Acclaim Entertainment
Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. was a video game developer and publisher. It developed, published, marketed and distributed interactive entertainment software for a variety of hardware platforms, including Nintendo's Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, Sony's PlayStation 2, Microsoft's Xbox, and Nintendo's GameCube and Game Boy Advance and, to a lesser extent, personal computer systems.
History
Acclaim was founded in 1987 as a Delaware corporation, and maintained operations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, Australia and Japan. As they grew they purchased some independent studios, including Iguana Entertainment of Austin, Texas, and Sculptured Software of Salt Lake City, Utah
Many of Acclaim's products were licensed titles: games based on comics, television series (including wrestling shows) and movies. They were also responsible for the ports of many of Midway Games' arcade games in the early-to-mid 1990s, including the Mortal Kombat series. They also published some games from other companies that at the time of publishment didn't have an American branch, such as Rare's Wizards and Warriors, Technos Japan's Double Dragon II and Taito's Bust-A-Move series.
The waning of the arcade game industry, coupled with some poor sales from several key titles led to the eventual loss of many of their licenses. One result of this was their late refactoring of the Dave Mirra's Freestyle BMX series. Late into development, nude and semi-nude content (e.g. full motion video of strippers and nude female riders) was added in hopes of boosting sales. However, like most of their other contemporary titles, BMX XXX sold poorly and was derided for its trashy content and poor gameplay.
A less significant aspect of Acclaim's business was the development and publication of strategy guides relating to their software products and the issuance of "special edition" comic magazines, via Acclaim Comics, to support the more lucrative brand names.
Acclaim suffered severe financial problems in 2004, the result of most of their video and computer game titles selling very poorly. This resulted in the closure of Acclaim Studios Cheltenham and Acclaim Studios Manchester in England and other places and their filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, leaving many employees unpaid.
On 1 September 2004, Acclaim filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of New York, which will virtually annihilate their company in liquidating all possible assets to pay off their enormous debt which reportedly tops $100 million.
An attempt to rescue the Cheltenham and Manchester studios (under the working name of Exclaim) failed due to legal wrangling over IP, with both the US and UK administrators claiming rights.
Amongst the titles under development at the UK studios were Emergency Mayhem, Made Man and 100 Bullets.
In December 2005, GameSpot reported that former Activision executive Howard Marks has purchased the name "Acclaim Games" for a reported $100,000 back when Acclaim filed for bankruptcy and will form a new gaming company. According to a job listing for the company, Acclaim Games will "be the first US major brand to bring some of the most successful online games in the world, specifically designed to meet the community and multiplayer experience that the 36 million U.S. tweens and the 41 million European tweens want."
Acclaim's labels
* Acclaim
* LJN (used since the late '80s until 1994, revived briefly in 2000)
* Flying Edge (distributed Acclaim's games for Sega's systems until 1994)
* Arena Entertainment (acquired from Mirrorsoft in 1991, they also distributed Acclaim's games for Sega's systems until 1994)
* Acclaim Sports
* AKA Acclaim (Athletes Kick Ass)
Game titles
* Armorines: Project Swarm PS, N64, GBC
* Aggressive Inline PS2, Xbox, GameCube
* BMX XXX Xbox, GameCube
* Burnout PS2, Xbox, GameCube
* Constructor PC
* D PS, Saturn, 3D0, PC
* ECW Anarchy Rulz Dreamcast, PS
* ECW Hardcore Revolution Dreamcast, PS, N64, GBC
* Fantastic Four PS
* Juiced PS2, Xbox, GameCube
* Jupiter Strike PS
* Legends of Wrestling PS2, Xbox, GameCube
* Legends of Wrestling II PS2, Xbox, GameCube
* Marvel's X-Men NES
* Machines PC
* Re-volt Dreamcast, PS, N64, PC
* Shadowman Dreamcast, N64, PS, PC
* Shadowman: 2econd Coming PS2
* Showdown: Legends of Wrestling PS2, Xbox
* South Park PS, N64, PC
* South Park Rally PS, N64, PC, Dreamcast
* South Park: Chef's Luv Shack PS, N64, PC, Dreamcast
* Space Jam PS, Saturn, PC
* Summer Heat Beach Volleyball PS2
* The Simpsons: Bart and the Beanstalk GB
* The Simpsons: Bart Meets Radioactive Man NES
* The Simpsons: Bart vs. the Space Mutants NES, Master System
* The Simpsons: Bart vs. the World NES
* The Simpsons: Bart vs. the Juggernauts GB
* The Simpsons: Bart's Nightmare SNES, Genesis
* The Simpsons: Virutal Bart SNES, Genesis
* Turok: Dinosaur Hunter N64, PC
* Turok 2: Seeds of Evil N64, GBC
* Turok 3: Shadows of Oblivion N64
* Turok: Rage Wars N64, GBC
* Turok: Evolution PS2, Xbox, GameCube
* WWF In Your House PS
* WWF Wrestlemania: The Arcade Game SNES, Genesis, Saturn, Arcade, PS
* WWF War Zone PS, N64
* WWF Attitude PS, N64
* Vexx PS2, Xbox, GameCube
History
Acclaim was founded in 1987 as a Delaware corporation, and maintained operations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, Australia and Japan. As they grew they purchased some independent studios, including Iguana Entertainment of Austin, Texas, and Sculptured Software of Salt Lake City, Utah
Many of Acclaim's products were licensed titles: games based on comics, television series (including wrestling shows) and movies. They were also responsible for the ports of many of Midway Games' arcade games in the early-to-mid 1990s, including the Mortal Kombat series. They also published some games from other companies that at the time of publishment didn't have an American branch, such as Rare's Wizards and Warriors, Technos Japan's Double Dragon II and Taito's Bust-A-Move series.
