Last month marked the official launch of both the long-awaited CD-I system by Philips and Microsoft’s Multimedia PC. The sheer mass of titles is impressive; and since the battle cry has long been “Titles will drive the market!” it seemed appropriate to list those announced (though not necessarily released) at both events.

For the record: to date, there are more than 200 CD-ROM titles shipping for the Apple Macintosh (distributed by Educorp) and 65 titles shipping for Commodore’s CDTV system.

CD-I TITLES

(Where no company is listed, title is produced and published by Philips Interactive Media of America [PIMA], Los Angeles, CA. Each company’s location is listed only on first reference.)

ART & LEISURE

Art in the Soviet Union
Audubon’s Backyard Birding
Drawing
French Impressionists
Gardening: Fruits & Vegetables; and Flowers & Indoor Plants
Great Art Series: Renaissance of Florence: The Story; Renaissance of Florence: The Gallery; Harvest of the Sun: Vincent Van Gogh Revisited
Great Works of Shakespeare
Jigsaw: The Ultimate Electronic Puzzle by NovaLogic, Woodland Hills, CA
100 American Heroes
Paint School by Spinnaker Software, Cambridge, MA
Renaissance Gallery
Sailing
Sporting News Baseball by Fathom Pictures, Sausalito, CA
Stamps: Windows on the World by GLYN/NET, New York, NY
Time-Life Photography by Compact Publishing, Washington DC
Treasures of the Smithsonian

CHILDREN

Aesop’s Fables
Br’er Rabbit & the Wonderful Tar Baby by Rabbit Ears Productions and PIMA
Cartoon Jukebox
Children’s Bible Stories: Noah’s Ark by Interlight Productions, Tallahassee, FL
Children’s Musical Theater by Sonic Images Productions, Washington DC
Storybook Adventures: The Emperor’s New Clothes; How the Camel Got His Hump; How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin; Pecos Bill by Rabbit Ears Productions and PIMA
Hanna-Barbera’s Happy Birthday to Me
Little Monster Goes To School by Broderbund Software, San Rafael, CA
Mother Goose: Hidden Pictures; Rhymes to Color
Paint School I & II by Spinnaker Software
Sandy’s Circus Adventure
Stickybear: Math; Reading by Optimum Resource, Norfolk, CT
Story Machine: Magic Tales; Star Dreams by Spinnaker Software
Richard Scarry’s Best Neighborhood Disc Ever!; Busiest Neighborhood Disc Ever!
Tell Me Why I & II by Interactive Arts, Santa Monica, CA
A Visit to Sesame Street: Letters; Numbers by Children’s Television Workshop, New York, NY

ENTERTAINMENT

ABC Sports: Palm Springs Open by Fathom Pictures
Amazing Zoltan
Backgammon
Battleship by Capitol Disc Interactive, Washington DC
Caesar’s World Of Gambling
Connect Four by Capitol Disc Interactive
Dark Castle
Deja Vu
Donkey Kong
Escape From CyberCity by Fathom Pictures
Hot Seat by Interactive Arts
LINK
Pinball by Capital Disc Interactive
Sargon by Spinnaker Software
Super Mario
Uninvited
Zelda

MUSIC

Classical Jukebox; Cool Oldies Jukebox; Golden Oldies Jukebox; Jazz Jukebox
Luciano Pavarotti: O Sole Mio
Gershwin Connection by Sonic Images Productions
Guitar I: Classical and Jazz; and Rock Guitar by Sonic Images Productions
Louis Armstrong: An American Songbook
Piano I & II by Sonic Images Productions
Private Lessons
Vocal Disc by Sonic Images Productions
Video Album Cover Series

TRAVEL

Rand McNally’s America: Family United States Atlas by VPI, New York, NY

MULTIMEDIA PC (MPC) TITLES

ART & LEISURE

Birds of North America by Applied Optical Media
Corel Art Show ‘91 CD-ROM by Corel Systems, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Desert Storm: The Air Campaign by Authorware, Redwood City, CA
Desert Storm: The War in the Persian Gulf by Warner New Media, Burbank, CA
Electronic Library of Art by EBook, Milpitas, CA
Verbum Interactive by Verbum Interactive, San Diego, CA

