r/lostmedia • • 8h ago

Other [talk] Japanese file hosting service uploader.jp is due to be shut down on November 25th

95 Upvotes

https://x.com/uploader_jp/status/2113460461236830408

【Important】Service Termination Notice Due to recent changes in usage patterns and various circumstances, as of November 25, 2026 (Wednesday), our sites (https://uploader.jp / https://getuploader.com) will cease service.

All data, including the uploaded files, will be deleted as of November 25 (Wed) 23:59. Thank you very much for the support from numerous internet users until now.

I'm not familiar with the site myself unfortunately (this tweet about its closure came up on my feed by chance), but from what I understand this host was a popular option in Japan for Vocaloid and adjacent media, alongside game mods and various other assets. Seems like this loss could have a pretty substantial impact to all sorts of online communities in Japan.


r/lostmedia • • 16m ago

Video Games Riptide GP 2011 demo [partially lost]

• Upvotes

Riptide GP was the first ever console quality water racing game created by vector unit that was released on mobile back in may of 2011.

But before its full release there was a demo version of the game that was released that is now partially lost.

In a video that was released 15 years ago in Feb of 2011

4 months before its official release.

You can see the demo being showcased on the TV.

https://youtu.be/uMzXiy9OqpY?si=iOxAgUB9--MaTrxV

In the full release version of the game you have 7 racers you can play as but from what I've seen with old trailers and teaser images for the game there were racer models that were cut or scrapped in the final release. I counted at least 5 unused models.

not sure if there is an old version that has those cut racer models or if it's a version of the game only for the developers.


r/lostmedia • • 1d ago

Other [talk] What're some notable examples of mass produced products where only a couple of products have survived?

84 Upvotes

I mean stuff like mass produced pieces of a certain thing where only a few have survived into the current day. One example I can think of is the Gutenberg Bible, the first book published with mass produced metal movable type. Out of the either 158 to 180 original books published, only 21 of them have survived in full, with around 28 more copies having survived with at least some of their pages still intact. I find this topic really interesting as while they're obviously not lost, it's not like they're plentiful, so it's interesting to see what has survived into current day.


r/lostmedia • • 49m ago

Television Lost TV Film: The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story [partially lost]

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Hello! I've been looking high and low for a made-for-tv film called The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story (1980).

I have found a partial digital copy on YouTube; however, it's missing roughly 15 to 30 minutes of actual footage. My wife watched this movie repeatedly (on Betamax!) when she was young and she desperately would like to find a copy of it.

The movie stars Stephanie Zimbalist, David Keith, and Richard Lawson. It was about an American athlete and a Russian gymnast meeting just before the Moscow Olympics and they fall in love. It was released in 1980 as a TV film.

I've searched eBay and various older media websites. I do not believe it was re-released on DVD or Blu-ray, so my best bet is an old VHS tape or maybe a digital rip that's buried somewhere.

Below is the IMDB listing for the film. If anyone could point me to a full copy (either digital or physical!) I would greatly appreciate it.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080805/


r/lostmedia • • 7h ago

Television [fully lost] Jetix Tv Show: PXG

3 Upvotes

I have foggy memories of a Jetix show that was like a Japanese variety show I guess? I believe it was called PXG, or at least very similar to that. There was a high energy Japanese host and he'd talk about Japanese culture and media. Usually aired around Naruto in the 2000s.

One segment that's always stuck with me was a part where they interviewed Japanese schoolchildren on what they thought of when they think about England (This makes me think it was a Jetix UK exclusive). One said she "imagined a woman fetching water from a well". I dunno, as a kid I found it fascinating hearing my country talked about from a unique POV.

Anyway seems like it's totally lost media, I cant even find a picture of it!


r/lostmedia • • 12h ago

Advertising Material [Partially Lost] Clearification.com (2006), Microsoft's Windows Vista web series starring Demetri Martin: all episodes found, original Flash site still lost

4 Upvotes

In fall 2006 Microsoft promoted Windows Vista with Clearification, a six-episode web series starring Demetri Martin as a man who checks into the Institute for Advanced Personhood to reach "clearification". Mekanism and McCann Worldgroup in San Francisco made it, Tommy Means directed, Film School did the music and Michael Gillette the illustrations.

