Even if polybius did exist, the government certainly would not let the arcade owners keep the polybius machines. All the machine supposedly disappeared at the same time soon after they appeared. The machines (if it was real) were probably either destroyed, or hidden away in a government facility.
Yeah and at the bottom it says "Property of U.S. Government" or something close that.... I love all of the Simpsons Easter Eggs, they're a ton of them.... :))))
This cabinet is a stunning work of art. I'm so glad I looked into this game's fun little story. It got me back into enjoying the arcade experience, and now I play at a local arcade every week again!
That's true. I mean what this guy did with this cabinet is *awesome*, but by the same token (no pun intended), if the ORIGINAL arcade cabinet doesn't exist now (at least there's no direct evidence), then it probably didn't then, either. :-/
Yeah, Yots does some good work. He also did a Zapcon themed cab and a custom Macross cab. Ignore the fact that I say Macross wrong, :-/ ua-cam.com/video/PFYzILynPpk/v-deo.html
Very close to the original. There were 2 strobe-lights in the top insides of the cabinets that would flash sometimes. The vector-graphics are pretty close too, but there was more of a 3D effect like I-Robot. There was also an early subwoofer in the cabinet that thumped like Asteroids a bit but had an odd pattern. In the very top was a small camera with a visible red LED up inside, above the CRT. It was at the Rockingham Arcade in Salem, NH around 1981 to 1982, and I remember it gave me a headache as a kid and I didn't play it much and it wasn't very popular. It was a shoot-em-up though but the difficulty went up really fast, really early-on. By Level 2 it was unplayable. There was a robot-head in vector-graphics at the end of Level 1 and you had to shoot at it while diamonds of different colors were attacking you.
Shadowhunter87 Yeah. It was a bit annoying of a game. Loads of techno-subwoofer throbbing and strobes. I always wondered about the little camera behind the smoke glass in the top left corner. I had commented to my best friend at the time about it. He thought it was if someone was stealing quarters or something.
That's very interesting indeed! I think there is less to the game than the Internet makes out of it, but there's apparently more to it than meets the eye. How well was the reception back then?
I'd like to add that the version they attempted here is very close to what I remember (perhaps Mandela Effect at work here). The actual gameplay was tilted like the high-score setup though in a sort of 3D effect like Tempest, but very similar. More squares and cubes that would rush into you and back but the multi-light-strobe of each polygon here is pretty accurate. If you add some "I Robot" Arcade elements and tilt the gameplay making the top smaller and the bottom larger in a false 3D effect it's pretty close. Oh, and of course add a massive subwoofer and put strobes inside the cabinet above your head. These could be triggered by an explosion-sound specifically like the way Google's "Voice Recognition" could audio WAV file identify-match and respond to an RS-232 trigger. Then it would be about perfect.
Well, I don't get what the player's trying to do here ( /the objective), but it does send a shiver down my spine! However, I'm sure this version of the game is way more unique and creative than the original was back in '81. Very imaginative and trippy! 8-O
I saw one earlier this year at the Louisville Arcade Expo, although it played drastically differently, with four buttons to control the ship’s movement and a joystick for firing, which is very strange. I’m assuming it’s not the same cabinet as this one.
Yes, it's probably different. There are a lot of fan made ones out there now. I think it's pretty cool that the urban legend lives on through there. Some of them are quite good!
I live in Beaverton Oregon and could walk to the site of "Malibu grand prix cars and arcade" which is the rumored location of the legendary Polybius. Its a parking lot now but I went there loads of times when I was a little kid back in the 80"s, So I can tell you with confidence that it never happened. .......or maybe that's just what the government is forcing me to say 🤔
One night of year 2005...2 men in black suits found me and came through my sleeping room(they were non-human and turned in 4 telepathic voices), asked me for wath would i have ever wanted to learn and they told me, i would lose 1 of my current habilities(long ans short memory they replied) but will recieve 2 new ones.. I have astonishing habilities in music after that and an impressive hability in beating hard games. I play the piano since that day and had to left all my friends and social live for it(to tell that i played since 8 y.o without improvement). Will upload them at 717 y.o. I met this polybius game at 18 y.o and played it with an Skullcandy Skullcrushers those days, i had managed to enable all the hidden options and experienced one thing: As the matter of 2 levels, i heard an screamin girl in game and felt a demonic presence standing at my left wich freezed me up in a mattee of seconds. I Remember it felts like being aimed in the back of the head with a desert eagle. The worst mistake i made was that there wasn't any light on. Days, months, years have been passing by and i still experiencing poltergeist, night terrors, sleeping paralysis(wich happens hardly by this date), burnout syndrome and extreme strenght. I warn you all that the sounds made in the game's replication are made by a sound engineer that's being paid off to play with your mind through hearing. The experience i passed through went critical after achieving beating almost 10 levels with 1 life and that voice made me confuse from where it was coming from, i never doubt of my blessed hearing. I lost in purpose of leaving my house saloon and turn the lights on. I have to clarify that the place where i live is full of healthy people and families. I verified that the scream was from Polybius and told my older brother about it. We had played lot of games with blood and demons and i am used to it. This game really can open an Anus Gate in your home and deploy a lot of paranormal shit on it.
this is a really good recreation i had nightmares of this game and found it back in an SMG4 episode then in flee the facility, and decided to do some more investigating good recreation!
