INTERPLAY'S FIRST PLAYSTATION TITLE, LOADED HITS STORES IN TIME FOR THE
HOLIDAYS

Highlights include a power-packed soundtrack featuring Pop Will Eat
Itself!

Irvine, California Interplay Productions announced today the release of the
highly-anticipated PlayStation title Loaded. This, the first PlayStation
title from Interplay, features impressive game art designed by Greg
Staples of 2000 A.D. and Judge Dredd fame, and is licensed by Interplay
from leading U.K. publisher/developer Gremlin Interactive Ltd..

This galactic shoot-'em-up game debuts on the Sony PlayStation with a SEGA
Saturn release set to hit stores in the second quarter of 1996. Loaded
features a fantastic soundtrack featuring the hits "R.S.V.P." and "Kick to
Kill" from the British music sensation Pop Will Eat Itself. The title's
features also include unique "terrain morphing," two-player simultaneous
action, armed combat, puzzle-solving/strategy elements, a colorful
selection of characters, and a plethora of impressive blasts and
explosions, all set in a vast adventure environment backed by a pulsating
soundtrack.

"We anticipate a great response from PlayStation gamers. This is the game
they have been waiting for!" explained Karen Schohan, console marketing
manager for Interplay Productions. "With such intense game play, and great
music from Pop Will Eat Itself, we are sure this will be at the top of
gamers' wish lists."

Sony has backed the title by confirming the title's inclusion in their Sony
PlayStation Sampler 1, where Loaded is featured as an interactive demo.
This sampler will be packaged with the hardware, showcasing PlayStation
games that boast the capabilities of their system. Interplay is the only
third-party publisher with a title on the sampler.

Loaded, a contender for the number one position in the action game
category, has also garnered widespread attention in game enthusiasts'
magazines. The title has already appeared as the cover stories of four
different magazines, and has already amassed several multi-paged magazine
editorial in many others.

Since 1984, U.K. based Gremlin Interactive has been an award-winning
developer and publisher of home interactive software for a variety of
computer and console systems. Using only the most up-to-date technology
and available equipment such as the in-house motion capture studio,
Gremlin is presently developing titles for PC CD-ROM, Sony PlayStation,
SEGA Saturn and other consoles. Gremlin Interactive titles include
Slipstream 5000, Jungle Strike and Desert Strike on various platforms, the
European mega-hits Zool and Zool 2, and the Top Gear series.

Founded in 1983, Interplay Productions is a company dedicated to
manufacturing and distributing a wide range of award-winning entertainment
and educational software designed by gamers, for gamers. Interplay,
MacPlay (the company's Macintosh division), VR Sports (the company's
sports division) and its affiliates release products for IBM and
compatibles, CD-ROM and Macintosh as well as leading console game
platforms. In 1995, Interplay acquired Shiny Entertainment, makers of the
world-wide hit video game Earthworm Jim. Interplay's OEM division
represents over 250 titles from publishers including Davidson &
Associates, Inc., Viacom New Media and Accolade to hardware manufacturers.
Interplay titles include Descent, Cyberia, Virtual Pool, Dungeon Master
II: The Legend Of Skullkeep, Stonekeep, Frankenstein: Through The Eyes Of
The Monster and Loaded.

Interplay Productions, 17922 Fitch Ave, Irvine, CA 92714
714-553-6655, Fax: 714-252-2820
 
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