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Well, listen up, rockheads. You're about to become the hippest form of computer nerds. You'd better smarten up too, because there's work to do, and lots of creative play. More than 5 million of you in North America have CD-ROM or Philips CD-i players, and that number is expected to double by year's end and treble by 1996. Get ready to hook up those players to your computers and home entertainment centers, fork over $25 to $100 a disk and jam with your favorite artist. Passivity is passe; tubby time is over. Here comes...
...Peter Gabriel. The Genesis grad, whose music videos (Sledgehammer, Steam) have been pixilated eye-poppers, offers options galore in his CD-ROM Xplora 1: Peter Gabriel's Secret World. First you put the singer's face together, which means choosing from a screenful of different mouths, noses, eyes and ears. "You'll know when you've got it," says Mr. Computer Potato Head while you give him a facial. This achieved, you must decide what to do next: Watch one of his music videos? Thumb through his old baby pictures? Choose various cuts by musicians from around the world...
...Residents. No surprise that the first CD-ROM from the eyeball-headed San Francisco group should be called Freak Show -- a virtual version of their 1990 set. The user enters a carnival big top to see and hear such freaks as Harry the Head, Herman the Human Mole, Wanda the Worm Woman, Jello Jack the Boneless Boy and Bouncing Benny the Bump. Later the user can wander backstage and sneak into the freaks' trailers, flip through their photo albums, read their love letters, watch music videos on their TV sets. Animated by Jim Ludtke, Freak Show has an artfully eerie...
...David Bowie. The first CD-ROM from this charismatic chameleon, Jump: David Bowie Interactive, to be released shortly, will be as theatrical as its star's performances: the disk will allow users to create their own music videos using songs from Bowie's Black Tie White Noise album. "It's like you're playing a live TV producer with five cameras," says software designer Ty Roberts. "You have to pick which one to use." Jump will also feature three Black Tie music videos...
...Heart. Power popsters Ann and Nancy Wilson will release this month an interactive CD-ROM called Heart/20 Years of Rock and Roll, including their songs, videos, a discography of past releases and notable events in the band's history, plus childhood photos and bio data. As a group retrospective, efforts like Heart's will surely become standard reissue in the format: a computer version of boxed...