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Under the microscope: Pyramid (unreleased Saturn prototype)

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As of early 2026, Sega Retro has more than 300 pages about Unreleased Saturn games . There’s one game that doesn’t have a page, however: Pyramid .

What’s Pyramid ? That’s what we wondered when we came across this disc:

The disc’s owner wasn’t able to provide many details. Our best guess was that it was a version of Pyramid no Nazo: Ankh 2 , an unreleased Saturn FMV game.

Thankfully, the CD-R managed to survive for 29 years perfectly intact – it booted right up and greeted us with this screen:

This didn’t match with our guess at all, but it was enough of a clue to ID the game.

Comparing the scene above to images associated with PC games that had “Pyramid” in the title revealed that it’s from Pyramid: Challenge of the Pharaoh’s Dream .

The PC version’s logo

Pyramid was developed by Knowledge Adventure and published by McGraw Hill Home Interactive . It was an edutainment title, the sort of thing you might have played in your elementary school’s computer lab in the mid-1990s.…

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