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What if you named your baby Turok, got the cash, and then after changed your baby’s name to something more reasonable like Steve. What's Acclaim gonna do, take the money back?
Probably the same thing that happened at the funeral that spent 20 grand on akklaim’s dime only to file off the shadowman advert. Although Now that I think about it that’s probably something I would want to do posthumously.
@@thewraithwriter22 Nope, had to double check when he mentioned it was chosen to be alphabetically before Activision, it's really Acclaim. The sharp angles on the C's really threw me off
Ah, Acclaim. A fun story I remember was one involving my favourite gaming mag in the day EGM getting threats from Acclaim that they would pull all their ads for giving Turok Evolution a bad score. Not only did the mag not give a shit, but as an extra "fuck you" they took the main villain of that game and made him a mascot for the spinoff of their GOTY Awards the "Tobias Bruckner Awards for Excellence in the Field of Crapulence"- a section that talked about the worst games of the year.
You cant, the idea of Acclaim doing so to beat Activision was because some of the former workers left Activision... so unless you have some of the people that worked on Acclaim on your list, it will lose the punch This also makes me think... did a poor soul passed through ALL three companies? Atari-->Activision-->Acclaim
Gamers have cried a billion tears For what he never knew Now gamer's reign is through But through the eternal night The twinkling of starlight So very far away Maybe it's only yesterday
After finding out Cyberpunk 2077's marketing budget was easily equal to DOUBLE what CDP put into making that game, this vid just slams home how humans just don't learn from the past.
I'll never get why companies who reach a certain level of word of mouth press even bother to market at all. Like do they think that youtubers and witcher fans and the entire gaming industry wont look into the next cdpr game without seeing it on the side of a bus?
@@alyssinclair8598 Same reason Coca-Cola still markets. So that their top name doesn't get displaced by another name/company. The same rules apply to a dictatorship, if you want to make sure everyone knows you're the top dog you need to constantly remind them. As new generations come in they must see with their own eyes to truly understand, this works with everything but is the main reason commercials are colorful and bright and have catchy-tunes.
tbh marketing budget also went into creating trailers and even a very good looking anime project by trigger. They've lacked good managment and time (because of poor management) more than money. Putting money directrly into the project itself wouldn't exactly make it better - putting more ppl into the project requires good management, otherwise it's just bigger chaos. Also, the game doesn't lack resources, just better core programming. And they've lost good programmers after witcher, for various reasons.
@@SirAkimadude Buying cola is more of an impulse decision. Just seeing your comment makes me want to buy coca cola right now but I don't want to buy Cyberpunk. Gaming is also a smaller demographic so marketing won't reach as many people.
I'm at the point in my life - late 30s- where the more advertising I see for something the less I want it. Good shit doesn't have to advertise that hard. People will find out.
I remember being on an extremely obscure chat site called Chapatiz. The cute charming part of it was that the characters were these little egg people. Acclaim bought it and added in these horrifying human characters as an optional pick. It's like, imagine a 6 foot torso and regular human head, but tiny hands and feet. It was fucked up. I have never forgiven them since for ruining my little chat site as a kid. It still exists, but the UK counterpart sadly no longer does.
BMX XXX was actually a solid game that just had a few M rated unlockable cutscenes thrown in. They actually had a sticker saying, "BANNED IN AUSTRALIA" on the box to market it, who doesn't want to play a game that Australians aren't allowed to play?
Ironically the GameCube version was left uncensored while the ps2 version got censored. That may be the case now with Sony enforcing stricter censorship policies and Nintendo leaving a bordline hentai game uncensored on switch, but at the time it was almost unheard of. The only other case I can think of is conker live and reloaded being censored more than the n64 original
Aardvark was the small UK publishing / coding team (set up by Nick Pelling, a guy I used to meet at work now and then) who bought us Frak! on the BBC Micro back in the day. It was later ported to the Commodore 64. I'm pretty sure he chose Aardvark for much the same reasoning. I also knew a PR guy who worked for Acclaim in the last few years before they went bust...and he went on to work for EA - so that pans out.
As the Super Best Friends Cast once said: Bloodvertise that Turok Tattoo on your Shadow Baby Woolie: "If your baby was speeding to buy a copy of Burnout--" Pat: "And died--" Woolie: "And you buried him with the name "Turok the Shadowman" on his grave--" Pat: "We'll pay that speeding ticket." Woolie: "We'll pay for the ticket. Not the funeral cost, though. That's on you."
"...as ironic as me in my mid-twenties referring to myself as 'Mr. Regular Sex', because Acclaim is exactly what they WEREN'T getting!" That one... hit a little too close to home.
