[19] The Piranha Software label was announced as a "long term commitment to the game market" in July 1986[4] and its first five titles[5] were officially launched at the Personal Computer World Show at Olympia London in September 1986.

[25][3] Don Priestley was approached to bring the graphical techniques had used on Popeye to a game based on The Trap Door, a new ITV series due to start in October 1986.

The Gauntlet-style game, The Astonishing Adventures of Mr. Weems and the She Vampires, from The RamJam Corporation (who had previously developed the original Dandy conversions for Electric Dreams)[40] was criticised for its unoriginality.

[43] Don Priestley's next game, Flunky, was entertaining[44] with its giant caricatures of the British royal family but lacked the gameplay of his earlier hit with illogical puzzles[45] and frustrating controls.

[48][49][50][25] Piranha announced a return to book, comic and cartoon tie-ins with a host of planned releases based on Fungus the Bogeyman,[51] Roy of the Rovers,[52] and 2000A.D.

[52][53] However, only one more licensed game, Yogi Bear, was released before Piranha was abruptly closed after only eighteen months when Macmillan decided the label was no longer financially viable.