A large number of ultra-rare Japanese PC games that are said to be 'existence is a phantom' are unearthed from collectors' private folders
A 'phantom game' that almost no one has seen the real thing was suddenly unearthed, and a play movie is posted on YouTube. This 'phantom game' was actually put up in the private folder of the game collector, and 70 titles were sleeping, and the person who released the game 'should save valuable games' Based on this idea, we are proclaiming that we will continue to excavate and publish in the future.
Lost Japanese game Labyrinthe released – and more are coming | The Obscuritory
70 Long-Lost Japanese Video Games Have Been Discovered in a 67GB Folder of ROMs on a Private Forum --Motherboard
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3anja/labyrinthe-japanese-game-discovered-on-private-forum
'Horror Tour 3 Labyrinthe' is an adventure game for Windows released by Caravan Interactive in 1996 or 1998. The exact release date is unknown, and there have been no reports of seeing the real thing, only Yahoo! Only confirmed at the auction that it was sold in 2005. There is a page of 'Horror Tour 3 Labyrinth' on Amazon.co.jp, and the image of the package is registered, but it has never been sold and it is still out of stock. increase. Even if I searched around Japanese game shops and auctions, the actual software did not come out at all, so among overseas PC game fans, 'I think'Horror Tour 3 Labyrinth'is a phantom game that has not been released.' It was.
Amazon | Horror Tour 3 Labyrinth | PC Software | Software
However, suddenly on June 4, 2018, the appearance of playing 'Horror Tour 3 Labyrinth' was released on YouTube with a download link, which surprised some game fans. The following movie is a play movie of 'Horror Tour 3 Labyrinth' released by Mr. Saint.
[ENGLISH] Zeddas: Horror Tour 3 / Labyrinthe --YouTube
According to Saint's explanation in the comments, this 'Horror Tour 3 Labyrinth' wasn't originally obtained by Saint, but is part of a collection of game collectors. The collector uploaded his game to cloud storage and published the link on the membership-based torrent tracker site. The collector divides the public folder into two, 'Never let the game in the'DO NOT UPLOAD'folder go out. If you do, the game upload itself will stop.' It seems that he had declared it.
The 'DO NOT UPLOAD' folder also contains more than 70 Japanese PC games, as well as some movies, documents, and other materials, and the folder has a capacity of 68GB. Collectors said they sold part of their collection on eBay, an auction site, and Saint said, 'He insists he never leaks valuable games to the outside world because he doesn't want to devalue the games. I thought. '
Phil Salvador, who was also informed of the existence and link of the collection by an anonymous person who was also on a membership torrent site, thought that these valuable games should be archived, and gradually added to the Internet Archive. He said he decided to upload, and more than 40 games, movies and documents have already been uploaded.
philsalv archive.org Member
Salvador said, 'I'm happy to be able to archive very rare games, but it's not healthy to get them in this way. With collectors who own valuable games personally, online valuable games. Relationships between people who want to archive in are often tense. In order to preserve the cultural history of the game, there must be a trusting relationship between the two. Cases like this one. Is sometimes seen, and the game preservation activity is a hassle. '
In addition, Saint who released the play movie and download link of 'Horror Tour 3 Labyrinth' commented, 'Collectors may get angry about releasing the link, but I do not particularly care.' ..
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