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Acclaim Studios Salt Lake City

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Industry
  
Video game industry

Defunct
  
2002

Founded
  
1984

Headquarters
  
Salt Lake City, Utah

Formerly called
  
Sculptured Software, Inc. Acclaim Studios - Salt Lake City, Inc.

Key people
  
Bryan Brandenburg George Metos Peter Adams

Acclaim Studios - Utah, Inc., doing business as Acclaim Studios Salt Lake City, was a video game developer in the Salt Lake City, Utah metropolitan area. They specialized in porting games to different platforms, especially from arcade games to home console games.

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History

Sculptured Software Inc. was founded by Bryan Brandenburg, George Metos and Peter Adams in 1984. Paul Webb was usually the in-house composer.

Sculptured Software Inc. was acquired (in an all-stock transaction) by Acclaim Entertainment in October 1995. The Company was renamed Iguana West in 1997 and then Acclaim Studios Salt Lake City in 1999. The studio was closed in December 2002 due to Acclaim's financial problems and the remaining operations were transferred to Acclaim Studios Austin.

Notable figures

  • Bryan Brandenburg, president (1984–1986?)
  • Other notable relationships

  • Avalanche Software was founded by four former Sculptured developers in October 1995.
  • Kodiak Interactive was founded by George Metos (Sculptured co-founder) in 1997.
  • Hal Rushton became president of Saffire Corporation, (Sculptured manager, programmer, 1985–1994).
  • Software Arts International was founded by Bryan Brandenburg (Sculptured co-founder).
  • Cancelled

  • High Stakes (Game Boy)
  • Metal Flame Psybuster (NES)
  • References

    Acclaim Studios Salt Lake City Wikipedia