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To: Steeliejim who wrote (15098)	1/26/2000 5:38:00 PM
From: Steeliejim	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 118717

In case anyone still thinks of HAS as just another stodgy ole toy company (picked this off the Yahoo board today). Yes, I'm long HAS a bunch at 15 3/16 and 15 1/2 and I'm holding these for awhile. How do the options look Dale? Leaps ought to be cheap): A good article on Game.com on USATODAY by: ibuyundervalue (21/F/East Brunswick, NJ) 1/26/00 4:34 pm Msg: 15879 of 15880 Online games are becoming increasingly popular with players and are seen as a potentially lucrative market by toy companies. In 1997 about two million people played games online, a total expected to swell to nearly 27 million by 2002, according to a Jupiter Communications report cited by Hasbro. Revenues relating to online games are expected to similarly skyrocket, from $41 million in 1997 to more than $1 billion in 2002, according to Hasbro. Hasbro appears to be well-positioned to cash in on the projected growth of online gaming, says Jim Silver, publisher of The Toy Book. 'They are the first to offer classic board games' for online playing, he said. 'That makes sense because they have a library that reads like a who's who of family games. 'This will get more people interested in their titles, including a lot of younger kids. That could drive sales of the actual board games,' he said. usatoday.com