Acclaim Entertainment, Inc.
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| Public | |
| Traded as | NASDAQ: AKLM |
| Industry | Video game industry |
| Fate | Bankruptcy |
| Founded | March 30, 1987 in Oyster Bay, New York, U.S. |
| Founder | Greg Fischbach |
| Defunct | June 30, 2004 |
| Headquarters | Glen Cove, New York, U.S. |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Greg Fischbach (CEO) |
| Products | Video games, comic books |
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Number of employees
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800 (2001) |
| Subsidiaries | |
| Website | web |
Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. was an American video game developer and publisher. 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. They also released video games for the Master System in Europe.
After Acclaim Entertainment's 2004 demise, the Acclaim brand and logotype were purchased by the unrelated company Acclaim Games (defunct from August 27, 2010). Canadian video game publisher Throwback Entertainment acquired more than 150 titles from Acclaim's video game library. 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.
Founded in 1987 as a Delaware corporation, Acclaim maintained operations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, Australia, and Japan. 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. 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.
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