having decided to step down as a publisher and focus on development, crystal dynamics sold the publication rights for "pandemonium!" to electronic arts once the game was finished. as usual for crystal dynamics games, the european publishing rights were given to bmg interactive. however, bmg decided against publishing the saturn version, so sega of europe purchased the rights from bmg and published that version. it was originally slated for release in may 1997, but was pushed back to the second half of june so that a bug could be fixed.