As a kid in the 80s I remember a sequel to the Halloween horror movie called season of the witch.. It was very similar to this kind of thing, well maybe a bit more gruesome lol !
Urban legend is close. Game was actually named Tempest and it was used for CIA recruitment. I watched couple mins of the real game it made me nauseous and I felt like my thoughts were being messed with. 100% real
I do believe the game existed at one point but If so it’s probably lost forever. However even if it’s fake it’s a great legend that will probably never die.
Thanks. Yeah. It was pretty amazing in person. He does great work. He also made a custom Macross cab (which never had its own dedicated cab; it was always a conversion) and also a custom Zapcon cabinet, which he collaborated with fellow BYOAC'era to help create the software portion from scratch. Stay tuned!
I didn't realize he had made that thing himself until he started showing off the exterior. wow. the tax stickers set if off. unless someone told me that was a modern day job, I would have never known.
Thanks for watching and commenting! He's an awesome builder with great attention to detail. Check out his Macross and Zapcon cabinets in the Zapcon playlist section of this channel.
Jodie Jeynes The game was not only tested in the Portland, Oregon area it was tested through out the United States at different locations and different times. The game was nothing like Poly Play or Tempest. The game was very real and they even made a sequel in 1988, Polybius 2 or as it appeared on the title screen “POLYBIUS II”. The “Men in Black” would come once a week and hook up this diad looking thing into a slot on the motherboard on the back right side of the cabinet. These "Men in Black" would visit businesses and offer them payment to allow their arcade cabinet to reside in their facility and to recruit participants in a “Special Testing Event”. The more they recruited the more money the business owners would receive. In order for these participants to partake they had to be 17 years or older and they had to sign a contract stating they could not speak of the game or the events that happen during the testing. While the testing event is being held, there are two ambulances and a white box truck parked in front of the building. Outside the entrance of the building is guarded by one or two “Men in Black”, inside the event they have one “Man in Black” observing, a man in a white lab coat taking notes and 2 E.M.T.s. When the final testing event is over the “Men in Black” cover the cabinet in a black cloak and wheel it into the white box truck. During the testing events the business is closed to the public but during normal business hours the cabinet is kept covered and unplugged, but some places would just disable “Test Mode” and leave the game plugged in. The reason why they would have to unplug the machine or disable “Test Mode” is because the cabinet had a small hole on the left side of the joystick panel that would spray an endorphin mist, on the Polybius 2 cabinets the hole was located on the top of the cabinet, this was another reason why they had to keep it dark in the facilty during testing. The arcade cabinet had two strobe lights installed in the canopy. As for cameras being installed, Polybius part one had the camera above the screen, Polybius part two cabinets had the camera on the left side of the screen. The game only used raster graphics outside of testing, but when testing the game used both raster and vector graphics supported by two different roms running in tandem. If you wanted to participate in the testing but you were under the age of 17 you had to test at the nearest U.S. Air Force Base in a private testing with a parent or legal guardian’s signature. If you tested at a U.S. Air Force Base they put you in a room staged very much like a living room. The room had a leather chair a wooden coffee table with an ATARI Joystick sitting on it, a television and a cabinet. Some of these rooms had a gassing feature so you would not have to receive an injection in the right side of your neck. Men in white lab coats would start hooking monitoring wires to your head, arms and chest. If the room did not have a gassing feature one of these men would administer an injection on the right side of your neck. When you are all hooked up the men would go into another room and watch you behind a plate of glass. When the game would start the lights would begin to slowly dim until it was completely dark. When the game was over, the lights would start to come back on slowly and the men in lab coats will start unhooking all the monitoring wires from you. These are the businesses I know that held Polybius and Polybius 2 testing events: White Cottage Yogurt Shop (Belleville, Illinois), Lincoln Theater (Belleville, Illinois), Aladdin’s Castle at St. Clair Square Mall ( Fairview Heights, Illinois), Camelot Bowl (Collinsville, Illinois). There were other testing locations in that area but these are the ones I remember without a doubt that held these Polybius testing events. As for private testing this was knowingly performed at Scott Air Force Base. They even went as far as holding a testing event at an elementary school, Jefferson Elementary School District 118 Belleville, Illinois. These “Men in Black” told the staff that it was a math game to test the I.Q. of the students and the students who scored the highest would get to participate in “Special Event”. The "Men in Black" gave the staff minimally worded "contracts" to the students for their parents to sign. The event was supposed to be a 3 night event. On April 23, 1992 the first event started at 7:00 P.M. on a Thursday night in the gymnasium. One of the staff members saw smoke and she thought one of the “Men in Black" was smoking in the gymnasium she then noticed it was coming from the game the students were playing. She walked up and took a peak and noticed it was a mist and then she noticed subliminal messages on the screen. She notified the principal of the school, Robert L. Webb and the school district superintendent, Mr. Rossberg I believe. The event was quickly shut down in less than twenty minutes of the testing and the rest of the events were cancelled. This next part is of my own speculation but I believe some of these facilites had signed different agreements with the “Men in Black” because most of these places kept the machine unplugged and if someone plugged it in the owner would freak out, run over and yank the plug out of the socket and within a few minutes these “Men in Black” would come into the facility and speak to the owner. I did this twice Lol! Once at White Cottage Yogurt Shop and once at Aladdin’s Castle. I believe their may have been some type of alert they would receive if the cabinet was turned on not during a testing event. The Lincoln Theater on the other hand always had their machines on. I did not know this game was thought to be a myth or legend until one my friends had posted it on facebook. We both thought this was crazy that people thought this game was a myth. He worked at the Lincoln Theater and he also remembers both games being there, he even used to let one of the “Men in Black” in every Tuesday at 9:30 P.M to service the machines or I guess data mine. His boss told him not to ask questions and to let him in if he showed up. I do know of two people that have proof the game’s existence, one is a government official of Central Intelligence which I will not name for his safety and mine. The other is a retired Air Force Combat Control Sergeant which I will name because he is an asshole and I would like to see him go down for this, Samuel Eugene Briley of Collinsville, Illinois. The testing events are still being held to this day. The arcade cabinet has been making it's rounds in Las Vegas Casinos such as Bally's and the Rio. Nickel Rama in Richardson, TX was the last place I know of holding these events and they are also testing a "Flappy Birds" and "Candy Crush" arcade cabinet which also have a camera installed on the left side of the screen. On Saturday, December 30, 2017 one of the "Men in Black" identified himself to me as "Secret Service" at the Nickel Rama. I hope this is enough information for you and I encourage you to do your own investigation on my claims.
