Do You Have What It Takes To Be The Sole Remaining Guardian Of Truth? N’Lightning Software Development Announces Catechumen(TM)

WASHINGTON, DC -- (INTERNET WIRE) -- 03/19/2001 -- N’Lightning Software Development, Inc. www.n-lightning.com today announced the release of Catechumen to the retail channel. Catechumen is an award-winning adventure game set in ancient Rome. The game is graphically rich, exciting, and educational. Catechumen is being marketed and sold to the US and European retail markets by CenturionSoft® a Software Abroad Company www.softwareabroad.com

“Catechumen is the first high quality, 3D, first-person Christian computer game ever produced,” said Ralph Bagley , President of N’Lightning Software Development. “While we are the first to admit that other Christian games have gone before us, none have ever directly competed against the top-selling secular games. Our game is intense, with an excellent story-line and is graphically one of the best on the market,” he added.

The main plot of Catechumen: Your mentor and brethren have been captured by the Demon possessed Roman soldiers. It is your job to work your way through the catacombs to free them. Satan has a powerful hand in the Roman Empire and has powerful foes to block your every effort. From the prison, in which your mentor is kept, he sends a plea for help to you.

Catechumen contains mild animated violence and has been rated appropriate for teenagers by the ESRB.

Minimum requirements include Windows 95/98/2000/ME, SVGA high color (16 bit), 64 MB Ram, 3D accelerator card, Windows compatible soundcard, Pentium 233 or higher processor, 2x CD-ROM drive Mouse, keyboard. The following are also recommended for optimum performance: 16 MB or higher video memory, Pentium 300 or higher processor, Soundblaster Compatible Soundcard, DirectX 7.0 (included).

Catechumen carries an MSRP of $19.95, and is now shipping. At the date of this release major retailer Babbages, Software-Etc. has agreed to carry Catechumen in over 450 of their retail outlets and other major retailers are expected to follow soon. On-line merchants include Amazon.com.

N’Lightning Software Development is based in Medford, Oregon and was created in April, 1999. The company is dedicated to bringing the gaming community high-quality first person games that have a historical and biblical basis. Another new title “Ominous Horizons™” is already under development and is set to be released in the summer of 2001. You can find N’Lightning Software Development on the World Wide Web at www.n-lightning.com

CenturionSoft is a Washington, DC-based software company that specializes in Windows software. It markets a number of leading products including Steganos 3 Security Suite™, a complete security solution for protecting privacy.

For more information, contact CenturionSoft www.centurionsoft.com at 202-293-5151, or visit www.sastore.com and www.catechumen.com.

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Contact: Michael Held Company: CenturionSoft – North America Phone: 202-293-5151 Email: mheld@centurionsoft.com

Contact: Jim Tyer Company: CenturionSoft – Europe/Asia Phone: 34-93-894-265 Email: Jtyer@centurionsoft.com

Contact: Dave Caputo Caputo Company: N’Lightning Software Development Phone: 541-245-9309 Email: dcaputo@n-lightning.com

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