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ACCLAIM ENTERTAINMENT'S 'DAVE MIRRA FREESTYLE BMX 3' BRINGS
BMX FUN TO GAME BOY® ADVANCE THIS HOLIDAY SEASON
GLEN COVE, NY, November 25, 2002 - For owners of the Game Boy® Advance, this holiday season will certainly be filled with great BMX action as Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ.SC: AKLM) has shipped Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 3. The third installment in the Company's award-winning Dave Mirra franchise, which has sold more than three million units worldwide, Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 3 offers all-new new tricks and features that takes the genre to new heights on the hand-held system.
"Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 3 is the best portable game in this series and delivers even more countless hours of fun and excitement," said Ben Fischbach, Brand Director for AKA Acclaim.
Developed by Full Fat, Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 3 is all about big air, grinding rails, riding ramps, jumping gaps and pulling the sickest tricks imaginable. Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 3 offers an exciting array of features, including:
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The "King of BMX" Dave Mirra plus Ryan Nyquist, Colin Mackay, "Luc-E" Englebert and Mike Laird;·
11 huge levels, spanning different environments from airports to oil tankers;·
Everyone's favorite BMX disciplines, including vert, dirt, street and flatland.·
Create-a-Rider - from new bikes to buy to an upgradeable trick book;·
More tricks than any other hand-held BMX game;·
Awesome in-game soundtrack, featuring New Found Glory, Greenday, Saliva and Ten foot Pole.·
Super-competitive, link-up multiplayer mode will pit you against your friends in a number of different games of skill.
Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 3 is currently available for Game Boy® Advance at a suggested retail price of $29.99. For more information on AKA Acclaim's BMX games, please visit www.acclaim.com.
About Acclaim Entertainment
Based in Glen Cove, N.Y., Acclaim Entertainment, Inc., is a leading worldwide developer, publisher and mass marketer of software for use with interactive entertainment game consoles including those manufactured by Nintendo, Sony Computer Entertainment and Microsoft Corporation as well as personal computer hardware systems. Acclaim owns and operates six studios located in the United States and the United Kingdom which includes a motion capture and recording studio in the U.S., and publishes and distributes its software through its subsidiaries in North America, the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Spain. The Company uses regional distributors worldwide. Acclaim also distributes entertainment software for other publishers worldwide, publishes software gaming strategy guides and issues "special edition" comic magazines from time to time to support its time valued brands, Turok and Shadow Man. Acclaim's corporate headquarters are in Glen Cove, New York and Acclaim's common stock is publicly traded on NASDAQ.SC under the symbol AKLM. For more information please visit our website at www.acclaim.com.
The statements contained in this release which are not historical facts, are "forward-looking statements." Acclaim cautions readers of this press release that a number of important factors could cause Acclaim's actual future results to differ materially from those expressed in any such forward- looking statements. These important factors, 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 factors that could affect Acclaim, are described in Acclaim's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended August 31, 2001, and Acclaim's subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, all of which were filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Readers of this press release are referred to such filings.
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