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{{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHKTwwkYol8|320x240|right|The first episode of their Banjo Kazooie playthrough, which includes them talking about the cancelled Conker playthrough (08:39 - 10:43, specifically from 10:15).|frame}}
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{{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmYh_miWTd4|320x240|right|A Panel Egoraptor did at Shadocan 2012 where he speaks of the unreleased Conker and Demon's Crest episodes (05:28 - 06:31).|frame}}
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{{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKCjdcoin3A|320x240|right|The first episode of their second playthrough of Demon's Crest, where Jon briefly mentions the original playthrough. (02:17 - 02:23).|frame}}
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{{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZcE_4KuR_I|320x240|right|The episode of their Yoshi's Island playthrough where they talk about the Mario Party 4 audio (01:38 - 03:11).|frame}}
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The '''Game Grumps''' have a huge amount of material that is unreleased, half-recorded or completely lost, mostly from the Jon and Arin era that have never been released to their channel due to various reasons.
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The Game Grumps are a Let's Play YouTube channel, hosted by Arin (Egoraptor), Jon (JonTron) and later Dan (Danny Sexbang). Starting in 2012, they now have a strong fanbase with almost 4 million subscribers total. However, some of their material is unreleased, half-recorded or completely lost due to various reasons.


For starters, a few episodes (three according to Arin) of them playing Conker's Bad Fur Day were made, but were never released and continued upon because, as explained in the first Banjo Kazooie episode and the panel Egoraptor did at Shadocan, Egoraptor really thought the game was bad while Jon was upset because he highly disagreed, "but was slowly realising why" (though according to that Banjo Kazooie episode his opinion hasn't changed), so they weren't talking, had a really awkward dynamic and on top of that it was a dialouge-heavy game that started off really slow, so it was really hard to put funny dialouge on top of it, which was another reason Arin hated it: a dialouge-heavy game wasn't really the best choice for Game Grumps, and that was the same reason Secret of Mana wasn't (initially) played through properly on the show. Arin called the experience depressing, and called Conker the worst game they had to play on the show.
==Unreleased Videos==
===''Conker's Bad Fur Day''===
A few episodes (three according to Arin) of Arin and Jon playing '''''Conker's Bad Fur Day''''' were made, however, was never released and the let's play was discontinued. As explained in the first ''Banjo-Kazooie'' episode and the panel Arin did at Shadocan, Arin thought the game was bad while Jon highly disagreed, ''"but was slowly realizing why"'', so they weren't talking and had a really awkward dynamic. On top of that, it was a dialogue-heavy game that started off really slow, so it was really hard to put funny dialogue on top of it which was another reason Arin hated it: a dialogue-heavy game wasn't really the best choice for Game Grumps. Arin called the experience depressing and called ''Conker'' the worst game they had to play on the show.


The same goes for Demons Crest (the initial playthrough that is, which may of had more than one episode); Jon wasn't having a good day, Arin liked the game but he hated it and they actually got into an argument about it ("Blood was shed" as Arin put it.), and above that, the episodes lacked jokes. They later replayed it on the show from the beginning, to which Jon mentioned that when they first tried it he "didn't much like it", so he was giving it another chance and that he originally didn't approach the game with an "old-school mindset". It was mentioned by Arin in his aforementioned Shadocan 2012 Panel and their Yoshi's Island playthrough.
===''Demon's Crest''===
A similar incident happened with the initial playthrough of '''''Demon's Crest'''''. Jon wasn't having a good day, Arin liked the game but Jon hated it and they actually got into an argument about it (''"Blood was shed"'' as Arin put it.). The episode also lacked a lot of the humor the channel is known for. They later replayed it on the show from the beginning, to which Jon mentioned that when they first tried it he ''"didn't much like it"'', so he was giving it another chance and that he originally didn't approach the game with an ''"old-school mindset"''. It has been mentioned by Arin in his aforementioned Shadocan 2012 Panel and their ''Yoshi's Island'' playthrough.


