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Ancient Web: The RCT Technical Depot Reverse-Engineered RollerCoaster Tycoon One File at a Time

The RCT Technical Information Depot preserves fan reverse-engineering of RollerCoaster Tycoon file formats, checksums, encoding, object data, save files, track designs, and utilities assembled outside the game's official documentation.

Ancient Web: The QBasic Games Directory Came Back From the Dead

The QBasic Games Directory survived the disappearance of its original home and returned at Phat Code, preserving a large database from the scene where hobby programmers made complete PC games in Microsoft's beginner language.

Ancient Web: DAN-BALL Kept Browser Games Alive for Twenty Years

DAN-BALL started in April 2006 and still maintains a strange, durable catalog of original browser games, simulations, physics toys, comments, counters, and mobile ports.

Ancient Web: DNEP Kept Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project Mapping Alive

The Duke Nukem Editing Project preserved tutorials, maps, and hard-won PrismEd knowledge for a game whose editing scene could easily have vanished with old forums and fan sites.