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== Specific Companies ==
* [[Acclaim]] and LJN Toys (which merged in 1990) were really, ''really'' bad for this during the 8- and 16-bit days. A similar [[Video Game]] company, [[THQ]], has gotten better with it over the years, but Acclaim didn't learn its lesson and continued to produce crap until its eventual bankruptcy (and limited [[Revival]] as a distributor of Korean [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPG]]s). LJN and Acclaim were so bad at this that they received extreme scorn as [[The Angry Video Game Nerd]]'s most hated game companies.
* Brash Entertainment did ''nothing '''but''''' these games, with their ''[[Alvin and The Chipmunks]]'' and ''[[Jumper (novel)|Jumper]]'' tie-ins receiving some of the absolute lowest scores this generation. Naturally, the studio was quickly shut down 18 months after being formed.
** Incidentally, Brash were working on a ''[[Saw]]'' game just as they went under; Konami eventually snagged the publishing rights from their ruin and the final game ended up being somewhat decent. Well, except for the combat system.
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