The difference is that Devolver Digital tend not to get any irl people hurt in the process. They have shocking marketing sure but it's the kind of shocking that doesn't leave a negative lasting impact. Not only that but Devolver Digital have made games that are fun and enjoyable before so that always helps sales.
Devolver is also legitimately enjoyable to watch. People look forward to their E3 segments because it's fun to watch the latest gag they've got prepared. It doesn't hurt that their games are fun, but if their marketing wasn't fun it'd still fail. The biggest difference I think is that Devolver doesn't try to make you think any of their stunts are serious, whereas Acclaim played the straight man and always insisted it was all serious.
*sees the video in recommended* Me: Wait a minute, that’s not a game, is that... Video: let’s all laugh at an industry that never learn anything tee hee hee me: *YES!*
Karakuioshi I think he’s just saying it’s suspiciously convenient to have everything pinned on one man when there were surely others making decisions too
I remember having lots of fun with turok evolution back in the day, so seeing it here on the thumbnail and knowing yahtzee's clinical nature had me worried.
"Painting Virtual Tennis logos on to the wings of a pigeon." You made that up. You *had* to have made that up. *Yahtzee shows headline from newspaper. Holy shit, you did not make that up.
Burnout 2 was one of my favourite games as a kid. The memories of playing that game with my brother are priceless. He used to always crash into "the non-moving bus!" as he'd call it... All these years later and we still mention the non-moving bus.
Acclaim will always remind me of my favorite childhood horrible wrestling game, Showdown: Legends of Wrestling. Rushed out innovationless plop with zero single player content, more bugs than a shed full of horse manure and a character customization more limited than Stone Cold Steve Austin's elbow movement, and yet I love it dearly because it was my first ever pro wrestling game.
BMX XXX was legit a great bike game tho. my dad bought it for me when I was like 10 lol. They had a lot of great underrated games like IGGY'S RECKIN BALLS
And then years later, Bethesda tried something similar to that Turok stunt to promote Skyrim, because the industry truly never learns anything. Tee hee hee.
I learned that Burnout 3 was going to be way darker when Acclaim still had the IP. The beta names were Burnout 3: Crash+Burn and Burnout 3: See you in hell. Also when you crashed, you could hear screaming, a car horn beeping, sirens, organ music, or a flatline noise and a eerie soundtrack plays during the crash. I guess when they went out of business and Criterion moved to EA, EA saw this and changed it.
>Also when you crashed, you could hear screaming, a car horn beeping, sirens, organ music, or a flatline noise and a eerie soundtrack plays during the crash Wasn't that used in Burnout Revenge instead? I certainly remember the "impact time" "theme" for that game being a series of droning sounds.
I'm not sure if the takedown element was introduced when Acclaim was still under the hands of Burnout franchise or EA introduced this stuff later when they take it over.
@@suicidalbanananana 'lets all have a go at people posting innocuous quotes from the video and then blame it on the social media generation to cover up the overwhelming darkness in my life... Tee hee hee'
In the UK Acclaim basically became Atomic Planet - a company I had the misfortune to briefly work for (somehow getting in on a work experience job) in the early 2000s. While a few of the guys there were great I was stuck helping out on Miami Vice for PS2. Holy shit was that a dumpster fire of a game. They also told us at one point they wanted to make a Vietnam war FPS, but we had about 9 weeks to do it.. no that is not a typo. Basically there was some decent talent there but one of the producers was a complete arsehole with literally no idea what the fuck he was doing. They actually put me in a designer position which again was mental because I was pretty damn inexperienced.
@@jadedheartsz 30 bucks? Dear god I feel for you there! I picked up the PS2 version for like 50p a few years back for the lolz. The only thing I really worked on that made it into the game appears to be the art gallery level where I clumsily tried to implement a chase scene. I wanted the warehouse level to be like a MGS-style stealth level but the game engine we were making the game with was being coded in-house and was actually unfinished.
"Acclaim's terrible ideas collectively feel like a test of the old adage that there's no such thing as bad publicity." Did Ooblets devs watch this episode one week early from Escapist website?
Ahhhh so that's where I know the logo from! Honestly don't think I've played literally any other game from Acclaim. Certainly didn't recognize any of the ones Yahtzee mentioned.
Oof, right in the childhood. I still remember the day I discovered user made content in that game, it was like the gates of RC-racing heaven had opened before me!
@@pygmalion0451 I'm trying to stave him off with my own consistent request. Either that, or he's accepted that Yahtzee already reviewed HuniePop while explaining the mistake that led to him reviewing DDLC.
