Buy a Piece of Acclaim 328
An anonymous reader writes "Kotaku points to the official auction site for Acclaim, the game publisher that was. The Auction includes the building and everything that was in it, including arcade games, boardroom tables, an odd collection of football helmets and 43,000 copies of video games." Our previous story of their bankruptcy.
Servers... (Score:1, Informative)
If nothing else (Score:4, Informative)
THEY LIED TO ME!! oh and 500 bux to bid?? arg (Score:3, Informative)
During the Spring semester at my local Uni I saw a talk given by a few guys from acclaim and they acted as if the rumors of their going under were exaggerated.
I guess not!
I don't know why they were wasting time and money sending someone to talk to us if they were goind under.
Acclaim Austin's Stuff for sale in 2 weeks (Score:2, Informative)
http://users4.ev1.net/~flsughrue/li
Auction taking place in austin texas. Come on guys, buy some stuff, so I can get all the money they owed me from my last paycheck, vacation time, and employee stock purchase money they took outta my paycheck and deposited for the last few months I worked there.
Not that I'm bitter.
Re:Possible to by source code? (Score:3, Informative)
Most of it (Score:2, Informative)
There have been reports of personal gaming/audio equipment gone missing - already removed and supposedly added to the auction list. Reclaim may depend on being able to produce a receipt.
And don't even think about turning on that PC to eject the CD you'd been listening to the day before the shit hit the fan...
Re:did the employees get their stuff back? (Score:2, Informative)
And as far as piracy affecting our sales, don't worry about it. It wasn't the consumers that drove the company in the ground. It was Fischback, Cousens, and Jifrato who killed the company intentionally (see their failed eleventh hour aquisition of assets). They wouldn't let us make the games we wanted and they lost the good licenses we had (see MLB, Burnout, NFL). Every good original game idea we had was shot down before they'd let us start working on it or they brokered a deal to let an outside developer to make it.
Although Red Star was a great deal of fun for those who enjoyed shooters. Too bad it'll never see the light. It wouldn't of saved the company but it was a great deal of fun.
Ex-Austin Acclaimer