The waning of the arcade game industry, coupled with some poor sales from several key titles led to the eventual loss of many of their licenses. One result of this was their late refactoring of the Dave Mirra's Freestyle BMX series. Late into development, nude and semi-nude content (e.g. full motion video of strippers and nude female riders) was added in hopes of boosting sales. However, like most of their other contemporary titles, BMX XXX sold poorly and was derided for its trashy content and poor gameplay.
A less significant aspect of Acclaim's business was the development and publication of strategy guides relating to their software products and the issuance of "special edition" comic magazines, via Acclaim Comics, to support the more lucrative brand names.
Acclaim suffered severe financial problems in 2004, the result of most of their video and computer game titles selling very poorly. This resulted in the closure of Acclaim Studios Cheltenham and Acclaim Studios Manchester in England and other places and their filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, leaving many employees unpaid.
On 1 September 2004, Acclaim filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of New York, which will virtually annihilate their company in liquidating all possible assets to pay off their enormous debt which reportedly tops $100 million.
An attempt to rescue the Cheltenham and Manchester studios (under the working name of Exclaim) failed due to legal wrangling over IP, with both the US and UK administrators claiming rights.
Amongst the titles under development at the UK studios were Emergency Mayhem, Made Man and 100 Bullets.
In December 2005, GameSpot reported that former Activision executive Howard Marks has purchased the name "Acclaim Games" for a reported $100,000 back when Acclaim filed for bankruptcy and will form a new gaming company. According to a job listing for the company, Acclaim Games will "be the first US major brand to bring some of the most successful online games in the world, specifically designed to meet the community and multiplayer experience that the 36 million U.S. tweens and the 41 million European tweens want."
Acclaim's labels
* Acclaim
* LJN (used since the late '80s until 1994, revived briefly in 2000)
* Flying Edge (distributed Acclaim's games for Sega's systems until 1994)
* Arena Entertainment (acquired from Mirrorsoft in 1991, they also distributed Acclaim's games for Sega's systems until 1994)
* Acclaim Sports
* AKA Acclaim (Athletes Kick Ass)
Game titles
* Armorines: Project Swarm PS, N64, GBC
* Aggressive Inline PS2, Xbox, GameCube
* BMX XXX Xbox, GameCube
* Burnout PS2, Xbox, GameCube
* Constructor PC
* D PS, Saturn, 3D0, PC
* ECW Anarchy Rulz Dreamcast, PS
* ECW Hardcore Revolution Dreamcast, PS, N64, GBC
* Fantastic Four PS
* Juiced PS2, Xbox, GameCube
* Jupiter Strike PS
* Legends of Wrestling PS2, Xbox, GameCube
* Legends of Wrestling II PS2, Xbox, GameCube
* Marvel's X-Men NES
* Machines PC
* Re-volt Dreamcast, PS, N64, PC
* Shadowman Dreamcast, N64, PS, PC
* Shadowman: 2econd Coming PS2
* Showdown: Legends of Wrestling PS2, Xbox
* South Park PS, N64, PC
* South Park Rally PS, N64, PC, Dreamcast
* South Park: Chef's Luv Shack PS, N64, PC, Dreamcast
* Space Jam PS, Saturn, PC
* Summer Heat Beach Volleyball PS2
* The Simpsons: Bart and the Beanstalk GB
* The Simpsons: Bart Meets Radioactive Man NES
* The Simpsons: Bart vs. the Space Mutants NES, Master System
* The Simpsons: Bart vs. the World NES
* The Simpsons: Bart vs. the Juggernauts GB
* The Simpsons: Bart's Nightmare SNES, Genesis
* The Simpsons: Virutal Bart SNES, Genesis
* Turok: Dinosaur Hunter N64, PC
* Turok 2: Seeds of Evil N64, GBC
* Turok 3: Shadows of Oblivion N64
* Turok: Rage Wars N64, GBC
* Turok: Evolution PS2, Xbox, GameCube
* WWF In Your House PS
* WWF Wrestlemania: The Arcade Game SNES, Genesis, Saturn, Arcade, PS
* WWF War Zone PS, N64
* WWF Attitude PS, N64
* Vexx PS2, Xbox, GameCube
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