Petko: Das Debüt | Unreleased Game

Petko is an unreleased point-and-click adventure game developed by the Austrian company Max Design. It was originally planned to be released in fall 1995 and it was re-announced by Tale Factory in 1998, but it never saw the light of day. The story is about a guy called Petko, who won a journey to San Rico Island.

In this video, you can see the playable demo version that was published in around August 1995. Since it's in German only, I provided some subtitles. If you don't see them, you might want to turn them on by clicking the arrow button on the bottom right of the video player.

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[JacksRache]

Never heard of this game before. Great to learn more about video games history by watching your channel, CuteFloor! That's why I love it. Also nice work with the translation. :)

The game seems to have very nice graphics, considering it's from 1995. Sadly, the story is full of cliches: This Sicilian with fake accent, a room number turns into another (btw. never saw an 8 turn into a 9, that's new ;)), picking up toilet paper for no reason etc. etc.. Maybe it was a good idea to stop this project.

[CuteFloor]

Yes, the story is a bit weak. I guess, their focus was on the graphics engine and the sound system, at least they planned to enhance it after they published the demo.

[gyiyg996]

WOW... What's with the music!? Is that a combination of FM and PCM...?

I can't believe it.. a PC MS-DOS game that actually DID that for music... I've been waiting to hear something like this, as I've always heard music like this on a Sharp X68000 but NEVER a actual IBM PC..

Funny game, I wonder why it wasn't released.. I miss point and click games or hell, adventure games in general..

[CuteFloor]

Yes, that's true. According to the readme file, they used sampled drums combined with 9 FM tracks.

[gyiyg996]

Yup, that's *exactly* like the music I listen to on the Sharp X68000, sampled percussion, while the melodics are in FM synthesis.

Pretty nice music, who composed it?

[CuteFloor]

I dunno, I don't have any names :(

[hresad]

I played this game as a kid.

I had no clue what I was doing, but I spent so much time on it...

I have to find this and download it. And links?

[BGSlopy]

Lol Petko is a typical bulgarian male name.Comes from the ortodox/slav name Petar.Not shure that has something to do whit the character in the game .

[i486x]

The music seems so nostalgic.

Nettes Video, mein Freund. ;)

[gyiyg996]

@CuteFloor Oh... Well that's a shame, would love to know the name of the composer, and sound engineer.. This is some pretty good music.. I like combination of PCM and FM Synthesis, it's just a nice novelty to have.

[TheDreamWeb]

Seems really nice! :) Shame it didn't came out.

Thank you for sharing this vaporware - nev4r forget. ;P