Buy a Piece of Acclaim

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Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 1, 2004 @04:20PM from the games-from-the-past dept.

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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Accalim? by ian+rogers · 2004-12-01 16:23 · Score: 3, Funny

I thought it was Acclaim. Someone needs to proof read a bit better.
1. Re:Accalim? by WIAKywbfatw · 2004-12-01 16:34 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Hmmm, I believe the standard response to such a comment is "You're new around here, aren't you?"
  
  Seriously, spelling errors in story summaries are so damn common that they're practically part of the Slasdot experience, together with dupes, occasional fakes, "news" stories that are days, weeks or even months old, and editorial comments appended to summaries that are entirely inappropriate for what claims to be a news site (but is closer to a news-related meta-blog).
  
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2. Re:Accalim? by tomhudson · 2004-12-01 17:13 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  All of us regulars saw it, and the other one that was posted twice an hour apart ...
  I swear, in 99.99 percent of businesses, if people ran things this way then heads would roll pretty damn fast.
  Guess you haven't been to some of the places I've worked. Or that my friends have worked at :-)
  I have a theory that there's a Peter Principle for whole business sectors, not just for people in organizations. Whole business sectors "rise to their level of incompetence", and the only reason they continue to exist is that everyone else is in the same boat. It would certainly explain why Ford is still in business ... ditto Martha Stewart OmniwhateverthefuckMedia.
  Anyway, it's just a theory ...
3. Re:Accalim? by Dimensio · 2004-12-01 18:12 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Actually, I always called it "Ack! Lame!"
  
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did the employees get their stuff back? by schatten · 2004-12-01 16:26 · Score: 5, Interesting

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?
1. Re:did the employees get their stuff back? by DAldredge · 2004-12-01 17:22 · Score: 3, Interesting
  
  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.
Perfect! by morganjharvey · 2004-12-01 16:28 · Score: 4, Funny

I can buy it all and start a gaming company called "Recclaim!"
How to get rich quick. by rice_burners_suck · 2004-12-01 16:30 · Score: 3, Funny

So I can bid $1.00 on eBay for this company, win the auction at that price because nobody else cares, then pay the $3.75 S&H for the deed to be mailed over, and then I can sell the odd collection of football helmets, the 40,000 some odd copies of video cames, the desks, the unused post-it notes and pens inside the desks, the light fixtures, the ping-pong table, and the golf practice thing from the owner's office, all on eBay, and turn an enormous profit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111 I'm a genius to have thought of this.
Re:Done in by the people who would buy this stuff by Anonymous Coward · 2004-12-01 16:33 · Score: 4, Insightful

Which is why ID software is going out of business so quickly... right?

Oh, wait, its because their products fucking rock, and Acclaim's sucked ass.

They failed of their own accord.
Re:Done in by the people who would buy this stuff by DarkMantle · 2004-12-01 16:34 · Score: 4, Interesting

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.

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Ah Acclaim... by Gogl · 2004-12-01 16:40 · Score: 4, Funny

Though I fear of PA overload here at Slashdot, I feel that this particular cartoon is really worth a nod. Very much explains where BMX XXX (one of Acclaim's more ludicrous products, which they are likely auctioning off many copies of) may have come from...
Security of Selling Server Equipment by sabNetwork · 2004-12-01 16:42 · Score: 3, Interesting

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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If only EA could go tits up as well by Nine+Tenths+of+The+W · 2004-12-01 16:44 · Score: 3, Insightful

Given their habit of buying some of the most innovative and successful studios (Bullfrog, Origin, Maxis) and gutting them, I can't help thinking it would be a good thing for gaming if they went under

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If nothing else by Nine+Tenths+of+The+W · 2004-12-01 16:46 · Score: 4, Informative

Acclaim had innovative marketing techniques

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Re:Done in by the people who would buy this stuff by stienman · 2004-12-01 16:47 · Score: 4, Insightful

Are you making the claim that if their games were not pirated Acclaim would not have failed?

I don't agree with piracy (though, for a variety of personal reasons, I hate protection schemes that require the disk to play, or activation over the internet), but that is part of the business of computer software, like it or not. If Acclaim truly failed because of piracy, then it's due to them underestimating the extent of the piracy, or not taking proper precautions. There is no perfect solution to piracy, so any reasonable business plan must include its effects.

As far as treating the 'creators with the respect they deserve' do you also believe that video game companies should treat the creators with the respect they deserve? And what, pray tell, respect do these various creators deserve, exactly?

-Adam
Re:Also check out: - DO NOT CHECK OUT h4xx! by JohnBaleshiski · 2004-12-01 16:48 · Score: 3, Insightful

Why people think this is funny or cool is beyond me. And why someone modded the post informative is also beyond me. Firefox "prevented 5973 popups" on that site. In addition, it's just a goatse.cx picture.

AVOID.
To quote one of their published games, by Anonymous Coward · 2004-12-01 17:04 · Score: 5, Funny

FATALITY!
while you are at the auction... by Shant3030 · 2004-12-01 17:09 · Score: 3, Interesting

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

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Having worked there... fairly recently... by The+Panther! · 2004-12-01 17:14 · Score: 5, Funny

I'd have to say the auction would be much better if I could sign on over the internet, purchase Greg Fischbach's desk. I'd like to have it shipped to my home, where myself and my fellow ex-Acclaim buddies could bash it, cut it into small pieces, then when we tire of performing our selfless duty, set fire to it in effigy. On video. And mail him the tape.

That is, right after we karma whore by linking to it on Slashdot. :-)

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1. Re:Having worked there... fairly recently... by swordgeek · 2004-12-01 19:43 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Was it a nice desk?
  
  It's not the desk's fault. Buy Greg's ass instead.
  
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Re:I saw a dupe post today. by cicatrix1 · 2004-12-01 19:12 · Score: 3, Funny

(Score: -2, Catastrophic Failure Right Up There With Carrot Top)

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IP Assets? by rrwood · 2004-12-01 23:13 · Score: 4, Interesting

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