[game_preservation] Preservation Whitepaper Brainstorm Progress

[Andrew Armstrong]

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).

Doesn't have to be a long one, I'm all for brevity.

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!).

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.

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.

Thanks if anyone knows any!

Andrew