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* ''[[RoboCop 3]]'' (1993) | * ''[[RoboCop 3]]'' (1993) | ||
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* ''[[Terminator 2: Judgment Day]]'' (1993) | * ''[[Terminator 2: Judgment Day]]'' (1993) | ||
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* ''[[Newman/Haas IndyCar featuring Nigel Mansell]]'' (1994) | * ''[[Newman/Haas IndyCar featuring Nigel Mansell]]'' (1994) | ||
* ''[[NFL Quarterback Club]]'' (1994) | * ''[[NFL Quarterback Club]]'' (1994) | ||
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* ''[[Wolverine: Adamantium Rage]]'' (1994) | * ''[[Wolverine: Adamantium Rage]]'' (1994) | ||
* ''[[Batman Forever (Mega Drive)|Batman Forever]]'' (1995) | * ''[[Batman Forever (Mega Drive)|Batman Forever]]'' (1995) | ||
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* ''[[WWF Raw]]'' (1995) | * ''[[WWF Raw]]'' (1995) | ||
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* ''[[Blockbuster World Video Game Championship II]]'' (1995) | * ''[[Blockbuster World Video Game Championship II]]'' (1995) | ||
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* ''[[The Simpsons: Bart vs. the World]]'' (1993) | * ''[[The Simpsons: Bart vs. the World]]'' (1993) | ||
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* ''[[The Incredible Crash Dummies]]'' (1994) | * ''[[The Incredible Crash Dummies]]'' (1994) | ||
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Revision as of 15:01, 17 January 2020
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Acclaim Entertainment | ||
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Founded: 1987 | ||
Defunct: 2004-08 | ||
T-series code: T-81 | ||
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Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. (アクレイム) was an American video game developer and publisher founded in 1987 as a Delaware corporation. Over the next 17 years, the company became a leading worldwide developer, publisher and mass marketer. The company's headquarters were located in Glen Cove, New York, and their common stock publicly traded on the US Stock Exchange (NASDAQ symbol AKLM).
Contents
History
The name of the company was picked because it had to be alphabetically above the co-founder's former place of employment, Activision, and also had to be alphabetically above Accolade (another company formed by ex-Activision employees). This was a common formula for picking names of new companies that were founded by ex-Activision employees (the founders of Activision used this formula when they left Atari).
Many of Acclaim's products were licensed titles: games based on comics, television series (including wrestling shows and cartoons) and movies. They were also responsible for the ports of many of Midway's 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 publication didn't have an American branch, such as Technos Japan's Double Dragon and Taito's Bust-A-Move series. Several games in the Acclaim catalog are frequently cited as among the worst of all time, a fact that has continued to earn it the derision of gamers and gaming media. Flying Edge was a division of Acclaim that published Acclaim's games for Sega consoles. The Flying Edge name was used from 1991 to 1994. Due to contractual issues with Nintendo during the NES era, this new division was specifically created for publishing games under the Sega brand.
In the 1990s, Acclaim purchased a great number of third-party developers, including Arena Entertainment, Sculptured Software, Iguana Entertainment, Probe Software, and Software Creations. Through their subsidiaries in North America, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, and Australia, Acclaim distributed their software products directly to retailers and other outlets. They also utilized regional distributors in Japan and the Pacific Rim to distribute software within those geographic areas. In addition, Acclaim was the distributor for other publishers worldwide. A smaller portion of their business included publishing gaming strategy guides and issuing "special edition" comic magazines to support brands they owned.
The demise of Acclaim Entertainment began in 2003 when the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) began an investigation into several video game companies, including Acclaim. Lawsuits were filed in March 2003 against Acclaim in US District Court alleging "violations against the Securities Exchange Act of 1934". In June 2003, CEO Gregory Fischbach stepped down as chief executive and was replaced by President Rodney Cousens. The end of Acclaim came when they filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy proceedings. All divisions and studios were closed and assets liquidated by the end of 2004. Legal battles were fought in various courts all the way into mid-2007.
However, the name Acclaim did not die immediately. During the liquidation period in Sept. 2004, former Activision CEO Howard Marks purchased the "Acclaim" name and the logo for a reported $100,000. Then in 2006, he and Neil Malhotra created a new company: Acclaim Games, with an entirely new focus on Massive Multiplayer Online Games. This new company was acquired on May 2010 by online game developer Playdom and closed by them three months later, killing the Acclaim name for good.
