The new battery-powered "plug and play" game connects
directly into a
television and enables up to eight players to compete simultaneously in trivia
game
shows within their own home. If a player's serve hits the net
and goes over, it counts-just as in
beach volleyball. "I'm a huge tennis fan, and of course can't get away
from the beach and volleyball
, so it was only natural that I try beach tennis-
and I loved it!"
Last year, Beach Tennis
USA held tournaments and "learn and play" events
in cities along the East Coast. They started the
company
with the ultimate goal of making beach tennis a mainstream American sport.
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Accessories
include
additional wireless game controllers and additional trivia cartridges
which include "Everything,
" "TV," "Sports," and "History" categories.
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The
company website is located
at http://www. America's Newest Sport Kicks Off 2006 National Tour On California Sand
NEW YORK, Beach Tennis USA, the organization that
launched the sport of beach tennis in North America
last year, will kick off
its much-anticipated 2006 National Tour in April with two weekend events
in
Southern California.
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Additional trivia game cartridges will be available in January
2006. The Company also offers the world's
largest line of magic products. In addition to pro level
competition, events in each city along the tour will include teaching clinics
for adults and children
who want to learn how to play beach tennis.throughtout trampoline
"We believe the game will be
enjoyed by both new and
existing Buzztime trivia players.
This release contains forward-looking statements which
reflect
management's current views of future events and operations, including, but not
limited
to, statements pertaining to the extent of availability of the
Buzztime Home Trivia System, and are
all based on current expectations and
assumptions that are subject to risks and uncertainties that
could cause
actual results to differ materially.
The founders of Beach Tennis USA are Marc
Altheim, a New York City real
estate developer, and his uncle, Fredric Finkelstein, a New York marketing
and
advertising executive, and Sjoerd de Vries, of Aruba. For a full listing of events on the Beach
Tennis
USA 2006 National Tour, visit http://www.rungs broom
"This game is addictive."
After the California
events, Beach Tennis USA will head cross-country to
Florida and then work its way up the East Coast
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America's oldest independent game and toy company, and Buzztime Entertainment
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Santa Monica will host the tour's first tournament, April 8-9, while Long
Beach has been
chosen as the site for Beach Tennis USA's April 22-23
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"We are very excited about
the strong interest in the product from top
retailers across the country," said John Lindsay, president
, Cadaco. The company owns one of the world's largest databases of iTV trivia
and operates an interactive
broadcast studio where it produces multiplayer
trivia game shows, live sports prediction games -
- such as QB1(R) Predict the
Play(R) football -- popular arcade and classic games across iTV, mobile
and PC
platforms. Using
regulation tennis rackets, two players on each team try to hit a tennis
ball
back and forth, directly over the net, without letting it hit the sand.pitching washer
"Cadaco has done
an outstanding job in bringing the excitement of Buzztime
trivia competitions into the home with
this new product," said Tyrone Lam,
president and COO, Buzztime Entertainment.
Beach tennis
is played on a regulation beach volleyball court.yard bocce
Buzztime's unique play-along
quiz shows are popularized
on the NTN iTV Network, which is seen and played in
over 3,800 restaurants and sports bars in North
America, as well as on digital
cable TV, satellite TV and on mobile phones.
About Buzztime
Entertainment
Buzztime Entertainment, Inc., a subsidiary of NTN Communications, Inc. Cadaco
game classics include Tripoley(R),
Bas-Ket(R) and Bible Trivia(R).
"Given Southern California
's fitness-minded culture and extended beach
season, we're confident that beach tennis will be embraced
by both serious
athletes as well as recreational beachgoers this year," said Marc Altheim,
Founder
and Commissioner of Beach Tennis USA.
About Beach Tennis USA
Based in New York City
, Beach Tennis USA is committed to introducing
Americans of all ages to the competitive excitement
and recreational benefits
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, the Play-Along Television(TM) company and a subsidiary
of NTN
Communications, Inc.
