HOT SUPER NES THIRD-PARTY PUBLISHER TITLES

SECOND HALF 1995

Frank Thomas' Big Hurt Baseball -- Acclaim
Available: Fall 1995

This 24-meg sports title is the first video game to utilize Acclaim's Proprietary motion capture technology. The advanced video game technology makes each player's movement as fluid and controllable as possible. Acclaim has secured a Major League Baseball Players Association licence, enabling it to include the name of every current major league player -- complete with each player's attributes.

Castlevania - Dracula X -- Konami
Available: September 1995

Bone-chilling, Dracula-hunting action will challenge every action game player in this conversion of the successful Japanese video game, Dracula X. Nine levels, combined with hoards of ghouls, ghosts and other creatures, await players in this latest edition of the Castlevania series. To date, this great horror series has sold more than 4 million units in the United States alone.

Chrono Trigger TM -- Squaresoft
Available: September 1995

The 32-meg Chrono Trigger utilizes time travel, science-fiction, and fantasy adventure to create one of the best role-playing games ever. The game's hero, Chrono, is transported into the past and ends up altering the course of history, and with it the outcome of the future. The integral time travel element of the game enables players to alter the game by changing the past, giving players multiple endings and excellent repeat game value. There are mini-quests, a huge cast of characters, realistic time travel, non-linear game play, and more active and interactive battle scenes than Squaresoft's 1994, highly acclaimed, role-playing game Final Fantasy III.

Earthworm Jim 2 -- Playmates
Available: October 1995

The sequel to the multiple-award winging Earthworm Jim, Earthworm Jim 2 utilizes the new and improved Shiny Entertainment game design technique, Animotion II, to create an animated, motion-picture quality and feel never before seen in video games. Follow Jim in bombing runs over hostile alien continents, storming the fierce innards of an energy-sucking planet with Jim disguised as a salamander, and make Jim eat dirt. Earthworm Jim 2 features exotic worlds, Jim's nemesis, the evil Psycow, secret hidden moves and a host of bizarre new characters.

Doom -- Williams Entertainment
Available: September 1995

The ultimate hunt-or-be-hunted game, Doom has arrived on the Super NES. The popular first-person perspective game lets players guide the "marine with an attitude" through interior and exterior environments with one goal: shoot anything that moves. The 16-meg game features Nintendo's FX2 chip for dynamic 3-D graphics.

Breath of Fire II -- Capcom
Available: Fall 1995

Incorporating the same adventuring viewpoint and battle interface that made the original Breath of Fire so popular, the one-player Role-playing game, Breath of Fire II, adds much more than a new story and more characters. There are four new fighting formations available, allowing for greater control and strategy in battle, and players will be able to combine their characters' powers together to create exciting new battle attack animations. In Breath of Fire II, players can assemble their own allies, build their own towns to further the adventure and interact with powerful new allies called shamen, which can be combined to create up to 160 different variations of characters.

Nosferatu -- Seta
Available: July 1995

This 16-meg, action/adventure game takes place in the castle of Vlad the Impaler -- known as Count Dracula, or more formally, Nosferatu. Kyle, an American student studying in Transylvania, races against time as he fights his way through six master levels and countless sub-levels in an effort to rescue the fair maiden Erin, before Nosferatu condemns her soul for all eternity. Kyle battles legions of classic ghouls, ghosts, and monsters of all types to ultimately take on the Prince of Darkness himself. The game features multiple hit combinations, an eerie vampire-based story line, and excellent character maneuverability.