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I was scrolling on the internet and randomly found the first photo on a google search, then I realized it looked similar to one of the oldest and most iconic Polybius pictures!

It’s on this older looking website and now I’m wondering if the og owner of this website actually took that photo with this machine! The components are almost exact to that b&w photo.

If anyone else loves Polybius as much as I do then I would love to know what you think! This was such a cool and random internet find!

Edit: I know polybius is definitely not real. I love pretending like it is and even though there’s no reason it ever was real, I still like finding origins for fake photos like this one!!

Edit 2: Okay. The arcade on slide 1 is absolutely not it, the marquee is too bright in the second slide to be the same thing. I still love the recreation on slide 1! Out of all recreations I’ve seen, it looks the most accurate and realistic, and I wish it was in an arcade somewhere so I could see it!

Doing a bit more research abt the legend and about the fact that arcades were actually tested in Oregon, I decided to try and recreate that iconic Polybius title screen but make it more accurate to an experimental blank cabinet.

Went through a few versions of this (shocking considering this is should’ve been easy), but I really wanted it truly feeling like it could’ve been in an actual arcade in 1981!!

I know the actual descriptions of it make it sound like a vector graphics Tempest arcade, but idk how vector graphics would’ve realistically looked so I opted for traditional pixel art.

Let me know what you think! I’m only rambling abt it bc I love the legend so much and I hope this becomes another iconic Polybius art piece.