Houghton Mifflin Interactive Introduces The Day the World Broke CD-ROM.SOMERVILLE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 22, 1997-- Exciting new adventure game takes players on a thrilling journey to save the world! The world is spinning out of control... Quite suddenly, it rained in the Sahara, large farm animals began floating off their ranches, a terrible forest fire broke out in the Amazon jungle, North Dakota North Dakota, state in the N central United States. It is bordered by Minnesota, across the Red River of the North (E), South Dakota (S), Montana (W), and the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba (N). and South Dakota South Dakota (dəkō`tə), state in the N central United States. It is bordered by North Dakota (N), Minnesota and Iowa (E), Nebraska (S), and Wyoming and Montana (W). switched places, and strangest of all, there were no traffic jams in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. ! Houghton Mifflin Houghton Mifflin Company is a leading educational publisher in the United States. The company's headquarters is located in Boston's Back Bay. It publishes textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, reference works, and fiction and non-fiction for both young readers Interactive (HMI (Human Machine Interface) The user interface in a manufacturing or process control system. It provides a graphics-based visualization of an industrial control and monitoring system. ) invites players to enjoy a whole new experience in entertainment with the introduction of The Day the World Broke(tm), a new kind of 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 and adults. Players will travel to the center of the planet, explore exciting new places, meet imaginative characters, help them with their puzzling quests and help restore world order. A magical adventure unlike any other, The Day the World Broke provides players ages nine and up with a funny and fantastical expedition that brings them deep inside the planet to learn how the world really works and collect the clues they'll need to fix it. An entertaining adventure, The Day the World Broke will appeal to the young and the young at heart. The Day the World Broke CD-ROM was produced through a collaboration between Caldecott-winning children's book author David Wiesner David Wiesner (1956-) is an American author and illustrator of children's books and publications. His work has won several honors, including three Caldecott Medals and two Caldecott honors. and the innovative Kravis Multimedia Center at Thirteen/WNET, the nation's flagship PBS PBS in full Public Broadcasting Service Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural, station. The result of this exciting partnership is a new, groundbreaking category of family entertainment: an interactive electronic story with life-like characters who react to each other, to the user and to the changing dramatic conditions. "Parents are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. high-quality, innovative and entertaining software programs that the whole family can enjoy," noted Conall Ryan, president of HMI. "We're pleased to have worked with such outstanding partners to provide families with a thrilling new adventure story that will engage and entertain parents and children alike." "From the beginning, our goal was to create an incredibly detailed, hand-painted navigable NAVIGABLE. Capable of being navigated. 2. In law, the term navigable is applied to the sea, to arms of the sea, and to rivers in which the tide flows and reflows. 5 Taunt. R. 705; S. C. Eng. Com. Law Rep. 240; 5 Pick. R. 199; Ang. Tide Wat. 62; 1 Bouv. Inst. n. world that goes beyond the texture mapped 3D environments found in most adventure games," said David Wolff, Executive Producer of the project and Director of Thirteen/WNET's Interactive Media Group. "The excitement of The Day the World Broke lies in how users are immediately thrust into an immersive experience, with a rich storyline and vivid characters." Product Content At the start of their exciting adventure, players are immediately drawn into an unsettling un·set·tle v. un·set·tled, un·set·tling, un·set·tles v.tr. 1. To displace from a settled condition; disrupt. 