They bastardized parts from.another game? Because, really, even the guy's DESCRIPTION of this urban legend sucks, much less game play. No one wants to play it.
The game didn't look 80's at all. The text and title logo was in pixel font yet the graphics were vectors. You can't have both pixel graphics and vector graphics in an old Arcade game, the graphics depends on the hardware used or something.
The game used Raster graphics when "Test Mode" was disabled. When it was enabled the game would use two individual roms to run the game in tandem. The game was completely different in "Test Mode" than the one you would play when "Test Mode was disabled. For instance, in "Testmode" the ship didn't move only the screen, When "Test Mode was disabled the ship moved but the screen remained stationary. One rom had the actual game and the other rom had the 3D effect raster graphics.
I wonder, of all the concept designs and game-play outlines for this 'mysterious' game, how different this game is to others that have been created over this mythical video game. From UA-camr, Ahoy, this video game is still just a conceptual rather than built from an actual 'Polybius' chipboard; a chipboard that has yet to be discovered, if at all real. So, from the myth stories evolving from 2000 about what the game was about; it's features and play, does this game emulate accurately what was envisioned by the stories? How close does it resemble the 'Urban Legend' of what others have described it to be; how close is it to the 'actual' game? In other words, if those who are the most invested in the details of this mysterious 'Polybius' game were to scrutinize the game, would they say it is exactly like they imagine it should be, or would they say, it is not accurate to the back story in its features and game play? If it is not accurate, what elements of the game is still missing from the backstory features?
My Channel Ha ha. Just noticed that! Kinda looks like CAY, but since the 3rd score is XXX you may be right! Someone who played must have entered it. That's not the default high score table (I checked). Good eyes!
I've tried to run the fan-made reproduction for Windows, but it seems to have incredible input lag and the diagnostic menu sometimes slows to a crawl to the point of locking up. Anybody know how to fix that? I tried turning text effects off, but no go. I'd really love to get this running on my arcade cabinet to re-create the fun I had playing Polybius in arcades. I mean, I THINK I had fun. I certainly spent a lot of money on it, even if I can't entirely recall how the game played. Or how I felt while playing it. Or what happened in the days afterwards.
Turn down the resolution in the displayres executable in the arrays folder, also try turning the high score text effects off, changing the type of the enemy models and turning off the raster backgrounds can help too.
its too bad they didn't have it this year, I was hoping to play it. was it broken again, or was he upgrading the controls? Hopefully, for zapcon 6, he will bring it back.
ITSCS117 It was being shot by CNN for a documentary shortly after the show with the creator. I assume as a precaution it was not brought out to the public so it would be in shape for the shoot. (Zapcon owns the machine. The creator donated it to them). So fingers crossed it will be there at Zapcon 6. :-)
The funniest part in this legend is the men in black. Do you actually believe that secret agents would dress up in a way so everyone could recognize them, lol)😅
This isnt the original Polybius. Thr original didn't have the fire button on the joystick and didn't have the rainbow show. It was more like a simple version of Tempest.
But...it never existed. It wasn't even mentioned in any publication of the time. Not til quite some time later. As an urban legend to promote website traffic. The company doesn't exist. The copyright? Doesn't exist. What he's showing you here, sucks. His description is awful. No one would find it interesting. The games of thr 80's were VERY simple. That was their fun. I could think of or make up, 900 games that would be addictive. This wouldn't be one. Besides, you don't think the REAL deaths are creepy enough? Sitting for 600 hours straight and you die 10 hours ago and *nobody notices???* How the legend gets started. Berzerk: 1981. Friar Tuck's Calumet City, Il. Dailey and Burkowski. Both died after using the same cabinet in the same arcade a year apart. ANOTHER guy got shot over some sort of debate involving that game, again, i think it was the SAME game. Same cabinet, even! I don't remember one single complicated game in 1981, myself. Either in arcades or at home. I remember the consoles got affordable about 1983. ColecoVision was the best of the bunch back then. More colors, better resolution and graphics. None of the games i had needed instructions. Jmo. They were very self-explanatory. So, based on things like digital wellbeing, how much time you spend online and where it goes..? Have a look on your own device. :) You'll see a ton of time you don't remember using. I had to put a lock of 15 minutes on several apps. And don't go unlock them. I find the faster you put it down, the easiest it is to do so. The longer you use, the more you want to use. Jmo.
