Sherlock Holmes: Under the Boardwalk was planned for release in 1985 on Apple II and PCjr platforms. Although finished, the game was never released due to Bantam Software pulling out of the market. Thanks @hardistymark for flagging.
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@gamesthatwerent I'm keeping my fingers crossed that games like this can be found and preserved. Games are no different to books or movies, preservation is massively important and currently being neglected.
@gpowerf That's very true - its why we've been trying to do what we can for many years now. But there needs to be more of it and more people doing it.
@gamesthatwerent it strikes me that for films we have things like the National Film Registry in the United States whose sole mission is to preserve films. But there are no national efforts as far as I know for video games.
It's all left to individuals around the globe to do the work. And whilst this is great and I commend that work, I think we need to go bigger :) Video games are art worth preserving just like films.
@gpowerf There is the Video Game History Foundation in the US at https://gamehistory.org/ and in the UK we have Videogame Heritage Society at https://thenvm.org/about/vhs/ ... though they will all admit that this is just covering maybe a small percentage of all preservation.