ACCLAIM IS NO MORE!

[RCM]

Well, almost. Read this article

http://cube.ign.com/articles/542/542718p1.html

Can't say i'm surprised. It's too bad though. The industry keeps making more dough for fewer and fewer companies. I never was really into anything Acclaim published but it can't be good when the industry is thriving and companies are closing their doors. Fuckin A! That "A" is for Acclaim!

THE ONE, THE ONLY- RCM

[fahrvergnugen]

Good riddance to bad rubbish. They had a bit of a renaissance there for a while aroudn the time of the original Turok, but they've long since stamped all of that goodwill back into the dust from whence they came.

[SoulBlazer]

In a way, I feel sorry for them. Acclaim has been around since 1987 and they have published a lot of games.

[pixelsnpolygons]

In a way, I feel sorry for them. Acclaim has been around since 1987 and they have published a lot of games.

Me too, until I realize that out of, what, 10,000 games - maybe 3 of them were decent? They did this to themselves.

[Ed Oscuro]

In a way, I feel sorry for them. Acclaim has been around since 1987 and they have published a lot of games.
In fact, Acclaim was the first company formed in the U.S. as a third-party developer of NES games.

Here, as my highly detailed psuedo-chart shows, is Acclaim's current status

(barbeque of the press) ROFL (pit of financial troubles)

With EVERY SWING OF THE PENDULUM, Acclaim strays closer and closer to the brink. Actually, it's more like Acclaim's being pushed right into the pit of financial troubles, or something.

Watch this space: How to Buy Advertising Space on Gravestones (and get away with it!!!) Causic Press, 2014

[ubersaurus]

Acclaim can release Worms 3d for Xbox first. Then they can kick off for all I care.

[charitycasegreg]

It starts :evil:

[BenT]

Dudes, it's going to suck if they eat it before The Red Star gets released. It's pretty cool. :(

[Dahne]

Acclaim will live forever in infamy.

Didn't they once offer to pay somebody a bunch of money to legally have their name changed to "Turok"? I don't think there were any takers.

[TheRedEye]

I threw a little party tonight because of this. Seriously.

[EnemyZero]

Meh...oh well...but I agree...if red star gets canned I will be angry because the demo I played was pretty damn sweet!

[Sylentwulf]

Acclaim will live forever in infamy.

Didn't they once offer to pay somebody a bunch of money to legally have their name changed to "Turok"? I don't think there were any takers.

There were a LOT of takers, and it wasn't that much money sadly enough.

[Querjek]

THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!



Oh, wow... I'm not surprised by this. I think there may be very few games by them that I liked, and most everything they've published recently was total crap.

[Graham Mitchell]

Proof of how bad Acclaim really sucks; if you look throughout the years and find games that they published that are actually good (Wizards and Warriors, Super Smash TV, first couple of Mortal Kombats) they were all developed by somebody else.

[pookninja]

acclaim did bring galactic attack(layer section)here in america for sega saturn.i also always thought rambo for the nes was cool.i hate to see any game company go under(even if 90%of there game were crap).

[sniperCCJVQ]

Acc-lame

[calthaer]

I liked those Wizards & Warriors games (well, I, III, and X at least) - too bad nobody will ever develop new titles in that series.

[tom]

Yes, read the book 'Game over', Acclaim played a big part in USAs NES success.

Wasn't Acclaim formed from ex-Activision members?

[Kamino]

this thread > Acclaim

[MegaDrive20XX]

The last thing that they did decent...

Maximum Carnage and Mortal Kombat 2...the rest of the history is a blurr..."But what about Rise of the Robots?" NO IT WAS A BLUR! WE HAD CAKE AND PUNCH AND PLAYED MK2!

[soniko_karuto]

the only good thing they did was publish some double dragon games.

[Rogmeister]

Maybe we can put them back in the black if we rush out and buy all their Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen games?

Nah...that's too great a cost LOL

[link1110]

I've been trying to get a job there as a game tester for 7 years, and those bastards never hired me. I have no sympathy for them.

[Jasoco]

I love the original Turok. I never liked ANY of the sequels. Even T2. I couldn't get into the second one. The first was fresh and kick-ass for the time. I loved it.

Ironsword is my favorite W&W game. The first game I ever beat... with a Game Genie and in general. First game I ever saw credits on. And the music was kick-ass.

[soniko_karuto]

Maybe we can put them back in the black if we rush out and buy all their Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen games?

Nah...that's too great a cost LOL

how come? they are selling them at around 5 bucks. :P

[Rogmeister]

5 bucks is about 5 bucks too much.

Does this mean the Olsens won't be able to collect any money on their lawsuit against Acclaim? :hmm:

[soniko_karuto]

5 bucks is about 5 bucks too much.

