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So Polybius...was it real or fake?

>> No.1750672

Fake, Idiot.

>> No.1750673

>>1750672
What they want you to think.

>> No.1750675

>>1750672
Cia plz go

>> No.1750678

There are plenty of instances of retro arcade games killing people, notably Berzerk (two confirmed deaths). The nausea inducing game was probably the a revision of Tempest, in which the entire field rotated instead of the blaster.

>> No.1750680

Why do you have to make this thread every week?

>> No.1750746

>>1750680
oh come on, it's like every three weeks.

give the guy a break his fucking neck

>> No.1750748

It was all a hoax all along.

...unfortunately.

>> No.1750761

Totally, so was Godzilla.

I want to believe.

>> No.1750909

>>1750664
Yes it's real and it's standing right behind you!

>> No.1751404

Polybius is real. They had one in the arcade I frequented in Lake Oswego, Oregon from at least 1983-1985. I was shit at it so I barely played it but it was definitely real.

>> No.1751445

>>1751404
Please stop feeding into this.

>> No.1751463

>>1751445
inb4 someone asks for photographic evidence, people didn't carry around cameras in their ppckets back then.

It was definitely real. Sometime between 1985 when I moved away and 1994 when I finally wanted to go back the arcade had turned into a hair salon so I don't have the faintest clue where the cabinet went but it's definitely real.

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1751482

Ay, caramba!

>> No.1751519
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1751519

Totally real. Remembered I had an old polaroid with that cab half in the frame.

>> No.1751547

>>1751519
Did you tale this?

>> No.1751556

>>1751547
Did I take it? Yeah; wish I could remember something about it though. Wasn't in Tony's long.

>> No.1751557

>>1751519
>that flight stick
Yeah that's how I remember it

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>>1751519
this is most likely just a shop, but damn i was ignoring this thread until this appeared.

>> No.1751575

>>1751568
You can't shop polaroids.

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>>1751575
Sure you can.

>> No.1751589

>>1751584
What the fuck

>> No.1751590

>>1751589
Twelve hours in Ask Jeeves
http://jasoneckert.net/blog/Entries/2013/5/23_The_mythical_Polybius_arcade_game.html

>> No.1751591

>>1751568
Photoshop didn't exist back then, anon

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>>1751584
CIA SHILL!

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>>1751584

>> No.1751601

>>1751590
All that article says is
>one guy reported to have worked on the game does not recall
>fake because we say it's fake
all the while photographs exist
I get it that it's a meme to say it's fake, but come on
>>1751597
spoopy polterghosts

>> No.1751604

>>1751597
WTFLYING FUCK.

STOP IT /vr/!

I'M GETTING OFF THIS RIDE ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.

>> No.1751605

>>1751604
I want off Mr. Bones' Wild Ride

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>>1751604
>>1751605
The ride ends when we SAY it ends.

>> No.1751614

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/polybius

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>> No.1751718

>>1751614
>Status: Confirmed
>Year: 1981

>using Knowyourmeme, the people who thought the "jimmies" meme came from Something Awful

>> No.1751759

>>1751575
>>1751584
#REKT

>> No.1751764

>>1751597
i think that is john romero

>> No.1751775

>>1751764
John Romero was never skinny. He's fairly fat now, pretty sure his blood type is Gravy Positive.

>> No.1751995

>>1750664
Probably real, but to what extent is up to you.

>> No.1752001

>>1750664
>>>/x/

>> No.1752021

I'm probably one of the older fags here (b. 1974) and I vaguely remember Polybius being demo'd on a kid's problem back in the '80s called Candle Cove.

>> No.1752038

>>1752021
>Candle Cove

I want /x/ to leave

>> No.1752042

>>1750664
>Polybius

Slow down there buddy that's way too creepy for me.

>> No.1752058

>>1752021
>>1752038
>Candle Cove
explain?

>> No.1752081

>>1752058
Some creepypasta written by a hack webcomic artist.

>> No.1752156

>>1750664
If you actually know who Polybius was, it's pretty obvious that this is a hoax.

>> No.1752164

>>1751597
I want to get off Polybius wild ride.

>> No.1752212

>>1752156
Disinfo meme agent, plsgo