What "Lost Media" are you interested in?

[Ar_e_en]

I remember a lost YouTube channel (or possibly even a set of related channels) from the early days of YouTube (like 2007 to 2012 or so) that went by the name of "Gaming Parodies". The content of the channel was very simple - it was a group of friends that would dub random gameplay footage with a bunch of jokes, kinda like RiffTrax or a very loose form of "Abridging". 

 

The people dubbing the videos would play various characters with silly voices, one of the more notable people from the group was a guy who did a bunch of Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time dubs where he played a really stupid version of Link. One notable moment from one of the LOZ:OOT videos that sticks in my head is Link running towards a chest and yelling: "DAMNIT TREASURE CHEST! THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT! Take that..." and Link just meekly kicks the chest. The same guy also did a Touhou dub that was basically about a guy who kept losing at the game and at every "Continue?" screen would run around an arcade screaming at people and asking them for coins so he could continue playing.

 

The video that I probably remember the most about is their Sonic Schoolhouse video, where one guy dubbed the player kid-character and someone else from the group (or possibly even the same guy) dubbed Sonic, and the video had the "Requiem for a Dream" music track playing in the background. 
The video was about the kid slowly realizing that the school he was in was haunted and evil, while Sonic tells him to not worry, do his math homework and join him in Hell. There was a moment in that video where the kid tries to escape by going on the bus, but Sonic is the bus-driver. Sonic says "You can never leave! come on! Let's go on a field-trip!" and starts driving the bus at ludicrous speeds while the kid yells: "SONIC! SLOW DOWN! YOU'RE GONNA CRASH AND KILL US ALL!". The video ends with the kid leaving the school by the exit door, at which point - the screen turns black and the guy who plays the kid slowly breaks character and talks in his normal voice about the fact that this Sonic game was weirdly creepy, but at least the video is over and everyone is safe, then the intro cutscene for Sonic Schoolhouse plays again and Sonic says: "Welcome back!", at which point the guy gets back into character and starts screaming in horror.
 
By today's standards - these videos are on par with early YTP's, but clearly they had something going for them, otherwise I would have forgotten them. As far as I can remember - the channel was taken down multiple times for copyright reasons and the people behind that channel either kept creating new channels or started reuploading some of the videos on the personal channels of individual members.

[Wadmodder Shalton]

Games being developed during the 5th, 6th & 7th generation consoles in addition to PC that couldn't secure any interest in publishers also interests me, as these were made in the era before indie developers started self-publishing their games.

A couple of these games that couldn't secure any interest in publishers include but not limited to:

Sadness: a survival horror game that was to be released exclusively on the Nintendo Wii by developer Nibris. It was the earliest titles announced for the system, and it was to be set in pre-World War I Ukraine. Sadly, other than the concept trailer nothing in terms of gameplay or screenshots was ever revealed. It was cancelled around 2010 after the developer couldn't secure a publisher.

Winter: another survival horror game that was being developed exclusively for the Nintendo Wii by developer n-Space. It was to be set in a Midwest American city with a severe snowstorm. It was cancelled around 2007- early 2008 after n-Space couldn't secure a publisher.

Cleric: a PC game in development by Texas-based studio Plutonium Games using the engine used to power Serious Sam First & Second Encounter. It was to be set in 16th-century Russia. It was to be released by December 2003 but it was shelved after the developer couldn't secure any interest in publishers.

Black Death: a survival horror FPS Game being developed for the Playstation 3, Xbox 360 & PC by French developer Darkworks. It was to be set in a city where a deadly plague covered in fog infected the entire population. The game was cancelled after the developer couldn't secure any interest in publishers.

Game of Death: a survival horror game being developed for the Playstation 2, Xbox and PC by German studio Burns Entertainment Software in 2001. The game's premise was both unique and morbid, as the premise was that your killing serial killers. You were to play as a man who wakes up in a dream after a serious car crash, where he's in a world where he must kill the 20th-century's most notorious serial killers in order to survive. The game would've feature fourty real-world serial killers which would've acted as bosses at the end of each of the fourty levels (with the hub world being a bone cathedral, the place where you would enter any of the fourty levels), including the likenesses of Fritz Haarmann, Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer and what's supposed to be John Wayne Gacy (the latter as seen in the game's concept trailer). The idea and story was created by German film director Jörg Buttgereit and was described as psychological horror with an original gameplay mechanic, where the required necessary tools were needed to defeated the serial killer bosses in a similar vain to how they treated their victims, and the player would've had access to a Serial Killer Dictionary (or Encyclopedia) to know the only way to defeat them, but every detail wasn't given out to each of the fourty serial killers. Sadly, in the end the developer couldn't secure any interest in publishers, probably due to the game's disturbing subject matter, you know serial killers and stuff (and really low-budget looking lame ones at best), and the project was cancelled.

