Have You Got Any Personal Lost Media? Share It Here!

Inspired by this LSuperSonicQ video, this thread is about stuff from your past that you remember but can't access anymore.

For me, one of the biggest things in this category is this one YouTube Let's Play channel that I used to watch back in the early-to-mid 2010's. I can't remember what the channel's name was for the life of me, but it was a presumably young boy, and one of his most popular playthroughs was of Plants Vs Zombies Adventures (which itself is lost media, where he'd refer to the sunflowers as "So-Happys". For multiple years I've tried to rediscover his channel and PVZA playthrough, but alas, they seem to be lost to the sands of time. Maybe when he got older, he considered his channel an Old Shame and decided to remove it? If that were the case, that'd be very sad, but understandable.

The old Sierra Playtoons games. I still have the C Ds, but they don't work on current Windows, with an error message about the file being incompatible. I even managed to track the installation files through *cough* other sources, but there is even then the same error message, so the games are unplayable now.

There was a YouTube channel I remember coming across that was an anthology of short horror animations, linked together by phones - e.g. one protagonist dies because their phone rang at the worst possible moment, and then the next story was about who was trying to call them and why. There were at least three of them, but the only two I remember involved a pig-faced slasher who hunted by sound and a basement overrun by carnivorous plants, and I can't remember the name so when I've tried to look it up and see if any more had been made I haven't been able to find it again.

Funny this thread came up, because just last night I actually kind of found a bootleg Pokemon GBA game I played in my childhood. I say "kind of" because while the specific bootleg doesn't seem to have a full playthrough on YouTube nor a ROM available online, I did find out the name of the game, some footage of it, what other game it's a romhack of (which is very much available online) and basically just evidence that yes, it exists, and no, it wasn't all just a fever dream.

The game claims to be Pokemon Silver on Gameboy Advance, but in reality, it's a romhack of Little Nemo: The Dream Master... an NES game. The only thing I could clearly remember about this bootleg was the repetitive, grating Level 1 music – and sure enough, that music is present in Little Nemo. Amazing.

How I ultimately found the bootleg and got to know this much about it is pretty simple – in my journey to find what the bootleg was, I occasionally searched YouTube to find videos of people playing through Pokemon bootlegs. I watched a bunch of those, and while I got to learn about some really interesting bootlegs, none of the videos featured the one from my childhood.

Until I watched this video. The Little Nemo intro played, and I realised, hey, I actually kind of remember this – could this be it? The title screen appeared, greeting me with the bombastic chiptune I'd mostly forgotten, and I realised – yes. This is it.

So, yeah. I think that's my first proper experience with searching for a forgotten piece of media from my childhood and feeling great joy and satisfaction when I found it. Which is kind of weird to say considering it's just a crappy little Pokemon romhack, but still.

When I was a kid, we had a bunch of those Scholastic Storybook Treasures on DVD.

There was a particular one about a kangaroo joey that ran away because his mother made him clean his room; I've never actually been able to locate this one until very recently (as in, I found it while typing this post out), but it's stuck behind a paywall. YouTube only gives a minute to watch if you don't buy it.

Edited by StewieGriffin34 on Jan 21st 2023 at 5:01:53 AM

I’ve got a whole bunch of lost media to talk about!

There’s a lot of stuff from the Kids’ CBC program blocks that isn’t available online. Someone who worked on the animations of "Dot" (a former host) posted a compilation, but that only has partial clips from inserts.

The one I would like to see the most is the music video of Dot singing "O Canada". When it aired on TV, I avoided it like the plague due to a weird autism thing that involved me mistaking my own feelings of excitement for fear, and I didn’t want to make myself too afraid to sing the song at school every morning.

So there was a live action short film adaptation of Thirty And A Half Minutes, a one-shot webcomic about the Grim Reaper giving a dying woman some extra time to give birth to her child. I watched it a couple times on YouTube and I remember that it was decently faithful though there were some noticeable changes (such as the woman being dark haired instead of blonde, an Adaptation Expansion that reveals that the woman had an abusive father as a child and I think the Grim Reaper wore a black skull mask in the short).

Then the film disappeared on YT and I couldn't find it. Made a You Know That Show query about it but I don't think it led anywhere. I think it's been a few years since I watched that film.

Edited by Cutegirl920fire on Jan 22nd 2023 at 11:03:34 AM

I remember the first and last shots (which are all I saw) of the aforementioned music video. The first shot has Dot marching in a parade, and the last shot has her in a rowboat that is being rowed by someone else.

