CRICKET '97 hits Top Ten in the UK charts

Beam International Limited is proud to announce that its latest release, CRICKET '97, has entered the Top Ten UK Charts straight into 8th position for PC CD-ROM games. CRICKET '97 is the latest Sports title developed by Beam Software and published by Melbourne House. CRICKET '97 was released into the European marketplace on 9th May 1997 in conjunction with the UK Cricket season. The distribution of this title to all major territories is through Electronic Arts. CRICKET '97 was released in Australia in January and reached 4th position in the Top Ten Australian Charts.

"The realistic animations and great gameplay in CRICKET '97 have no doubt been responsible for making it the best PC CD-ROM sports title sold in Australia to date. We look forward to achieving the same results in Europe", commented Alfred Milgrom, Chairman and Publisher of Beam Group of companies. Melbourne House plans to release additional titles in its Cricket series, including CRICKET '97 TOUR EDITION later in 1997. The 'Tour Edition' is the only offical ACB & ECB licensed title, that features actual photographs, real player names, portraits and statistics of all major Australian and International cricketing personalities.

Beam International Limited is the holding company for the Beam Group. It is Australia's only multimedia development company traded on the Australian Stock Exchange and (trades under the symbol BEM). More information about Beam International Ltd, Melbourne House and Beam Software can be found on the Internet at http://www.beam.com.au.
Electronic Arts, headquartered in San Mateo, California, has international subsidiaries in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. More information about EA and its products can be found on the Internet at http://www.ea.com.
Press release:- Friday 30th May 1997