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What's up everyone, dycaite here, back out of hibernation once again, this time to (hopefully) provide a welcome distraction from these crazy days in the form of a massive dose of lost media news! In true form, this one includes stuff we missed dating all the way back to last year, so grab some popcorn and get comfortable, 'cause this is gunna be another one of our feature length notice board posts 😅 Starting with(!):
- There's a new blameitonjorge lost media video out! This one is the first in a series called Lost Media Case Files, which is dedicated to those pieces of lost media that are either lesser known or don't quite have enough information on them to warrant a full length presentation. You can check out Vol. 1 of the new series above (featuring a lost creepypasta called Cameraheads, the Dragon Ball Harmony Gold dub and the existence unconfirmed piece currently making the rounds online, Go For a Punch - aka Saki Sanobashi)! Speaking of which...
- The Harmony Gold dub of Dragon Ball has been found in its entirety! You can catch all 5 episodes of the infamous dub yourself here (please note that you will need an archive.org account to do so). Big thanks to Ryan Gavigan, Tom_Servo (aka bun39), folks over at the Kanzenshuu forum and anyone else who helped to make this possible!
- Friend of the wiki and prolific VHS archivist/Nickelodeon aficionado CDCB has started an exciting new project and I wanted to give it a shout out 😊 Nickstory Archives is a brand new wiki dedicated to the documentation and preservation of Nickelodeon broadcast schedules, dating all the way back to 1979, and it has already hit the ground running in terms of content; you can check it out for yourself here if you're into that kind of thing (and let's face it, if you're reading this, you probably are)! Good luck with the project CDCB, I look forward to seeing how it progresses!
- The unaired City of Houston Evangelion AIDS PSA has been found! The infamous 1999 radio spot saw voice actors Spike Spencer and Tiffany Grant reprising their Evangelion roles of Shinji and Asuka respectively, with the two characters depicted having intercourse, while a narrator explains that one of them has AIDS and is about to pass it on, before encouraging safe sex practices. The spot (apparently titled HIV AWARENESS "MURDER", and never actually broadcast due to sounding too real) was uncovered earlier this month by YouTuber Red Bard and the aforementioned Tiffany Grant, the former having reached out to the latter, who would go on to track down her cassette taped copy (allegedly the only known copy in existence) and share it! You can catch the story of its unearthing, as well as the scandalous recording itself above via Red Bard's video (P.S. Thanks for featuring the LMW in it!). Big thanks to both Red Bard and Tiffany Grant for bringing this infamous clip out of obscurity, kudos!
- While we are on the topic of PSA-esque material, an episode from the 1990 Spider-Man Safety Series has been found! This direct-to-VHS series starring everybody's friendly neighborhood Spider-Man was made up of four 11 minute tapes/episodes: "Don’t Hide Abuse", "Smart Kids Play it Safe", "What To Do About Drugs" and "Where Do You Go for Help", the first of which was recently ripped and uploaded to YouTube by RobotBacon after learning of its rarity, having owned the tape for roughly 15 years. Big thanks to RobotBacon for going to the efforts to preserve and provide this, they are much appreciated! You can watch "Don’t Hide Abuse" yourself via the above embed.
- A VHS copy of the live-action Monsignor Martinez pilot (an unaired King of the Hill spinoff, for those unaware) has been located! This photo was emailed to me several weeks ago (I shared it on our Discord at the time but I figure it deserves a mention here too) and while I've had to censor out some sensitive information on the label (at the request of the person who has the tape, who I will keep anonymous for now just to be on the safe side), I'm quite confident that it's the real deal. The owner intends to try and determine who owns the rights to the episode and ask them about potentially releasing it; here's hoping they're successful - we'll be sure to let you all know if/when they are!
- The English dub of the "Handful of Crumbs" Sesame Street short has been found! The 1982 short was lost entirely until a Spanish version was uploaded by YouTuber Ferdasyn 80 back in 2017, but it's great to now have the original English dub available! Big thanks to the folks over at the Muppet Wiki for providing this discovery via their Facebook page (unfortunately, I couldn't embed it above as our video embed plugin doesn't play nice with Facebook videos); you can check it out for yourself here!
