizures, nausea, headaches, etc, and the (placeholder) music was just a mish mash of "wooooooo pvvvvvvvvvvv" type stuff.

The potential health risks that the game could have caused were removed, it was finished, and it was released.

Nothing more, nothing less.

>> No.1440015

Don't believe the disinfo agents. Polybius is real. Only a few hundred cabinets were made and after it hit the news almost all were taken out of arcades and destroyed/recycled for parts. That's why such little evidence exists. They had a cabinet at the Arcade Machine Museum in Queens when I visited in 2004 (I forget its address and exact name of the place). I assume they still have it. The place was based out of the basement of an apartment building that used to be storage and it was surprisingly well organized.

I didn't have a cell phone then let alone any camera on me so of course I didn't take any pictures of it. It was playable and I thought it was boring so I maybe played it for two minutes; didn't get very far either.

>> No.1440146

>>1440015
>Spreading this stupid myth
You're literally retarded.

>> No.1440219

>>1439076
What is this?

>> No.1440237

>>1440146
So you're one of the disinfo agents, then? Or maybe you're just riding the bandwagon; doesn't matter. I told you where there's a working unit. You can go see for yourself.

>> No.1440343
File: 25 KB, 257x320, polycart1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1440343

Who would not want to play stages under those names.

>> No.1440352

>>1440343
you got an end label for that?

>> No.1440357

>2014
>still pushing this shitmeme
>still doing RPfaggotry to push it
>forcing me to greentext a year just to show you how stupid you fucking look

>> No.1440361

>>1440352
Nah i think its a joke

>> No.1440419

>>1440361
oh wow, I never would have guessed.

>> No.1440446

>>1439970
Not quite.

Polybius is totally made up, based on a photoshopped Galaga cab and several movies the guy who dreamed it up liked (IIRC it was full of references to a filmmaker, though the name eludes me). Trust me, if ANYTHING related to the game EVER existed, the arcade collecting community would have caught on to it.

The original Tempest arcade game was almost the same as the final product, it just had the whole tunnel move instead of the ship, and that made some people motion sick, so it was changed. The original prototype names were Aliens Vector and Vortex, though, "Polybius" has never existed in any form.

Atari Jaguar never had anything to do with it. Someone claimed if you played it on the mode based on the original Tempest prototype, that eventually "POLYBIUS!" flashes onscreen, but the ROM has been totally gone through and that turned out to be false.

Polybius is not based on fact at all. It's a shitty myth creepypasta. The end.

>> No.1440456

>>1440446
Maybe

>> No.1440512

>>1439076
Not only have I heard of it, I was the lead programmer. Please send help. I miss my family.

>> No.1440547

>>1439524
It's easy to understand why. Despite the primitive graphics, Berzerk/Frenzy is some tense shit, yo.

>> No.1440558
File: 12 KB, 228x225, 1393741987985.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1440558

>>1439076
Yes, I've played it. Then the government came after me.

>> No.1440563

>>1440446
As a member of the arcade collecting community I can tell you that undumped chipsets are discovered and dumped with some regularity.

>> No.1440661
File: 56 KB, 571x587, poly.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1440661

>> No.1440691

>>1440563
This is very true, and I have several undumped PCBs myself (mainly redemption/mechanical titles), but there's a difference between finding a PCB that hasn't had the ROMs dumped and having nobody even remember a game that supposedly rocked Portland, Oregon with terror. No images, flyers, manuals, news articles, posts saying they remember it...? Are we to think there was legitimately a game that was so bizarre and mind-altering but was entirely forgotten by everyone who played it? That's harder to believe.

>> No.1440717

>>1439205
this, if it existed

internet version: "The CIA made this game to mindcontrol us and made some people go insane, then they deleted all existence of it!"

>> No.1440719

Polybius is an amalgam of existing game concepts from that era. That's why the myth is so persistent. It's familiar enough to evoke a sense of dejavu. It's a game everyone can swear they've seen before, but can't remember where.

>> No.1440720

>>1439524
I love this game.

GET THE HUMANOID
GET THE INTRUDER

>> No.1440794

>>1440343
why is there no stage 10?

>> No.1440921

>>1440717
>implying it's not in every grocery and corner and restaurant.
>implying you don't walk past one at least twice a week.
>implying every single person in the country doesn't play it once a week.
Mind control is a hell of a thing.

>> No.1440927

>>1439104
>>1439106
>>1439432
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly_Play

>> No.1440965

Why not just making a shitty game on steam and name it Polybius ? With all the crazyness about it, there is a way to make easy money.

>> No.1440976

>>1440965

Somebody already did make a free game trying to stay as close to the rumours as possible. Ended up being a pretty alright Jeff Minter-like experience.

>> No.1440979

mkultra pls go

>> No.1440990

>>1440976
but he didn't sell it!

>> No.1442934

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybius

>Polybius gets its name from the Greek historian who was known for his assertion that historians should never report what they cannot verify through interviews with witnesses

>> No.1443309

>>1442934
>verify
>eye witnesses
>interviews
Yeah no.

>> No.1443319

>>1439145
>the ride ends

>> No.1443326

>>1439076

I played it once and blood came out

the end

>> No.1443329

>>1443326
and blood came out of what??
anon pls respond

>> No.1443337

>>1440990

>having integrity

Is that a problem for you? He developed something that was admittedly a gimmick and provided it free of charge because he wasn't comfortable asking people to pay for that.

>> No.1443338

>>1443329

of the ellermenanti

then disinfo tried to hack my isp and I had to proxy them

but then polybians were behind me the whole time

the end 2

>> No.1443360
File: 58 KB, 846x475, m.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1443360

>>1439123
>>1440965
>>1440976

https://www.mediafire.com/?5vcu3yoqva1qxjb

>> No.1443801

>>1443338
oh I thought the blood came out of the machine
phew what a relief

>> No.1443824

Rumor has it that the Foundation has a few cabinets locked up somewhere.

>> No.1443863

I had a cabinet but it smelled evil so I threw it in Mel's hole

>> No.1443870

>>1440343
Someone should totally make a homebrew Polybius game for the 2600. I'd play that.

>> No.1443892

How about teh Killswitch game???


http://www.crushable.com/2011/09/03/entertainment/creepy-things-that-seem-real-but-arent-killswitch-970/

>> No.1443914

>>1443892

It doesn't seem that real, though. Or at all. But I do like the story.

>> No.1443931

>>1443870
sounds like a good idea, I'll make it my next homebrew if I ever finish the one I've been working on for almost a year

>> No.1443942

>>1443870
>>1443931

---> >>1443360

>> No.1443963

>>1443942
well I was talking about a VCS homebrew, but shit...it looks like someone else has done it

http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-21212-pac_from_the_grave.html