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Acclaim Entertainment Inc.
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NFL Quarterback Club '99 For N64 Ships Today
Last Year's Number One Football Game for the N64 Features New Sports Engine
GLEN COVE, N.Y., November 10, 1998 -Acclaim Sports, a division of Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ:AKLM), a leading worldwide interactive entertainment
company, announced that NFL Quarterback Club '99, the highly anticipated sequel to the top selling Nintendo 64 sports game of 1997, ships to retailers
nationwide today.
Featuring an all-new 3D sports engine, NFL Quarterback Club '99 has the most incredibly detailed and superbly animated players to ever be featured in a
sports video game. Nationally known NFL commentators, Mike Patrick and Randy Cross provide play-by-play and color commentary and senior NFL official, Jerry
Markbreit, calls all the infractions on the field. Thanks to Acclaim Studios proprietary N64 sound compression technology Quarterback Club has over 45
minutes of speech, five times the amount in last year's game.
NFL Quarterback Club '99 is the perfect balance of beauty and brains with all-new artificial intelligence designed with the help of New York Jets Offensive
Coordinator Charlie Weis and motion capture by the Jets wide receiver Dedric Ward. The game is once again endorsed by three-time NFL MVP Brett Favre.
"NFL Quarterback Club '99 is the closest representation of the NFL in a video game that I have ever seen and I am proud to be associated with it," said
Favre. "Last year's game was number one for the Nintendo 64, and this year's version is so much better, I have no doubt we'll come out on top again."
NFL Quarterback Club '99 is supported by national television, major market radio, print, on-line advertising and in-store merchandising, including
point-of-purchase displays and videos highlighting NFL Quarterback Club '99's gameplay and TV commercial. Additionally, as part of Acclaim's sponsorship of
Channel One, NFL Quarterback Club spots are featured in schools across the country. The NFL Quarterback Club '99 TV campaign, which features spokesman
Brett Favre and the Green Bay Packers offensive line, kicked off this past weekend on ESPN's Sunday Night Football and ABC's Monday Night Football. Spots
will continue to run throughout November and December during NFL broadcasts on ESPN, ABC, and CBS, as well as cable networks and syndicated series.
Other features of NFL Quarterback Club '99 include:
All 31 NFL teams, 6 NFL Europe clubs and the expansion Cleveland Browns
All thirty 3-D rendered stadiums and over 1500 players.
Developed by Iguana Entertainment, makers of NFL QBC '98 - the top selling sports title on N64 for 1997
All new 3D polygonal sports engine and characters featuring second generation Hi-Rez(tm) 640x480 graphics
250 all-new animations including player specific celebrations like the chicken dance, Mile High salute and goalpost punching bag.
All-new analog joystick passing system provides unprecedented control
Authentic team play styles: The 49ers West Coast Offense and the Steelers Ground Attack
Choose from 30 team specific playbooks or create your own.
Total Team Management includes: trading, drafting, signing and releasing players; managing the salary cap.
Replay key moments of all 32 Super Bowls in Historic Simulations or customize your own
Player attributes adjust during the season according to their performance
Create your own player, coaches profile, and teams including home and away uniforms
Attach a Nintendo 64 Rumble Pack(tm) and 'Feel the Power' of NFL QBC '99.
All-new player injuries and penalties that affect game and season play.
Track season-long team and player stats including individual league leaders
Instant replay and multiple camera angles including "create-a-cam"
Game, weekly, and season awards including Player of the Game and NFL MVP
6 modes of play: Practice, Exhibition, Season, Playoff, Tournament, Pro Bowl
In-game player highlights feature color photos and stat updates.
Acclaim Entertainment Background Information
Based in Glen Cove, N.Y., Acclaim Entertainment, Inc., is a leading worldwide publisher of software for Nintendo, Sony, Sega and personal computer hardware
systems. Acclaim also publishes comic books, operates motion capture studios, and distributes a variety of entertainment software from other publishers
worldwide. Visit Acclaim's Web site,
http://www.acclaim.net
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