Ferris Bueller | 495 Posted June 1, 2020 Share Posted June 1, 2020 (edited) Newly discovered NES game, unreleased version of Days of Thunder, has been found by the Video Game History Foundation. Limited number of CIB copies are being sold by gaming community to benefit the coders family. The family of Chris Oberth, while cleaning out their basement earlier this year, came across his lifetime's work stored in banker boxes. He'd backed up everything, including the cancelled version of Days of Thunder game for Mindscape, which is vastly different than the released version. The family worked with the Video Game History Foundation, who pulled the data from all the floppies in the collection and realized they contained the contents for a NES game. Since then, the gaming community has come together to give Oberth's game a proper release, with all proceeds going back to the family. Limited in number, the game is available at ThisRoomisanIllusion. https://thisroomisanillusion.com/product/cole-trickle-project/ A full article on how the game was found then reassembled has been released by the Video Game History Foundation. https://gamehistory.org/days-of-thunder-nes-unreleased/ A video, with an unboxing and gameplay footage, has been put together by John Riggs. Edited June 1, 2020 by Ferris Bueller 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloves | 11,771 Administrator · Posted June 1, 2020 Share Posted June 1, 2020 Lotta this goin around lately. neat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a3quit4s | 4,096 Posted June 1, 2020 Share Posted June 1, 2020 Site not working for me. Error establishing DB connection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferris Bueller | 495 Posted June 1, 2020 Author Share Posted June 1, 2020 (edited) Yeah, the story was picked up by Ars Technica, Polygon; VGHF posted their article, Riggs posted his video. Internet hammered the site. Being worked on. Edited June 1, 2020 by Ferris Bueller Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tulpa | 3,491 Posted June 1, 2020 Share Posted June 1, 2020 1 hour ago, Ferris Bueller said: He'd backed up everything, including the cancelled version of Days of Thunder game for Mindscape, which is vastly different than the released version. Kind of interested, as it can only go up from here regarding that game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbone3969 | 304 Posted June 1, 2020 Share Posted June 1, 2020 I would love to purchase this game. When will the link be up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloves | 11,771 Administrator · Posted June 1, 2020 Share Posted June 1, 2020 10 minutes ago, tbone3969 said: I would love to purchase this game. When will the link be up? It's available right now. The site is just INCREDIBLY SLOW, and possibly straight broken: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DefaultGen | 5,401 Posted June 1, 2020 Share Posted June 1, 2020 That's a neat 3D effect, although some of the geometry gets pretty mind bending! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferris Bueller | 495 Posted June 1, 2020 Author Share Posted June 1, 2020 I think they got the site working. It went slick as a whistle for me just now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloves | 11,771 Administrator · Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 54 minutes ago, Ferris Bueller said: I think they got the site working. It went slick as a whistle for me just now. Yeah, much much better now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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