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The Search for Walt’s Warning

When you think of AMC’s hit show Breaking Bad, “video game” is not the first thing that comes to mind. In order to promote the show’s second season, a game was planned and released for the Adobe Flash Player in 2009. Called “Walt’s Warning,” shots were recorded in the studio and taken in the perspective of a player. The shots would then be edited to correspond with player actions. The game was short, consisting of a few scenarios with the character Walter White (Bryan Cranston) encountering the player in the desert. After knocking the player out, White would take the player into an RV. The player would wake up and be able to move the screen around as White talked to them. Depending on how long the player looked in a certain direction–at a gun or chemicals, each on either side of the RV–White would attack the player with the items the player looked at. Bryan Cranston apparently recorded thousands of lines for specific names, like Michael or Jason.

Around 2020, Adobe had made the decision to discontinue Flash. In the rush to preserve the countless Flash games made over the years, many were not able to be preserved properly–if at all. Good efforts were made by preservationists, but there were drastically more Flash games made than people that were able to preserve them.

So because we know so much about the game, does that mean it was found? The answer is, well, partially. According to the Lost Media Wiki, footage of the game has been found and an Adobe Flash file of the game was found–but that file contained only a part of the game. The file containing the full game has yet to be found.

The search for “Walt’s Warning” continues. If you would like to see the behind the scenes of the game’s production, click here! If you would like to see an overview of the game with footage included, click to see YouTuber Strance’s video on it here. For more information about the search, please check out the Lost Media Wiki’s page about the game here.

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The Lost Kingdom Hearts Pilot Has Been Found!

Disney animator Seth Kearsley revealed to the world he would digitize the previously-unseen Kingdom Hearts pilot animatic on September 27th of this year. It came to a shock of many in the community, as the pilot had been known to be in Kearsley’s possession since 2014 but had not been digitized before due to fear of Disney retaliating. According to Kearsley, he decided to digitize the pilot after surviving a terrible car accident--because the world had to see what he had created. Kearsley’s reveal tweet went viral, word spreading around the Kingdom Hearts community that they would finally be able to see the lost pilot from the pilot’s director himself. Unfortunately the pilot couldn’t be shown at the time, since the only copy was on a VHS and Kearsley needed time to digitize it. On October 11th, the digitized pilot was uploaded to Kearsley’s YouTube account. Thousands of fans flocked to see the upload, which at its peak reached over 300 thousand views. The hype didn’t last long, as a few days later on October 14th Kearsley was asked by “an old friend at Disney” to take down the pilot.

Thankfully many viewers of the pilot have found ways to save the original upload and preserve this important piece of gaming history. The Kingdom Hearts pilot was an attempt by Disney to turn the then extremely-popular standalone videogame into an animated series. The reason the series never got made was due to SquareSoft (the developers for Kingdom Hearts) deciding to make sequels for the videogame. The franchise then took off in a direction that Disney decided was not compatible with an animated series. At the time, Kingdom Hearts was thought to be a one-and-done game. No one could have expected the franchise would grow into a 14 game behemoth with a story rivaling that of its famously-convoluted sister series FInal Fantasy.

A reupload of the pilot is up on YouTube at the time of writing this. Go check it out for yourself for a goofy and delightful piece of videogame history!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1r62c6it7Qc

Also check out this video by RebelTaxi on YouTube. He did an interview with Seth Kearsley himself about the Kingdom Hearts pilot, which you can see 16 minutes in.

https://youtu.be/cLE9FBQFgbQ?t=960