For a while Acclaim's internal development divisions were named after colours.
Softography
Model 2
- Dead or Alive (1996)
Master System
- Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1994)
Mega Drive
- Champions World Class Soccer (1994)
- Rise of the Robots (1994)
- Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1994)
- Bloodshot (1994)
- Newman-Haas IndyCar Featuring Nigel Mansell (1994)
- Wolverine: Adamantium Rage (1994)
- Batman Forever (1995)
- Blockbuster World Video Game Championship II (1995)
- Cutthroat Island (1995)
- Demolition Man (1995)
- Help! 2 (1995)
- Justice League Task Force (1995)
- Mortal Kombat 3 (1995)
- NFL Quarterback Club '96 (1995)
- Spider-Man (1995)
- Spot Goes to Hollywood (1995)
- The Death and Return of Superman (1995)
- Venom - Spider-Man: Separation Anxiety (1995)
- Warlock (1995)
- WWF WrestleMania: The Arcade Game (1995)
- Stargate (1995)
- Total Football (1995)
- F1: World Championship Edition (1995)
- Scooby-Doo Mystery (1995)
- Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (1996)
- College Slam (1996)
- The Itchy & Scratchy Game (unreleased)
Game Gear
- RoboCop 3 (1993)
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1993)
- The Simpsons: Bart vs. the World (1993)
- The Addams Family (1993)
- Monster Truck Wars (1994)
- Stargate (1994)
- The Itchy & Scratchy Game (1994)
- Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1994)
- Batman Forever (1995)
- F1: World Championship Edition (1995)
- NFL Quarterback Club '96 (1995)
- Cutthroat Island (1995)
- Mortal Kombat 3 (1996)
- Iron Man/X-O Manowar in Heavy Metal (1996)
Mega-CD
- WWF Rage in the Cage (1993)
- Marko's Magic Football (1994)
- NBA Jam (1994)
- Bloodshot (1995)
- Theme Park (1995)
- Syndicate (1995)
- Demolition Man (1995)
- Alien Trilogy (unreleased)
32X
Mega-CD 32X
- Alien Trilogy (unreleased)
Sega Titan Video
- Batman Forever (1996)
Saturn
- Myst (1994)
- Street Fighter: The Movie (1995)
- Robotica: Cybernation Revolt (1995)
- Battle Monsters (1995)
- D (1995)
- Galactic Attack (1995)
- Virtual Open Tennis (1995)
- Darius Gaiden (1995)
- Alien Trilogy (1996)
- Alien Trilogy Taikenban (1996)
- Batman Forever (1996)
- Bubble Bobble also featuring Rainbow Islands (1996)
- Bust-A-Move 2: Arcade Edition (1996)
- Dragonheart: Fire & Steel (1996)
- Impact Racing (1996)
- NFL Quarterback Club '96 (1996)
- NFL Quarterback Club '97 (1996)
- Rise 2 Resurrection (1996)
- StarFighter 3000 (1996)
- Striker '96 (1996)
- Tunnel B1 (1996)
- WWF WrestleMania: The Arcade Game (1996)
- WWF WrestleMania: The Arcade Game Demo Version (1996)
- College Slam (1996)
- WWF In Your House (1996)
- NBA Jam Extreme (1996)
- Space Jam (1996)
- Bust-A-Move 3 (1997)
- The Crow: City of Angels (1997)
- All-Star Baseball 1997 Featuring Frank Thomas (1997)
- BattleSport (1997)
- Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Iron & Blood - Warriors of Ravenloft (unreleased)
- Animal (unreleased)
- Batman & Robin (unreleased)
- Condemned (unreleased)
- Constructor (unreleased)
- Duel (unreleased)
- Fantastic Four (unreleased)
- Killing Time (unreleased)
- Magic: The Gathering (unreleased)
- Magic: The Gathering: Battlemage (unreleased)
- Mortal Kombat & Mortal Kombat II (unreleased)
- NFL Quarterback Club 98 (unreleased)
- NHL Breakaway 98 (unreleased)
- Psychic Force (unreleased)
