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List Of Acclaim Entertainment Subsidiaries
Acclaim Entertainment was an American video game publisher from Long Island, active from 1987 until filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy on September 1, 2004. Through a series of acquisitions between 1990 and 2002, Acclaim built itself a large portfolio of subsidiaries acting in the fields of development and publishing. Development Acclaim Studios Acclaim Studios was established in July 1998 to organize all Acclaim-owned development studios under one management. In May 1999, all underlying studios were uniformly rebranded to bear the "Acclaim Studios" prefix. Acclaim Studios and all of its development facilities were closed on August 27, 2004. Acclaim Studios Austin Acclaim Studios Austin (formerly Iguana Entertainment) was based in Austin, Texas. The company was founded in 1991 by Jeff Spangenberg, previously lead designer for Punk Development, and originally located in Santa Clara, California. Iguana found first success with ''Aero the Acro-Bat'', moved to Austin and acquire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acclaim Entertainment
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. Following disappointing financial results in their 2003 fiscal year, Acclaim filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in September 2004. The properties owned by Acclaim were subsequently auctioned off to various parties. A group of investors launched a new company using the Acclaim trademark in 2025. History 1987–1990: Founding In the early 1980s, Greg Fischbach was employed by the American video game company Activision, where he worked alongside Robert Holmes and Jim Scoroposki. After leaving Activision, he joined RCA Records, which was subsequently acquired by Bertelsmann, leaving Fischbach unemployed. In 1987, he met with Scoroposki in Oyster Bay, where Scor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tie-ins
A tie-in work is a work of fiction or other product based on a media property such as a film, video game, television series, board game, website, role-playing game or literary property. Tie-ins are authorized by the owners of the original property, and are a form of cross-promotion used primarily to generate additional income from that property and to promote its visibility. Types Common tie-in products include literary works, which may be novelizations of a media property, original novels or story collections inspired by the property, or republished previously existing books, such as the novels on which a media property was based, with artwork or photographs from the property. According to publishing industry estimates, about one or two percent of the audience of a film will buy its novelization, making these relatively inexpensively produced works a commercially attractive proposition in the case of blockbuster film franchises. Although increasingly also a domain of previou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghouls 'n Ghosts
''Ghouls 'n Ghosts'', known as in Japan, is a 1988 platform video game developed and published by Capcom for arcades. It is the sequel to '' Ghosts 'n Goblins'' and the second game in the '' Ghosts 'n Goblins'' series. It was a commercial success, becoming the eighth highest-grossing arcade game of 1989 in Japan. It was also critically acclaimed, with the Sega Genesis version winning four awards from ''Electronic Gaming Monthly'' in 1989, including Best Game of the Year. Plot Three years after the events of ''Ghosts 'n Goblins'', the Ghosts have returned with Ghouls for revenge, initiating a mortal holocaust on the Princess' kingdom as beams of light struck through countless villagers. When Sir Arthur returns to the village, his rescue attempt was too soon as his beloved Princess Prin-Prin also has her soul taken away from her body in front of his very eyes. Now it's up to the heroic knight once again to slay his way to the hellish castle to defeat the evil Lucifer and his le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tin Star (video Game)
''Tin Star'' is a shoot 'em up video game developed by Software Creations and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES). It was originally released in North America in November 1994. Starring anthropomorphic robot characters, it follows a seven-day adventure of the titular sheriff who fights the criminal Bad Oil Gang from taking over the town of East Driftwood. It includes both third and first-person stages, and players can control the reticle either with a standard SNES controller, Super Scope, or the SNES Mouse. It is the third Software Creations game to be published by Nintendo, after '' Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball'' (1994) and (only in Europe) '' Plok!'' (1993). The game received positive reviews from critics, with praise for the presentation, especially the graphics and humor, but criticism of the monotonous gameplay and lack of challenge. Gameplay ''Tin Star'' is an arcade-style shoot 'em up game. It is compatible with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bionic Commando (arcade)
''Bionic Commando'', released in Japan as is a 1987 run and gun platform video game developed and published by Capcom for arcades. It was designed by Tokuro Fujiwara as a successor to his earlier "wire action" platformer '' Roc'n Rope'' (1983), building on its grappling hook mechanic; he was also the designer of ''Commando'' (1985). The music was composed by Harumi Fujita for the Yamaha YM2151 sound chip. It is the first installment of the ''Bionic Commando'' series. The game was advertised in the United States as a sequel to ''Commando'', going as far as to refer to the game's main character as Super Joe (the protagonist of ''Commando'') in the promotional brochure, who was originally an unnamed member of a "special commando unit" in the Japanese and international versions. The protagonist is a commando equipped with a bionic arm featuring a grappling gun, allowing him to pull himself forward or swing from the ceiling. Despite being a platform game, the player cannot jump ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bubble Bobble
is a platform game series originally developed and published by Taito. The first entry in the series, '' Bubble Bobble'', was released in 1986 as an arcade cabinet. In most entries in the series, players control two dragons named Bub and Bob. This was followed by many sequels in both the main ''Bubble Bobble'' series, as well as the spin-off ''Rainbow Islands'' series. They were published for and ported to a wide variety of arcade and home video game consoles. The most recent release in the series is '' Bubble Bobble 4 Friends'' in 2019. Main series ''Bubble Bobble'' The first game in the series is the platforming arcade game '' Bubble Bobble'', originally released on June 16, 1986, in Japan. The game puts the players in control of two dragons named Bub (who is green) and Bob (who is blue) who need to save their girlfriends from a world known as the Cave of Monsters. In each level, Bub and Bob must defeat each enemy present by trapping them in bubbles blown from their m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kinetik (video Game)