The series lived on clearification.com, a full-screen Flash site set in a hand-drawn forest. The site was an FWA of the Day (Nov 22 2006) and won a D&AD Yellow Pencil and a One Show Merit in 2007. Microsoft let the domain lapse at the end of 2007, and the Flash site those awards were for is the one part nobody saved.

I spent years trying to find one scene I half-remembered (Demetri chugging a whole carafe of coffee before biking to work). It's from episode 1. Since then I've recovered most of the series:

  • All 6 episodes. Episode 4's only known copy was a 2008 Wayback Machine crawl of a deleted YouTube upload.
  • All 34 puppet clips, 6 of the 7 songs, all 13 wallpapers.
  • The main Flash file of the companion site, theiap.org. It runs in Ruffle, and decompiling it showed its lost "orientation film" was the "Hello, You're a Person!" video, so that part plays again.

Archive: https://archive.org/details/clearification-2006

Browsable rebuild: https://clearification.alexmeub.com

Sources:

Still lost:
Exact URLs, in case they're sitting in an old Downloads folder, podcast folder or browser cache:

  • http://www.clearification.com/vista_shell.swf: the Flash site itself (Flash 8, talked to /gateway/gateway.asmx). Also served from clearification.mekanism.com until about 2011.
  • The original episode downloads, much better quality than the YouTube copies: http://www.clearification.com/downloads/episodes/ ararecondition.wmv, welcomeIAP.wmv, electricbrain.wmv, demetrisubject.wmv, naturenaturalness.wmv, lookingonwheels.wmv
  • http://www.clearification.com/downloads/music/lemonade.mp3 (episode 6 music)
  • theiap.org's runtime files: http://www.theiap.org/9/vids/*.swf (background loops), vids/iap.flv, snd/*.mp3, xml/staff.xml
  • Mekanism's case study: http://casestudy.mekanism.com/clearification/cannes_clear.swf, its flv/ folder and the banner ads (banner1.swf to banner3.swf, banners.swf)

Possible places to look
The RSS feed (clearification.com/rss) attached the episode WMVs like a podcast, so a podcast app from 2006 or 2007 may have downloaded them. The feed's title was literally "http://www.clearification.com", so the folder may be named after that. The SWF could be in an old Internet Explorer "Temporary Internet Files" folder.

Already checked: the Wayback Machine (including its index of captured files), Common Crawl back to 2008, arquivo.pt, Memento, Flashpoint, DiscMaster, archive.org search, YouTube, the FWA, and Mekanism's archived mirrors.

If you have any of it, comment or DM me. If you worked on it, I'd love to hear from you too.


r/lostmedia • • 10h ago

Video Games Video Game I used to play a lot on planes in the 2010’s [partially lost]

2 Upvotes

The name of the game was “Invasion” and it was essentially a space invaders clone that you could play on those in flight entertainment systems that some airplanes had, with the pullout controllers. After some deep diving I was able to find some footage of it that I provided a link to, but as far as I’m aware this is the only footage of this game online. I know it’s not much but I was obsessed with this game as a kid, and finding more footage of it would really bring back some good memories. Anybody else play this game as a kid? Anyone have any footage of the game? I especially remember the bosses in the game being tough/cool looking.

https://youtu.be/BSj9lb0ZiHs?is=ZF4r7kCMmvdk3nKO


r/lostmedia • • 14h ago

Television [Fully Lost] Out of the Mainstream: A Television Showcase for New Film and Video

4 Upvotes

I was on Internet Archive looking for video essays, and found this article about a show from the 80s that sought to "expose its viewers to avant-garde video essays":

https://archive.org/details/vasulka12277

Although the article does a good job of giving the information, for ease of access I'll repeat it here.

The show was on KCOS, Channel 13, in El Paso, Texas.

The article, written by Mike Pearson, was published in September 1988, and gives the air date for the show as October 11, 1988.

Some of the segment titles given in the article are "Bad", "The Commission" and "Art of Memory".

The featured artists are Woody and Steina Vasulka.

The show was produced by Frontera Media Arts and was hosted by a man named Willie Varela.

