7TH LEVEL ANNOUNCES THE GREAT WORD ADVENTURE™ STARRING HOWIE MANDEL; A New Level in Educational CD-ROMs in Time for the Holiday Season

Business Wire, July 12, 1995

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 12, 1995--7th Level, Inc. (NASDAQ: SEVL) today announced The Great Word Adventure, starring Howie Mandel, a unique and unforgettable approach to language for children ages six to nine. Second in the Lil' Howie series, The Great Word Adventure follows the highly acclaimed preschool title, TuneLand(TM), which has been honored with numerous awards by film, parent and computer organizations and publications.

7th Level and a team of educators have designed the series to allow children to enjoy learning and growing up with Lil' Howie. Each product in the series is tested and approved by parents, teachers and children to ensure its educational and entertainment value, age appropriateness and interest level. The Great Word Adventure is enriched through 10,000 frames of feature-film quality animation and superior audio, making learning more fun.

In The Great Word Adventure, Lil' Howie and his sidekicks, Stinky and Alphabot, take children on an extraordinary adventure teaching language skills such as alphabetization, letter recognition, categorization, compound words, rhymes, capitalization and problem solving.

"In the next decade, education will be fundamentally changed by computers, and 7th Level will play a significant role in that change," said 7th Level President and CEO George Grayson. "Each of our educational products will be designed with increasingly sophisticated technology in an effort to revolutionize the educational process. The Great Word Adventure is the beginning of our dream."

Before playing, children are asked to enter their names in the guest book, select their ages to determine the initial skill level and choose a nickname, such as the ever popular Boo Boo Head. The adventure begins by jumping into the Alphabot and traveling through the maze to any of the nine fully clickable scenes like the ballroom, the attic, the peanut scale and the stink gun. These interactive scenes contain fun and educational games, puzzles, riddles, sing-alongs and scary stories.

The Great Word Adventure provides children and their parents with special features to assist in the learning process. The program will automatically track a child's progress and adjust the current skill level according to his or her ability. The language activities pull from an extensive database of more than 2,000 words selected for six to nine year olds and can be customized by entering additional words such as this week's spelling list. An activity book accompanies the title and is designed to enhance the skills taught within the program.

The Great Word Adventure also includes a "help" feature hosted by SaraBear and performance certificates that can be printed in black and white or color.

"Having children of my own, I recognize the positive impact computers will have on their futures," said Howie Mandel, the voice of Lil' Howie. "It's exciting to work with 7th Level and create educational products that enrich the learning experience and offer entertainment value for our kids."

In addition to being hosted by Howie Mandel, who is the national spokesperson for Reading Is Fundamental, The Great Word Adventure features Maurice LaMarche as the voice of Stinky and Alphabot. LaMarche is best known as the voice of Yosemite Sam in Warner Bros. cartoons, Pinky and the Brain in Animaniacs, as well as many voices in the acclaimed series, The Critic.

The Great Word Adventure will be in stores in October with an average street price of $39.99. It is compatible with both Windows 3.1 and Windows 95.

7th Level, Inc. blends the best of Hollywood creative artistry, proprietary production techniques and world-class animators and producers to deliver state-of-the-art multimedia products. 7th Level's shipping products include award-winning interactive titles such as TuneLand(TM) starring Howie Mandel, Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time(TM) and Take Your Best Shot(TM).

The next education title from 7th Level is a January release of The Universe According to Virgil(TM), which teaches the wonders of science through Charles Fleischer, the voice of Roger Rabbit. Other titles from 7th Level include the August release of Battle Beast(TM), the ultimate fight game, and an October release of Arcade America(TM), a wild animated adventure across the USA. Also announced for a 1996 release is Q's Jook Joint (working title), a magical musical anthology for the ages.

For more information regarding 7th Level, Inc. and its products, please contact Mary Crisp at 7th Level, Inc., 214/498-8184, Fax 214/437-2717; or Jenny Roelle at Bender, Goldman & Helper, 310/473-4147, Fax 310/478-7914, CompuServe 75123,3027, Internet BGHHE@aol.com -0-

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CONTACT: 7th Level, Inc.

(Computer, Gaming, Multimedia)

Mary Crisp, 214/498-8184, fax 214/437-2717;

or

Bender, Goldman & Helper

(Consumer Business Pubs, Broadcast, Newspaper)

Jenny Roelle, 310/473-4147, fax 310/478-4727,

CompuServe 75123,3027, Internet: BGHHE@aol.com