Author Topic: Acclaim Inches from Bankrupcy (Read 22303 times)

odifiend · « **on:** August 27, 2004, 09:51:18 AM »

We all knew it was coming and I for one rejoice at Acclaim's misfortune. 65 million in the red and according to IGN, branches of Acclaim in Austin, Texas and Manchester, UK have closed. Their branch in NY is expected to close as well.
Well let's holp up a candle and remember classics such as errr...
NBA Jam?
It must be Nintendo's fault.

joshnickerson · « **Reply #1 on:** August 27, 2004, 10:03:14 AM »

Yes. It's all Nintendo's fault. How dare they not sell millions of copies of such high calibur games like BMX XXX and Turok on the Cube! Games just don't sell on the gamecube, even if they have up to three weeks of development time in them.

I feel sorry for the people that are losing their jobs, but let's be honest... Acclaim has churned out nothing but crap since the NES days.

Flames_of_chaos · « **Reply #2 on:** August 27, 2004, 10:04:15 AM »

It also must be Nintendo's fault that Nintendo's fans made Tourok popular and that Acclaim was flurishing during the N64 era and that Acclaim was in Nintendo's N64 Dream Team.

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #3 on:** August 27, 2004, 10:08:21 AM »

I really hope someone worthy picks up the Turok license...The series REALLY does have potential... :\

Ian Sane · « **Reply #4 on:** August 27, 2004, 10:10:43 AM »

HA HA. </Nelson>

"Well let's holp up a candle and remember classics such as errr...
NBA Jam?"

NBA Jam was originally in the arcades a Midway game. Acclaim just published the home version and for whatever reason ended up owning the rights to the franchise. You'll note the original and Tournament Edition, which were made by Midway, rocked and all the other sequels afterwards blow.

So basically Acclaim never really made anything worth remembering that we will miss when they're gone. Like with 3DO I say good riddance.

BlkPaladin · « **Reply #5 on:** August 27, 2004, 10:36:10 AM »

Yeah this reminds me about last night I nearly broke out into a laughing fit when a few 18-to-23 year olds were standing in the computer section talking about how acclaim should be rolling in the money because of the sports titles they have. One of them did look at me because a snicker errupted but since I was a little busy at the time I just left.

Flames_of_chaos · « **Reply #6 on:** August 27, 2004, 10:44:02 AM »

Last time I heard all of Acclaim's major franchises and sports franchises have been neutered and/or sold/auctioned.

MattVDB · « **Reply #7 on:** August 27, 2004, 11:40:34 AM »

When I read the title, I expected the first reply to be a simple one word reply. Well, it wasn't, so I will do it.

Good.

I think it's good that junk is being weeded out, but it's really sad to see that many people just up and lose their jobs. I pray they find work easily in this economy.

BlkPaladin · « **Reply #8 on:** August 27, 2004, 12:59:15 PM »

You accually want them creating more games?

Maybe they will make really good burger flippers. Personally I can't think of a really good game they have made (as in the developers that usally use them and not Sega) in a past year or so.

Draygaia · « **Reply #9 on:** August 27, 2004, 01:28:01 PM »

To me this is good news. The more bad companies that die the more that their crappy games won't sell like a million to casual gamers.

joeamis · « **Reply #10 on:** August 27, 2004, 03:17:56 PM »

This is unfortunate. Acclaim had some great games throughout their company lifetime, and will be remembered with nostalgic feelings by many who remember them in their youth. They are one of the longest running companies in the business and were a key supporter for Nintendo early on and then again for the Nintendo 64. It's too bad they will be gone eventually, they helped make the industry successful. An amazing amount of games thanks to Acclaim I can't help but find it shocking that Nintendo fans rejoice at the end of Acclaim...