@@pygmalion0451 im pretty sure i saw him on either last weeks video or the week before, he's still doing his same request, literally unchanged possibly on every video, i guess his comments get buried now
Dave Mirra's BMX 2 on the gamecube was awesome if you ask me, cheatcode all levels, and play wipeout mode, thats a lot of fun, but house rule that you cant just hold on to a car for your entire round in order to get all the points
This is still one of my favorite videos when it comes to laughing at the industry. The fact that these ideas were implemented at all is just astounding to me no matter how many times I watch this video.
I'm surprised Yahtzee didn't mention my favorite good game from Acclaim, namely Re-Volt. For anyone who doesn't know, it was a racing game about RC cars.
Huh, so the legends were true about the Fall of Aklaim Entertainment. I remember being told about them long ago when I was a wee lad playing Turok for the first time.
I remember Acclaim! One of my uncles once talked about getting a ticket as part of that promotion! He was probably joking, but honestly, he would have been nuts enough to do it.
I wish they did a marketing stunt like this for the Legends of Wrestling series. Like, I don't know, a PPV named after one of the games with people from the game's roster wrestling, with Hulk Hogan vs Iron Sheik as the main event, with one of them moving at the pace of erosion and the other not healthy enough to take a bump to the outside of the ring.
Honestly my only childhood memories of Acclaim were Re-Volt and Machines, two games I actually really enjoyed. (I hate the current owners of Re-Volt, turning the game into a micro-transaction cash-grab for content they didn't even create)
They had the full port of Re-Volt on the App Store with all PS1, Dreamcast, and PC cars and tracks, minus the build a track mode, and loved it because I played the crap out of that game. They took it off and turned it into the money grabbing game on android only.
I mean, Bethesda also did the whole “name your baby after our game” thing when Skyrim was released on 11/11/11. Some woman here in the US actually named her baby Dovakin and was given a free collector’s edition of Skyrim and maybe a small amount of cash xD I don’t recall anyone getting upset at that though lol.
There is a silver lining to this story, because several people from Acclaim (among others) would go on to found Retro Studios, and we all know how that turned out. Well. It turned out really well.
Fun fact, a relative of mine worked for acclaim when it liquidated, so I got a toooon of free ps2 games for it, so yeah, most of my ps2 collection for a while consisted of acclaim games, don't even care, Turok Evolution was boss, and so was Vexx
‘No-one registered aardvark entertainment’ well it wouldn’t matter anyway because they’d still be below Aardman Studios, if we’re counting non-gaming entertainment studios.
2:55 Anyone else reminded of when Bethesda did this for Skyrim? Name your child Dovakiin and get Bethesda games for life. Those were the days, now Bethesda might be the next Acclaim
Weren't Acclaim also the publishers who had the genius idea to launch a new MMO on the same servers on their existing MMO, thus rendering both completely unplayable on launch day (9 Dragons and 2 Moons)?
No, that's Acclaim Games. They were created when the former CEO of Activision bought the rights to the Acclaim name for $100,000 when Acclaim entered bankruptcy. They were eventually bought out and closed in 2010.
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Oh, Jesus. Looking forward to that shitshow.
@@greenhowie Yangtze is to the escapist what pitch meeting is to screen rant
Good god the escapist website is ass on mobile
No, I don't think I will.
No thanks, your website is trash
Thought I'd never hear that euphoric jingle, nor the name "Acclaim Entertainment" ever again.
It's like wearing that old shirt that you wore on those special occasions. A good feeling isn't it?
@@Xiare1496 Sure is, my guy
They made my favorite RC racing game for the ps1. I think some Chinese developers bought the right to that game
@@thehonorablereverendaddiso1943 They've been including that on UA-cam for about 2 months now...
Fernando Govea
RE-Volt and RC Revenge Pro
What if you named your baby Turok, got the cash, and then after changed your baby’s name to something more reasonable like Steve. What's Acclaim gonna do, take the money back?
Probably the same thing that happened at the funeral that spent 20 grand on akklaim’s dime only to file off the shadowman advert.
Although Now that I think about it that’s probably something I would want to do posthumously.
No, they'd take the baby.
I mean Turok is not the worst thing to call your kid. Just look at the celebrities, how they name their kids.
@@robertparker6280 It's better than Khaleesi at least.
@@puppysect True that, IMO Turok kinda sounds badass.
the hero of this story will always be Dave Mirra, the man who desperately wanted us to not have BMX XXX
May he rest in peace.
"I mean what the fuck, your honor" tickled me a bit 😂
I love the idea of a case being so blatant, the accuser can basically say "what the fuck, your honor" and be given money.
For the longest time I always thought their name was spelled Akklaim.
@@thewraithwriter22 Nope, had to double check when he mentioned it was chosen to be alphabetically before Activision, it's really Acclaim. The sharp angles on the C's really threw me off
It’s not?
It’s actually aKKKlaim...
Sargon of Akklaim
@@RoboBoddicker Well these two entities seem to be operating on the same level of intelligence.