Just wanted to get these unreleased games out of the way.

Edited March 7, 2022 by Wadmodder Shalton

[DrWho42]

doctor who missing episodes

[Ar_e_en]

There was a character in the "Harry Potter" books named Peeves - a mischievous trickster spirit. When the first "Harry Potter" film was being shot - Peeves was originally in the film. He was played by the British comedian Rik Mayall, best known for his performances in the comedy series "The Young Ones" and "Bottom". However, the character Peeves was cut from the film and therefor never made an appearance in any of the other films. There might exist behind the scenes footage of Rik's performance in the original film.

 

 

[Wadmodder Shalton]

Here's a couple of Atari 2600 games that were being developed in 1983 that were never released due to the North American Video Game Crash.

The Incredible Hulk - a Superhero game based on the Marvel comic hero of the same name to be published by Parker Brothers.

Mr Bill's Neighborhood - a game to be developed and published by Data Age based on the Claymation character from Saturday Night Live.

Romper Room-based games - three planned games based on the children's show Romper Room to be published by Spectravideo, these were DoBee's First Alphabet, Romper Room's Countdown to Fun and The Street Where You Live.

Seal to Whales - a Pengo clone probably released exclusively in Europe by Datatech Enterprises. This is currently the only Atari 2600 game from Europe that hasn't been dumped online whatsoever.

Shove It! - a game being developed by CBS Electronics that otherwise doesn't have any information widely available.

Smokey Bear - another Data Age game being based on the mascot by the Ad Council that would had the player preventing forest fires.

I've already mentioned the SwordQuest series earlier when I talked about the prizes from the shelved contests, and briefly mentioned the unreleased SwordQuest AirWorld, so I just had to mention these unreleased Atari 2600 prototypes.

[OpenRift]

To answer the title question, pretty much any piece of source code that hasn't been released, which I think can still count as lost media.

 

But to be more specific, let's go over a few games that come to mind. I know they're unlikely to see the light of day in the public eye, but that's what makes it sad dammit!

• Blood 
• Powerslave
• Alien Trilogy
• Halo 1 and 2 (OG Xbox versions)
• Marathon 1 (mostly reverse-engineered in Aleph One)
• Interstate 76
• Chasm: The Rift
• Carmageddon
• Unreal Engine 1 (which was sort of leaked with the recent Duke Nukem Forever 2001 build leak, but releasing Unreal Gold, Rune, and UT99's code would be nice)
• Dark Forces and Outlaws (really excited for The Force Engine though!)
• Jazz Jackrabbit 1 and 2 (OpenJazz and Jazz 2 Resurrection have some accuracy issues)
• Goldeneye 007
• Grand Theft Auto (Fuck Take Two)
• SiN
• Killing Time (Windows version, I guess 3DO version as well as a curiousity)
• Fucking Team Fortress 2, Valve just do it already you greedy assholes

 

[Nikku4211]

An old web anime called The Masked Girl. I can't find any trace of it on the internet, but it used to have a TVTropes pages that was later deleted because of lack of context.

 

The anime was originally posted on YouTube a long time ago, but has since been privatised.

 

Even back when it was on YouTube, the audio has long since been switched out with some funk song because the original audio track used a song from a Disney movie.

 

I've downloaded the first episode before it was privatised, but not before its audio has been switched out, so the audio to the video is lost media.

 

Then again, this is a very old web anime, the person who made it is most likely ashamed of it now anyway, so maybe it's best for us to leave it in the past too.

[The BMFG]

for a good while I've been invested in the search for the fabled original Jeff the killer image. commonly checking their discord and reddit for updates and possible leads on the investigation 

 

[Kool Belzero]

On 5/19/2022 at 1:22 AM, OpenRift said:

 

• Fucking Team Fortress 2, Valve just do it already you greedy assholes

 

Ackchyually Tf2's source code got leaked about 2 years ago

[DannyMan]

I am interested in seeing Moscow Rhapsody, a FPS game that was cancelled in favor of Mafia 2.

[OpenRift]

16 hours ago, Kool Belzero said:

Ackchyually Tf2's source code got leaked about 2 years ago

Yeah, but Valve more or less shut down all the mod projects that are using it

[MemeMind]

Dont see anyone talking about this in here.