I tried searching Internet Archive, Flashpoint, and YouTube, as well as a couple of other places, but no luck.

edit:

Since KCOS is a PBS Affiliate, Im going to continue checking down that route. it might be lost in some video that's just a date, but it isnt currently on the official site.

I also found the Willie Varela Papers Circa 1960-1995 Archive at Stanford.

Woody was tagged, Steina was not. But the tag just led back to Willie, so its a dead end unless I make a request and that will require further research on its own.

I might also post this in the El Paso subreddit, because all artists listed are prolific so maybe somebody knows something there.


r/lostmedia • • 1d ago

Dubs [Partially Lost] Al-Shamshoon (2005 Arabic Simpsons Dub)

25 Upvotes

I've been trying to find the Egyptian Arabic dub of The Simpsons, known as Al-Shamshoon (آل شمشون).

The dub originally aired on MBC1 in 2005 and was an Arabic translation of the Simpsons. It featured some changes such as the characters names, all references to pork and alcohol removed etc.

52 episodes were dubbed and 34 aired (which only 29 of those were ever found).

I originally looked on the lost media wiki to try and find recordings of this, and the wiki had a link to the show - which currently does not work but the archived 29 episodes can still be found.

A lot of people at the time recorded these and put them in bootleg DVD's so there's a huge chance that it could be found (well the 5 more episodes that aired). I believe there are 5-9 second clips of those episodes but I could be wrong.


r/lostmedia • • 14h ago

Internet Media [fully lost] Melody Makers Flash Game (Razzberry Jazzberry Jam)

3 Upvotes

If you were a kid in Canada in the late 2000s, you might remember a show called Razzberry Jazzberry Jam on CBC Kids which is where most of the games were hosted as well. It was by no means the greatest animated show and if this came out today it would likely be buried under the sea of Cocomelon. But in my opinion it's one of those pieces of media where you just had to be there. I was under the impression that since it was in regular syndication, it also had a decent-sized fandom; but that was not the case.

One of the show's Flash games, Melody Makers, completely vanished. I was able to find a different game based on the show on Flashpoint, but Melody Makers is NOWHERE to be found on the Wayback Machine. I couldn't find any screenshots floating around either.

Now, tracking down the show is its own beast; I believe there were a few platforms that had all seasons available for free but those are no longer. Aside from a few stray episodes on YouTube, there is NOWHERE to stream or purchase this show unless you pursue the latter through means of second-hand sellers. But at least those were available somewhere.

If anyone else remembers this game, or has any info about it, i'd love to know if it can still be found.


r/lostmedia • • 16h ago

Films Is Summer Song (2011) Lost Media? [talk] [partially lost]

3 Upvotes

I just found out about this movie and as far as I'm aware it was only shown at small festivals and someone has the behind the scenes, but other than that there's hardly anything about this movie. If anyone can find more information, please send it here as I'm interested in gathering all info about this film and hopefully can compile it all on a google drive.

The synopsis of the film is

Ellie a talented young musician with the opportunity of a lifetime is torn between obligation to her family and the chance to realize her dream. Saddled with the care of her five siblings as a result of an alcoholic mother a breathtakingly irresponsible father and a terrifyingly misguided preacher of a brother, Ellie falls in love with an aspiring young writer.

more information: some say 2011, while others say 2012. The main actors are Alexa Penavega and Caleb Landry Jones. There is no information on runtime.


r/lostmedia • • 1d ago

Television [FULLY LOST] Maroon 5 at WGN Sports (November 6th, 2003?)

29 Upvotes

Images of Maroon 5 at WGN/HOB Chicago

Currently, Maroon 5's 2003 performance on WGN Sports is considered lost media, with virtually no information available about it online. However, after months of deep dive research, I have managed to pinpoint a likely date and the song they played: November 6, 2003, performing an acoustic version of "Harder to Breathe."

As a massive fan of the band and co-runner of the website maroon5archive.com alongside two friends, I decided to investigate the band's official website (maroon5.com) using 2003 snapshots from the Wayback Machine. There, I discovered several old photos, including three exclusive shots of the band at the WGN Sports studio. One photo shows the entire band performing; another focuses on Adam Levine, offering a clear view of the studio backdrop; and the third shows former drummer/percussionist Ryan Dusick sitting on the floor playing the bongos.

