Midway Home Entertainment Announces
                     Olympic Hockey Nagano '98 for N64
CORSICANA, TEXAS (Feb. 10) BUSINESS WIRE - Feb. 10, 1998 - Midway Home
Entertainment announced today the Feb. 18, 1998 home video game
release of Olympic Hockey Nagano '98 for the Nintendo 64.  The
announcement was made by Byron Cook, president of Midway Home
Entertainment.  Produced as a limited-edition title release, this
supersonic, international, hockey thriller captures the intense energy
of the best-of-the-best going at each other in the 1998 Olympic Hockey
tournament.  Midway Home Entertainment's Olympic Hockey Nagano '98 for
the Nintendo 64 is packed with next-millennium exclusive features that
provide a sports video game experience transcending all others.
Olympic Hockey Nagano '98 is truly in a league of its own!
The game is an officially licensed product of the Organizing Committee
for the XVIII Olympic Winter Games Nagano 1998, (NAOC) and the
National Hockey League Players' Association and is distributed in the
United States under authorization of the U.S. Olympic Committee.
Olympic Hockey Nagano '98 is playable in simulation or arcade modes.
Olympic Hockey Nagano '98 boasts the official colors of all 14 Olympic
Hockey teams, and features real rosters of all the NHLPA members
participating in this historic event.  Among the hockey superstars
representing Canada, thrill to the big time play of Paul Kariya and
Patrick Roy, while Mike Modano, Mike Richter and Brian Leetch look to
bring home the gold for the U.S.A.  Mats Sundin and Daniel Alfredsson
play under the Swedish banner, while Valeri Kamensky and Alexei Yashin
hammer the puck for Russia. Olympic Hockey Nagano '98 includes player
names and physical likenesses plus all the moves you'd expect from a
simulation and all the over-the-top action and excitement found in an
arcade.
Gamers can tear up the ice with their favorite Olympic players in
fierce gameplay on their choice of either arcade or regulation sized
hockey rinks.  Olympic Hockey Nagano '98 presents video gamers with
the opportunity to experience lightning-fast skating, blistering
one-timers, and hard-hitting body checks in international rivalries
and adrenaline-pumping best-of-the-best playoffs -- with full
statistic-saving capabilities when used in conjunction with the N64
Controller Pak(TM).  In addition, international player "cards" allow
for up-to-the-minute accuracy in statistics and trade information.
Olympic Hockey Nagano '98 utilizes the full potential of the Nintendo
64 game system's state-of-the-art technology and gives players a truly
unforgettable, visually stunning, and lightning-fast authentic Olympic
hockey game play experience.  The hockey players, ice rinks, and
arenas in Olympic Hockey Nagano '98 were created by using motion
capture, 3D animation, and texture mapping for a super realistic
sports experience that further enhances the "you are there"
experience.
Featuring state-of-the-art real-time rendered, 3D environments,
Olympic Hockey Nagano '98 allows gamers to play and view the action
from all possible angles at 360 degrees.  An intelligent-camera
feature automatically zeros in on important game-play moments, while a
special user-selectable camera mode allows players to view the action
from the angle of their choice.  The Nagano Olympic hockey players
themselves were created as individual 3D models to provide each team
player with independent movement, and for a life-like look and feel,
each model's polygonal form was texture-mapped with uniform and facial
details.
An extensive library of international hockey-specific skating moves
was created to animate the players in their own, unique and
individual, offensive and defensive positions; skating with or without
a stick, checking, penalty moves, face-offs, and forward and backwards
skating.  The audio quality will also impress with digitized music,
the better to play each winning team's national anthem; a sports
announcer calling out shots, players' names, team names, and scores;
plus the ambient noises of buzzer, skating, slap shots, crowd roars,
and athlete grunts and clashes.
"With the release of Olympic Hockey Nagano '98, Midway, under license
from the NHLPA and the Nagano 1998 Olympic Organizing Committee, has
an extraordinary opportunity to bring the Olympic spirit home to both
hockey fans and video gamers alike," said Cook.
From:  Silicon Times Report / February 13, 1998 / No.1406
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