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INFOGRAMES OFF TO A STRONG START FOR THE HOLIDAY SEASON RollerCoaster Tycoon® 2 Debuts at #1 in Its First Week
New York, New York, November 5, 2002 – With the rush of new PC games hitting retail stores for the holiday season, titles from Infogrames, Inc. (Nasdaq: IFGM) are already standing out from the pack. The Company’s RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 and Unreal® Tournament 2003 ranked #1 and #4, respectively, on the list of top-selling PC software and Dora the Explorer™: Backpack Adventure ranked #1 on the Home Education charts, for the week ended October 19th, according to NPDTechworld.
RollerCoaster Tycoon 2, the sequel to the smash hit RollerCoaster Tycoon® that started the Tycoon craze, landed at the top of the charts with less than a full week at retail. Unreal Tournament 2003, the hotly anticipated follow up to 1999’s “Game of the Year” award-winning Unreal® Tournament, continued its strong showing since its release at the end of September, ranking #4 on the charts. Unreal Tournament 2003 was the #1 selling PC game for its first two weeks in release and #3 for the week ended October 19th, excluding expansion packs. On the PC Home Education charts, Dora the Explorer: Backpack Adventure maintained its stronghold on the #1 slot, a position it has held for five weeks.
About Infogrames New York-based Infogrames, Inc. (Nasdaq: IFGM) is one of the largest third-party publishers of interactive entertainment software in the U.S. The Company develops video games for all consoles (Sony Computer Entertainment of America, Nintendo and Microsoft), PCs, and Macintosh systems. Infogrames’ catalogue of more than 1,000 titles includes award-winning franchises such as Civilization(R), Backyard Sports(TM), Deer Hunter(R), Driver(TM), RollerCoaster Tycoon(R), and Test Drive(R), and key licenses including Warner Bros. The Matrix(R), Warner Bros. Looney Tunes(TM), Nickelodeon’s Blue’s Clues(R), Dragon Ball Z(R), Unreal(R), Mission Impossible(R), Terminator(R), Harley-Davidson(R), Major League Baseball(R), and the National Football League(R), among many others. The Company’s Humongous Entertainment and MacSoft labels are leaders in children’s and Macintosh entertainment software, respectively.
Infogrames, Inc. is a majority-owned subsidiary of France-based Infogrames Entertainment SA (IESA) (Euronext 5257), a global publisher and distributor of video games for all platforms. In 2001, IESA acquired Infogrames Interactive, Inc. (formerly Hasbro Interactive), including rights to use its line of software based on well-known licenses such as MONOPOLY, Jeopardy(R), TONKA, and Atari(R), which are published and distributed in the U.S. by Infogrames, Inc. For more information, visit the Company’s Web site at
www.infogrames.com.Unreal® Tournament 2003 ©2002 Epic Games, Inc. Raleigh, N.C. USA Unreal and the Unreal logo are registered trademarks of Epic Games, Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. SIX FLAGS and all related indicia are trademarks of Six Flags Theme Parks Inc. ®, ™ and © 2002. RollerCoaster Tycoon II © Chris Sawyer. © 2002 Infogrames Interactive, Inc. All Rights reserved. RollerCoaster Tycoon is a registered trademark of Infogrames Interactive, Inc. on behalf of Chris Sawyer. Dora the Explorer © 2002 Viacom International Inc. All Rights Reserved. Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., Dora the Explorer and all related titles, logos and characters are trademarks of Viacom International Inc. © 2002 Infogrames, Inc. All Rights reserved.
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