{"id":2000,"date":"2000-07-05T14:50:00","date_gmt":"2000-07-05T18:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2000\/07\/05\/mattel-acquires-robotech\/"},"modified":"2000-07-05T14:50:00","modified_gmt":"2000-07-05T18:50:00","slug":"mattel-acquires-robotech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/mattel-acquires-robotech\/","title":{"rendered":"Mattel Acquires Robotech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The entertainment division of Mattel Interactive has announced that they have signed a licensing agreement with Harmony Gold to publish games based on the popular anime series Robotech. Mattel Interactive plans to publish Robotech games for the next-generation of console systems as well as for PC, beginning in the fourth quarter of 2001. Specific details regarding platforms and developers have yet to be announced. &#8220;Acquiring this license is an incredible opportunity for us,&#8221; said Mattel Interactive president Bernard Stolar. &#8220;This is a franchise that both gamers and anime fans have been anxiously awaiting for some time, and we fully intend to deliver content that&#8217;s going to make their wait worthwhile, both on console and PC.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Robotech&#8217;s grand, epic scale provides fertile ground for developing incredible console and PC games, and we&#8217;re looking forward to working with Mattel Interactive to add a new level of drama, fantasy and excitement to both the gaming and anime audience with our franchise,&#8221; says Alan Letz, senior vice president of sales and acquisitions for Harmony Gold.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.figures.com\/databases\/action.cgi?setup_file=fignews2.setup&#038;category=actionfigures&#038;topic=80&#038;show_article=48\" target=\"_blank\">Figures.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The entertainment division of Mattel Interactive has announced that they have signed a licensing agreement with Harmony Gold to publish games based on the popular anime series Robotech. Mattel Interactive plans to publish Robotech games for the next-generation of console systems as well as for PC, beginning in the fourth quarter of 2001. Specific details [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}