"Was Polybius real? You be the judge."
Well, you said it was in the first line...
Yes
Even if polybius did exist, the government certainly would not let the arcade owners keep the polybius machines. All the machine supposedly disappeared at the same time soon after they appeared. The machines (if it was real) were probably either destroyed, or hidden away in a government facility.
Probably all in area 51 which is why its so heavily guarded
@@MystiqEevee Yeah right All that man and security for an acrade machine...
@@takaonna8870 hey you never know nobody beyond the government has ever seen what's inside could be anything in there
He sayed its a recreation
@@MystiqEevee no
Of course now idk if he have or not anymore Polybius but only 1 person have Polybius
Okay, that is amazing. I love all the detail. Plus the roughness gives it a nice touch.
+314rft Yeah, high attention to detail for sure!
When Bart Simpson goes to the arcade, there's a Polybius game cabinet. Very subtle piece of humor.
Yeah and at the bottom it says "Property of U.S. Government" or something close that.... I love all of the Simpsons Easter Eggs, they're a ton of them.... :))))
It’s not an arcade, it’s the quickie mart.
Edit: nope you were right, it was an arcade in the dying mall. My bad.
Yots is such a talented dude. I love all the thought and detail he puts into his builds. I've got to get to a ZapCon one of these days.
Agreed!
woah. That's gonna give someone a seizure some day
I mean...
Or kill someone
People with epilepsy don’t play games idiot
@@dinosharttt I play games and I have epilepsy-
@@mercyfulxtyrant I said this game not every game
Polybius is actually kind of fun to play. Good meeting you today at Zapcon! Good luck on all of your projects. Tim and Ricardo
Thanks guys!
Maybe addiction but it's obviously fake
يلي بتحب النعنع
This Old Arcade (Classic Arcade Machines and Tech Tips) the real polybius was too addicting and it started affecting ppl
DeLuSioNaL's Arcade yeah some people committed suicide over that game
This cabinet is a stunning work of art. I'm so glad I looked into this game's fun little story. It got me back into enjoying the arcade experience, and now I play at a local arcade every week again!
Good to hear! Arcades are popping up everywhere going strong!
@@delsarcade I was just back there again today and had a blast. I think I might be addicted to Galaga 😂
I think if the game didn't exist then it does now.
In the 80s it caused people to get sick was the legend
@@maiishii6575 It might really get someone with epilepsy sick.
dude no.
Yes it exists now. Watch the video idiot
That's true. I mean what this guy did with this cabinet is *awesome*, but by the same token (no pun intended), if the ORIGINAL arcade cabinet doesn't exist now (at least there's no direct evidence), then it probably didn't then, either. :-/
THE MEN IN BLACK!
Where?
Finally actual gameplay unlike theses other channels that make a documentary video.
This was on another channel it is real
Nice! I love all the small details on the cabinet
;-)
me too!
Yeah, Yots does some good work. He also did a Zapcon themed cab and a custom Macross cab. Ignore the fact that I say Macross wrong, :-/
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The game itself is complicated enough, like wtf what's all the base and numbers?
Mom said she played that game except she said you actually rotate around it in a circle.
I suddenly want to become a US Marine
Very strange, considering you're not from the US
@Matti cat bruh, there's no need to reply to a 2 years old comment.
theEverythingHero dude just let him do it
@@grzyb11 sorry bruh
Very close to the original. There were 2 strobe-lights in the top insides of the cabinets that would flash sometimes. The vector-graphics are pretty close too, but there was more of a 3D effect like I-Robot. There was also an early subwoofer in the cabinet that thumped like Asteroids a bit but had an odd pattern. In the very top was a small camera with a visible red LED up inside, above the CRT. It was at the Rockingham Arcade in Salem, NH around 1981 to 1982, and I remember it gave me a headache as a kid and I didn't play it much and it wasn't very popular. It was a shoot-em-up though but the difficulty went up really fast, really early-on. By Level 2 it was unplayable. There was a robot-head in vector-graphics at the end of Level 1 and you had to shoot at it while diamonds of different colors were attacking you.
So you remember playing on the original back then? That is awesome!
Shadowhunter87 Yeah. It was a bit annoying of a game. Loads of techno-subwoofer throbbing and strobes. I always wondered about the little camera behind the smoke glass in the top left corner. I had commented to my best friend at the time about it. He thought it was if someone was stealing quarters or something.
That's very interesting indeed! I think there is less to the game than the Internet makes out of it, but there's apparently more to it than meets the eye.
How well was the reception back then?
It was not well received.
I'd like to add that the version they attempted here is very close to what I remember (perhaps Mandela Effect at work here). The actual gameplay was tilted like the high-score setup though in a sort of 3D effect like Tempest, but very similar. More squares and cubes that would rush into you and back but the multi-light-strobe of each polygon here is pretty accurate. If you add some "I Robot" Arcade elements and tilt the gameplay making the top smaller and the bottom larger in a false 3D effect it's pretty close. Oh, and of course add a massive subwoofer and put strobes inside the cabinet above your head. These could be triggered by an explosion-sound specifically like the way Google's "Voice Recognition" could audio WAV file identify-match and respond to an RS-232 trigger. Then it would be about perfect.
