Lazarus Archive · LZ-35073

Lost Heist

Nimbus Software, 1981. Game for arcade cabinets.

Description

An arcade card game by Nimbus Software, 1981, read from the board’s ROMs.

Provenance

Sent to Lazarus by post, with a note asking whether anything could be saved. The save battery had died, but the program ROM was intact. Rebuilt from 2 damaged copies, none of them complete on its own.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
06480c26d05ed6e63e5e89b3b300678a3cb701831ddbaae9bae1e71fd5dab778
Last verified
Sep 14, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-ARCADE-6 · lz-arcade core
Copies
Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
Original carriers
Kept in cold storage in Vancouver

Access

Free, in reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.

In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-ARCADE-6, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on arcade cabinets.

Cite as: Nimbus Software, Lost Heist (1981). Lazarus Archive, LZ-35073.

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