What "Lost Media" are you interested in?

Since a lot of you know about the lost Sega Channel games, and the fact that many of these exclusive games would likely never resurface anytime soon, as it appears Sega doesn't have the source codes to any of these exclusive games anymore or they don't have the original ROM cartridge sources.

Then there was the ill-fated Aladdin Deck Enhancer, an addon to the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) released by Codemasters & Camerica in 1992-1993 (yes the same companies that created the Game Genie). This addon was touted as an upgrade to the NES by allowing unlicensed games by Codemasters to be relatively cheaper to produce, boasting a 64K memory in performance & graphics on proprietary Compact Cartridges, and being the future in console gameplay. In reality, it was nothing but a cheaper way to produce unlicensed games by Codemasters, released during the time the Sega Genesis (or Mega Drive in Europe & Japan) & Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES, Also called the Super Famicom or SFC in Japan) were already on the horizon. Out of the 24 games announced at Winter CES 1993, only seven games were released commercially. Camerica did tease future titles on the back of the box, but the company didn't last long enough to release any of them. Even a few gaming enthusiasts question on whether or not the Aladdin Deck Enhancer ever got an official commercial release, but since Camerica distributed the Game Genie in their country of Canada, while Galoob distributed the Game Genie in the United States & Europe, my guesses is that the Aladdin Deck Enhancer was only ever released in Canada & that Galoob was planning to distribute the Aladdin Deck Enhancer in the United States & Europe at some point, but likely due to Camerica going under in 1993, Galoob dropped their plans to distribute the Aladdin Deck Enhancer in the United States & Europe.

You can see Gaming Historian's video on both the Game Genie & the Aladdin Deck Enhancer:

First episode of all in the Family, how did they lose this???

this specific wad that id made that i have been searching for for years.

it takes place in the A.S.I building, anyone know of it?

My copy of TMNT IV: Turtles in Time for the SNES. I would love to know where the hell that cartridge ended up.

On 12/9/2020 at 11:07 PM, Shin Godzilla said:

I have some interest in long-lost deleted scenes. One classic is the spider pit sequence from the original King Kong. I enjoy Peter Jackson's recreation, but as for the original footage, it's highly likely that the film's producer destroyed it after cutting it from the film. We're basically left with the original script, a couple of still photos, possibly one or two stop-motion marionettes that made it into The Black Scorpion in the 1950s (though I don't know if they're around today), and not much else.

 

Speaking of Kong, apparently a scene was filmed for King Kong vs. Godzilla in which Godzilla comes across a massive statue of Kannon (aka Guanyin, a bodhisattva). Again, no footage, but we do have a kind of surreal still photo:

 

Yessss yes yes, I specifically searched this thread for a mention of the Spider Pit.

I'm rather interested in the deleted scenes of Spongebob squarepants.
They look more normal than the other undeleted weird/unusual scenes, and the reason why they got deleted is obvious.
 

On 1/16/2021 at 10:34 PM, Deathclaw886 said:

this specific wad that id made that i have been searching for for years.

it takes place in the A.S.I building, anyone know of it?

Wrong thread here, nobody is going to answer you in this thread, but that's ok.

I don't know what IWAD the Wad uses, but I poorly searched in IDGames and couldn't find the Wad.
You can browse in the idstuff/ directory and you'll find it. But if you can't, the Wad is probably lost.

On 1/16/2021 at 12:34 PM, Deathclaw886 said:

this specific wad that id made that i have been searching for for years.

it takes place in the A.S.I building, anyone know of it?

Is it idmap01.wad, Kick Attack, or one of the rejected levels of the Master Levels?

7 hours ago, Wadmodder RiderPùdu said:

Is it idmap01.wad, Kick Attack, or one of the rejected levels of the Master Levels?

the thing is, my grandfather worked at A.S.I Computers in around 1992 to 1993, and he built the computers that made Doom.

well, ID software made a special level for A.S.I that took place in the A.S.I building.

it even had custom sound effects like when you got hurt it was "Daddy daddy i hurt myself!" and the monsters moaning was indeed moaning, of a different sort....

my dad and my grandfather both told me the story of this level.

My grandfather even hung out with John Carmack, and Sandy Petersen and some of the others and played doom with them. [before it was released that is!]

It is an honor to be in this community with that history.

On 1/16/2021 at 9:05 AM, Clippy said:

First episode of all in the Family, how did they lose this???

