Acclaim Bankruptcy Auction

[Cav]

http://maltzauctions.com/acclaimhome.htm

[joshnickerson]

"APPROXIMATELY 43,000 VIDEO GAME CARTRIDGES and/or DISKS TO BE SOLD IN LARGE WHOLESALE QUANTITIES"

Does anyone else see a load of Acclaim crap on eBay in the near future?

[Nez]

That 92 Chevy Astro Van is SEXy. LOL

[slip81]

If I was rich I would buy it.

[Funk Buddy]

Damn... beat me to it!

[goatdan]

It's kind of sad to see it all going like that. They definitely weren't the best, but they had some franchises I really liked.

Anyone know if the Turok license has been picked up by the way?

It would be interesting to see what they end up with in those 43,000 copies of stuff. From what I've seen from other recently closed places, a lot of that is probably DOS-based games, which aren't useful or valuable, but are kinda cool.

I would love to see some of those development consoles though.

:( Goodbye Acclaim. You really sucked at the end, but you left us with some great memories.

[Neil Koch]

Anyone know if the Turok license has been picked up by the way?

I read in the latest Game Informer that one of the European executive was trying to buy any of the licences that still had some worth (like Turok) and reform/make an offshoot of the company (I think it was going to be named Xclaim or something like that) but was blocked due to the bankruptcy proceedings.

[Xtasy]

I'd love those mk protos

*dribble*

-Xtasy

[Kejoriv]

I would go if I lived closer. DAMMIT! Does anyone know of an auction site that lists electronic-type auctions near/around Massachusetts

[Ed Oscuro]

The Turok license wasn't held by Acclaim anymore...so that won't be up for grabs. Go talk to Classic Media or whoever it is that owns the license.

As for the rest, "OMG."

I'm wondering what happened to some of those (pretty lousy looking) games that were finished or very close to it when they closed.

Could go for millions I suppose. Would love to get all the carts/dev stuff for free by telling some corporate buyer I'd clear it out for free LOL

[joshnickerson]

I know there's a PS2 store demo out there that has a demo of "The Red Star" on it... that could be worth something in the future...

[Ed Oscuro]

If it's a halfway decent game, perhaps. It does have the Acclaim mythos surrounding it, I suppose.

On another note, though, I recall there being TONS of demo discs for an unreleased PlayStation game (based on some cartoon movie based in space...forgetting the name right now) on eBay...you could literally buy hundreds of them for $40. It all depends on how much hype surrounds this title...if people market the discs right there could be a surge in interest, but otherwise forget it.

[racecar]

WOW !! :eek 2:

[Predatorxs]

I wonder what are all the carts?? N64, SNES, GENESIS, NES, SMS maybe?? it would be cool to know? and there has to be a few prototypes in there too?

On second thought, naaaahhh i bet the peeps workin there, probably grabbed them on the way out LOL

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[DigitalSpace]

Juiced was picked up by THQ with plans for a Summer 2005 release.

Those arcade cabs look nice. I noticed a bookshelf too - I wonder what those books are.

I think I'll pass at the chance to own an Acclaim conference table, though. LOL

[delafro]

Man, that's a lot of stuff. Plus the actual building itself, minimum bid starts at a cool $9.5 mil. Even just to register to bid for the regular auction it's $500. A lot of money is going to be changing hands here pretty soon.

[SoulBlazer]

Yeah, I'd be curious to know what happened to all of the properties that Acclaim had as well.

[izret101]

I WOULD KILL :evil: to get their Mortal Kombat stuff... if there was any....

[Predatorxs]

Juiced was picked up by THQ with plans for a Summer 2005 release.

Those arcade cabs look nice. I noticed a bookshelf too - I wonder what those books are.

I think I'll pass at the chance to own an Acclaim conference table, though. LOL

I have Juiced on the xbox, it's a sweet racer and the cars look real! and the AI is good, although i'm sure alot of this will be changed once THQ run through it!..

Anyone else played juiced yet? :roll:

Dammit i just spent my last $9mil last week, i might have had a pop at that auction LOL

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[Gapporin]

Man. I wonder if they've got a stockpile of 3-D Worldrunner carts. Mmmm... :-P

[kevincure]

Ed...it's Titan AE for Playstation. I have the demo, which I got sealed for 2.75 shipped. You can get them anywhere.

As far as I know, there are quite a few proto copies of some of the unreleased Acclaim games. You can get The Red Star for 100 bucks or so (final version, not a demo) if you look in the right places.

I'd be interested to see what dev equipment they put up.

[Ed Oscuro]

Ed...it's Titan AE for Playstation. I have the demo, which I got sealed for 2.75 shipped. You can get them anywhere.
Good deal. On The Red Star, is the game any good? Curious I am.