Ah, Acclaim.
A fun story I remember was one involving my favourite gaming mag in the day EGM getting threats from Acclaim that they would pull all their ads for giving Turok Evolution a bad score.
Not only did the mag not give a shit, but as an extra "fuck you" they took the main villain of that game and made him a mascot for the spinoff of their GOTY Awards the "Tobias Bruckner Awards for Excellence in the Field of Crapulence"- a section that talked about the worst games of the year.
Man, I miss EGM…
EGM was the bees knees, even as a 14 year old reading those I knew how amazing it was.
I'm gonna start a game company called, "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Entertainment"
Name in “AAA” to confuse the shit out of everyone.
“I only buy AAA games because of the high resolution”
@@isadoracostahamsi163 Better yet, name it AAA and only make indy games
@@Sunboi_Paladin Indy horror games
Yeah well I'm naming mine 1AAAAAAAAA Entertainment
You cant, the idea of Acclaim doing so to beat Activision was because some of the former workers left Activision... so unless you have some of the people that worked on Acclaim on your list, it will lose the punch
This also makes me think... did a poor soul passed through ALL three companies? Atari-->Activision-->Acclaim
*Let’s all laugh at an industry that never learns anything, tee hee hee!*
It’s been 3000 years....
It's back!
Gamers have cried a billion tears
For what he never knew
Now gamer's reign is through
But through the eternal night
The twinkling of starlight
So very far away
Maybe it's only yesterday
Which was the previous entry on this one?
Is that critique against Zero Punctuation? Because thanks, finally someone has the balls to be honest about this "show".
@@BizarreWords the hot coffee controversy
Wait, Yahtzee's covering a dead publisher? Does this mean...
**Clicks video**
"Let's all laugh at an industry-"
YYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSS
After finding out Cyberpunk 2077's marketing budget was easily equal to DOUBLE what CDP put into making that game, this vid just slams home how humans just don't learn from the past.
I'll never get why companies who reach a certain level of word of mouth press even bother to market at all. Like do they think that youtubers and witcher fans and the entire gaming industry wont look into the next cdpr game without seeing it on the side of a bus?
@@alyssinclair8598 Same reason Coca-Cola still markets. So that their top name doesn't get displaced by another name/company. The same rules apply to a dictatorship, if you want to make sure everyone knows you're the top dog you need to constantly remind them. As new generations come in they must see with their own eyes to truly understand, this works with everything but is the main reason commercials are colorful and bright and have catchy-tunes.
tbh marketing budget also went into creating trailers and even a very good looking anime project by trigger.
They've lacked good managment and time (because of poor management) more than money. Putting money directrly into the project itself wouldn't exactly make it better - putting more ppl into the project requires good management, otherwise it's just bigger chaos. Also, the game doesn't lack resources, just better core programming. And they've lost good programmers after witcher, for various reasons.
@@SirAkimadude Buying cola is more of an impulse decision. Just seeing your comment makes me want to buy coca cola right now but I don't want to buy Cyberpunk. Gaming is also a smaller demographic so marketing won't reach as many people.
I'm at the point in my life - late 30s- where the more advertising I see for something the less I want it. Good shit doesn't have to advertise that hard. People will find out.
I remember being on an extremely obscure chat site called Chapatiz. The cute charming part of it was that the characters were these little egg people. Acclaim bought it and added in these horrifying human characters as an optional pick. It's like, imagine a 6 foot torso and regular human head, but tiny hands and feet. It was fucked up. I have never forgiven them since for ruining my little chat site as a kid.
It still exists, but the UK counterpart sadly no longer does.
Yeah it's mostly French now for some reason
"A motorized version of the Purge."
So, Boston then?
Thank you
I would say Los Angeles, myself
I think you mean Russia.
America or England?
Because *yes*
The netherlands*
BMX XXX was actually a solid game that just had a few M rated unlockable cutscenes thrown in.
They actually had a sticker saying, "BANNED IN AUSTRALIA" on the box to market it, who doesn't want to play a game that Australians aren't allowed to play?
Yeah but they fucked it all up with Dave Mirra
Yeah, when you see that you have to play it just to know who, between you and the Australians, should be jealous of the other.
Ironically the GameCube version was left uncensored while the ps2 version got censored. That may be the case now with Sony enforcing stricter censorship policies and Nintendo leaving a bordline hentai game uncensored on switch, but at the time it was almost unheard of. The only other case I can think of is conker live and reloaded being censored more than the n64 original
I believe the correct answer is Australians. Australians want to play a game that Australians aren't allowed to play.
