Accolade
| Accolade
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1984 |
| resolution | 1999 |
| Seat | San Jose , California , USA |
| management | Alan Miller and Bob Whitehead |
| Branch | Computer and video games |
Accolade was an American manufacturer of computer games . The company was founded in 1984 by Alan Miller and Bob Whitehead , who had previously left Activision .
history
According to legend, the name was chosen because it was alphabetically before Activision, the name of a competing manufacturer . In the 1980s in particular, computer games were produced for the most important home computers , including the Commodore 64 , Atari 400 and 800, Amiga , Apple II and the PC .
In 1992 Accolade was involved in a lawsuit with Sega . Accolade used reverse engineering to reconstruct the so-called lockout chip that the Japanese console manufacturer used to try to control which games were released for the Sega Mega Drive . However, the court upheld Accolade in its judgment of October 1992 (Sega Enterprises Ltd. v. Accolade, Inc., 977 F.2d 1510 (9th Cir. 1992)). In April 1999, the company was acquired by Infogrames (now Atari SA ) for US $ 50 million in cash. Infogrames hoped that the takeover would broaden its product range and give it a stronger foothold in the US market.
Important games
- Ace of Aces
- Altered Destiny
- Apollo 18: Mission to the Moon
- Bar games
- Bubsy
- Day of the Viper
- Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
- Elvira II: The Jaws of the Cerberus
- Grand Prix Circuit
- Grand Prix - The Cycles
- Hardball! (3D baseball simulation)
- Jack Nicklaus Golf (also for Windows)
- Les Manley in - Search for The King
- Les Manley in - Lost in LA
- Law of the West
- PSI-5 Trading Company
- Star Control
- Steel Thunder
- Gunboat
- Summer Challenge
- Test Drive (racing simulation series, also for Windows)
- Turrican ( e.g. for the Game Boy)
- Waxworks
- Winter Challenge
- Zero Tolerance (3D Shooter)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Los Angeles Times : Ruling Lets Sega Rival Copy Codes
- ^ Company News; Accolade Is Bought By Infogrames Entertainment ( English ) In: The New York Times . April 20, 1999. Retrieved August 17, 2012.