Does this mean the Olsens won't be able to collect any money on their lawsuit against Acclaim? :hmm:

LOL good one, i had forgotten about that.

[calthaer]

Ironsword is my favorite W&W game. The first game I ever beat... with a Game Genie and in general. First game I ever saw credits on. And the music was kick-ass.

The reason I didn't like Ironsword was the fact that you pretty much needed a Game Genie to defeat it. It was a very cool game, but the completely random patterns of the bad guys and whatnot meant that success was pure luck.

W&W 1 was a bit easier and was completely possible to defeat without cheating, and W&WIII was difficult but made victory very attainable (you just had to never die, although you could "die" in those guild challenges which are where the real difficulty in the game lies). W&WX was also fairly easy to beat as long as you played through it a few times (just another one of those "memorize the sequence" bits).

[delafro]

Sure, they put out a lot of crap, but it's always sad to see another old game company go...

[josekortez]

EA's Catwoman is so bad that Acclaim should have released it.

[soniko_karuto]

EA's Catwoman is so bad that Acclaim should have released it.

sorry to not contribute anything but:

LOL LOL LOL

[captain nintendo]

Tiger-Heli
Smash TV
NARC
Double Dragon games
Arch Rivals
Air Wolf
Othello

Good NES games IMO.

Burns a copy of Wizards and Warriors for Acclaim.

Also liked Blast Lacrosse for the PSX ;)

[soniko_karuto]

Tiger-Heli
Smash TV
NARC
Double Dragon games
Arch Rivals
Air Wolf
Othello

Good NES games IMO.

Burns a copy of Wizards and Warriors for Acclaim.

Also liked Blast Lacrosse for the PSX ;)

NOOOOO

thou shalt give it to meee!!!

[Chronic]

Acclaim will live forever in infamy.

Didn't they once offer to pay somebody a bunch of money to legally have their name changed to "Turok"? I don't think there were any takers.

I thought it was where they name their baby Turok?

[Crush Crawfish]

Damn, This semi-sucks. Acclaim is overall, a crappy company, but they did make at least one good game (Vexx) and published many others (Double Dragon, Galactic Attack, Darius Gaiden)

I sure hope they can get The Red Star out before they close, or at least allow some other company to publish it. That game was lookin' great. And I guess we'll never see a vexx sequel. RIP Acclaim. Say Hi to Toaplan and Data East for us. :(

[delafro]

Sounds like the sales performance of Turok:Evolution really hurt the company. No surprise, if you've ever actually played the game. I had high hopes for that one, for some reason. Ah, well. too bad.

[robotriot]

Oh no, I was still waiting for a sequel to Re-Volt, which was a great fun racer imo. D:

[DigitalSpace]

Said one now-former employee reflecting on the company's demise: "You can't put out less-than-competitive product for this long and not have it catch up with you."

LOL

Couldn't put it any better.

I feel sorry for the people who lost their jobs, though.

And I cannot let this thread die without bringing up the atrocity that was BMX XXX. LOL

[Oobgarm]

ACK-LAME. That pretty much sums them up for me.

Although I hope that Juiced and The Red Star get picked up and put out. I thought The Red Star was really good when I played it on the recent PS2 demo disc (it's on the Xbox one too).

[kainemaxwell]

Last thing Acclaim should put out: A pak of their classic games.

[Ed Oscuro]

Said one now-former employee reflecting on the company's demise: "You can't put out less-than-competitive product for this long and not have it catch up with you."
http://www.digitpress.com/forum/images/smiles/Llol.gif

Couldn't put it any better.

I feel sorry for the people who lost their jobs, though.
Apparently he didn't worry about it too much, though :P

[Disconnected]

I guess this what happens sooner or later. You rush out an untested, inferior product enough and sooner or later the money thing is going to get you. They did publish good games, except the good games were like 1 out of a 1000. Ironically enough, they are also being suied by Mary Kate and Ashley for destroying their image. Expect a big payout on that one.

[Push Upstairs]

Ironically enough, they are also being suied by Mary Kate and Ashley for destroying their image.


"No your honor, I don't believe that my clients drug addiction, or eating disorder destroyed thier good image. I believe that crappy games that a handful of people would be caught dead with hurt them far more.

My clents are asking for one weeks allowance...er.....i mean 47 Million dollars"



I've never forgiven Acclaim for that steaming pile known as "Bart Vs. The Space Mutants"

[Graham Mitchell]

Posted: Tue 31 Aug, 2004 8:00 pm Post subject:

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Last thing Acclaim should put out: A pak of their classic games.


