Occasionally, the game would crash and we would have to reboot the cabinet. It's similar in graphics, but it's not true vector like Tempest. Nothing too fancy, but it does answer my question before on how a vector game can have its own ROM it's not a vector game at all. You're basically just a triangle and you move around different portions of the map, collecting squares. One thing that stuck out is that it wasn't a puzzle game or a space shooter. We set the game on free play, and I started to play it. Fast forward a little bit, we plug the game in, and it works! Looks legitimate enough, although one thing I noticed is that there was a "Lives" board, a scoreboard, and a small Polybius logo above the title screen. We lowered all the backseats and shoved the cabinet inside, and we drove to his house. We pulled the cabinet out of the storage unit and we rolled it to his van. There was still a few things we needed to answer though does it work, and is the game real? I was a bit skeptical at first when I heard about it, but as I saw the cabinet with my very own eyes, it seemed nearly exact to the B&W photo online. He invited me to the storage unit and I checked the cabinet out. When he was looking through them all, he noticed an arcade cabinet with the marquee reading "Polybius." He wasn't sure if it was real or not, hence why he asked me to check it out for him. A few days ago, my friend who works for an arcade in New Jersey (will not give out anyone's identity or the name of the arcade) told me that they recently just received a shipment of new used arcade cabinets from a collector. Time to give an explanation for my videos. (The ROM was supposedly the source of the title screen photo.) However, some ask how there could be a Polybius ROM if it was using vector graphics. There have been rumors of a ROM floating around online, but I can't seem to find it. Sure, there's been arcade cabinet mockups and fangames, but no gameplay of the original game itself. Now, there hasn't been much evidence online at all to prove this game's existence. Another piece of info that supports this theory is a rumor that a man named Edward Rotberg, creator of another game, BattleZone) created the game. One fact that pushes this theory forward is that there are no copyright records for a company named "Sinneslochen" (Fun fact, the name is actually a rough translation for "sensory-deletion"). There are many theories that are floating around, such as "Sinnesloschen" being a codename for Atari, who may have been the real developers behind Polybius. It wasn't until 2000 when featured an article on the game and brought it to attention. Very strange.Īfter only a month of release, the game disappeared without a trace. If that isn't bad enough, supposedly, men in black would occasionally visit the arcade and collect data from the Polybius machines. One player was said to even become a full anti-video game activist, just because of a seemingly simple vector video game. I'm talking insomnia, amnesia, night terrors, hallucinations, paranoia, and in some reports, even suicide. However, soon enough, gamers who played the game started to suffer from major side affects of the game, and not just epilepsy. It was apparently really popular during its run, as long lines would form to be able to play the game, with even fights breaking out just to get a turn to play. The game cabinet was described as rather plain, with no artwork on the machine aside from the logo on the marquee. Supposedly, the game had a limited run for only a month in Portland, Oregon. Its existence was questionable, considering there was a lack of evidence online aside from an alleged screencap of the title screen, and a black and white photo of the game cabinet. What is Polybius? To put it simply, "Polybius" is a vector arcade game developed by Sinneslochen Inc, that was described by many as a tempest-type game, where some described it as a space shooter, while others described it as a puzzle game. You probably saw the two videos on my channel of a particular game called Polybius. If you're disappointed that it's not, then feel free to click away.ĭecided to speak out on it considering not only do I have a possible lead, but overall hype has increased ever since the myth was supposedly debunked by "Ahoy", as well as AVGN doing a Halloween episode on the game. This is going to be a rather strange topic, since it's actually not Nickelodeon-related.
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