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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/tilderain on 2024-11-08 00:40:20+00:00.


Cave Story is arguably the father of modern indie games, yet despite being so influential, has much of its history lost to time.

In November 2004, the creator Pixel released over a dozen versions for public testing before the official launch, and only a tiny amount of people would have even played them. These have been lost for nearly two decades… until now.

As of yet, we have found 3 kind and charming individuals on Twitter who have somehow kept their hard drives from back then in working order, and very thankfully, were willing to give us their old versions and other related tools from that time. We appreciated it a lot and picked through the builds with joy, but there are many versions of the game still lost.

As hard drives fail over time, I’d like to get the word out before then to try to preserve the history of such a classic game, and it’d be a nice 20th anniversary gift for us starved Cave Story nerds to look through.

If you know any leads or could connect us to people who know more, please let us know. Thanks 😃

Feel free to join our discord server if interested:

TCRF page with some of the differences between versions:

Threads with more backstory: