<div dir="ltr">The only thing I know off the top of my head (and this was mentioned in the brainstorm material I sent) is the art assets (and other materials) Konami lost during the Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake in 1995. That's why they haven't produced high-resolution images of the early Castlevania game art - the originals just don't exist for them to do it. I don't have a list of everything they lost, but I know the original Castlevania art was unfortunately a part of that.<br>
<br>In addition, there's plenty other cases of rare finds like this just mysteriously
showing up in places (though it's not as good an example as the
Castlevania one). A few years ago, the guy who used to run the Metroid Database picked up the official Super Metroid developer's map off of e-bay. Now shouldn't Nintendo have taken better care of something that was from such a historically important game? Looks like he'll have to ensure it's well-preserved now as its new custodian! <br>
<br>I've had personal losses of data and games. In most of the disk-based cases, it hasn't been total devastation, as the games are still available on the web, but a couple of the Amiga games I've got actually haven't appeared in rom form on the web (The Logic Master, actually :P). This one is actually in the search list for the software preservation group (d'oh!). Thankfully, I know a person who was involved in their development, so I could see if she's got a copy somewhere...<br>
<br>-Devin Monnens<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 6:25 AM, Andrew Armstrong <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew@aarmstrong.org">andrew@aarmstrong.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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).<br>
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Doesn't have to be a long one, I'm all for brevity.<br>
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However, I'm sure there is a ton, especially from pre-CD days, and from companies which have become defunct (specific examples of companies which lost loads of material would be good too!).<br>
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I've tried Google, but there is no specific pages answering to my queries ("lost videogames" comes up with...the Lost videogame, thanks Google! Nothing on Wikipedia specifically either). There is no site I've got bookmarked or RSSed which hosts such a list as far as I know, apart from I've not checked the Playstation archive which lists a few incomplete games/recovered games - obviously actually something else to list too.<br>
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Also; while there are of course a long list of games which are of limited availability now (ie; no company or archive holds onto them, only collectors, and even then maybe only a few copies of the game, making it generally unplayable by historians), that's always going to be a problem until the archives really are well funded and the size of what film and TV archives are today, so probably are not worth noting just yet.<br>
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Thanks if anyone knows any!<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>
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Andrew<br>
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