[game_preservation] Preservation Whitepaper Brainstorm Progress

[Jim Leonard]

Andrew Armstrong wrote:

> Regarding the whitepaper, we need some concrete examples of videogame 

> loses we've already had. I know there are some collectors on here, so 

> this should be easy; a list of videogames which were produced, but are 

> now lost (all copies gone, masters deleted, whatever), and unreleased 

> games which were lost and will never be recovered (betas, alphas, 

> whatever).

> 

> Doesn't have to be a long one, I'm all for brevity.


Some MMOs have come and gone with hardly any record of what the game 
looked like, let alone what gameplay was like (ie. recorded video).

The PCjr version of MULE was produced in 4-digit quantities and none are 
known to exist in the wild (only a photo of a diskette).
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