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

How far along was 100 Bullets before the hammer fell on Acclaim? Anyone know?

And is there going to be anyone seriously picking up the Red Star license so those of us who actually buy their software could get a legit copy? I'm quite a fan of the comics the game is based on.

[The Brown Eye]

I've seen lots of copies of Juiced and The Red Star floating around. I have the Xbox versions, but have no way to play them at present. :(

[zmweasel]

To anyone who's going to the Acclaim auction, I'd love to have you cover it for Video Game Collector magazine. Drop me a PM and let's discuss. Thanks.

-- Z.

[NintendoMan]

If I was rich I would buy it.

You really would want all that?? O_O

Did anyone find any opening bid or anything. I also wonder what the END BID will be and if they will post it.

[Predatorxs]

Lets not! :P

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[qbertandernie]

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heres tyhe games...search the catalog!

wonder whats in the 15000 odd 'returns'

Main Catalogue

Image not Available Lot 2001: 3114 (Three Thousand One Hundred Fourteen) All Star Baseball 2005 for X-Box
Image not Available Lot 2002: 2260 (Two Thousand Two Hundred Sixty) Showdown - Legends Of Wrestling for X-Box
Image not Available Lot 2003: 1056 (One Thousand Fifty Six) SX Superstar for Game Cube
Image not Available Lot 2004: 989 (Nine Hundred Eighty Nine) Crazy Taxi for Game Cube
Image not Available Lot 2005: 5053 (Five Thousand Fifty Three) Freestyle Street Soccer for X-Box
Image not Available Lot 2006: 5153 (Five Thousand One Hundred Fifty Three) Showdown Legends of Wrestling for Playstation 2
Image not Available Lot 2007: 1342 (One Thousand Three Hundred Forty Two) ATV2 Quad Power Racing for Game Boy Advance
Image not Available Lot 2008: 348 (Three Hundred Forty Eight) Turok Evolution for Playstation 2
Image not Available Lot 2009: 299 (Two Hundred Ninty Nine) Freestyle Street Soccer for Game Cube
Image not Available Lot 2010: 396 (Three Hundred Ninty Six) Dave Mirra BMX2 for Game Cube
Image not Available Lot 2011: 508 (Five Hundred Eight) Asst. Video Games Including; Playstation 2: (96) Dave Mirra BMX2, (23) Crazy
Taxi, (13) XGRA & (55) others; X-Box: (64) Dave Mirra BMX2 & (20) Others; Game Cube: (62) Legends of Wrestling, (31) All Star Baseball 2002, (12) All Star Baseball 2003, (12) JM Supercross World, (12) Worms 3D and (24) Others; Game Boy: (24) Legends of Wrestling 2, (15) Mary Kate and Ashley & (18) Others; (27) Assorted PC Games
Image not Available Lot 2012: 6905 (Six Thousand Nine Hundred Five) Alias for PC
Image not Available Lot 2013: 19173 (Ninteen Thousand One Hundred Seventy Three) Gladiator Sword of Vengeance for PC
Image not Available Lot 2014: 15556 (Fifteen Thousand Five Hundred Fifty Six) Assorted Video Game (Returns)

[qbertandernie]

also found

10 gamecube dev kits

10 ps2 dev kits

40 ps2 test dev consoles

1 xbox display

1 playstation display

15 cases of game cartridges

8 water bottles

1 lot game consoles and cartridges(wonder if any protos?)

several lots promo and display items

1 lot game developers components

1 lot new empty game boxes

1 lot game cartridges

and one satellite dish(on roof) w/remote

[TheRedEye]

Lot 74: 1 (One) Lot - Contents of Refrigerator

[link1110]

Too bad I have class on tuesday. I live about an hour from there and would love to have some of that stuff.

[Mattiekrome]

I want those dev kits X_x

[zmweasel]

Lets not! :P

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I assume your unedited post quoted mine, since I wrote "Let's discuss," and you've so wittily retorted "Lets [sic] not!"

In which case, I ask: what's the deal? Why are you picking fights you can't win?

-- Z.

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

Actually Zach, while you're here, let me repeat a question from earlier in the thread. Is anyone planning on a legit release for the Red Star and 100 Bullets games Acclaim was working on? By most accounts, Red Star at least was complete. Just curious if you'd heard anything.

[Kejoriv]

So is anyone going to this. Yea gotta tell us the prices of these auctions. I wish I lived closer. DAMMIT.

