Interplay to sell all gaming IP including Earthworm Jim, Descent, MDK

[Delicieuxz]

Interplay to sell all gaming IP including Earthworm Jim, Descent, MDK

 

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The video game developer and publisher Interplay Entertainment should trigger some great gaming memories for the older gamers out there. Founded in 1983, this is the company that brought us such classics as the Descent series, MDK, Earthworm Jim, Freespace, Messiah, Clay Fighter, Battle Chess, and the list goes on. 

That was in the past, though, and more recently Interplay has hit on hard times. The last time we really heard anything from them was after the sale of the Fallout IP to Bethesda when they were determined to still make a Fallout MMO. There’s also the more recent licensing of Descent allowing for the creation of the Kickstarter project Descent: Underground. 

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The IP being offered includes: 

Battle Chess
Boogerman
Clay Fighter
Dark Alliance
Descent
Earthworm Jim
Freespace
Kingpin
M.A.X.
Messiah
MDK
Redneck Rampage
Run Like Hell
Sacrifice
T-Rex Rumble
Giants 

 

Throughout the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s, Interplay has been developer and publisher for many great IPs, including Fallout, Bard's Tale, Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, those listed above, and many others.  One of my personal favourite Interplay-published games is Cyberia. The company was originally co-founded by Brian Fargo, who is now CEO of InXile. Fargo resigned from the company in 2000, due to management disagreements with the company's then majority shareholder.

 

Since none of these fantastic IPs have been utilized by Interplay for many years, selling them off to companies who hopefully will make use of them sounds good, to me. I really hope for a new MDK, Freespace, and Earthworm Jim.

[Trik'Stari]

Earthworm Jim was the shit back when I was young.

 

God I loved that game, no matter how terrible I was/am at it.

[CoffeeandBagels]

Interplay was a huge name in PC gaming for me. I think they carried Wizardry as well in the later years if I am not mistaken.

[Dabombinable]

15 minutes ago, Trik'Stari said:

Earthworm Jim was the shit back when I was young.

 

God I loved that game, no matter how terrible I was/am at it.

To this day, I find its on-disc DRM quite a lot stronger than current stuff. I can't copy it off the CD to any computer. No matter what I do. I can't even make a working iso image.

[SteveGrabowski0]

3 hours ago, Trik'Stari said:

Earthworm Jim was the shit back when I was young.

 

God I loved that game, no matter how terrible I was/am at it.

 

I loved the second one, it was so random 

 

[Rune]

Battle Chess. Holy balls I remember that.

[That Norwegian Guy]

Descent? Is anything going to happen to the new Descent game in development?

The one Wingman from Star Citizen left to work on

[goodtofufriday]

Im surprised this is coming out on here now. This news is over a week old and i know someone already trying to get some assests. 

 

It seems that they are not selling off their games or code, just the licenese to use their names on products. 

[Sors]

If this leads to the creation of a new Descent game, I support the decision of selling the IPs.

[dalekphalm]

8 hours ago, That Norwegian Guy said:

Descent? Is anything going to happen to the new Descent game in development?

The one Wingman from Star Citizen left to work on

That shouldn't be an issue at all. Interplay has already granted them a license to create their game. I doubt the new owners (Whoever ends up buying them) can easily retroactively cancel that license agreement.

 

What I'm most looking forward to, is Freespace 3! Man Freespace 1 and 2 are some of the best space sims ever created (yes I know, not true Newtonian physics, a bit more arcadey), and they also have some of the best single player stories/campaigns of all time as well.

[TidaLWaveZ]

14 hours ago, Trik'Stari said:

Earthworm Jim was the shit back when I was young.

 

God I loved that game, no matter how terrible I was/am at it.

 

I've been playing the first game on my shield recently, it's not just you these games are hard AF.

[Delicieuxz]

8 minutes ago, dalekphalm said:

That shouldn't be an issue at all. Interplay has already granted them a license to create their game. I doubt the new owners (Whoever ends up buying them) can easily retroactively cancel that license agreement.

A software license is a legal property of the license-holder, which is subject to all laws, and the reasonable person test. And so, license-terms cannot be unilaterally changed by either side of the license agreement, and any sale would preserve the identity of licenses already sold.

 

8 minutes ago, dalekphalm said:

What I'm most looking forward to, is Freespace 3! Man Freespace 1 and 2 are some of the best space sims ever created (yes I know, not true Newtonian physics, a bit more arcadey), and they also have some of the best single player stories/campaigns of all time as well.

Me too.

[Delicieuxz]

2 minutes ago, TidaLWaveZ said:

I've been playing the first game on my shield recently, it's not just you these games are hard AF.

I find the second one even more difficult than the first one. Ugh, those puppy love levels.

[That Norwegian Guy]

3 hours ago, dalekphalm said:

That shouldn't be an issue at all. Interplay has already granted them a license to create their game. I doubt the new owners (Whoever ends up buying them) can easily retroactively cancel that license agreement.

 

What I'm most looking forward to, is Freespace 3! Man Freespace 1 and 2 are some of the best space sims ever created (yes I know, not true Newtonian physics, a bit more arcadey), and they also have some of the best single player stories/campaigns of all time as well.

I liked the Freespaces too, though I always preferred X2 and X3

Something about them appeals a little more to me, though I don't know what. Shame that the newest X was a trainwreck. I hope Freespace gets a proper game next time around.

[NavyCuda]

Interplay made the best star trek games.  It was a kick in the balls when secret of vulcan fury was canceled.

[Kozworth]

I hope a developer picks up Clay Fighter and makes a new one.  The nostalgia is so real right now! 

[AlexGoesHigh]

i only know about the sayings of earthworm jim but whoever picks that one, should make something good out of it.

[Crazy Ginger]

A new "descent" sounds like a decent idea!

[MoonSpot]

I could stand to see a handful of interplay titles recompiled into cheap mobile games, could see that panning out well by cashing in on impulse and sentiment.  I do not see a great deal of value in the names of these games themselves anymore.  It's been ages, decades of a whole lot of nothing; more than enough time to move on and lose any itch to expand on the story/gameplay from any user born in the 80s & 90s.

These should have been sold 15+ years ago if they weren't going to do anything with them, but that's just my immediate opinion after pensively scratching my neckbeard for several entire seconds and realizing that I no longer care about these games.

[Noctus]

M.D.K. !

 

Oh god the nostalgia.... What i'd give for a fully 2016 ultra settings remake of that game 

[Gullerback]

I'd love to see something done with Giants, I loved that game.

[PlayStation 2]

inb4 dan castellaneta comes back to voice earthworm jim

ik he's not his original voice actor but still

[KuJoe]

<3 Interplay, I still have this CD from my childhood:

 

EDIT: Is this image upside-down for everybody else or just me?

[dalekphalm]

14 hours ago, KuJoe said:

<3 Interplay, I still have this CD from my childhood:

 

EDIT: Is this image upside-down for everybody else or just me?

It's upside down lol

[KuJoe]

18 minutes ago, dalekphalm said:

It's upside down lol

Not sure why the forum flipped it, if you click on the image and click "Full Size" is it upside-down still?