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ENGAGE!" WITH SPECTRUM HOLOBYTE'S STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION’ "A FINAL UNITY" FOR PC CD-ROM

Pasadena, CA, October 20, 1995-One of the most ambitious entertainment software titles to date, is STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION’ "A Final Unity" PC CD-ROM for DOS, Spectrum HoloByte, Inc. (NASDAQ: SBYT) announced that the game has been well received by consumers since its June release, it was announced by Louis Gioia, Jr., Chief Marketing Officer of Spectrum HoloByte, Inc. The game remains at or near the top of sales charts published by PC Data, the highly regarded retail sales research company.

Licensed by Viacom Consumer Products, STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION’ "A Final Unity" incorporates several technological achievements, including extremely lifelike 3-D animation, authentic digitized sound effects and music, and the voices of the seven principal actors from the popular series STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION’. Each actor, including Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner and Marina Sirtis, individually recorded more than 60 minutes of dialog for the game, allowing for endless turns and directions of the characters and action within the main story line.

STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION’ "A Final Unity" allows players to select one of three difficulty settings - Ensign, Lieutenant or Captain - in order to tailor the game to accommodate players of all skill levels. Players can also take on the role of a different crew member each time, which affects the decisions to be made and the game's outcome. Those who embark on a thorough journey through the final frontier will experience up to 80 hours of game play.

"It's not an overstatement to call this game a STAR TREK fan's dream come true," said Gioia. "The extensive amount of time and effort invested in this game has clearly paid off, resulting in a title that consumers love and play time and time again because of its depth and attention to detail."

Taking the Starship Enterprise to warp speed, to responding to a call of distress, or determining how best to utilize personnel are just a few of the decisions that rest with players when they embark upon "A Final Unity." The game is so rich with STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION’ detail of space civilizations, the Bridge, the characters and their history that it will provide instant appeal to "Trekkers." The CD-ROM also offers hints within the game to help guide the gaming novice.

Game Summary Spectrum HoloByte's STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION’ "A Final Unity" for PC CD-ROM is an epic in the grand tradition of graphic adventures with elements of a sophisticated space-flight simulation.

Players embark on missions for the Federation and find themselves caught up in an unfolding mystery with the crew of the Starship Enterprise. Within this galactic adventure, the player must maneuver the Starship Enterprise (designated NCC-1701-D) within a 3-D tactical space, beam down Away Teams to investigate alien planets, explore many of the hundreds of stars within known space, and use the vast resources of the U.S.S. Enterprise to meet the challenges that await.

Viacom Consumer Products licenses and merchandises properties on behalf of Paramount Pictures, Paramount Television and Simon & Schuster as well as third party properties. Viacom Consumer Products, a unit of Viacom Entertainment Group, is a division of Viacom Inc.

STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION’ is produced by the Paramount Network Television Division and is distributed by the Domestic Television Division of Paramount Pictures. Paramount Pictures is part of the entertainment operations of Viacom Entertainment Group, which is a majority-owned subsidiary of Viacom Inc.