Electronic Arts Ships Advanced Tactical Fighters Gold and Longbow Gold for Windows 95; Latest Offerings From Jane's Combat Simulations Brand Add Technology Upgrades, Internet Play and New Missions.SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 2, 1997--Electronic Arts (Nasdaq: ERTS ERTS Electronic Arts, Inc. (stock symbol) ERTS Earth Resources Technology Satellite (US NASA) ERTS Embedded Real Time Systems ERTS Enhanced Remote Transit Shed ), a leading global interactive entertainment software company, today announced it is shipping Advanced Tactical Fighters (ATF ATF Molecular virology Activating transcription factor A cellular protein that stimulates transcription of adenovirus E4 transcription unit, which acts early in infection at any of several 'enhancer' binding sites ) Gold and Longbow Gold, the latest titles under the critically-acclaimed Jane's Combat Simulations Jane's Combat Simulations was a brand of PC flight and combat simulators released by Electronic Arts (EA). The Jane's Information Group sold the rights to EA so that EA could lend authenticity and accuracy to their growing line of combat games. brand. ATF Gold bundles the action of Advanced Tactical Fighters with NATO NATO: see North Atlantic Treaty Organization. NATO in full North Atlantic Treaty Organization International military alliance created to defend western Europe against a possible Soviet invasion. Fighters and adds to the game's multiplayer intensity with new Internet support. The game, native for Windows 95, supports up to four players dogfighting over the Internet via its new TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. software. ATF Gold's features include: 11 modern aircraft complete with statistics on each; three full battlefield campaigns, and 120 missions set in the Baltics, Egypt and the Russian Far East Russian Far East, formerly Soviet Far East, federal district (1989 est. pop. 7,941,000), c.2,400,000 sq mi (6,216,000 sq km), encompassing the entire northeast coast of Asia and including the Sakha Republic, Maritime Territory (Primorsky Kray), . Game players can also create their own battlefield with the Mission Builder. Game players can take to the skies in a variety of aircraft including the: F-117A Stealth Fighter, the F-22, B-2A Stealth bomber, X-31 EFM (Ethernet in the First Mile) Using Ethernet to provide connectivity from the customer to the carrier. See 802.3ah. , X-29, FSW, X-32 ASTOVL ASTOVL Advanced Short Take-Off & Vertical Landing Aircraft , French Rafale C, EF 2000, JAS-39, Su-37. In addition, the game offers 60 other types of aircraft the player can fly. Longbow Gold brings the most acclaimed flight sim series of the year onto Windows 95 and DOS-based PCs in one package, including the award-winning AH-64D AH-64D Apache Attack Helicopter, D version, with Longbow radar improvements Longbow simulation and all the features of the Flash Point Korea add-on disk. There are more than 400 missions to fly in Longbow Gold including new step-by-step interactive training missions. Players also have the choice of flying two in-depth campaigns in the Baltic region and Korea and authentic historical missions that took place in Operation Desert Storm Noun 1. Operation Desert Storm - the United States and its allies defeated Iraq in a ground war that lasted 100 hours (1991) Gulf War, Persian Gulf War - a war fought between Iraq and a coalition led by the United States that freed Kuwait from Iraqi invaders; (Gulf War) and Operation Just Cause (Panama). There is also a custom mission generator that extends gameplay by creating a random mission based on the player's preferences. There is even an instant action mode for players itching to tear up to rip up; to remove from a fixed state by violence; as, to tear up a floor; to tear up the foundation of government or order s>. See also: Tear the battlefield in a hurry. As an added bonus, both games contain an interactive Jane's reference guide with descriptions, pictures and statistics straight from Jane's Information Group, a leading source of global military information. Longbow Gold has more than 30,000 square kilometers of fully-textured, rolling terrain using data from U.S. Geological Survey digital elevation maps. There are no "tiles" or repeating terrain art-every inch that you fly is unique. Authenticity is the name of the game with Longbow Gold. Developers used operations manuals and design documents from the manufacturer of the aircraft, and experts in the fields of aeronautical engineering and army intelligence to create avionics, dynamics and artificial intelligence systems that are second to none. Additionally, Longbow Gold contains live-action video sequences and authentic Longbow flight footage that help you track your progress through the simulation. Both ATF Gold and Longbow Gold carry a suggested retail price of $49.99. More information on both titles is available at EA's Jane's Combat Simulation Web site, http://www.Janes.ea.com . Electronic Arts, headquartered in San Mateo, California San Mateo is a city in San Mateo County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is one of the larger suburbs on the San Francisco Peninsula, located between Burlingame to the north, Foster City to the East, and Belmont to the south. , is a leading interactive entertainment software company. Founded in 1982, Electronic Arts posted revenues over $530 million for fiscal 1996. The company develops, publishes and distributes software worldwide for personal computers and advanced entertainment systems such as the Nintendo 64, PlayStation and Sega Saturn. Electronic Arts markets its products worldwide under five brand names: Electronic Arts, EA SPORTS, ORIGIN Systems Inc., Bullfrog Productions Ltd. and Jane's Combat Simulations. Electronic Arts has international subsidiaries in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, and US development operations in San Mateo, Calif.; Baltimore, Maryland; Austin, Texas; and Seattle, Washington. More information about EA's products and full text of press releases can be found on the Internet at http://www.ea.com . -0- Note to Editors: Electronic Arts and Advanced Tactical Fighters are trademarks or registered trademarks of Electronic Arts in the U.S. and/or other countries. Jane's is a registered trademark of Jane's Information Group Ltd. PlayStation is a trademark of Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. Sega Saturn is a trademark of Sega Enterprises, Ltd. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. CONTACT: Dany Brooks, 415/513-7436 Electronic Arts dbrooks@ea.com or David Swofford, 512/434-6620 Origin Systems dswofford@origin.ea.com |
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