Liquid Media Acquires Rights to 65 Classic Acclaim Entertainment IPs

Canadian production company Liquid Media Group has acquired the rights to 65 classic intellectual properties that originally belonged to the legendary Acclaim Entertainment.

Liquid Media has acquired a nice chunk of classic game IPs like Bubble Bobble, various Bust A Move titles, and oddly enough – the game adaptation for Street Fighter: The Movie, which is the live-action movie based on the Street Fighter game franchise starring Jean Claude Van-Damme, Raul Julia, and others.

The rights were originally purchased by Throwback Entertainment back in 2006, who sold the 65 properties to Liquid Media. Throwback has been re-purposing older games themselves, with re-releases of titles like TrickStyle for PC and Extreme-G 2, also for PC.

It’s worth pointing out that Liquid Media does not wholly own the rights to these IPs, in fact they only own the rights to the stock-keeping units (SKUs) of the various titles.

This means they have partial rights to reproduce the games but original copyright holders, like Taito’s iconic Bubble Bobble, will present big legal hoops for Liquid Media, as Taito is now owned by Square Enix, and Acclaim Entertainment originally had only rights to publishing the 1996 PC port for Bubble Bobble, while the franchise rights still remain with Taito, and now Square Enix.

Naturally, each game will have to be assessed fully by Liquid Media to see how much use they can make of them with a re-release or something. Here’s the entire list of properties the company now owns the rights to: