Sennari Takes Sports Games to a New Level on the Game Boy Advance!

Sept. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Technology leader Sennari Interactive, best known for its development of The PowerPuff Girls(TM) for Game Boy(R) Color, announces development of Sports Illustrated for Kids: Baseball and Sports Illustrated for Kids: Football for publisher BAM! Entertainment. BAM! Entertainment's Sports Illustrated for Kids: Baseball and Sports Illustrated for Kids: Football, scheduled for a September 2001 release, are the first major league sports games designed exclusively for Nintendo's Game Boy Advance, and the first to support Game Link Cable. Both games feature exciting 3D sports action, with head to head link play and RPG team building. Winning players can extend game play and customize their team through multiple seasons. Early versions of Sports Illustrated for Kids: Baseball and Sports Illustrated for Kids: Football have earned rave reviews from industry press.

Sennari CEO Mike Cartabiano attributes the games' positive reception to Sennari's proprietary X2 Engine, which streamlines the design and development process and shortens the timeline to the market. Sennari's design and the X2 Engine make full use of Game Boy Advance system hardware and allow a "pseudo- 3D" effect with gameplay action on a smoothly scaling rotating screen with an added lens-on-the-ball dynamic camera.

Sports Illustrated for Kids: Baseball and Football also take quirky action liberties, treating the gameplayer to animated powerwaves with power hitters or a flame trail under the fastest base runners, Hail Mary passes and more. To keep gameplay fresh, the winning player continues to earn and unlock game secrets through successive seasons, such as stadium upgrades and other surprise goodies. In addition, both games support link cable, allowing simultaneous head to head gameplay on separate Game Boy Advances. The highly interactive games feature the unique create-a-team mode in which individual game players can trade team members to other linked players.

Founded in 1998 by 20-year toy and game industry veteran Mike Cartabiano, Sennari Interactive is partnered with such publishers as BAM! Entertainment and Infogames. Sennari has multiple development teams working on future X-2 engine enhanced games for Game Boy Advance. Stay tuned for announcements of new title releases.

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