I second that emotion. Rambo, W&W, Galactic Attack, I'd like to see those again.




I've never forgiven Acclaim for that steaming pile known as "Bart Vs. The Space Mutants"

See, you can only accuse Acclaim of PUBLISHING shit. You have to blame the totally stoned developers for CREATING the shit (in this case Imagineer...who has had cool games in the past, I don't know what the deal was with this...) Acclaim either imported games or payed somebody else to develop them.

[Oobgarm]

I've never forgiven Acclaim for that steaming pile known as "Bart Vs. The Space Mutants"

See, you can only accuse Acclaim of PUBLISHING shit. You have to blame the totally stoned developers for CREATING the shit (in this case Imagineer...who has had cool games in the past, I don't know what the deal was with this...) Acclaim either imported games or payed somebody else to develop them.

So then what about the guy who made the poor decision to put out crap like that? Why not go back to the developer and tell them that their game is crap? What about the person who decided what games were going to be imported? Were they not concerned about quality?

Did any of them care that the games sucked, thereby leading them to poor financial success?

They did this to themselves, no matter how you look at it. Some companies are lucky, they can get away with selling crap since people still blindly buy it due to budget pricing/name branding/whatever. But that trend finally caught up to and backfired on ACK-LAME, just like it did to 3DO.

[YoshiM]

I can't say I'll really miss Acclaim. Yeah they published/created some good games over their life span but in retrospect many of their releases averaged on mediocre IMO.

As for the Bart Vs. the Space Mutants getting released in bad form it probably all had to do with the timing and the fact somebody paid a decent chunk of money for the Simpsons license. Couldn't rework it because it had to get onto store shelves. I've never played it but it looks as though there was a serious push for it (Game Players had it on the cover of two of their guides and there was a lot of advertising for it in the mags).

[Tritoch]

I agree with delafro: "Sure, they put out a lot of crap, but it's always sad to see another old game company go..."

I actually enjoyed Bart vs. the Space Mutants, even if it was horribly frustrating at the same time.

R.I.P. Acclaim

[badinsults]

Oh, the sadness.

Turok, RIP.

[Ed Oscuro]

See, you can only accuse Acclaim of PUBLISHING shit. You have to blame the totally stoned developers for CREATING the shit (in this case Imagineer...who has had cool games in the past, I don't know what the deal was with this...) Acclaim either imported games or payed somebody else to develop them.
Developers don't put out crap on purpose - impossible milestone deadlines and executives with crazy ideas cause bad games. Developers don't fund themselves 100%, after all!

I'd say this - take a look at Bill Kunkel's "An Answered Prayer" (http://www.digitpress.com/archives/kunkel_batman_1.htm) article, which covers how his game development dreams were shattered by stupid execs.

[Ed Oscuro]

From Gamasutra.com:


Acclaim Officially Files For Bankruptcy
According to New York Newsday, game publisher and developer Acclaim Entertainment has now ended the uncertainty over its fate by officially filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Central Islip, New York.

Acclaim listed assets of between $10 million and $50 million, and debt of more than $100 million in the filing. The company will now cease operating completely, and liquidate its assets in attempts to pay off the debt.

This final step comes after unsuccessful attempt to secure a $65 million loan in order to continue trading. The company's offices in Glen Cove, New York; Austin, Texas and Manchester, England closed late last week, with many employees locked out of offices and missing paychecks.

-Simon Carless

[SoulBlazer]

So, what do you see as viable franchises that other companies may want to pick up from Acclaim?

The only one I can think off right now is Turok. :hmm:

[Ed Oscuro]

Turok isn't their franchise, though - Classic Media owns it and can license it to anybody they want to. So...it's basically down to those two (supposedly) finished games, I think. BMX XXX? Heh.

[DigitalSpace]

Acclaim lost the Turok franchise back in July. More here:

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/07/07/news_6102086.html

And I enjoyed a few of those Simpsons games too. Hell, I'd take Krusty's Super Fun House over Simpsons Wrestling any day. Activision sure pulled an Acclaim with that one. LOL

[ubersaurus]

So much for Worms 3d Special Edition :(

[SoulBlazer]

Oh. I see.

You're right -- with so much happening to Acclaim over the last few months, I msissed that story.

Worms was Acclaim's to start with, if I recall -- was'nt that Sierra?

[ubersaurus]

Oh. I see.

You're right -- with so much happening to Acclaim over the last few months, I msissed that story.

Worms was Acclaim's to start with, if I recall -- was'nt that Sierra?


Worms 3D was developed by some british studio and published by Acclaim for the other consoles...I'm hoping someone else, like MS, will pick it up and publish it here in the states, but I'm not holding my breath.