And as confirmed at Magfest '11 there was also an episode for Dino City they made but never released. Since Jon had already reviewed the game on his channel the commentary consisted of (possibly only) referencing his review.
===''Dino City''===
Confirmed at Magfest '11 there was an episode for '''''Dino City''''' that was made but never released. Since Jon had already reviewed the game on his channel, the commentary consisted of (possibly only) referencing his review.


Not to mention, some games like Link to the Past and Mega Man 7, and possibly others, were replayed and rerecorded as their first playthroughs were trial runs for the show to test out recording and things like facecam.
===''The Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past''/''Mega Man 7''===
Some games like '''''The Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past''''', '''''Mega Man 7''''', and possibly others, were replayed and re-recorded as their first playthroughs were trial runs for the show to test out recording and things like facecam.


They also have some truly ''lost'' footage and audio. As revealed in episode #2 of Yoshi's Island, one of them was a planned two-hour session of Mario Party 4. They recorded the audio but forgot to actually record the gameplay footage, (though again, it would later be replayed on the show anyway). They said they might release the audio in the future to riff on, but that hasn't happened yet and seems a little less feasible now since Jon has since left the show.
===''Mario Party 4''===
As revealed in episode #2 of '''''Yoshi's Island''''', there was a planned two-hour session of '''''Mario Party 4'''''. They recorded the audio but forgot to actually record the gameplay footage. They have stated that they may release the audio in the future, but this has not happened yet and seems a little less feasible now since Jon has left the show. The game ended up being re-played anyways on one of the channel's spin-off shows ''Steam Train''.


And as revealed in episode #67 of Sonic '06 they recorded themselves playing Super Metroid but lost the footage as it was contained on Arin's computer which later died on them, a fiasco they announced weeks beforehand in their Wheel of Fortune playthrough which was made to make up for the lost Super Metroid episodes. They did want to play it again for the show and as revealed in episode #5 of Journey to Silius it was attempted, but the footage ended up being lost ''again''.
===''Super Metroid''===
As revealed in episode #67 of ''Sonic '06'', they recorded themselves playing '''''Super Metroid''''' but lost the footage as it was contained on Arin's computer which later died on them. They did want to play it again for the show and as revealed in episode #5 of ''Journey to Silius'', it was attempted, but the footage ended up being lost ''again''.


Speaking of Sonic '06, some footage of that game was lost partway through so they had to start their playthrough all over again. Nickelodeon Guts also had to be replayed because of the original playthrough's capture failing and four hours of Castle Crashers audio was lost because of another computer malfunction of Arin's: his laptop getting a blue screen of death, which was used for recording the audio.
On December 9, 2013, Arin and Dan have [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FpidIHCayY started playing] ''Super Metroid'' again on the show; they completed the game on January 14, 2014. However, the original playthrough still remains lost.


Two unknown cases are the original playthrough of Strider 2 and a possible Sonic Adventure 2 episode. They may have done an episode on Sonic Adventure 2 because, as said by Arin on Twitter, after Arin said he hated the Sonic Adventure series with a lot of controversy following it he replayed it with Jon who was (again) releasing it wasn't as great as he remembered. But it's unverified as to if they were recording that playthrough for an actual Game Grumps episode or not, especially since there was an similar fast-forwarded event during one of the episodes of Sonic '06, in which after they had discussed the game's quality earlier, Arin showed Jon Sonic Adventure 2 on the Dreamcast to show that the gameplay was similar, to which Jon agreed on. And for the original playthrough of Strider 2 they had lost the footage and tried to salvage it, to which Barry said it was unsalvageable. But because they make no reference to an original playthrough in the version they did end up uploading, it's not fully verified if the footage did end up appearing in the currently uploaded playthrough or not.
===''Sonic '06''===
{{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN7cergOqJM|320x240|left|The censored version of part 32; Danny name-drops Rosmus at the 7:58 mark.|frame}}
Some footage of '''''Sonic '06''''' was lost partway through so they had to start their playthrough all over again.


