Sunday, September 13, 1996
Source: Business Wire
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 11, 1996--The nation's number one arcade game will blast into gamers' homes this fall as Williams Entertainment Inc. and GT Interactive Software Corp. (NASDAQ: GTIS) unveil Area 51(TM) for PC.
"Area 51 has achieved overwhelming success in the arcades and we believe the PC version will continue to generate excitement among gamers," says Holly Newman, vice president of Marketing for GT Interactive. "Having fascinated the public for almost fifty years, Area 51 is virtually an American phenomenon."
A direct conversion of the coin-op game which has been ranked number one for the past 10 months by Replay Magazine, a leading industry trade publication, Area 51 transports players to a top secret UFO research lab where they are members of STAAR (Special Tactical Advanced Alien Response), an elite, covert military team created to interdict and eradicate extreme national threats. Area 51 joins GT Interactive's exciting lineup of PC games based on hit arcade titles that are slated for launch in the United States and overseas markets, including Mortal Kombat(R) 3. Area 51 will be available this fall from GT Interactive for Windows(R) 95 at a suggested retail price of $49.00.
Williams Entertainment Inc., with offices in Corsicana, Texas, and San Diego, California, is a leading designer, marketer and distributor of home video games. The company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of WMS Industries Inc. (NYSE: WMS). WMS Industries Inc. is engaged in the design, manufacture and sale of coin-operated amusement games, home video games, video lottery terminals and gaming devices, and the ownership of hotels and casinos.
Headquartered in NY, with offices in London, San Francisco, Seattle, Phoenix and Minneapolis, GT Interactive Software Corp. is a leading global publisher of interactive entertainment, edutainment and value-priced software marketed under the GT Interactive, Humongous Entertainment and WizardWorks brands, for IBM(R)-compatible and Macintosh(R) computers as well as 32- and 64-bit gaming systems. Among GT Interactive's best-selling personal computer titles are Duke Nukem(TM) 3D, Doom(TM) II and Mortal Kombat(R) 3. Located at www.gtinteractive.com on the World Wide Web, GT Interactive is publicly traded on the NASDAQ National Market System under the symbol GTIS.
Mortal Kombat(R) 3 (C)1995 Midway Manufacturing Company. All rights reserved. Area 51(TM) (C)1995 Atari Games Corporation. All rights reserved. Developed by Mesa Logic, Inc. MORTAL KOMBAT is a registered trademark of Midway Manufacturing Company. AREA 51 is a trademark of Atari Games Corporation. Distributed by GT Interactive Software Corp. under license. All other trademarks are property of their respective companies.CONTACT:
Allyne Mills
Alan B. Lewis
212/726-4265
amills@gtinteractive.com
alewis@gtinteractive.com
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