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Majesco
Announces 'Bookworm' and 'Bejeweled' For GBA
EDISON,
NJ, January 29, 2004 - Majesco Sales Inc., the sole operating subsidiary
of ConnectivCorp (OTCBB: CTTV), today announced plans to publish Bookworm
and Bejeweled, two of the
Internet's most downloaded games of all time, for Nintendo Game Boy
Advance. Both highly addictive puzzle titles are scheduled for
release in 2004. "Majesco
continues to identify sources for innovative products, and the Internet
has grown into a proving ground for games, resulting in products with a
firmly established consumer base and a wide demographic of players,"
said
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In Bookworm, Lex, the lovable bookworm, is hungry and players must feed him by connecting adjacent tiles to complete words for him to eat. Larger words will award more points and special letter tiles will award bonus points. However, players must watch out for those fire tiles. If they burn their way to the bottom of the letter library, the game is over. Bookworm was created by web game powerhouse, Popcap Games and the Game Boy Advance version is |
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planned for release in
February. Currently, approximately 5
million people play Bookworm
(a.k.a. Bespelled) each
month on the various gaming sites. Later
this year Majesco will release Bejeweled,
one of Popcap Games' most downloaded titles, with an average of more than
6 million people playing the online Java version each month. In Bejeweled,
players swap two adjacent jewels to line up three or more of the same
jewel type horizontally or vertically. Game play is simple, but
super-addictive and gamers continue playing until there are no moves left
to make. For
additional information regarding Majesco Sales Inc., please visit the
Majesco website at www.majescogames.com. About
Popcap Games Founded
in 2000 by John Vechey, Brian Fiete, and Jason Kapalka and headquartered
in For
additional information regarding PopCap Games, Inc., please visit the
PopCap website at: About
Majesco Established
in 1986 and headquartered in Edison, NJ, with offices in the United
Kingdom, Majesco is the sole operating unit of ConnectivCorp (OTCBB: CTTV)
and a leading international developer, publisher and distributor of
interactive entertainment products for the Xbox® video game
system from Microsoft, Sony PlayStation®2 computer
entertainment system, and Nintendo GameCube(tm) and Game Boy®
Advance systems, as well as the personal computer. Bookworm, Bejeweled, Diamond Mine and Zuma are copyright 2000-2004 PopCap Games, Inc. Trademarks belong to their respective owners. |
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