- The ROM of 1991 arcade game Mario Roulette has been released! It's a simple roulette game (albeit with a Super Mario World skin), and you were able to win and trade in medals for prizes throughout Japanese arcades. But now, thanks to the efforts of one Eric Chung (aka Shoutime), the game can be enjoyed all across the world, and you don't even need any coins to play! No prizes though, sadly ;) You can download the ROM for yourself here (please note however that you will need MAME 0.218 for it to run properly), or if you'd prefer, you can catch a video of it running above. Big thanks to Shoutime and everyone else involved in getting this game archived and properly running!
- The unreleased Super Famicom port of Cooly Skunk has been found! Cooly Skunk, or Punky Skunk as he's known in the USA, was the star of a Japanese developed 1996 PlayStaion game of the same name(s), with a Super Famicom port also being planned but ultimately scrapped. The port, which by all accounts is unfinished (or, at the very least, requires hacking to access certain levels) was purchased in cartridge form via crowdfunding from a shop in Japan by our friends at Forest of Illusion and was subsequently released via (our also-friends) Gaming Alexandria! Big thanks to all involved in archiving this rarity and getting it out to the public! You can download it here yourself
or catch a video of the game in action above!
- Footage of the unreleased Starcraft: Ghost has emerged! While we don't actually have an article on this one yet, I found the story interesting enough to include here and I think (/hope) you guys will too. To preface, Starcraft: Ghost is an Xbox game from Blizzard Entertainment that was announced in 2002 before ultimately being cancelled a few years later. Rather incredibly, just this year, footage of a playable build of the game leaked online, after someone found it on an Xbox dev kit they bought at an auction! This is just a crazy story, to think that something like this could just be sitting on an old piece of hardware in someone's garage or wherever, waiting to be found, and I always like reading about discoveries like this. While the code itself has not been released online (and even if it were, you would need a modded Xbox to play it), quite a bit of footage has been, as previously mentioned; you can check out said footage via the above embed!
- The Sonic 3D Blast demo tape has now been released in its entirety! You can listen to the whole thing yourself now over at GameHut's YouTube channel (courtesy of GameHut founder Jon Burton, who has been steadily releasing tracks from the tape over the past half a year or so)! Big thanks to Jon for getting these rare tracks to everyone in full!
- A set of demo tracks from The Electric Piper have been released! The once lost musical TV-movie was uncovered in 2016, but now there's a good excuse to revisit it because the original demo soundtrack has become available in its entirety, and it even includes 2 unreleased tracks! Big thanks to Bill Burnett (the film's writer), YouTuber Synth Commando and wiki regular Notelu (as this rarity was passed down the chain from Bill Burnett to Synth Commando to Notelu, who uploaded it to YouTube); much appreciated! You can take a listen for yourself via the above embed (as well as an extra demo track "London on the Moon", which was acquired by the parties involved shortly afterwards)!
- A prototype of The Flintstones Movie Sega Channel game (on Genesis/Mega Drive) has been found! Developed in 1995, this port of the 1994 SNES title of the same name was released exclusively on the Sega Channel (an early online distribution platform) and as the service only allowed subscribers to download games for a limited amount of time, there are no known copies of the full game still in existence. Nevertheless, this prototype was acquired and released late last year by Hidden Palace's drx and it gives most people the chance to experience the game for the first time, albeit in incomplete form (ie. lacking a soundtrack). Big thanks to drx for getting this rarity out to the masses! You can download it yourself here, or check out some gameplay footage above!
- Two more scenes from the extended rough cut of the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie have been released! These scenes, not unlike the other scene that was released some time ago from this extended rough cut, were made available online courtesy of the Super Mario Bros. The Movie Archive (aka SMB Movie on YouTube) and can be seen via the above two embeds! Big thanks to SMB Movie for giving us yet another glimpse of these unseen moments!
- The complete first episode of Whoopi's Littleburg has been found! This obscure, partially found 3-episode children's series from 2004 starred Whoopi Goldberg and aired on Nick Jr., and this episode's recovery marks the first time a full episode has resurfaced, with the second episode being partially lost, and the third one being lost entirely. Big thanks to YouTuber Kale Reviews and Stuff for the provision of this first episode, titled "Welcome to Littleburg"! You can check it out above!
- And one more thing I felt I had to mention before we get to the after-dinner mint that is this entry's addendum post, a herculean effort by LMW contributor TropesAreDangerous to recover and archive a mammoth amount of Mego 2-XL Robot and Tiger 2-XL Robot games - more than 30 of them! You can check out the full list of games in the addendum post below, but I just felt an effort like this has to get a mention center stage, because man... That is a lot of games! Well done and big thanks to TropesAreDangerous!
