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Acclaim retrospective
With game publisher Acclaim officially filing for bankruptcy, Frictionless Insight found it to be the best moment to put up a retrospective at the history of the company
Acclaim was the company that everyone loved to laugh at, but nobody can deny how crucial it was to the beginnings of the game industry. A lot of their history was infamous, but they were a vital presence, all the same. I distinctly remember a quote in The Ultimate History of Video Games from Greg Fischbach, "We kind of all looked at it and chuckled as we walked through the show because we all knew that video games were dead. Everybody was talking about the Amiga and the Atari ST. That was where everybody thought the business was, really. Nobody thought that Nintendo had much of a chance, and they kind of all laughed at what [Nintendo was] doing." Clearly he didn't always have his thumb on the pulse of video gaming. But Acclaim's turn from industry giant to industry scapegoat was not the fault of any one person. They ran their business like other companies run their businesses. Their problems really began with the single worst decision they ever made – to back the N64 instead of the PlayStation. That decision resulted in what was probably the poorest relationship imaginable between a first- and third-party, and it all went downhill from there.
To finalize the Acclaim story, here's a list with games that will probably be affected by the closure :PC
Juiced
Worms Forts Under Siege
Xbox
100 Bullets
ATV: Quad Power Racing 3
Combat Elite: WWII Paratroopers
Emergency Mayhem
Interview with a Made Man
Juiced
The Last Job
The Red Star
Worms Forts Under Siege
PS2
100 Bullets
ATV: Quad Power Racing 3
Combat Elite: WWII Paratroopers
Emergency Mayhem
Interview with a Made Man
Juiced
The Last Job
The Red Star
Worms Forts Under Siege
Gamecube
Alias
Legends of Wrestling: Showdown
Juiced
Worms Forts Under Siege
Xbox
100 Bullets
ATV: Quad Power Racing 3
Combat Elite: WWII Paratroopers
Emergency Mayhem
Interview with a Made Man
Juiced
The Last Job
The Red Star
Worms Forts Under Siege
PS2
100 Bullets
ATV: Quad Power Racing 3
Combat Elite: WWII Paratroopers
Emergency Mayhem
Interview with a Made Man
Juiced
The Last Job
The Red Star
Worms Forts Under Siege
Gamecube
Alias
Legends of Wrestling: Showdown
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