Redeemed Themselves?

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This thread is largely dead, but I can't help myself.

There was once a studio founded in California back in 1996. Their first game was released in 1998, was a hockey game called Olympic Hockey 98 released under Midway. Thing was, this project was essentially a two year old game with the famous hockey player's endorsement removed. They literally did the thing where annual sports games are the same thing with a new logo, down to having the same cheat codes as in 1996. The 1996 original wasn't even that well received back in 1996, being overshadowed by hockey games from EA, Virgin Interactive, and Sony. It is officially the lowest rated game ever on IGN, which gave it a score of 0/10, and even the relatively kind-hearted reviewers called it "shameless attempt to make money."

Treyarch would go on to develop NHL 2K3 and NHL 2K5, possibly the best rated Hockey games ever released from anyone outside EA. They also released the Dreamcast and Xbox versions of the first two Tony Hawk games and then Spider-Man 2 and Call of Duty: Black Ops. Their name? Albert Einstein Treyarch.