Well for what it's worth there was some pretty good ads back in the Bleem!PC day:
And they got mentioned in the Wall Street Journal (see above ad) and TIME magazine:
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So Ironically, the stuff with Sony helped them, depending on how you look at it.
However, this ad (in Games Business
) bit them in the butt:
(I wonder if that number still works)
Plus, the concept that Bleem helped pioneer - commercial emulation via software from a 3rd party - wasn't big news anymore. Plus since they held up in court, there wasn't much new to report (other than Sony being a jerk).
Now, witness Smart's Soapbox
. Nutshell: Derek Smart is the man who started 3000AD, a company whose main software product to this point is Battlecruiser 3000AD
. That game was in development for seven years before being rushed to market by Take 2 Interactive, so he's self publishing the sequel, Battlecruiser Millenium
. In this rant, however, he expounds upon the reasons why it's so late to market, insulting everyone he's ever met and slamming on the people who might have bought the game. What a guy. He also states why BCM
is an "EB Exclusive", like the game Wizadry 8
, but in this case what "EB Exclusive" means is "no one else will sell/carry it". EB's cool like that - they'll sell what others won't. This is why they're cool about selling Bleem. However, if Fry's isn't selling Bleem (I've heard things) then Bleem, IMHO, should "spin" this to say that Bleem is an "EB Exclusive". Just a thought.