Editing Imagine Software (section)

==Megagames==

Imagine had intended to develop six so-called "Megagames", the most well-known of which were ''Psyclapse'' and ''Bandersnatch''. These games were designed to push the boundaries of the hardware of the time, even to the extent that they were intended to be released with a hardware add-on which would have increased the capabilities of the computer, as well as guarding against [[software piracy|piracy]]. The games were advertised heavily and would have retailed at around £30 – an expensive price tag when the average price of a game at the time was £7.20 – but Imagine's collapse meant that they remained [[vaporware]] and never saw the light of day.<ref name='bbc_crash' /><ref name=YSJun84>{{cite news | first=Paul | last=Walton | title=The Ascent of Everiss | date=5 June 1984 | url =http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/yr04/yr04_88.htm | work =[[Your Sinclair|Your Spectrum]] | access-date =17 December 2008 }}</ref><ref name=GTW64>{{cite web |url=http://gtw64.retro-net.de/Pages/m/Review_Megagames.php |title=Mega Games |access-date=17 December 2008 |last1=Gasking |first1=Frank |first2=Marc |last2=Dawson |first3=Peter |last3=Weighill |work=GTW64 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081207150015/http://gtw64.retro-net.de/Pages/m/Review_Megagames.php |archive-date=7 December 2008}}</ref>

During the BBC documentary it was revealed that ''Psyclapse'' was little more than a paper sketch,<ref name='bbc_crash' /> though the name was later used for a sub-label of [[Psygnosis]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://home.iprimus.com.au/danmcpharlin/purpleowl/psygnosis-history.html|title=Psygnosis History|quote=Psyclapse was actually the name of a Commodore 64 game that was never released [but] was to live on as a division of Psygnosis.|access-date=2015-01-01|archive-date=10 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310163033/http://home.iprimus.com.au/danmcpharlin/purpleowl/psygnosis-history.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Most of the concepts originally intended for ''Bandersnatch'' eventually appeared in another Psygnosis game, ''[[Brataccas]]'', for the [[16-bit]] [[Atari ST]], [[Amiga]] and [[Apple Macintosh|Macintosh]] computers.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Making Of: Bandersnatch|website=Edge|date=4 September 2009|url=http://www.edge-online.com/features/making-bandersnatch?page=2|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150102002140/http://www.edge-online.com/features/making-bandersnatch/2/|archive-date=2 January 2015}}</ref>