
Just on the '3rd game' mentioned - Oh dear, I do hope Martin was wrong about Daemonsgate being the third planned Panther game.
An ambitious RPG, Imagitec Design hyped up to the Sega and Atari press, Lynx and Game Gear versions announced, screens shown etc.
An Amiga version also announced.
This was supposed to be Imagitec Design taking on Ultima at it's own game.
Only the PC version arrived and it was blighted by a poor interface,ludicrous inventory system and a combat system worse than the ancient AD+D title, Pool Of Radiance.
What should of been a promising RPG saw the player enduring tedious treks through towns which took an age and saw you engaging in the same conversations with the same NPC's again and again.
Throw in large maps which featured repeated environment features and your not looking at a title the Panther would of needed to take on Zelda and Phantasy Star on it's rival consoles.
Martin seems happy to reel off a list of formats games were apparently started for but has a tendency to gloss over the reasons they never appeared.
In the case of Daemonsgate, negative press and consumer reaction to the PC version would of most likely killed of other versions.
As it stands,unless Martin can find proof it was in development for Panther,it's sadly pure speculation.

I really must go back and re-read the Imagitec article. Martin Hooley's personal feelings towards Leonard Tramiel had already been expressed in the earlier RG feature on Imagitec Design. I assume he REALLY wan't to get his dislike for the man 'out there'!
Going back to my original post, did you play each version prior to describing how good they were and what was missing/included/added? I'm still baffled by the SNES not being slated, the PC version being better than the Jag version, the PC-Engine HU-Card/CDrom major differences... and the Jag version being sluggish with some horrible slowdown in 2 player mode.
You should do a 'from the forum' question thing for your articles. There would be some great questions to put to the likes of Shaun Mcclure & Martin Hooley.
Unfortunately the only system I can currently play this awesome game on is a MAME cab (or emulation on my PC)
