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America Goes Bananaz (partially found QUBE/Nickelodeon children's variety television series; 1977-1980)
America Goes Bananaz (known as Columbus Goes Bananaz, before the relaunch to Nickelodeon in 1979) was a children's/teenager's variety television series that aired on QUBE until 1979, when it was relaunched to the Nickelodeon network.
Connor VideoSmarts, ComputerSmarts, and VideoPhone (partially lost VHS-based and cartridge-based edutainment games; 1986-1990)
Between the years 1986 and 1990, these two subsidiaries produced at least three different edutainment game consoles. The VideoSmarts, released in 1986, was aimed at children age 3 and up. The ComputerSmarts, released in 1987, was aimed at fourth and fifth graders. Very little information exists for their third console, the Video Phone, and it is unknown when this variant was released.
Tomb Raider: Apocalypse (lost episodic TV game; 2002-2003)
Tomb Raider: Apocalypse was an episodic 2D platformer developed by Minds Eye Interactive that was created exclusively for Sky Gamestar, the interactive television game portal of pan-European telecommunications conglomerate Sky. The game was published over the course of three episodes between December 2002 and December 2003, with each play session costing 75 pence.
Hare Ribbin' (found original ending of Warner Bros. cartoon; 1944)
Apart from his eccentric animation style, Bob Clampett gained infamy for challenging the censors with crude and obscene jokes inserted in the shorts he directed, sometimes in a very subtle way. As a result of this practice, Hare Ribbin' gets the rare distinction of having two endings, both of which are considered too violent for the general audience.
Treasure Island (lost Lon Chaney silent film; 1920)
Treasure Island was a silent adventure film that was released on April 4th, 1920 (though Lon Chaney's website states it was released on March 26th) by Paramount, at the time called Paramount-Artcraft. It was based on the 1883 adventure novel of the same name by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Sesame Street "The Frazzle Song" (partially lost clip from puppet show series; 1976)
Frazzle was a Sesame Street song composed by Sam Pottle in 1975 that originated in "Episode 0846" on February 9th, 1976. It was performed by Frazzle, with backup singing provided by a group of monsters known as The Frazzletones, including an early vesion of Harvey Monster who bears a resemblance to the pianist "Little Chrissy".
100 Bullets (cancelled games based on comic book; 2000s)
The DC comic book series 100 Bullets had one hundred issues and ran from 1999 to 2009. It follows an agent named Agent Graves who gives people who have been wronged by others the chance to get revenge by giving them a gun, one hundred bullets (hence the name of the series), and info about the person who had wronged the victim., There have been two attempts at making a video game based on the series and neither have been released.
Making the Game (cancelled Game Boy Color game; 2000-2001)
Making The Game was the codename of a cancelled Game Boy Color title developed by a group referring to themselves as Savage Pixel between 2000 and 2001. The game was produced by IGN editor Craig Harris, who also wrote a series of eponymous articles documenting the game's development.
Stage Debut (cancelled Nintendo GameCube game; 2002-2004)
Stage Debut is a cancelled Nintendo GameCube exclusive game that was going to be developed and published by Nintendo from 2002 to 2004. The game was designed with the use of the Game Boy Advance's never officially released camera peripheral the GameEye (a spiritual successor to the Game Boy's Camera), which allowed players to take photos of their faces and import them into the game.
Untitled Kanye West comedy project (partially found HBO pilot; 2007-2008)
In January 2007, HBO announced the development of an untitled comedy series from Larry Charles, starring musician Kanye West. The project was said to focus on a day in the busy life of the artist, with events inspired by his actual experiences.
Cutie the Kitten (cancelled standalone third-person game from YouTuber; 2017)
Quiet Tomato is an animation YouTuber with a total of 159,000 subscribers total as of 2019. He is known for his Macromedia Flash and MS Paint animations, the best-known series on his channel being S.A.M. (Springtrap and Mangle), which is about two characters from the popular horror game Five Nights at Freddy's.