2. To make uneasy; disturb. v.intr. situation -- the world has suddenly broken down! Without any time to spare, they begin their exciting quest to save the world in an old, enchanting forest which houses the entrance to the world's interior. Once they enter, players make an extraordinary discovery -- the world is run by a giant machine, the World Works. As they explore this alternate world, players will soon find the earth's control room where they meet two friendly, but busy, engineers -- Bud and Julius. Before their eyes, Bud and Julius attempt a Great Tune Up, hoping that this will solve the world's problems -- but things go haywire! The engineers need the player's help to figure out what's causing all the trouble. Before they know it, Julius has equipped them with a special antimagnetic an·ti·mag·net·ic adj. Impervious to the effect of a magnetic field; resistant to magnetization. Adj. 1. antimagnetic - impervious to the effects of a magnetic field; resistant to magnetization; "an antimagnetic watch" medallion and is sending them down the poles, as in North and South, searching for the mysterious Four Elements Room -- an area deep within the center of the Earth which is the primary engine driving the World Works. When players arrive, they discover an incredible sight. . . Inside the Four Elements Room, players come face-to-face with a fantastical group of creatures, the Mechanimals(tm). Part animal, part machine, the Mechanimals are unintentionally wreaking havoc in the Earth's machinery. It's up to the players to talk to these wacky creatures and somehow find a way to get them to leave the Four Elements Room so that the machine can function normally again and the world can return to normal. Convincing them to leave, however, is not easy. Players must explore the Mechanimals' fantastical world -- which took millions of years to build and spreads throughout the Earth's Core. The players must visit The Shop, where Manifold will happily make them a Mechanimal head to replace their own human model; The Mechanimal Historical Society, where players can discover exactly who these creatures are and where they came from; the Iron Works I´ron works` a. 1. See under Iron, a. os> , where Cathode, the Chief Metal Stamper and Senior Alchemist, can help them make a unique metal alloy; and, of course, Lugnut's, where players can sip a drink from the world's (Mechanimal, that is) most famous oil and sludge emporium. And they'll do all this in search of a way to get the creatures out of the Four Elements Room. Pricing and Availability The Day the World Broke is available now for Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 platforms at computer stores, toy stores and mass merchant outlets nationwide for a suggested retail price of $44.95. System Requirements The Day the World Broke requires a 486/100 MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. or higher (Pentium(r) preferred), Windows(r) 3.1 or higher (Windows(r) 95 preferred), 12MB RAM, quad-speed (4x) CD-ROM drive, MPC (1) (Mobile PC) A handheld or laptop computer. See handheld computer, laptop computer and Ultra-Mobile PC. (2) (MultiPath Channel) See multipath. 2-compatible sound card (22KHz, 16-bit), SVGA (Super VGA) A screen resolution of 800x600 pixels. Third-party vendors extended IBM's VGA display standard and were the first to use the term. SVGA has also referred to 1,024x768 resolutions. See PC display modes. display (256 colors), mouse and 6MB free hard disk space (15MB free hard disk space for Windows(r) 3.1). About David Wiesner David Wiesner is one of the most celebrated picture book authors/artists of the last decade. Creator of such modern classics as Freefall (a Caldecott Honor Book) and June 29, 1999 (a Reading Rainbow Book), Wiesner is perhaps best known for his bestseller Tuesday, winner of the Randolph Caldecott Medal as the top picture book of 1992. Born and raised in Bridgewater, New Jersey and a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) One of the most eminent fine arts colleges in the U.S., located in Providence, R.I. It was founded in 1877 but did not offer college-level instruction until 1932. , Wiesner's paintings have been displayed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , as well as in numerous galleries across the country. About the Kravis Multimedia Center at Thirteen/WNET Thirteen/WNET has been a nationally-recognized innovator in programming for television and interactive media for over thirty years. The Company, through its Kravis Multimedia Education Center, produces cutting edge online and CD-ROM multimedia that extends and emphasizes the educational and cultural values that Thirteen/WNET has been bringing to national television audiences through PBS. The Company's Web site address is www.wnet.org About Houghton Mifflin Interactive Houghton Mifflin Interactive Corporation (HMI), Somerville, MA., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Houghton Mifflin Company, publishes award-winning children's, business and family digital products. The Corporation cultivates world-class talent to produce digital adaptations of Houghton Mifflin books and original CD-ROMs and online works. The Company's Web site address is www.hminet.com -0- The Day the World Broke and Mechanimals are trademarks of Educational Broadcasting Corporation and David Wiesner. All rights reserved. Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Pentium is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. CONTACT: ROURKE - MS & L Leann DiDomenico, 617/267-1909 Ext: 341 ldidomenico@rourke.com or Kristyn I. Meech, 617/267-1909 Ext: 334 kmeech@rourke.com |
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