@@PhoenixMF1986 to quote his hatred review "banny game make people wanty game more"
Aardvark was the small UK publishing / coding team (set up by Nick Pelling, a guy I used to meet at work now and then) who bought us Frak! on the BBC Micro back in the day. It was later ported to the Commodore 64. I'm pretty sure he chose Aardvark for much the same reasoning. I also knew a PR guy who worked for Acclaim in the last few years before they went bust...and he went on to work for EA - so that pans out.
Yeah, their most well-known output gotta be the PlayStation port of Duke Nukem 3D.
As the Super Best Friends Cast once said: Bloodvertise that Turok Tattoo on your Shadow Baby
Woolie: "If your baby was speeding to buy a copy of Burnout--"
Pat: "And died--"
Woolie: "And you buried him with the name "Turok the Shadowman" on his grave--"
Pat: "We'll pay that speeding ticket."
Woolie: "We'll pay for the ticket. Not the funeral cost, though. That's on you."
Ohhh so that was "I named my baby Turok" joke
I think one was also ‘name your dead shadow baby Turok’
We never deserved them.
Who did burnouts on my dead Shadowbaby's grave?!
Miss them so much.
Whoa whoa whoa, they painted Virtua Tennis onto pigeons?
BBC News has a report on it, apparently they did this at Wimbledon or in a way that somehow related to it.
Pardon my French but, Le Fuck?
And trained the flock of them to fly around the Wimbledon Tennis Championships during British matches.
@@drewforchic9083 Once again, Le Fuck?!
In german das...fuck?
"...as ironic as me in my mid-twenties referring to myself as 'Mr. Regular Sex', because Acclaim is exactly what they WEREN'T getting!"
That one... hit a little too close to home.
Ironically, it was my mid-twenties when I started getting regular sex.
@@awelcruiz What was the irregular sex like? Peculiar?
@@planescaped Let's just say it involved a trampoline and a bucket of Fig Newtons.
@@awelcruiz That just raises _further_ questions...
@@metaridley2911 Because that was the age I met my fianceé.
I've always thought it was "akklaim" or "aklaim", rip me
Same actually
When their main logo looks like a pair of Ks it's easy to get confused.
aKKKlaim
"All but inciting a motorized version of 'The Purge'" may be my new favorite Yahtzee quote ever.
Isn't that called Twisted Metal?
But with a goal for it?
@@battlion507 TM does have a goal.....
a gamble wish
Basically akklaim needed Devolver Digital back then to show them how to do edgy marketing.
At least Devolver Digital have an idea of marketing.
And at least they admit it.
The difference is that Devolver Digital tend not to get any irl people hurt in the process. They have shocking marketing sure but it's the kind of shocking that doesn't leave a negative lasting impact. Not only that but Devolver Digital have made games that are fun and enjoyable before so that always helps sales.
I resent the idea that Burnout wasn't fun TBH
Devolver is also legitimately enjoyable to watch. People look forward to their E3 segments because it's fun to watch the latest gag they've got prepared. It doesn't hurt that their games are fun, but if their marketing wasn't fun it'd still fail. The biggest difference I think is that Devolver doesn't try to make you think any of their stunts are serious, whereas Acclaim played the straight man and always insisted it was all serious.
Devolver doesn't do edgy really. They do satire
Me: Pass the aux cable.
Friend: You better not play trash.
0:12
3:00 little Dovahkiin is 7 years old now.
4:02 and I'm 90% sure that forza did the same thing recently.
I still can't believe Bethesda did that and some idiot bit. Well you heard Yahtzee.. Time to old yeller the bastards.
are you sure? pretty sure i have seen a warning on that game that says "don't drive illegally k thx." when it boots.
@@mrcyberpunk wanna know the difference between Skyrim and Turok?
SKYRIM DOESN'T SUCK
@@chiefkeef74 I thought the difference was that you can't kill a bear with a wooden cart in Turok.
@@neoqwerty or that you can't kill a warrior with some of the best armour by hitting him once with a fork in Turok
1:45 He's not joking, btw. The Olsen twins really did sue Acclaim, funnily enough.
I laughed my ass off at that courtroom scene. Dunno why but I find it hilarious
"I MEAN WHAT THE FUCK YOUR HONOR" That cracked me up like mad. You're not alone.
The way Acclaim is leaning against one palm is a great touch.
guguy00 I think it’s the crazy eyes that really sells ot
*sees the video in recommended*
Me: Wait a minute, that’s not a game, is that...
Video: let’s all laugh at an industry that never learn anything tee hee hee
me: *YES!*
"He's on fireeee!!!!"
I'd LOVE to get more gaming history lessons form Yahtzee - if nothing else, it means we'll get to hear that iconic jingle a lot more often ;)
This is one hell of a trip down memory lane. Thanks for preserving these crazy antics for all to remember.
