NewKidCo
Announces 2001 Video Game Lineup Spotlighting
Sports and Adventure
New Video Game
Titles Featuring Favorite Kid Franchises Reflect
Kids' Interest in More Interactive, Animated
Action
NewKidCo
International Inc. (OTC BB: NKCIF; TSE: NKC)
announced today the company's 2001 all-star
lineup of hand-held and console video game titles
produced especially for kids.
NewKidCo's eagerly
awaited new titles feature all-time kid favorite
characters and properties including Tom and
Jerry(TM), Disney's Goofy, the lovable Dragon
Tales(TM) and Sesame Street(TM) crews, as well as
a full lineup of titles based on E.T. The
Extra-Terrestrial, in advance of the 2002
twentieth anniversary release of America's most
beloved family movie of all-time - featuring new,
never-before-seen footage and digitally enhanced
character artwork.
"Our
2001 lineup is the most exciting and
groundbreaking video game series we've offered to
date", said Henry Kaplan, Chief Executive
Officer of NewKidCo. "Our new titles offer
kids competitive game play and great video game
action, the two things that all game players
desire."
NewKidCo
will preview and hold personal and group
demonstrations for its 2001 Lineup at the
upcoming Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the
epicenter of the interactive entertainment
industry, taking place May 17-19, 2001 in Los
Angeles. NewKidCo's booth number is 2116 and can
be found at West Hall.
Here's
a sneak peak at the titles scheduled for preview
and demos at E3 in May and their expected release
dates:
Disney's
Goofy's Fun House (PlayStation(R)One) -May 2001
Kids will have a goofy
good time as they search all over Goofy's house,
yard and throughout town to collect missing items
and be rewarded with 6 full-length classic Goofy
cartoons. Includes five mini games...golfing,
skiing, fishing and more.
Sesame
Street Sports (PlayStation One and Game
Boy(R)Color) - June 2001/July 2001
It's sports-action made
just for kids! Sesame Street Sports combines the
excitement of big kids' extreme sports video
games with age appropriate controls and three
skill levels for young children.
E.T.:
Digital Planner (Game Boy Color) - August 2001
E.T.: Digital Planner
combines the best features of today's leading
PDA's with animation, pictures, color, music,
games and fun... all with an extra terrestrial
"techno feel."
E.T.:
The Extra-Terrestrial (Game Boy(R)Advance) -
September 2001
E.T.: The
Extra-Terrestrial brings kids the entire E.T.
adventure! It all begins with E.T. stranded in
the forest at night, being chased by government
agents and ends with him being picked up by his
long over-due spaceship and saying good-bye to
his new friend Elliot.
E.T.: Escape from Planet
Earth (Game Boy Color) - October 2001
E.T.: Escape from Planet
Earth is an action-adventure and puzzle game
which features both E.T. and Elliot working
together to find the necessary parts to build a
transmitter that will enable E.T. to "phone
home."
E.T.: Interplanetary
Adventure (PlayStation One) - October 2001
E.T.: Interplanetary
Adventure features E.T. being sent to various
planets, across the galaxy, to deal with
environmental emergencies threatening each
planet's existence.
E.T. & The Cosmic
Garden (Game Boy Color) - October 2001
E.T. & The Cosmic
Garden is a real-time adventure game in which
E.T. manages a space-age botanical laboratory. He
must learn to deal with a host of
"unique" inhabitants (some friendly and
some not so friendly), mechanical failures and a
variety of other unpredictable intergalactic
challenges.
Tom and Jerry: The Magic
Ring (Game Boy Advance) - October 2001
Based on Warner Bros.
much anticipated video release of the same name,
Tom and Jerry's first outing on Game Boy Advance
combines combat and story modes for two unique
types of game play.
Dragon Tales Adventures
(Game Boy Color) - September 2001
It's off to Dragon Land
in this magical "gentle adventure" game
featuring all the things kids love best about
this top ranked PBS show... like flying, wishing,
exploration, having fun with friends and
obtaining goals.
During E3 2001, NewKidCo
will also preview some titles from its 2002
lineup - a new, power-packed variety that feature
some of the most familiar and best loved
characters - each possessing universal appeal!
Here's a sneak peak at a few of the titles for
first half of 2002:
Tom and Jerry in the Big
Brawl (PlayStation(R)2) - expected release March
2002
This beat-em-up
incorporates a sense of humor rarely seen in
video games and features multiple highly
interactive themed arenas and eleven crazy
characters from this Oscar winning cartoon
series.
E.T.: Return to the Green
Planet (PlayStation 2) - expected release March
2002
E.T.: Return to the Green
Planet is based on a story that was the
inspiration for what was to be the sequel to on
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. This adventure
follows E.T. as he returns to his home planet and
soon realizes that things are not that same as
they used to be, before he traveled to Earth and
met his new friend Elliot.
E.T. & The Cosmic
Garden (PlayStation 2) - expected release July
2002
The Cosmic Garden is a
real-time adventure game, which features E.T.
trying to collect 128 of the most unique, most
mischievous, most amazing plants from around the
galaxy. He then must grow these plants in his
spacecraft's green house, while being very
careful not to improperly "crossbreed"
any that could result in the creation of a
disastrous new species.
For the second half of
2002, the Company plans to continue to extend
it's popular portfolio of characters to
next-generation video game systems including,
Microsoft's XBox and Nintendo's GameCube, as well
as continuing to develop additional titles for
Game Boy Advance, PlayStation One and PlayStation
2.
NewKidCo
International Inc. (TSE:NKC ; OTC BB:NKCIF), head
quartered in New York City, New York, publishes
children's video games based on popular licensed
characters, for interactive entertainment game
systems from Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft.
NewKidCo publishes and distributes their products
directly in North America and in Europe through
distribution partner, Ubi Soft Entertainment SA.
www.newkidco.com
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