Who's Whose (lost one-episode CBS game show; 1951)
Who's Whose was a very short-lived/ill-fated early game show that was hosted by Phil Baker (radio comedian and host of various radio game shows) that aired for its first and final time on June 25th, 1951 on CBS. It was created to replace The Goldbergs in their time slot.
Dot Comedy (partially found ABC television sitcom; 2000)
Hosted by Randy Sklar and Jason Sklar, Dot Comedy who would guide viewers watching the show to another segment. The show would feature several bits of humor and was mainly about bringing clips from the internet to a TV audience in an era where broadband was still new. Dot Comedy was cancelled after airing one episode with four episodes never airing.
Noah Knows Best (partially found Nickelodeon sitcom; 2000-2001)
Noah Knows Best was a short-lived sitcom that aired on Nickelodeon from 2000 to 2001 and was one of Nickelodeon's shortest-lived television series. Starring Phillip Van Dyke, the show revolved around Noah Beznick as he goes through life in New York City. It was one of the last TV shows to have been filmed at the now-defunct Nickelodeon Studios in Orlando.
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“Greetings, loved ones. Let’s take a journey.”
Hey everyone! Let’s get right into it this time. First off, we have 2 new collaborator videos! The first is from LSuperSonicQ, with a video on the lost 1987 Frontier Enterprises dub of Dragon Ball – the first English dub of the series, predating the 1989 Harmony Gold dub. The second is from blameitonjorge, with a fairly comprehensive video recapping one of our most famous searches, A Day With SpongeBob SquarePants. Be sure to watch both of them above!
Next, the new finds:
- First off, a special shoutout to “Media Finder” on YouTube (known as Shaggy in the Discord) – since the last notice board, he’s found one episode of the English dub of The New Adventures of Zorro (“The Samurai and the Sorcerer”), one episode of the Fox Kids dub of The Vision of Escaflowne (“The Diabolical Adonis”), and SEVEN episodes of the Fox Kids edit of Cybersix (“Mysterious Shadow”, “Blue Birds Of Horror”, “The Greatest Show In Meridiana”, “Terra”, “Lori Is Missing”, “Gone With The Wings”, and “The Eye”). Thank you so much for your invaluable work this past month!
- Episodes 1-80, plus episode 90, of the alternate Singaporean dub of Yu-Gi-Oh have been uploaded to MEGA by LMW user Gardevior1/Spongemeboi, who received them from a YouTube user named ASilva528. Thank you for sharing this massive find!
- User Thespongeywun has uploaded episodes 22-26 of Dragon to Archive.org, completing the entire series as found. Thanks!
- VintageKid, aka MatthewPaul, has made two notable finds recently: the Teamo Supremo episode “Cloaked Paulson, Mr. Skull / 3, 2, 1... Teamo!”, and the SpongeBob short “Nickelodeon Blimp” that was shown during the 2005 Kids’ Choice Awards. Thank you for ripping so many tapes and sharing your rarities with us!
- M3D volume one has been found by YouTube user Cat Arthur, after they found it at a thrift store and later discovered it was lost. Thank you for uploading it!
- A number of old Minecraft builds have been found – too many and all too convolutedly named to conveniently list here, but all of the available PC edition builds can be found here, and the Pocket Edition builds can be found here. Thanks to ArcticFromClosed for handling all of this!
- And finally, more footage of Earthbound 64 has surfaced, taken from SpaceWorld 1996. The build itself is still completely lost, but it’s always nice to find anything that gives us a glimpse of it.
