"As our game library grows to 180 by New Year's Eve, Nintendo will have the largest concentration ever of games designed for players in their teens, and older," says Peter MacDougall, executive vice president, sales and marketing, Nintendo of America. "By significantly boosting our fourth quarter spending over last year, when we launched the Nintendo GameCube, it's clear Nintendo is serious about the serious gamer."

Targeted marketing programs for the remainder of 2002 include:

-- Exclusive Nintendo Cube Clubs in urban storefronts in 15 cities, featuring live music and extensive hands-on game play

-- A celebrity-studded anniversary party for Nintendo GameCube in Hollywood

-- Intensified advertising campaigns aimed at teens and young adults highlighting a wide range of older-appeal titles from Nintendo and independent third-party publishers

-- More than 3 million promotional DVDs with 80-plus minutes of game footage representing more than 25 new games

-- Cinema advertising in Nov. and Dec. on more than 6000 screens nationwide

-- Sponsorship of the USSA Snowboarding Grand Prix, running from December through April

-- Promotional partnerships with Heineken, Keebler and Kraft Easy Mac & Cheese

-- Multi-market radio promotions

-- Intensified internet and print advertising

-- 1.5 million copies of a new 80-page, full color consumer booklet at thousands of retail outlets in November

-- Numerous out-of-home programs -- in schools, malls, college campuses, airports, bars and nightclubs -- reaching teens and young adults where they hang out

While expanding its message to the older player, Nintendo remains unparalleled in attracting gamers of all ages. In August, the latest iteration in the Mario series, Super Mario(R) Sunshine for Nintendo GameCube, moved to #2 on the sales charts, despite being available only the last six days of the month. Recent releases Star Fox(R) Adventures and Animal Crossing(TM) also are selling very well.

In total, 60 percent of Nintendo's global marketing budget is spent in the last four months of the year. As an industry, the retail value of video games in America is on track to surpass $10 billion for the first time in 2002.

As the worldwide leader and innovator in the creation of interactive entertainment, Nintendo Co. Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, manufactures and markets hardware and software for its popular home video game systems. The systems include Game Boy(R), Nintendo(R) 64, Game Boy Advance and NINTENDO GAMECUBE. Since the release of its first home video game system in 1983, Nintendo has sold more than 1.6 billion video games worldwide, creating enduring industry icons such as Mario(TM) and Donkey Kong(R) and launching such franchises as Zelda(TM) and Pokemon(R). As a wholly owned subsidiary, Nintendo of America Inc., based in Redmond, Wash., serves as headquarters for Nintendo's operations in the Western Hemisphere.

For more information about NINTENDO GAMECUBE or any other Nintendo product visit the company's Web sites, www.nintendo.com or www.nintendogamecube.com.