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LJN Toys was founded in 1970 by Jack Friedman, who later founded THQ and Jakks Pacific. The name LJN came from the initials of Lewis J. Norman, the reverse of Norman J. Lewis, whose toy company had employed Friedman as a sales representative in the 1960s. Lewis initially backed the company financially, but later sold his interest to a Chinese investor.In 1985, MCA, which had been actively acquiring companies in the mid-1980s, acquired LJN for $66 million or $67 million in an effort to retain more profits from the merchandising of its film properties.In 1986, LJN started publishing video games, nearly all of them for the Nintendo Entertainment System, but its games have been notorious for having abysmal design flaws such as lack of recovery time, limited attack range, etc, as well as most of the studio's games were outsourced, sometimes to studios who mostly do top notch games like Atlus (Snowboard Kids, Shin Megami Tensei, Xexyz, etc.), Westone (the Wonder Boy studio) and Rare (Golden Eye 1997, Banjo-Kazooie, Conkers Bad Fur Day, etc.).Compare Acclaim and THQ, two other game studios that mostly make bad games (however, THQ did get better); Contrast Capcom and Konami, the polar opposites of LJN.
Games published by LJN:Rare
Bits Studios
Sculptured Software
Beam Software
Software Creations
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Enteractive
Grey Matter
AtlusPack-In-VideoProbe Entertainment
Rocket Science Productions
WestoneBroadsword Interactive
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