With Parasol Stars for the C64 the game was cancelled because the programmer's computer was stolen. Only that didn't happen, the real reason was that his wife got mad and destroyed his work equipment including the source code and destroyed all backup copies of the game. Rather than give an extension to remake the game from scratch, they decided to cancel it while publically saying it was because the computer was stolen, as that was less embarrassing for the programmer than publically stating the real reason.