Sixty-one Percent of PC Users Play Games, Reports Media Metrix; NVision's Elf Bowling has Greatest Reach Among Non-bundled PC Games

Business Wire, March 7, 2000

    Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

    NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 7, 2000--Media Metrix (NASDAQ:
MMXI), the pioneer and leader in Internet and Digital Media
measurement worldwide, reports that sixty-one percent of all U.S. home
PC users, or 54.1 million people, played a PC game in the month of
December 1999. Among game players overall, Solitaire and other
Windows-bundled games ranked in the top five with 36.5 million people
total. NVision Elf Bowling achieved the highest rating of any
non-bundled game with 7.6 million users, making it the sixth most
popular PC game. Another NVision game, Elf Frogapult, came close,
ranking number 11 with 1.6 million users.
    "In the four years that Media Metrix has tracked game usage, it is
unprecedented for non-traditional or unbundled games like Elf Bowling
to reach a number-six ranking," said Bruce Ryon, Senior Vice President
and General Manager of the New Media Group, Media Metrix. "For Elf
Bowling to generate usage of 7.6 million users would have to be
described as a phenomenon. Other popular nontraditional or non-bundled
PC games, such as Myst, Doom, Deer Hunter, and Quake, have never
reached more than two million users in any given month."
    Dallas-based NVision Design, Inc., a contract-engineering firm,
launched Elf Bowling in mid-November as a promotional tool. The game
is set on an ice-bowling lane at the North Pole and the user must
guide Santa in knocking down antagonizing elf "bowling pins." NVision
was acquired by Vectrix.com in December; its games can be found at
Nstorm.com.


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                          MEDIA METRIX, INC.
                        Top 50 PC Games Played
                          U.S. Home PC Users
                             December 1999
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                                      Unique Users PC User   Game User
     Game Title                          (000s)    Share (%) Share (%)
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     Total PC Game Users                   54,094    61.4       100.0

 1   Interplay Solitaire                   20,762    23.6        38.4
 2   Microsoft Freecell                    17,114    19.4        31.6
 3   Microsoft Entertainment Pack          12,490    14.2        23.1
 4   Microsoft Hearts Network               9,184    10.4        17.0
 5   Microsoft Minesweeper                  7,960     9.0        14.7
 6   NVision Design Elf Bowling             7,624     8.7        14.1
 7   Microsoft Solitaire                    3,263     3.7         6.0
 8   Microsoft Golf                         2,614     3.0         4.8
 9   Slingo                                 1,998     2.3         3.7
10   NVision Design Elf Frogapult           1,639     1.9         3.0
11   Sunstorm Interactive Deer Hunter       1,395     1.6         2.6
12   Cinematronics 3d Pinball               1,380     1.6         2.6
13   Ron Belewski Mah Jongg                 1,311     1.5         2.4
14   Maxis Simcity 2000                     1,310     1.5         2.4
15   Swfte Bicycle Solitaire                1,142     1.3         2.1
16   Microstar 200 Great Games              1,003     1.1         1.9
17   Nova Logic Delta Force                   925     1.1         1.7
18   Sierra Online Hoyle Classic Board Games  907     1.0         1.7
19   Hasbro Rollercoaster Tycoon              858     1.0         1.6
20   Blizzard Entertainment Starcraft         828     0.9         1.5
21   Sierra Online Hoyle Classic Card Games   819     0.9         1.5
22   Virgin Monopoly                          815     0.9         1.5
23   Microsoft Network Gaming Zone            803     0.9         1.5
24   Mindscape Lego Island                    734     0.8         1.4
25   Moraffware Morejongg!                    698     0.8         1.3
26   Wizardworks Fun Pack                     663     0.8         1.2
27   Dave Lemke Spider Solitaire              648     0.7         1.2
28   Microsoft Age Of Empires                 646     0.7         1.2
29   Hasbro Frogger                           641     0.7         1.2
30   Microsoft Return Of Arcade               563     0.6         1.0
31   Hasbro Tonka Search And Rescue           562     0.6         1.0
32   Microsoft Flight Simulator               518     0.6         1.0
33   Blizzard Diablo                          505     0.6         0.9
34   Freeware Shoot Me Elmo                   503     0.6         0.9
35   Fukumoto & Yoshioka Same Game            502     0.6         0.9
36   Sierra Online 3D Ultra Minigolf          493     0.6         0.9
37   Activision Battlezone                    478     0.5         0.9
38   Hasbro Scrabble                          463     0.5         0.9
39   Mplayer.Com Games                        458     0.5         0.8
40   Oska Deskmate                            453     0.5         0.8
41   Segasoft Lose Your Marbles Lite          449     0.5         0.8
42   Microsoft Monster Truck Madness          444     0.5         0.8
43   Activision Shanghai 2: Dragon's Eye      439     0.5         0.8
44   Sierra Online Hoyle Book Of Games 1      435     0.5         0.8
45   Virgin Command & Conquer: Red Alert      425     0.5         0.8
46   Berkeley Systems You Don't Know Jack V2  423     0.5         0.8
47   Sierra Online 3d Ultra Pinball 2: Creep
      Nigh                                    415     0.5         0.8
48   Sierra Online Hoyle Casino               414     0.5         0.8
49   Broderbund Myst                          411     0.5         0.8
50   Village Center Screen Mate Poo           398     0.5         0.7
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Key Definitions

    Unique Users - The estimated number of total users who used the
game software title once in the given month. All Unique Users are
unduplicated (only counted once).

    PC User Share Percent - The percent of all PC users who played a
given game

    Game User Share Percent - The percent of all game players who
played a given game.

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