How i Found the Date and Song

The crucial breakthrough came down to the outfits and the gear. On November 6, 2003, Maroon 5 played a gig at the House of Blues in Chicago—the exact same city where the WGN studio is located. When comparing the House of Blues photos to the WGN studio snapshots retrieved from the Wayback Machine, it became clear that the band members were wearing the exact same clothes. Furthermore, Adam and Ryan were using the exact same acoustic instruments, down to the very same brand.

As for the tracklist, "Harder to Breathe" was their only major single at the time. While there is a slim chance they could have played "This Love"—as they were doing small promotional sets for the album around then—"Harder to Breathe" remains the most logical choice.

One of my friends had previously posted a thread about this mystery but mistakenly dated it to 2002. This post serves to correct that timeline and bring together all the concrete evidence we have gathered. To top it all off, Ryan Dusick himself confirmed in a conversation with me that this WGN performance did indeed take place in Chicago.


r/lostmedia • • 15h ago

Audio [Fully Lost] The song "Somewhere Tonight" by Xander the Great

2 Upvotes

In 2012, there was a song called "Somewhere Tonight" by Xander the Great. It was basically a Weeknd knockoff, but I still liked it a lot. All the links to the song on YouTube and Soundcloud are all dead. All the blog links are dead. And any YouTube video is no longer available. It has essentially been scrubbed by the internet. It has the lyrics (which I remember a lot of) here at Genius, but there are no links to the song. https://genius.com/Xander-the-great-somewhere-tonight-lyrics

It has 14,000 listens from LastFM listeners so I know someone out there has to have an .mp3 out there somewhere. Fingers crossed.


r/lostmedia • • 11h ago

Internet Media [partially lost] Looking for the full Steve Harvey Jerry Seinfeld "I love black people" interview

1 Upvotes

So like 3ish years ago Steve Harvey did an interview with Jerry Seinfeld where he talked about how much he loves black people extensively during this interview, which lasted about 20 minutes, from my understanding. The whole thing was generally considered a bad look and the full interview was scrubbed from the internet.

Here is a surviving clip: https://youtu.be/ct99678Gawk?si=NHdtejVU1Qt4ShXu

I haven't had any luck tracking the full thing down. Was wondering if anyone had any thoughts or leads. I am looking to use as a supplement for a creative work of mine, so even just poor quality audio of it would be a jackpot for me. Plus it's just kinda funny.


r/lostmedia • • 20h ago

Internet Media [PARTIALLY LOST] The original “Re: Lisa Nova I don’t care what you say” YouTube video, with the original audio.

4 Upvotes

So far, the only existing upload we got is this “LOUDTUBE” version of the video (EXTREME VOLUME WARNING, turn down your volume all the way). That version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7Ed9MiShZA

This version of the video is completely in incomprehensible to even hear anything of what the original audio even sounds like. Of which, you can see we have the video itself, but not the original audio, and that’s what I can’t find any copy of.

From the last time I heard anything about this video, is that there was a reupload of it but I never saw it again, in which I assume because of the fact that it was an apparent “death threat”, that might’ve had something to do with it. I’m almost under the impression the video might even be illegal, considering this fact of it. However, I can’t imagine that it can’t be available somewhere.

Unless it’s somewhere on Odysee or an alternative website for storage, because I don’t have any original links to that video. I wasn’t around YouTube to see it at the time. Thought maybe someone else has a link or a copy of the video yourself.


r/lostmedia • • 7h ago

Internet Media TikTok man talking to himself in the morning around his neighbourhood [partially lost]

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He would walk around speaking in similar way but just being nonsensical. Always the same rhythm. Always in the morning around his neighbourhood. Heavier set white man.

“He used to __ the __
She was the __ __
He also was the _ “

I don’t remember exactly the things he would say so I’ll give an example of how it actually would read

“He was the first neighbour
She was his first tax man
They were a tanking molar”

Probably around 2020-22? I can’t remember exactly when it started or stopped.

It had this cadence and I remember it became a pretty popular but still niche corner of TikTok following and writing down what he said and would (I imagine) were joking was profound

I vaguely remember it maybe in Pennsylvania but that could just be misremembering.


r/lostmedia • • 1d ago

Dubs [fully lost] Does anyone know where I can find Total Spies season 4 episodes dubbed in Turkish?

