REMINDER/ Nintendo Gamecube Debuts at Pre-E3 Media Briefing

Business Wire, May 15, 2001

High Tech/Assignment Editors

REMINDER... for Wednesday (May 16)

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

NINTENDO GAMECUBE, Game Boy Advance Offer Unique

And Unparalleled Game Play Experiences

      WHAT: The world's most successful video game manufacturer will
        unleash its all-new home video game console, NINTENDO
        GAMECUBE, designed from the ground up to deliver on legendary
        game developer Shigeru Miyamoto's vision of innovation and
        creativity, before the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3)
        opens in Los Angeles, Calif., at Nintendo's annual pre-E3
        media briefing:

          NINTENDO(R) GAMECUBE: A dedicated gameplay console system,
        NINTENDO GAMECUBE will launch this Fall delivering all-new
        forms of interactive fun for players and offering the
        easiest development environment to date for game creators.

          GAME BOY ADVANCE: Nintendo's 32-bit handheld Game Boy(R)
        Advance will launch June 11 and is the revolutionary
        all-new version of the best-selling Game Boy video game
        system, which has sold more then 110 million systems since
        its release in 1989.

      WHO: -- Mr. Peter Main, executive vice president, sales and
            marketing, Nintendo of America Inc.
           -- Mr. Shigeru Miyamoto, legendary game designer and
            General Manager, Entertainment Analysis and
            Development Division, and Director, Nintendo Co., Ltd.
           -- Mr. Satoru Iwata, Director and General Manager
            Corporate Planning, Nintendo Co., Ltd.

      WHEN:  Wednesday, May 16, 2001
           10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. PST (Doors open at 10:00 a.m.)

      WHERE: Biltmore Bowl
           Located inside the Biltmore Hotel
           506 South Grand Avenue
           Downtown Los Angeles (Cross streets: 5th and Grand)

  Satellite coordinates:

  FEED: GE 3 Transpon. 17 (KU)     REFEED: GE 3 Transpon. 17 (KU)
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        15:30 - 16:00pm EST                16:30 - 17:00pm EST
        14:30 - 15:00pm CST                15:30 - 16:00pm CST
        13:30 - 14:00pm MST                14:30 - 15:00pm MST
        12:30 - 13:00pm PST                13:30 - 14:00pm PST

        Downlink Freq: 12040H              Downlink Freq: 12040H

      COLLATERAL: Artwork and b-roll available upon request at E3;
                also available at Nintendo.com after the briefing.