'Web is Haunted,' Reports On-line 3D Interactive Cemetery; Ghosts Run Amuck at TombTown's Halloween Carnival; Spirits Converge for 30-Day Spook Fest at www.tombtown.com.

SANTA CRUZ, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 6, 1997--The World Wide Web is haunted. That's the conclusion of the caretakers of TombTown(TM), the Web's only 3-D interactive virtual reality cemetery. And just in time for Halloween. Throughout October, TombTown is hosting a month-long on-line game-and- prize-filled Halloween celebration culminating in an interactive, Web-based virtual reality festival on All Hallows' Eve.

This month only, the residents of TombTown -- who are some of the world's most famous living-paired spooky people, including Eagar Alan Poe, Lon Chaney, Dracula, and Houdini -- join with Website visitors in virtual hide-and-seek, on-line games of skull -- er -- skill, 3-D "horror-scope" readings, enchantments, grave digging and other such digital high jinks.

Winners of the "Best Obituary of the Day" Contest receive `virtual immortality' along with their own 3-D headstone in TombTown. Other prize-laden games include Tombtown Trivia where all the answers are found in and around the special once-per-year Halloween edition of TombTown. -0-

Prizes include:

-- Spirited Yarns, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, full-cast recordings of classic humorous ghost stories with sound effects and music, from Stuffed Moose, the Vancouver, B.C.-based audio comedy publishers (http://www.deepcover.com/stuffedmoose/);

-- T-shirts from Joe Sena's Dungeon of Darkness, the World Weird Web's Number One Horror Website. Images includes Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's Monster and as The Mummy (http://www.dungeonofdarkness.com);

-- From MuseNet: Spiritual/psychic readings personally given by gifted medium Julia Jablonski who can communicated with the non-physical world (http://users.aol.com/MuseforU/muse1.html)

-- Classic Pop-Out 3-D Eyeball Glasses, presented by Superscape, developer and publisher of VRT and Viscape, the world's fastest virtual reality (VR) software for the World Wide Web and stand-alone VR applications (http://www.superscape.com); and

-- Gift certificates for Starbucks Coffee, presented by ActiveX Controls, the leading resource for developing truly active Website content with exciting new Internet tools (http://www.activexcontrols.com).

TombTown is the Web's first and only three-dimensional, interactive, virtual reality cemetery. Recognized for its technical excellence, TombTown has also been cited as an entertaining and educational Web site, suitable for all ages, that celebrates the lives of the famous and infamous who have had a profound influence on history and culture. TombTown has received numerous accolades from around the world, including a USA Today Hot Site award and recognition from domestic and international media.

TombTown uses the latest interactive VR technology from Superscape Inc. which provides the free on-line plug-in viewer required for either Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Explorer Web browsers for Windows.

TombTown is a product of Terraformers, Builders of Virtual Worlds. Located near Santa Cruz, Calif., Terraformers is a leading provider of commercial, educational and entertainment 3-D, interactive Web sites and content. Terraformers can be reached at http://www.terraformers.com .

CONTACT: Terraformers -- Builders of Virtual Worlds

Michele Weaver or Knox Richardson, 800/468-9887

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