VIVENDI UNIVERSAL PUBLISHING AND LEGACY INTERACTIVE ANNOUNCE DISTRIBUTION DEAL FEATURING MASS MARKET FRANCHISES

Five Interactive Games Inspired by Reality-Based TV Shows Will Debut in Fall 2001

Torrance, CA - August 15, 2001 -- Vivendi Universal Publishing (VU Publishing) and Los Angeles-based Legacy Interactive, creator of the successful Real Life Game series of interactive PC and MAC CD-ROM simulation games, today announced a distribution deal including five new Legacy Interactive games. Under the agreement, VU Publishing will distribute the games worldwide.

Titles covered by the distribution deal include:

* Vet Emergency: Combining Legacy’s popular emergency medical game with the exciting, challenging, and sometimes heart-wrenching experience of veterinary medicine, you’re responsible for the well being of every cat, dog, bird and exotic animal in an urban vet clinic.

* 911 Paramedic: Life on the streets of LA can be tough. They are even tougher when you’re a paramedic making life or death decisions while balancing the chaos of medical emergency situations.

* Emergency Room Code Red: When the entire city is in a state-of-emergency, it’s up to you to save the sick and injured as well as manage the staff of the ER. Combining the fast-paced drama of a television show with the interactive realism of a computer game, this emergency experience will get even the most novice gamer’s heart pumping.

* Combat Medic: Desert Storm: One day you’re an attending physician in a metropolitan hospital, the next you’re airlifted to the middle of the desert in the heat of war. Taking on responsibilities of an Army Reserve surgeon, you must manage supplies, treat war-inflicted wounds and deal with the constant pressure of a warfare environment.

* Moon Tycoon: Space is the final frontier and it’s up to you to colonize the rugged lunar landscape. In this ultra realistic, fully 3-D Sim/strategy game, players build colonies, create industries, trade with Earth and alien races, and survive the perils of life in space.

“Throughout the world, people are captivated by reality-based TV shows and these titles bring the excitement, drama, and real-life scenarios that fans enjoy with the added element of interactivity,” said Philip O’Neil, Senior Vice President of Vivendi Universal Interactive Publishing North America. “We are thrilled to work with Legacy Interactive to help bring exciting reality-based games to gaming enthusiasts everywhere.”

All five new Legacy Interactive games promise to build on the company’s success in developing realistic, interactive entertainment that offer photo-realistic graphics and video, expert databases, maximum player control, and multiple options at every turn. In April, Legacy released Emergency Room 3 along with the online ERsim.com. To date, more than 150,000 customers have played ERsim.com online and more than half a million units of its Emergency Room CD-ROM series have been sold.

“We believe the deal with Vivendi Universal Publishing will help continue our record of highly profitable growth,” said Legacy CEO Ariella Lehrer. “We look forward to leveraging their sales and distribution strength to create a broader reach for our unique series of games.”

About Legacy Interactive

Legacy Interactive® is an interactive entertainment company that creates and sells realistic simulation games for CD-ROM and the Internet. The company’s success derives from the development of Real Life Games™ based on licensing the rights to popular television shows. To date, Legacy Interactive has sold over half a million copies of its popular, award-winning Emergency Room® series that includes: Emergency Room 2, Emergency Room Disaster Strikes, Emergency Room Life or Death, Code Blue, and most recently, Emergency Room 3. The Company is at the forefront of cutting-edge multimedia convergence offering an online, interactive version of Legacy Interactive’s successful ER games -- ERsim.com <http://www.ERsim.com> – which allows users to play and create unique medical cases online. Recently, Legacy Interactive has formed an interactive partnership with TLC (The Learning Channel) and the network’s popular medical documentary series, Trauma: Life in the E.R.

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