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Joelcool7 on 22 April 2008

 

Interplay is an old publisher that is finding new succes. The company hasn't really been active in the past few years. It pretty much went belly up but hung on by just a couple thousand dollars, in 2004 California officially closed Interplay. The company was evicted from its building and the employees went without pay getting fined and closed by the state government. In 2005-2006 the company went through a transitional phaze selling off its Fallout franchise to Bethsuda.

Using a couple million the company got for the sale of its FallOut franchise Interplay has relaunched its internal studio. This internal studio is at work on a new MMO version of FallOut,MDK,Decent ,DarkAlliance as well as a new EarthWormJim game and multiple other unknown projects.

So what indicates that Interplay is set to be the next Nintendo's next big studio?

Well first indicater that Interplay is set to be the next big Nintendo publisher. Interplay will be using the Virtual Console to earn additional funds to help keep the development of its sequels under way. The first two games confirmed for the virtual console are (EarthWormJim1+2,Boogerman,ClayFighter) but their are multiple other titles that Interplay can launch. Interplay has multiple other titles that they can release on the Virtual Console like Claymates , ClayFighter2:JudgmentClay , ClayFighter 63 1/2, EarthWormJim 3D. Interplay has a great line-up of classics they can utalize to bring in additional funds.

 

 

EarthWorm Jim the second game announced to come from the newly rebuilt publisher. However Interplay only has 6-million dollars to its name. The fact is the average decent budget game for PS3/360 costs upwards of ten million dollars. With only six million dollars and a couple projects underway the companies titles can't possibly all be coming for 360/PS3. Now yes Interplay has announced it will begin selling common stock they also expect the Fallout MMO will cost approx 75-million dollars. This means that the other titles like EarthWorm Jim are going to have to be a little cheaper. The Wii is the perfect format to develope a lower budget game. Using the popularity of the EarthWorm Jim series I think a 360 game might be very plausable.
 
So with Virtual Console games under way, a low budget and a massive marketing deal to bring both an EarthWorm Jim TV series and a movie. It would appear that Interplay is perfect for the Wii do you think Interplay is going to become a major player on Nintendo's platform?

 



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sc94597 on 22 April 2008

Never heard of them. Hope they do support the wii though. The more hardcore developers the better.



FreeTalkLive on 22 April 2008

If they sold Fallout, how can they use it?

To answer your question, no. They should put at least 4 Sega games on the VC, though. Hopefully, more will follow.



 

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ZenfoldorVGI on 22 April 2008
sc94597 said:
Never heard of them. Hope they do support the wii though. The more hardcore developers the better.

How can you have "never heard of" Interplay? I'm serious, how?



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yushire on 22 April 2008

"The Wii is the perfect format to develope a lower budget game. Using the popularity of the EarthWorm Jim series I think a 360 game might be very plausable."

 OK THEN, another cash in so is it another mini game for them to sell like Rayman so they can make real games on 360? Ingenious



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Viper1 on 22 April 2008
FreeTalkLive said:
If they sold Fallout, how can they use it?

To answer your question, no. They should put at least 4 Sega games on the VC, though. Hopefully, more will follow.

 I don't think it was noted in this article but I've read it earlier todeay.   Interplay will license the IP from the new owners.   Sounds odd but they make money this way.

 

SC94597, Interplay was a big player back in the 16 bit days so if you're recent to gaming, just think of them as an old gun getting out of retirement.



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sc94597 on 22 April 2008
Viper1 said:
FreeTalkLive said:
If they sold Fallout, how can they use it?

To answer your question, no. They should put at least 4 Sega games on the VC, though. Hopefully, more will follow.

I don't think it was noted in this article but I've read it earlier todeay. Interplay will license the IP from the new owners. Sounds odd but they make money this way.

 

SC94597, Interplay was a big player back in the 16 bit days so if you're recent to gaming, just think of them as an old gun getting out of retirement.


 I played alot of games back then, just never knew what developers made them, since I was pretty young(4-6). By the time I actually started to know who made the games I played they probably weren't too well known.  Yeah so I guess that is why I know little about them.  This is replying to zenfolder too. 



stof on 22 April 2008
sc94597 said:
Never heard of them. Hope they do support the wii though. The more hardcore developers the better.

 You've never heard of Interplay!? Clayfighter? Fallout? EARTHWORM JIM!?

 

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sc94597 on 22 April 2008
stof said:
sc94597 said:
Never heard of them. Hope they do support the wii though. The more hardcore developers the better.

You've never heard of Interplay!? Clayfighter? Fallout? EARTHWORM JIM!?

 

"We're DOOMED, DOOMED I tell ya! DOOMED, from the middle english meaning 'condemned to ruination or death'! DOO-MED!!


 That is the only one I heard of, and that wasn't until like a month ago.



quarashi on 22 April 2008
sc94597 said:
stof said:
sc94597 said:
Never heard of them. Hope they do support the wii though. The more hardcore developers the better.

You've never heard of Interplay!? Clayfighter? Fallout? EARTHWORM JIM!?

 

"We're DOOMED, DOOMED I tell ya! DOOMED, from the middle english meaning 'condemned to ruination or death'! DOO-MED!!


That is the only one I heard of, and that wasn't until like a month ago.


 Wow not even Earthworm Jim.  For Shame!!!!!



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