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Racing games are a staple of gaming. We saw them in the early days on the Atari 2600 in Night Driver. We saw them propel forward in the 8-Bit days with Rad Racer on NES. 16-Bit gave us great titles like Outrun and Super Hang-On while 32-Bit heralded in the age of the “Racer” series […]
Posts Tagged ‘acclaim’
Vanishing Point Burns Rubber in Cars, Trucks and SUVs on Playstation – Today in History – February 5th, 2001
February 4th, 2016 
Carl Williams 
Posted in News, Sega, Sony 
Tags: 2001, 5th, acclaim, dreamcast, February, playstation, psone, racing, sega, sony, Vanishing Point 
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Revenge of the License: Bart & the Beanstalk (GB)
January 17th, 2016 Michael Crisman Let’s play pretend. You’re a highly-paid, highly-intelligent defense lawyer. You specialize in helping people accused of doing bad things to clear their names. But today, while sitting in your office preparing briefs, a bizarre new case drops in your lap, one which could set a precedent for not only legal but gaming history as well. […]
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10 Classics that Let You Build Your Own Levels before Super Mario Maker
October 3rd, 2015 Carl Williams To say Super Mario Maker is a smash hit release is quite an understatement. The 2D sandbox game had reached a million units sold worldwide in about 20 days, according to reports. This is interesting considering the hell Nintendo constantly gets for the Wii U, something that goes back to the Nintendo 64 days and […]
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Yesterday in Gaming History: “Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2” or “BMX PG”
September 7th, 2015 Colby Primeaux Until its demise in 2004, Acclaim, had the only legitimate claim to be a rival to Activision’s action sports franchise, although with a roster not nearly as deep. What Acclaim lacked in depth, it made up in quality, and yes, I’m pretending BMX XXX never existed. While I thoroughly enjoyed “Aggressive Inline,” and have written […]
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Posted in Console, Nintendo, Reviews, Sony, Xbox Tags: acclaim, action sports, Bicycle, BMX, Camp Woodward, Colby Primeaux, Dave Mirra, gamecube, microsoft, nintendo, playstation 2, sony, sports, xbox, Z-Axis No Comments »
Today in Gaming History: Aggressive Inline or Tony Hawk’s Eight-Wheeled Skater
August 23rd, 2015 Colby Primeaux Thirteen years ago on August 23, 2002 a game that was very near and dear to my heart as a teenager, Aggressive Inline made its debut. Well technically, that’s when the Xbox version was released. In the United Kingdom and Germany. I had the American PlayStation 2 version which was released on May 29 of […]
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Posted in Console, Nintendo, Reviews, Sony, Xbox Tags: acclaim, action sports, Aggressive Inline, Chris Edwards, Colby Primeaux, gamecube, Jaren Grob, microsoft, nintendo, Nintendo Gamecube, opinion, playstation 2, ps2, retro, review, sony, Taig Khris, video game, xbox No Comments »
Revenge of the License: WWF Wrestlemania: The Arcade Game
August 23rd, 2015 Michael Crisman Anyone who tells you violence doesn’t solve anything has never watched professional wrestling, which is a never-ending tribute to the problem-solving power of elbow drops and piledrivers. Somebody fills your brand new car with cement? Kick his ass. Somebody videotapes you getting kinky with someone you aren’t supposed to? Kick his ass. Their team thinks […]
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Posted in Console, News, Sega Tags: 32x, acclaim, ad, arcade, genesis, Midway, revenge of the license, sculptured software, sega, wrestlemania, wwf, wwf wrestlemania the arcade game No Comments »
Revenge of the License: South Park
May 3rd, 2015 Michael Crisman It took sixteen years, but we finally got a South Park game worth playing. South Park: The Stick of Truth is an utterly hilarious mash-up of childhood fantasy gone awry and modern gaming tropes. It’s a straight up legit way to kill several hours over the course of a long weekend, and it plays like […]
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Unleash Your Inner Mutant in X-Men Children of the Atom for Sega Saturn – April 6th, 1996 – Today in History
April 6th, 2015 Carl Williams The X-Men have had a very good history in gaming, at least starting in the 16-Bit era. Let’s ignore the Nintendo Entertainment System games for the sake of this article. When Capcom got the license they immediately took it in a new direction, adding the X-Men characters into their popular Street Fighter II engine was […]
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Posted in News, Saturn, Sega Tags: acclaim, arcade, capcom, children of the atom, fighting, street fighter II, x-men 2 Comments »
Revenge of the License: The Red Star
March 22nd, 2015 Michael Crisman A year before Liberty Prime proclaimed Communism as the very definition of failure in Fallout 3, XS Games unveiled the project they had taken over from Acclaim after that studio went belly-up and declared bankruptcy in 2004. This project had languished in development hell for three years and was released far too late in the […]
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Armorines: Project S.W.A.R.M. Released on Nintendo 64: Today in History- December 2nd, 1999
December 2nd, 2014 Carl Williams Acclaim may be dead and gone now (they were one of the first licensees for the original Nintendo Entertainment System back in the mid 80’s) but it can never be said that they didn’t try new things in their games. They may not have been successful with many of their titles but they tried anyhow. […]
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