I’ve spent the last fifteen minutes on Google trying to confirm this and I can’t find anything. There’s a lost episode of this?! I need answers

5 minutes ago, CivilianM91 said:

I’ve spent the last fifteen minutes on Google trying to confirm this and I can’t find anything. There’s a lost episode of this?! I need answers

welp maybe I was confused or haven't touched on this in over a decade, but they were lost at one point or another haha

https://www.tvobscurities.com/2009/06/all-in-the-family-unsold-pilot-episodes/

2 minutes ago, Clippy said:

 

welp maybe I was confused or haven't touched on this in over a decade, but they were lost at one point or another haha

 

https://www.tvobscurities.com/2009/06/all-in-the-family-unsold-pilot-episodes/

Oh shit, okay, thanks for this! I had no idea these were missing at one point. How interesting. A tv show that monumental and important to entertainment should be preserved. Like, all of it.

Alot of you might also be interested in the unreleased games for Nintendo's ill-fated projects, the Virtual Boy & the 64DD addon for the Nintendo 64.

The Virtual Boy was a tabletop handheld console released by Nintendo in 1995, utilizing a 32-bit processor (a decade before the Game Boy Advance), utilizing Virtual Reality technology by Reflective Technologies that displayed graphics in black & red which allowed two eyes to see stereoscopic 3D imaged to be viewed through the head-mounted display, a controller that had two D-Pads & the power functions, and a planned link cable which was ultimately never released (though a reproduction cable was made a few years later).

Unfortunately, it was instead criticized for it's health concerns with the head-mounted display, the unappealing limited colors of black & red, and the lack of true portability. Due to the failure of the Virtual Boy, it was also never released in PAL regions like Europe & Australia. In addition, few third-party developers ever developed for the system with only 22 games ever released for the Virtual Boy, with 19 released in Japan & 14 released in North America. A few more games were planned but were never released due to the failure of the system as a whole. These games include but not limited to:

As for the 64DD addon for the Nintendo 64, it was to expand the life of the Nintendo 64 to compete against the Sony PlayStation and to allow games to be a bit easier to develop for, using magneto disks that resembled floppy discs and the potential to create expansion packs for existing games.

Unfortunately, it too was also a failure, lacking any kind of third-party support, resulting in only 10 games released on the system, and never seeing a release outside of Japan (North America, Europe & Australia for that matter). More than 60 games were announced for the system, but were either released on cartridge format, cancelled all together due to multiple delays of the system and/or the system's failure, or ported to another console such as the Sega Saturn & Dreamcast, Nintendo GameCube & Game Boy Advance (maybe even, Game Boy, Game Boy Color & Nintendo DS), Microsoft Xbox, or Sony PlayStation & PlayStation 2. These games include but not limited to:

Their might be more cancelled games on Nintendo's consoles but these are the ones on Virtual Boy & the 64DD addon for the Nintendo 64 that a few of you might know about.

Holy crap!! Just finished watching the N64DD videos... Damn, that thing was waaaaayyyyy ahead of its time!

I'd be mildly curious to see the unreleased episodes of Heil Honey I'm Home!. But probably it would get a little boring after the shock of the initial premise wore off.

Also, speaking about TV signal hijackings & the Max Headroom Incident, the full tape containing the Max Headroom Incident video is surprisingly lost forever, as the culprits behind the hijacking & the video have never been caught or even found. I even did an analysis on the existence of the full tape of the Max Headroom Incident video. Here it is:

There are also a few TV signal hijackings that were reported by a few news outlets in the 2000s, but with very little to no video footage to document.

Also just recently, The Renya Bros, the creators of the Bizarre docuseries responded positively to my video on my analyzing of the existence of the Max Headroom Incident video, though unfortunately the original comment was likely deleted, but I do have an email of the original comment which can be seen in this screenshot here:

A few movie sequels were planned for movies released in the 1980s until the late 2010s were planned but were cancelled due to negative reviews or low box-office performance. Many of these cancelled movie sequel had very little or no production material ever made. These movies with planned sequels include but not limited to:

- The Last Airbender: a film criticized by fans of the original Avatar The Last Airbender animated series. Never had any production material for a sequel ever made.

- Battlefield Earth: A movie easily criticized for it's Dutch angles. Never had any production material for a sequel ever made, and Franchise Pictures went under in the mid-2000s.

- Batman & Robin: A movie often criticized for it's colorful, campy & toyetic approach, and Mr. Freeze's one-liner jokes. Very few production material for it's sequel ever made.

- Fantastic Four 2015 reboot: a movie criticized for it's dreadful storytelling. Never had any production material for a sequel ever made, and it's planned 2017 release date was removed by 20th Century Fox in November 2015. The film was also the final Fantastic Four movie released by 20th Century Fox before Disney bought most of the assets of 21st Century Fox between 2017 to 2019.

- Mortal Kombat Annihilation: a movie criticized for it's lower-budgeted special effects, shoddy & average costume designs, limited character development, weak storytelling & uninspired soundtrack, making it look like the producers took "minus 50% of the first movie's budget out". No production material for it's sequel was ever made, and the damage of one of the planned filming locations by Hurricane Katrina, the dissolution of New Line Cinema as a film distributor, Midway Games' bankruptcy, and the Mortal Kombat Legacy web series, killed off any of Threshold Entertainment's plans for a third film.

