Creative Multimedia announces Sports Illustrated for Kids Awesome Athletes! on CD-ROM; Get to know, up close and personal, the greatest athletes of all time.PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 5, 1996--Creative Multimedia and Sports Illustrated Sports Illustrated is the largest weekly American sports magazine owned by media conglomerate Time Warner. It has over 3 million subscribers and is read by 23 million adults each week, including over 18 million men, 19% of the adult males in the country. For Kids(R) magazine announced today the upcoming release of Sports Illustrated For Kids Awesome Athletes!, an educational, interactive CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). for children. Developed for eight- to 14-year-olds as a follow-up title to Creative Multimedia and Sports Illustrated For Kids' successful Everything You Want to Know About Sports Encyclopedia CD-ROM, Awesome Athletes! offers in-depth knowledge of sports heroes past and present in a format that exercises reading, comprehension, and spelling skills. Some 287 detailed biographies and more than 1,000 photos of sports legends from Hank Aaron to Babe Didrikson Zaharias are included in the Awesome Athletes! Hall of Fame. The careers of 26 Superstars of the 1990s, such as Oksana Baiul Oksana Baiul (Ukrainian: Оксана Баюл) (born November 16, 1977) is a Ukrainian professional figure skater. She is the 1994 Olympic Champion. , Charles Barkley, and Pete Sampras, are highlighted with live-action video clips. Time capsule sidebars put the stars in historical perspective, and explanations of the more technical aspects of certain sports are provided. Awesome Athletes! features 45 minutes of live-action video licensed from the NBA NBA abbr. 1. National Basketball Association 2. National Boxing Association NBA (US) n abbr (= National Basketball Association) → Basketball-Dachverband (= , NFL NFL abbr. National Football League NFL (US) n abbr (= National Football League) → Fußball-Nationalliga , Major League, and the NHL NHL Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, see there , including 15 minutes of exclusive one-on-one interviews with contemporary sports stars. In the "Control Room," users can create custom video documentaries from taped introductions, sign-offs, interview and action footage, and advertisements. Three fun, fast-paced games test the user's knowledge of the athletes featured in the CD-ROM. Puzzle pieces collected at each game site enable the user to complete the Superstar Puzzle, and download an advanced WordSearch game developed by Cogix, a $29.95 value. Online access to the Sports Illustrated For Kids World Wide Web Site home page is available through Pathfinder with Creative Multimedia's web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. , provided free with the CD-ROM. The home page features youth-oriented current coverage of sports and sports figures. Available on or before Feb. 1 1996, Sports Illustrated For Kids Awesome Athletes! runs on Windows and Macintosh platforms; its average purchase price is $19.95. Like other Creative Multimedia titles, Awesome Athletes! is available wherever CD-ROMs are sold, including retail outlets and bookstores in the United States and Canada. -0- For a review copy of Sports Illustrated for Kids Awesome Athletes!, call Vicki Quick, APR APR See: Annual Percentage Rate , Creative Multimedia, 503/241-4351, x309. CONTACT: Creative Multimedia Vicki L. Quick, 503/241-4351, x309, Fax: 503/241-4370 or Sports Illustrated for Kids Robin Shallow, 212/522-5282, Fax: 212/522-0072 |
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