Empire Interactive's Pro-Pinball Timeshock! Giveaway OFFICIAL RULES 1. How to Enter: No purchase necessary. Only one entry per person, please. Contest in effect January 13 - February 9, 1998. To enter to win one of 66 prizes in the Empire Interactive's Timeshock! Pro-Pinball Giveaway, play Empire Interactive's Pro-Pinball Timeshock! demo and obtain a high score and a 16-digit encrypted code. The entrant with the highest verified score wins the Grand Prize. The entrants with the next highest 65 verifiable scores will receive a prize as described below. All prizes will be awarded based on each entrants' verifiable score obtained after playing the Pro-Pinball Timeshock! demo. To obtain a high score and 16-digit code: (1) Play the Pro-Pinball Timeshock! demo found on the February '98 PC Games CD-ROM or (2) locate and play the demo found at www.pcgames.com. After playing the demo for five minutes or with three balls, your score will appear on screen followed by a 16-digit encrypted code. You may play the demo as many times as you like, BUT enter only your highest score and its corresponding encrypted code. Submit your score and encrypted code into the contest in one of three ways: (1) Complete the entry form found at www.pcgames.com. Or (2), complete and mail to the address indicated, the entry coupon found in the February '98 issue of PC Games. Or (3), on a 3" x 5" card, print your name, complete address, zip code, age, daytime phone, score and encrypted code. Mail entry to: Pro-Pinball Timeshock! Giveaway, c/o PC Games, 951 Mariner's Island Blvd. Ste. 700, San Mateo, CA 94404. Entries submitted without a score and encrypted code will be disqualified. All US mail entries must be received by February 9, 1998. All entries sent via the Internet must be received by 11:59 p.m. PST on February 9, 1998. Sponsors assume no responsibility for lost, late, damaged, misdirected, illegible, incomplete, postage-due mail or entries, or for computer system, phone line, hardware, software or program malfunctions or other errors, failures or delays in computer transmissions or network connection that are human or technical in nature. No facsimile or mechanically reproduced entries allowed. All entries become the property of the sponsor and will not be returned. Entrant cannot enter by both the Web and Regular Mail. 2. Prizes: Entrants with the highest 66 verifiable scores will receive one of the following prizes. The entrant with the highest verified score will win the Grand Prize (1): A Terminator II pinball machine. Approximate retail value: $1,695. Entrants with the next highest five scores will receive a copy of Empire Interactive's Pro-Pinball Timeshock! PC game. Approximate retail value: $35.00. Entrants with the next highest ten scores will receive a Pro-Pinball Timeshock! polo shirt. Approximate retail value: $14.00. Entrants with the next highest fifty (50) high scores will receive a Timeshock! poster. Approximate retail value: $2.00. Total approximate prize value: $2,100. All prizes will be awarded. 3. Judging: All scores will be verified by PC Games Publishing whose decisions will be final in all matters related to this promotion. The entrant with the highest verified score will receive the Grand Prize. In the event of a tie, the two entrants with the same verified score will be asked to play the demo again and submit their new score and encrypted code. If one of the entrants chooses not to play again, then he/she will automatically forfeit and be withdrawn from the competition. Judges reserve the exclusive right to interpret all conditions in regard to this promotion without claim for damage or recourse of any kind. By participating in the contest, entrants agree to be bound by the rules and the decisions of the judges that shall be final. Odds of winning depend on the total number of eligible entries received. All winners will be notified by mail. The Grand Prize winner will be required to sign and return an affidavit of eligibility and liability release within 21 days of notification. If the affidavit is not returned within the given time period properly executed, or is returned from the post office as undeliverable, an alternate winner will be chosen. If the Grand Prize winner is under the age of 18, a parent or legal guardian must also sign and provide their social security number on the Affidavit of Eligibility/Release of Liability & Publicity. Except where prohibited, acceptance of a prize constitutes winner's consent to use his/her name, likeness and biographical data for advertising and promotional purposes without additional compensation. 4. General Conditions: Sweepstakes is open to all US residents except employees of PC Games Publishing and Empire Interactive their affiliates, subsidiaries, sales representatives, distributors, retailers, advertising and promotional agencies and the immediate families of each. All federal, state and local laws apply. Void where prohibited by law. Prizes are non-transferable and may not be substituted. All taxes on prizes are winner's sole responsibility. By accepting a prize, winners agree that all prizes are awarded on the condition that PC Games Publishing and Empire Interactive, their agents, representatives and employees will have no liability whatsoever for any injuries, losses or damages of any kind resulting from acceptance, possession, or use of the prize. Winners further acknowledge that said parties have neither made nor are in any manner responsible or liable for any warranty, representation, or guarantee expressed or implied in fact or in law or, relative to any prize, including but not limited to, its quality, mechanical conditions or fitness. 5. For a list of winners, available after February 21, 1998, send a s.a.s.e to Timeshock! Winner's List, c/o PC Games Publishing, 951 Mariner's Island Blvd., Ste. 700, San Mateo, CA 94404.