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Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. was an American video game publisher based in Glen Cove, New York. Originally founded by Greg Fischbach, Robert Holmes, and Jim Scoroposki from a storefront in Oyster Bay in 1987, the company built a global development team through a series of acquisitions during the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Acclaim Entertainment was a New York-based company who began publishing games on the NES and went out of business in 2004. The company's collapse was one of the largest implosions of a game publisher in industry history.
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- Controversy Brings Revenue, 1993-94
- Regrouping, 1995-Date
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Founded in 1986 by three former Activision executives, CEO/Co-chairman Gregory Fischbach, Executive Vice-President/Co-Chairman James Scoroposki, and President/COO Robert Holmes, Acclaim Entertainment Inc. was the first independent company in the United States to publish software for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), launching several of the ...
Until May 1992 virtually all Acclaim’s revenue was derived from Nintendo’s platform. Beginning in 1993, Acclaim intensified efforts to develop entertainment software for Sega’s platform. In June, concurrent with Nintendo’s purchasing major European distributor Bandai, Acclaim established ADI to service retailers, including Toys-R-Us, Wal-Mart, Kmar...
Acclaim continued acquiring in January 1995, purchasing Iguana Entertainment Inc. for $7.4 million; receiving most all of struggling Lazer-Tron Corporation in a stock swap in August, changing the name to Acclaim Redemption Games; and, in October, acquiring both Probe and Sculptured Software Inc.—leading independent entertainment software developers...
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“Acclaim Account Moved Out of Grey, London,” ADWEEK Eastern Edition,September 11, 1995, p. 15. “Acclaim Adds 2 Titles,” HFD —The Weekly Home Furnishings Newspaper,March 16, 1992, p. 113. “Acclaim Agrees to Market, Distribute Sega Software,” HFD —The Weekly Home Furnishings Newspaper,December 2, 1991, p. 6. “Acclaim and Lazer-Tron,” Television Diges...
May 22, 2004 · Company description. Acclaim Entertainment was an American video game developer and publisher. It developed, published, marketed and distributed interactive entertainment software for a variety of hardware platforms, including Sega's Mega Drive/Genesis, Saturn, Dreamcast, and Game Gear, Nintendo's NES, SNES, Nintendo 64, GameCube, Game Boy ...
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Acclaim Entertainment was founded in 1987 and went out of business in 2004. The company also published games under the labels LJN and Arena . While Acclaim did publish numerous games that were developed in-house, the company also had a long-standing relationship with Midway , which resulted in home versions of several Midway arcade games, including Mortal Kombat and Terminator 2: Judgment Day .
Company Information. Acclaim One Acclaim Plaza Glen Cove, NY 11542 Tel: 516-759-7800. Visit their Website. Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. was founded in 1987 as a Delaware corporation, and maintains operations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, Australia and Japan.
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Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. was an American video game publisher based in Glen Cove, New York. Originally formed by Greg Fischbach, Robert Holmes and Jim Scoroposki out of an Oyster Bay storefront in 1987, the company established a worldwide development team through a series of acquisitions in the l
