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Technology Stocks : GTIS - Will it be a Phoenix or not ? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RJC2006 who wrote (1323)	12/11/1997 10:28:00 PM
From: Bill Gizzo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2319

GT's '98 AAA lineup is pretty much specicialized in the FPS category. Its been their bread & butter since the IPO, although the deal with Empire Interactive has introduced another flight sim title and a sports title to their catalog. Regarding the strategy game genre the term precarious is right! The last attempt to close the "precarious open end" in the strategy and the adventure catagories has cost shareholders the entire year's return on their investment and we're trading in the same range as we were in BEFORE the no-merger news !! Why this is happening is a mystery to me. The "street" didn't like the merger so we sold down, now the mergers off and yet we aren't going up. Worries about Q4?? Seems to me like they're unfounded and we have more positve news. A new release tomarrow and console Duke selling well. From Scott Miller's .plan file Dec. 11, 1997 Balls of Steel (shareware) will be released tomorrow. The retail version will be in stores next week. I've played all other pinball games released in the past two years, studied them, enjoyed a few of them (like Full Tilt 2), but in my trying-to-be-unbiased opinion, Balls is the best. This game was developed by a small team in Australia, Wildfire Studios. It shows what a small, focused, talented team can do. A very cool feature of this game is that it allows you to post your high scores on a web site (www.worldscores.com) to compare with other players, but only if you're playing the game in Tournament Mode, which happens to be the mode that's available in the shareware version. Our publisher, GTIS, said that Duke for the PlayStation and N64 are exceeding sales expectations, and re-orders are already in progress. I think part of the success is that these are much more than straight ports because levels were redesigned, new levels and weapons added, secrets rearranged, and new Duke one-liners added. Bob,I'm not too concerned with a slippage in sales of T/A & Abe in Q1. Analysts are expecting 0.08 p/sh we should make that with these releases proping up the catalog. Flying Corps Gold (12/8/97) win95 Balls Of Steel (12/12/97) win95 Combat Chess (1Q/98 - Empire Interactive) win95 Duke Nukem 3D: Carribean level pack (12/12/97 - WizardWorks) dos/win95 Duke Nukem 3D: Winter level pack (12/15/97 - WizardWorks) dos/win95 Shadow Warrior: Wanton Destruction (12/15/97 - WizardWorks) dos/win95 Golf Pro (1Q/98 - Empire Interactive) win95 Millenium Four: The Right (1Q/98 ???? - 5D Games) win95 Rob Liefeld's YoungBlood: Search & Destroy (1Q/98) win95 Viper (1Q/98) win95 and if we get these 2 out we'll exceed !!! Unreal (1Q/98 - Epic MegaGames) win95 ???????????? Unreal: Level Pack (1Q/98 - WizardWorks) win95 ???????? The rest of the year so far. Duke Nukem Forever (3Q/98 - 3D Realms) win95 Talon Brave: Prey (3Q/98 - 3D Realms) win95 Blood 2 (4Q/98 - Monolith) win95 War Of The Worlds (4Q/98) win95 Cheers Bill