Veteran Publisher Majesco Exits The Video Game Business

what'll happen to the intellectual properties then? i loved cooking mama 5, thanks to derek from cgrundertow.

That's a shame. I guess they stopped being successful after the DS era. Some of the mama games weren't that bad.

@Jamotello
Likely sold off.

Edit: actually, it looks like they made very few, if any, games themselves. So the rights will remain with the developers who will need new publishers. (silly me, I have a habit of getting devs and publishers mixed up).

Are those IPs their property or did they just publish them?

@Piersen
Published, so yeah, the rights remain with the devs, who will need new publishers for their games.

Just bought cooking mama 5 to pay my respects.

I really don't see how they can apply the resources they had in Majesco, as publishers, to a biotechnology company.
But to each his own, I guess.

Only one of that list I've played is Bomberman Generations. It's alright I guess, its been ages since I played that though.

This is ridiculous!!! The mama games were gigantic sellers (check vgchartz.com ). Why would they give that up?! This world has gone mad! 😱

I look forward to Tissue Engineering Mama on the Switch.

Well, another company gone. This seems to be the generation where more companies are closing their doors. The last time I really remembered a lot of companies closing their doors was around the end of the Genesis and Super NES era, where there were many companies that just got lost after...remember Virgin Games and some of the others????? Global Gladiators (Genesis) and the MC Kids (NES) were pretty tough and enjoyable games for their times, even if they did have to deal with the McDonald's logo.

@Christmas The creators still have the licenses, so you still could see more come out, but I wouldn't count on them for a while, but yeah, the Cooking Mama's, Babysitting Mamas and Gardening Mama's were actually really popular games.

@Ryu_Niiyama
Cooking Mama 6 (3DS Japan only) was the last Cooking Mama on 3DS.

Very shocking to hear.
It will be "Sayonara Mama" for all these circumstances.

I first heard of these guys when they took on the work of reprinting the Mega Man X series for the SNES in North America, and last heard of them for Cooking Mama.

Not the worst legacy, and since they were mostly just a publisher, this won't be a Hudson kind of situation (poor Bomberman, though!). Always sad to see another one exit the game, though.

@World
They ended up on ps4. Sony manufacture.
How miserable their ending ?
Like a famous Clown that should be a boring businessman due to bad circumstances. (Identic with one of Fairly Odd Parents episode who has episode of searching for the Clown parent's).
Sony is now like that stupid Pixie company from Fairly Odd Parents in my opinion. Sorry for my harsh opinion.

Poor C Mama! I loved 2. May have to check out 5.

Who's gonna teach me how to cook now there isn't going to be another Cooking Mama game.

What a shame. It sounded like they were close to going when they re-released A Boy and His Blob on PS4 and XBox. I still have that great game on Wii.

@PlaytendoGuy
We will miss Cooking Mama series.
Meanwhile...
Cooking Mama on PS4 = Mama working as a Slave for stupid Pixie Corporation from Fairly Odd Parents. Play it with Moves ? Ugh...Pffft....sorry. It will completely ruined the Cooking Mama brand.

Maybe they're planning to publish Atlus's next Trauma Center game...

@Anti-Matter you must really hate Sony.

Cooking Mama was good! Although, the new consoles aren't really setup for this type of game.....unless the Switch has a touch screen.

@UK-Nintendo
Probably. But I still like their older product (just only ps1 and ps2). The reasons I can't deny ps1 and ps2 because.... I LOVE DDR. DDR was born from ps1, I can't hate my beloved DDR, also FF VIII, SF Alpha 3 that appears on ps1. While for ps2, I Like Para Para Paradise, K-1 series, Guitar Freaks & Drum Mania series, FF XII, Bomberman Battles, etc. I can't deny those wonderful games, at least Japanese ps2 games that I can found for my collection is almost 30 titles, combined by US version (DDR again, lol) and ps1 for backward compatible, it will more than 40 titles altogether. Also, ps1 and ps2 was my video games when I was Teen. But.... I still wait the right time to rebuy Japanese ps2 brand new or used, if... I changed my mind. Kiss of Love for ps1 & ps2 but Rejection for ps3, ps4, psp, ps vita and next Sony machines. I'm done with Sony, except ps1 & ps2.

That's pretty sad. I wonder how this came about.

Aw, that's a shame. I actually liked the Cooking Mama games...

Not "better than mama" 😟

@Anti-Matter Hmm... I don't care enough to play import prices. I won't be doing another import run until April anyway.

@whanvee
Mama will not happy about that.
She will probably says "Gosh ! Even worse than Mama !"

"Oh, majestic."

I couldn't pass up this JonTron pun, especially when lighting up the mood is so crucial these days.

I never played any of those games listed so I'm not too sad about it.

Ehh, I'm pretty indifferent to this news.

I remember seeing Majesco's name on so many shovelware movie/TV licensed games that were given to me as Christmas presents... yeah.

How awkward that must be for their employees, who joined the company expecting to be in the game industry!

Their skill set allows them to produce prototype(beta), & full/complete programs/simulations that can be used for more medical efficiency, provided the programs are accurate regarding body, & chemistry/chemical interactions. ...I would assume a medical co. would already have such a thing. Though I'm probably not thinking of alternative uses for such a co. as Majesco.

Wow very sad news, Majesco had some great game back in the 90's and 00's

Homeless mama now.