On the topic of the ''Sonic Adventure'' series, there is one episode of the Grumps' ''Sonic Adventure DX'' playthrough that was removed following some considerable controversy. During part 32, Arin and Leigh Danny Avidan (Jon's replacement following his departure from Game Grumps in 2013) repeatedly mocked the ambiguity of an online walkthrough for the game, particularly in regards to the Knuckles levels. During these levels, Knuckles is required to find three randomly scattered emerald shards in order to advance; as the shards' locations are not predetermined, the walkthrough simply provided performance hints rather than concise directions. Because of this, the Grumps admonished the walkthrough throughout their run of Knuckles's campaign, eventually culminating in Danny reading aloud the name of the walkthrough's author, Daniel "The Leadfoot" Rosmus. In the original upload of this part, Rosmus's name remained uncensored, prompting Game Grumps fans to seek out and harass him despite the walkthrough having been written during his middle school years. This caused considerable amounts of backlash, resulting in Danny providing an official apology for the incident on Reddit and Kevin Abernathy (Barry's replacement as editor following his retirement from the position) re-uploading part 32 with the name-dropping audio replaced with a voice saying "pizza" between two bleeps. Though Rosmus responded to Danny's apology by revealing that the harassment did not affect him, the uncensored video remains deleted out of courtesy. Initially, there was a YouTube account that provided mirror uploads for the initial releases of every Game Grumps video, including the uncensored version of part 32. However, the account (and by extension, the video) seem to have disappeared from the website, having either been terminated by YouTube's staff or closed by the channel's owner; it is unknown if anyone is in possession of a copy of the video.
===''Nickelodeon Guts''/''Castle Crashers''===
'''''Nickelodeon Guts''''' also had to be replayed because of the original playthrough's capture failing and four hours of '''''Castle Crashers''''' audio was lost because of another computer malfunction of Arin's laptop getting a blue screen of death, which was used for recording the audio.


It's also unknown if some of the 'lost footage' episodes are completely lost or have remaining audio like the original Mario Party 4 episode, but it's probably unlikely. And it's also unknown if anything not truly lost from this page will ever see the light of day, especially if it's from the original era because, again, the original "Not So Grump" has now left.
===''Sonic Adventure 2''/''Strider 2''===
Two unknown cases are the original playthrough of ''Strider 2'' and a possible ''Sonic Adventure 2'' episode.


'''UPDATE:''' On December 9, 2013, the second pair of Grumps have [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FpidIHCayY started playing] Super Metroid again on the show; they completed the game on January 14, 2014.
As stated by Arin on Twitter, after he said he hated the ''Sonic Adventure'' series with a lot of controversy following it, he replayed ''Sonic Adventure 2'' with Jon, who said it wasn't as great as he remembered. But it's unverified as to whether or not they were recording that playthrough for an episode of "Game Grumps". Especially since there was a similar fast-forwarded event during one of the episodes of ''Sonic '06'', in which after they had discussed the game's quality earlier, Arin showed Jon ''Sonic Adventure 2'' on the Dreamcast to show that the gameplay was similar, to which Jon agreed on.  


'''UPDATE:''' On September 27, 2015, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGr0pifyo_g&feature=youtu.be&t=1h16m19s a mega-compilation] of the entire ''Sonic Adventure DX'' playthrough was uploaded to YouTube, containing the uncensored name-dropping of Daniel Rosmus at around 1:16:10. Special thanks to [[User:Azumi|Azumi]] for pointing this out in the comments! It is unknown if the original uploader still has an individual uncensored copy of episode 32, though.
With '''''Strider 2''''', they had lost the footage and tried to salvage it, to which their editor Barry said it was unsalvageable. However, they make no reference to an original playthrough in the version they did end up upload. It's unknown if the footage did end up appearing in the currently uploaded playthrough or not.


