Digging in its cleats against the competition, Acclaim Sports a division of Acclaim Entertainment, Inc., today responded to an announcement made by Midway Sports regarding the success of their baseball video game. According to The NPD Group, Acclaim’s All-Star Baseball franchise was in fact the #1 selling baseball video game brand of 2002, having sold more than 563,000 units combined across all of the next-generation gaming systems. In addition, Acclaim’s 2002 aggregate baseball video game sales were nearly 30 percent higher than Midway’s, 42 percent higher than Electronic Arts’ and 68 percent higher than 3DO’s. . . .

“Claiming to having the #1 title on only one platform is such a bush-league,
rookie move, as any true baseball fan knows, there are no shortcuts to calling
yourself a champion,” said David Knies, Director of Acclaim Sports.
“There are nine innings in baseball and three next-generation systems,
and unless you win the whole thing, you haven’t really won anything. And just
like in baseball, the stats don’t lie, which is why consumers have made All-Star
Baseball the #1 baseball franchise in the marketplace for the past two years,
and we’re ready to defend our championship title with All-Star Baseball
2004.”

All-Star Baseball 2004 will ship at the end of February for the Xboxâ„¢
video game system from Microsoft, PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system,
Nintendo GameCube™ and Game Boy® Advance. For a complete list of features
and to order All-Star Baseball 2004, please visit http://www.allstarbaseball04.com.

About Acclaim Entertainment
Based in Glen Cove, N.Y., Acclaim Entertainment, Inc., is a leading worldwide
developer, publisher and mass marketer of software for use with interactive
entertainment game consoles including those manufactured by Nintendo, Sony Computer
Entertainment and Microsoft Corporation as well as personal computer hardware
systems. Acclaim owns and operates five studios located in the United States
and the United Kingdom, which includes a motion capture and recording studio
in the U.S., and publishes and distributes its software through its subsidiaries
in North America, the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Spain. The Company
uses regional distributors worldwide. Acclaim also distributes entertainment
software for other publishers worldwide, publishes software gaming strategy
guides and issues “special edition” comic magazines periodically.
Acclaim’s corporate headquarters are in Glen Cove, New York and Acclaim’s common
stock is publicly traded on NASDAQ.SC under the symbol AKLM. For more information
please visit our website at www.acclaim.com.

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