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Handmark Releases Official YAHTZEE® Game Pak for Pocket PC URL(s): Handmark Kansas City, Missouri and New York, New York (August 19, 2003) Handmark today announced the new YAHTZEE game for Palm Powered and Pocket PC handheld devices. Hasbro, Inc.'s (NYSE:HAS) YAHTZEE is the first official family dice game for the Palm OS and Pocket PC platform. With the addition of the YAHTZEE game, Handmark adds another leading brand name to its expanding line of premier retail titles for handheld devices. For more than 40 years, the YAHTZEE dice game has been a family favorite. The new YAHTZEE game for the Palm OS and Pocket PC platforms plays and sounds just like the classic dice game, with hi-resolution graphics and 3D animated dice rolling. Throw the dice to build straights, full houses or five of a kind-YAHTZEE! Play alone or with friends using one or multiple handheld devices. "We hope YAHTZEE for Palm and Pocket PC will be a great success. People played it growing up, now they can play anywhere at anytime on their PDA,” said Douglas Edwards, VP of Marketing for Handmark. Handmark produces the Palm OS and Pocket PC versions of the YAHTZEE game under a license agreement with an affiliate of Atari, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATAR), which publishes the electronic and interactive versions of Hasbro properties. Atari is one of the largest third-party publishers of interactive entertainment in the U.S. and is partnering with Handmark™ to bring some of the world's most popular board games to handheld computers. "We are very pleased to be working with Handmark to develop high-quality, branded entertainment content for the PDA platform," commented Jon Leach, Vice President, Licensing for Atari Interactive, Inc. "More than 16 million people currently use PDA devices, making this a logical step to expand both our brand and audience reach, while simultaneously offering a value-added, fun gaming experience to PDA consumers.". Availability of retail product YAHTZEE for the Palm OS and Pocket PC platforms will be available at most retail chains where Palm Powered and Pocket PC devices are sold this fall. It will also be available as an online download from the Handmark web site, http://www.handmark.com ($29.99*). About Atari New York-based Atari, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATAR) develops interactive games for all platforms and is one of the largest third-party publishers of interactive entertainment software in the U.S. The Company’s 1,000+ titles include hard-core, genre-defining games such as Driver™, Enter the Matrix™, Neverwinter Nights™, Stuntman™, Test Drive®, Unreal® Tournament 2003, and Unreal® Championship; and mass-market and children’s games such as Backyard Sports™, Nickelodeon’s Blue’s Clues™ and Dora the Explorer™, Civilization®, Dragon Ball Z® and RollerCoaster Tycoon®. Atari, Inc. is a majority-owned subsidiary of France-based Infogrames Entertainment SA (Euronext 5257), the largest interactive games publisher in Europe. For more information, visit www.atari.com. About Handmark Handmark is unique in its comprehensive offering of application software and online services, together they are what the company describes as tools and toys for a mobile generation™. Handmark leads the industry in offering handheld computing software through all available channels, including both online and at retail. Handmark also owns and maintains MemoWare.com the largest repository of free content for handhelds. Handmark software is available at more than 6,400 retail stores in the U.S. and Canada and online from many Internet stores. Electronic download versions are available, as well as packaged product, directly from www.handmark.com the online store operated by the company. YAHTZEE is a trademark of Hasbro and is used with permission. Handmark is a registered trademark; the Handmark logo and associated trade dress are trademarks of Handmark, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.