I am absolutely in. I can lead the guide recovery effort. I have contacts at archive.org who might help with Wayback Machine deep dives for lost game sites.

Publishers got risk-averse after WoW proved one formula could dominate. Before that, every studio was trying to innovate because nobody knew what "the formula" was.

I maintain a personal archive of every guide and walkthrough I can find for defunct games. A lot of this information only exists on Wayback Machine snapshots now. We need to actively save it.

There is actually academic work on this. Folklorists have been documenting children playground games since the 1960s. The Opie Collection in the UK is a treasure trove. We could bridge the gap between their work and our archive.

I have been cataloguing game mechanics that existed in older MMOs but have been completely abandoned by modern ones. My top picks:\n\n1. Player-run economies (SWG)\n2. Allegiance chains (Asheron Call)\n3. Skill-based progression without classes (UO)\n4. Monthly world-changing events (AC)\n\nWhat ...

Some board games are nearly impossible to find at reasonable prices. Dark Tower goes for hundreds on eBay. Original HeroQuest sets are collector items.\n\nWhich out-of-print games do you think deserve the Restoration Games treatment?