Well, I don't get what the player's trying to do here ( /the objective), but it does send a shiver down my spine! However, I'm sure this version of the game is way more unique and creative than the original was back in '81. Very imaginative and trippy! 8-O
I saw one earlier this year at the Louisville Arcade Expo, although it played drastically differently, with four buttons to control the ship’s movement and a joystick for firing, which is very strange. I’m assuming it’s not the same cabinet as this one.
Yes, it's probably different. There are a lot of fan made ones out there now. I think it's pretty cool that the urban legend lives on through there. Some of them are quite good!
This was the version of Polybius I played at Let's Play Gaming Expo in 2018 and 2019.
I live in Beaverton Oregon and could walk to the site of "Malibu grand prix cars and arcade" which is the rumored location of the legendary Polybius. Its a parking lot now but I went there loads of times when I was a little kid back in the 80"s, So I can tell you with confidence that it never happened. .......or maybe that's just what the government is forcing me to say 🤔
_do not question authority._
One night of year 2005...2 men in black suits found me and came through my sleeping room(they were non-human and turned in 4 telepathic voices), asked me for wath would i have ever wanted to learn and they told me, i would lose 1 of my current habilities(long ans short memory they replied) but will recieve 2 new ones.. I have astonishing habilities in music after that and an impressive hability in beating hard games. I play the piano since that day and had to left all my friends and social live for it(to tell that i played since 8 y.o without improvement). Will upload them at 717 y.o. I met this polybius game at 18 y.o and played it with an Skullcandy Skullcrushers those days, i had managed to enable all the hidden options and experienced one thing:
As the matter of 2 levels, i heard an screamin girl in game and felt a demonic presence standing at my left wich freezed me up in a mattee of seconds. I Remember it felts like being aimed in the back of the head with a desert eagle. The worst mistake i made was that there wasn't any light on. Days, months, years have been passing by and i still experiencing poltergeist, night terrors, sleeping paralysis(wich happens hardly by this date), burnout syndrome and extreme strenght. I warn you all that the sounds made in the game's replication are made by a sound engineer that's being paid off to play with your mind through hearing. The experience i passed through went critical after achieving beating almost 10 levels with 1 life and that voice made me confuse from where it was coming from, i never doubt of my blessed hearing. I lost in purpose of leaving my house saloon and turn the lights on. I have to clarify that the place where i live is full of healthy people and families. I verified that the scream was from Polybius and told my older brother about it. We had played lot of games with blood and demons and i am used to it. This game really can open an Anus Gate in your home and deploy a lot of paranormal shit on it.
Speaking of which, I saw a Polybius cabinet in the video "Scout plays pacman!"
Yeah they want you to think it's fake....🤔🤔🤔😂😂😎👍👌 Very well done.
this is a really good recreation
i had nightmares of this game and found it back in an SMG4 episode
then in flee the facility, and decided to do some more investigating
good recreation!
Wait Flee The Facility had Polybius?
Yea, it's been a while but i think if you look behind the spawn building there should be a crawling spot which leads to a room with the arcade machine
As a kid in the 80s I remember a sequel to the Halloween horror movie called season of the witch.. It was very similar to this kind of thing, well maybe a bit more gruesome lol !
I played this in Portland in 1986 inside the arcade at mall 205
The stickers are a nice touch.
Power B Yeah, the guy does some great cabs. His attention to details is amazing. You should see his Macross cabinet.
@@delsarcade if there never was an original then how come it says it was made in 1981 the legend was made in 2000
Supposedly people that played polybius were found in the Tillamook forest with no recollection of how they got there.
Thomas Courtney
Wheres that
@@Jake5537t hello Jake. It's in Portland Oregon as far as I know.
Thomas Courtney
Oh, only been to florida and new york because i’m from the uk
Could it be that the arcade cabinet is anomalous? Someone call the SCP...
Now that I've seen this, I feel a stronger urge to play Polybius
Cool ass video, man. What a fun project. Man, I need to start a new project soon.
Urban legend is close. Game was actually named Tempest and it was used for CIA recruitment. I watched couple mins of the real game it made me nauseous and I felt like my thoughts were being messed with. 100% real
I do believe the game existed at one point but If so it’s probably lost forever. However even if it’s fake it’s a great legend that will probably never die.
i feel like vomiting just watching this
This is a really good fan cabinet.
Yeah, his attention to detail is awesome. Especially the period specific bumper stickers and the Ground Kontrol address on the monitor bezel.
nice vid! This is the fanmade-version I played at a convention. Way better video than my shaky footage :p
Thanks. Yeah. It was pretty amazing in person. He does great work. He also made a custom Macross cab (which never had its own dedicated cab; it was always a conversion) and also a custom Zapcon cabinet, which he collaborated with fellow BYOAC'era to help create the software portion from scratch. Stay tuned!
mike cronis.... avevi 11 anni era il 1981 e tu ricordi tutti questi dettagli.. che mare di caz... ma veramente un mare
Luca Caddeo what? what did you say
You are the legendary man on the world
Great video DeL! Shot very well and a great addition to your channel. Nice work buddy. :)
Thanks. Can't wait to post the DK Remix vid (still in edit).
