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Majesco Entertainment Announces 'Bananagrams' Game for Facebook
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Award-Winning Word Game Coming to Popular Networking Site
EDISON, N.J., July 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Majesco Entertainment
Company (Nasdaq: COOL), an innovative provider of video games for the mass
market, today announced that the popular anagram game, Bananagrams, will be
available August 18 as a free Facebook Application. Developed by Large Animal
Games, Bananagrams ignores all the rules of traditional board games in favor
of an every-player-for-themselves approach that delivers lightning-fast puzzle
play guaranteed to get the mind moving and drive players "bananas."
"Casual gaming applications have exploded on social networking sites like
Facebook and Bananagrams is an ideal fit for the demographic," said Gui Karyo,
Executive Vice President of Operations, Majesco. "With its fast-paced action
and addictive but simple gameplay, we believe this game has potential to
become one of the most popular gaming applications on the site."
The object of Bananagrams is to create as many words as quickly as
possible from an initial batch of selected tiles. Unlike other turn-based
games, Bananagrams has players simultaneously playing to form interconnected
words. Once the tile pile is depleted, the player who is able to use all of
his or her tiles first wins.
Facebook users will have the option to play alone or online against up to
four or eight friends. The game will offer two single player modes -- Banana
Solitaire and Single Player Banana Cafe -- in which players compete in a timed
race to place letters in order to beat their own or their friends' best times.
After honing their anagramming skills in the single player modes, Facebookers
will be able to compete against friends in one of two multiplayer modes -- the
Classic Multiplayer Game, with up to four players, or the Banana Cafe, where
they can race against time and up to seven other players to take first place!
All game modes will let players chat online during gameplay and compare their
results against each other via the Bananagrams Leaderboard.
Bananagrams will be available August 18 as a free Facebook Application.
After the initial launch, new features will be introduced on a regular basis.
For additional information about Majesco's exciting line of products, please
visit: www.majescoentertainment.com.
About Majesco Entertainment Company
Majesco Entertainment Company is a provider of video games for the mass
market. Building on 20 years of operating history, the company is focused on
developing and publishing a wide range of casual and family oriented video
games on leading console and portable systems. Product highlights include
Nancy Drew(TM), Cooking Mama(TM) and Cake Mania(R) 2 for Nintendo DS(TM) and
Cooking Mama: Cook Off for Wii(TM). The company's shares are traded on the
Nasdaq Stock Market under the symbol: COOL. Majesco is headquartered in
Edison, NJ and has an international office in Bristol, UK. More information
about Majesco can be found online at www.majescoentertainment.com.
About Large Animal Games
Large Animal Games is an independent developer and publisher of games that
appeal to a wide audience of gamers. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in New
York City, Large Animal has developed over 60 games for a variety of
platforms. Their original games include Snapshot Adventures: Secret of Bird
Island (PC Downloadable and Retail), Rocketbowl (PC Downloadable, Mobile, and
XBLA), and Bumper Stars (Facebook). They have developed a platform to help
developers integrate their flash games into social networks. More information
about Large Animal can be found online at www.largeanimal.com.
Safe Harbor
Certain statements contained herein are "forward-looking statements"
within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995,
Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking statements
may be identified by reference to a future period(s) or by the use of
forward-looking terminology, such as "may," "will," "intend," "should,"
"expect," "anticipate," "estimate" or "continue" or the negatives thereof or
other comparable terminology. The Company's actual results could differ
materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking statements due to a
variety of factors. These factors include but are not limited to, the demand
for our products; our ability to complete and release our products in a timely
fashion; competitive factors in the businesses in which we compete; continued
consumer acceptance of our products and the gaming platforms on which our
products operate; fulfillment of orders preliminarily made by customers;
adverse changes in the securities markets and the availability of and costs
associated with sources of liquidity. The Company does not undertake, and
specifically disclaims any obligation, to release publicly the results of any
revisions that may be made to any forward-looking statements to reflect the
occurrence of anticipated or unanticipated events or circumstances after the
date of such statements.
SOURCE Majesco Entertainment Company
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