![]() It's also very likely that some arcade machines from the 70s and 80s were only produced in small runs by companies who went on to become defunct and that all examples of the roms were lost without being dumped and archived. There are plenty of unreleased, unique games and therefore we have to assume that some of these were never dumped and all copies were lost. This goes triple for games on classic computer systems.Īnonymous Tue Aug 6 23:11:29 2013 No.970647 Without someone dumping those games they would ultimately be forgotten. For example, do you think that on ANY Zelda compilation that Nintendo decided to release from now until the end of time would include the 3do games? No. On the other hand, piracy has without a doubt preserved countless games that would have rotted away otherwise. This may especially be true for the classic Japanese computers. There are many, many games for early computers that have never been dumped and are rotting away in someone's attic on a 5 1/4 inch floppy. On what are you basing that claim? I WANT TO BELIEVE.Īnonymous Tue Aug 6 23:00:58 2013 No.970630 >I've been trying really hard to find solid evidence of that. BBC almost used the Monty Python's Flying Circus masters to record sports events or something before one of the cast bought them himself, if I'm not talking out of my ass.)Īlthough I have heard that arcade games made in poorer countries were often disassembled upon retirement so that their parts could be reused.Īnonymous Tue Aug 6 23:00:58 2013 No.970629 On what are you basing that claim? I WANT TO BELIEVE.Īs far as OP's question, by design it's unlikely for this to happen, because except for some early games, the software was created digitally and can be easily preserved on a digital backup it's different than in the case of old analog film which requires a well-kept and maintained physical copy that can degrade over time, be destroyed in a fire or a flood, or just plain thrown out or written over by the stdio to save money and space (which unfortunately happened a lot more often and a lot more recently than you might think. I've been trying really hard to find solid evidence of that. Lots of games written on early academic systems were deleted for being non-educational, eg. Sonic the Hedgehog's original program code is lost and gone forever.Īnonymous Tue Aug 6 22:56:58 2013 No.970620 Older versions of the code might possibly have been pushed aside and lost along the way.Īnonymous Tue Aug 6 22:50:59 2013 No.970609 Or games that saw updates like Tekken 2 and Mortal Kombat 2. Large, unwieldy, expensive, saw limited sales because of those characteristics. If anything, maybe those giant cabinet games like Galaxian3, if not Starblade, Cybersled, etc. ![]() Polybius might be the world's only lost videogame.provided it actually existed in the first place.Īnonymous Tue Aug 6 22:44:28 2013 No.970585 ![]() Even games that were never meant to be released to the public turn up eventually, like Earthbound Zero and the Majora's Mask debug ROM.Īnonymous Tue Aug 6 22:42:58 2013 No.970582 That said, the widespread availability of ROMs and emulators (even for recent games and systems) makes "lost" games extremely unlikely nowadays. Would such a fate befall certain videogames? >Īnonymous Tue Aug 6 22:41:58 2013 No.970574Īs far as I know, Polybius actually existed at one point and actually is lost forever. We have films which are considered lost, in which they were produced and released, but all the negatives were either destroyed or somehow disappeared, leaving the film never to be seen again. Will there ever be such a thing as "lost" videogames? File: 26 KB, 400x263, spacewar_arcade.jpg ![]()
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