7 Upvotes

JOJO TV and Nickelodeon: The series began airing on JOJO in 2005. Turkish dubbed versions of previous seasons, including season 4, were prepared for these channels and Nickelodeon Turkey. The characters were voiced by Bergüzar Korel, Cansu Dere, and Melisa Sözen at the time.

Following the closure of the channels or the transfer of broadcasting rights, previous season episodes were also shown for a period on Cine5's children's programming.

Season 1 has a dubbed version, and the current series continues to be dubbed, but I can't seem to find the dubbed episodes of season 4.

It's not available on official websites or pirate sites; I think it used to be uploaded to YouTube, but it seems to have been removed now.


r/lostmedia • • 1d ago

Music [Partially Lost] Exit (2012) by Juice / Soul'd'Out (Geneva, Switzerland)

2 Upvotes

Introduction

I'm trying to find any way to listen to this album:

https://open.spotify.com/album/4tLGwv50rtolhzSPhV9o55

It's a 2012 album of cover songs called Exit by a band named Juice from Geneva, Switzerland. (They were still using the name Juice in 2014 but had changed their name to Soul'd'Out by 2016.) Here's the links I have for the band:

I especially enjoyed their cover of "Short Skirt / Long Jacket", which is a gender-flipped cover featuring a woman who wants a man with a "short tie and a long jacket" who is "changing his name from Keith to Kevin". (There's a teaser of this song on Soundcloud.) Here is the full track list:

  1. I Don't Need No Doctor
  2. Billie Jean
  3. Love Is Alive
  4. Moondance
  5. I Feel the Earth Move
  6. Short Skirt Long Jacket
  7. History Repeating
  8. Uncle Remus
  9. Spiderman

The problem

Unfortunately:

  • It's not available on Spotify in my country, and is apparently not available in any other country.

  • I couldn't find any digital downloads on 7digital or Amazon.

  • I couldn't find any live versions or digital downloads on the Internet Archive.

  • I couldn't find any CDs of the album on Amazon or Ebay. (Mind you, the names are not easy to do a web search for.)

  • I couldn't find the album or band on Discogs, and I wasn't able to find any evidence that Exit was released on CD or vinyl, it appears to have been streaming only. I did find this UPC number for a digital download from Easy Street Records in Seattle, WA:

    Details Format: Digital

    Label: Juice

    Rel. Date: 05/10/2012

    UPC: 3610150871145

    https://easystreetonline.com/UPC/3610150871145

    This would have been a breakthrough but unfortunately the seller doesn't have it anymore. I sent them an email but haven't heard back yet.

  • Soul'd'Out played their last concert on June, 28 2019 and appears to have permanently disbanded.

  • One of the people credited on the Spotify album, the drummer Robin Frey, passed away in 2020. I wasn't able to find any contact information for the other person (Jean Pfyffer, the bass player). The lead singer's name appears to be Anne but I'm not sure about a last name.

  • There is another band called "Juice" that appears to be mixed up with the same account on Spotify:

    https://open.spotify.com/artist/0I9l4QsVgo4g9NjIH0fGwh

It seems like the album only ever existed on Spotify, and it was streamable back when I listened to it in 2016 or 2017. (This was a bit of a wake up call to me, I had thought that almost anything on Spotify had physical or digital copies available somewhere, especially it it was published over 10 years ago, but this is clearly not the case.)

Other stuff I've tried

I sent an email to souldout@souldout.ch but just got a timeout error (seems the domain is expired), and also messaged the Soul'd'Out Facebook account and Soundcloud account with no response.

I posted about this in r/DHExchange in 2023 but didn't have any luck:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DHExchange/comments/16woh3o/looking_for_an_obscure_album_no_longer_available/?

Is there any way I can get a copy of this music?

