I really appreciate the work this subculture does. I was a big fan of Soul Reaver back in the late 90s, and it was famous for having about 1/5th of the game rem

I really appreciate the work this subculture does. I was a big fan of Soul Reaver back in the late 90s, and it was famous for having about 1/5th of the game removed before release. Twenty years later, I finally got to see what it would have looked like, just because someone stashed a few prototypes away. I'm sure there are plenty of other examples, especially of unfinished games that were never released, like Sierra's Babylon 5 space combat sim, Dead Phoenix on the GameCube, etc. There's a section in the bonus material for the Blade Runner final cut where someone mentions that the only reason they have the unused footage is that someone intentionally ignored instructions to destroy a palette of film back in the 80s. The film world finally caught on about archiving that material. Hopefully the game industry will sooner or later as well.