How lucky are you feeling today? In this episode, Madpro and Calm Evening talk about video game preservation and the ‘Gacha Game’ genre.

Originally recorded Christmas Eve, 2025.

Data Horde Linktree: https://linktr.ee/datahorde

Data Horde Podcast: https://shows.acast.com/data-log

calm evenings’s channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbfipY14xS7gGw9acsCn1RQ

and gacha preservation Discord Server: https://discord.gg/67Pu738vVE  

* Gacha Archive: https://archive.org/details/gacha-archive

* Calm Evening’s Android Apps Guide: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Android_Applications/https

* More About AlexaRank and how Way Back Machine Crawls: https://datahorde.org/pulling-rank-the-legacy-of-alexa-internet/

* Kahvibreak website https://bluemaxima.org/kahvibreak/ and Discord https://discord.gg/aGK8NuBG3e

* KeitaiWiki website https://keitaiwiki.miraheze.org/wiki/ and Discord https://discord.gg/tWUYbF3N9F 

* iPhoneOS Obscura: https://discord.gg/rTJ9zxjMu3

* Rent A Girlfriend Gacha: https://archive.org/details/jp.enish.kanopazu

* Lost Media Wiki https://lostmediawiki.com/Home

* The Mission to Save「Domino’s App feat. Hatsune Miku」by Nick Robinson https://youtu.be/341IsnWdaT4 

Credits: Gashapon machines (Hong Kong) by Mk2010 on Wikimedia: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gashapon_machines_%28Hong_Kong%29.jpg

• Jason Citron quote is from New York Times
• Discord CDN filehosting changes rumor and announcement
• EA/FIFA game delistings
• Nintendo 3DS/Wii U online service shutdown
• Typepad
• Goodboy Galaxy Interview
• Discord-Matrix Bridge: Out-of-your-element

BG: Jungle Waterfalls by Mark Ferrari.

Music: Meadow Breeze written by TECHNOTRAIN on Dova Syndome.

• Podcast: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/data-log
• Old Phone Preservation: https://twitter.com/OldPhonePreserv
• More info on i-Mode: https://www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/2020/04/complete-guide-to-i-mode-games/
• Emoji and the Unicode Consortium: https://home.unicode.org/emoji/about-emoji/
• Snake on 7-Segment Displays, DIY project for the insane engineers among you: https://hackaday.io/project/166556-snake-on-7-segment-displays
• 7-segment by Vishnu Mohanan on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/photos/9mSe-QS5JrA
• 3G by SoQ錫濛譙 on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/qiaomeng/5059237997
• Broadcasting tower in Trondheim, Norway by on Wikimedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_broadcasting#/media/File:Tyholt_taarnet.jpg

• David Helgason Interview: https://www.pocketgamer.biz/interview/58959/not-everyone-needs-to-be-king-or-supercell-unitys-david-helgason-on-unity-5-everyplay-and-unreal-engine/
• Unity Pricing Changes Blogpost: https://blog.unity.com/news/plan-pricing-and-packaging-updates
• Cult of the Lamb Steam Page Announcement: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1313140/view/7249162346641740420
• The Chaos at Unity by Alex Heath: https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/15/23875408/command-line-the-chaos-at-unity
• BlueMaxima’s Flashpoint (Home to some Web Unity Games): https://flashpointarchive.org/
• Fundraiser for Donkey Kong Programmers Story: https://hitsave.org/fundraiser-translation-of-donkey-kong-programmers-story/

• Ruffle: https://ruffle.rs/
• Public Domain Day 2023 Film Contest: https://blog.archive.org/2023/01/21/public-domain-day-film-contest-highlights-works-of-1927/
• Internet Archive: https://archive.org/
• Internet Archive Twitter: https://twitter.com/internetarchive
• Internet Archive Mastodon: https://mastodon.archive.org/users/internetarchive
• Jason Scott: https://twitter.com/textfiles
• Center for MI Jewish Heritage: https://www.tiktok.com/@mijewishheritage