If You're Looking for Fun Summer Fare, Meteos Rocks - Literally

It's the Video Game Equivalent of a Page-Turning Summer Novel

REDMOND, Wash., June 27 -- Nintendo's new video game,

Meteos™, won't hurt your brain with its dramatic storyline. It has no

characters with complex personalities or conflicted motivations. And it

resolves without teaching any Important Lessons. In short, it's the video

game equivalent of a perfect summer novel or blockbuster movie.

Just like any good captivating page-turner, Meteos, a puzzle game that

launches today exclusively for Nintendo DS™, provides hours of nonstop,

visceral action and can't-put-it-down entertainment. And as with any good

Earth-destroying, fireball-filled summer movie, it features a hard-core baddie

as its main character. Meteo is an evil planet who looks like an evil eye and

likes to hurl planet-pulverizing meteors across the galaxy -- and it's your

job to stop them.

Meteos was created by BANDAI & Q ENTERTAINMENT and published by Nintendo.

Players use the stylus on the touch screen of Nintendo DS to move multicolored

meteor blocks up and down the columns. When three blocks of the same color

line up, they launch into the air with dramatic sound effects to help clear

the board. Players will defend more than 30 different planets. Each one has

its own aliens, theme music, meteor style and gravitational laws that affect

game play.

"Meteos is great to play whether you're heading to the beach for the day,

or you have only a few minutes to spare," said George Harrison, Nintendo of

America's senior vice president of marketing and corporate communications.

"If you're hanging out with friends, its wireless functions let friends link

together and play, even if only one of them has a Meteos game card."

And just as people like to pass a good paperback around to their friends,

Meteos makes use of the wireless capabilities of Nintendo DS to let players

share the game with others. With DS Download Play, only one player needs a

game card to transmit the game to up to three other DS users within the

100-foot wireless range of the DS. It's like watching a hit DVD at a friend's

house: He has the gear, yet everyone is entertained. But if each player has a

game card, up to four players can link together wirelessly using DS Local Area

Network to play an expanded multiplayer version of the game. It's like seeing

the big blockbuster in the theater: Everyone in the group has to buy a ticket,

but it's a great shared experience.