TalonBrave.info is a group for people who really enjoy collecting early game content and have an interest in how the games we know and love today have changed to get to where they are today.
Here's something different.
"Oblivion was originally designed as a secret level area for one of Ion Storm's debut computer games, Anachronox. Unfortunately, developing Anachronox took about four years. Oblivion was left on the cutting room floor and forgotten. Fade to black...
On December 5, 2003, I happened to find both the Worldcraft .rmf file and the Quake .map file for Oblivion, as well as screenshots of the level (seen above), on a couple of dusty old floppy disks. The original Oblivion .map file is dated July 16, 1997, 11:33pm. It's very likely that I was up late working at Ion the last time I saved it.
Btw, Ion Storm in Dallas, TX, closed its doors forever in 2001."