20 Ridiculous Reasons Video Games Were Cancelled
8. The Developer's Wife Drunkenly Destroyed His Computer - Parasol Stars (Commodore 64 Port)
Parasol Stars is the third installment in the Bubble Bobble platformer franchise and was originally developed for the TurboGrafx-16, before ports were created for the Amiga, Atari ST, Game Boy, and NES.
A port was also planned for the Commodore 64, but publisher Ocean Software originally claimed that it had been cancelled because the port developer's computer was stolen.
However, it later transpired that this wasn't quite the case - rather, the freelancer working on the port had his computer destroyed by his alcoholic wife in a drunken rage.
Worse still, she also destroyed the backups of the port, and presumably not wanting to spend more time and money on restarting the port's development, Ocean simply cancelled it.
The online nature of modern games development thankfully makes such a scenario incredibly unlikely today, but back in the early 1990s the security of a video game mid-production was decidedly more precarious, especially where freelancers working from home were concerned.
But even so, losing a game to a drunken rampage is... something else alright.