TOTAL DISTORTION™ CD-ROM
MUSIC VIDEO ADVENTURE GAME

• A Totally Insane Multimedia Experience!

You are an Adventurous Music Video Producer! Travel through the planes of existence to the Plane of Distortion in search of fresh material for your music videos!You’ll find a detailed 3D world of sound and animation. You’ll meet a motley crew of rock heads, visit strange locations, and rock out to wild 3D animation, psychedelic visions, and mad metal video! 

Take command of your Personal Media Tower and waste away the hours with all of the interactive media gadgets you’ll find! Totally easy to use devices allow you to make gnarly music videos & rock video TV programs. You’ll find an electric guitar, a game machine, a TV remote control, and more- all in working order and ready to play!

Go to Hell’s Garage- where Doug and Steve will serve you up some bone-crunching garage grunge- hot & fresh from the Lake of Fire! Radical! 

Trip out at the L.A.. Stage- and witness first-hand just how far gone humanity really is! Crazy Rock ‘N’ Roll denizens take the stage and respond to your hunger for ROCK!

Visit Sonic Cemetery- and feel your face go pale as Edgar Death wakes the dead with his devil guitar! Writhe in angst to the sounds of artistic despair! Feel the blood freeze in your veins as you stare in shock as undead beings bump & grind to the sounds of Evil!

• A Totally Intense World of Heavy Duty Rock and Roll!

Total Distortion will rock your world with a massive sound track that follows you wherever you go! Plus, you’ll hear over 50 all-original and rockin’ songs specially written and produced for Total Distortion and its cast of characters!

Total Distortion™ DATA:

General Description:
  TOTAL DISTORTION is a interactive rock-media “theme park” on CD-ROM. Users will explore a full color 3D world filled with high energy rock music, interactive attractions, and amazing animation.
  TOTAL DISTORTION is a bizarre and often amusing multimedia experience. Innovative software devices and 3D animation allow you to quickly assemble music videos & hilarious TV programs, navigate to far-out locations, and interact with radical adolescents, underground punks, metal heads, and Gothic mutants.  Feel your productivity grind to a halt as you rock out in a daze of totally mindless metal music!
  TOTAL DISTORTION is also a game that tests the creativity, powers of observation, and business savvy of the player. The user is set in the role of a traveling “Adventurous Video Producer.” The gaming system within Total Distortion is a very unique one- rewarding creativity and intellect rather than violence or arcade skills. Games are user configurable, allowing players to choose the goal, danger, and difficulty levels.

Special Features:
• Total Distortion Video Sequencer- Is it possible to edit and play back a digital music video in under 2 minutes? YES! With Total Distortion, YOU choose the video scenes from a library of video and animation clips. YOU decide how the animation and video will be sequenced and layered. YOU choose the sound effects and music for your video from the audio library. YOU add your own name and video title. Your video productions can be saved to disk as tiny files (3K in size!), allowing you to share your videos with other TD owners via modem or floppy disk! Travel around the Plane of Distortion and find MORE video and audio for your productions!
• 3D navigation- “Walk” down mysterious halls & through colorful tunnels on your way to sound stages, rooms and other locations. Total Distortion’s unique animated interface for 3D Navigation makes it easy to get around. All scenes are rendered in point-of-view 3D perspective- you’ll feel as if “you are there.”
• Fully animated Characters and “Rock Stars.” Talkative 3D Characters will perform, sing, and play their instruments for you, via remote control. Talk and hang out with some of the worst possible role-models. Some characters will provide clues to secret places and items hidden throughout Total Distortion. Other characters will ask you to produce music videos for them.
• Music & Sound- Total Distortion contains over 300 original music & sound effects- covering a variety of Rock & Roll genres.
• QuickTime™- Total Distortion features QuickTime movies! QuickTime digital video is used to provide online help, music videos, comedy skits, interviews, special messages from the authors, and much more!
• Strange Diversions- you’ll find special games, secret passages, and other interactive devices scattered throughout Total Distortion!

System Requirements
Total Distortion works on the Apple Macintosh LC®, Macintosh II®, and Macintosh Quadra™ family of computers. Requires System 6.07 or greater, a Macintosh compatible CD-ROM drive, and 3 megabytes of RAM. 
• Suggested minimum: 4 megs of RAM, 12 inch color monitor, and CD-ROM drive with 350 ms average access time.
• For optimal performance use System 7 with a minimum 5 megabytes of RAM. 

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