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Projectyle

1990 video game

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 9, 2025
Entity authorityQ4987850 ↗
Source-derived summary

Projectyle is a sports video game originally released in 1990 for the Amiga and Atari ST.

Gameplay

The game is based around a futuristic take on air hockey, albeit one where three participants compete and attempt to score points rather than two.

Development

The game was developed by British developer Eldritch the Cat, and published by Electronic Arts.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Projectyle” is 1990 video game. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Projectyle, video and game, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1990—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1990. For this dossier, Projectyle, video and game is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “1990 video game” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 9, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4987850. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1990.

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This entry incorporates text from “Projectyle” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.