Maxis Releases Streets of SimCity for Windows 95; New 3-D Driving Game Lets Players Cruise Through Dozens of Action-Packed Cities Including Their Own SimCity 2000 Metropolises.

WALNUT CREEK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 4, 1997--Maxis(TM), an Electronic Arts(TM) company and publishers of the popular Sim line of games, today announced the release of Streets of SimCity(TM) (Streets). Streets sends players on rim-rattling races and combat missions on the roadways of the cities they built with the multimillion-selling SimCity 2000(TM). And because Streets comes packed with more than 50 pre-built cities, a race course editor and a variety of challenging missions -- SimCity 2000 is not required.

Players can get right into the action by simply selecting a city and difficulty level or they can tackle one of Streets' five hard-driving story lines. Each story contains a multitude of challenging missions: from urban drag races to combat courier jobs to undercover spy assignments. As they work their way through the story, drivers can use their earnings to buy new equipment, fuel-up and make repairs.

Streets features five fully customizable vehicles: a sub-compact, a delivery truck, a high-performance race car, a European roadster and a classic American muscle car. Using the car factory feature, players can design their own vehicles, choosing from a variety of frames, engines, tires and paint jobs. For combat intensive missions, players can add armor, oil-slick generators, machine guns, missile launchers, mine droppers and more.

"We've created Streets with the goal of giving players a totally customizable action experience. Players can customize their cars down to the paint jobs, create and import SimCity 2000 cities, even design racecourses," said Streets of SimCity producer Byrt Martinez. "Level-design has become quite a hobby with hard-core gamers. Now anyone can create levels with what has to be the easiest level-designer available -- SimCity 2000. In fact this is the first game where there were literally hundreds of 'levels' available on the Internet before its release."

With Streets' multiplayer mode, up to eight players can create a commuter's nightmare over the Internet or LAN and two players can go bumper-to-bumper with a direct modem connection. The Electronic Arts web site, located at http://www.ea.com, offers a player-matching service for drivers looking for human competition. The Maxis web site, at http://www.maxis.com, has dozens of SimCity 2000 cities which can be downloaded and imported into Streets.

Streets of SimCity is available for Windows 95(R) at an estimated street price of $44.95. Additional information is available from the Maxis Web Site or from Electronic Arts Direct Sales at 800/245-4525.

Streets requires a Pentium 166 MHz or 100% compatible processor or greater, 32 MB or more RAM, 35 MB or more free hard drive space, a quad-speed or faster CD-ROM drive, a 100% Microsoft-compatible mouse and an SVGA card with at least 1MB video RAM. Streets supports 3Dfx graphic accelerators, Direct-X compatible joysticks, race car controllers and sound cards compatible with Windows 95.

Maxis, best know for its "Sim" family, develops and publishes top-quality entertainment software that uses advanced simulation technologies to deliver challenging fun through creativity, exploration and depth of play. To date, players around the world have purchased more than seven million copies in the Sim line including SimCity Classic(TM), SimCity 2000, SimEarth(TM), SimAnt(TM), SimFarm(TM) and SimTower(TM). Maxis is based in Walnut Creek, California and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:ERTS). -0-

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