Six days after the game's limited release began, a thirteen-year-old boy from Portland, Oregon had an epileptic seizure while playing the game and they had to quickly pull the seven cabinets out of the arcades. Roach claimed that the game was created for a South American company who wanted to take a "new approach" to the gaming industry. On March 20th, 2006, Steven Roach posted a supposed explanation for the mystery about the game to the Polybius page, followed by a repost on the Retro Gamer message board two days later. Additionally, the Internet legend was referenced in the September 24th, 2006 episode of The Simpsons in a scene where Bart enters an arcade and walks up to a machine adjacent to Polybius, which is marked as "property of the U.S. The legend of the game has been compiled by a variety of nerd culture blogs including SkepticBlog, Den of Geek, Cracked, Yahoo! Voices, Motherboard and Joystick. EXE file that “simulated” a Windows directory deletion. A few weeks later, a member of the Guru3D forums claimed to be in possession of an emulator of the game, but later said it was an. Also in 2004, the website The Polybius Theory was created to collect all available information about the game. In May 2004, the story was featured on the Museum of Hoaxes one month after a photo of a supposed Polybius cabinet was uploaded to Arcade-Museum.
The next month, another thread was started on the Above Top Secret message board. Two years later in July 2003, a thread about the game appeared on the Snopes message board, where researchers arrived at the conclusion that it was not a real game. Would someone please shoot this story in the head? It was put there by net kook 'CYBERYOGI' who was also responsible for an annoying April Fools prank last year. However, Windler never publicly admitted to creating the story. In another thread posted in the same newsgroup over a year later on April 11th, 2001, a poster named Al Kossow claimed that the legend was created by Christian Oliver Windler, known by his Usenet handle CyberYogi. The first archived inquiry about the game was posted to the Usenet group .collecting on February 27th, 2000. The best answer if it's fake (IF), is that it was based off an obscure, and rare German arcade cabinet called "Poly-Play" which was a collection of eight games including a puzzler and space shooter. In addition, the entry included a photograph of the title screen bearing the text “© 1981 Sinneslöschen" (loosely translated as "sensory-extinguishing" in German) as well as mysterious reports of children suffering from amnesia, sleeping disorders or inexplicable trauma after playing the game. The article also noted that the machine was regularly visited by men in black coats who would come to collect "records," citing the account of one of the arcades' alleged owners who suspected they were part of a paramilitary technology group.
The original submission provided little information regarding the history of the game, aside from the description of an abstract puzzle/space shooter game named after a Greek historian that was only released in one or two arcades outside of Portland. The earliest known reference article about Polybius was first added to game repository on August 3rd, 1998.
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