And now... 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒶𝒹𝒹𝑒𝓃𝒹𝓊𝓂 𝓅𝑜𝓈𝓉, brought to you exclusively by Ryanskip's Rug Emporium (seriously though, thanks to Ryanskip for the consistent assistance with every one of these notice board posts, it helps us out tremendously 👍🌟). This, for the uninitiated, is a list of extra stuff we publish with our notice boards for things we couldn't fit in here, lest the homepage become a novella's worth of reading. Sorry to anyone we didn't feature here as a result, your efforts are still massively appreciated!
Oh -- you may have also noticed that the article listing limit on the homepage has increased from 40 to 90... This, while temporary, was admittedly a result of me not updating the site frequently enough, but also not wanting to deny anyone the chance to have their article displayed on the homepage, so apologies for it being extra long at the moment 😅
That's gunna do it for now, but I also wanted to quickly just, ease up on the jokes, get serious for a moment and wish everyone well during these difficult times. Most of us have never lived through something of this nature and it's scary, but we can pull through if we work together responsibly. Be kind to each other, stay safe and practice social distancing. This might not be going away any time soon, but the sooner the better, and the more stringent we are, the sooner things will get back to normal. All the best, much love to you and yours; until next time~
Article additions
- Happy Wheels: The Series (partially found go90 series, 2016) 07 Jun 2020 [New]
- Zephyr: Rise of the Elementals (lost game demo) 07 Jun 2020 [New]
- Looney Tunes: Laff Riot (partially found unreleased pilot pitch of “The Looney Tunes Show” TV series, 2009) 07 Jun 2020 [New]
- Something Wicked This Way Comes (lost original cut of dark fantasy film; 1982) 06 Jun 2020 [New]
- SimRefinery (found Chevron exclusive PC management simulation game; 1993) 05 Jun 2020 [New]
- StarCraft: Ghost (partially found build of cancelled sci-fi stealth-action game; 2006) 05 Jun 2020 [New]
- Misterogers (partially found Canadian precursor to "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" children's educational TV series; 1961-1967) 03 Jun 2020 [New]
- Watching You Tonight (partially found Absolute album; 1986-1987) 29 May 2020 [New]
- Unreleased Bomb the Music Industry! live album (unreleased recording of band's final show; 2014) 28 May 2020 [New]
- Underground (lost ITV teleplay broadcast, 1958) 28 May 2020 [New]
- Before the Dawn (unreleased footage of Kate Bush concert; 2014) 27 May 2020 [New]
- High Performance (partially found action TV series; 1983) 26 May 2020 [New]
- T.A.T.u. Paragate (unreleased anime film starring Russian music duo; 2004) 25 May 2020 [New]
- Hellfest 2004 (lost soundboard audio from festival; 2004) 23 May 2020 [New]
- Bob the Builder "Naughty Spud" and "Spud the Super Wrench" (lost American dub of British children's TV series episodes; 2000s) 22 May 2020 [New]
- Springhill (partially lost second series of British soap opera; 1997) 22 May 2020 [New]
- "Pull My Strings" (lost Dead Kennedys live footage of song performance; 1980) 22 May 2020 [New]
- Aero-Cross (partially lost build of cancelled Namco Generations game; 2010-2012) 21 May 2020 [New]
- Most Annoying People (partially found BBC Three series; 2006-2011) 20 May 2020 [New]
- Hollywood Squares (lost pilot of NBC game show; existence unconfirmed; 1965) 18 May 2020 [New]
- The Gay Follies of Saturday Morning (lost flexi-disc by Hustler Magazine; 1976) 18 May 2020 [New] [NSFW]
- View-Master Interactive Vision (partially lost VHS-based games; 1988) 17 May 2020 [New]
- Oil and Vinegar (lost screenplay by John Hughes; 1984-1986) 17 May 2020 [New]