''Kinetik'' is the second and final album by industrial metal Industrial metal is the fusion of Heavy metal music, heavy metal and industrial music, typically employing repeating Heavy metal guitar, metal guitar riffs, sampling (music), sampling, synthesizer or music sequencer, sequencer lines, and Distor ... band Omega Lithium. It was released on 27 May 2011. Track listing Personnel *Mya Mortensen – vocals * Malice Rime – guitars, synthesizers, backing vocals *Zoltan Harpax – bass *Torsten Nihill – drums, percussion Guest musicians *Choir on Track 1 performed by Matija Bizjan, Darko Vidić, Matjaž Prah *Croatian Traditional Choir Klapa on Track 3 performed by Vokalisti Salone *Istrian traditional instrument Sopele on Track 8 performed by Zoran Karlić Production *Produced by Žare Pak and Marko Matijević Sekul (aka Malice Rime). *Recorded by Benjamin Schäfer at Horus Studio Hannover (Germany) and by Žare Pak at Kif Kif Studio Ljubljana (Slovenia) - Octob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mystery Of The Nile (video Game)
''Mystery of the Nile'' is a 2005 IMAX film documenting the first successful expedition to navigate the entire length of the Blue Nile and Nile from its source in Ethiopia to the Mediterranean Sea. The expedition was led by geologist A geologist is a scientist who studies the structure, composition, and History of Earth, history of Earth. Geologists incorporate techniques from physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, and geography to perform research in the Field research, ... Pasquale Scaturro. The journey took 114 days starting on December 22, 2003 and was finished on April 28, 2004. The film was released in 2005. External links * http://www.nilefilm.com/ - official website * 2005 films 2005 short documentary films IMAX short films Films set in Africa Nile in fiction Films shot in Ethiopia Films shot in Sudan Films shot in Egypt IMAX documentary films 2000s English-language films American short documentary films English-language short documentary films [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Commodore 64
The Commodore 64, also known as the C64, is an 8-bit computing, 8-bit home computer introduced in January 1982 by Commodore International (first shown at the Consumer Electronics Show, January 7–10, 1982, in Las Vegas). It has been listed in the Guinness World Records as the highest-selling single computer model of all time, with independent estimates placing the number sold between 12.5 and 17 million units. Volume production started in early 1982, marketing in August for . Preceded by the VIC-20 and Commodore PET, the C64 took its name from its of RAM. With support for multicolor sprite (computer graphics), sprites and a custom chip for waveform generation, the C64 could create superior visuals and audio compared to systems without such custom hardware. The C64 dominated the low-end computer market (except in the UK, France and Japan, lasting only about six months in Japan) for most of the later years of the 1980s. For a substantial period (1983–1986), the C64 had betwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imagine Publishing
Imagine Publishing was a UK-based magazine publisher, which published a number of video games, computing, creative and lifestyle magazines. The company was acquired by Future plc on 21 October 2016. History It was founded on 14 May 2005 with private funds by Damian Butt, Steven Boyd and Mark Kendrick, all were former directors of Paragon Publishing, and launched with a core set of six gaming and creative computing titles in the first 6 months of trading. In October 2005, it had acquired the only retro games magazine Retro Gamer, after its original publisher, Live Publishing went bankrupt. Early in 2006, it further acquired the rights to publish a considerable number of titles including gamesTM, Play, PowerStation, X360, Digital Photographer and iCreate, from the old Paragon Publishing stable of magazines when owner Highbury House Communications went into liquidation, following Future Publishing's withdrawal of its offer to buy the company, due to threats of a monopoly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Retro Gamer
''Retro Gamer'' is a British magazine, published worldwide, covering Retrogaming, retro video games. It was the first commercial magazine to be devoted entirely to the subject. Launched in January 2004 as a quarterly publication, ''Retro Gamer'' soon became a monthly. In 2005, a general decline in gaming and computer magazine readership led to the closure of its publishers, Live Publishing, and the rights to the magazine were later purchased by Imagine Publishing. It was taken over by Future plc on 21 October 2016, following Future's acquisition of Imagine Publishing. History The first 18 issues of the magazine came with a coverdisk. It usually contained freeware remakes of retro video games and emulators, but also videos and free commercial PC software such as ''The Games Factory'' and ''The Elder Scrolls: Arena''. Some issues had themed CDs containing the entire back catalogue of a publisher, such as Durell Software, Durell, Llamasoft and Gremlin Graphics. On 27 September 2005, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Common Stock
Common stock is a form of corporate equity ownership, a type of security. The terms voting share and ordinary share are also used frequently outside of the United States. They are known as equity shares or ordinary shares in the UK and other Commonwealth realms. This type of share gives the stockholder the right to share in the profits of the company, and to vote on matters of corporate policy and the composition of the members of the board of directors. The owners of common stock do not directly own any assets of the company; instead each stockholder owns a fractional interest in the company, which in turn owns the assets. As owners of a company, common stockholders are eligible to receive dividends from its recent or past earnings, proceeds from a sale of the company, and distributions of residual (left-over) money if it is liquidated. In general, common stockholders have lowest priority to receive payouts from the company. They may not receive dividends until the company ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
