KEMCO DELIVERS ACTION,
COMEDY AND ADVENTURE FOR E3 2002
Blockbuster
Batman Title, Egg Mania and GBA MP3 Player to be
Showcased at #2808 West Hall
Japanese
publisher and developer Kemco, announced its diverse
line-up for this year’s Electronic Entertainment
Expo. Kemco will finally unveil the highly
anticipated Batman: Dark Tomorrow for the PlayStation®2
computer entertainment system, The Xbox video game
system from Microsoft and the Nintendo GameCube.
In addition, the latest action puzzle game, Egg
Mania, will be on display for both handheld and console
platforms. Kemco will also be demonstrating its
revolutionary new hardware - a GameBoy Advance MP3
player, at the company’s booth located at 2808 West
Hall.
Other titles to be exhibited by Kemco at E3 include,
Boulder Dash® EX, Crazy Chase and Woody Woodpecker Crazy
Castle 5.
“From the action of Batman to the challenge of Egg
Mania to our revolutionary GBA MP3 Player, Kemco’s
diverse original titles, products and high profile
licenses will appeal to both core enthusiast and
mass-consumer audiences,” said Glenn Halseth, vice
president of sales and marketing for Kemco. “The
2002 line-up will help to ensure our position as a key
publisher and developer in the North American market.”
A brief synopsis of each title follows:
Title: Batman: Dark Tomorrow
Release date: November 5, 2002
Genre: Action Adventure
Platform: GameCube, PS2 and Xbox
Explosions echo throughout the mean streets of Gotham as
rival gangs battle for control of the city. Anarchy
reigns supreme with the sudden disappearance of Police
Commissioner James Gordon and the lockdown of Arkham
Asylum, home for the criminally insane. By using
all of his skills, both mental and physical, as well as a
variety of gadgets, Batman must stop the gang war,
infiltrate Arkham Asylum and rescue the Commissioner.
During this time, Batman must also piece together
clues to discover the mastermind behind these seemingly
unrelated events and stop an evil plan that threatens the
fate of the entire world!
Title: Egg Mania
Release date: September 10, 2002
Genre: Action Puzzle Game
Platform: GBA
In this cartoon arcade style puzzle game, players battle
one another to be the quickest to build a tower out of
blocks. Facing challenges that include ascending
water, challenging enemies and the inherent environmental
hazards within each level, players must catch the falling
blocks and drop them into their correct positions before
the rising water consumes them. The object of this
game is to be first to reach the top of the level and
locate the pull chain that is used to “flush”
their opponent’s tower.
Title: Egg Mania: Eggstreme Madness
Release date: September 10, 2002
Genre: Action Puzzle Game
Platform: GameCube, PS2
Faithful to the original game theme, Egg Mania:
Eggstreme Madness evolves around the concept of racing to
build towers from randomly falling blocks while avoiding
nasty foes and rising moat water. The game delivers an
amazing array of customizable options for balanced
gameplay and optimum challenge and includes dozens of new
characters and modes that offer puzzle game depth and
replay value.
Title: Boulder® Dash EX
Release date: August 2002
Genre: Acton Puzzle Games
Platform: GBA
Based on the coin-op arcade classic, players are cast as
a curious explorer that, upon discovering a hidden cave,
stumbles across the remains of an ancient culture.
These adventurers must delve into the ruins of six
worlds and search for hidden treasure, all the while
defending themselves against blood-sucking bats,
poisonous scorpions and a plethora of other monsters.
New features include screen rotation and scaling,
time bombs and multi-player support.
Title: Crazy Chase
Release date: October 2002
Genre: Action Adventure
Platform: GBA
In this quick-thinking crazy game, players will strap on
their turbo-charged clown shoes and assist Kid Klown in
saving the world and defeating the vile space pirate
Dirty Joe, who has kidnapped “Her Royal Bratness,”
Princess Honey. Players join forces with Kid Klown
to find four items that will enable the dynamic duo to
reach the next stage before Dirty Joe’s bomb
detonates. Fast fingers and a sense of humor are
essential while facing perilous objects, such as cars,
thorns, spikes, cannons, sticky bushes and rolling logs.
Title: Woody Woodpecker Crazy Castle 5
Release date: September 2002
Genre: Action
Platform: GBA
In this fifth installment of the action-adventure Crazy
Castle series, players step into the shoes of the
loveable Looney Toon character Woody Woodpecker in his
quest to aid Mother Nature in freeing the Fairy World
from Demons. With the assistance of Mother Nature,
players must navigate through several elemental worlds,
collecting keys and other useful items, while assuming
different costumes and discovering new abilities along
the way. While searching for keys to find and
unlock new doors, players will come across treasure
chests filled with helpful items such as dart guns to
freeze enemies or fruit pies to momentarily stun them.
Each world has a new and dangerous adversary that
must be defeated, before advancing to the next level and
ultimately saving the Fairy world.
GameBoy® Advance MP3 Player
The GBA MP3 Player features a portable music player
function in addition to the normal GBA functions and can
easily record and play music that can be heard via
headphones or GBA speakers. It comes with a voice
delete function that allows music lovers to delete vocals
which are recorded with a built-in microphone.
Come to West Hall Booth #2808 to see the titles and
experience them hands-on.
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BATMAN
and all related characters, names, and indicia are
trademarks of DC Comics© 2002.
Boulder Dash is a registered trademark of First Star
Software, Inc
Woody Woodpecker and Friends and related characters are
trademarks and copyrights of Walter
Lantz Productions, Inc. Licensed by Universal Studios Licensing, Inc.
All rights reserved.
About DC Comics
DC Comics, a division of
Warner Bros. an AOL Time Warner Company, is the largest
English-language publisher of comics in the world and
home to such iconic characters as Superman, Batman,
Wonder Woman and the Sandman. These DC super heroes and
others have starred in comic books, movies, television
series (both animated and live-action) and cyberspace,
thrilling audiences of all ages for generations. DC
Comics’ Web site is located at
http://www.dccomics.com.
About Kemco
Since 1984, Kemco has
produced over 100 titles including the popular Top Gear
racing games and Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle series for a
wide variety of video game platforms. An original
Nintendo licensee, Kemco works closely with DC comics,
Warner Bros. and Universal Studios on ongoing video game
projects. Currently Kemco’s development teams
are creating games for Nintendo’s next generation
platforms, as well as Sony PlayStation®2 and Microsoft’s
Xbox.
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