 

There was the original Interplay/Black Isle Fallout 3 that was in development before being canceled by Interplay going bankrupt and Bethesda buying the IP. Its code name was Van Buren. You can find the design documents online.

 

It would be similar to Fallout 1 and 2 but in a new 3D engine. From what I recall it would have both turn based combat and real time combat. And there were going to be some co op elements. 

Something interesting is that some ideas from Van Buren made it into Fallout New Vegas, which if you didnt know Obsidian had alot of ex Black Isle employees. 

 

I enjoy the Bethesda Fallouts but I would have love to see this fully released.

 

There are some other canceled/Lost fallout games like how there was a Fallout MMO years before Fallout 76 stunk our lives.

[gwain]

a piece of lost media that Im interested in is the greenman music video 

I simply cannot find it not on youtube not on bitchute and not on odyssey not on brave and not even on searx

 

I believe this video has clips of it which is frustrating because it also has clips of other type o negative videos and other stock footage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imuXWbc3HNM

 

if you know where to find the video contact me

this is what I think it looks like this could be from another music video though 

Spoiler

 

also side note when looking for other type o negative music videos that actually got uploaded some comments say that they were surprised it got digitized so I think its the analog to digital barrier that makes this so hard to find

and as the creater of the thread said:

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Also to worth mention is the master tapes of popular music that were destroyed in a fire at Universal Studios back in 2008, that affected alot of artists, including those that had been disbanded since the 2000s or earlier, such is the case with the original master tape recordings of Nirvana and other bands.

this could have been destroyed along with some music ^

Edited May 23, 2022 by gwain

[Taw Tu'lki]

Sometimes thinking about the lost OVA Jojo's Bizarre Adventure (2007).

[MadeMan]

It's Not An OVA, It's A Movie.

[Taw Tu'lki]

 

[Wadmodder Shalton]

There was at least one game planned for Worlds of Wonder's ill-fated Action Max, that being Fright Night. Since the Action Max was released late in 1987 during Worlds of Wonder's financial troubles, only five of the games were ever released for it, and each game required the user to have a VHS VCR, as the system was only used to keep a high score. All five games were strictly point-based and dependent on shot accuracy, and as such players couldn't truly lose or win any of the games, as the only genre for the system was just FMV light gun games, and really low-budget lame ones at best.

 

The five games released were .38 Ambush Alley, Hydrosub: 2021, Sonic Fury, The Rescue of Pops Ghostly and Blue Thunder, the latter based on the 1983 movie of the same name. However, one game that was planned for the Action Max remains a mystery that is Fright Night, which is mentioned in the instruction manual.

 

Since Blue Thunder on Action Max incorporated footage from the movie, Fright Night would had been based on the 1985 film of the same name, and could've incorporated footage from that film and probably the then in development Fright Night Part 2 from 1988.

 

As far as we know Worlds of Wonder never released any screenshots or box art of Fright Night, and they were impacted by the October 1987 stock market crash and folded in 1990. As such, there isn't any prototype VHS tapes or even any prototype footage of the Action Max Fright Night game anywhere in existence, making it a lost movie-based game of the VHS-based game console generation.

[Ozcar]

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Edited October 11, 2022 by Ozcar

[Wadmodder Shalton]

C.I.T.Y. 2000 Paris: obviously the most famous lost media point and click adventure game supposedly released in 1994, where there aren't any copies anywhere to be found online, and it's unlikely it was never even finished.

 

Oh, and speaking of Fright Night for the ill-fated Action Max, I've always wondered how anyone can rip the flashing target graphics from the system's other titles to create an unofficial mockup/fan made recreation version of this unreleased game using at least 15 to 17 minutes of footage incorporated from the 1985 movie Fright Night with any type of video editing software. Basically, a homebrew Action Max game title for VHS, or even a DVD, as the five official titles were unofficially sold on DVD-Rs by other people and companies.

[ProgrammerPower]

On 5/23/2022 at 12:13 PM, OpenRift said:

Yeah, but Valve more or less shut down all the mod projects that are using it

Yeah because it's old code that has security issues. This is why Team Fortress 2008 got shut down.

[Endless]

On 1/23/2022 at 6:13 AM, ReeseJamPiece said:

The Japanese stuff that never got imported to the West and put the side of some random shop. Walk into any media store in Japan and I guarantee there'll be boxes full of the weirdest shit you've ever seen. There are thousands of them around, the rabbit hole goes on forever: posters, gimmicky PS1 and PC games, neo-futuristic kitchen utensil devices, creepy random ROM discs, the PC Engine, forgotten anime. It is madness.