If you think that one guy can't ruin company's repututation then I have one name for you: *Randy Pitchford*
Karakuioshi I think he’s just saying it’s suspiciously convenient to have everything pinned on one man when there were surely others making decisions too
Is that the Gearbox guy or the Fable guy?
@@MalcontentFlower The Gearbox guy
@@benjamincook8479 thx
I remember having lots of fun with turok evolution back in the day, so seeing it here on the thumbnail and knowing yahtzee's clinical nature had me worried.
The facts of this story alone are already hilarious. You gags on top of it made it all too much.
Well done!
I can hear the jingle in my head before the video has even begun lol.
"Painting Virtual Tennis logos on to the wings of a pigeon."
You made that up. You *had* to have made that up.
*Yahtzee shows headline from newspaper.
Holy shit, you did not make that up.
Acclaim may of had the big dumb dumb, but I love them for the masterpiece and many memories of Burnout 2
Burnout 2 was one of my favourite games as a kid.
The memories of playing that game with my brother are priceless. He used to always crash into "the non-moving bus!" as he'd call it...
All these years later and we still mention the non-moving bus.
Personally I’ll always prefer burnout 3
*May have
Still the best original soundtrack in any driving game
I still play my turok rage wars every now and again.
You know a company made some big mistakes when they have their own “Controversies” section on their Wikipedia page
Acclaim was my childhood. It wasn't that good now that I think about it.
They had their moments (few and far between, but a few).
Hey, Extreme G still holds up today.
Acclaim was your childhood, unfortunately it was a neglectful, abusive one.
Its ok childhoods aren't all gonna good
Acclaim will always remind me of my favorite childhood horrible wrestling game, Showdown: Legends of Wrestling. Rushed out innovationless plop with zero single player content, more bugs than a shed full of horse manure and a character customization more limited than Stone Cold Steve Austin's elbow movement, and yet I love it dearly because it was my first ever pro wrestling game.
BMX XXX was legit a great bike game tho. my dad bought it for me when I was like 10 lol.
They had a lot of great underrated games like IGGY'S RECKIN BALLS
Wtf your dad buying you that at 10???
Did he really get it for himself? Did your mom ever find out?
oh god iggys reckin balls was dope, i remember that shit. Wetrix? Tetrisphere? Mischief Makers?
@@TheGuardDuck she wasn't alive so nope gg
@@JustinDoesntLookAt Ouch. So, you played a porn game at 10??
@@CherryFlavoredAntAss WOW. That's disappointing any way you slice it.
And then years later, Bethesda tried something similar to that Turok stunt to promote Skyrim, because the industry truly never learns anything.
Tee hee hee.
IIRC, they didn't encourage it, someone just happened to do it and they gave them some cash and merch.
I really love Re-volt from acclaim, though. For the time that rc racing game had amazing physics, graphics and fun tracks :)
Extreme G Racing is pretty good as well, I discovered this franchise only last year
I learned that Burnout 3 was going to be way darker when Acclaim still had the IP. The beta names were Burnout 3: Crash+Burn and Burnout 3: See you in hell. Also when you crashed, you could hear screaming, a car horn beeping, sirens, organ music, or a flatline noise and a eerie soundtrack plays during the crash. I guess when they went out of business and Criterion moved to EA, EA saw this and changed it.
>Also when you crashed, you could hear screaming, a car horn beeping, sirens, organ music, or a flatline noise and a eerie soundtrack plays during the crash
Wasn't that used in Burnout Revenge instead? I certainly remember the "impact time" "theme" for that game being a series of droning sounds.
I'm not sure if the takedown element was introduced when Acclaim was still under the hands of Burnout franchise or EA introduced this stuff later when they take it over.
"Lets all laugh at a industry that never learns anything, Tee Hee Hee"
The best jingle ever created
Yes, Nathaniel. That is in fact something that is said in the video. Very good!
@@harrylane4 I picked up a very condescending tone in this comment and it very much amuses me.
"Lets all post quotes from the video for likes Tee Hee Hee"
I hate the social media generation...
@@suicidalbanananana 'lets all have a go at people posting innocuous quotes from the video and then blame it on the social media generation to cover up the overwhelming darkness in my life... Tee hee hee'
"occasional guide to r-word moments in g-word h-word" is such an excellent joke with great visuals
Re-Volt was a pretty damn good game, just sayin'
smoothvirus haven’t heard that game since 2000
@@mikedawolf95 It stayed a cult game- and received unofficial patches till Dec 2013.
The community website is still up and seems to be active. I think you can get it for free, I remember LGR doing a video on it ages ago.
It still receives updates to this day, search for RVGL, that's Re-Volt's latest version updated by the community.
@@Latias4Ever it runs on win 10?
That jingle never fails to bring a smile to my face.
