Acclaim Nearing Bankruptcy

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Originally Posted by Lordmrw

Oh my god, I just noticed your avatar, and I can't believe the original Megaman box really said hi resolution graphics. As if we knew what the fuck hi resolution was back then.

Uh, I'm talking about Striderkyo's avatar.

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Capcom said 256x240 was hi resolution back then.

Anyway, this is sad for me because this is the company that brought some good Taito stuff- namely Darius Gaiden and RayForce to the states on Saturn, as well as Power Shovel (PS) and both Psychic Forces (part 1 for PS albeit with a heinous dub, then 2012 for DC with the real deal voices). IMHO Acclaim should've gone the Working Designs or Mastiff route and given up on their own development (i.e. Turok, Batman Forever, etc).

The Turok license needs to change hands. Part one was fine and actually got me to tip my wallet to the tune of $75. The second was where it started to go downhill- oh, what a choppy mess even with the 4M RAM Expansion Pack.

SpoDaddy- Well, at least NBA Hang Time rocks. Let's not wish death on Midway until they give us S.T.U.N. Runner (since that's NO LONGER in Arcade Treasures 2).

I feel sorry for the folks there, not only because they worked for Acclaim, which is likely suicide-inducing shame in Japan, but because they're now out of work. I'll miss Acclaim's logo, their games, not so much.

Yeah, that Red Star is certainly a mystery. It'd really be nice if there was a little information on The Red Star out there somewhere, don't you think. This Red Star certainly sounds like a potentially interesting game, possibly the kind of thing that members of this particular community might enjoy. (Thanks for noticing, Mzo.)

I hope Acclaim manages to pull it together. They've done good stuff before and I'd like to see them do it again, and any company death is bad for the industry. I really don't care how badly they screwed up mid-90s, those days are pretty much over and the last thing the video game world needs is fewer publishers. More publishers, no matter your opinion equals a healthier industry.

Leave Midway alone too. Any company that recognizes what a great game Shadow Hearts is, and then proceeds to do such a great job localizing it despite it being their first RPG, is fine by me. And then they give away a free copy of the first one to anybody who reserves the sequel. Go Midway.

View on bad games- there are many, many games I don't buy. Some I wish I could, both due to money or time to play, others I don't care about, and even more I don't want anywhere near me or my consoles. If I can deal with EA publishing Burnout 3 then I can deal with Acclaim putting out the series of stinkers it has over the years while still owning RC de Go and regretting missing that backhoe game I forget the title of.

James

hip hip...

Acclaim is pretty much trash. The only games I liked from them we're from the XG series, and even there, I knew those titles were pretty "meh". I hope they die very soon.

A former Acclaim employee posted stuff about it - http://wrestlingclassics.com/cgi-bin...=052100#000023

Lots of neat info on the LoW games in there as well.

I'd like to see this series go to yukes.

I would, but only if they had time to really do the guys justice. Yuke's seems to really be spread thin these days, with none of their titles living up to their potential.

I'd like to see EA buy it and make AKI work on it.

Having read The Operative's long post, and seeing as what he says seems to fit available data (he might just be bitter and good at tailoring his story to the facts, but I'm doubting it) I'm good with Acclaim dying. That kind of incompetence doesn't deserve to live.

I just hope they crawl on long enough to get out The Red Star first. It's looking to good to throw on the pile of lost games.

James