Lost self-deleting Pokémon DS game resurfaces after 20 years, only to be sealed in a PSA slab
aakashgupta · x · 2026-11-15
In 2005, Pokémon ran a pop-up theme park in Nagoya, Japan, drawing over 4 million visitors. DS owners could receive PokéPark Fishing Rally via Download Play from kiosks — the game loaded entirely into the DS's 4MB of RAM, vanishing on power-off and wiping itself after 12 hours anyway.
Once the park closed, the game was considered lost for two decades. Now a playable copy has resurfaced — only for the collector to have it graded and permanently sealed in a PSA slab, sparking fan outrage and calls to crack it open and dump the ROM so everyone can play.
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