LJN

History

LJN Toys Ltd. was an American toy company and video game publisher founded by Jack Friedman in 1967. In 1987, the company was acquired by MCA. That same year, LJN began to publish movie tie-in and TV show-based games mainly for Nintendo consoles. The company was sold to Acclaim Entertainment in 1990 and published video games that Acclaim acquired the rights to. LJN also stopped distributing toys and would produce the Roll & Rocker accessory for the NES and create a console of their own, which was the LJN Video Art. The company is infamously known for a large majority of their games receiving negative reviews by gamers due to poor and confusing gameplay, unfaithfulness to the source material, and badly-designed graphics. However, some of LJN's games, such as Spider-Man & Venom: Maximum Carnage have garnered a bit more positive reception. LJN was dissolved in 1995 by Acclaim, but not before Jack Friedman founded THQ as his new independent company following the acquisition by MCA in 1990. The brand was often briefly used in some of the subsequent products made by Acclaim, such as Spirit of Speed 1937 (released in 2000). After Acclaim's demise in 2004, the brand was later used by Hasbro for their reproduction of LJN toys.

Releases

NES

Catalog number	Title	Developer(s)	Publisher	Size (KB)	Released	Notes
N/A	Gotcha! The Sport	Atlus	LJN	64	November 1987	TBD
N/A	Jaws	Atlus Westone	LJN	64	November 1987	TBD
N/A	The Karate Kid	Atlus	LJN	64	November 1987	TBD
N/A	Town & Country Surf Design: Wood & Water Rage	Atlus	LJN	TBD	February 1988	TBD
N/A	Major League Baseball	Atlus	LJN	TBD	April 1988	TBD
N/A	Friday the 13th	Atlus	LJN	TBD	February 1989	TBD
N/A	Back of the Future	Beam Software	LJN	TBD	September 1989	TBD
N/A	NFL	Atlus	LJN	TBD	September 1989	TBD
N/A	Who Framed Roger Rabbit	Rare	LJN	TBD	September 1989	TBD
N/A	The Uncanny X-Men	TBD	LJN	TBD	December 1989	TBD
N/A	Pictionary	Software Creations	LJN	TBD	July 1990	TBD
N/A	Back of the Future Part II & III	Beam Software	LJN	TBD	September 1990	TBD
N/A	A Nightmare on Elm Street	Rare	LJN	TBD	October 1990	TBD
N/A	WWF WrestleMania Challenge	Rare	LJNNA/PAL Hot-BJP	TBD	November 1990NA 1991PAL March 27, 1992JP	TBD
N/A	The Punisher	Beam Software	LJN	TBD	January 1991	TBD
N/A	Beetlejuice	Rare	LJN	TBD	May 1991	TBD
N/A	Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure	Rocket Science Productions	LJN	TBD	August 1991	TBD
N/A	Roger Clemens' MVP Baseball	Sculptured Software	LJN	TBD	October 1991	TBD
N/A	Wolverine	Software Creations	LJN	TBD	October 1991	TBD
N/A	Terminator 2: Judgment Day	Software Creations	LJNNA/PAL Pack-in-VideoJP	TBD	February 1992NA/PAL June 26, 1992JP	TBD
N/A	Town & Country II: Thrilla's Surfari	Sculptured Software	LJN	TBD	March 1992	TBD
N/A	WWF WrestleMania: Steel Cage Challenge	Sculptured Software	LJN	TBD	September 1992	TBD
N/A	Spider-Man: Return of the Sinister Six	Bits Studios	LJN	TBD	October 1992	TBD
N/A	Alien 3	Probe Software	LJN	TBD	March 1993	TBD
N/A	The Incredible Crash Dummies	Software Creations	LJN	TBD	October 21, 1993PAL August 1994NA	TBD
N/A	WWF King of the Ring	Gray Matter Eastridge Technology	LJN	TBD	November 1993	TBD