Take-two Interactive Software, Inc.'s Smuggler's Run and Midnight Club: Street Racing Debut as Number Six and Seven Sony Playstation2 Titles.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 16, 2000

Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (Nasdaq:TTWO) announced today that Smugglers Run and Midnight Club: Street Racing debuted as the number six and seven titles for the PlayStation(R)2 according to NPD TRSTS data for the month ended October 31, 2000.

Paul Eibeler, President, said, "We are very pleased with the results of our initial sell-through for Smuggler's Run and Midnight Club: Street Racing. With the strength of these titles, the release of Q-Ball: Billiards Master and Surfing H3O and at least an additional ten PlayStation(R)2 titles under development, we are firmly positioned as a top-tier publisher."

Headquartered in New York City, Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. is an integrated global developer, marketer, distributor, and publisher of interactive entertainment software games and accessories for the PC, PlayStation, Nintendo 64, Nintendo Game Boy Color , Sega Dreamcast and the PlayStation 2. The Company publishes and develops products through various wholly owned subsidiaries including: Rockstar Games, Gathering of Developers, TalonSoft, Joytech, DMA Design, PopTop and under the Take-Two brand name. The Company's Jack of All Games value added distribution arm maintains sales and marketing offices in Cincinnati, New York, Toronto, London, Paris, Munich, Oslo, Vienna, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Milan and Sydney.

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