Ī less significant aspect of Acclaim's business was the development and publication of strategy guides relating to their software products and the issuance of "special edition" comic magazines, via Acclaim Comics, to support the more lucrative brand names. The company also had a motion capture studio built into their headquarters, making them the first video game company to have an in-house motion capture studio. In 1995, the company acquired Sculptured Software, Iguana Entertainment and Probe Entertainment and the companies switched to the first-party development studio, known as Acclaim Studios from 1999 to 2004. In the financial year ending August 1994 they saw a profit of $481 million, and exceeded this figure the following year. Through much of the 1990s Acclaim were one of the successful publishers of console video games in the world. In June 1994, the company switched from video gaming to a media conglomerate. One result of this was their late refactoring of the Dave Mirra's Freestyle BMX series. The waning of the arcade game industry, coupled with some poor sales and public enthusiasm from several key titles led to the eventual loss of many of their licenses. In the 1990s, Sunsoft joined forces with Acclaim Entertainment to handle ad sales rights to Sunsoft's video games for game consoles. They also published some games from other companies that at the time of publication didn't have an American branch, such as Technōs Japan's Double Dragon II: The Revenge and Taito's Bust-a-Move series. They were also responsible for the ports of many of Midway's arcade games in the early to mid-1990s, including the Mortal Kombat series.
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Many of Acclaim's products used licenses from popular comics, television series and movies. This was a common formula for picking names of new companies that were founded by ex-Activision employees (the founders of Activision used this formula when they left Atari). The name of the company was picked because it had to be alphabetically above the co-founder's former place of employment, Activision, and also had to be alphabetically above Accolade (another company formed by ex-Activision employees). But as it grew, it purchased some independent studios, including Iguana Entertainment of Austin, Texas Probe Entertainment of London, England and Sculptured Software of Salt Lake City, Utah. In its initial years, Acclaim was exclusively a video game publisher, either farming out the creation of its video games to external developers or localizing existing video games from overseas. Historyįounded in 1987 as a Delaware corporation, Acclaim maintained operations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, Australia, and Japan. In July 2010, WeGo Interactive Co., Ltd., based in Seoul, South Korea, purchased all IP related with Re-Volt, RC Revenge Pro, RC De GO from Throwback Entertainment. Canadian video game publisher Throwback Entertainment acquired more than 150 titles from Acclaim's video game library. They also released video games for the Master System in Europe.Īfter Acclaim Entertainment's 2004 demise, the Acclaim brand and logotype were purchased by the unrelated company Acclaim Games (defunct from August 27, 2010). It developed, published, marketed and distributed interactive entertainment software for a variety of hardware platforms, including Mega Drive/Genesis, Saturn, Dreamcast, and Game Gear, Nintendo Entertainment System, Super NES, Nintendo 64, GameCube, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance, PlayStation and PlayStation 2, Xbox, personal computer systems and arcade games. Iguana Entertainment, Probe Entertainment, Sculptured Software, Valiant ComicsĪcclaim Entertainment (stylized as A«laim) was an American video game developer and publisher.
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