Buy a Piece of Acclaim

An anonymous reader writes "Kotaku points to the official auction site for Acclaim, the game publisher that was. The Auction includes the building and everything that was in it, including arcade games, boardroom tables, an odd collection of football helmets and 43,000 copies of video games." Our previous story of their bankruptcy.

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did the employees get their stuff back?

[schatten]

Last I remember, they were locked out for several weeks without paychecks and the building was locked up with some of their belongings inside. Did they happen to get it all back?

Re:did the employees get their stuff back?

[DAldredge]

Having been thru about the same thing when Sunpoint Securities was closed by the goverment the answer will be No. But that wasn't in the same state and was a few years ago and the laws may have changed since then.

We also had a few hours warning before the Federal Martials showed up so most people took their private things before the guys with guns arrived.

Are they selling source code?

[wrinkledshirt]

Er... Are they selling source code?

Best and worst games?

[Eric_Cartman_South_P]

What was your favorite Acclaim game? And what game IYO helped them reach bankruptsy? I sure know those South Park games sucked.

Re:Done in by the people who would buy this stuff

[DarkMantle]

Sorry, but when game spy rates a NES game the best game Acclaim made it says enough about the quality. And don't forget No. 4: Bust A Move I think that was in the arcade Def Leppard released Hysteria.

Face it, it was gonna happen anyway.

What I really want is the console devkits

[Anonymous Coward]

I want the console devkit hardware that they had, like the DTLT-10000's ("TOOL" PS2s) and XDKs. Are any of those for sale...?

Melissa

Furniture for who?????

[Myrv]

Man some of that furniture is pretty damn nice. I wonder if the rank and file employees ever got to use any of it. Unfortunately after seeing reports like this:

Top Heavy Business Plan

I get the impression all that furniture was for the benefit of the suits. A lot of people complain about how all the dotcoms bought herman miller aeron chairs and stuff but at least the employees got to use them. These marble and cherry wood conference tables and leather chairs were just a colossal waste of money beyond even the dotcomers. It's no wonder they went under. In fact, it almost hints that somebody wanted the company to go under...

Security of Selling Server Equipment

[sabNetwork]

The auction site shows numerous servers up for bid.

What's the chance that they wiped the hard drives on them?

Everything from corporate email to source code could be there.

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while you are at the auction...

[Shant3030]

Go check out the Ferrari dealership in the area (Glen Cove).

Possible to by source code?

[mowler2]

I looked at the site, but saw no mentions of source code / "IP" sale. Does anyone know if it is possible to buy some of their IP, and in that case, maybe the open source community could do a blender for some nice classics? :)

Since they are indeed classics, they should not be as expensive as blender, I guess. What do you think?

Re:Possible to by source code?

[Triskele]

Perhaps more useful than the source code - can we buy the 3d models, characters animations etc. The biggest thing holding back open source game development is not code - there's vast amounts of good open source engine code out there already - it's the lack of any decent art. [Offtopic for a mo: why aren't there more artists contributing stuff to the commons?]

IP Assets?

[rrwood]

Anyone have any idea what's happening with the source and other so-called intellectual "property" of their old games?

I *love* Re-Volt, and would love to see the source and graphics freed up to a community of modders and hackers....

-Roy