CHILDREN

Amanda Stories by Voyager, Santa Monica, CA
Living Books: Just Grandma and Me by Broderbund Software
Mixed-Up Mother Goose by Sierra On-Line, Coarsegold, CA
Our House by Context Systems, Hatboro, PA

DEVELOPER TOOLS

Action! by MacroMind, San Francisco, CA
Animation Works Interactive by Gold Disc, Torrance, CA
Animator by Autodesk, Sausalito, CA
Authorware Professional for Windows by Authorware
Autodesk Multimedia Explorer by Autodesk
Book of MIDI by Opcode Systems, Menlo Park, CA
Clip Media Library by MacroMind
DigiSound Audio Library by Presentation Graphics Group, Beverly Hills, CA
Encore by Passport Designs, Half Moon Bay, CA
GUIDE by Owl International, Bellevue, WA
Hyper Clips for Windows by HyperMedia Group, Emeryville, CA
Icon Author by AimTech, Nashua, NH
KnowledgePro by Knowledge Garden, Nassau, NY
Master Tracks Pro by Passport Designs
MediaSource by Applied Optical Media, West Chester, PA
Media Music by Passport Designs
Monologue for Windows by First Byte, Torrance, CA
Multimedia Development Kit (MDK) by Microsoft, Redmond, WA
Multimedia Explorer by Autodesk
Multimedia Links by Access Software, Salt Lake City, UT
Multisound by Turtle Beach Systems, York, PA
MusicBytes by Prosonus, North Hollywood, CA
MusicClips by Voyetra Technologies, Pelham, NY
Sound Central by Voyetra Technologies
Studio for Windows by Midisoft, Bellevue, WA
Superbase 4 version 1.3 by Software Publishing, Santa Clara, CA
ToolBook 1.5 and Multimedia Resource Kit by Asymetrix, Bellevue, WA
Trax by Passport Designs
Videodisc Toolkit by Voyager Co.
Wave for Windows by Turtle Beach Systems
Windows Information Manager by R&R Development, New York, NY
Windows Player by MacroMind
Works for Windows, Multimedia Edition by Microsoft

EDUCATION

Berlitz Think and Talk Series: French; German; Italian; Spanish by HyperGlot Software, Knoxville, TN
Dvorak Typing Tutor by Interplay Productions, Costa Mesa, CA
Introductory Games: Spanish; French
by Syracuse Language Systems, Syracuse, NY
Learn to Speak Spanish by HyperGlot Software
Survival Manual Series: French, German, Spanish by HyperGlot Software
Entertainment
Airwave Adventure: Murder Makes Strange Bedfellows; The Case of the Cautious Condor by Tiger Media, Los Angeles, CA
Battle Chess by Interplay Productions
Jones in the Fast Lane by Sierra On-Line
King’s Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder by Sierra On-Line
LINKS by Access Software
SimCity by Maxis, Orinda, CA

MUSIC

Composer Quest by Dr. T’s Music Software, Needham, MA
Multimedia Beethoven: The Ninth Symphony by Voyager, for Microsoft
Multimedia Music Library by Killer Tracks, Hollywood, CA

REFERENCE

Bookshelf for Windows by Microsoft
Compton’s Multimedia Encyclopedia for Windows by Britannica Software (Del Mar Technology), San Francisco, CA
Guinness Multimedia Disc of Records 1991 by Britannica Software (Del Mar Technology)
Hutchinson Encyclopedia by Attica Cybernetics, Oxford, UK
Macmillan Dictionary for Children –Multimedia Edition by Maxwell Electronic Publishing, Cambridge, MA
Monarch Notes by Bureau of Electronic Publishing, Parsippany, NJ
Multimedia World Fact Book by Bureau of Electronic Publishing
Nautilus by METATEC, Dublin, OH
U.S. History on CD-ROM by Bureau of Electronic Publishing
World Atlas by The Software Toolworks, Novato, CA

TRAVEL

American Vista by Applied Optical Media
CIA World Tour by Bureau of Electronic Publishing
Countries of the World by Bureau of Electronic Publishing
Great Cities of the World Vol. 1 & 2 by InterOptica Publishing, Hong Kong
The Orient by InterOptica Publishing

UTILITIES

At Your Service by Bright Star Technology, Bellevue, WA