Mega Movie Guide
Multimedia CD-ROM

by Tony Curro


Info Business released the 1993-94 Mega Movie Guide Multimedia CD-ROM
for Windows. This version will add two hours of video clips, each
running 2-4 minutes, and featuring stars like: Gary Cooper, John Wayne,
Spencer Tracy, Elizabeth Taylor and more.

Mega Movie Guide covers over 58,000 movies. Some of the reviews are one
or two lines while others are much longer. Each review though, gives the
basic concept of each movie. In addition it has profiles of major stars,
all academy award winners and nominees since 1927, video clips (as
mentioned above), and movie stills. It also contains an on-line tutorial.

The program sports a query mode that allows to search on the movie's run
time, MPAA expanded rating, place of origin, B&W or color designation,
and availability on video. You can also search by actor or actress,
academy awards, genre, foreign language, documentaries, and many other
ways. For example, you can search for all films Dustin Hoffman appeared
in, and those for which he won, or was nominated for, an Academy Award.

Mega Movie also provides a list of Greatest Hits of the Decade. This is
a compilation of movies in each decade since 1920 voted on by the
critics as the best.

The 1993-94 Mega Movie Guide does have an impressive review list.
However, I found in lacking in a few areas. Star Profiles, which are
bios of the stars, had over 50 stars listed. There were many more who
did not appear who should have. Also, since this is the 1993 version the
database is outdated. I did not read every profile, but of the ones I
read I saw an omission of date of death for many who have passed on.
This was for those who have died since 1981. Steve McQueen who passed
away in 1981 has the year listed. But, seven that I knew were no longer
with us, passing on between 1983-89 were not mentioned in their bios.
These include: Fred Astaire ('87), James Cagney ('86), Bette Davis
('89), Cary Grant ('86), Ray Milland ('86), David Niven ('83), and
Lord Laurence Olivier ('89). I do not undersatnd this information not
being presented.

The profiles, reviews, etc., are contained in one long list. While you
can click on a specific area, if you go past the top or bottom of the
section, you will enter into the previous or next area. All the reviews
and profiles are text based. For the profiles a picture of the stars who
have been a nice touch.


SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:

* 80386-16 or higher CPU
* 2MB RAM (4MB recommended)
* DOS 3.0 or greater
* MS Windows 3.0 or greater
* Multimedia compatible CD-ROM drive (with CD-DA outputs, sustained
150K/sec transfer rate and a maximum seek time of 1 second while using
no more than 40% of the CPU's processing power)
* 8 bit sound card capable of playing .WAV files
* Headphones or speakers
* VGA or VGA+ display (256 colors highly recommended)
* Mouse
If you do not have a sound card you can access the text and graphics
features only.


Product Information

1993-94 Mega Movie Guide
Multimedia CD-ROM for Windows

SRP -- $59.95

InfoBusiness, Inc.
887 S. Orem Blvd.
Orem, UT 84058
801-221-1100
801-225-0817 (FAX)
800-657-5300 (order hotline)