- Rattlesnake Red (unreleased)
- Turok: Dinosaur Hunter (unreleased)
Dreamcast
- TrickStyle (1999)
- WWF Attitude (1999)
- South Park: Chef's Luv Shack (1999)
- NFL Quarterback Club 2000 (1999)
- Shadow Man (1999)
- Re-Volt (1999)
- Bust-A-Move 4 (2000)
- Dead or Alive 2 (2000)
- Fur Fighters (2000)
- South Park Rally (2000)
- ECW Hardcore Revolution (2000)
- Fur Fighters: The Exclusive Demo Disc (2000)
- F355 Challenge (2000)
- NFL QB Club 2001 (2000)
- ECW Anarchy Rulz (2000)
- Vanishing Point (2000)
- Ducati World Racing Challenge (2001)
- South Park (unreleased)
- Turok 2: Seeds of Evil (unreleased)
PlayStation 2
- Crazy Taxi (2001)
- 18 Wheeler: American Pro Trucker (2001)
- Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future (2002)
- Headhunter (2002)
- Virtua Cop: Elite Edition (2002)
- Sega Bass Fishing Duel (2002)
GameCube
- Crazy Taxi (2001)
- 18 Wheeler: American Pro Trucker (2002)
The Black Team softography
Master System
- Spider-Man: Return of the Sinister Six (1993)
- WWF WrestleMania: Steel Cage Challenge (1993)
- Krusty's Fun House (1993)
Mega Drive
- WWF Super WrestleMania (1992)
- The Simpsons: Bart's Nightmare (1993)
- Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage (1994)
- Virtual Bart (1994)
- Wolverine: Adamantium Rage (1994)
- Batman Forever (1995) (as Black Team)
- Spider-Man (1995)
- Venom - Spider-Man: Separation Anxiety (1995)
- WWF WrestleMania: The Arcade Game (1995)
- Judge Dredd (1995)
- Lennox Lewis Boxing (unreleased)
Game Gear
- Krusty's Fun House (1993)
- Spider-Man: Return of the Sinister Six (1993)
- WWF WrestleMania: Steel Cage Challenge (1993)
- The Simpsons: Bartman Meets Radioactive Man (1994)
- Batman Forever (1995) (as Black Team)
- Lennox Lewis Boxing (unreleased)
Mega-CD
- WWF Rage in the Cage (1993)
32X
- WWF Raw (1995)
- WWF WrestleMania: The Arcade Game (1995)
Saturn
The Grey Team softography
Master System
- Mortal Kombat (1993) (as Grey Team)
- Predator 2 (1993) (as Grey Team)
Mega Drive
- Predator 2 (1992) (as Grey Team)
- Mortal Kombat (1993) (as Grey Team)
- Champions World Class Soccer (1994)
- Cutthroat Island (1995)
- Foreman for Real (1995)
- Justice League Task Force (1995) (as Grey Team)
- NFL Quarterback Club '96 (1995)
- Stargate (1995) (as Grey Team)
Game Gear
- Predator 2 (1992) (as Grey Team)
- Mortal Kombat (1993) (as Grey Team)
- Stargate (1994) (as Grey Team)
- The Itchy & Scratchy Game (1994)
- Foreman for Real (1995)
- Cutthroat Island (1995)
Mega-CD
- Mortal Kombat (1994) (as Grey Team)
The White Team softography
Mega Drive
- George Foreman's KO Boxing (1993)
- Roger Clemens' MVP Baseball (1993)
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1993) (as White Team)
- Rise of the Robots (1994)
- The Incredible Crash Dummies (1994) (as White Team)
- Newman-Haas IndyCar Featuring Nigel Mansell (1994)
- NBA Jam Tournament Edition (1995)
- Warlock (1995)
- College Slam (1996) (as White Team)
Game Gear
- NBA Jam Tournament Edition (1995)
32X
- NBA Jam Tournament Edition (1995)
Saturn
- NBA Jam Tournament Edition (1995)
- Alien Trilogy (1996)
- College Slam (1996) (as White Team)
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Master System
- The Simpsons: Bart vs. the Space Mutants (1992)
- Alien 3 (1992)
- Predator 2 (Grey Team; 1992)
- George Foreman's KO Boxing (White Team; 1993)
- The Addams Family (1993)