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #11 on:** August 27, 2004, 03:22:01 PM »

To me, their last good game was the first Extreme-G(released late '97)...From then on they've done nothing but go straight downhill... :\

(Ninty fans rejoice because Acclaim blamed Ninty for the poor sales of their bad games)

joeamis · « **Reply #12 on:** August 27, 2004, 03:33:20 PM »

Well even their bad games sold alot better on the other consoles, the fact that they sold so badly on the Gamecube didn't help them. Despite supporting the Cube, with the small userbase they couldn't match sales of 1st party games, no company can. Nintendo fans shouldn't put off acclaim because of that, many companies have made the same claim. Acclaim was a key supporter for Nintendo. They've done so much more positive for Nintendo than negative.

odifiend · « **Reply #13 on:** August 27, 2004, 03:51:14 PM »

I bought Turok: Evolution full price. I practically paid them for garbage so I'll criticize all I want. Actually I thought Extreme G3 was good, especially since it was released relatively early.
Nintendo fans I think are a vengeful bunch. Look how they treat Nintendo. How do you expect them to treat the loudest of the third parties blaming Nintendo for low sales on Turok and other crap like that.
"Acclaim was a key supporter for Nintendo."
Was being the key word. Then they did a complete 180. And who wasn't a supporter of Nintendo 'early on'? I think only Sega wasn't.

ThePerm · « **Reply #14 on:** August 27, 2004, 04:22:39 PM »

well, they could have turned aropund and supported the more lucrative unflooded userbase of the gcn and made some great games..but they were a multi platform whore who dissed ninty

Urkel · « **Reply #15 on:** August 27, 2004, 07:07:15 PM »

I'm not going to be rejoicing or anything since having a bunch of people lose their jobs is kinda sad, but I'm not going to feel all that sorry for Acclaim, either. The days when you could churn out total crap and expect to make a quick buck are coming to an end. Acclaim should've figured that out a long time ago. Acclaim decided to blame Nintendo instead of whipping itself into shape.

For a brief period early on in the N64's life, I actually considered Acclaim to be a quality company, or at least a company that was on the road to becoming quality. It became clear that they were back to their old habits when they made those sh!tty South Park games.

It's a shame, because Acclaim has demonstrated that they can make good games when they really want to. But they chose the path of shovelware. Sigh.

joeamis · « **Reply #16 on:** August 27, 2004, 07:35:57 PM »

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Originally posted by: odifiend

"Acclaim was a key supporter for Nintendo."
Was being the key word. Then they did a complete 180. And who wasn't a supporter of Nintendo 'early on'? I think only Sega wasn't.

Just because they once were, and didn't continue to give Nintendo all their titles doesn't mean a complete 180. And it's business anyways, you have to put your games on the largest userbase. I guess if someone does alot of good for you, and then still supports you, albeit not as much it means they really did more harm to you then. Apply it to life. If a friend was your best friend, and then years later you were no longer friends because one of you moved away, then I guess he did a complete 180 and deserves to be sh1t on by you to all you talk to. Or some other example. And there were many companies who did not support Nintendo early on... And Acclaim was there in the N64 days, when the majority of other third parties weren't. I guess whatever good they did is negated though huh. They helped sell Nintendo 64's alot, but you know, that doesn't matter now at all. They're just rubbish...

KDR_11k · « **Reply #17 on:** August 27, 2004, 11:30:30 PM »

At first I read "inches" as a verb and thought they were still alive, kind of how the killer always has some remaining signs of life at the end of a horror movie (so they can make a sequel). Glad they're dead, it'll do good for the signal-to-noise ratio on all systems.

Infernal Monkey · « **Reply #18 on:** August 28, 2004, 06:37:12 AM »

Pity, Acclaim did have some okay-ish games. Vexx and Aggressive Inline were funtastic. Two = some, okay.

