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BAM! ENTERTAINMENT EXPANDS PLAYSTATION® 2 OFFERINGS WITH TWO NEW ACTION TITLES DUE THIS SPRING

San Jose, Calif. (February 19, 2002) - BAM! Entertainment (Nasdaq: BFUN) today announced that it will publish Riding Spirits and Savage Skies for the Sony PlayStation 2. The company released its first PlayStation 2 title, Driven, less than two months ago. Riding Spirits is a motorcycle racing game being developed by Spike, best known for developing Fire Pro Wrestling, which BAM! launched on the Game Boy® Advance last summer. Savage Skies is being developed by North Carolina-based game development studio, iROCK Interactive. Riding Spirits and Savage Skies are scheduled to ship this spring.

"We are very pleased to boost our PlayStation 2 lineup so rapidly and with such excellent titles," said Bernard Stolar, President and Chief Operating Officer of BAM! Entertainment. "Riding Spirits and Savage Skies represent high quality gameplay from top quality developers in the industry."

Riding Spirits is a motorcycle racing game developed by Spike, a critically acclaimed developer and publisher based in Tokyo, Japan. Riding Spirits offers more than 150 licensed motorcycles from Honda, Honda Racing, Yamaha®, Suzuki®, Kawasaki and others top manufacturers. Offering both single and two player modes, Riding Spirits features an advanced graphics and physics engine that meticulously models the look and performance of every motorcycle whether it is a Kawasaki 2900 Super4 or a Honda CBR® 900RR Fireblade.

 

 

Savage Skies is being created by North Carolina-based development studio, iROCK Interactive. iROCK was founded in January 2000 by Virtus Entertainment, co-founder of Red Storm Entertainment and Timeline Studios. Savage Skies is a flying creature action game, set in a mythological world where a war is being waged between three factions vying for total control of the kingdom. Over 27 unique missions and the ability to unlock up to 24 creatures, 7 multiplayer levels, and tons of hidden gameplay modes make Savage Skies the definitive creature combat game for Sony's PlayStation 2.

 

For more information or artwork on Riding Spirits or Savage Skies for the PlayStation 2, or on BAM! Entertainment's other products, visit www.bam4fun.com.

About BAM! Entertainment, Inc.

Founded in 1999 and based in San Jose, California, BAM! Entertainment, Inc. is a developer, publisher and marketer of interactive entertainment software in North America and Europe. The company develops, obtains, or licenses properties from a wide variety of sources, including global entertainment and media companies, and publishes software for video game systems, wireless devices, and personal computers. The company's common stock is publicly traded on Nasdaq under the symbol BFUN. More information about BAM! and its products can be found at the company's web site located at www.bam4fun.com.

This release contains statements that are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based on current estimates and projections about BAM! Entertainment's business, which are derived in part on assumptions of its management, and are not guarantees of BAM! Entertainment's future performance, as such performance is difficult to predict. Therefore, actual outcomes and results may differ materially from what is expressed or forecasted in such forward-looking statements due to numerous factors. Such factors include, but are not limited to those described in the final prospectus dated November 14, 2001 relating to the initial public offering of BAM! Entertainment, which was filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Readers of the release are referred to this filing. BAM! Entertainment does not intend to update any of these forward-looking statements after the date of this release.

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