Magical life, gamers suddenly discovered their lost game for 25 years on Twitch

Not only professional developers, many people just need to be a little tech-savvy and have a passion for game design to be able to write their own simple games, even if they are just kids. young. Rick Brewster is a programmer, quite famous for Paint.NET software – a free alternative to Microsoft Paint with more extended features. In 1994, at the age of 12, Brewster made his own The Golden Flute IV: The Flute of Immortality, a DOS-based role-playing game inspired by a 1984 guide to writing adventure titles. At that time, he wrote The Golden Flute IV: The Flute of Immortality on the Tandy 1000 TL/2, an IBM clone computer.
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Like many other traditional role-playing games, players will choose a character class, explore the world map, and collect items. In the game, the final boss can appear at any time, if it is defeated, the game is over. Nothing special, this is a typical simple product of a child learning game programming. Brewster made only one copy and sent it to one of his cousins ​​to play it. However, something went wrong, that copy was later lost and could not be found again.

And the miracle happened, 25 years later, Brewster suddenly discovered his game was streamer whose name is Macaw live stream above Twitch. Macaw is known to be an expert at finding old games, and he somehow played The Golden Flute IV on December 23 for a brief period before moving on to other titles. “The game balance is not good. This is just a silly game that some idiot made,” Macaw commented when playing the game.
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It’s not clear how but according to Brewster, it’s possible his brother uploaded the game to BBS without remembering because it was found in the archives of Frostbyte, a collection of old uploaded games. Internet Archive. When asked if Brewster plans to release The Golden Flute II and III online, he said:

“Yeah, why not. But I’ve tried looking for them and can’t find them, maybe the game discs are at my parents’ house or here and there, I’ll ask them later. Hopefully the entire game series will be fully available online.”​