There is one in Player 1 arcade in Orlando
Dig this video Del! =) See ya next week!
I didn't realize he had made that thing himself until he started showing off the exterior. wow. the tax stickers set if off. unless someone told me that was a modern day job, I would have never known.
Thanks for watching and commenting! He's an awesome builder with great attention to detail. Check out his Macross and Zapcon cabinets in the Zapcon playlist section of this channel.
Who else os here from dimension 404?
perhaps
Maybe
✷≧ʖ人*´｀｡*ﾟ+🙋
Me, and I bring you the Mandela Effect.
Bruh, I'm in dimension 9172272.92927.826877(927)--018539--1778.817(018).(018976).
Don't think you're special!
I'm from 504 dimension, I escaped from area 51 and I played the game
Nah, Its a joke
Take me to your leader. I come in peace.
Some times it would even tell people to join the military bc im in 2020 there is a virus and it’s name is covid
this game was just released on psvr!!!
This game feels like it gets more censorship than the manhunt series.
But on the original one there was flashing words like ”surremder” and stay asleep” etc
I wonder if the cabinet still exists today, I'd certainly love to play on it sometime.
It's usually there at the Zapcon event in Mesa, AZ every year.
@@delsarcade Sweet!
Yeah, the guy who made the cabinet donated it to the Zapcon organizers. So it's pretty much there every year since they now own it.
@@delsarcade Pretty cool, I must say
@@planetearth2249 The same guy built this custom Macross cabinet too:
ua-cam.com/video/PFYzILynPpk/v-deo.html
The avgn on this machine is hilarious and classic.
fun little game.
Wow, I didn't even look at the vid that much and that game play started giving me a headache. That's nuts.
Great Video by the way.!!
Is there anyway I can track down someone to use this machine for a Polybius short film?
Yeah, I'm friends with the guy who built it. Where are you located?
ohio, but I can travel
+Joel Rampello (TECHTONIC SHARK TANK). Head to Zapcon in April. It will be there. (Mesa, AZ).
Joel Rampello I wanna watch!
It's only Fan made.
I feel like playing pollybius.
Don’t do it!
I am not gonna risk my sanity from that game
I think polybius was the first ever homebrew. Only one existed. And it's Creator destroyed it.
awesome build!
Yeah, it was pretty cool! But you should check out his custom Macross cabinet: ua-cam.com/video/PFYzILynPpk/v-deo.html
cool
That's dope great vid great project good job
Mike Cronis there is no trace that polybius was ever at rockingham mall Salem NH
Jodie Jeynes The game was not only tested in the Portland, Oregon area it was tested through out the United States at different locations and different times. The game was nothing like Poly Play or Tempest. The game was very real and they even made a sequel in 1988, Polybius 2 or as it appeared on the title screen “POLYBIUS II”. The “Men in Black” would come once a week and hook up this diad looking thing into a slot on the motherboard on the back right side of the cabinet. These "Men in Black" would visit businesses and offer them payment to allow their arcade cabinet to reside in their facility and to recruit participants in a “Special Testing Event”. The more they recruited the more money the business owners would receive. In order for these participants to partake they had to be 17 years or older and they had to sign a contract stating they could not speak of the game or the events that happen during the testing. While the testing event is being held, there are two ambulances and a white box truck parked in front of the building. Outside the entrance of the building is guarded by one or two “Men in Black”, inside the event they have one “Man in Black” observing, a man in a white lab coat taking notes and 2 E.M.T.s. When the final testing event is over the “Men in Black” cover the cabinet in a black cloak and wheel it into the white box truck. During the testing events the business is closed to the public but during normal business hours the cabinet is kept covered and unplugged, but some places would just disable “Test Mode” and leave the game plugged in. The reason why they would have to unplug the machine or disable “Test Mode” is because the cabinet had a small hole on the left side of the joystick panel that would spray an endorphin mist, on the Polybius 2 cabinets the hole was located on the top of the cabinet, this was another reason why they had to keep it dark in the facilty during testing. The arcade cabinet had two strobe lights installed in the canopy. As for cameras being installed, Polybius part one had the camera above the screen, Polybius part two cabinets had the camera on the left side of the screen. The game only used raster graphics outside of testing, but when testing the game used both raster and vector graphics supported by two different roms running in tandem. If you wanted to participate in the testing but you were under the age of 17 you had to test at the nearest U.S. Air Force Base in a private testing with a parent or legal guardian’s signature. If you tested at a U.S. Air Force Base they put you in a room staged very much like a living room. The room had a leather chair a wooden coffee table with an ATARI Joystick sitting on it, a television and a cabinet. Some of these rooms had a gassing feature so you would not have to receive an injection in the right side of your neck. Men in white lab coats would start hooking monitoring wires to your head, arms and chest. If the room did not have a gassing feature one of these men would administer an injection on the right side of your neck. When you are all hooked up the men would go into another room and watch you behind a plate of glass. When the game would start the lights would begin to slowly dim until it was completely dark. When the game was over, the lights would start to come back on slowly and the men in lab coats will start unhooking all the monitoring wires from you. These are the businesses I know that held Polybius and Polybius 2 testing events: White Cottage Yogurt Shop (Belleville, Illinois), Lincoln Theater (Belleville, Illinois), Aladdin’s Castle at St. Clair Square Mall ( Fairview Heights, Illinois), Camelot Bowl (Collinsville, Illinois). There were other testing