Do “extinct” video games exist? As in games that have absolutely no possible way of ever being played anymore?

darkspore

anything that has ever had a physical cart release has been (or will be, in the case of more recent systems) emulated.

I'm sure there are plenty of early DOS/Windows era games with limited releases that nobody thought to preserve. And there are still undumped games for more obscure systems.

maybe in a "you don't know what you don't know" context in which literally nobody knows of or remembers a particular piece of shovelware, but any game that anyone has heard of or remembers is definitely still around in some way.

Probably tons of Flash based games that were taken down from websites over the years. I know you can't play the original gToons card game and a few other games that were on Cartoon Network's original Cartoon Orbit page anymore as they required server connections.

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The only one I can think of is Polybius

It has to exist in the first place to be extinct

You can find it on the dark web I wouldn't recommend it though.

I wonder if that Super Mario Bros. 3 prototype id software made way back in the day still exists. I like to think Carmack or Romero have a copy somewhere.