MARIO TENNIS AT LODGENET
August 29, 2000

Thanks to an exclusive agreement between LodgeNet Entertainment Corporation and Nintendo of America, video game fans in more than 162,000 hotel rooms can enjoy a new Nintendo 64 game the same week it hits retail shelves. Through its interactive television systems, LodgeNet will begin offering Mario Tennis to guests on September 1 -- just four days after the game's August 28 retail release.

Mario Tennis allows up to four players to challenge Mario and more than a dozen of his friends to matches of tennis, practice sets, tournaments, challenge modes, and more in singles and doubles play. Each character possesses unique attributes of power, speed, spin, and control. They can also play on varied court surfaces, including clay and grass, which causes the ball to react differently depending on each surface. Mario Tennis also introduces players to Waluigi, Luigi's archenemy and the latest character addition to the Nintendo family.

"By offering Mario Tennis now we'll capitalize on the heightened interest in tennis during the U.S. Open, and we'll provide Labor Day travelers with a game that's literally right out of the box," says Steven D. Truckenmiller, Vice President Guest Pay Services for LodgeNet. "This rollout reflects both the strength of our relationship with Nintendo and the capacity to update our interactive digital systems with fresh content virtually overnight."

LodgeNet was the first lodging industry distributor of Nintendo 64 games and currently provides them to more than 1,000 hotels.

"We are thrilled to offer the simultaneous release of Mario Tennis at retail and in LodgeNet hotels," says Peter Eck, Nintendo's director, network planning. "The launch is a great testament to LodgeNet's hotel technology providing guests the very latest in interactive entertainment. The ability to quickly update hotel video games concurrently also illustrates the advanced capabilities of the LodgeNet hotel entertainment system and reaffirms our decision to partner with LodgeNet."