ELECTRONIC ENTERTAINMENT EXPO, LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

May 9, 2000--Build your own real estate empire from the ground up with Hasbro

Interactive's (NYSE:HAS) MONOPOLY TYCOON(tm) game, an all-new way to experience the world's greatest game. Now you're the big-time real estate developer in charge of making all the decisions. You can buy your favorite property from the MONOPOLY game, decide how to develop it and then, if you're successful, keep your 3D city running smoothly and its residents happy. But the challenge doesn't end there. Campaign against other would-be tycoons for the ultimate honor of becoming the mayor of your 3D city. In addition, MONOPOLY TYCOON sets a new standard as the only city-building sim game that truly creates a real-world experience by allowing you to go head-to-head with other players in real-time Internet play.

"Monopoly Tycoon melds the best of Monopoly and Roller Coaster Tycoon, taking Monopoly's signature `own it all' theme to fun new levels in a simulation game that's going to have very broad appeal," commented Tom Dusenberry, President, Hasbro Interactive.

MONOPOLY TYCOON begins in the 1930s, when the original MONOPOLY game was introduced, and progresses in real-time through the decades up to the year 2000. As the game advances, the architecture of the buildings and the needs and professions of the people change according to the decade. Players get to see their city in the daylight and wee hours of the late night, and every hour in between. There's lots of work to do and decisions to hash through, as players compete to become mayor of the city and try to be the first to earn $1 million, or be the wealthiest player by the year 2000.

With a click of the mouse, players interact with the city's residents to find out what the people need and want. Listening to the residents of their fair city helps players formulate strategies to determine what properties to buy and how to develop them. Make your city the most successful by constructing residential, commercial and industrial buildings that keep the population happy and offer the best deals around.

"We're excited about the opportunity to take Monopoly's gameplay to a dramatically deeper level," said Clive Robert, Director of Deep Red Games, the game's U.K.-based developer. "Monopoly Tycoon will have all the fun detail of a great sim game, along with the nostalgia-evoking Monopoly themes that we all grew up with. People are going to want to spend countless hours with this game."

From the animated MR. MONOPOLY, who serves as your on-screen guide and auctioneer, to all the classic icons, like BOARDWALK, MARVIN GARDENS, READING RAILROAD and the WATER WORKS, the MONOPOLY TYCOON game includes all of the classic elements of the MONOPOLY game. The fun plays out in the developer's great attention to detail. For example, tokens selected at the beginning of each game represent where player's fortunes, or misfortunes, come from. If a player selects the race car as their game token, his or her money will come from auto racing, of course. The "COMMUNITY CHEST" newspaper chronicles historic events that effect game play and keep a log of real estate transactions within the current game for all players to see and learn from.

The MONOPOLY TYCOON game (Windows(R) 95/98) is the only city-building simulation game that can be played simultaneously with up to three other players on LAN or via the Internet. The MONOPOLY TYCOON game is suited for ages 12 and up.

The MONOPOLY TYCOON game will be shown at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, May 11-13, in the Los Angeles Convention Center, (Hasbro Interactive, Booth no.946 in the South Hall).

Hasbro Interactive, Inc. is a global entertainment industry leader, innovating new ways to play and developing, publishing and distributing the highest quality interactive games and lifestyle products for a full range of genres and platforms. A subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc. (NYSE: HAS), Hasbro Interactive has offices in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Germany and Australia, and internal development studios in the U.S. and U.K. For further information, visit Hasbro Interactive's Web site at http://www.hasbro-interactive.com.

MONOPOLY is a registered trademark of Hasbro, Inc.

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