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``Electronics Boutique Holiday Game Preview Experience'' to Feature Latest XBOX, GAMECUBE and PlayStation 2 Titles.


Entertainment Editors

SAN FRANCISCO--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Nov. 13, 2001

9-City National Tour Features Over 20 of the

Most Anticipated Holiday Titles

Game Live Events, a leading producer of live video game touring events and expos, today announced one of the most anticipated entertainment events of the year, the "Electronics Boutique Electronics Boutique is an international computer and video games retailer, established as an American company in 1977 by James Kim with a single, electronics-focused kiosk, located in a suburban Philadelphia mall in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.  Holiday Game Preview Experience."

The 9-city tour begins on Wednesday, Nov. 14 in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden  and runs through Sunday, Dec. 2, 2001. The tour will feature this season's most popular video game titles on multiple platforms Refers to two or more operating environments, which typically include the CPU family and operating system. For example, if versions of a program run on Windows and the Macintosh, the software is said to support multiple platforms. , including the highly anticipated Microsoft XBOX and Nintendo GAMECUBE The Nintendo GameCube (GCN) is Nintendo's fourth home video game console, belonging to the sixth generation era. The system itself is the most compact and least expensive, next to the Dreamcast, of the sixth generation era consoles. , as well as Sony PlayStation Sony Playstation - Playstation  2 titles from publishers EA SPORTS(TM), EA SPORTS(TM) BIG, Rockstar Games “R*” redirects here. For *R, see Hyperreal number.

Rockstar Games is a development division of video game publisher Take-Two Interactive, based in New York City, United States. The brand is most known for the Grand Theft Auto series.
, Ubi Soft Entertainment, Midway, Interplay Entertainment Corp. and Activision. Prima Games Official Strategy Guides and Logitech are also tour sponsors. This tour offers consumers a unique opportunity to play the season's hottest games and sample multiple console systems.

The tour's title sponsor is Electronics Boutique, one of the leading specialty video and computer game retailers in the world. Electronics Boutique has over 850 stores worldwide, and runs one of the leading e-commerce sites for games at www.ebgames.com. "We are proud to be the title sponsor for this tour, which is one of the first of its kind to feature three premier game consoles side by side," said Liz O'Sullivan, director of marketing at Electronics Boutique. "The tour offers our customers the unique experience of sampling the most highly anticipated software titles and console game systems of the Holiday season in locations nationwide."

The tour begins on Wednesday, Nov. 14 with a special "Opening Day" XBOX celebration in San Francisco and will continue in major cities through Dec. 2. Among the stops planned for the tour are San Francisco, San Jose, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Tri State New Jersey, New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
, Baltimore, Chicago and Detroit.

More than twenty of the most anticipated holiday titles will be featured during the tour and displayed on a state-of-the-art, 48-screen Interactive Viewing Screen system for maximum exposure of the featured games. Admission is free and play is unlimited. For complete tour details, locations, event times, and the latest list of featured games, visit www.gameliveevents.com.
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