/vr/ - Retro Games

A really good candidate for "lost" games that meet the elusive dual criteria of being well known but also extremely rare to the possible point of not even existing are Microzines.

If you went to elementary school in the 80s, you probably played some of these games. They came like a magazine every month that was very expensive and that only educators could subscribe to. The games were heavily pirated but because of the classic teacher mentality they generally didn't make it into the hands of the type of people who would have archived them and later released them on the Internet.

I was particularly fixated in "History Mystery" but I managed to find an image of that particular Microzine and play it. The collection was extremely spotty though and there were probably a hundred or more volumes, each with three or more semi-educational Apple ][ games.