There used to be a YouTube Poop called "Elmo Watches TV", and there was also a reversed version of it. It pooped the "Farms" episode of Elmo's World, and included things being Censored for Comedy ("So you see, wee little Elmo, there's lots of hard work in [BLEEP] a farmer."). I never watched the whole thing; I actually watched the beginning of the reversed upload first, but stopped when something said by Oscar was bleeped out (since bleeps were taboo to me at the time). By the way, for some reason, most of the video just showed still pictures of the episode, with the normal/edited audio, instead of a "moving pictures" framerate.

There was also another YTP, of the "Fast and Slow" episode, where Elmo said random words, such as "dinner" and "spaghetti", instead of counting. This caused Dorothy to call him an idiot, after which angry eyebrows, along with a speech (or thought) bubble with text, appeared on Elmo. Near the end, when Elmo told Dorothy to say goodbye, Dorothy said, "I quit!", and there was also an annotation reading, "Elmo sucks". This was followed by something that was bleeped out and, once again, that made me stop watching the video.

There was also a YTP of the Bugs Bunny cartoon Transylvania 6-5000, which my mom clicked on by accident when she wanted to show me the original cartoon. I remember the footage being scrambled, which was followed by a photo of a football player(?) appearing with a "ding" sound.

Edit: Red link.

Edited by MisterToodleoo on Jun 29th 2023 at 10:53:01 AM

x 5: I've played Little Nemo and hacking it into a Pokemon game kinda makes sense - the original game's main mechanic is throwing candy at animals until they "fall asleep" and you can ride on them / become them, with different ones acting as different power-ups, so it's not that big a stretch to alter the graphics and try to trick people into thinking it's an odd pokemon game.

There was this really odd experimental / New Wave Music group called Zeehas; 12 Wait who self-released their album To the Maxxxxxxxxxxxxx in 2002, then broke up - it was only available in physical copies on their website, which doesn't exist anymore. The only reason this isn't fully lost to me is that I feel like if I get in contact with the friend who introduced me to them, he might still have the mp3s stored somewhere. In the meantime though, it used to be the only trace of their actual music online was a promo video that was a montage of live performances cut to edited versions of two songs... but now someone put up a full concert performance.

Edited by MikeK on Jan 23rd 2023 at 2:07:50 AM

I vividly remember this Flash-animated children’s series called Pilar’s Adventures, which starred a horse, an owl, a fly, and a pig and encouraged use of imagination. It had quite a few episodes and games, but all I could find of it is footage of one of those games. It was online instead of on a TV network and shown through the Flash player itself. I’d be grateful to anyone who managed to record it & back it up.

Edited by PurpleEyedGuma on Feb 22nd 2023 at 1:28:05 PM

I remember this You Tube Poop of Transformers: Animated that repeatedly had a gag of a character saying "you must die!" (one example being Bulkhead towards Bumblebee when the latter was leaking oil), then the other character screaming before it cuts to a volcano erupting. Another gag was a scene with Blitzwing and Lugnut but the audio was replaced with audio from Invader Zim. One more gag I remembered had the Transformers: Armada version of Starscream attacking Sari through splicing clips, which ended in another volcano eruption.

There was this one video about how to "find the ultra rare Golden Puffle" for Club Penguin that was obviously fake (this was before the Golden Puffle was really in the game), uses Windows Movie Maker blue screens and all that, but it stands out for two reasons:

1: One of the steps was "kill Elmo"

2: The ending was a semi-Screamer Prank, with the screen cutting to a shot of a mutant person while the text says "AAAAAAHHHHH!" (best recreation I can think of). I didn't get a clear look at the mutant at the time (though given how scared my older brother was because of it, that was probably a good thing), so I mistook it for Sandman from Spider-Man 3. I don't remember if there was a scream or anything to accompany it.

There was this car dealership commercial that me and my brother used to make fun of back around 2013 or so, which had a cheerful voice singing "The deals are hot! Hot hot hot!" I have no idea which dealership it was, and it was probably a local ad.

There was this flash game that I distinctly remember being called "Admil" that Flashpoint does not seem to have at all. It had pixel graphics, a simplistically designed main character that if memory serves me right had a box on his head for a lot of the game, you started in your house and then went into a cave, and the last level was extremely hard with tons of lasers and moving spike-covered creatures. I can distinctly recall how two tracks in the game sounded.

