Most celebrity licensing deals lead to fairly obvious games – while oddballs like Shaq Fu and Go Go Beckham do exist, chances are if Mike Tyson’s on the cover you’re going to be playing a boxing game. Penn & Teller, though? For all of the fame the popular pair of magicians have acquired, they don’t quite fit any existing genre easily. That didn’t stop Absolute Entertainment from approaching Penn & Teller with a licensing deal, though.
Speaking in the February/March 1995 issue of , Penn Jillette explained that while the duoHe also claimed that the team had told them that they had “no ideas” at the start of the process, but that the developers had reassured them that, “We know what the technology can do. We know what the users really want. We know what good play is,” which he described as “really important stuff that we knew nothing about”. Together, the pair worked “six-to-eight-hour sessions, three or four days a week, for seven weeks” on the game.
