Atari Ships Highly Anticipated Follow-up to Best-selling Dragon Ball Z Title

Dragon Ball Z: Legacy of Goku II Delivers More DBZ Action to Fans Worldwide

BEVERLY, MA - June 17, 2003 - The next episode in the Dragon Ball Z® adventure, Dragon Ball Z®: The Legacy of Goku II(tm) for the Nintendo Game Boy® Advance, hits retail stores nationwide today, Atari, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATAR) announced. The follow-up to the best-selling role playing game for the Nintendo Game Boy® Advance in 2002, according to The NPD Group, Inc., Dragon Ball Z®: The Legacy of Goku II(tm) delivers a DBZ adventure of epic proportions, continuing the DBZ story and extending gameplay by four times the length of the original.

"The overwhelming popularity of our Dragon Ball Z® games and The Legacy of Goku in particular, has extended the Dragon Ball Z® experience to audiences worldwide," said Nancy MacIntyre, vice president of marketing, Atari's Beverly studio. "With the release of Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku II(tm), we are providing fans with another authentic Dragon Ball Z® game while continuing to strengthen our line of interactive DBZ products."

In Dragon Ball Z®: Legacy of Goku II(tm), players assume the role of Trunks®, Vegeta®, Piccolo(tm), Gohan® or Goku® as they journey through the next episode in the DBZ adventure. The game spans from the Trunks Saga through the Cell Games and culminates in a head-to-head battle with the mighty Cell himself. Players train, fight and fulfill quests as they advance their way through over 200 maps in order to battle the evil Cell.

Developed by Webfoot Technologies, Dragon Ball Z®: Legacy of Goku II(tm) is available for the Game Boy® Advance at retail nationwide for a suggested retail price of $29.99 and is rated "E" for Everyone. For more information on this title, please visit www.dbzgamer.com or www.dragonballz.com.

About FUNimation
Focusing on quality entertainment properties such as Dragon Ball Z®, FUNimation Productions, Ltd, is a full-service brand management company with in-house production, licensing, Internet, home video distribution and toy divisions. With over 15 million videos sold and over 8.5 million hits per day on its web site, www.dragonballz.com, Dragon Ball Z® is a top rated series on Cartoon Network and was the most searched for topic on the Internet for 2002 (also #1 in 2001), becoming "the first topic to ever repeat atop the Web's Most Wanted," according to the Lycos 50 Daily Report. FUNimation also produces: Dragon Ball®, now airing on Cartoon Network; the eagerly awaited sequel to Dragon Ball Z®, Dragon Ball GT®; Yu Yu Hakusho(tm), one of the top anime of all time, now airing in the USA on Carton Network's Toonami Block; Lupin the 3rd(tm), one of the longest running anime classics; Fruits Basket(tm), based on the top selling manga in Japan; and Blue Gender(tm), a sci-fi anime series. For additional information on FUNimation and its properties check out www.funimation.com.

About Atari
New York-based Atari, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATAR) develops interactive games for all platforms and is one of the largest third-party publishers of interactive entertainment software in the U.S. The Company's 1,000+ titles include hard-core, genre-defining games such as Driver(tm), Enter the Matrix(tm), Neverwinter Nights(tm), Stuntman(tm), Test Drive®, Unreal® Tournament 2003, and Unreal® Championship; and mass-market and children's games such as Backyard Sports(tm), Nickelodeon's Blue's Clues(tm) and Dora the Explorer(tm), Civilization®, Dragon Ball Z® and RollerCoaster Tycoon®. Atari, Inc. is a majority-owned subsidiary of France-based Infogrames Entertainment SA (Euronext 5257), the largest interactive games publisher in Europe. For more information, visit www.atari.com.

 

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