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Buzztime's
trivia and play-along sports games have been available to millions
of players in restaurants and
sports bars via the NTN iTV Network for almost
20 years. These risks and uncertainties include
the
risk of changing economic conditions and failure of product demand or
market acceptance of this new
product. Through an aggressive grass-roots campaign,
the company introduced beach tennis to people
of all ages and skill levels as
over 25,000 Americans played the sport between last May and September
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The product is now available or will be available by the end of
this quarter from the nation's
largest retailers including Best Buy, Borders,
Circuit City, Kmart, Kohl's, Sears, Target Toys R
US and Wal-Mart throughout
North America.com
Company founders Marc Altheim and Fredric
Finkelstein also
established a governing body, the National Beach Tennis Association, in
anticipation
of the sport being played competitively throughout the U.trampoline jarts
[Amex: NTN], jointly announce the availability
of the
Buzztime Home Trivia System(TM) and accessories through major North American
retailers
. We are using the
NTN iTV Network as just one avenue for promoting this exciting product to our
existing Buzztime players in restaurants and sports bars across North
America. "These
retailers
understand the great potential of combining the hot plug-and-play
game category with Buzztime's popular
trivia games.
(Amex: NTN), develops and distributes multiplayer games for television.S.yard deck
Major National
Retailers Including Best Buy, Borders, Circuit City, Kmart,
Kohl's, Sears, Target, Toys R Us and
Wal-Mart are Now Stocking New Trivia Game
CHICAGO and CARLSBAD, Calif. Tennis rackets
and
tennis balls will be provided and there is no fee to play.
"I don't think anyone ever thought
you could get sandy playing tennis. For the
tournaments, Beach Tennis USA will draw its talent pool
from 2005's top-ranked
players as well as newly recruited pros in the cities that will host the tour
events.
Players wishing to compete in either of Beach Tennis USA's California
weekend tournaments
should contact James Russo at (212) 318-1828 or
jrusso@beachtennisusa.hacky bolos
Buzztime Entertainment's
iTV studio and
broadcast operations center are headquartered in Carlsbad, California.
There
also will be a "Fun Division" for those who are more interested in
learning a new sport while enjoying
a fun day at the beach. It also contains sites about tabletop sports games such as table tennis, table
soccer, etc.
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About Cadaco
Cadaco, founded in 1935, is one of America's oldest independent
family-owned game and toy companies. And
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The basic Buzztime Home Trivia System
includes
the base game control unit, 750 trivia questions in Buzztime's famous
trivia game show format and
two wireless game controllers."
The Buzztime Home Trivia System sells for $50 to $100 depending
upon the
number of accessories included in the packaging. I
found out first-hand and look forward
to the beach tennis events in 2006,
especially when they come to the West Coast," said Sinjin Smith
, beach
volleyball legend and former president of the Association of Volleyball
Professionals
(AVP).deck rungs
buzztime. NTN does not undertake to publicly update
or revise any of its forward-looking statements
even if experience or future
changes show that the indicated results or events will not be realized
For further information, please contact:
Andy Wrobel
Chief Financial Officer
NTN Communications, Inc.newscom. Once
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Comcast Cable
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National Football League and others. Beach
Tennis Open Championship held last Labor Day weekend in Long
Beach, NY, featured players from Virginia
, Massachusetts, South Carolina,
Aruba and Holland as well as New York City.quoits holey
We look for this to
be a
great partnership with Buzztime. Only
one hit per team is allowed on each volley and scoring
is the same as in
tennis: 15 - 30 - 40, with no-ad at deuce.kubb finesse
Over 9 000 Major Retail Outlets to Sell
Buzztime(R) Home Trivia System from Cadaco
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Both California
events will feature high-caliber play by local
tennis pros as well as top-ranked players from last
season's tour.net.net.beachtennisusa.deck jarts
Other important factors that may cause
actual results to differ
materially from the forward-looking statements are
discussed in the "Risk Factors" section and other
sections of NTN's Form
10-K/A for the year ended December 31, 2004, which is on file with the
Securities
and Exchange Commission. To
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