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Revision as of 13:30, 4 November 2015
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
Softography
Dreamcast
- Spirit of Speed 1937 (2000)