- RuPaul's Drag Race "Season 12" (unreleased Sherry Pie footage of reality competition TV series; 2020) 17 May 2020 [New] [NSFW] [NSFL]
- Cool World (partially lost unreleased screenplay of Ralph Bakshi live-action animated film; 1990-1992) 17 May 2020 [New]
- Mechanoids (partially found BBC game show; 2003) 15 May 2020 [New]
- Videoway games (lost Canadian cable-box games, 1990-2006) 13 May 2020 [New]
- Adventures in Wonderland "White Rabbits Can't Jump" (lost unaired episode of musical television series; 1993) 13 May 2020 [New]
- Skater Nation (found iOS skateboarding game; 2009) 12 May 2020 [New]
- Metal Gear (lost build of cancelled remake of MSX2 stealth game; 2014) 12 May 2020 [New]
- "Humrush" & "Who Me?" (found samples taken from Bert and Ernie "Sesame Street" sketch for "Mr. Hood" album singles; 1970-1991) 12 May 2020 [New]
- Drew Carey's Green Screen Show (lost unaired episode of improvised comedy show; mid-2000s) 11 May 2020 [New]
- Sega Swirl 2 (lost GameTap exlcusive puzzle game; 2006) 11 May 2020 [New]
- Domino's App feat. Hatsune Miku (found discontinued Domino's Japan app for iPhone 5; 2013) 10 May 2020 [New]
- Lynching of Rashaad Staggie (lost on-aired death footage of South African gang leader; 1996) 10 May 2020 [New] [NSFL]
- Western Gun (lost Taito arcade game; 1975) 10 May 2020 [New]
- "Heaven and Hell" (lost Ozzy Osbourne vocals of Black Sabbath album; late 1970s) 09 May 2020 [New]
- Twinkle Stars "volume 11" (lost first English translation of final volume of manga series; existence unconfirmed; 2013) 09 May 2020 [New]
- Batman And The New Robin (partially found unproduced animated TV series; 1988) 08 May 2020 [New]
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (partially lost deleted scenes of Tobe Hooper horror film; 1986) 08 May 2020 [New] [NSFL] [NSFW]
- Only Fools and Horses "Licensed to Drill" (found educational episode of British sitcom; 1984) 07 May 2020 [New]
- Greatest Ever Screen Chases (lost Sky One television documentary; 2005) 06 May 2020 [New]
- They Hunger: Lost Souls (found builds of unreleased sequel to "Half-Life" game mod; 2005-2008) 04 May 2020 [New]
- Fifth Gear Europe (partially found footage of European Discovery Channel television series; 2009) 04 May 2020 [New]
- Interactive Buddy 2 (partially found iOS sequel to "Interactive Buddy" virtual pet game; 2012) 04 May 2020 [New]
- Master Of Dance (partially found TLC competitive dancing series; 2008) 04 May 2020 [New]
- Fox Kids "Bartcasting" (partially found "Simpsons" promo on children's program block; 1996) 03 May 2020 [New]
- X-Heart (partially found unreleased English dub of "X-Coração" Brazilian animated TV series; 2014) 03 May 2020 [New]
- Beast Complex Animation (partially found animation; 2014) 02 May 2020 [New]
- Beast Complex (partially found comic; 2013) 02 May 2020 [New]
- "Interface" (partially found Vocaloid song; 2011) 02 May 2020 [New]
- Star of the Giants vs Astro Boy (partially found anime crossover special; 1969) 02 May 2020 [New]
- Allec Joshua Ibay (partially lost YouTube videos; late 2000s-mid 2010s) 01 May 2020 [New]
- Dragon Quest IV (lost English localization of PSX role-playing game; 2002) 01 May 2020 [New]
- Siegfried & Roy (unreleased footage of white tiger attack during magic show; 2003) 01 May 2020 [New] [NSFL]
- Rally Report (partially lost BBC Two television series; 1984-2001) 30 Apr 2020 [New]
- Dream House (partially found NBC game show; 1983-1984) 27 Apr 2020 [New]
- The Magic Roundabout "No More Magic, Zebedee" (lost English audio of animated series episode; 2010) 26 Apr 2020 [New]
- The Car Show (lost British Channel 5 television series; 1997-1998) 26 Apr 2020 [New]
- Let's Make A Deal (found unaired pilot of NBC game show; 1963) 26 Apr 2020 [New]
- Wrong Car, Right Car (lost BBC Two television series; 2002-2003) 26 Apr 2020 [New]
