David Beats Goliath Again: 
New Gutenberg Software's Baseball '94 Outperforms Microsoft's Complete
Baseball CD-ROM

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, June 28, 1994: In the software industry today, Mighty
Microsoft looms large over the landscape, crowding out the smaller
publishers trying to take root. The software giant has been trumpeting its
baseball CD-ROM by sponsoring press events, buying full page ads and
buying up rights to videos, sound clips and data. While the corporate
giant marshaled its financial resources to conquer yet another market,
tiny New Gutenberg Software honed its own baseball product for Windows,
Baseball '94: The Complete Interactive Preview Guide.

A small start up company challenge the software behemoth? You bet. The
corporate behemoth may have the billions needed to buy a winner, but
Baseball '94 grew out of the love, passion and commitment of people not
trying to sew up a market, but wanting to produce the best baseball
program possible. And in the end, David again slew Goliath. Just ask the
New York Times. They tried both programs and declared Baseball '94 the
winner.

In a Times review of Baseball '94 on May 3, 1994, L.R. Shannon marveled at
the combination "magazine and encyclopedia" that "contains more than 3,000
pages of text and l 50 statistical tables...and profiles of some 1,300
players." His review highlighted both the ease of use and the depth of
information offered by Baseball '94.

A month later (June 7), the Times reviewed the Microsoft CD-ROM and, after
noting the vast amount of data on the disk, asked rhetorically "what's not
to like?" then quickly answered, "for starters the user interface, whose
efforts at simplification create mostly confusion." Reviewer Stephen Manes
spends the majority of the review highlighting the flaws in the program,
noting that due to on screen paraphernalia "...the screens rarely show 70
words at a time. The statistic screens are worse." In the end, the Times
concludes, "Nice try, and wait till next year!"

Baseball and computer fans don't need to wait till next year for Baseball
'94 ($34.95), which has earned rave reviews and strong customer following
since its release in the middle of spring training. New Gutenberg will
release Baseball '94: The Midseason Interactive Guide ($14.95) on July l
2, the day of the Major League All Star Game.

Baseball '94: The Complete Interactive Preview Guide combines the best of
the baseball magazines with the depth of a baseball encyclopedia.
Enthusiastic baseball fans will find comprehensive analyses of all 28
major league teams with in-depth analysis and lifetime statistics for over
l ,300 current players. Fantasy baseball fans value the subsection created
just for them that contains dollar values, position eligibility charts,
strategies and insights. Baseball '94 presents thousands of pages worth of
statistics, analyses and insights in an easy-to-use Windows interface,
immediately accessible at the click of a mouse button. It's easy-to-use
and includes a graphical interface, a scrollable index of all major
leaguers and teams, a full text search function, and complete interactive
help. Reviewer copies are available by calling 718-349-6936.

Why buy New Gutenberg's Baseball '94 instead of Microsoft's CD-ROM? For
starters, you can save money. Baseball '94 costs less than half ($34.95)
the price of Microsoft's CD-ROM ($79.95). And Baseball '94: The
Interactive Midseason Guide only costs $14.95. But that's just the
beginning of the differences:

** Baseball '94 ships on floppies; Microsoft requires that a user have a
CD-ROM. While we love our CD-ROM drives, most people still don't have
one.

** Only Baseball '94 provides comprehensive information about the 1994
baseball season; Microsoft's disk focuses on the past. One can pay
Microsoft $1.25 per day for daily baseball stats (no analysis), but the
same information is available on a daily basis at no extra charge on the
major on line services (e.g. Compuserve, Prodigy, America On Line).

** Microsoft's disk contains lifetime statistics for most current players,
but you can only see the statistics one year at a time. Baseball '94
offers profiles of more current players (over 1,300), including the top
minor leaguers, with lifetime stats on a single screen, plus a button that
leads to detailed written analysis of the player's skills and role in this
season, plus a button that leads to biographical information.

** Microsoft wants to attract fantasy and Rotisserie baseball fans, but
offers nothing for them. Every Baseball '94 product has extensive
information for fantasy baseball fans with articles and analysis provided
by the experts in the field.

New Gutenberg Software will release Baseball '94: The Interactive Midseason
Guide on July 12, 1994. This program contains five areas of information:

* Team Overviews (detailed team by team reviews)
* Statistics (complete and detailed statistics)
* Fantasy Baseball (position eligibility charts, fantasy dollar
  value charts, articles on strategy, humorous essays, etc.
  written by experts such as John Hunt of Baseball Weekly, Tom
  Cabral of the Talk America Radio Network, Irwin Zwilling of
  WGBB, Howie Mauskopf from the world famous Yoo Hoo League, Stu
  Baron from Baron 's On Deck, Dottie Enrico from Newsday and
  many others.)
* The Crystal Ball (Mid-season awards and forecasts for the
  second half. This section will also include the experts picks
  for who will soar and will flop in the second half of the
  season.)
* Extra Innings (A round up on current baseball publications,
  Bill Gilbert on the rise of triple threat players, Anthony
  Blengino on picking tomorrow' s star' s today, a round up on
  the draft, team addresses, minor league affiliates, and much
  more.)

Baseball '94 runs on any Windows-compatible computer (386-SX or better)
with at least two megabytes of RAM. The program ships on seven 3 l/2"
diskettes and requires approximately l l megabytes of hard disk space, the
Midseason Edition requires six megabytes of hard disk space (all that
information requires a lot of disk space). Alternative size diskettes are
available upon request. Baseball '94 contains an automatic installation
program and a comprehensive help file accessible from anywhere within the
program.

New Gutenberg Software offers its products exclusively via mail order.
Advertisements for both products appear in all of the major baseball
publications. Customers may obtain more information by calling
1-800-646-6656.

Baseball '94: The Complete Interactive Preview Guide costs $34.95 plus
postage and handling charges. Baseball '94: The Interactive Midseason
Guide costs $14.95 plus postage and handling charges. Customers can
purchase both programs at the special price of $39.90. Postage and
handling is $3.50 for each program and customers may order by mail by
sending a check or money order to:

New Gutenberg Software
142 McGuinness Boulevard
Brooklyn, New York 11222

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