I meant to blog about this ages ago, but somehow got sidetracked. The liquidations company charged with overseeing the unsightly demise of videogame publisher Acclaim has set up an auction site to sell off the rights to the company's back catalogue of titles. Currently, the Extreme G series has attracted the highest bid at $75,000, but the Re-Volt titles are also attracting strong interest with a $40,000 bid in place. Strangely, no-one seems interested in infamous PC beat-'em-up Rise of the Robots or Mary Kate & Ashley Girl's Night Out.
However, the term 'rights' is ambiguous - what exactly will the buyers get? Surely they're not expecting the sole rights to the brands? Sega, the developer of 18 Wheeler and F355 Challenge, might have something to say about that. Perhaps ownership is limited to re-releasing the specific iterations on the list.
Whatever, it's hard to image while looking at this site that, 15 years ago, Acclaim was a major player in the games industry. Can you image EA going out like this?
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