40 Winks (video game)

40 Winks
European PlayStation cover art
Developer(s)Eurocom Entertainment Software
Publisher(s)GT Interactive
Piko Interactive (Nintendo 64, Windows)
Producer(s)Mat Sneap
Designer(s)Richard Halliwell
Rob Craven
Writer(s)Martin Pond
Composer(s)Steve Duckworth
Platform(s)PlayStation
Nintendo 64
ReleasePlayStation
  • EU: November 1999
  • NA: 14 November 1999
Nintendo 64
  • WW: 15 April 2019
Genre(s)Platform game
Mode(s)Single-player

40 Winks is a platform video game developed by Eurocom Entertainment Software and published by GT Interactive for the PlayStation. A version was developed for the Nintendo 64, and reviewed in both Nintendo Official Magazine UK and Nintendo Power[1] (whose January 2000 issue featured a strategy guide for the game[2]), but was cancelled before release.[3]

On 12 February 2018, Piko Interactive launched a Kickstarter campaign confirming that the unreleased Nintendo 64 version would be released, and also a Microsoft Windows version through Steam. It was funded on the same day.[4] The PlayStation version was released on Steam on 22 October 2018. A cancelled Game Boy Color port was discovered in 2021.[5]

  1. ^ "40 Winks". Nintendo Power. Vol. 128. Nintendo of America. January 2000. p. 142. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  2. ^ "40 Winks Strategy Guide". Nintendo Power. Vol. 128. Nintendo of America. January 2000. pp. 26–32.
  3. ^ IGN staff (16 December 1999). "40 Winks Future Uncertain". IGN. Ziff Davis. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
  4. ^ "40 Winks - A New Nintendo 64 Game". Kickstarter. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
  5. ^ Yarwood, Jack (8 May 2023). "New Video Takes A Look At A "Lost" Port Of 40 Winks For The Game Boy Color". Time Extension. Hookshot Media. Retrieved 8 May 2023.