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Hasbro Wants Old Transformers Games To Return, But Activision Lost Them (kotaku.com)
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“Sadly, apparently Activision’s not sure what hard drives they’re on in their building,” Hasbro told TFW2005. “When a company eats a company that eats a company things get lost, and that’s very frustrating.”

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[–] pastel_de_airfryer@lemmy.eco.br 8 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately, that's a common thing in the gaming industry. Another example are the PS1 Final Fantasy games, they are stuck with those low res backgrounds and FMVs because Square Enix lost the original assets.