Zodiac's 'Cosmic Fallout' is First Third-Party Developed Game to Launch from Buzztime's iTV Game Portal and Use Buzztime's High Scores Engine

   (San Francisco - April 4, 2005, National Cable Television Association Show) - Buzztime Entertainment, Inc., the Play-Along TelevisionT community and a subsidiary of NTN Communications, Inc. (AMEX: NTN), and Zodiac GamingT, a provider of advanced interactive games for digital set-top boxes, are demonstrating at the NCTA Show the latest enhancements to Buzztime's Play-Along TV technology that will enable third-party game companies to tap into several of Buzztime's frequently used game functions. Zodiac's game 'Cosmic Fallout' is being listed in the Buzztime Game Portal, and the game's Players' High Scores are being displayed using Buzztime's High Score software engine.

   "We wanted to tap into the game portal and software features that Buzztime has developed to show that our game applications are compatible with their game and player-management technology," said Alexander Libkind, president and CEO, Zodiac Gaming. "Working with Buzztime has proven that there are opportunities to build on existing technology with the hopes of accelerating the growth of iTV games."

   "Over the last several years, we engineered an iTV gaming platform to support a wide assortment of iTV games from numerous developers-in addition to our own Buzztime single and multi-player games. We are excited to have an innovative game company such as Zodiac take the lead as the first outside developer to link to our technology," said Tyrone Lam, president and COO, Buzztime Entertainment, Inc. "We want to provide the cable operator with the most advanced iTV game platform in the digital cable industry that is capable of supporting all of their iTV game requirements. Our friends at Zodiac have helped to demonstrate that."

   Buzztime's enhanced Play-Along TV Technology will enable third-party iTV game companies to tap into three key features of the Buzztime iTV experience: Player Registration and Management, Prize Eligibility Forms and High Score Tables. Cable subscribers that access iTV games from our Play-Along TV game platform will have a single easy-to-use means of registering, opting-in for prizes, selecting games, and viewing their high scores. Zodiac has modified its game application to utilize Buzztime's High Scores application programming interface to allow all players throughout the cable system, and across cable systems, to post high scores.

   Zodiac's 'Cosmic Fallout' is a single-player puzzle developed for iTV where players pair up colorful tiles and advances through the many challenging, brain-teasing levels.

   Buzztime will demonstrate the Zodiac game tie-ins during the National Cable Television Show at GameNET Booth #40.

About Zodiac Gaming
   Zodiac Gaming is a developer, publisher and distributor of interactive games delivered through digital cable set-top boxes, allowing consumers to play a wide range of single and multiple player games on their televisions using a simple remote. Zodiac Gaming provides cable operators and their customers a large suite of highly interactive games in all major genres for their digital set-top boxes. www.zodiacgaming.com

About Buzztime Entertainment

   Buzztime Entertainment, Inc., a subsidiary of NTN Communications, Inc. (AMEX: NTN), is the developer and distributor of Play-Along TelevisionT technology and programming. Buzztime Entertainment, Inc. develops BuzztimeR, the Play-Along TVR community for multiplayer games and competitions on digital cable for players of all interests and ability levels. Buzztime's trivia and Play-Along TV sports games have been available to millions of players in restaurants and sports bars via the NTN iTV Network for almost 20 years. The company owns one of the world's largest databases of iTV trivia and operates an interactive broadcast studio where it produces multiplayer trivia game shows, live sports prediction games - such as QB1R Predict the PlayR football - popular arcade and classic games across iTV, mobile and PC platforms. Buzztime Entertainment has agreements with Media General, Inc., Liberate Technologies, ICTV, Cadaco, Airborne Entertainment, DTI Software, the National Football League and others. Buzztime Entertainment's iTV studio and broadcast operations center are headquartered in Carlsbad, California. The company website is located at www.buzztime.com.

   This release contains forward-looking statements which reflect management's current views of future events and operations, including, but not limited to, statements pertaining to the ability to support third-party game vendors and their applications and the ability to launch multiplayer products, technology and features, are all based on current expectations and assumptions that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. These risks and uncertainties include the risk of changing economic conditions, failure of product demand or market acceptance of both existing and new products, delays in closing of sales or agreements, unforeseen and uncontrollable increases in expenses or costs and the impact of competitive products an d pricing. Other important factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements are discussed in the "Risk Factors" section and other sections of NTN's Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004, which is on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements included in this release are based on information available to us on the date hereof. These statements speak only as of the date hereof, and NTN does not undertake to publicly update or revise any of its forward-looking statements even if experience or future changes show that the indicated results or events will not be realized.