Cyberchase The Quest: Mission Motherboard and Race for Radopolis (Adobe Flash)

Cyberchase The Quest: Mission Motherboard and Race for Radopolis
Publisher: PBS Kids Platform: Adobe Flash Released internationally: 2004 This game has unused graphics.

Cyberchase The Quest: Mission Motherboard and Race for Radopolis are the first two releases in a series of web games based on the Cyberchase TV series. Unlike the third and fourth installments, these two share all of the same files, with the difference being the storylines and specific quests the player must complete. Both games were later remade in HTML5 with numerous changes (such as cutting several areas and characters), so unused content from the Flash version did not carry over to the HTML5 re-release.

Unused Character File

Each NPC that the player can interact with has a unique .SWF file with graphics, code, and dialogue text. One such character file is for Ivanka, the ghost of a cyberpirate who appeared in the TV show. Although she is mentioned in the game's encyclopedia feature, the Skwakopedia, she is never actually encountered in-game. Her file is located in the directory for character assets for the Castleblanca location.

Unlike the other NPCs, her file contains hardly any code and no dialogue. Curiously, her Skwakopedia entry mentions her having a famous treasure, and there is a treasure chest in Castleblanca that the player can open, though it only contains a bunch of bats that fly out and serves no practical purpose. It's possible that Ivanka would've originally been linked to that chest somehow, though there aren't any other indicators of this.