FS: Rights to Acclaim games (200+)!!

http://maltzauctions.com/acclaimip.htm This is the auction.

http://www.joystiq.com/entry/1234000580061436/ This is an article about it.

Now's your chance to not only own the game, but the rights!

 

Mary Kate and Ashley do bring in quite an amount of money still.

Also, owning the rights, you can just go ahead and claim that all those games should be free and anyone selling them is violating your ownership rights and can sue them .

 

Never thought of that!

 

haha. nice one

 

Never thought of that!

but hey, having the rights for 100 bullets and a copy of the game? Damn, that would be sweet.

 

I have a copy of it.
Now I wonder how much the rights will cost me... :smt009

 

I doubt even EA would be jumping to buy any of these...

 

yeah I have to agree... from my understanding (and I could be wrong) since it is only the publishing rights to the individual game, you can't really do much with it other than re-release it.

If it was for certain franchises then maybe someone would pick a bunch up, such as the simpsons franchise or something. But most of the worthwhile ones are gone. EA already has the burnout franchise, so there is no need to buy the rights to 2 older games for it. Same situation with some of the other ones, mortal kombat, turok etc.

Would be an interesting bit of history if you could get one for really cheap, but there isn't much investment value to 99% of those unless you are going to make a compilation or port it to a mobile device. Even then, it's not a real smart move.

Any ideas what one of these would sell for (I know it depends on game obviously, but let's just say an average acclaim title), I have no experience with money amounts on publishing rights, but I can't imagine they'd be cheap even for a crap game. Although if no one else is taking them that'd be funny if you could get one for like $50, but realistically, no.

 

this is a nice chance for nintendo to add some more downloadable nes/snes games for theire revolution console

 

Is there a way to posibly buy the actual license and all its stuff out? If so what do you think something like Vexx would go for?

If the prices where not too far out there. I would not mind actualy buying up the vexx license to have an offical license to work on for side project.

 

hmm some sweet things there but also some strange ones

double dragon 2 + 3
eco the dolphin
demolition man
burnout 1 + 2
mortal kombat 1 + 2
stargate ?
Street Fighter The Movie
rise of the robots

 

i wont to buy the right to street fighter the movie
how much would it cost..

 

so because of that, will the older ones be mainly bought for nostalgia or to say you own the rights to publish a game or whatever? No one will legitimately bust out games for a NES again...

and how cheap will these probably run?? I was a huge Double Dragons fan as a kid..

 

Last I heard, The Last Job was still being worked on by the guys at Manchester. At the very least, I know there's still lawsuits flying around over that and a few other titles that were in development.

Also, 100 bullets I wouldn't touch as I think there's still legal wranglings going on about that. (I don't imagine Acclaim actually paid in full for the license) Also, as it's still unfinished it's not publishable without another big investment.

There's a couple I'd like to own though, just for nostalgic reasons. Tell me if anyone buys XGRA!

 

I plan to get the rights to Revolution X for a bargain basement price.

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ASSEMbler,

Any chance you know what happen to the collective of acclaims game rights? Like some of their least popular games like vexx? vbmenu_register("postmenu_103549", true);

 

Well I don't mean publishing rights like this is. I mean to own the license/code/assets/etc. I know not all of acclaim's licenses were bought out. So some bank somewhere has to be sitting on them.