Ah yes, Yeah Yeah Beebiss I is a name which strikes fear in the heart of anyone who hears it. Wait, what was that you said? You've literally🎉 never heard that name before? Yeah, same.
This garbled phrase is the name of an extremely obscure "game" whose origins and prett꧃y much everything else🌊 about it is all but completely unknown. Even whether or not it is or ever was a game is unconfirmed. One thing is certain, though: it's considered one of the most interesting pieces of lost media ever, and one of the .
Behold, the brief, fascinating, but largely uninformative story of Yeah Yeah Beebiss I.
The Legend Of Yeah Yeah
One of the most striking aspects of the story of Yeah Yeah Beebiss I is how untraceable i✱t is beyond a certain (very unsatisfactory) point. Seldom is a piece of media forever lost or as un-findable as this one, with even the most dedicated fಞolks out there coming up empty.
When it comes to knowing whether or not Yeah Yeah Beebiss I is even a game in the first place, no one can really say. We do know for sure that the name first surfaced in June 1989 on a listing for a mail-order video game service by the name of Play it Again. But after three months, the listing disappeared. Then it reappeared on Funco - an entirely different mail-order serv🗹ice - shortly thereafter. Listings for this "game" continued into 1990 before disappearing once and for all.
Yeah Yeah Beebiss: The Theories
One theory is that Yeah Yeah Beebiss I simply doesn't exist. Perhaps the listing was fabricated and actually created as a k𝓰ind of "copyright trap" on the part of Play it Again? In this case, it would work as a signal that would flag any attempts made by other companies to copy the list. However, because the listing disappeared and reappeared the wa💖y it did, this theory seems unlikely.
It could be that the listing was simply included as a placeholder of sorts for a game that never materialized, or that it was simply some int꧑ensely convoluted typo. But the mail-order lists upon which it appeared back in the day were advertizing pre-owned (and thus, existing) Nintendo games. So chances are, it really does exist out there in some shape or form, perhaps as a game with an entirely different name.
The Mystery Of The Beebiss
Speaking of, what exactl🔯y is the dealio with that name? There are various theories around that, t𓄧oo.
One is that perhaps Beebiss was a typo for a late-1980s game called Dweebers, which was intended for a Nintendo Entertainment System release around the same time that Beebiss emerged. Regardless, though, Dweebers never got to see the light of day anyway.
Another particularly convoluted theory is that the name is the product of some massacred translation from Japanese that involves misconstrued Roman numerals and the American explorer-slash-naturalist William Beebe who lived in the 1900s. That rabbit hole leads to the theory that the Beebiss concept actually turned out to be Super Pitfall II - a to Activision's 1986 NES platformer Super Pitfall.
Other evidence - perhaps the strongest - suggests it's actually a name adaptation of the rather lengthily-named Bandai platformer of the same era, Although still not confirmed, it does 𒐪seem to add up when the Japanese-English translations are explored in further depth.
Unfortunately, that's pretty much where the Beebiss breadcrumb trail ends. Again, whilst really intriguing, the frustrating truth is that we might never know for sure what Yeah Yeah Beebiss I is, its official status acc𝓀ording to the Lost Media Wiki still being - rather ominously - "."
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