It is, by far, the gaming company whose output is most frequently criticized by the Nerd.
LJN was a toy company and video game publisher that was notorious for its poorly made licensed video games. A rainbow of shit! LJN! " -The Nerd, Episode 112 - Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure Many episodes of internet reviewer The Angry Video Game Nerd have been based around LJN games."'' How many of these games are worthless?! All the LJN ones, I can tell ya that! But there are good games here, there are! Zelda, Mario, Metroid, Contra, Castlevania, Mega Man, but then, A BIG FUCKIN' SHITSTORM HIT IT! A SHITSTORM OF HORRIBLE GAMES! And at the middle of it all, a rainbow. Almost every game associated with LJN has been viewed as awful. LJN has become synonymous with badly-made games, despite never developing the games themselves. Even after Nintendo dropped its rule in the early 1990s, LJN still went on to publish several titles for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.Īll of LJN's video games were developed by external developers, although many of their video games did not disclose the developer. Unlike Ultra which was a brand name of Konami, LJN was still a legal company operating independently from Acclaim. Konami also utilized such tactics with their division Ultra. As a result, companies like Acclaim used divisions such as LJN to produce more games than Nintendo would have allowed. During the 8-bit gaming era, Nintendo, as a form of quality control, regulated the number of titles to appear on its console, the Nintendo Entertainment System. Acclaim rid LJN of its toy division and re-branded it exclusively as a video game developer. MCA finally agreed to sell LJN to Acclaim in March 1990 for cash and Acclaim common stock.ĭuring the time the company was owned by Acclaim, LJN mostly retained the same movie/cartoon direction for their video games it pursued under MCA. In 1989, MCA decided to sell LJN after years of losses since 1987. Although this was LJN's first foray into the video game business, it was not for MCA who had previously started MCA Video Games, as a joint venture with Atari, to create coin-operated and home games and computer software based on various MCA properties. LJN began publishing video games for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1986. In 1985, MCA, which had been actively acquiring companies in the mid-1980s, acquired LJN for $66-67 million in an effort to retain more profits from the merchandising of its film properties. Lewis, whose toy company Friedman had been employed by as a sales representative in the 1960s.
LJN was founded in 1970 by Jack Friedman, the companies name came from the initials of Lewis J.
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