Lazarus Archive · LZ-40501

The Brave Descent

Willowvale Springs Software, 1979. Game for arcade cabinets.

Description

An arcade racing game by Willowvale Springs Software, 1979, read from the board’s ROMs.

Provenance

Found during a house clearance in Ashport Falls and passed to Lazarus. Contacts were cleaned before reading. Most of the work survives, but some files are lost. The damage map lists them.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
bd0899ddf09be0a610154b5aec541ec581271a0e9e4e20833e0122a0503a6f5f
Last verified
Oct 24, 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 the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms. The license does not permit copies to be taken away.

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: Willowvale Springs Software, The Brave Descent (1979). Lazarus Archive, LZ-40501.

Also by Willowvale Springs Software

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