Clueless CD-ROM

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The Clueless CD-ROM is a promotional product based on the Clueless film and television series released by Mattel Media in 1997 for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh. The CD-ROM is intended for girls age 8 and up, and includes a soundtrack, trivia, makeover and dress-up activities, and six video games. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

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References

  1. Speed, Lesley (2017-07-14). Clueless: American Youth in the 1990s. Taylor & Francis. ISBN   9781317189282.
  2. Chaney, Jen (2015-07-07). As If!: The Oral History of Clueless as Told by Amy Heckerling and the Cast and Crew. Simon and Schuster. ISBN   9781476799087.
  3. https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.cmstudies.org/resource/resmgr/In_Focus_Archive/53-3_IF.pdf
  4. "SuperKids Software Review of Clueless". www.superkids.com. Retrieved 2019-09-05.
  5. Inc, Nielsen Business Media (1997-06-21). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. p.  60. Clueless mattel cd-rom.
  6. Witt, Karen de (1997-06-23). "Girl Games on Computers, Where Shoot 'em Up Simply Won't Do". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2019-09-05.
  7. "Her Turn". Los Angeles Times. 1997-06-09. Retrieved 2019-09-05.