(NEWSdesk) – Four years ago Richard Kay, one of The Times 1000 richest men
on the planet and the man behind many of the world’s top computer games, had
a dream.
Now his dream has become reality with the launch of the ultimate world-
wide website for all sports fans – www.SportsMAD.com where the highest
scorers in each of the ten individual SportsMAD games during the year
will be invited to play-off against each other across all the games for
a cash prize of $100,000.
Kay has gone from a GBP40 a week government handout to the Times list of
the country’s wealthiest 1000 people. He launches with four games
initially – FootballMAD, CricketMAD, GolfMAD and GrandPrixMAD. These
will soon be followed by angling, athletics, tennis, horse-racing,
boxing and darts.
Kay developed many of Nintendo’s top selling games and in a rag to
riches story last year he linked up with Gaming Internet plc. to launch
SportsMAD
Big money and sports kit prizes will also be given away each month.
There will be $1,000 for the highest scorer in each game, with sports
merchandise for the second and third places, and $500 for the winners of
each Quiz 100 game, with sports merchandise for second and third places.
SportsMAD has the lot – on the spot news, views, interactive chat,
fanzines. But most importantly it has the internet’s best sports games –
a series of state-of-the-art games that people can play for fun, or, if
they fancy the challenge, for cash. From the creators of Playstation and
N64.
