Nickelodeon's Top TV Characters Come to Life in Nicktoons Unite!

Oct. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- THQ and Nickelodeon today announced Nicktoons Unite! for the PlayStation2 computer entertainment system and Nintendo GameCube and Game Boy Advance videogame systems has shipped to retail outlets throughout North America. Nicktoons Unite! allows players to interact with the stars from some of the most popular Nickelodeon TV shows, including SpongeBob SquarePants, Timmy Turner (from the Fairly OddParents), Jimmy Neutron and Danny Phantom.

"Our partnership with Nickelodeon has yielded a portfolio of successful products in recent years, with more than 16 million games sold in to date" said Kelly Flock, executive vice president, worldwide publishing, THQ. "Last year's Nicktoons: Movin' was one of the top stand-alone games for the EyeToy USB Camera (for PlayStation2) during the 2004 holiday season, and we're looking forward to bringing Nicktoons to additional video game platforms this holiday season with the new Nicktoons Unite!"

"With Nicktoons being the only brand where characters from various top-rated Nickelodeon TV shows co-exist, we're excited to have the opportunity to launch this new game on multiple gaming platforms," said Steve Youngwood, senior vice president, Entertainment Products, Nickelodeon and Viacom Consumer Products. "Nicktoons Unite! is a great opportunity for Nickelodeon fans to simultaneously interact with many of their favorite characters."

For more information on Nicktoons Unite! and the rest of THQ's product line-up, please visit www.thq.com.

About Nicktoons Unite!
Nicktoons Unite! is a 1-4 player cooperative, 15 level video game featuring SpongeBob SquarePants, Timmy Turner, Jimmy Neutron and Danny Phantom. In this new game, the most devious plan ever created in the Nicktoons world is unfolding. Professor Calamitous has pulled together Plankton, Vlad and Crocker to form a group known as The Evil Syndicate. The wicked foursome have begun to wreak havoc throughout Retroville, Amity Park, Dimmsdale and Bikini Bottom in an attempt to take over the world. Not to be outsmarted, Jimmy Neutron calls upon his own band of Nicktoons to take out The Evil Syndicate, along with the devastating Doomsday device. It's good versus evil where only one side will prevail in Nicktoons Unite!. More information about THQ and its products may be found at www.thq.com and www.thqwireless.com.

SOURCE THQ Inc.