March
29, 2006 — Majesco Entertainment Company today issued a
letter to Trinad Capital Master Fund Ltd. in response to its letter
dated March 24, 2006. The text of the letter is as
follows:
Mr. Robert S.
Ellin
Trinad Capital Master Fund
Ltd.153 East 53rd Street
48th Floor
New York, NY 10019
Dear Mr.
Ellin:
We received your letter dated March
24, 2006 as well as your notice of intention to nominate
directors. In your letter you propose that you and your affiliates
would purchase approximately 10% of our outstanding shares for
$3 million. Your proposal, among other things, is conditioned on
your completion of a satisfactory due diligence review of Majesco and
your receiving majority representation on our board despite owning less
than 20% of our outstanding shares even after your proposed
transaction. You are effectively seeking to acquire control of the
Company without paying any consideration, let alone a control premium,
to our shareholders.
Contrary to the assertions
in your letter, the Majesco board has responded to your letter writing
campaign. As you know, several of our board members have had numerous
telephone conversations with you and your associates dating as far back
as June 2005. During these conversations we repeatedly asked you
to meet with us in person so we could better understand exactly what
you thought you could do, if anything, to increase shareholder value.
We also informed you that we were in the process of interviewing
qualified candidates for our board. We even invited you to recommend
qualified candidates to us and asked for additional relevant
information (e.g. bios and resumes) for you, Jay Wolf and other
candidates you wished to suggest. Instead, you chose to threaten our
board members. For you to publicly suggest that we have not responded
to your prior overtures is disingenuous and misleading.
Your letter also inaccurately refers to a
‘‘current liquidity crisis.’’ We believe we
have sufficient capital resources to meet our capital needs. In
addition, we are confident we can, if necessary, obtain additional
financing on terms more favorable than those you have
proposed.
Your proposed slate of handpicked
nominees (comprised of you, Jay Wolf and Elliot Goldman), raises a
number of issues for our shareholders. We question whether you and
Mr. Goldman would be considered
‘‘independent’’ directors given Mr.
Goldman’s prior status as CEO of the Company’s
predecessor, ConnetivCorp, and your association with Atlantis Equities
Inc., which was paid consulting fees of $450,000 in connection with
ConnectivCorp’s merger with Majesco, as well as fees of $300,000
(in addition to compensation in the form of stock and warrants to
purchase Company shares) upon completion of our private placement in
February of 2004. We also question Mr. Goldman’s
confidence in the prospects of the Company given that he has sold all
of his shares in the Company during the past several years. Moreover,
Trinad’s history with other companies raises questions about
your motives and the impact your proposed actions would have on our
shareholders. Based on your track record with Amalgamated Technologies,
Mediavest and U.S. Wireless Data, it seems as though you are most
interested in acquiring significant positions in
‘‘shell’’ companies with little or no
operations or assets so that you can sell control of those companies to
a different management team with different operations. We, however,
believe in this Company, its future and the industry in which we
operate.
Although we, like many of our
competitors, witnessed weak sales in the later part of fiscal 2005 due
to softness in the interactive entertainment industry related to the
hardware transition, which was compounded by increased competition for
consumers’ discretionary spending, we have responded proactively
by revising our business model to shift our product strategy away from
capital intensive
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premium console games to a renewed focus on
value products and lower-cost games for handheld systems. We are
committed to executing our revised business model for the long-term
benefit of all of our shareholders, and believe that our company will
remain a viable player in the interactive entertainment industry for
the foreseeable future.
Sincerely,
Laurence Aronson
Louis
Lipschitz
Majesco Entertainment
Company
IMPORTANT
In connection
with its annual meeting at which Class I directors will be elected,
Majesco Entertainment Company (the
‘‘Company’’) will file a proxy statement
with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and will mail the proxy
statement to its shareholders. SHAREHOLDERS AND INVESTORS ARE ADVISED
TO READ THE PROXY STATEMENT WHEN IT BECOMES AVAILABLE BECAUSE IT WILL
CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION. Shareholders and investors may obtain
free copies of the proxy statement (when available) and other documents
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission at the SEC’s
web site at www.sec.gov. or by going to the Company’s website at
http://www.majescogames.com.
The Company and its
directors, executive officers and certain other members of its
management and employees may be deemed to be participants in the
solicitation of proxies from the Company in respect of its annual
meeting. Information concerning the interests of the Company’s
participants will be included in the proxy statement related to the
annual meeting when it becomes available, which document will be
available free of charge at the SEC’s web site at www.sec.gov.
or by going to the Company’s website at
http://www.majescogames.com.
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