That’s it! Hope everyone has been having a good pride month, enjoying the weather if you’re in a place where that applies, and I’ll see you next time! Also we definitely didn’t forget to update the featured articles for 4 months, we just featured 20 articles because we wanted to
-Lucy
Article additions
- Kurt Cobain "Opinion/Opinions" (partially released demo of potential Nirvana song, 1994) 14 Jun 2019 [New]
- Jetsons: The Movie "Gotcha" - full version (partially found song from Hanna-Barbera animated film; 1990) 14 Jun 2019 [New]
- Great American Census Quiz (lost program from Disney attraction; 1980s-1994) 11 Jun 2019 [New]
- CommuniCore (lost programs and footage from Disney attraction; 1982) 09 Jun 2019 [New]
- Mego 2-XL Robot (partially found series of 8-track edutainment games; 1978-1981) 08 Jun 2019 [New]
- Purple Rain (partially found deleted scenes of musical drama film; 1984) 08 Jun 2019 [New]
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (partially found deleted scenes of Italian western film; 1966) 08 Jun 2019 [New]
- Midnight Horror School (lost production video of CGI anime; 2000s) 07 Jun 2019 [New]
- Once Upon a Time in America (lost 139-minute US theatrical cut of drama film; 1984) 07 Jun 2019 [New]
- Commit Suiside "Uffe Was A Nazi!" (lost compilation album from punk rock band; 1998) 06 Jun 2019 [New] [NSFW]
- Marvel's Most Wanted (lost pilot of unaired "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." spinoff TV show; 2016) 05 Jun 2019
- Silhouette Fantasies (lost silent animated series; 1916) 04 Jun 2019
- Dark Castle (lost MSX port of Macintosh game; 1993) 02 Jun 2019
- Iron Maiden at "Cart & Horses" (lost audio recording of live performance; existence unconfirmed; 1976) 30 May 2019
- Ludwig van Beethoven (partially found pieces from German composer; 1700s-1800s) 29 May 2019
- Conductor and Tarantula (lost piano and vocal piece by Igor Stravinsky; 1906) 28 May 2019
- MMars Needs Moms - Seth Green vocal performance (partially found audio of motion-capture animated film; 2011) 27 May 2019
- Bobo and Fletcher Go Deep Into The Congo (cancelled PC adventure game; 1995) 27 May 2019
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart classical works (partially found works from musician; 1700s) 27 May 2019
- Dizzypad (lost iOS game; 2010-2014) 27 May 2019
- Om Nom: The Movie (lost CGI animated film based off of mobile game; 2016) 27 May 2019
- Nick Studio 10 (partially found Nickelodeon programming block; 2013) 26 May 2019
- The Chopped Liver Brothers (lost TV pilot; 1977) 24 May 2019
- Gorilla Interrupted (partially lost original cut of sci-fi comedy film; 2003) 24 May 2019
- Who's Whose (lost one-episode CBS game show; 1951) 23 May 2019
- The Last Egyptian (partially found silent film; 1914) 22 May 2019
- SpongeBob SquarePants and the Nicktoons Gravjet Racing (cancelled Xbox Live Arcade racing game; 2009) 20 May 2019
- Stage Debut (cancelled Nintendo GameCube game; 2002-2004) 20 May 2019
- Vanishing Act (cancelled PC adventure game; date unknown) 18 May 2019
- The Milton-Bradley Omni Entertainment System (partially found 8-track tape series of trivia games; 1980) 18 May 2019
- Akka Arrh (found cancelled Atari arcade game; 1982) 18 May 2019
- Seriously, Dude, I'm Gay (unaired FOX reality television series; 2004) 16 May 2019
- Leisure Suit Larry 8: Lust in Space (cancelled PC adventure game; 1998-1999) 15 May 2019
- The Oregon Trail (lost John Wayne Western film; 1936) 15 May 2019
- Models Inc. (partially lost primetime soap opera; 1994-1995) 14 May 2019
- Untitled Kanye West comedy project (partially found HBO pilot; 2007-2008) 14 May 2019
- Sam & Max Plunge Through Space (cancelled Xbox adventure game; 2001-2002) 14 May 2019
- Doomwatch (partially lost BBC sci-fi TV series; 1970-1972) 14 May 2019
- The Legend of Darkhorse County (partially found thriller film; 2014) 13 May 2019
- The Gorilla (partially found Bryan Foy murder-mystery film; 1930) 12 May 2019
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