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Michelle Seebach
Acclaim Entertainment
516/656-2273 or
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ACCLAIM SHIPS SOUTH PARK DECEMBER 21 FOR THE NINTENDO 64
Highest-Rated Cable Series on Comedy Central Arrives on N64 for the Holidays
Glen Cove, N.Y., (November 19, 1998) -- Gamers can now experience what life in the hit Comedy Central series "South Park" is like on their N64 or PC in
full 3-D! Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKLM), a leading worldwide interactive entertainment company, will ship the anxiously-awaited South Park
action game on December 21 in time for this year's holiday season. The South Park game is based on the wildly successful television series and developed
with the input of the show's creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker.
"Acclaim has captured the show's true nature and I think "South Park's" fans will be thrilled," said Larry Lieberman, vice president of strategic planning
and new business development at Comedy Central.
South Park is a hilarious, action-packed adventure game, which unfolds in five episode-based, single-player adventures. Gamers can choose to play as Kyle,
Stan, Cartman or Kenny in single player mode, or select among a host of 20 South Park characters when engaged in multiplayer mode. The storyline begins
when a mysterious comet, visible every 666 years, is discovered to be heading right for the quiet little town of South Park. The comet causes all kinds of
silly mayhem: turkeys revolt and wreak havoc, robots attack the townspeople, and aliens abduct the town's cows. It is up to Kyle, Kenny, Cartman and Stan
to save the day and bring peace to South Park using a host of gadgets including a Cow Launcher, Sniper Chicken, snowballs, Terrance and Phillip dolls, and
everyone's favorite - Mr. Hankey, the Christmas poo. Along the way, players encounter all of South Park's classic characters - Mr. Garrison and Mr. Hat,
Mephisto, and Chef.
Acclaim's Iguana Studio, South Park's developer, will utilize and build on technologies from its other games including Turok 2: Seeds of Evil, All-Star
Baseball '99, and NFL Quarterback Club '99. The development team created its own proprietary speech compression technology in South Park in order to
include the several hundred soundbites recorded by the show's creators exclusively for the game. South Park's game engine has been modified so that each
character's emotions are shown in his facial animations, with dialogue synchronized to mouth movements. The development team is also working on PC and
PlayStation versions, which will be released early next year.
"Acclaim is pleased to announce that the South Park game will reach store shelves in time for this holiday season," says Steve Lux, vice president of
marketing at Acclaim Entertainment. "The development team worked long and hard to create a hilarious action-packed title that is sure to be on the top of
gamers' holiday shopping lists."
Acclaim will support the launch of South Park with a multi-million dollar nationwide marketing campaign targeted to adult males including televised
advertisements on Comedy Central's "South Park" cable show. Acclaim has also included an additional warning label on the game's box cover warning
purchasers of South Park's adult content and language.
COMEDY CENTRAL Background Information
COMEDY CENTRAL, the only all-comedy network is currently available in over 55 million homes nationwide. COMEDY CENTRAL, a registered trademark of Comedy
Partners is a 50-50 joint venture of Time Warner Entertainment Company and Viacom. COMEDY CENTRAL's Internet address is
www.comedycentral.com
. For up-to-the-minute and archival press information and photographs visit COMEDY CENTRAL's press-only website at
www.press.comedycentral.com
. User name: Press; Password: Comedy.
Acclaim Entertainment Background Information
Based in Glen Cove, NY, 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. Check out Acclaim's South Park Web site at
http://www.acclaim.net
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