Piranha Software

Not to be confused with Piranha Games or Piranha Bytes.
Piranha
IndustryVideo games
Founded1986 in London, United Kingdom
Defunct1988; 36 years ago (1988)
FateClosed by parent company
ProductsThe Trap Door
The Colour of Magic
ParentMacmillan Publishers

Piranha Software was a short-lived video game publishing label created by Macmillan Publishers in 1986 and closed eighteen months later. In that time it gained a reputation for its unusual output[1] from well known developers such as Don Priestley, Design Design[2] and Delta 4.[3] The majority of their games featured licensed properties[4][5] including the first video game based on the Discworld novels[6] and two games based on the animated television series The Trap Door.

  1. ^ "Software Hotlines". Popular Computing Weekly. No. 31. Sunshine Publications. 7 August 1987. p. 10. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  2. ^ "News". Computer and Video Games. No. 57. EMAP. July 1986. p. 8. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  3. ^ "Colour of Magic". Computer and Video Games. No. 60. EMAP. October 1986. p. 88. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  4. ^ "Piranha to put the bite on software industry". Popular Computing Weekly. Vol. 5, no. 30. Sunshine Publications. 24 July 1986. p. 5. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
  5. ^ "News: Piranha". Computer Gamer. No. 18. Argus Press. September 1986. p. 9. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  6. ^ Whitta, Gary (December 1993). "Terry Pratchett: Going by the Book" (PDF). PC Gamer. No. 1. Future Publishing. pp. 54–61. Retrieved 16 July 2021.