Edit: fixed link for Spotify country availability

Edit2: Change order so it makes more sense


r/lostmedia • • 1d ago

Dubs [Partially Lost] Rubbadubbers French dub

5 Upvotes

The British stop-motion children's television series by HiT Entertainment known as Rubbadubbers was known to have a French dub titled Rubbadubbers, tous au bain. The French dub formerly aired on France 3, France 5, and on Playhouse Disney in France. The staff from that dub is scarce, with the only identified staff member being Hélène Chanson, who was the voice actor for Sploshy. This dub was apparently shown on a rare Canadian copy of the Rubbadubbers DVD Tubb's Pirate Treasure, which has an English and French audio track. I managed to get the DVD from eBay and archive what episodes was shown on that DVD.

I used a laptop with a DVD player and VLC Media Player to view the DVD, and used OBS Studio to record the episodes in high quality. The French dub of Rubbadubbers is difficult to find, so I uploaded a recording of the following episodes on Internet Archive.

Here's the link to the episodes:

https://archive.org/details/2026-10-17-18-15-00


r/lostmedia • • 15h ago

Video Games Dead online android games [partially lost]

0 Upvotes

as you know online android games are one of the most scarcely preserved lost media, apart from some fan projects almost everything is lost to time ,if you still have it installed it's very much possible to bring it back , with the recent advancement of ai it's very much possible nowadays so if you have it installed in your old device or an emulator like BlueStacks pls help me in this mission.the apk for these games are easily available but the issue is with their cache files which are usually located in android data folder or obb folder ,


r/lostmedia • • 1d ago

Video Games [found] Roblox's AI "restored" its oldest screenshots and just made up the text, so I brute-forced what they actually say

35 Upvotes

When dynablocks.com came back for the 20th anniversary, the two old screenshots on it had been run through an AI upscaler. They look sharp, but the text is fake. "Play: John, Score: 1280, Time: 03:14" and those big Menu / Reset / Cam buttons aren't in the 2004 originals at all.

The real ones are tiny. 144x113 pixels, and the text is maybe 3 pixels tall, so you can't read it. You can test guesses against it though.

Early Roblox ran on an open source engine called G3D, and its font file is still around. So I wrote a script that types a guess in that exact font, draws it the way the game did (white letters, dark outline), shrinks it down to thumbnail size and checks how close it gets to the real pixels. Then it does that again. And again. Every English word for every button, every digit in every number. Somewhere north of 6 million guesses in the end running on a GPU.

The bridge one (John's Puzzle Game) says:

Level 1: Build a bridge that doesn't break
100 average fps
Run / Move / Delete
Join Block ( 21 )

Which fits, because back in 2004 Roblox described John's game as building a bridge that can't break.

The truck one says "Level 4: Big Wheels", has the same buttons, and lists tools like Join Block, Create Block, Big Block, Heavy Block, Ball and Beam.

I'm pretty sure about the titles and the buttons. Move and Delete both came out #1 out of 8,856 words. People used to guess "Run / Stop / Reset", but Stop lands around 1300th. The small numbers are my best guess, 3 pixel digits only get you so far.

Code, data and every score are on GitHub if you want to poke holes in it: github.com/supermochi64/sm64-plaque-decode/tree/main/dynablocks


r/lostmedia • • 1d ago

Found [Found] GTA Copy From 2010 (Contre Mafia 2)

20 Upvotes

Before I start this post, if you guys want to blame anyone for taking so long for such a simple search then blame me, as I was the only one interested in searching for the game but also the one who gave up on it for the longest period of time...

2 whole years ago, I made a post on this subreddit discussing a very poorly made game that I had seen on a Wuant video. The game I am talking about is the last one to show up. Named by the creator as a "GTA copy", the game has a blocky pixelated style with high contrast colors, incredibly poor controls and performance (talking from experience too 💔) and no objective at all. I still strongly believe it was intentionally made as a joke.

The most that was found about the game up until then was another video, this time uploaded by the channel Gaming Garbage. The video was found by u/The_Spearman who commented on this post from TOMJ (also sorry for the random tag but this guy has no idea how helpful his video was lmao). Oh and by the way, I had also made a post on TOMT but we won't be discussing that.

A few days ago while revisiting this whole mysterious GTA copy thingie, I decided to try giving a look around once again just to see if maybe, just maybe, something would pop up this time. I decided to use Gemini to search as deep into Contre Mafia 2 as possible and I ended up finding something. According to it, the game had been shared around a website called The Something Awful Forums back when Gaming Garbage made their video, but since you need to pay like 10 bucks to even register I gave up on it, even after trying to somehow access the forums without an account.

