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Title: ZP's Yahtzee remembers Acclaim and their insane PR stunts
Post by: JasonPratt on August 07, 2019, 11:36:23 AM
The Zero-Punk man himself! -- the latest part of his wryly humorous series on game industry foibles.

Today's lesson: bad PR can maybe help a good game get some needed attention, but bad PR only makes rushed-out innovative-less plop peddlers into INSANE rushed-out innovative-less plop peddlers.

Title: Re: ZP's Yahtzee remembers Acclaim and their insane PR stunts
Post by: jamus34 on August 09, 2019, 07:25:51 AM
Oh yeah acclaim sure did shovel out some shit in the 90's.

It was like their corporate goal was to make 1 good game to maintain respectability and force out 10 crap games for money grab purposes.
Title: Re: ZP's Yahtzee remembers Acclaim and their insane PR stunts
Post by: JasonPratt on August 09, 2019, 07:56:11 AM
I had forgotten that they were originally involved in the Burnout series!