Advertising Blurbs
Press Release:
LEGEND ENTERTAINMENT LAUNCHES WEB SITE
SURFERS: DOWNLOAD FREE GAME AND HINT BOOK!Chantilly, VA., May 16, 1996Legend Entertainment Company will launch a full-service, interactive web site June 1 at: http://www.legendent.com
Legend Entertainment's President Bob Bates said, "Today the web is an excellent way to keep in touch with our customers. Visitors to our site will be able to post technical questions and receive free gaming hints. In the near future, we hope our web site will be a place gamers gather before playing one of our multi-player online adventure games."
Legend Entertainment plans to utilize the new web site for promoting its upcoming release The Lost Adventures, a compilation of eight award-winning adventures spanning the sci fi, fantasy and comedy categories. For a limited time beginning June 1, visitors to the Legend Entertainment web site can download Frederik Pohl's Gateway, one of the two science fiction hits in The Lost Adventures. The free download also includes a text file of the Gateway hint book. In its review of Frederik Pohl's Gateway, Science Fiction Age said, "Gateway drops you into a very believable work and makes it easy and fun to spend WEEKS exploring it."
Peggy Oriani, Legend Entertainment's Director of Marketing, commented, "The Lost Adevntures contains some of the industry's best and most respected adventure games. The web offers a unique opportunity to give consumers a taste of what we're offering and encourage them to purchase the entire set."
In addition to the free Gateway game and hint book, the web site will offer company information, press releases, job postings, a product catalog, technical support and free hints. Mission Critical and Shannara downloadable demos and screen shots will also be available. The new site also features a Legend Entertainment trophy room and offers direct internet links to game magazine reviews and previews of Legend products.
Ms. Oriani continued, "We wanted the gaming public to bookmark our web iste. We're celebrating our launch with the spectacular Gateway giveaway and plan to continually add contests, discounts and drawings to encourage our gaming fans to visit the Legend Entertainment web site often."
The web site has been implemented by Kaizen Works, Inc., a Reston, VA web development firm.
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Legend Entertainment Company, founded in 1989, is a leading developer and publisher of high quality entertainment software featuring compelling story lines and richly detailed environments. Recent best-selling titles include Mission critical, Shannara and Death Gate. The company plans to release The Lost Adventures collection in June 1996 and Callahan's Crosstime Saloon in October 1996.
Contributed by Jeanne  (59594) on Apr 24, 2004.
From back of box:
The Biggest, Funniest, Classiest, Comedy, Fantasy & Sci Fi Hits!
Eight Classic Games. Thirteen Major Industry Awards!
COMPANIONS OF XANTH
Step into Piers Anthony's world of magic wonders and play in a game where the stakes are the existence of magic itself. Digital voice acting by more than 30 characters!
"A graphic adventure in the true sense of the word; visiting Xanth is always worth the effort." -Computer Gaming World, July 1993
ERIC THE UNREADY
Computer Gaming World's Adventure Game of the Year!
Everyone who has ever seen a movie or watched TV will find something hilarious in this side-splitting quest. A light-hearted spoof wrapped around the tale of a hapless knight in the mythical kingdom of Torus.
"Bob Bates spoofs everything from Saturday Night Live to Star Trek." -Strategy Plus
THE COMPLETE SPELLCASTING SERIES
Spellcasting 101: Sorcerers Get All the Girls, Spellcasting 201: The Sorcerer's Appliance, Spellcasting 301: Spring Break
From the bedrooms and barrooms of Sorcerer University to Spring Break at Fort Naughtytail, Ernie Eaglebeak struggles to win the heart of his true love, Lola Tigerbelly. Dangerously close to a real education! Naughty and Nice modes.
"Bad boy Steve Meretzky's finest set of games." -Quest Busters
FREDERIK POHL'S GATEWAY
Get rich quick or die! Strap yourself into an alien starship whose destination was programmed 500,000 years ago and blast off into the unknown.
GATEWAY II: HOMEWORLD
Cross the event horizon of a massive black hole and discover man's last remaining hope for survival - the Heechee Homeworld!
TIMEQUEST
Face mystery, danger and death as you time-travel through 3,000 years of history, solving puzzles from King Tut's reign to the battle between Churchill and Hitler in World War II.
Contributed by Belboz (6609) on Apr 05, 2001.
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