r/forgottenwebsites

I get it it’s a shot in the dark and I’ve been at this for years at this point. I’ve been trying to recover my lost story on tumblr that was deleted on error in Jan of 2018. I tried the wayback machine, Gmail, ChatGPT and Google. I’m not sure if anyone has a way to restore the links or anything else to suggest that I do. I’ve reached out to tumblr which was no help, the way back machine support team, and Google as I was able to get some of the story back but not all.

please if you’re able to help respond to this immediately if you’re able to help!!!

Hi, so I was looking for some Halloween lost media cases and stumbled upon a game from 2006 called Go-Gurt Monster Tracker. Now I say it’s partially lost because the game is backed up on Ruffle (the archival for flash games) but it was a sever game meaning it’s unplayable in its current state. You can only get so far as picking your username before it locks you out. Here’s the websites I found where it’s backed up (https://web.archive.org/web/20061031130451/http://www.gogurtmonstertracker.com/# https://www.flashgamesplayer.com/free/gogurt-monster-tracker/play.html)

Now what I find interesting is how there’s no gameplay footage. I found one photo from this write up of a Halloween blog from the time (https://www.i-mockery.com/blabber/2006/09/27/halloween-themed-snack-surprizes-going-online/)

I’m no expert but I believe these server games are basically impossible to recover since they ran from a server deleted long ago. What I want to search for is footage of the game so we can at least see how it played. According to the internet archive it had active screenshots from at least 2008 meaning it ran for at least 3 years and possibly more. I know recordings of flash games from that time were pretty big on YouTube so I’m sure we can find something if we use the right search terms.