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| mergedwith=[[Acclaim Entertainment]] (1994)
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| mergedinto=MCA (1985), [[Acclaim Entertainment]] (1990)
| headquarters=New York City, New York, USA<br> Lyndhurst, New Jersey, USA<br>Glen Cove, New York, USA
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'''LJN''' a former toy company originally founded in 1970. It was acquired by MCA in 1985, where it began to publish video games based on MCA properties, before being sold to [[Acclaim Entertainment]] in 1990. Founder of LJN, Jack Friedman, was also responsible for the creation of [[THQ]] in 1989 and Jakks Pacific in 1995.
  
'''LJN''' is a video game publisher that operated from 1970-1995. The company was originally a toy company until 1985 when MCA acquired LJN to publish and manufacture video games based on their properties. In 1990, LJN was later acquired by [[Acclaim Entertainment]], who rid the company of it's toy division and became a publishing division of Acclaim for Nintendo consoles, similar to Acclaim's [[Flying Edge]] and [[Arena]] brands for Sega consoles. When Acclaim dropped the LJN label, they later published the game Spirit of Speed 1937 under a label called "LJN Entertainment, inc". LJN has gained a reputation for publishing low quality licensed games, which have been retrospectively and critically panned to an extent
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LJN's history sees it commonly associated with Nintendo Entertainment System games of dubious quality it published during the late 1980s and early 1990s. After becoming part of Acclaim, the toy division was stripped back entirely and it became one of several publishing labels used by its new owners - in many ways a Nintendo counterpart to [[Flying Edge]] and later [[Arena]]. All three labels were sidelined in 1995, and all future games simply used Acclaim branding.
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In its prime, no game was ever published by LJN for a [[Sega]] system, however the brand mysteriously re-emerged under the name "LJN Entertainment, inc" for the 2000 [[Sega Dreamcast]] release of ''[[Spirit of Speed 1937]]''. It is currently not known why Acclaim chose to re-use this brand for a single game, and the name has not been seen since. Acclaim itself closed its doors in 2004 after a protracted bankruptcy and liquidation period.
  
 
==Softography==
 
==Softography==

Revision as of 15:18, 4 November 2015

LJN a former toy company originally founded in 1970. It was acquired by MCA in 1985, where it began to publish video games based on MCA properties, before being sold to Acclaim Entertainment in 1990. Founder of LJN, Jack Friedman, was also responsible for the creation of THQ in 1989 and Jakks Pacific in 1995.

LJN's history sees it commonly associated with Nintendo Entertainment System games of dubious quality it published during the late 1980s and early 1990s. After becoming part of Acclaim, the toy division was stripped back entirely and it became one of several publishing labels used by its new owners - in many ways a Nintendo counterpart to Flying Edge and later Arena. All three labels were sidelined in 1995, and all future games simply used Acclaim branding.

In its prime, no game was ever published by LJN for a Sega system, however the brand mysteriously re-emerged under the name "LJN Entertainment, inc" for the 2000 Sega Dreamcast release of Spirit of Speed 1937. It is currently not known why Acclaim chose to re-use this brand for a single game, and the name has not been seen since. Acclaim itself closed its doors in 2004 after a protracted bankruptcy and liquidation period.

Softography

Dreamcast