One of the rarest video games ever saved online
Blog Andrew Joseph 30 May , 2025 0
As the video game industry moves from a physical media to a digital future, game preservation is an increasingly relevant topic. Saving the history of the medium is important, and a game historian has just successfully preserved one of the rarest video games of all time.
Video game scholar Bruno de Figueiredo has announced (by Time extension) He has released the ISO of Kyoto Cosmology sequel Tripitaka online. The original title was released in Japan by Softedge in 1993, and the nonlinear adventure game was released in North America the following year and gained a small following. The sequel is so obscure that only one physical copy is known to exist.
After a long search, unsure that it even existed, I finally found the elusive sequel of Kyoto legendary cosmology, CD-ROM Tripitaka. This is your ISO for your simulation fun.https://t.co/vptrjuo0bo
-Bruno de figueiredo (@dieubussy) May 22, 2025
Tripitaka's physical CD-ROM is for sale in 2023 via Yahoo Japan for less than $300. After nearly two years, Figueiredo successfully convinced the owner that he could share the game's descendants online.
Last year, Xbox put together A team dedicated to game preservationSony established Its own game protection team Two years ago. Nintendo's view on game saving is dim, and Upcoming Switch 2 Game Key Card This has led some to question how to save the attached game for future generations. The U.S. Copyright Office also cracks down on game protection campaigns Refusal to allow libraries to share their game collection online.