Press release: 2000-06-02: Club Acclaim Ships Bust-A-Move 4 And Spreads Puzzle-Fever To Stores Today

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Club Acclaim Ships Bust-A-Move 4* And Spreads Puzzle-Fever To Stores Today

Popular Puzzle Series makes first appearance on a next generation system

Glen Cove, N.Y., June 2, 2000 - Club Acclaim, a division of Acclaim Entertainment, a worldwide interactive entertainment company, today announced that Bust-A-Move 4* for Sega Dreamcast(tm) will ship to national retail stores today.

Developed by Taito*, Bust-A-Move 4* marks the premier appearance of Club Acclaim's well-established Bust-A-Move franchise on Sega Dreamcast and will be priced to sell at a suggested retail price of under $30.

"The addictive gameplay of Bust-A-Move has made it one of Acclaim's most popular franchises," said Christina Recchio, Marketing Manager, Club Acclaim. "This game has large appeal to both the casual gamer and the long time game enthusiast."

Bust-A-Move 4* features thousands of all-new puzzles with new bubbles and obstructive blocks, using high-resolution graphics that showcase the Sega Dreamcast system. Players will experience hours of competitive multi-player gameplay from exciting game modes including: Puzzle, CPU, Head-to-Head, Challenge and Collection which offers hundreds of bubble bursting puzzles. Bust-A-Move 4*'s Edit Mode allows players to create their own mind-popping puzzles and save them to a memory card.

Club Acclaim
Established in 1999, Club Acclaim, a division of Acclaim Entertainment, focuses on licensed youth and family oriented product. Club Acclaim establishes a presence for Acclaim in the emerging youth software market and complements Acclaim's corporate portfolio. Additional titles published under the Club Acclaim brand include The New Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley* and Mary-Kate & Ashley Get A Clue.

Acclaim Entertainment Background Information
Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. is a worldwide developer, publisher and mass marketer of software for use with interactive entertainment platforms including Nintendo, Sony Computer Entertainment America and Sega hardware systems, and PCs. Acclaim owns and operates six studios located in the United States and the United Kingdom, and publishes and distributes its software directly in North America, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain and Australia. Acclaim also distributes entertainment software for other publishers worldwide, and publishes comic books and software strategy guides. Acclaim's headquarters are in Glen Cove, New York and Acclaim's common stock is publicly traded on NASDAQ under the symbol AKLM. For more information please visit our website at