In the UK Acclaim basically became Atomic Planet - a company I had the misfortune to briefly work for (somehow getting in on a work experience job) in the early 2000s. While a few of the guys there were great I was stuck helping out on Miami Vice for PS2. Holy shit was that a dumpster fire of a game. They also told us at one point they wanted to make a Vietnam war FPS, but we had about 9 weeks to do it.. no that is not a typo. Basically there was some decent talent there but one of the producers was a complete arsehole with literally no idea what the fuck he was doing. They actually put me in a designer position which again was mental because I was pretty damn inexperienced.
@@jadedheartsz 30 bucks? Dear god I feel for you there! I picked up the PS2 version for like 50p a few years back for the lolz. The only thing I really worked on that made it into the game appears to be the art gallery level where I clumsily tried to implement a chase scene. I wanted the warehouse level to be like a MGS-style stealth level but the game engine we were making the game with was being coded in-house and was actually unfinished.
I don't know anything about this company but I remember seeing their name on Re-Volt and that game was awesome
Same
"Acclaim's terrible ideas collectively feel like a test of the old adage that there's no such thing as bad publicity."
Did Ooblets devs watch this episode one week early from Escapist website?
@@AleK0451 don't forget "why don't you losers get angry about things that actually matter, like late stage capitalism"
@@Abigflamingstink bruh i hadnt even heard that one
At the time Turok: Evolution was one of my favourite FPS games to play co-op with my friends after school.
"Acclaim Game Lame Name Shame"
3:10
You've done it again, Yahtzee
Now I know what happened to my beloved Turok series... :(
WHAT?! The fact they even almost went through with paying people for commiting speeding crimes is insane. Some execs are out of touch with the world
Acclaim had made one game that will be always special to me, and thats Vexx. i loved it and because of it,i will alwayys have respect for Acclaim
Omg Vexx was my shit! I played that so much as a kid and always wished for a sequel. Who even owns the rights nowadays?
Ahhhh so that's where I know the logo from! Honestly don't think I've played literally any other game from Acclaim. Certainly didn't recognize any of the ones Yahtzee mentioned.
Vexx was a huge part of my childhood aaaaa 🥺💕
I want a Zero Punctuation on Re-volt.
yung cash register that game was my childhood
I still remember that game fondly!!
B A Z Z B L A C⬆️ C⬆️
I had so much fun with the map editor... I even tried to recreate the map you see when you select a costome map!
Oof, right in the childhood. I still remember the day I discovered user made content in that game, it was like the gates of RC-racing heaven had opened before me!
This is the hardest I've laughed at one of your videos. My God, it's comedy gold
"Let's all laugh at an industry that never learns anything, tee hee hee"
It would appear that I am aroused.
The day Yahtzee reviews Roller Coaster Tycoon
Marks the day I sold my soul for a cupcake.
HA
GOOD ONE!
We're still making doki-doki references
Let's not stop
@@pygmalion0451 I'm trying to stave him off with my own consistent request.
Either that, or he's accepted that Yahtzee already reviewed HuniePop while explaining the mistake that led to him reviewing DDLC.
@@pygmalion0451 im pretty sure i saw him on either last weeks video or the week before, he's still doing his same request, literally unchanged possibly on every video, i guess his comments get buried now
At 2:14 I actually thought you were joking. Holy shit, that was dark.
Dave Mirra's BMX 2 on the gamecube was awesome if you ask me, cheatcode all levels, and play wipeout mode, thats a lot of fun, but house rule that you cant just hold on to a car for your entire round in order to get all the points
This is still one of my favorite videos when it comes to laughing at the industry. The fact that these ideas were implemented at all is just astounding to me no matter how many times I watch this video.
And I just realized by staring at the Acclaim logo that those are just two really slanted C's. I thought it was a giant K all this time.
Can Yahtzee please make a feature length documentary on the history of the gaming industry? In his usual pace and style of course. Thanks in advance.
I'm surprised Yahtzee didn't mention my favorite good game from Acclaim, namely Re-Volt. For anyone who doesn't know, it was a racing game about RC cars.
used to play that a lot as a kid when it came bundled in a gaming magazine
I swear I ALWAYS thought Acclaim was spelled AKlaim. Look at those "C's" they look like a "K" with the side of the "A"
Huh, so the legends were true about the Fall of Aklaim Entertainment. I remember being told about them long ago when I was a wee lad playing Turok for the first time.
I remember Acclaim! One of my uncles once talked about getting a ticket as part of that promotion! He was probably joking, but honestly, he would have been nuts enough to do it.
I still own BMX XXX. My favourite stipper in the game was Logan though the game seemed to care more for this Asian girl.