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===''Sonic Adventure DX''===
There is one episode of the Grumps' '''''Sonic Adventure DX''''' playthrough that was removed following some considerable controversy. During part 32, Arin and Dan repeatedly mocked the ambiguity of an online walkthrough for the game, particularly in regards to the Knuckles levels. During these levels, Knuckles is required to find three randomly scattered emerald shards in order to advance; as the shards' locations are not predetermined, the walkthrough simply provided performance hints rather than concise directions. Because of this, the Grumps admonished the walkthrough throughout their run of Knuckles's campaign, eventually culminating in Danny reading aloud the name of the walkthrough's author, Daniel "The Leadfoot" Rosmus. In the original upload of this part, Rosmus's name remained uncensored, prompting Game Grumps fans to seek out and harass him despite the walkthrough having been written during his middle school years. This caused considerable amounts of backlash, resulting in Danny providing an official apology for the incident on Reddit and Kevin Abernathy (Barry's replacement as editor following his retirement from the position) re-uploading part 32 with the name-dropping audio replaced with a voice saying "pizza" between two bleeps. Though Rosmus responded to Danny's apology by revealing that the harassment did not affect him, the uncensored video remains deleted out of courtesy.
 
Initially, there was a YouTube account that provided mirror uploads for the initial releases of every ''Game Grumps'' video, including the uncensored version of part 32. However, the account (and by extension, the video) has disappeared, having either been terminated by YouTube's staff or closed by the channel's owner.
 
On September 27, 2015, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGr0pifyo_g&feature=youtu.be&t=1h16m19s a mega-compilation] of the entire ''Sonic Adventure DX'' playthrough was uploaded to YouTube, containing the uncensored name-dropping of Daniel Rosmus at around 1:16:10 thanks to LMW user [[User:Azumi|Azumi]]. However, it is unknown if the original uploader still has an individual uncensored copy of episode 32, though.
 
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The old logo used before Jontron's departure from the show.

Status: Lost

The Game Grumps are a Let's Play YouTube channel, hosted by Arin (Egoraptor), Jon (JonTron) and later Dan (Danny Sexbang). Starting in 2012, they now have a strong fanbase with almost 4 million subscribers total. However, some of their material is unreleased, half-recorded or completely lost due to various reasons.

Unreleased Videos

Conker's Bad Fur Day

A few episodes (three according to Arin) of Arin and Jon playing Conker's Bad Fur Day were made, however, was never released and the let's play was discontinued. As explained in the first Banjo-Kazooie episode and the panel Arin did at Shadocan, Arin thought the game was bad while Jon highly disagreed, "but was slowly realizing why", so they weren't talking and had a really awkward dynamic. On top of that, it was a dialogue-heavy game that started off really slow, so it was really hard to put funny dialogue on top of it which was another reason Arin hated it: a dialogue-heavy game wasn't really the best choice for Game Grumps. Arin called the experience depressing and called Conker the worst game they had to play on the show.

Demon's Crest

A similar incident happened with the initial playthrough of Demon's Crest. Jon wasn't having a good day, Arin liked the game but Jon hated it and they actually got into an argument about it ("Blood was shed" as Arin put it.). The episode also lacked a lot of the humor the channel is known for. They later replayed it on the show from the beginning, to which Jon mentioned that when they first tried it he "didn't much like it", so he was giving it another chance and that he originally didn't approach the game with an "old-school mindset". It has been mentioned by Arin in his aforementioned Shadocan 2012 Panel and their Yoshi's Island playthrough.

Dino City

Confirmed at Magfest '11 there was an episode for Dino City that was made but never released. Since Jon had already reviewed the game on his channel, the commentary consisted of (possibly only) referencing his review.

The Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past/Mega Man 7

Some games like The Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past, Mega Man 7, and possibly others, were replayed and re-recorded as their first playthroughs were trial runs for the show to test out recording and things like facecam.

Mario Party 4

As revealed in episode #2 of Yoshi's Island, there was a planned two-hour session of Mario Party 4. They recorded the audio but forgot to actually record the gameplay footage. They have stated that they may release the audio in the future, but this has not happened yet and seems a little less feasible now since Jon has left the show. The game ended up being re-played anyways on one of the channel's spin-off shows Steam Train.