These are some of the films that had planned sequels, but due to the low box-office performance and negative reception of these films, these sequel movies never happened. There maybe other unreleased movie sequels, but these are the one's that I know had sequels planned.

2 hours ago, Wadmodder Shalton said:

- Mortal Kombat Annihilation: a movie criticized for it's lower-budgeted special effects, shoddy & average costume designs, limited character development, weak storytelling & uninspired soundtrack, making it look like the producers took "minus 50% of the first movie's budget out". No production material it"s sequel was ever made, and the damage of one of the planned filming locations by Hurricane Katrina, the dissolution of New Line Cinema as a film distributor, Midway Games' bankruptcy, and the Mortal Kombat Legacy web series, killed of any of Threshold Entertainment's plans for a third film.

Perhaps, but we now do have a reboot movie that is coming out this year, hopefully washing the disaster that Annihilation was.

But I had plenty of fun watching it honestly, precisely because it was so bad lol.

There was also an unreleased Fantastic Four movie from 1994 titled "The Fantastic Four" that was produced by Roger Corman of B-Movie fame. Despite being completed, it was never officially released due to the low-budget & quality and was an equivalent of an Ashcan Copy, but bootleg releases have been floating around for years. The movie itself is, in my opinion, a crappier version of the 1966 Batman movie. Despite being never released, in a list of the "50 Top Comic Movies of All Time (...and Some So Bad You've Just Got to See Them)," Wizard Magazine ranked this unreleased film higher than Batman & Robin, Steel, Virus and Red Sonja, all of which were released in theaters, but had poor reviews. Here is the movie's trailer for that unreleased movie to give you an idea: 

Then there was the 1984 film Nothing Lasts Forever where it was never released, but had a few European TV airings and a few screenings before being aired on American TV network TCM. The film was leaked on YouTube but later taken down due to copyright reasons from Turner Entertainment. Once again, here's the trailer for this unreleased movie to give you an idea:

There are two Youtubers that I watched a long long time ago that just fell off the face of the earth. They both have one thing in common - both did (or were doing at the time) Let's Plays of Hexen (one even mentions the other in one of the Hexen videos).

One is "SunTheTiger" - He was doing a Let's Play of the Korax Mod for Hexen with the Mage class. He still has a Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/SunTheTiger), but all the videos are unlisted or just flat out deleted. I guess he just lost interest in making videos and just deleted them all.

In one of the Hexen videos - SunTheTiger says that the reason why he plays as the Mage for the Let's Play series is because the other Hexen playing Youtuber already did a series of Vanilla Hexen with the Cleric (or maybe it was the Fighter?). The other Youtuber being "ErikkTehDestroyer" (yes, I that's how his username was spelled). Erikk did a playthrough of Hexen, Hexen 2, Wolfenstein 3D, Startropics 1 & 2, A Tetris parody game called "Tetris: Charity Edition" (which was my favorite video of his), and many more things! His Youtube channel is gone, there are no more videos of his online, and I don't think that we will ever find any of his videos again to be honest. In fact, I remember watching a random video from a different Youtuber that basically listed the most noteworthy First Person Shooters from the 90's to the 2000's, and as stock footage for the Hexen segment - the guy used audio-less video from Erikks Hexen Let's Play. That video is also gone! I don't know what happened to Erikk, I don't even have any theories. It's just a mystery  to me!

Before the Mortal Kombat reboot series of games from 2011 onwards got DLC, Midway Games was planning to release DLC content for Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe, a crossover fighting game that received positive reviews from critics but received mixed to mediocre & negative reception from fans for it's toned down violence for the ESRB's Teen rating (though in the UK version two fatalities for Deathstroke & The Joker are uncensored, while in the North American release they zoomed the camera during the fatalities for Deathstroke & The Joker), the DC Comics crossover aspect being lacking, and it's lamest fatalities. Yet, despite it's flaws, it was moderately successful and later spawned the Injustice series of fighting games developed by NetherRealm Studios since 2013.

Midway Games was planning to release & develop DLC content for the game that would've included extra chapters & characters between late-2008 to early 2009. Characters that were considered, hinted, rumored, appeared in the game's tie-in comic, cameoed or mentioned in game included Harley Quinn, Doomsday, the Guardians of the Universe, Shazaam, Martian Manhunter, Sinestro, Aquaman, Robin, Nightwing & Killer Croc from the DC Universe, and Kung Lao, Quan Chi, Shinnok, Johnny Cage (makes a cameo in the game as a gravestone like in Mortal Kombat 3 & Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3), Fujin, Argus, Goro, Cyrax & Reptile from the Mortal Kombat franchise. However, Midway Games filed for bankruptcy in February 2009 before any development was started, and sold off most of their assets (including the Mortal Kombat franchise & their Chicago Studio which rebranded twice, first as WB Games Chicago & the second as NetherRealm Studios) to Warner Bros, and cancelled & scrapped the planned DLC content altogether.