YES! I love these ‘Let’s all laugh at an industry-’ videos
Christ I remember all of these stunts...I'm disappointed i dont know anyone actually named Turok
If I recall correctly someone did name their child turok but they refused to pay up.
I wish they did a marketing stunt like this for the Legends of Wrestling series. Like, I don't know, a PPV named after one of the games with people from the game's roster wrestling, with Hulk Hogan vs Iron Sheik as the main event, with one of them moving at the pace of erosion and the other not healthy enough to take a bump to the outside of the ring.
You know, I always wondered what happened to Acclaim . . . but never cared enough to Wiki it myself.
Thanks Yahtz!
“Let’s all laugh at an industry / that never learns anything TEE HEE HEE!”
Greatest. Jingle. Ever!
Honestly my only childhood memories of Acclaim were Re-Volt and Machines, two games I actually really enjoyed. (I hate the current owners of Re-Volt, turning the game into a micro-transaction cash-grab for content they didn't even create)
They had the full port of Re-Volt on the App Store with all PS1, Dreamcast, and PC cars and tracks, minus the build a track mode, and loved it because I played the crap out of that game. They took it off and turned it into the money grabbing game on android only.
Dang i love this little Intro-Jingle
*Thehehe!*
fun fact you can find a story about the BMX XXX game, Dave was totally into it, HIS SPONSORS on the other hand made him drop it
HELL YEAH, another one of these! Thanks a lot, Yahtzee; you're the man!
Acclaim? Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time.
I mean, Bethesda also did the whole “name your baby after our game” thing when Skyrim was released on 11/11/11. Some woman here in the US actually named her baby Dovakin and was given a free collector’s edition of Skyrim and maybe a small amount of cash xD I don’t recall anyone getting upset at that though lol.
UA-cam does it again I find it hard to believe I missed this video let alone never heard any of this go down. Good stuff.
0:20 after interviewing John Ramero in person he just refers to him as a "developer with a bad hairdo" 😂☠
There is a silver lining to this story, because several people from Acclaim (among others) would go on to found Retro Studios, and we all know how that turned out.
Well. It turned out really well.
Fun fact, a relative of mine worked for acclaim when it liquidated, so I got a toooon of free ps2 games for it, so yeah, most of my ps2 collection for a while consisted of acclaim games, don't even care, Turok Evolution was boss, and so was Vexx
‘No-one registered aardvark entertainment’ well it wouldn’t matter anyway because they’d still be below Aardman Studios, if we’re counting non-gaming entertainment studios.
"Lets all laugh at a industry that never learns anything tee hee hee"
You know its gonna be an especially good video when you hear this jingle
That jingle is pure dopamine in the form of a song
2:55 Anyone else reminded of when Bethesda did this for Skyrim?
Name your child Dovakiin and get Bethesda games for life.
Those were the days, now Bethesda might be the next Acclaim
"Ah fuck someone actually did it. We can't afford to give away a free individual copy of all our games. Better burn this bitch down to get out of it"
Better than being named fallout 76.
Hey Bethesda, I think I saw some free money out behind the woodshed
4:00
The Akklaim Purge starts in 3...
2...
1...
It's amazing to think that, back in the mid to late 90s, Akklaim and EA were nearly the same size.
"Breakpoint" contraceptives?! I love it. I´d stock them right next to my "I am legend" sextoys.
So...the entire triple a video games industry is nothing more than a big shittier version of Acclaim...3 times the Acclaim=Triple A
Anyone remember how they attempted to make A mascot in the form of Vexx? Damn that game was underrated.
I'M SO HAPPY TO SEE SOMEBODY MENTION THIS GAME
It's so underrated and deserved so much more 😭😭😭
I really liked Turok Evolution, personally.
If ever there were a "loudness war" on UA-cam your intro music would be winning it.
clearly the glitch mob remix of 7 nation army would win
Aardvark made Frak! on the BBC Micro in the ‘80s
Big black commercials?
"Plop", at least in the context with which it is used here, may be my favorite word.
Well, this sure brightened my day. Lolol
Man does it feel good to hear that jingle again.
So Turok evolution /was/ a bad game. Well that explains a lot
@@DMBlade4 don't postshame >:(
Who remember Machines: Wired for War. That was a great game and my introduction to both real time strategy as well as FPS games.
Weren't Acclaim also the publishers who had the genius idea to launch a new MMO on the same servers on their existing MMO, thus rendering both completely unplayable on launch day (9 Dragons and 2 Moons)?
No, that's Acclaim Games. They were created when the former CEO of Activision bought the rights to the Acclaim name for $100,000 when Acclaim entered bankruptcy. They were eventually bought out and closed in 2010.
oh what a throw back, in my childhood i loved shadow man and turok, didnt know any of the rest of this