locations in that area but these are the ones I remember without a doubt that held these Polybius testing events. As for private testing this was knowingly performed at Scott Air Force Base. They even went as far as holding a testing event at an elementary school, Jefferson Elementary School District 118 Belleville, Illinois. These “Men in Black” told the staff that it was a math game to test the I.Q. of the students and the students who scored the highest would get to participate in “Special Event”. The "Men in Black" gave the staff minimally worded "contracts" to the students for their parents to sign. The event was supposed to be a 3 night event. On April 23, 1992 the first event started at 7:00 P.M. on a Thursday night in the gymnasium. One of the staff members saw smoke and she thought one of the “Men in Black" was smoking in the gymnasium she then noticed it was coming from the game the students were playing. She walked up and took a peak and noticed it was a mist and then she noticed subliminal messages on the screen. She notified the principal of the school, Robert L. Webb and the school district superintendent, Mr. Rossberg I believe. The event was quickly shut down in less than twenty minutes of the testing and the rest of the events were cancelled. This next part is of my own speculation but I believe some of these facilites had signed different agreements with the “Men in Black” because most of these places kept the machine unplugged and if someone plugged it in the owner would freak out, run over and yank the plug out of the socket and within a few minutes these “Men in Black” would come into the facility and speak to the owner. I did this twice Lol! Once at White Cottage Yogurt Shop and once at Aladdin’s Castle. I believe their may have been some type of alert they would receive if the cabinet was turned on not during a testing event. The Lincoln Theater on the other hand always had their machines on. I did not know this game was thought to be a myth or legend until one my friends had posted it on facebook. We both thought this was crazy that people thought this game was a myth. He worked at the Lincoln Theater and he also remembers both games being there, he even used to let one of the “Men in Black” in every Tuesday at 9:30 P.M to service the machines or I guess data mine. His boss told him not to ask questions and to let him in if he showed up. I do know of two people that have proof the game’s existence, one is a government official of Central Intelligence which I will not name for his safety and mine. The other is a retired Air Force Combat Control Sergeant which I will name because he is an asshole and I would like to see him go down for this, Samuel Eugene Briley of Collinsville, Illinois. The testing events are still being held to this day. The arcade cabinet has been making it's rounds in Las Vegas Casinos such as Bally's and the Rio. Nickel Rama in Richardson, TX was the last place I know of holding these events and they are also testing a "Flappy Birds" and "Candy Crush" arcade cabinet which also have a camera installed on the left side of the screen. On Saturday, December 30, 2017 one of the "Men in Black" identified himself to me as "Secret Service" at the Nickel Rama. I hope this is enough information for you and I encourage you to do your own investigation on my claims.
This is real Polybius machine!
I heard Neil Cicirega's "cabinet man" being compared to this.
Woah i felt weak for a min
After watching all the colors at 2:41 I have the sudden urge to eat Lucky Charms
Good afternoon this videogame exists the rom for the system mame to download? A greeting thanks
itazaskun nolose No. This is not available in MAME.
The joysticks are worn out from near constant use? It's as addictive as the original by the looks of it
They bastardized parts from.another game?
Because, really, even the guy's DESCRIPTION of this urban legend sucks, much less game play. No one wants to play it.
The game didn't look 80's at all. The text and title logo was in pixel font yet the graphics were vectors. You can't have both pixel graphics and vector graphics in an old Arcade game, the graphics depends on the hardware used or something.
Matt Ring What?! Have to seen the Astroids marquee?
The game used Raster graphics when "Test Mode" was disabled. When it was enabled the game would use two individual roms to run the game in tandem. The game was completely different in "Test Mode" than the one you would play when "Test Mode was disabled. For instance, in "Testmode" the ship didn't move only the screen, When "Test Mode was disabled the ship moved but the screen remained stationary. One rom had the actual game and the other rom had the 3D effect raster graphics.
Nice
It makes me think of the Vectrex
I wonder, of all the concept designs and game-play outlines for this 'mysterious' game, how different this game is to others that have been created over this mythical video game. From UA-camr, Ahoy, this video game is still just a conceptual rather than built from an actual 'Polybius' chipboard; a chipboard that has yet to be discovered, if at all real. So, from the myth stories evolving from 2000 about what the game was about; it's features and play, does this game emulate accurately what was envisioned by the stories? How close does it resemble the 'Urban Legend' of what others have described it to be; how close is it to the 'actual' game? In other words, if those who are the most invested in the details of this mysterious 'Polybius' game were to scrutinize the game, would they say it is exactly like they imagine it should be, or would they say, it is not accurate to the back story in its features and game play? If it is not accurate, what elements of the game is still missing from the backstory features?
The juice world machine
What does it say beside the screen on the left in red letters?
That's the address to the famous Ground Control, one of the biggest arcades in Oregon. He says it in the video at 5:02.
Did this game really existed? Or is it modern with a publicity stunt urban legend backstory?
its just a computer not the original
Lol! There never WAS an original. ;-)
+DeLuSioNaL's Arcade wdym?
all does rumors weren't made up for no reason.