(EDIT: It was actually called "Amil" and it was on Flashpoint)

There was a series called "Minecraft funny moments" that had three installments, made by AtomicLugia. I remember finding a DeviantArt journal from the maker of these videos explaining why they took them down, but even that I had trouble finding last time I attempted to. Some of the skits in the series included:

• The Weapons Factory music from Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars playing as lava slowly approaches the player, only for Heatran to show up at the end
• The player being in space while serene music plays (I don't know what its name was, but I can recall it very well), only to fall to the ground suddenly
• Multiple gags involving fights accompanied by the Mortal Kombat theme (which I heard isn't actually from the games.....) such as one against many slimes and another against an army of zombies that the player loses
• The player falling into a cave full of Creepers that blow up into a live-action explosion. Another gag used a different live-action explosion and Creepers

Edited by KingofNightmares on Jan 27th 2023 at 3:01:58 AM

The now-defunct Adult Swim Australia YouTube channel (the same one that posted a Rickroll made of clips from Rick and Morty) censored the video clips they posted. This caused one commenter to say that the channel was "censoring shit like it's fucking China", to which the channel replied, "I can neither confirm nor deny my sexual relationship with China." Here are some examples:

• Nudity was blurred out (which you can still see in the aforementioned Rickroll), and so were middle fingers.
• Gore was also pixelated. In a clip from "Look Who's Purging Now", someone's eye was censored when Rick jammed a spoon into it, but it could be seen uncensored a few seconds later. (A commenter pointed this out with timestamps of "censored eye" and "uncensored eye".) Also, when Rick and Arthricia kill the rich people, the first kill was pixelated, the part with the line, "Suck my [bleep]! Chew my balls! Suck my huge [bleep]!" was cut out, and some of the killing before they start dancing was also cut.
• They also added extra censor bleeps. For example:
  • They would censor the entirety of the word "motherfucker" by putting a censor bleep over the entire word, including the part that was already censored in the broadcast versions from which the extra-censored versions were edited. For example, in a clip from the aforementioned episode, Rick says, "Look at my [bleep that doesn't cover the music] feet, [bleep that does cover the music]!" Also, during the "Summer & Tinkles Song", the phrase "my motherfucking" was muted out, whereas the broadcast version only mutes the "fucking" part.
  • In the clip of Rick turning himself in, the word "boners" was censored without covering the music, as per the broadcast version, but Adult Swim Australia added a music-covering bleep over the word "testicle".
  • They also censored Jerry's line, "I wish that shotgun was my penis," in an unusual way. There was a bleep sound that started out quiet at the same time as the word "was", and it then got louder until it covered up the very last syllable ("nis") of the sentence.

Edit: “Nor” instead of “or”.

Edited by MisterToodleoo on Jan 25th 2023 at 10:26:10 AM

I have an ultra-rare early song recording by Marilyn Monroe.

The song was featured in The Shape of Water.

Edited by shaynaynaynot on Jan 27th 2023 at 12:14:54 PM

On a literally "personal" note, I made a ton of improvised videos with my digital cameras as a kid, and most of them are now lost. I would watch many of them repeatedly on the digital camera screens, except for my Kodak camera that doesn't play back the sound, and I saved the videos from that camera. Lost videos include:

• Three videos with a stuffed Winnie the Pooh toy. The first two were made in 2007 (I know because in the second one, I cited Underdog and Ratatouille as the latest Disney movies), and the third one was made later, like 2010 or 2011. The first video had Pooh whispering to the camera, "Let me just act like a toy for a minute," before he performs his theme song, and at the beginning of the second video, I started singing the instrumental opening of the song, only to interrupt it and say, "Oh hi, Pooh." Pooh says, "Uuuuhh-huh!" and I reply, "Oh yeah, you're a toy for a minute." The third video had a running gag of me "fast-forwarding" the video whenever Pooh started ranting. What does survive is an analog home movie from 2008 with me quoting a few lines from the first two videos.
• A video where Barney puts on a literal production of Walking with Dinosaurs (I had seen the "Arena Spectacular" in person) where he just walks around while giving the audience the chance to walk with him. All the while, he keeps getting offended at me calling the show "Walking with Dino-snores", and at one point, I messed up my line, causing Barney to say, "You always call me a dino-snore just because I soar!"