- Kore (partially lost promotional sports DVD series; 2003-2004) 26 Apr 2020 [New]
- Girl TV (partially found Australian teen TV show; 2003-2005) 26 Apr 2020 [New]
- Tic Tac Dough (lost pilot of game show; existence unconfirmed; 2000) 26 Apr 2020 [New]
- Clarkson (partially found BBC Two talk show; 1998-2000) 25 Apr 2020 [New]
- Jackass: Too Hot For TV (lost special of MTV reality comedy TV series; 2002) 24 Apr 2020 [New] [NSFW]
- Plasmo (partially found supplementary material of Australian stop-motion cartoon, 1981-1997) 24 Apr 2020 [New]
- Peb & Pebber: Helden Privat (partially found German children's animated TV show; 2006-2012) 23 Apr 2020 [New]
- Jungle Jam (partially found production material for cancelled video series; 2000s) 23 Apr 2020 [New]
- Noman (lost pilot episode of cancelled Osamu Tezuka anime; 1968) 22 Apr 2020 [New]
- Eminem's Relapse Sessions (partially found unreleased records; existence unconfirmed; 2006-2009) 22 Apr 2020 [New]
- Pink Lady Monogatari: Eiko no Tenshitachi (partially found anime TV series; 1978-1979) 22 Apr 2020 [New]
- Dream Dimension Hunter Fandora (lost English dub of anime OVA; 1985) 21 Apr 2020 [New]
- Galactic Patrol Lensman (partially found anime TV series; 1984-1985) 21 Apr 2020 [New]
- Capitol Hill Gangsta (partially found videos of Ray William Johnson YouTube show; 2008-2009) 21 Apr 2020 [New]
- Five of the Super Riders (found Taiwanese adaptation of "5 Riders vs King Dark" film; 1976) 20 Apr 2020 [New]
- Tinseltown (lost LGBT sitcom pilot; 2007) 20 Apr 2020 [New]
- Top Gear GTi (partially found footage of UK Horizons television series; 1997-2003) 19 Apr 2020 [New]
- Pony Metal U-GAIM (lost MSXII video game; 1980s) 19 Apr 2020 [New]
- Jeremy Clarkson's Extreme Machines (partially found BBC Two television series; 1998) 18 Apr 2020 [New]
- Mouseterpiece Theater (partially found Disney Channel cartoon compilation TV series; 1983-1990) 18 Apr 2020 [New]
- Donna and the Wolfman commercials (partially found Atlanta commercial series; 1980s-1990s) 18 Apr 2020 [New]
- Panic Mechanics (lost BBC Two game show; 2002) 17 Apr 2020 [New]
- Super FX Chip Games (partially found unreleased video games utilizing coprocessor; 1993-1995) 17 Apr 2020 [New]
- Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon: The Miracle 4-D (partially found short film based on anime series; 2018) 17 Apr 2020 [New]
- Maruhi Gekki Ukiyo-e Senichiya (lost adult anime film; 1969) 16 Apr 2020 [New] [NSFW]
- Pop-Tarts Crazy Good World (lost promotional online games; 2006-2010) 16 Apr 2020 [New]
- Dude, What Would Happen (partially found Cartoon Network live-action show; 2009-2011) 16 Apr 2020 [New]
- Top Gear (partially found original British airings of BBC Two television series; 2002-2003) 15 Apr 2020 [New]
- The Man Who Could Not Sleep (lost silent Edison Studios film; 1915) 15 Apr 2020 [New]
- The Awful Truth About Society (partially found public access show; 1994-present) 14 Apr 2020 [New] [NSFW] [NSFL]
- BS Super Mario Collection (partially lost Satellaview broadcast versions of compilation platformer; 1997-1998) 14 Apr 2020 [New]
- Zero Man (lost pilot episode of cancelled Osamu Tezuka anime; 1968) 13 Apr 2020 [New]
- MadV (partially found deleted videos from YouTube channel; 2006-2010) 12 Apr 2020 [New]
- "Life's A Beach" (found unreleased Trikk Toyzz song; 1988) 12 Apr 2020 [New]
- Sunday’s Cool Heroes (partially found NFL Films production; 1967) 10 Apr 2020 [New]
- Zoobabu (partially found Mexican dub of Spanish series; 2013-2015) 10 Apr 2020
- Oregon (lost original version of ''The Oregon Trail'' computer game; 1971) 10 Apr 2020
- Operation Dark Heart (partially unreleased pages of memoir; 2010) 10 Apr 2020
- Our Man at St. Marks (partially found Australian TV sitcom; 1963-1966) 09 Apr 2020
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