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#Acclaim Entertainment Brings NFL Action to 
the Nintendo 64 with NFL Quarterback Club '98#
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GLEN COVE, N.Y.--(BW SportsWire)--April 24, 1997-- 

   -- Fall 1997 Release of Brett Favre-Endorsed Title is the Only 
                  Football Video Game for Nintendo 64 -- 

Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKLM), a leading worldwide 
interactive entertainment company, today announced that NFL 
Quarterback Club '98(TM) will be available for Nintendo 64(TM) this fall.  
Officially licensed by the National Football League, Players Inc and 
endorsed by two-time NFL MVP, star Quarterback Club member and Super 
Bowl champion Brett Favre, NFL Quarterback Club '98 will be the first
and only football game available for the Nintendo 64 game system this
year.  

NFL Quarterback Club '98 will optimize all the benefits of the 
64-bit system by offering fully polygonal 3-D players and stadiums, 
incredibly precise control and Acclaim's proprietary motion-capture 
animation that allows the players to look and move just like their 
real-life gridiron counterparts.  

According to N64.com, one of the gaming industry's most-read 
online publications covering Nintendo 64 news, a high-quality 
football title tops the list of games N64 owners are eager to see.  
"Acclaim takes the prize for bringing the first football game to N64,
answering the demands of thousands of imploring N64 owners," said 
Douglass Perry, editor of N64.com.  

"We are excited to be the first and only licensed N64 football 
game on the market for the 1997 season," said Bob Picunko, Acclaim's 
director of sports marketing.  "By combining our advanced motion 
capture technology with the speed and superior graphics of the 
Nintendo 64, we have been able to create a game that would have even 
Vince Lombardi doing a double take." 

Developed by Iguana Entertainment, the creators of the 
hot-selling Nintendo 64 game Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, NFL Quarterback 
Club '98 is the latest in Acclaim's celebrated Quarterback Club 
series.  According to Col Stone, vice president of product 
development at Acclaim: "Iguana has four years of experience 
developing football games for us and over two years of experience 
working with Nintendo 64.  We're confident that NFL Quarterback Club 
'98 will redefine sports video games as we know them." 

Nintendo 64 users will feel like sideline generals as they call 
offensive and defensive plays.  The offensive playbook features 
actual plays developed by Brett Favre himself.  Roster management 
options such as trading, creating, drafting and signing players, as 
well as managing salary caps, allow gamers to build their very own 
dream team from the ground up.  
   
Additional features of NFL Quarterback Club '98 include: 
   
-- Licensing rights to over 1,500 NFL players and all 30 NFL teams.  
   
-- Play by play calls from renowned NFL broadcaster, Marv Albert.

-- Comprehensive statistics for the 1996 season from Stats Inc.  
   
-- Player highlights showing in-game statistics and color photos 
   
-- Injuries and penalties affect team performance 
   
-- 3-D rendered graphics for all 29 NFL stadiums 
   
-- Nine statistical categories allow gamers to track individual 
   players, teams and league leaders throughout the season 
   
-- Game day information with weather reports and team-specific comments 
   
-- Around the League section provides scores of other games being
   played that week 
   
Nintendo Background Information 
   
Nintendo Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, is the leader in the 
worldwide $15 billion retail video game industry.  Nintendo and its 
international subsidiaries have sold more than one billion video 
games worldwide.  As a wholly owned subsidiary, Nintendo of America 
Inc., based in Redmond, Washington, serves as headquarters for 
Nintendo's operations in the Western Hemisphere, where more than 40 
percent of American homes own a Nintendo system.  
   
Acclaim Entertainment Background Information 
   
Acclaim Entertainment, Inc., a leading worldwide publisher of 
software for Nintendo, Sega, Sony and personal computer hardware 
systems, also publishes comic books under a variety of imprints.  In 
addition, Acclaim develops coin-operated arcade and ticket-redemption
games; operates motion capture studios; and, through A.D.I., globally
sells and distributes products from a variety of entertainment 
software publishers including Interplay and others.  Visit Acclaim's 
Web site at www.acclaimsports.com.  
   
NFL Quarterback Club is a trademark of the National Football 
League.  Players Inc. is an official trademark of NFL Players.  NFL 
Quarterback Club '98 is an officially licensed product of the 
National Football League, the National Football League Players 
Association and of the NFL Quarterback Club.  
   
Nintendo 64 is a trademark of Nintendo Co., Ltd.  

CONTACT: Acclaim Entertainment
         Mike Meyers, 516/656-5000
         mmeyers@aklm.com
         -OR-
         TSI Communications
         Eric Litchfield, 212/696-2000
         elitchfield@tsipr.com