Al Gore's Video Game, Reality Drop [partially lost]
I apologize if this isn't lost media, and if it goes against the no politics rule (it's not really discussing the political aspect of Al Gore, and moreso talking about his climate change stuff, so I think it's fine).
In March 2013, The Climate Reality Project, which was founded by Al Gore, launched a pseudo video game meant to encourage people to spread facts about climate change and disprove widely accepted myth regarding it. The game seeming worked by featuring a page full of summaries of articles that either went against or were in favor of climate change, and users would earn points by copying factual information and posting it on social media.
The original version of the site is archived on the Wayback machine, however only one of the tabs, the Climate Myths tab, works. The other two tabs, On Our Radar and Community Activity, which seem to have contained the majority of the game, are not archived on the Wayback machine from what I can tell. https://web.archive.org/web/20120830054812/http://realitydrop.org/myths
A Youtube video posted by Climate Reality that summarizes the game contains footage of the missing tabs, and it shows that the On Our Radar tab was where the previously mentioned summaries of climate change articles were hosted, and the Community Activity tab was a leaderboard of users who were able to get the most points. https://youtu.be/-6aJzArmYQc?si=5gHrRKWzf6lEu0QS
The site still appears to be up, as there are archives of it from only last year, however the game portion of the site has been completely removed, it is only a list of myths. The article summaries are seemingly entirely gone. I tried visiting the site today and Google blocks me from viewing it due to security concerns. It might just be because the site is older and isn't up to date, but I didn't want to risk anything. The link is right here, for anyone curious https://realitydrop.org/
An Article about the game from Sustainable Brands that was made when it originally launched states that "Reality Drop curates hundreds of online news articles daily that demand a response." if the hundreds of articles daily part is accurate then that means that there are hundreds, potentially thousands, of article summaries that are gone, not to mention the leaderboard. https://sustainablebrands.com/read/al-gore-s-climate-reality-project-launches-interactive-tool-for-rebutting-climate-change-deniers
Posted Apr 5, 2026, 3:13 PM UTC