{"id":763087,"date":"2020-06-01T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=763087"},"modified":"2020-06-01T12:00:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T16:00:08","slug":"30-years-later-a-lost-days-of-thunder-nes-game-recovered-from-21-floppy-disks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=763087","title":{"rendered":"30 years later, a lost Days of Thunder NES game recovered from 21 floppy disks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In one of the most unreal data-recovery projects we&#8217;ve ever heard of, a seemingly lost NES game has been unearthed\u2014as archived on a single hard drive backup, spread across 21 5.25-inch floppy disks.<\/p>\n<p>A joint effort led in part by the Video Game History Foundation began earlier this year with a pile of leftover CD-Rs, floppies, computers, and other errata donated by the family of late programmer\/designer Chris Oberth. <a href=\"https:\/\/gamehistory.org\/days-of-thunder-nes-unreleased\/\">The results<\/a>, thus far, are one fully functioning game whose code had to be recovered, then compiled, to run on original NES hardware.<\/p>\n<h2>Anybody still have their copy of PCTools?<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"gallery shortcode-gallery gallery-wide\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"gallery-item-content\">\n<div class=\"gallery-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/days-of-thunder-title-980x551-1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p>\n          Title screen.                      [credit:<br \/>\n                        VGHF \/ Chris Oberth                        ]\n                  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The game in question is based on\u00a0<em>Days of Thunder<\/em>, a stock-racing film from 1990 starring Tom Cruise. One reason this version got lost in the shuffle is because a tie-in DoT video game came out the same year, as published by Mindscape. Oberth&#8217;s co-creation, for the same publisher, was dated one year earlier, and it looks quite different. As Frank Cifaldi,\u00a0VGHF co-director, points out, the unreleased prototype had only been mentioned once by Oberth: in a 2006 interview with the retro-gaming fan newsletter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.classicplastic.net\/trt\/arclegacy\/legacyindex.html\">Retrogaming Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1680219#p3\">Read 7 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1680219&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=RYgAtY3seso:c5Fu7mgTccc:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=RYgAtY3seso:c5Fu7mgTccc:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=RYgAtY3seso:c5Fu7mgTccc:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=RYgAtY3seso:c5Fu7mgTccc:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1680219\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">30 years later, a lost Days of Thunder NES game recovered from 21 floppy disks<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one of the most unreal data-recovery projects we&#8217;ve ever heard of, a seemingly lost NES game has been unearthed\u2014as archived on a single hard drive backup, spread across 21 5.25-inch floppy disks. 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