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April 03, 2001 |
Contact: Lisa Kulow
Patch Products, Inc.
1400 E. Inman Pkwy.
Beloit, WI 53511
(800) 524-4263 x 239
lisak@patchproducts.com
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Patch Products Teams with Astraware…
Introducing Mad Gab® for Palm
Beloit, Wis. -- Patch Products, maker of the top-selling Mad Gab® board game, has licensed Astraware, a leading game developer for the Palm OS
platform, the rights to develop and distribute Mad Gab for Palm.
The object of Mad Gab is to sound out a group of words until you can “hear” the answer. Repeat the following words aloud… WIDE HIDDEN CHEWS
HAZE HOE. Did you hear yourself saying, “Why didn’t you say so?” In Mad Gab… “It’s Not What You Say, It’s What You Hear!”™
Mad Gab for Palm brings the fun of the original board game to a new audience of game-enthusiasts. This game features 750 Mad Gab puzzles, two
single-player games (timed and simple puzzles) and two multi-player games (Speed Challenge and Brain Strain), along with several customizable user
options. Registered users are treated to a new “pop-up” Mad Gab puzzle each day. The Palm OS game is available at http://www.handango.com and will be
released in a boxed version next month.
“Astraware has proven its innovation and creativity in the Palm software market,” says Danna Dueck, International Licensing and Sales Coordinator at Patch
Products. “We’re excited to be working with them to launch Mad Gab for the Palm platform.”
“We’re pleased to have brought the popular Mad Gab game to this new and exciting platform,” says Howard Tomlinson, CEO at Astraware. “The
portability and wearability of Palm devices mean that people can play this game anywhere, everywhere and any time.”
The Mad Gab brand continues to grow with the addition of the Mad Gab Palm game. Since its introduction in 1996, the Mad Gab board game has sold a
million copies. It is licensed in over 10 countries worldwide and is currently ranked among the top-selling board games in Canada. Mad Gab has gained
further success through its various brand extensions, including Bible Mad Gab® and the Mad Gab™ card game. Patch has also licensed Mad Gab to
Andrews McMeel for a 2001 Day-to-Day Calendar, and to Sierra Interactive for the gameshow-formatted Mad Gab® CD-ROM.
Patch Products, located in Beloit, Wis., is a leading manufacturer of adult board games. Patch is known for TriBond®, Blurt!®, Mad Gab® and Malarky®
which are ranked among the top 30 best-selling adult board games. Patch is rapidly growing, with products available throughout the United States, Canada,
Mexico, Peru, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Scandinavia and the Benelux, and continues to expand its family-friendly line of games and
puzzles to include tops, card games and sporting goods.
Astraware Ltd., based in Stoke-on-Trent, England, is the leading games development studio for the Palm-powered platform. Its products include
Zap!2000, Biplane Ace and Bejeweled for Palm. Over a million of Astraware's games have been downloaded to date, and it has customers in nearly 100
countries. For more information about Astraware, contact CEO Howard Tomlinson at howard@astraware.com, or visit their website at
http://www.astraware.com/.
For more information about Mad Gab for Palm, visit http://www.madgab4palm.com.
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