Which beta version of Gold/Silver are you referring to?
I mostly want the space world demo to be dumped. We know a lot about the demo but I just want to play it.
The best bet at this point would be contacting Game Freak instead of Nintendo themselves for the rom of the game. I do have a fear that the same thing might have happened as the beta version of Sonic the Hedgehog where they lost the rom. Yuji Naka has stated he would be more than happy to release the beta Sonic the Hedgehog but he lost it. We should try to contact Satoshi Tajiri if he has the Pokémon Space World demo.
Though we have evidence of it existing, the Nintendo World Championships cartridge for the NES is the most rare video game of all time in my opinion. Very little people have it and is considered extremely valuable among collectors.
Pat the NES Punk actually has both the prize cartridge and the cartridge actually used at this competition. The Nerd did an episode with Pat which featured the games which means Nerd has been one of the few people to actually hold one of these games, but as a joke he destroyed a replica of the golden cartridge that was very well done. Now that I mention it, Nerd does have a lot of games, and he might even have lost games in his collection. He has showcased very rare games before and proves he has them in Nerd episodes. We should send Nerd a list of lost games on the LMW and ask him if he has any. We should also send a list to Pat to.
Here is the Angry Video Game Nerd's episode on Nintendo World Championships, specifically the 1990 edition. This episode is basically about the competition itself and how rare the gold cartridges won in the competition are valuable to collectors. The episode is also a collaboration with Pat the NES Punk, a well-known NES game collector and does actually own the gold cartridge in real life, and both just play the game using a standard NES reproduction cartridge that is common to find online.
However, I would say that both the gold and standard reproduction cartridges of the game wouldn't be considered "lost" by the wiki's standards because the ROMs of the games included inside the cartridge (Super Mario Bros., Rad Racer, and Tetris) can easily be found online as well as being on pretty much every Nintendo system's Virtual Console releases, plus you don't even play the full game and instead try to get the best score with the challenge you are given. But if you do want to own a standard reproduction cartridge of the game, it's quite easy to find online for low prices; for the gold cartridge, good luck finding one.
Despite the frustrations of normal day life we go through, the best thing to do about it is still being happy for our friends and family.
One of the most interesting lost video games for me is "Fleapit", a cancelled arcade game that was set for a 1989-1990 release. No actual screenshot or footage of the game has been found yet, but the game's graphic artist Ste Pickford managed to save some assets, like the title screen gfx, fonts, and even concept art. The game was running on Rareware's unreleased Razz Board and featured a character named "Plok", who had the ability to throw his limbs at enemies. If that rings a bell, it's because Plok later reappeared in the similarly named SNES game, which was heavily based on Fleapit.
PBS Kids PLAY. I know it's a preschool game but it's still extremely rare and obscure. You'd have a better chance of shoving your head up your ass then finding this game.
It's very hard to determine what exact video game is the rarest and is still considered "lost" by the wiki's standards. I honestly don't know how to answer your question, but I would say Birthday Mania for the Atari 2600 would be probably the rarest for me at least. While some people are known to have a physical copy of the game (and has been sold online a few times), none of them have dumped it to the internet for other people to enjoy.
Like I said before, it's a tough question with no real answer.
I'd second this about Birthday Mania. I think it's on the Wiki page, but Evil Pixel did a video on it and I think he went into the backstory behind the production of it. If I'm not mistaken, it was only available through mail order (like most indie produced games of the time) due to it being personalized, and there's less than ten known copies out there with only one or two ever surfacing. It's telling how rare it is when Price Charting had no idea how much it's worth.
Also, there are lots of rare Russian bootleg mod releases for various PC games sold in Russia, when digital distribution services such as Steam weren't popular yet, and rampant software piracy was common in Russia (especially in the 2000s). The cover arts of these strange, weird, bizarre, and awful bootleg expansion packs are just hilarious, with colors completely washed out, badly compressed & photoshopped elements, making these games look like lower budgeted counterparts to these games. I also think these cover arts also puts Phoenix Games 3D box art graphics designers to shame.
Many of these bootleg Russian mod releases were just mods downloaded from the internet with the base game illegally bundled together, or original creations by unknown level designers, and sold on CD-ROMs or DVD-ROMs for Russian consumers who didn't have enough money to legally buy a PC game.
The Russian website Piper Old Games has a few entries on these rare bootleg expansion packs.
Many of these bootleg Russian mod releases have been uploaded (and in rare cases modified to remove base game assets) on Legends World (either via 3D Shooter Legends or Adventure Legends), as mods for people to try these out and make them not standalone pirated mod releases, while the others haven't.
I also am against software piracy in general, so chances of these Russian bootleg mod releases to appear with base game assets removed are rather slim.
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Also, there are lots of rare Russian bootleg mod releases for various PC games sold in Russia, when digital distribution services such as Steam weren't popular yet, and rampant software piracy was common in Russia (especially in the 2000s). The cover arts of these strange, weird, bizarre, and awful bootleg expansion packs are just hilarious, with colors completely washed out, badly compressed & photoshopped elements, making these games look like lower budgeted counterparts to these games. I also think these cover arts also puts Phoenix Games 3D box art graphics designers to shame.
Many of these bootleg Russian mod releases were just mods downloaded from the internet with the base game illegally bundled together, or original creations by unknown level designers, and sold on CD-ROMs or DVD-ROMs for Russian consumers who didn't have enough money to legally buy a PC game.
The Russian website Piper Old Games has a few entries on these rare bootleg expansion packs.
Many of these bootleg Russian mod releases have been uploaded (and in rare cases modified to remove base game assets) on Legends World (either via 3D Shooter Legends or Adventure Legends), as mods for people to try these out and make them not standalone pirated mod releases, while the others haven't.
I also am against software piracy in general, so chances of these Russian bootleg mod releases to appear with base game assets removed are rather slim.
I wouldn't worry too much about the piracy issue considering it's abandonware after all. I'm not an expert on the topic so don't quote me on this, but I don't think I've come across any streamers or gamers who encountered any problems yet for showcasing such content. I think Joel (VargSkelethor) has made jokes about it before, but I don't recall him ever having trouble. If I'm not mistaken, a lot of the stuff he gets is 20+ years old, so I don't think any devs are coming forward any time soon to issue takedown notices. If abandonware can be seen as creative commons or public domain, then it should all be fair game.
I often find Legends World (Via 3D Shooter Legends and Adventure Legends) a very useful website. We had seen RibShark upload the rare Australian version of Kao the Kangaroo: Mystery of the Volcano on that website before, so can anybody here on LMW identify these PureVex releases on 3DSL? Comments are well appreciated.
Also, I wonder if you guys have ever got in contact with Scaryfun, who commonly finds rare and obscure Adventure & Shooter games and preserves them on that website.
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Those Purevex dumps are from the same disc, courtesy of rockleevk! They were made with different tools, but the differences are minimal, just for nerds.
Years passed since the original upload and even a full gameplay walkthrough appeared on YT, so the LMW entry for this game should be definitely changed to "found".