+Kakashi Hatake I cannot confirm or deny if it really existed. For now it's an urban legend.
This is one reason why we need a time machine.
Why are the first two high scores names are gay
My Channel Ha ha. Just noticed that! Kinda looks like CAY, but since the 3rd score is XXX you may be right! Someone who played must have entered it. That's not the default high score table (I checked). Good eyes!
Where’s the beef?
Zektor Arcade looks like Polybius
I've tried to run the fan-made reproduction for Windows, but it seems to have incredible input lag and the diagnostic menu sometimes slows to a crawl to the point of locking up. Anybody know how to fix that? I tried turning text effects off, but no go.
I'd really love to get this running on my arcade cabinet to re-create the fun I had playing Polybius in arcades. I mean, I THINK I had fun. I certainly spent a lot of money on it, even if I can't entirely recall how the game played. Or how I felt while playing it. Or what happened in the days afterwards.
how do I access the diagnostics mode
old comment, but I guess going into task manager and setting the priority to high or Realtime. usually works for high end games like mine.
Turn down the resolution in the displayres executable in the arrays folder, also try turning the high score text effects off, changing the type of the enemy models and turning off the raster backgrounds can help too.
don't play ploybius has side effects headaces ,seizures, nausua panic and night terrors
That's so cool man
That man is a genius!
The same guy made this one too:
ua-cam.com/video/PFYzILynPpk/v-deo.html
Whaaaaat my head hurts
its too bad they didn't have it this year, I was hoping to play it. was it broken again, or was he upgrading the controls? Hopefully, for zapcon 6, he will bring it back.
ITSCS117 It was being shot by CNN for a documentary shortly after the show with the creator. I assume as a precaution it was not brought out to the public so it would be in shape for the shoot. (Zapcon owns the machine. The creator donated it to them). So fingers crossed it will be there at Zapcon 6. :-)
when it does, Imma keep playing it until I make it to top 3. been practicing with the PC edition.
how did you put the game on mame
It's not a MAME game. It's a PC game. Link is in the description.
Polybius is a cursed game tho
ive played this game and nothing happened ,_,
I wanna play this!
The funniest part in this legend is the men in black. Do you actually believe that secret agents would dress up in a way so everyone could recognize them, lol)😅
Ha ha! Good point!
is that in oregon?!?!
Mesa, AZ
Aww man. Ok thx
[*CONFIRMED*-Top5s]
it seems fun
To make this video complete, I would've put two men in suits some where in the background :p
Haha. Next time!
And make them look at the camera and with no emotion hahhha!
with sunglasses
Does he reproduce that pcb or what ever it runs on ?
Yes, link is in description.
@@delsarcade badass id totaly do that lol
@@delsarcade have you tried to download it Wont work LOL Of course
@@Pitbull0669 Wayback Machine to the rescue!
@@delsarcade LOL
This isnt the original Polybius. Thr original didn't have the fire button on the joystick and didn't have the rainbow show. It was more like a simple version of Tempest.
But...it never existed. It wasn't even mentioned in any publication of the time. Not til quite some time later. As an urban legend to promote website traffic. The company doesn't exist. The copyright? Doesn't exist.
What he's showing you here, sucks. His description is awful. No one would find it interesting. The games of thr 80's were VERY simple. That was their fun.
I could think of or make up, 900 games that would be addictive. This wouldn't be one.
Besides, you don't think the REAL deaths are creepy enough? Sitting for 600 hours straight and you die 10 hours ago and *nobody notices???*
How the legend gets started.
Berzerk: 1981. Friar Tuck's Calumet City, Il. Dailey and Burkowski. Both died after using the same cabinet in the same arcade a year apart.
ANOTHER guy got shot over some sort of debate involving that game, again, i think it was the SAME game. Same cabinet, even!
I don't remember one single complicated game in 1981, myself. Either in arcades or at home. I remember the consoles got affordable about 1983. ColecoVision was the best of the bunch back then. More colors, better resolution and graphics.
None of the games i had needed instructions. Jmo. They were very self-explanatory.
So, based on things like digital wellbeing, how much time you spend online and where it goes..? Have a look on your own device. :) You'll see a ton of time you don't remember using.
I had to put a lock of 15 minutes on several apps. And don't go unlock them.
I find the faster you put it down, the easiest it is to do so. The longer you use, the more you want to use.
Jmo.
What’s the name of the guy who made the cabinet?
Yotsuya over at BYOAC forums.
DeLuSioNaL's Arcade that’s the guy playing the game in the video right? Is that a nickname 🤔
@@augustrose5553 Yeah, that's his online handle. Names have been concealed to protect the innocent and government conspiracy. Lol j/k
DeLuSioNaL's Arcade thank you, just wanted to make sure. Pretty sure he’s my freshman computer apps teacher and I thought I was crazy 😆
@@augustrose5553 Yup that's probably correct. He speaks highly of his students.
2:42 I got sick
Omg that’s a haunted game
Some How It Does Not Affect Me
Good to hear. Lol. Glad you enjoyed the video!
is this really the real deal, I woiuld like to know pretty please
It's not
too
Why Do You Type Like This? It Is Fucking Annoying.
You said it wrong
AVGN says it wrong. ;-)
Holy shit i want one
I wonder Bart could play this game?