Old creations like that are always an interesting (and sad) thing to lose. My younger brother and I recorded several videos involving our Jazwares Minecraft figures and blocks, only for us to lose them forever when our old tablets broke.

There was one day on PBS Kids where Grover appeared in the "up next" bumpers to mark the start of his "Happy Healthy Summer". I watched it that morning, but I wish I would have recorded it.

I think the event that lead to my passion for media archiving was when I no longer had any way to watch The Hippo Tub Co., which I had been watching Saturday mornings on CBC. Basically, I don't want people to go through that.

Disney Create's Fireworks game. Old flash game where you, take a guess, create fireworks displays. Played it weirdly often as a kid but forgot about it for a bit to the point I started believing it didn't exist, mainly due to there being *no documentation of it anywhere. No videos on YT, no page on a wiki. wasn't in Flashpoint's archive collection. Eventually though I found the site on the Wayback Machine. Still unplayable bc, y'know, Flash...

Edited by RandomFanOfStuff on Feb 11th 2023 at 9:14:45 AM

It's vague, but there was a Flash game that looked and played like Uphill Rush (same vehicle order and everything), but with a different artstyle and font. I also think it was British.

Edited by Piterpicher on Feb 11th 2023 at 12:29:17 PM

Could Be Moto Rush noted in the description?

No, I played both series and made pages for them. Moto Rush was totally different compared to that British (?) game.

Edited by Piterpicher on Feb 11th 2023 at 6:19:28 PM

On another personal note, I had a bunch of logo dreams typed down on my profile page on the Dream Logos Wiki. Even though I got a guy to make me an author on that website, I never got around to posting my dreams on the now-archived "Logos From a Dream" page. (However, I did restore the end of someone else's Steven Universe dream after it was accidentally deleted!) Someday, I will type most of those dreams down in the "Weird Dreams" thread. (I just re-publicized my DVCC story, which was originally on my profile page of the CLG Wiki, in the "Weird Stuff You Did as a Child" thread.)

Edited by MisterToodleoo on Feb 11th 2023 at 6:10:03 AM

I remember an old "Teen Titans Censored" parody on Youtube back in the late 2000s...you know, the ones with the bleep at different points to make it seem like they're saying something dirty. It was fantastic. Some highlights I remember:

• Slade (to Terra): "I've been watching you for some time now."

• Raven: "Well...sh e looks comfortable."

It was around 2019 that I was watching this Bitstrips-made creepypasta fan series on Youtube called "The Creepy Crew", but then when I remembered and looked it up again to trope it, everything had been deleted. There are very few traces still though. I have way more details about this in this "Post your Random Thoughts" thread post.

I have multiple of those, I swear.

One was an Italian thing so it's going to be hard to find: it's a promotional video for a stage show based on Gormiti held in 2008 in Gardaland (one of the main Italian theme parks), which had the notable thing of being the only source where you could hear the very catchy theme song of the show in its entirety (the only videos of the show around have only the chorus reprise at the end).

Then there are a lot of toy commercials that I haven't found trace online (again in Italian), but then there's one thing.

When I was in middle school a friend of mine told me about a weird short he found once, I think it was online (Newgrounds?) but I'm not sure. The short was titled Pokémon Trip and according to him was crudely drawn and was a Pokémon thing In Name Only. The plot had two critters that vaguely resemble Pikachu wandering through a forest where they meet a fat elf chugging on soda, talking trees and a dragon that could resemble Charizard if you squint your eyes enough but had a face more like your stereotypical Chinese dragon. I always wanted to watch it with my eyes but it's impossible to find it anywhere.

I think it was on a TV in a mall when I once noticed the uncut trailer for Open Season. This version features onscreen text reading "THIS FALL" appearing twice, once in between the iris out and iris in, and again before the final shot of Boog. And I'm sure the announcer read the phrase out loud the first time it appeared. I haven't been able to find it since.

There are many episodes of The Bittles that are currently unavailable for viewing. One day, while eating lunch at my grandparents' house, I saw the beginning of an episode that I never saw again. I stopped watching it after the first few minutes because not only was the featured book described as "scary", but it also looked and sounded like something I had once seen on TV that unsettled me like my weird toddlerhood fears. Was it the same show or was it based on the same book?

UPDATE: I found the full Open Season trailer in this compilation. It says, "NEXT FALL" and "FALL 2006".

Edited by MisterToodleoo on Mar 24th 2023 at 9:00:49 AM