# 30 years later, a lost Days of Thunder NES game recovered from 21 floppy disks

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**Created:** [June 1, 2020, 6:57pm UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/30-years-later-a-lost-days-of-thunder-nes-game-recovered-from-21-floppy-disks/1980 "2020-06-01T18:57:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![raskulous](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/www.retrogameboards.com/raskulous/32/11773_2.png) [@raskulous](https://www.retrogameboards.com/u/raskulous)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2020, 6:57pm UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/30-years-later-a-lost-days-of-thunder-nes-game-recovered-from-21-floppy-disks/1980/1 "2020-06-01T18:57:38Z")

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> **[30 years later, a lost Days of Thunder NES game recovered from 21 floppy disks](https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/06/30-years-later-a-lost-days-of-thunder-nes-game-recovered-from-21-floppy-disks/)**
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> “Every floppy matters”: Archivists needed every single byte to build working ROM.

I thought you guys would find this interesting!

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**Author:** ![dubc](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/www.retrogameboards.com/dubc/32/758_2.png) [@dubc](https://www.retrogameboards.com/u/dubc)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2020, 9:18pm UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/30-years-later-a-lost-days-of-thunder-nes-game-recovered-from-21-floppy-disks/1980/2 "2020-06-01T21:18:09Z")

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I saw this making the rounds on Twitter recently. Very cool! I didn’t know it was a Days of Thunder game, lol. I have (used to have?) the DoT game that did release.