[zmweasel]

Actually Zach, while you're here, let me repeat a question from earlier in the thread. Is anyone planning on a legit release for the Red Star and 100 Bullets games Acclaim was working on? By most accounts, Red Star at least was complete. Just curious if you'd heard anything.

I've heard nothing beyond what's already been reported on the web, particularly the English chap trying to form "Exclaim" (ugh). But I've been out of the gossip loop and in deadline hell for the past week and a half. In short, I suck.

I'll don my Speculator Boy beanie and declare that I'd be very surprised if The Red Star doesn't get picked up by somebody. It was the best game in Acclaim's E3 booth, and got lots of good buzz. 100 Bullets was less impressive and less complete. No big loss if that one joins Rattlesnake Red in Limbo.

-- Z.

[ianoid]

There will no doubt be some cart protos, and there will no doubt be some unreleased ones. If I'm finding eprom/demo carts at flea markets, the company has to have a few dozen, at least.

I'm amazed at some of the garbage they have at these companies. It's alot like someone's basement with crap shoved into every corner. I want to hit that up for some TVs or whatever. I'm sure it's an absolute fire sale.

[Predatorxs]

Lets not! :P

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I assume your unedited post quoted mine, since I wrote "Let's discuss," and you've so wittily retorted "Lets [sic] not!"

In which case, I ask: what's the deal? Why are you picking fights you can't win?

-- Z.

Hey Zmweasel, i was just kiddin, i even added alittle :P to show this! and the edit was a grammer mistake, so i went back and changed it. ( it read let not! instead of Lets Not! ) The humour would have been lost if hadn't corrected it, no biggy!


In which case, I ask: what's the deal? Why are you picking fights you can't win?

-- Z.

Also i'm not lookin for any fights i come here just to enjoy this forum, and to learn something new everyday! :D Alittle jumpy as always! i guess, but in your own words (Not mine?)


In short, I suck

Now i'm being genuine here, you mention deadlines alot, and how your a journo! which is all cool, but i'v never seen or read any of your work? And i'd like to too, are there any links you can point me to?

I'm not being funny or sarcastic, just a genuine question.. i hope maybe you can help.

(( Now back on the topic ))

Is it me? or does it seem that Acclaim, had a huge amount of fairly mediocre games, why didn't they let them go on the cheap say $4 or $5 each? I'm sure there would have been many Video game stores and outlets that would have bought in bulk? :roll: Although i'm sure there debt was many millions, it might have helped? who knows?

I never really took much interest, in the whole acclaim saga, i heard they were in trouble, next thing they went bump! O_O

Gaming wise its a shame that a big name like acclaim has gone, since i remember them more for Snes games like Mortal Kombat (1,2,3 etc) and NBA Jam (and TE), and quiet a few other games on both the Genesis and Snes.

But from what i can gather, there quality of games was going down hill fast.. I guess at some point it all had to come down?

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[The Great Dane]

I became a loyal Acclaim supporter back when they first released WWF Warzone for the psx a few years ago. I kept buying all of their wrestling games up until their newest one, Showdown: Legends of Wrestling. Man, what a bad game. It was sure evident that they were looking for a bunch of money quick, because it didn't even seem like they had testers for the game because of how many bugs and glitches were in it, it just seemed that they just wanted to release it half done and get as much money as they could from it. Also, there was barely anything to do at all in the game. I beat the game in like 1 hour and then that was it. Nothing else to do. It was also about 1 month after this game came out that they filed for bankrupcy. If any of you have played this game you probably know what I mean about how bad the game is. Honestly, a lot of their wrestling were never that good, but Showdown took the lead as the worst. It had the greatest roster ever, but that's all. Sad too, because it could have turned out to be one of the best wrestling games ever. Oh well, maybe another company will buy the series one day :(

[TheRedEye]

I became a loyal Acclaim supporter back when they first released WWF Warzone for the psx a few years ago. I kept buying all of their wrestling games up until their newest one, Showdown: Legends of Wrestling. Man, what a bad game. It was sure evident that they were looking for a bunch of money quick, because it didn't even seem like they had testers for the game because of how many bugs and glitches were in it, it just seemed that they just wanted to release it half done and get as much money as they could from it. Also, there was barely anything to do at all in the game. I beat the game in like 1 hour and then that was it. Nothing else to do. It was also about 1 month after this game came out that they filed for bankrupcy. If any of you have played this game you probably know what I mean about how bad the game is. Honestly, a lot of their wrestling were never that good, but Showdown took the lead as the worst. It had the greatest roster ever, but that's all. Sad too, because it could have turned out to be one of the best wrestling games ever. Oh well, maybe another company will buy the series one day :(

If you want to place a bid, you can get 5,193 copies of Showdown!

