THQ's is going to scare you silly this fall with the release of Monsters, Inc.!
THQ ANNOUNCES DISNEY/PIXAR’S MONSTERS, INC. FOR NINTENDO GAMECUBE
CALABASAS HILLS, Calif. - March 5, 2002 - THQ Inc. (NASDAQ NMS: THQI) today announced it will publish Disney/Pixar’s Monsters, Inc. (working title) for Nintendo® GameCube. Scheduled for fall 2002 release, the game will be based on the Academy Award®-nominated animated film, Disney/Pixar’s Monsters, Inc.
“Disney and Pixar have a legacy of creating long-standing animated motion picture classics,” said Germaine Gioia, vice president, licensing, THQ. “THQ is pleased to extend our interactive videogame collaboration with Disney by bringing Disney/Pixar’s Monsters, Inc. to GameCube.”
The monsters of Monstropolis learn the power of laughter in Disney/Pixar’s Monsters, Inc. for GameCube. Gameplay features a unique dodge ball-style match set in special stadium arenas where your favorite monsters launch an artillery of “laugh balls” at each other which upon contact will affect each monster differently. In the game, Monsters train and learn how to bring laughter to the children they once scared with the ultimate goal of filling their individual laugh canisters first. The game also features a multi-player mode allowing up to four players.
About Pixar Animation Studios
Pixar Animation Studios (Nasdaq: PIXR) combines creative and technical artistry to create original stories in the medium of computer animation. In partnership with Disney, Pixar has created four of the most successful and beloved animated films of all time: Academy Award ®-winning Toy Story (1995); A Bug's Life (1998); Golden Globe-winner Toy Story 2 (1999); and Monsters, Inc. (2001). Pixar's four films have earned more than $1.6 billion at the worldwide box office to date. The Northern California studio's next film, Finding Nemo, will be released in summer 2003.
About Disney
Disney Interactive, part of the Disney Consumer Products division of The Walt Disney Company, develops, markets and globally distributes a wide variety of interactive entertainment, educational and sports CD-ROMs and video games. For more information on Disney Interactive's products, visit www.disneyinteractive.com.
About THQ
THQ Inc. develops and publishes interactive entertainment software worldwide for a variety of hardware platforms including PC CD-ROM, wireless devices, and those manufactured by Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft. The THQ Web site is located at www.thq.com.
