Accolade, Inc. was a video game company founded in 1984 and based in San Jose.
Created by an ex-executive of Activision, Accolade (so named so that their titles would appear on shelves before Activision's, alphabetically) initially focused on the creation of family-accessible sports titles, as the founder was both a sports enthusiast and deeply religious. They were primarily known for the Test Drive series of exotic-sports car racing games.
Accolade's 1990s move into the console game market resulted in their being sued by Sega for producing unlicensed game cartridges for the Sega Genesis (many of which were released under their Ballistic label). Accolade wound up winning the suit, but nevertheless became an official Sega licensee in 1993.
In 1999, Accolade was acquired by Infogrames (later Atari).
Games developed and published by Accolade:
- 4th & Inches
- Accolade's Comics
- Ace of Aces
- Altered Destiny
- Anatomic Man
- Apollo 18: Mission to the Moon
- Ballz
- Bar Games
- Barkley Shut Up and Jam! series
- Battle Isle 2
- Big Air
- Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
- Blue Angels: Formation Flight Simulation
- Brett Hull Hockey 95
- Bubble Ghost
- Bubsy series
- Card Sharks
- The Cardinal of the Kremlin
- Combat Cars
- Cyclemania
- The Cycles: International Grand Prix Racing
- The Dam Busters
- Day of the Viper
- Deadlock series
- Don't Go Alone
- Double Dragon (Sega Mega Drive/Genesis)
- Elvira series
- Eradicator
- Fast Break
- Fight Night
- Fireteam Rogue
- The Game of Harmony
- The Games: Summer Challenge
- The Games: Winter Challenge
- Gods (Mega Drive)
- Grand Prix Circuit
- Grand Prix Unlimited
- Gunboat
- Hardball! series
- Heat Wave
- Hoverforce
- Ishido: The Way of Stones
- Jack Nicklaus Golf series
- Killed Until Dead
- Law of the West
- Les Manley series
- Mean 18 Golf
- Mike Ditka Power Football
- Mike Ditka's Ultimate Football
- Mini-Putt
- Pelé series
- Pinball Wizard
- PO'ed
- Power at Sea
- Powerboat
- Pro Sport Challenge
- Project: Space Station
- Psi-5 Trading Company
- Rack 'Em
- Redline: Gang Warfare 2066
- Road & Car
- Serve & Volley
- Slave Zero
- Snoopy's Game Club
- Speed Racer in My Most Dangerous Adventures
- Speed Racer in The Challenge of Racer X
- Star Control series
- StarHawk
- Steel Thunder
- Stratego
- Strike Aces
- SunDog: Frozen Legacy
- Super Off Road (Mega Drive/Genesis)
- Test Drive series
- The Third Courier
- TKO
- The Train: Escape to Normandy
- Turrican (Mega Drive/Genesis, TG-16, Game Boy)
- Universal Soldier (Mega Drive/Genesis, Game Boy)
- Unnecessary Roughness series
- Waxworks (1992)
- WarpSpeed
- Zero Tolerance
- Zyconix
