Usually they only protect games that are still sold (i.e eye of the beholder series in forgotten realms archives) but this one seems like an exception.
Yes it is: Because of the company that made them. Infogrames. I regard it that because the company's still there and powerful, they don't include it.
A similar fate had Hare Raising Havoc[/url[, the Roger Rabbit game, by the way. Never found it, too.
There was a 16-colours version out there for the PC; the screenshots seen via this link appear to be from the Amiga version of the game.
The "Beauty & The Beast" game I meant was this: http://www.thelegacy.de/Museum/7453/
It was once - for a short time - published by the late WordPerfect company, shortly before it was bought by Novell - a move that made Microdsoft Office even stronger, because Novell was and still is a purely Network Company, which utterly fails to market anything Else Than This.
I once saw the WordPerfect version of the game in a warehouse, but I was a student then and didn't have enough money for a full-priced game. Then the warehouse closed and I never saw it again.
WordPerfect published it (and some other things) in their "Main Street" product range / label, so they did with Wallobee Jack & the Secret of the Sphinx, a nice game I once found (and bought) in a second hand games shop. It had the same "Main Street" packaging.
Another one of my very, very, very first games ever ( ) was the demo of the very first Micro Machines game for the PC. I played it with my uncle, and we were laughing over it, because it was so funny !
I sought it for a very, very long time, until i found it in a shop in Berlin which is seemingly specialized on older games. It's called the "Media Tunnel". They seem to habe specialized in older games - which I noticed when I heard the price they wanted for the full game. I have successfully forgotten it, because it was so high. Nevertheless I bought the full game - and found out that it has the craziest copy protection I ever witnessed: "polished" black letters or signs (don't remembver anymore) on a matt black background ... You can see it [url=http://www.thelegacy.de/Museum/game.php3?titel_id=4820&game_id=4862]here as the black "code card" ...
So, you can read it only by distinguishing the "polished" letters from the matt background ... which is imho absolutely crazy - and therefore highly effective ...
Of the second game of this series I've got the so-called Special Edition ...