[Kid Fenris]

A genuine Acclaim Man-Lift would be a conversation piece for decades to come.



Actually Zach, while you're here, let me repeat a question from earlier in the thread. Is anyone planning on a legit release for the Red Star and 100 Bullets games Acclaim was working on? By most accounts, Red Star at least was complete. Just curious if you'd heard anything.

I've heard nothing beyond what's already been reported on the web, particularly the English chap trying to form "Exclaim" (ugh). But I've been out of the gossip loop and in deadline hell for the past week and a half. In short, I suck.

I'll don my Speculator Boy beanie and declare that I'd be very surprised if The Red Star doesn't get picked up by somebody.
-- Z.

When the fall of Acclaim was made public, rumors had it that Atlus and Majesco were gunning for The Red Star. However, I've heard nothing about it since then.

It'd be a shame if The Red Star never saw a legitimate release. I really liked the demo.

[The Great Dane]

I became a loyal Acclaim supporter back when they first released WWF Warzone for the psx a few years ago. I kept buying all of their wrestling games up until their newest one, Showdown: Legends of Wrestling. Man, what a bad game. It was sure evident that they were looking for a bunch of money quick, because it didn't even seem like they had testers for the game because of how many bugs and glitches were in it, it just seemed that they just wanted to release it half done and get as much money as they could from it. Also, there was barely anything to do at all in the game. I beat the game in like 1 hour and then that was it. Nothing else to do. It was also about 1 month after this game came out that they filed for bankrupcy. If any of you have played this game you probably know what I mean about how bad the game is. Honestly, a lot of their wrestling were never that good, but Showdown took the lead as the worst. It had the greatest roster ever, but that's all. Sad too, because it could have turned out to be one of the best wrestling games ever. Oh well, maybe another company will buy the series one day :(

If you want to place a bid, you can get 5,193 copies of Showdown!

LOL Yeah, thanks for the tip :D

[zmweasel]

Hey Zmweasel, i was just kiddin, i even added alittle :P to show this! and the edit was a grammer mistake, so i went back and changed it. ( it read let not! instead of Lets Not! ) The humour would have been lost if hadn't corrected it, no biggy!

You might have corrected one of your "grammer mistakes," but you forgot to add the apostrophe in "let's."

Tell you what: demonstrate grammar skills equal to those of a fifth grader, and I might point you to a few of my articles.

-- Z.

[DigitalSpace]

I kept buying all of their wrestling games up until their newest one, Showdown: Legends of Wrestling. Man, what a bad game.

Definitely. A friend of mine rented it when it was released and told me he couldn't play through a match most of the time because the game would freeze, or the wrestler he was playing would freeze.

[Predatorxs]

Hey Zmweasel, i was just kiddin, i even added alittle :P to show this! and the edit was a grammer mistake, so i went back and changed it. ( it read let not! instead of Lets Not! ) The humour would have been lost if hadn't corrected it, no biggy!

You might have corrected one of your "grammer mistakes," but you forgot to add the apostrophe in "let's."

Tell you what: demonstrate grammar skills equal to those of a fifth grader, and I might point you to a few of my articles.

-- Z.

Thanks for the tip Weasel, since it was a cursory post (i made) i don't think it really mattered, since it was a two worded reply. (which was to close to the dreaded +1 LOL)

I can tell by your reply, that your still up to your old trick's. When you first started here, basically running people down, and looking for trouble, you won't find it here. Didn't you also, go and change your user name as well for some silly reason?

If i had worked, for an actual gaming company, and i slapped you back with a huge reply, would you turn tail ( Like before ) go and delete all your old posts, then blow smoke up my ass, like a 12 year old gaming internet journo? maaah ;)

Here, is said thread (at page 4 of 6), if you look at my post (About half way down) i quote are much loved journo, as he kneels and puckers up.

(/My Quincy style rant!) annnd he thought!!!, he haaad it aaaall covered up!!!! (/Quincy) LOL

** :embarrassed: Link - Oh look all my posts are edited to N/A - Ohh the shame :embarrassed: woo, is me! (http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=29268&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=75)**

I see the headlines already. "Headline" Much loved? "Sub headline" Journo found in love trist with scea employes Ass. "Shocker" - get the gruesome pics inside, pg 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.

Journo Quote = Mmmmm! it tastes soooo! Nice.

In this same post, Weasel tells the whole-wide-world, Metal Slug 3 (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=11321&item=8151635758) will never be released on the PS2!, Please, Please we need more pearls of wisdom. O_O

( Completely back on topic )

It will be interesting to see how much all the Acclaim stuff goes for, i can imagine some small time porn producers, lookin to get all the video editing gear :P

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