Heck, even Ed Boon said on his Twitter account back in 2009, that the planned DLC content was scrapped due to Midway Games' closure & the sale of the company's assets to Warner Bros.

On 1/22/2021 at 4:49 PM, Grazza said:

I'd be mildly curious to see the unreleased episodes of Heil Honey I'm Home!. But probably it would get a little boring after the shock of the initial premise wore off.

I think one of the main reasons that it was cancelled, besides the uh, unsavory theme of the show, was that it just wasn't very funny. It's a generic comedy which goes for a typical 1950's domestic comedy setup, except they don't really have any particularly good jokes, instead relying on the absurdity of putting Adolf Hitler in these stereotypical situation, as well as namedropping various people from the time period Nazi Germany existed in. If this one episode was the pilot which they hoped would get their show on the air, I imagine the other episodes they filmed weren't any better. The premise isn't strong, and neither is the execution.

Making his neighbors Jewish and that being intended to be the source of goofy conflict for comedy seems kind of like if you took an edgy Family Guy cutaway joke but tried to extend it to the length of an entire TV series. How would you make it funny enough to make the dark nature of it feel excusable, when that's something that Family Guy can seldom do in a fraction of that time?

Apparently, I'm interested in a few unleaked beta builds of Microsoft's Windows between the early-1980s to at least the early-2010s, including a few that were presumably leaked by warez groups in the 1990s but later lost or were mentioned in warez CD lists, I've even made a Lost Media Wiki forum post which you can see here: https://forums.lostmediawiki.com/thread/5179/microsoft-windows-builds-previously-leaked

Also, a while back Duran Medine of YouTube uploaded a video showcasing the previously lost desktop themes that Microsoft released for Windows XP between 2003 and 2007.

There were also a few unreleased Mortal Kombat games and/or ports planned but cancelled later on. The first one I can think of would have to be Mortal Kombat Nitro Edition for the SNES, a planned updated version of the first Mortal Kombat game on Super Nintendo after the commercial failure caused by the censorship of the port by Nintendo's then policy on violent content. It was shelved to make wave for Mortal Kombat II on the same system.

The other one I can think of is the Mortal Kombat HD Kollection planned for the PS3, that was to feature remastered versions of the first Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat II, & Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 in one collection. This collection was cancelled in favor of the Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection for the PS3, Xbox 360 & PC.

There might be other ports of the Mortal Kombat arcade games that were never released but information on most of them are scarce.

Also, a prototype of the ill-fated Mortal Kombat Special Forces game that featured Sonya as a playable character before she was cut from the final version of the game was leaked online a few years ago, so we can see what Special Forces looked like before Midway butchered the game.

On 2/19/2021 at 6:16 PM, ChopBlock223 said:

I think one of the main reasons that it was cancelled, besides the uh, unsavory theme of the show, was that it just wasn't very funny.

We're talking about a BBC comedy show from 1990 here, remember. Being completely unfunny and tedious was no real impediment to such shows; indeed, it was pretty much the defining characteristic.* For instance, just try getting through an episode of Sorry! without wanting to hammer a nail through your skull. And that ran for seven seasons.

(* Yeah, I know, there were some notable exceptions.)

My Playstation 2 is still waiting for Starcraft Ghost.

Just a heads up, but apparently two unreleased Rare games got leaked on the internet recently. The first was the unreleased XBLA remaster of Goldeneye 007, and the second was the Nintendo 64 game Dinosaur Planet, the latter of which was the original version of Star Fox Adventures for the Nintendo Gamecube.

The former requires a modded Xbox 360 unit as there isn't any Xbox 360 emulators for PC for now,  while the latter can easily be played on any Nintendo 64 emulator you can find.

the megaman legends 3 3ds demo

capcom said we would have a demo but the release date passed and no demo ever came out 

shortly after they cancelled the project but man i just want that demo so bad

heres a trailer for it so everyone here can be sad too

The Columbine Basement Tapes, although they're probably never gonna surface.

There was a planned sequel to the 1994 The Mask which was mentioned on a Nintendo Power issue in the mid-1990s, but it never got even made unless you counted the standalone sequel Son of the Mask from 2005.

But even that movie is awful like Mortal Kombat Annihilation, making it look like it's a movie designed for direct-to-video release but not a theatrical release, and the budget looks like it's half that of the 1994 The Mask movie.

Legend of McDonaldland Loch was pretty cool, although that ended up being found