 

A good example of this is Legend of the Galactic Heroes. While not really ''lost'', per se, it was originally sell as an OVA in 1988 only in Japan, yet it never saw a release on the west until 2015. Unless you knew Japanese and had some sort of connection that would smuggle you exclusive titles, there was no way of watching it legally. Now it's considered one of the greatest anime of all time on most western anime sites. Makes you think about how many other ''gems'' are lost to the English-speaking part of the world.

 

I guess Silent Hills PT now also counts as lost media, and probably the single biggest lost videogame in history... fuck you Konami.

[TheFocus]

"Mickey Goes To Vietnam"

an anti-war cartoon made without Disney's knowing, and when they heard about it, ordered all evidence of it's existence destroyed. something about "cartoon character involved in extreme topics" has always interested me. (technically not "lost" per se, but the middle part of it has never been found, only the intro and ending.)

 

(best watched with an anti-war song of your choosing playing over it)

 

[Wadmodder Shalton]

The Sad Story of Henry - 1953

 

While many of us are familiar with the 1984 Thomas the Tank Engine TV series which lasted until 2021 adapting The Railway Series of books, there was an earlier adaptation of the books produced by the BBC in the 1950s under the name "The Three Small Engines" that was broadcasted live in June 1953.

Though train models and sets were completed quickly for what would've been a complex production, this was where things didn't go according to plan. Recollection states that the broadcast started off well, despite the engines being jerky in some spots, but then it went downhill from there when the train engine derailed and a human hand had to pick it up. As such, it was an unwelcomed surprise to many viewers at the time, and the production recieved bad publicity, where newspapers took notice of its flawed production quality, resulting in negative reviews.

Despite a set of revisions and reworks to add adjustments to the proposed second broadcast, that one was ended up being cancelled, with the derailment broadcast being the one and only episode to had ever been made, and it has never been seen since.

 

It's not surprising this ended up being the case at all, considering that the BBC doesn't have good archives of its content from the 1950s to 1970s and had previously wiped their broadcast master tapes in the 1960s up until the 1980s in the past, meaning that even if a recording did exist at one point, it no longer truly does. Though since they got alot of bad publicity with the trail derailment, it probably wasn't something they wanted to save in their archives either, and it was a live broadcast and the era of home recording wasn't around, making it very unlikely that anybody in the 1950s would've saved it privately.

 

According to the Lost Media Wiki article, there are claims of people obtaining clips and even a couple of ways it could've been recorded, but none of them are considered factual. While there are many black and white videos and photos that are claimed to be from the live broadcast, but even these have been debunked, as in the case of video sources are just mockup reconstructs of what the broadcast would've looked like, or in the case of still images with their origins being from a 1980s event in the United Kingdom of fan-made and modified Thomas train models.

It's still hard to believe that there hasn't any authentic photographs or stills of the sets, rehearsals or even the filming location which would've gave us an idea on how any of the Thomas train models looked like back in the 1950s.

Edited October 13, 2022 by Wadmodder Shalton

[QuaketallicA]

The mention of classic Doctor Who brought a smile to my face. I was just enjoying revisiting some of my favorite stories recently from the Jon Pertwee era. Last night I was seeing the 6-part epic "Frontier in Space," which felt a bit Star Trek-inspired (the old Romulan/Federation Neutral Zone plot point). 

 

Sorry, digression over. I've recently gotten into the early Pantera albums from the 80s. I don't think that quite counts as "lost" since it's there on Youtube, but it's kind of "lost" in the sense that the band seems to have disavowed their early works before breaking big with Cowboys from Hell in the 90s. Which is a real shame, because their 80s glam days were honestly great too. Seriously, the songs on Metal Magic rival or surpass ones put out by much more famous bands of the 80s. The budding prowess of guitar god Dime (Diamond then) is apparent on riffs and solos, and Terry Glaze is a great vocalist for the "hair band" style they had then. I get in the 90s everything 80s was cheesy and poseur rock, so they wanted to keep the "tough guy" image they had built with their trailblazing albums, each heavier than the last. But now I think most metalheads love Pantera and Dimebag, and anything more of them is great! The indelible impact of Cowboys, Vulgar Display, Far Beyond Driven, et. al. won't be leaving our minds. We know that's the "real" Pantera where they became what most people think of. But still, it would be nice to now accept their earlier days which kicked just as much ass, even if their unique style of groove hadn't yet been born.

