[2] Get Fluffed On Acclaim's Fur Fighters Website; Acclaim Online Launches New Internet Site Featuring Interactive 'Flash' Games.Entertainment/Gaming & Technology Editors GLEN COVE Glen Cove, city (1990 pop. 24,149), Nassau co., SE N.Y., on the north shore of Long Island, at the entrance to Hempstead Harbor; settled 1668, inc. as a city 1918. , NY--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--May 1, 2000 Acclaim Entertainment (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : AKLM AKLM Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. (stock symbol) ), a leading worldwide interactive entertainment company, today announced that Acclaim Online has launched the official Fur Fighters Fur Fighters is a video game developed by Bizarre Creations and published by Acclaim for the Sega Dreamcast in 2000, then later for the PC. The game was designed very much as a standard third person shooter, but used a world populated by cute little animals as its website at www.furfighters.com. Currently in development for Sega Dreamcast(TM) and PC, Fur Fighters is a platform-style action game that combines elements of first-person shooters and third-person adventure games. Fur Fighters features six adorable animal warriors on a rescue quest to save their families. The game is scheduled to ship in June for Sega Dreamcast and later in the summer for PC. The Fur Fighters website features, for the first time on acclaim.com, four interactive Flash games easily accessible through gamers' browsers. The four games include Tweakspar, where gamers "fly" as Tweak in an attempt to bring down some mischievous fighter jets; Adventures Down Under, in which gamers play the role of the sly Chang and guide him through a dangerous sewer maze; Chicago Shoot-Em-Up, where players must fluff the evil teddy bears; and Hong Kong caper caper, common name for members of the Capparidaceae, a family of tropical plants found chiefly in the Old World and closely related to the family Cruciferae (mustard family). , where the streets of Hong Kong come alive with evil and gamers must prevail in the shooting gallery shooting gallery Substance abuse A place–eg, an abandoned building in an economically-depressed urban area–ie, a ghetto, where IV drug users congregate, purchase, inject–'shoot' heroin, cocaine, oxycodone or other drug. . In addition to the online games, the site contains the most current game information, the latest screenshots, video, character animations and more. Gamers may also reserve a copy of the game on the website. The story begins years in the past, when the Fur Fighters, an elite squad of highly-trained special forces stuffed animals, led the Evil General Viggo, a giant white cat with global domination in his eye, to justice. With their greatest foe behind bars the Fur Fighters retired to a peaceful seaside village and put their fighting days behind them. All returned to normal - the Fur Fighters lived happily ever after The term happily ever after is used in association with many works of children’s fiction and romantic fiction. It describes a happy ending, often a cliché in which all the good characters have emerged victorious and all the evil characters have been punished. with their families and extensive gun collections. Until one fateful day, returning from a night out on the town, six fateful Fur Fighters found that their families had all been kidnapped. Fur Fighters, the game, is the brave, cunning, and almost coordinated rescue attempt by these six remaining villagers - Roofus, Juliette, Bungalow, Rico, Chang and Tweak (and their semi-functional teleportation tel·e·por·ta·tion n. A hypothetical method of transportation in which matter or information is dematerialized, usually instantaneously, at one point and recreated at another. device) on their quest to find their families and defeat General Viggo for good! Fur Fighters will be a highlighted game at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles, CA from May 11-13, 2000. Acclaim Entertainment Background Information Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. is a leading worldwide developer, publisher and mass marketer of software for use with interactive entertainment platforms including Nintendo, Sony Computer Entertainment and Sega hardware systems, and PCs. Acclaim owns and operates studios located in the United States and the United Kingdom, and publishes and distributes its software directly in North America, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain and Australia. Acclaim also distributes entertainment software for other publishers worldwide, and publishes comic books and software strategy guides. Acclaim's headquarters are in Glen Cove, New York Glen Cove is a city in Nassau County, New York on the North Shore of Long Island. As of the United States 2000 Census, the city population was 26,622. Part of the early 20th century Gold Coast of the North Shore, Glen Cove has a diverse population. and Acclaim's common stock is publicly traded on NASDAQ under the symbol AKLM. For more information please visit our web site at http://www.acclaim.com. |
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