From: Mike_Whalen@agwbbs.new-orleans.LA.US (Mike Whalen)
Newsgroups: rec.games.video
Subject: SNES Game Genie to Hit market December
Distribution: world
Date: 7 Nov 92 12:16:45 CST
Organization: The Amiga GateWay BBS * New Orleans, La.

Since no one else posted this....

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GALOOB TOYS TO INTRODUCE GAME GENIE FOR SUPER NES IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS
 
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO (NOV. 6) PR NEWSWIRE - In a surprise move, Lewis Galoob
Toys, Inc. (NYSE: GAL, GALPR) announced today that it will begin shipping
the
Game Genie(TM) video game enhancer for the Super Nintendo Entertainment
System(R) to retailers in time for the Christmas season.  This is more than
six months ahead of previous expectations. Galoob is the exclusive marketer
and distributor of Game Genie products in the United States and Western
Europe.
 
Similar to Galoob's Game Genie of the NES(R), whose United States and
Western
Europe sales have now surpassed 1.6 million units, and Game Genie for the
Sega(TM) Genesis(TM)(A) system which is now reaching full U.S. retail
distribution, the eagerly anticipated SuperNES(TM) Game Genie grants
players
their video game wishes.  Genie lets players temporarily change and
customize
their favorite games.  Players will have more power, more energy, live
forever, run faster, punch harder or go to any level of the game.
 
Featuring more powerful technology, Game Genie for Super NES enables
players to add up to five special effects at a time, two more than possible
in the Genie for NES.  A highlight of Super NES Game Genie is its switching
capability that allows players to turn Game Genie's special effects on and
off at will. Every Super NES Game Genie includes codes for the first 51
games in the initial codebook.  Fifty more games will be supplemented free
by mail using the coupon that comes in each package.  And as with Genie for
NES and Genesis, Super NES Game Genie owners will be able to get the latest
codes for the hottest new games as they come out by subscribing to the
quarterly Game Genie Code Updates.

 A subscription card is packed in every Game Genie box. More than 100,000
players have subscribed to the NES Update. The first Sega Genesis Game
Genie
Update will be published shortly.
 
Galoob Executive Vice President Gary J. Niles said, "The Game Genie for
Super
NES is the latest application of the patented technological breakthrough of
Codemasters Software Company Ltd., which led to the development of the
first
Game Genie."  Codemasters, founded in 1985 by two brothers in their teens,
David and Richard Darling, is today one of the world's leading developers,
publishers and inventors of peripherals and software for video games.
 
Lewis Galoob Toys, Inc. designs, develops, markets and sells quality toy
and
video game products worldwide.
 
Game Genie and Galoob are trademarks of Lewis Galoob Toys, Inc. Super NES,
Super Nintendo Entertainment System and NES are trademarks of Nintendo of
America, Inc.
 
(A) -- This product is licensed by Sega of America, Inc. for use with the
Sega
Genesis System.  Sega and Genesis are trademarks of Sega Enterprises, Ltd.
 
CONTACT:  Rita Blomberg or Barry Schwartz of Schwartz Public Relations
Associates, 212-677-8700, for Lewis Galoob Toys, Inc.
 
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