An act of altruism from the industry
After we recovered the data, our friends at Incredible Technologies, where Xcavator was originally created, were kind enough to donate all of the game's copyrights to us. Developer Mega Cat Studios stepped up to donate their time finishing and polishing up Oberth's work, and Lost in Cult stepped up to donate the brand new key art on the game's packaging. Finally, iam8bit agreed to publish and market the game on our behalf, eschewing all profits and sending them straight to us!
This really is a first-of-its-kind: a lost game that was donated back to the archivists who recovered it, and a multi-company effort to publish it as what just might be the first commercial game to fund a preservation charity.
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The Video Game History Foundation is almost entirely funded by individual donors just like you. We're a relatively small organization, so when we say "every dollar counts," we really do mean it. Thank you so so much for your generosity, and for your belief that video game history matters.
