Atari Announces Worldwide Launch Plans for Ghostbusters: The Video Game

May 6, 2009

Atari Announces Worldwide Launch
Plans for Ghostbusters: The Video Game

PSP Version Coming Worldwide
Autumn 2009

Atari today confirmed the worldwide
launch plans for the highly anticipated Ghostbusters: The Video Game.

The title will launch on the Xbox
360, Windows PC, PLAYSTATION 3, PlayStation 2, Wii and Nintendo DS in North
America on June 16, 2009 and will be published by Atari Inc.

In an exclusive deal for Europe and
the PAL regions, the PLAYSTATION 3 and PlayStation 2 versions will launch on
June 19, 2009 published by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. The launch
coincides with the 25th anniversary of the original film’s theatrical release
and the launch of the Blu-Ray of the classic first movie, benefiting from a
worldwide launch and licensing campaign by Sony Pictures Consumer Products.

"Ghostbusters: The Video Game is one
of our most significant worldwide releases this summer. Through Atari’s North
America publishing business and alongside our partners at Sony Computer
Entertainment Europe, we have a strategically diversified approach to maximize a
title of this magnitude on a global basis," said Jim Wilson, CEO, Atari, Inc.

He continued: “As excitement in the
marketplace continues to accelerate around this title and the 25th anniversary
of the movie’s release, Ghostbusters’ large and loyal fan base and gamers across
North America can play Ghostbusters: The Video Game across all major platforms
on June 16."

A PSP version of the game is
scheduled for worldwide launch in autumn 2009 and will be published in Europe by
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe.

Ghostbusters: The Video Game, based
on the smash hit motion picture franchise, is penned by original Ghostbusters
writers and stars Harold Ramis and Dan Aykroyd and reunites many of the original
cast members to recapture the unique blend of humor and fright that established
Ghostbusters as a pop culture sensation. The game’s launch on 16 June 2009
coincides with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment’s worldwide debut of the
original motion picture on Blu-ray Disc.

In addition to Aykroyd and Ramis,
original Ghostbusters Bill Murray, and Ernie Hudson lend their voices and
in-game likenesses to the original story set two years after Ghostbusters II,
with Manhattan once again overrun by ghosts and supernatural forces. The player
joins up as a new recruit with the original team, testing a variety of unique
equipment and gadgets, to track, wrangle and trap this wide range of
awe-inspiring phantasms in an all new funny and frightening battle to save New
York City from its latest paranormal plague.

For more information about
Ghostbusters: The Video Game please visit
www.ghostbustersgame.com.