[Ozcar]

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Edited November 3, 2022 by Ozcar

[Sonikkumania]

31 minutes ago, QuaketallicA said:

The mention of classic Doctor Who brought a smile to my face. I was just enjoying revisiting some of my favorite stories recently from the Jon Pertwee era. Last night I was seeing the 6-part epic "Frontier in Space," which felt a bit Star Trek-inspired (the old Romulan/Federation Neutral Zone plot point). 

 

Sorry, digression over. I've recently gotten into the early Pantera albums from the 80s. I don't think that quite counts as "lost" since it's there on Youtube, but it's kind of "lost" in the sense that the band seems to have disavowed their early works before breaking big with Cowboys from Hell in the 90s. Which is a real shame, because their 80s glam days were honestly great too. Seriously, the songs on Metal Magic rival or surpass ones put out by much more famous bands of the 80s. The budding prowess of guitar god Dime (Diamond then) is apparent on riffs and solos, and Terry Glaze is a great vocalist for the "hair band" style they had then. I get in the 90s everything 80s was cheesy and poseur rock, so they wanted to keep the "tough guy" image they had built with their trailblazing albums, each heavier than the last. But now I think most metalheads love Pantera and Dimebag, and anything more of them is great! The indelible impact of Cowboys, Vulgar Display, Far Beyond Driven, et. al. won't be leaving our minds. We know that's the "real" Pantera where they became what most people think of. But still, it would be nice to now accept their earlier days which kicked just as much ass, even if their unique style of groove hadn't yet been born.

There has to be a cover band somewhere which is dedicated solely on the 3 first albums of Pantera, lol.

[Wadmodder Shalton]

On 5/18/2022 at 11:22 PM, OpenRift said:

To answer the title question, pretty much any piece of source code that hasn't been released, which I think can still count as lost media.

Perhaps even the source code to the arcade version of Primal Rage (maybe even its sequel as well).

 

It's almost near impossible to defeat the copy protection system used in the arcade version, or all the hardware components of the Arcade system board is too poorly documented to find any component related to its copy protection.

 

In fact it's rumored (in my opinion) that the copy protection system in the arcade version of Primal Rage is way too cursed, that it would be rumored that all those involved in creating the copy protection system in Primal Rage passed away in weird-freak ways, everybody from the arcade system board manufacturing team to the encryption software developers. Basically a Cursed Kleenex Commercial vibe related to the development of the Arcade version of Primal Rage, though to be honest it's just my myth regarding the copy protection system in Primal Rage.

Edited August 3, 2022 by Wadmodder Shalton

[Taw Tu'lki]

Wanna find an original photo that was used as a photo of Jeff the Killer.

[BigBoy91]

Just sealed the deal on a new house with the fiance, so I'm having a few Sixpoint Smoothie IPAs to celebrate. Got a 24-pack for $10 because they were expired. They're cans though, so there's no chance of them getting skunked.

[Wadmodder Shalton]

Particularly this famous urban legend on the internet being the original malicious code and original citations of the infamous Goggle typosquatting website virus.

According to different sources and forums, legend states that by 2004 the site became malicious and would involve obscene pop-ups and even the WMF exploit, the latter of which that was around during the mid-2000s, where the user's computer infected with the said exploit would install SpySheriff, and would damage your computer that the user had no choice but to reinstall Windows.

Unfortunately, unlike the famous You Are An Idiot website Javascript trojan, the only surviving evidence of the 2004-2008 Goggle website virus is just an ad campaign made by McAfee for their SiteAdvisor browser extension thst shows what happens if the user wasn't browsing safely. That ad campaign was edited by Greg Bertrand, who was an employee at McAfee at the time. What's interesting is that there are also two alternate cuts of this ad floating around that contains some extra filmed footage that didn't make it to the final cut.

As far as we know, that's all that is known of the malicious incarnation of the Goggle website, everything else regarding this malware is lost to history, with almost no surviving malicious code to exist and even the Internet Archive has blacklisted it from being included in the Wayback Machine, meaning that nobody can even recreate the 2004-2008 version of that infamous website either.

The Goggle website virus will forever remain an urban legend story whose malicious code will never be seen again, and we think that's for the best it will never resurface.

On a side note, it evolved into a bunch of other scam sites before what it currently is today, which meant that it changed ownership alot. First becoming a survey website twice, them becoming a fake Flash Player downloader, then a blank HTML page, becoming a fake polling website and finally becoming a political WordPress blog which currently doesn't contain any malware.