Post by vvmax on Jul 9, 2020 14:48:31 GMT
Paccie was supposedly a lost PlayStation 2 game, released in 2004 by Phoenix Games, well known for publishing crappy, low budget games, the most famous of which is either Dalmatians 2 or my personal favourite and nominee for worst game of all time, Snow White and the 7 Clever Boys.
1. There is no mention of Paccie on PEGIs website. Other Phoenix titles come up though, even ones before Paccie.
2. I looked through backups from Phoenix Games website from 2004, no mention of paccie.
3. I even reverse image searched the box art, the earliest use I found was on a NeoGaf forum from 2016, where it was placed alongside Snow White and the 7 Clever Boys. I came to find the original source of the image on the box art, a CGI Pac-Man mockup on Pov-Ray in December 1994.
image source: www.povray.org/competition/dec94/index.html
neogaf thread: www.neogaf.com/threads/krazy-kong-hits-the-app-store-donkey-kong-rip-off.518406/
edit: found a reference to Paccie on a forum in 2007 www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwiGruO2t8DqAhWETxUIHf0UA204ChAWMAR6BAgFEAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgameoftheblog.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F02%2Feuropes-crappy-ps2-exclusives.html&usg=AOvVaw1kQPqpgOAKeWlROkyIgg28
edit 2: I also found a mention that the developers of paccie were danish
edit 3: I have found that the original image was by R Husmo of Povray. I’ve been unable to find any more info on him/her.
conclusion: Paccie was a small title made by a Danish studio in the 2000s which was licensed to Phoenix Games who published the game as ‘paccie', likely as a PAL exclusive in 2004. I doubt that the video online which has been circulating is fake, but rather a pre-alpha build, it seems too unfinished even for Phoenix. Another proposed theory is that the game was published days before Phoenix folded however, I doubt this for the reason that they stopped publishing PS2 games years before the bankruptcy.
1. There is no mention of Paccie on PEGIs website. Other Phoenix titles come up though, even ones before Paccie.
2. I looked through backups from Phoenix Games website from 2004, no mention of paccie.
3. I even reverse image searched the box art, the earliest use I found was on a NeoGaf forum from 2016, where it was placed alongside Snow White and the 7 Clever Boys. I came to find the original source of the image on the box art, a CGI Pac-Man mockup on Pov-Ray in December 1994.
image source: www.povray.org/competition/dec94/index.html
neogaf thread: www.neogaf.com/threads/krazy-kong-hits-the-app-store-donkey-kong-rip-off.518406/
edit: found a reference to Paccie on a forum in 2007 www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwiGruO2t8DqAhWETxUIHf0UA204ChAWMAR6BAgFEAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgameoftheblog.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F02%2Feuropes-crappy-ps2-exclusives.html&usg=AOvVaw1kQPqpgOAKeWlROkyIgg28
edit 2: I also found a mention that the developers of paccie were danish
edit 3: I have found that the original image was by R Husmo of Povray. I’ve been unable to find any more info on him/her.
conclusion: Paccie was a small title made by a Danish studio in the 2000s which was licensed to Phoenix Games who published the game as ‘paccie', likely as a PAL exclusive in 2004. I doubt that the video online which has been circulating is fake, but rather a pre-alpha build, it seems too unfinished even for Phoenix. Another proposed theory is that the game was published days before Phoenix folded however, I doubt this for the reason that they stopped publishing PS2 games years before the bankruptcy.
