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.
did the employees get their stuff back? (Score:5, Interesting)
Are they selling source code? (Score:2, Interesting)
Best and worst games? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Done in by the people who would buy this stuff (Score:4, Interesting)
Face it, it was gonna happen anyway.
What I really want is the console devkits (Score:2, Interesting)
Melissa
Furniture for who????? (Score:3, Interesting)
Man some of that furniture is pretty damn nice. I wonder if the rank and file employees ever got to use any of it. Unfortunately after seeing reports like this:
Top Heavy Business Plan [geek.com]
I get the impression all that furniture was for the benefit of the suits. A lot of people complain about how all the dotcoms bought herman miller aeron chairs and stuff but at least the employees got to use them. These marble and cherry wood conference tables and leather chairs were just a colossal waste of money beyond even the dotcomers. It's no wonder they went under. In fact, it almost hints that somebody wanted the company to go under...
Security of Selling Server Equipment (Score:4, Interesting)
What's the chance that they wiped the hard drives on them?
Everything from corporate email to source code could be there.
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while you are at the auction... (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:did the employees get their stuff back? (Score:3, Interesting)
We also had a few hours warning before the Federal Martials showed up so most people took their private things before the guys with guns arrived.
Possible to by source code? (Score:2, Interesting)
Since they are indeed classics, they should not be as expensive as blender, I guess. What do you think?
Re:Possible to by source code? (Score:3, Interesting)
IP Assets? (Score:5, Interesting)
I *love* Re-Volt, and would love to see the source and graphics freed up to a community of modders and hackers....
-Roy