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Re: The Crazy Urban Legend of the Killer Arcade Machine...
12/13/11 04:13 PM
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> I wrote Ed Rotberg about this "game" a couple of years ago, since he's listed on
> Wikipedia as the programmer, and never heard back from him. Usually he'll get back to
> me within a few days when I drop him an email. Take that any way you want...
And let me put on my "cynic" hat too.
There's been a few attempted USENET arcade/MAME "frauds" over the years, with people submitting hacked ROM sets and posting purposefully inaccurate information - for kicks, for April Fool's, just to be a prankster. One of the first of these was Christian Oliver =CYBERYOGI= Windler, who sent in information regarding a "GDR"/East German "Phoenix" set. These ROMs turned out to be hacked as an April Fool's joke.
Notice that "Sinneslöschen" is a German word... odd, so is Mr. Yogi... coincidence?
He also liked information on known fictitious games, like "Bishop of Battle" (see USENET)
Earliest mentions of Polybius:
USENET: Feb 28, 2000: http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games...d95e3338add636a
First Web mention: http://web.archive.org/web/20000303224844/http://www.clickto.com/coinop/GamePage/Polybius.html
February 6, 2000 was the last submitted page modification at time of archival.
A year later, Al Kossow blames CyberYogi: http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games...99bc7e3e30ff0be
Who was also guilty of his April Fool's joke that year: http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games...e0cf1cc3aa72cc8
Smacks of the "long con", if you ask me. February is getting close to April...
Still, it's a fun urban legend to encourage. USENET was a wild place back then, which is why there's a few "confirmations"... I do love what the "scene" has done with this story... 
[EDIT] Hi Brian...
- Stiletto
Edited by Stiletto (12/13/11 05:29 PM)
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