- Krusty's Fun House (Black Team; 1993)
- WWF Wrestlemania: Steel Cage Challenge (Black Team; 1993)
- The Incredible Crash Dummies (1993)
- RoboCop 3 (1993)
- The Simpsons: Bart vs. the World (1993)
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1993)
- T2: The Arcade Game (1993)
- Mortal Kombat (Grey Team; 1993)
- Mortal Kombat II (Grey Team; 1994)
Mega Drive
- Smash TV (1991)
- Arch Rivals (1992)
- Double Dragon 3: The Rosetta Stone (1992)
- Ferrari Grand Prix Challenge (1992)
- NBA All-Star Challenge (1992)
- Roger Clemens MVP Baseball (White Team; 1992)
- The Simpsons: Bart vs. the Space Mutants (1992)
- The Steel Empire (1992)
- WWF Super WrestleMania (Black Team; 1992)
- Alien 3 (1992)
- Predator 2 (Grey Team; 1992)
- The Addams Family (1993)
- Champions World Class Soccer (1993)
- RoboCop 3 (1993)
- The Simpsons: Bart's Nightmare (1993)
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1993)
- T2: The Arcade Game (1993)
- Mortal Kombat (Grey Team; 1993)
- George Foreman's KO Boxing (White Team; 1993)
- WWF Royal Rumble (1993)
- Bloodshot (1994)
- Mortal Kombat II (Grey Team; 1994)
- NBA Jam Tournament Edition (White Team; 1994)
- Newman/Haas IndyCar featuring Nigel Mansell (1994)
- NFL Quarterback Club (1994)
- True Lies (1994)
- Wolverine: Adamantium Rage (1994)
- Batman Forever (1995)
- Demolition Man (1995)
- Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1995)
- Foreman for Real (1995)
- Frank Thomas Big Hurt Baseball (1995)
- Judge Dredd (1995)
- Justice League Task Force (Grey Team; 1995)
- NFL Quarterback Club 96 (1995)
- Revolution X (1995)
- Scooby-Doo Mystery (1995)
- Spider-Man & Venom: Separation Anxiety (1995)
- Stargate (Grey Team; 1995)
- Total Football (1995)
- WWF Raw (1995)
- Blockbuster World Video Game Championship II (1995)
- College Slam (1996)
- Cutthroat Island (1996)
Mega-CD
- WWF Rage in the Cage (Black Team; 1994)
- Battle Frenzy (1994)
- NBA Jam (1994)
- Mortal Kombat (Grey Team; 1994)
- Demolition Man (1995)
Sega 32X
- WWF Raw (Black Team; 1994)
- Mortal Kombat II (Grey Team; 1995)
Game Gear
- The Amazing Spider-Man vs. The Kingpin (1992)
- Arch Rivals (1992)
- The Simpsons: Bart vs. the Space Mutants (1992)
- Alien 3 (1992)
- Predator 2 (Grey Team; 1992)
- The Addams Family (1993)
- RoboCop 3 (1993)
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1993)
- T2: The Arcade Game (1993)
- Mortal Kombat (Grey Team; 1993)
- The Simpsons: Bartman Meets Radioactive Man (1993)
- WWF Wrestlemania: Steel Cage Challenge (Black Team; 1993)
- George Foreman's KO Boxing (White Team; 1993)
- The Simpsons: Bart vs. the World (1993)
- The Incredible Crash Dummies (1994)
- Monster Truck Wars (1994)
- Mortal Kombat II (1994)
- NBA Jam Tournament Edition (1994)
- Rise of the Robots (1994)
- WWF Raw (1994)
- Batman Forever (1995)
- Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1995)
- Foreman for Real (1995)
- Frank Thomas Big Hurt Baseball (1995)
- The Itchy & Scratchy Game (1995)
- Judge Dredd (1995)
- NFL Quarterback Club '95 (1995)
- NFL Quarterback Club 96 (1995)
- True Lies (1995)
- Cutthroat Island (1996)
- Iron Man / X-O Manowar in Heavy Metal (1996)
Saturn
- Battle Monsters (1996)
- NBA Jam Extreme (1996)
- Starfighter 3000 (1996)
- X-Men: Children of the Atom (1996)
- Yellow Brick Road (1996)
- Scorcher (1997)
Dreamcast
- Psychic Force 2012 (1999)