{"id":49901,"date":"2019-12-30T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T02:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=49901"},"modified":"2019-12-30T18:15:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T02:15:03","slug":"game-thought-lost-for-25-years-randomly-streamed-on-twitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2019\/12\/30\/game-thought-lost-for-25-years-randomly-streamed-on-twitch\/","title":{"rendered":"Game thought lost for 25 years randomly streamed on Twitch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Rick Brewster is probably best known for creating Paint.NET, the popular free alternative to Microsoft Paint, but in 1994 he was a 12-year-old kid taking his first steps into coding. Like many budding programmers of the era, Brewster learned his trade by dabbling in videogame creation via instructions in a book<\/a>. One such creation was The Golden Flute IV: The Flute of Immortality. Thinking it good enough for a relative to enjoy, young master Brewster put his DOS adventure game on a disc and mailed it off to a cousin, never to be seen again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imagine Rick Brewster’s surprise when Macaw, a retro streamer, fired up The Golden Flute IV<\/a> just before Christmas. Here was Brewster’s long-lost game, a game he only ever sent to one person, being played live on Twitch! All its primitive preteen glorious CGA graphics and simple audio back from the past like a “lost, drunken cat” finding its way home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How did this happen? According to Brewster’s Twitter thread<\/a>, his cousin cannot remember the details, but he was likely trying to do his cuz a solid and submitted the game to to a BBS where it was later collected by a publisher in the 1994 Cream of the Crop 5 compilation disc. From there, it wound up on FidoNet, and into the Internet Archive, where you can play it too<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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