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Where Does Art Goes When It Dies?

Media that wants to stay lost.

A horror blogger stumbles upon a series of lost media finds that leads them to uncover the mystery of characters "escaping" from their source material.

Cut Strings

PatriotHole Games

ClickHole

A satire RPG Maker game by ClickHole (a news parody site owned by The Onion), made to make fun of right-wing media portrayals of American politicians in 2018. Originally playable in-browser, any link to this game is now broken, and as such this game is possibly lost media.

Protect Your Gold From Barack Obama

Gameplay Video

Combat 3 was an online FPS playable in the web browser using the Unity3D engine.

Combat 3

Cyber Armed Youth

Taiwan 2013 is a parody game of Hong Kong 97 and Taiwan 2001 that's based around Ma Ying-jeou, the president of Taiwan at the time. The game was released for browsers and mobile.

Taiwan 2013

The Pokémon Company International

Nintendo

Play to Befriend a Pokémon! was a Flash game formerly available on Pokémon.com. It was a Pokémon Global Link promotion. The goal is to break blocks with a bouncing ball, similar to Breakout. Players use the paddle to keep the ball from falling out of bounds. When the ball hits blocks consecutively, the score increases by 100 each hit. Sometimes when a block is hit, an orb of its color will fall. These orbs, when caught by the paddle, are worth 500 points each. There are 4 levels, and the player starts with 3 lives. They may earn more lives and power-ups later. After playing, the orbs caught, depending on what kind, can be used to redeem 1 free Pokémon via the Pokémon Dream World, provided the player is signed in under their Pokémon Trainer Club account. These Pokémon are Vaporeon, Jolteon, Flareon, Espeon, Umbreon, Leafeon, and Glaceon. The game was removed after May 19, 2011, and the .swf file for it was actually deleted from the site.

Play to Befriend a Pokémon!

Mvergence Media

McDonald's

Burger Maker was a 2010 Flash game released on the McDonald's Pakistan website. The game had the player create McDonald's burgers.

Burger Maker

Draw a vehicle and join Mr Strings on his World Tour. You’ll meet hypnotic beavers, exploding pandas and maybe the elusive shycows! Amp up your vehicle with 24 power-up codes found on Cheestrings packs–try this 27684.

Cheestrings: Mr. Strings' World Tour

Hangman was a Flash game playable on the McDonald's Pakistan website. The game was a playable version of the game hangman.

Hangman

Labyrinth was a Flash game that was playable on the McDonald's Pakistan website in 2010. No details about the gameplay exist, however it is assumed from the existing image that it was a maze game.

Labyrinth

Strum was a promotional music game released by McDonald's Pakistan in 2010. The game was based on the band Call, who composed the 2010 McDonald's jingle for the region.

Strum

Wobbuffet's Puzzle Pack! was a Flash game on Pokémon.com. It was a jigsaw puzzle where the player put togther Pokémon-related images.

Wobbuffet's Puzzle Pack

Clorox

Blockdot

Clorox: Sparkling Sudoku is an Adobe Flash sudoku game by Clorox.

Clorox: Sparkling Sudoku

4Kids Entertainment

Kirby Star Ride is a Flash game made by 4Kids as a promotion for Kirby: Right Back at Ya!. The game was only up for 1 year before being delisted from the website. The game is currently lost, with 0 information about the game surviving online apart from it's existence.

Kirby Star Ride

The Cartoon Works

Gameplay Trailer

Trailer

MGA Entertainment

An online flash virtual pet game by MGA Entertainment, similar to Webkinz of the same era. Players could make an account, and by using a code obtained by purchasing a Rescue Pets: MyePets stuffed animal, play with their pet in various minigames. This game is now considered lost media and is impossible to play due to servers being shut down in 2012.

Rescue Pets: My ePets

Mario's Driving Range is a 2006 McDonald's browser game that was made as a part of the September 2006 Mario Happy Meal promotion. The game was released alongside the game Jammin' With Mario on the McDonald's Happy Meal website.

It's not currently known what the contents of the game were, however it is rumored to be a golf game. As of 2024, no gameplay footage, screenshots or any builds of the game have resurfaced online and no archives for the swf files are indexed on the Wayback Machine.

Mario's Driving Range

Jammin' With Mario is a 2006 McDonald's browser game that was made as a part of the September 2006 Mario Happy Meal promotion. The game was supposedly a music game that taught the player how to play the Mario theme with their keyboard.

As of 2024, no gameplay, screenshots or any builds of the game have resurfaced online and no archives for the swf files are indexed on the Wayback Machine.

Jammin' With Mario

Spider-Man 2: The Snap Game was an online game by KFC Singapore as a part of the KFC Chicky Club, their online service of flash games for kids. The game was made to promote the movie Spider-Man 2.

No copies of the game have resurfaced ever since.

Spider-Man 2: The Snap Game

Nintendo of America

Martini Design

Pikmin.com SpaceForce

Waluigi's Foot Fault was a Flash game developed by Nintendo in 2000. The game was made to promote Mario Tennis for the Nintendo 64 and was discovered in a Nintendo Power magazine article. In this game, the player is tasked with clipping Waluigi's toenails and catching them with a jar in which points are earned.

Waluigi's Foot Fault

Yoshi, The Web Pet was a Flash game on the Yoshi's Story website. It was a virtual pet game where the user could raise their own pet Yoshi.

Yoshi, the Web Pet

Electronic Arts

On the website for the video game Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix there was plans for a promotional mini-game to be released alongside it. The game was labeled as coming soon under the "Mini-Game" tab on the official website for the game, however was never released. No details of the game were ever released and it is uncertain what the contents of the game were to be, apart from the game being built in Adobe Flash based on the link being labeled as "flashgame" within the site's HTML code.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Mini-Game

Maurício de Sousa Produções

Splash: O Bichinho Virtual was a virtual pet browser game available on Turma da Mônica's official website.

Since being shut down in 2013, it is currently considered lost media.

Lost Media Browser Games