Pop Rocket, Inc proudly welcomes you to the TOTAL DISTORTION CD ROM Demo. This demo is an elaborate sneak preview of Pop Rocket's ambitous Media Adventure CD ROM, TOTAL DISTORTION.
System requirements for this Demonstration:
Apple Macintosh® with-
• System 6.07 or greater
• 2 megabytes of free RAM or greater
• A Macintosh compatible CD-ROM drive
• 8 bit color video
• Color monitor (12" or larger- with 512x384 pixel resolution or larger)
For best results under MultiFinder® or System 7, please close (quit) any other applications that may be running (such as word processors, databases, etc.).
This demonstration contains:
1. A gnarly giant Animated Demonstration that contains story background, game setup, detailed animated examples, voice narration, and simulated gameplay.
2. Text information on TOTAL DISTORTION and Pop Rocket, Inc.
You can advance through the TOTAL DISTORTION Demo manually, or you can kick back and let the demo run by itself at any time. This presentation will go into “auto-demo” mode if left unattended. You can resume manual control at any screen.
Tips for Optimum Performance:
The TOTAL DISTORTION Demo is a very demanding application and performance will depend upon CPU speed and CD ROM access time. The demo application is set to four megabytes of RAM. For optimal performance use System 7 with a minimum 5 megabytes of RAM.
If you experence performance problems due to memory, drag the TOTAL DISTORTION Demo icon to your hard drive, get info, and set application memory accordingly.
In extremely low memory situations, (2 Mb or less), run theTOTAL DISTORTION under System 6.07 without Multifinder
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Pop Rocket’s TOTAL DISTORTION
an all-original
“Music Video Adventure Game”
on CD-ROM!
TOTAL DISTORTION™, Pop Rocket’s first CD-ROM title, represents a completely new category of entertainment software. “TD” incorporates a unique blend of adventure gaming, creative activities, character dialog, original music, 3D exploration, and pure weirdness.
TOTAL DISTORTION is also an interactive rock-media “theme park” on CD-ROM. You will explore a full color 3D world filled with awesome graphics and animation, intense music, and interactive software attractions.
TOTAL DISTORTION is a bizarre and sometimes amusing multimedia experience. Innovative software devices with 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.
TOTAL DISTORTION is also a game that tests your creativity, powers of observation, curiosity, and business savvy. Take on the role of an “Adventurous Music Video Producer” who travels to another plane of existence in search of fresh material. After gathering songs, video clips, and sound effects, you’ll need to create music videos. Television producers back on planet earth are eagerly awaiting to make a deal with you- IF they like your work.
You’ll beam music videos back to planet earth and your bank account will grow. If you fail, the power will burn out in your “Personal Media Tower,” the food supply will dry up, and you’ll be stranded in the Dimension of Distortion! The gaming system within Total Distortion is unique, rewarding creativity and intellect. Games are user configurable, you can set the goal, danger, and difficulty levels.
Special Features:
• Full Color 3D Navigation- “Walk” through a huge movie-like world!
• Elaborate, detailed graphics and animation
• Giant Soundtrack- mood music, sound effects and over 50 all original songs!
• Conversation- Talking characters will remember you, you can talk back!
• Virtual Rock Stars- Wild characters rock out and sing their own songs.
• Interactive Devices™- Software within software! Play with radios, video games, magic books, loud guitars and more.
• Total Distortion Video Sequencer- Get creative and make mini music videos! Share them with your friends!
• Adventure Game Elements- Explore the world, find and carry items in your inventory, gain wealth, develop relationships with other characters, battle the sinister and deadly Guitar Warriors, and more.
• Media Overload- Deranged books, fun games, tripped out TV shows and videos, bizarre radio programs, and supernatural stage shows!
TOTAL DISTORTION (Vol. I) is the first CD-ROM in a line of interactive music video adventures under development at Pop Rocket, Inc..
System Requirements for Macintosh Version:
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. For optimal performance use System 7 with a minimum 5 megabytes of RAM.
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Expectations are high for
interactive media developer
and publisher, Pop Rocket‚Ñ¢
Pop Rocket, Inc., located in San Francisco, was founded in December 1991 to develop and publish interactive entertainment media. Pop Rocket has earned the reputation as a leading-edge developer of interactive media, through demonstrations of work under development to several industry gatherings, including Macworld Japan and CHI ’92 in the United States. The company’s first CD-ROM title, coming soon, is expected among industry insiders to be the most elaborate and detailed entertainment software product release of the year.
Joe Sparks, Pop Rocket’s President, brought together professionals from the music recording and software industries and assembled an talented team. The company was formed shortly after Sparks left his role as vice-president of research and development at Reactor, Inc., where he co-developed the pioneering and popular interactive CD-ROM “Spaceship Warlock.”
