MIDWAY INKS DEALS FOR FAMED LICENSED CARTOON PROPERTIES STATIC SHOCK, SUPER DUPER SUMOS, JUSTICE LEAGUE AND OZZY & DRIX

Highly Rated Kids’ WB Cartoon and DC Comics’ Static Shock, Nickelodeon’s Super Duper Sumos, Cartoon Network and DC Comics’ Justice League and Kids’ WB Hit Cartoon Ozzy & Drix Deliver Edgy, Gross-Out Action Adventures to the Game Boy Advance

LOS ANGELES – May 14, 2003 (E3 Booth # 800, South Hall) – Midway Games Inc. (NYSE: MWY), a leading software industry publisher and developer, announced today that the highly rated Kids’ WB cartoon and DC Comics’ Static Shock, Nickelodeon’s highly-rated cartoon and the number one kids import from the UK, Super Duper Sumos, Cartoon Network and DC Comics’ Justice League and the Kids’ WB hit cartoon Ozzy & Drix will be developed into videogames and are scheduled to ship for the Game Boy Advance in fall 2003.

“From sumos with big butts to the greatest super heroes of all time saving the world from a triple threat, Midway’s Game Boy Advance line-up is poised to give gamers a fun and unique gaming experience with the shows and characters they love,” said Helene Sheeler, vice president of marketing, Midway.

About Static Shock

Static Shock, the highly rated, supercharged Kids’ WB cartoon series, “sky surfs” to the Game Boy Advance. Join the hip action adventures of Virgil Hawkins as he transforms into the electromagnetic teenage super hero, Static. Gamers try to defeat the super villains, such as Hotstreak and The Breed, with Static’s superpowers as they sky surf, generate force fields, and throw bolts of lightning. With characters and environments straight from the hit cartoon series, gamers will explore vast, larger-than-life levels.

About Super Duper Sumos

Super Duper Sumos, Nickelodeon’s highly rated cartoon series and the UK's number one kids import, brings giant buttocks to the Game Boy Advance for the first time. In this fast-paced action adventure, three 18-year-old sumos travel to the modern world with ancient powers to help defend the innocent and assist in battling the evil Ms. Mister and her cohorts. Super-sized heroes in a normal-sized world, the sumos use their special powers – “Gluteus Maximus,” “Honorable Thunderball” and the “Sumo Squeeze” - to double in size and destructiveness in order to fight evil. Gamers can choose to play as Boomer, Defender of Peace; Kimo, Defender of Honor; or Mamoo, Defender of Truth.

About Justice League

Based on Justice League, the hit Cartoon Network series and DC Comics’ favorite super heroes, Justice League brings a new hard-to-beat, “Super Powered” force to the Game Boy Advance. Super villains have unleashed a triple threat for global domination and it’s up to the greatest super heroes of all time, the Justice League, to save the world from danger. Justice League provides gamers with an interactive, episodic adventure that simulates the stylistic, animated appeal of the popular series with a new, distinct, dynamic look and feel.

About Ozzy & Drix

The hit cartoon series from the Kids’ WB, Ozzy & Drix, comes to life on the Game Boy Advance. Gamers embark on a totally contagious, infectious, gross-out adventure with the popular cartoon characters based on the major motion picture Osmosis Jones. Ozzy, a white blood cell “cop” and Drix, his over-the-counter cold pill sidekick, battle infections within the body of Hector Cruz, an average teenager. They’re “private eyes” ready to wipe out anything that threatens Hector’s health and happiness, such as the common cold, otherwise known as the “Phlegm-alanche.” Ozzy & Drix spend their days and nights guiding the “City of Hector” through the dangers, trials and tribulations of adolescence.

Midway Games Inc. is a developer and publisher of interactive entertainment software. Midway videogames are available for play on videogame platforms including the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system, Xbox®, Nintendo GameCube™ and Game Boy® Advance. For more information about Midway Games visit www.midway.com

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This press release contains forward-looking statements concerning future business conditions and the outlook for Midway Games Inc. (the "Company") based on currently available information that involve risks and uncertainties. The Company's actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements as a result of these risks and uncertainties, including, without limitation, the financial strength of the interactive entertainment industry, dependence on new product introductions and the ability to maintain the scheduling of such introductions, technological changes, dependence on major platform manufacturers and other risks more fully described under "Item 1. Business - Risk Factors" in the Company's current Annual Report on Form 10-K and the other filings made by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

STATIC SHOCK and all related characters and elements are trademarks of DC Comics. © Milestone Media, Inc. Distributed under license by Midway Home Entertainment Inc.

OZZY & DRIX, characters, names and all related indicia are trademarks of and © Warner Bros.

JUSTICE LEAGUE and all related characters and elements are trademarks of and © DC Comics.

SUPER DUPER SUMOS © 2003 DIC Entertainment Corp. Software © 2003 Midway Home Entertainment Inc. All Rights reserved. SUPER DUPER SUMOS, and all related characters, names and indicia are trademarks of and © 2003 DIC Entertainment Corp. Distributed under license by Midway Home Entertainment Inc.

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