Atari's RollerCoaster Tycoon Franchise To Make A Big Splash With Soaked! Expansion Pack

Bandai Namco | London, UK - February 4, 2005 - Atari announced today that a wet, wild and totally soaked new expansion pack to RollerCoaster Tycoon^® 3 will ride into stores this June. RollerCoaster Tycoon^® 3: Soaked!, the first expansion pack to RollerCoaster Tycoon 3, one of the biggest PC games of 2004, will let players create and control their own water parks for the first time.

"RollerCoaster Tycoon is undoubtedly the #1 Tycoon franchise, it has sold nearly nine million units life-to-date worldwide1", said Martin Spiess, Senior Vice President of Marketing, Atari Europe. "The RollerCoaster Tycoon 3: Soaked! expansion pack will sustain that amazing success by providing RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 players with the chance to thrill their park guests with extreme water rides, new coasters, aquatic animal shows, and, of course, tons of interactive water".

With RollerCoaster Tycoon 3: Soaked! the park guests will catch rays and ride the waves on more than fifty new rides and coasters including super-splash flume rides, massive water slides, wave pools and more. Players will also be able to create aquatic spectaculars with performing dolphins, killer whale shows and customisable aquariums as well as design dazzling laser light water shows and synch them to music with the H20 MixMaster. A new Swimming Pool Designer and Waterfall Designer will let players add hundreds of new park enhancements to create the ultimate summer fun experience as well as other new features that extend and enhance the original game.

RollerCoaster Tycoon 3: Soaked! is being developed by Frontier Developments, Ltd. of Cambridge, England, in conjunction with Chris Sawyer, the creator and sole developer of RollerCoaster Tycoon, and will be introduced in June for the PC. Additional information about the franchise is available at http://www.atari.com/rollercoastertycoon.

*Close to seven million units in the U.S. through December 2004 according to The NPD Group, Inc.

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About Frontier Developments, Ltd.

Frontier and its founder, David Braben, have a long association with Chris Sawyer going back to 1987, when Chris first worked on PC versions of the famous "Elite" and "Virus" games. Frontier has for many years used its own cutting-edge 3D game engine on both PC and console titles. The company has a strong track record of creating both innovative 'own-IP' games and original high-quality titles that give a faithful treatment of existing brands. The company's most recent two console games gathered three prestigious BAFTA (The British Academy of Film and Television Arts) nominations between them ("Wallace & Gromit in Project Zoo" on PlayStation^®2, Xbox, GameCube and PC, based on Aardman Animations Ltd.'s multiple Oscar^®-winning duo; and the novel, award-winning "Dog's Life" published by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe on PlayStation^®2). Frontier employs approximately 80 people, and has offices in Cambridge and Ely in the UK.

About Infogrames Entertainment and Atari:

Infogrames Entertainment (IESA), the parent company of the Atari Group, is listed on the Paris Euronext stock exchange (ISIN code: FR-0000052573) and has two principal subsidiaries: Atari Europe, a privately-held company, and Atari, Inc., a United States corporation listed on NASDAQ (ATAR).

The Atari Group is a major international producer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment software for all market segments and in all existing game formats (Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony) and on CD-ROM for PC. Its games are sold in more than 60 countries.

The Atari Group's extensive catalogue of popular games is based on original franchises (Driver, Alone in the Dark, V-Rally, Unreal Tournament, Test Drive, Roller Coaster Tycoon, etc.) and international licenses (Mission Impossible from Paramount, Men In Black, Superman, Matrix, Terminator and Dragon Ball Z).

For more information: http://www.atari.com