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extremewreck2000 Lost Media Veteran You like weird video games, European cartoons & tracker music? Then you've come to the right place. Posts: 4,560	PC Pillbox anyone? Nov 20, 2020 1:11:58 GMT ValerianoSOS likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by extremewreck2000 on Nov 20, 2020 1:11:58 GMT Seriously, I found this game on the Internet Archive, & there's no info on this game. Was this some person messing around, or something? For anyone who wants to play it: archive.org/details/msdos_PC_Pillbox_1985
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PC Pillbox anyone? Nov 21, 2020 0:49:31 GMT

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Post by Snood on Nov 21, 2020 0:49:31 GMT

Based on the "by Dad, for Greg, Nicole, Jaime" on the title screen, this was probably just a little game a dad made for his kids, which would explain why it isn't documented anywhere online. These physics-based shooting games were fairly easy to code and very popular on early PCs.

What confuses me even more is how that account is uploading so much stuff. They're uploading several service manuals and customer service bulletins page-by-page. Even without including all the metadata, that would be an agonizingly slow process...

Hoarding obscure self-published music on the off chance someone misses it.

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PC Pillbox anyone? Nov 21, 2020 15:22:23 GMT via mobile Snood likes this

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Nov 21, 2020 0:49:31 GMT Snood said:

What confuses me even more is how that account is uploading so much stuff. They're uploading several service manuals and customer service bulletins page-by-page. Even without including all the metadata, that would be an agonizingly slow process...

The account that uploaded it, “Sketch the Cow”, is actually Jason Scott who works for the Internet Archive as a software curator.

A lot of stuff goes through that account, but I don’t think it’s necessarily all scanned by him.

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Post by extremewreck2000 on Nov 24, 2020 2:00:08 GMT

So if it was just a game a dad made for his kids, then HOW THE HECK DID THIS GET FOUND, AND PRESERVED ONTO THE INTERNET ARCHIVE!?!? That's what confuses me the MOST out of all of this. Unreleased games are surprising enough to get preserved for us to play, but games only made to be played by their children, or friends!? Now THAT is something you'd probably never see happen again in A YEAR!!!

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PC Pillbox anyone? Nov 24, 2020 3:05:17 GMT

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Nov 24, 2020 2:00:08 GMT extremewreck2000 said:

So if it was just a game a dad made for his kids, then HOW THE HECK DID THIS GET FOUND, AND PRESERVED ONTO THE INTERNET ARCHIVE!?!? That's what confuses me the MOST out of all of this. Unreleased games are surprising enough to get preserved for us to play, but games only made to be played by their children, or friends!? Now THAT is something you'd probably never see happen again in A YEAR!!!

I guess it could have been saved onto a floppy disk or CD and then donated/sold much later without remembering what was on it. That's just total speculation though. It's kind of funny that there are pieces of media released publicly with hundreds or thousands of copies that are lost, but this homemade video game from decades ago that probably only had one physical copy got found and preserved.

Hoarding obscure self-published music on the off chance someone misses it.

extremewreck2000 Lost Media Veteran You like weird video games, European cartoons & tracker music? Then you've come to the right place. Posts: 4,560	PC Pillbox anyone? Nov 24, 2020 3:08:31 GMT Snood likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by extremewreck2000 on Nov 24, 2020 3:08:31 GMT It's also funny that there are certain video games(or heck, ANY work in general) with no names attached to them at all that have been preserved on the internet, but that's a separate thread.
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