Acclaim Studios Teesside was a British

United Kingdom

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 video game developer based in Teesside

Teesside

Teesside is the name given to the conurbation in the north east of England made up of the towns of Middlesbrough, Stockton-on-Tees, Redcar, Billingham and surrounding settlements near the River Tees. It was also the name of a local government district between 1968 and 1974—the County Borough of...

, England

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. The company was founded in 1988 by brothers Darren and Jason Falcus as Optimus Software. Optimus was acquired by American

United States

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 developer Iguana Entertainment

Iguana Entertainment

Iguana Entertainment, renamed Acclaim Studios Austin after 1999, was a video game developer operating from 1991 to 2004 in Santa Clara, California, Sunnyvale, California, and Austin, Texas in the USA, and Teesside, England...

 in 1993 and was renamed Iguana UK. Finally, Iguana UK was acquired by Acclaim Entertainment

Acclaim Entertainment

Acclaim Entertainment was an American video game developer and publisher. It developed, published, marketed and distributed interactive entertainment software for a variety of hardware platforms, including Sega's Mega Drive/Genesis, Saturn, Dreamcast, and Game Gear, Nintendo's NES, SNES, Nintendo...

 in 1995 and became Acclaim Studios Teesside.

Darren and Jason Falcus remained with the company until 2000, when they left to form Atomic Planet Entertainment. At the same time, Acclaim made a sharp cut in the number of employees at Acclaim Studios. The studio was finally closed in 2002, with many staff being relocated to Acclaim Cheltenham

Acclaim Cheltenham

Acclaim Cheltenham was a game studio in Cheltenham, England that was founded in 1984. They were acquired by Acclaim Entertainment on October 10, 1995...

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Games developed by Iguana UK/Acclaim Studios Teesside

• College Slam
  College Slam
  College Slam is a college basketball console game published by Acclaim. Its gameplay is nearly identical to NBA Jam, on which it is based. It includes most major Division I colleges, but there are many, such as the University of Tennessee, the University of Notre Dame, and Mississippi State...
  
  
• NBA Jam
  NBA Jam
  NBA Jam is a basketball arcade game developed by Midway in 1993. It is the first entry in the NBA Jam series, and was written entirely in assembly language. The main designer and programmer for this game was Mark Turmell...
  
  
• Forsaken
  Forsaken (Game)
  Forsaken is a 3D first person shooter video game. The game was developed by Probe Entertainment for the Microsoft Windows and PlayStation and by Iguana UK for the Nintendo 64, and distributed by Acclaim Entertainment...
  
  
• Frank Thomas Big Hurt Baseball
• Shadow Man
  Shadow Man (video game)
  Shadow Man is a video game developed by Acclaim Studios Teesside and published by Acclaim Entertainment. It was designed by Guy Miller and Simon Phipps and is loosely based on the Shadowman comic book series published by Valiant Comics. The game was released in 1999 for the Nintendo 64,...
  
  
• Shadow Man: 2econd Coming
  Shadow Man: 2econd Coming
  Shadow Man: 2econd Coming is an action-adventure video game developed by Acclaim Studios Teesside and published by Acclaim Entertainment. It was released in 2002 for the PlayStation 2 and is loosely based on the Shadowman comic book series published by Valiant Comics...