Super Metroid

As revealed in episode #67 of Sonic '06, they recorded themselves playing Super Metroid but lost the footage as it was contained on Arin's computer which later died on them. They did want to play it again for the show and as revealed in episode #5 of Journey to Silius, it was attempted, but the footage ended up being lost again.

On December 9, 2013, Arin and Dan have started playing Super Metroid again on the show; they completed the game on January 14, 2014. However, the original playthrough still remains lost.

Sonic '06

Some footage of Sonic '06 was lost partway through so they had to start their playthrough all over again.

Nickelodeon Guts/Castle Crashers

Nickelodeon Guts also had to be replayed because of the original playthrough's capture failing and four hours of Castle Crashers audio was lost because of another computer malfunction of Arin's laptop getting a blue screen of death, which was used for recording the audio.

Sonic Adventure 2/Strider 2

Two unknown cases are the original playthrough of Strider 2 and a possible Sonic Adventure 2 episode.

As stated by Arin on Twitter, after he said he hated the Sonic Adventure series with a lot of controversy following it, he replayed Sonic Adventure 2 with Jon, who said it wasn't as great as he remembered. But it's unverified as to whether or not they were recording that playthrough for an episode of "Game Grumps". Especially since there was a similar fast-forwarded event during one of the episodes of Sonic '06, in which after they had discussed the game's quality earlier, Arin showed Jon Sonic Adventure 2 on the Dreamcast to show that the gameplay was similar, to which Jon agreed on.

With Strider 2, they had lost the footage and tried to salvage it, to which their editor Barry said it was unsalvageable. However, they make no reference to an original playthrough in the version they did end up upload. It's unknown if the footage did end up appearing in the currently uploaded playthrough or not.

Sonic Adventure DX

There is one episode of the Grumps' Sonic Adventure DX playthrough that was removed following some considerable controversy. During part 32, Arin and Dan repeatedly mocked the ambiguity of an online walkthrough for the game, particularly in regards to the Knuckles levels. During these levels, Knuckles is required to find three randomly scattered emerald shards in order to advance; as the shards' locations are not predetermined, the walkthrough simply provided performance hints rather than concise directions. Because of this, the Grumps admonished the walkthrough throughout their run of Knuckles's campaign, eventually culminating in Danny reading aloud the name of the walkthrough's author, Daniel "The Leadfoot" Rosmus. In the original upload of this part, Rosmus's name remained uncensored, prompting Game Grumps fans to seek out and harass him despite the walkthrough having been written during his middle school years. This caused considerable amounts of backlash, resulting in Danny providing an official apology for the incident on Reddit and Kevin Abernathy (Barry's replacement as editor following his retirement from the position) re-uploading part 32 with the name-dropping audio replaced with a voice saying "pizza" between two bleeps. Though Rosmus responded to Danny's apology by revealing that the harassment did not affect him, the uncensored video remains deleted out of courtesy.

Initially, there was a YouTube account that provided mirror uploads for the initial releases of every Game Grumps video, including the uncensored version of part 32. However, the account (and by extension, the video) has disappeared, having either been terminated by YouTube's staff or closed by the channel's owner.

On September 27, 2015, a mega-compilation of the entire Sonic Adventure DX playthrough was uploaded to YouTube, containing the uncensored name-dropping of Daniel Rosmus at around 1:16:10 thanks to LMW user Azumi. However, it is unknown if the original uploader still has an individual uncensored copy of episode 32, though.

Gallery

The first episode of their Banjo Kazooie playthrough, which includes them talking about the cancelled Conker playthrough (08:39-10:43, specifically from 10:15).

A Panel Egoraptor did at Shadocon 2012 where he speaks of the unreleased Conker and Demon's Crest episodes (05:28-06:31).

The first episode of their second playthrough of Demon's Crest, where Jon briefly mentions the original playthrough. (02:17-02:23).

Their appearance at Magfest '11, where they mention the Dino City episode.

The episode of their Yoshi's Island playthrough where they talk about the Mario Party 4 audio (01:38-03:11).

The censored version of part 32; Danny name-drops Rosmus at the 7:58 mark.