Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors

date : 2005

type : unreleased new game
Style : mini-games
(from wikipedia) Similar to the video Penn & Teller's Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends (1987), the game was to be centered around mini-games where the player could cheat and deceive their friends. The game was in development for the Genesis and the Sega CD, with the Sega CD version far enough along in its development to have review copies to be distributed to multiple magazines. However, its release was cancelled when publisher Absolute Entertainment abruptly went bankrupt and the developers were unable to find another publisher willing to publish the game for the Sega CD due to its poor market status by 1995. One of the review copies leaked onto the internet in 2005 and the game found a cult following for its off-beat gameplay ideas.