Perfect Entertainment was an independent British computer game developer. It began in 1991 as Teeny Weeny Games headed by Angela Sutherland but changed names when merging exclusively with Gregg Barnett's Perfect 10 Productions, a company previously known as Beam Software (UK).

History

Perfect Entertainment is best known for its popular

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'', '' Discworld II: Missing Presumed...!?'' and ''

Discworld Noir ''Discworld Noir'' is a 1999 adventure game developed by Perfect Entertainment and published by GT Interactive. The game is set in Terry Pratchett's satirical ''Discworld'' universe, and follows its first and only private investigator as he is ...

'', which are based on the

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novel series ''

''. Teeny Weeny Games was the initial funding source of Perfect Entertainment's speculative product demo of ''Discworld''. Perfect Entertainment produced the majority of

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games ported to the

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, since

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, owner of Psygnosis, wasn't willing to fund games for a rival console. In 1995, they acquired Tantalus Entertainment some time after its founding. Perfect Entertainment's

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offices were destroyed in the 1996 IRA bombing. They were developing ''Discworld II'' and Saturn port of '' FIFA 97'' at the time. Most of the assets, staff and risks of Perfect Entertainment were absorbed into what became Teeny Weeny Games' second incarnation in 1999 on the completion of the ''Discworld Noir''. Partly due to a costly and protracted legal dispute with Psygnosis over unpaid royalties and fees which were eventually settled out of court and partly due to arguments at board level, it was decided to scale the company down to allow unhappy stakeholders to leave. Tantalus Entertainment (now Tantalus Media) in Melbourne, Australia was sold back to its original directors. In early 2000, Teeny Weeny Games was contracted by 20th Century Fox to supply "The World's Scariest Car Chases" on a $3,600,000 contract, a game already under development for over a year. The producer of this project and various other staff bought a majority shareholding and took over the company. Teeny Weeny Games closed a year later.

Court case

Perfect Entertainment's shrinking and subsequent demise came largely due to the aforementioned court case with Psygnosis/Sony Entertainment. Originally it was believed Perfect had signed contracts for a multi-game deal with Sony, but issues arose when it was contested three of these games should have been Discworld titles. When negotiations broke down and Discworld's third title, Discworld Noir, was not offered to Sony, the court case ensued. While in development staff payments became late, the deadline for Noir was heavily rescheduled and staff began to leave amid fears of job security. By the time Discworld Noir was finished the development team was running at half the size it was when it began. Discworld Noir was eventually released by GT Interactive in 1999, it was the last game Perfect Entertainment developed that was to be published.

Games

Teeny Weeny Games

* 1992: ''

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) * 1992: '' The Incredible Crash Dummies'' (

) * 1992: ''Fire Fighter'' (

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) * 1992: '' Xenon 2: Megablast'' (Game Boy) * 1993: '' WWF WrestleMania: Steel Cage Challenge'' (

) * 1993: '' Choplifter III'' (Game Gear, Game Boy) * 1993: ''

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'' ( NES) * 1993: '' The Simpsons: Bartman Meets Radioactive Man'' (Game Gear) * 1994: ''

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'' (

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) * 1994: ''Fido Dido'' (Mega Drive/Genesis) * 1994: '' Wolverine: Adamantium Rage'' (Mega Drive/Genesis) * 1995: ''Pocahontas'' (MS-DOS) * 1995: ''

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'' (MS-DOS) * 1995: ''

'' (MS-DOS,

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) * 1996: ''

'' (

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) * 1996: ''Screamball: The Ultimate Pinball Challenge'' (MS-DOS)

Perfect 10 Productions

* 1992: ''

'' ( Mega Drive/Genesis) * 1995: ''

'' (MS-DOS, Macintosh, PlayStation) * 1996: ''

'' (Saturn)

Perfect Entertainment

* 1996: '' Discworld II: Missing Presumed...!?'' (MS-DOS,

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) * 1996: '' 3D Lemmings'' (Saturn) * 1996: '' Destruction Derby'' (Saturn) * 1997: '' FIFA 97'' (Saturn) * 1997: '' Krazy Ivan'' (Saturn) * 1997: '' Wipeout 2097'' (Saturn) * 1997: '' Discworld II: Missing Presumed...!?'' (PlayStation, Saturn) * 1997: '' Assault Rigs'' (Saturn) * 1997: ''

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'' (unpublished Saturn version) * 1997: ''

'' (Windows) * 1997: '' Destruction Derby 2'' (unpublished Saturn version) * 1999: ''

'' (Windows)

Teeny Weeny Games (post-Perfect Entertainment)

* 2000: ''

'' (PlayStation) * 2000: ''World's Scariest Police Chases: Deadly Pursuit'' (

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, cancelled)

References

{{reflist Defunct video game companies of the United Kingdom Video game companies established in 1991 Video game companies disestablished in 1999 Video game development companies Defunct companies based in London