Tricks ‘N’ Treasures

2000 Psygnosis Platform: Sony PlayStation Tricks ‘N’ Treasures was a colourful third-person action/platform game in development at Hammerhead for Psygnosis around 1999-2000. The name seems to have changed slightly depending on where it appeared, with magazine coverage referring to it as TnT: Tricks and Treasures, TNT: Tricks and Treasure, Trick n Treasure and Tricks ‘N’ Treasures. Very little seems to have survived publicly from the game, although it received a reasonable amount of magazine coverage before disappearing. We’ve included a selection of those previews within the gallery below, which between them give us a rough idea of what Hammerhead was creating. The game was set on the small planet of Dorc, whose inhabitants were searching for a new ruler. Players would compete to collect the scattered pieces of an ancient crown and prove themselves worthy of the throne, while rival heirs attempted to do exactly the same thing. A major part of the gameplay seems to have involved…