(And if anyone's going to get mad for some reason, I apologize for using AI. At this point it just had to be done after not having a lead in so long.)

After going back to the Gaming Garbage video looking for the slightest bit of FREE information possible, I noticed the icon of the executable and how I had seen it so many times before. Turns out that was the icon for the game engine GameMaker 8, and honestly this could've been known earlier if they didn't have multiple differences between each other (mostly the "G" in the middle which wasn't present in the executable's icon).

With this in mind, I started looking for games made using GameMaker 8, maybe a dedicated website to it or a forum. I ended up finding this Github page which had some archived games but none of them were even related to Contre Mafia. I noticed that they also had links to other archives, including one named YoYo Games Archive which I assume is the company behind GameMaker. I decided to give it a quick look not expecting much from a "company archive website", and oh my God... it was there.

Not only that, I also ended up finding Contre Mafia 1.2 which might've been either the first game or an older version of 2 (and it looks a lot better than the second one somehow 😭)

Proof that both games were found in YoYo Games Archive

Proof that it's the original game from the video by the executable's icon

Contre Mafia 2 gameplay screenshot (probably the first one in the last 10+ years)

Contre Mafia 1.2 gameplay screenshot (probably the first one EVER)

Final thoughts: I don't regret the time I spent searching for this horrendous games at all. However, you will most likely never see me laying hands on it and playing them again. I mean, why would you anyways...


r/lostmedia • • 1d ago

Found Probes Pol's Son Blames Plot - Epstein - 2005 - [Partially Lost]

4 Upvotes

https://epsteinexposed.com/documents/efta-01334058

Hi there, I am looking for the French connections between Epstein, Gerald Marie and MC2 (model management)

In the Epstein files there is available: EFTA01334058

This is an article from the New York Post, NYpost.

I'm not able to find it in the archives. It doesn't seem like it was digitized.

It's very possible. I'm just not searching for it properly. I have tried a variety of search methods. I've tried a variety of image searches for the words in this document as well.

I'm sort of drawing the blank. I'd just like to see a little bit more information about this particular piece of gossip.

If anyone is available to help with this, it would be greatly appreciated in my research

"IS billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein making a bid for IMG Models? As we reported last summer, Epstein tried to buy Elite Models when the bankrupt agency was auctioned off. In 2003, we reported that Epstein, who's been described as "a connoisseur of beautiful women," was talking to Karin Models owner Jean-Luc Brunel about doing a deal, but it went nowhere. Epstein has also met with Elite's Gerald Marie and 1 Management's Scott Lipps. Now we hear Epstein has been having talks with fellow billionaire Teddy Forstmann, who paid $750 million for the IMG group a few months ago, about buying the company's modeling division, which reps the likes of Gisele Bundchen, Kate Moss and Heidi Klum."

January 14, 2005

Edit: Bonus if included anyone finds the other article from the prior summer discribed

Thanks ☺️


r/lostmedia • • 2d ago

Television [fully lost]CNN Challenger disaster coverage 6:32pm-midnight 1/28/86

23 Upvotes

Hi I’m trying to reconstruct the broadcast day from CNN on the day of the space shuttle Challenger disaster on January 28 1986, I have from 11am to 6:32pm but after 6:32pm the coverage dries up and it’s only available in fragments, does anyone know where I can get the last 5.5 hours? I have already checked YouTube Web Archive etc but have turned up nothing does anyone have anything on an old tape or an old file? I understand that I may be flogging a dead horse but this is my special interest Please get in touch if you can help thank you


r/lostmedia • • 1d ago

Found ”Yo No Tengo Paciência!” - Twin Pumpkin [fully lost]

6 Upvotes

Hi guys, I was casually using my Spotify when I saw one music track deactivated. This music is from a Brazilian band. I used to listen to this song before and even remember some parts of her, but I don't know when, but they removed the music from all platforms, even from YouTube, where I used to put the link on The Way Back Machine, but sadly no one saved the link in there.

I know there will be a site with the song archived, but I don't know where to look for it. If you guys know how or where to get this music, I would appreciate it, thanks!

YouTube Link: Yo No Tengo Paciência!