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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.
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?
I can buy it all and start a gaming company called "Recclaim!"
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.
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.
DarkMantle I been bored, so I started a blog.
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).
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
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...
Acclaim had innovative marketing techniques
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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
FATALITY!
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.
Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental.
Actually, I always called it "Ack! Lame!"
STOP MISUSING APOSTROPHES, YOU MORONS!!!
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