Myxtika1 Azn · « **Reply #19 on:** August 28, 2004, 07:07:09 AM »

I bought ZooCube from Circuit City when they were having that $5 sale, and I thought that the game was pretty fun. That's the only game I bought that is from Acclaim.

odifiend · « **Reply #20 on:** August 28, 2004, 07:38:42 AM »

"didn't continue to give Nintendo all their titles doesn't mean a complete 180."
They went from giving Nintendo all of their titles to giving them NONE. That is by the book a 180.
"If a friend was your best friend, and then years later you were no longer friends because one of you moved away, then I guess he did a complete 180 and deserves to be sh1t on by you to all you talk to."
well, if he starts taking a whole bunch of sh!t about me in public, he would no longer be my best friend and then I'd be indifferent to his problems.
"They helped sell Nintendo 64's alot, but you know, that doesn't matter now at all. They're just rubbish... "
Rare helped to sell a hell of a lot more N64s and I believe right now, they are rubbish. It is hard for companies to keep to the same standards of the past and Acclaim's standards weren't that high to begin with.

BlkPaladin · « **Reply #21 on:** August 28, 2004, 11:26:00 AM »

The first Turok was probally the highest quality game they came out for the N64, they did come out with a Tony Hawk for the N64 but I never played it so I can't comment on the quality of that title. So it really hard to say that they sold a lot of N64.

joeamis · « **Reply #22 on:** August 28, 2004, 12:16:01 PM »

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Well even their bad games sold alot better on the other consoles, the fact that they sold so badly on the Gamecube didn't help them.
Do you imply that if Acclaim had focused on PS22/Xbox only, they'd still be alive?

They would be in much better shape, they lost alot of money on the Cube.

Odifiend what are you talking about, "giving them none", Acclaim put out 35 titles on Nintendo 64, and 35 on the Gamecube... How is that a 180 lol?! And Acclaim didn't talk a whole bunch of sh1t about Nintendo, they simply said that their games did not sell on GC. Many companies have said the same thing. If Acclaim looks at it's sale figures, and sees that their GC development hurt them, ofcourse they should say that. They wouldn't be bankrupt right now if they just supported the PS2 with it's huge userbase... Why are you bringing Rare into this, it doesn't change the fact at all that Acclaim helped sell alot of N64, especially by releasing a title right after the launch of N64, a title that was shown before N64 released as well to build up the hype for the system. Besides Rare was a 2nd party anyways... Accliam was third party...

I guess noone here remembers the old acclaim, the one from the days of not only N64, but the dreamcast, snes, genesis, gameboy, game gear, and original nes, Acclaim.

joshnickerson · « **Reply #23 on:** August 28, 2004, 04:33:04 PM »

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Originally posted by: joeamis

I guess noone here remembers the old acclaim, the one from the days of not only N64, but the dreamcast, snes, genesis, gameboy, game gear, and original nes, Acclaim.

I do... and that's why I'm so glad to see them go. Every Acclaim title I've ever played, ever since the NES days, has been utter trash. Even the ones that were halfway decent were developed by another company... Acclaim just published them. I just don't understand why you continue to defend them after they have poured total crap into the gaming industry, and then cry foul when none of their sh!tty ports sell.

Urkel · « **Reply #24 on:** August 28, 2004, 04:36:00 PM »

"I guess noone here remembers the old acclaim, the one from the days of not only N64, but the dreamcast, snes, genesis, gameboy, game gear, and original nes, Acclaim."

No, I guess we don't. Could you refresh our memory? I vaguely remember a decent game here and there, but most of it was stuff that Acclaim only published (Double Dragon II), and not stuff they made themselves.

"And Acclaim didn't talk a whole bunch of sh1t about Nintendo, they simply said that their games did not sell on GC. Many companies have said the same thing. If Acclaim looks at it's sale figures, and sees that their GC development hurt them, ofcourse they should say that."

What bothers us is that Acclaim ignored the real problem. Their games sold poorly, because the games were of poor quality. Instead of dropping Nintendo support, they should've started making better games.

Anyway, I do understand the fact that Acclaim's strong support early on in the N64's life helped it with games like Turok, but it goes both ways. Acclaim was saved from bankruptcy back then because Turok sold so well on the N64. Acclaim owes more to Nintendo than the other way around. Besides, there was a sharp drop in quality in their games roughly halfway in the N64's life.

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