GoKawiilAs 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.
Challenge of the Pharaoh’s Dream
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. And indeed, YouTube videos and Reddit threads have comments from people who remember experiencing it that way.
The premise of the game is that you’re an archaeologist who gets transported back in time to ancient Egypt. You witness various scenes related to the building of a great pyramid. In the process, you hopefully learn something about the past – or are at least occupied long enough to let your teacher catch up on grading.
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