Tuneland is a musical children's computer game, produced in 1993 by a division of 7th Level

7th Level

7th Level was a video games development company based in Dallas, Texas and founded in 1993. The company was most famous for developing the three Monty Python games , G-Nome — a MechWarrior-style game, for publishing Helicops — an anime-inspired arcade-style aerial combat game, and for Tracer — a...

, Kids' World Entertainment. The cartoon video game follows the character Little Howie, who is voiced by the television personality Howie Mandel

Howie Mandel

Howard Michael "Howie" Mandel is a Canadian stand-up comedian, television host, and actor. He is well known as host of the NBC game show Deal or No Deal, as well as the show's daytime and Canadian-English counterparts. Before his career as a game show host, Mandel was best known for his role on...

 on an adventure around Old McDonald's Farm.

Tuneland was followed by the Lil' Howie series: Lil' Howie's Great Word Adventure, Lil' Howie's Great Math Adventure, and Lil' Howie's Great Reading Adventure. The series has won 36 awards.

The game

The eight locations in the game are the barnyard, the farmhouse, the barn, the pond, grandma's house, the train station, the mountain, and the valley.

Songs

The game contains around 40 songs, which are primarily nursery rhyme

Nursery rhyme

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s. These include "Old MacDonald", "Turkey in the Straw

Turkey in the Straw

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, "Three Blind Mice

Three Blind Mice

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", "I'm a Little Teapot

I'm a Little Teapot

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", "Itsy Bitsy Spider

Itsy Bitsy Spider

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" and "Bingo

Bingo (song)

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". The CD can also be used as an audio disk or with the built in Jukebox to listen to the songs featured in the game.

Musicians

Tunelands cast features a large number of musicians including the Doobie Brothers' Jeff "Skunk" Baxter

Jeff Baxter

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 and Pink Floyd

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's David Gilmour

David Gilmour

David Jon Gilmour, CBE, D.M. is an English rock musician and multi-instrumentalist who is best known as the guitarist, one of the lead singers and main songwriters in the progressive rock band Pink Floyd. In addition to his work with Pink Floyd, Gilmour has worked as a producer for a variety of...

 on guitar

Guitar

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s. Jon Anderson

Jon Anderson

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 from Yes

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 provides some vocals and Scott Page

Scott Page

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 of Supertramp

Supertramp

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 performs on the soundtrack for the game.

Awards

Tuneland received various awards including World Class Award for Children's CD-ROM Game from PC World

PC World (magazine)

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, and an Award in Excellence from the Film Advisory Board

Film Advisory Board

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. In 1994 it was also featured in the Top 10 Best Kids Products of the Year from Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly

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 and the Top 100 CD-ROMs from PC Magazine

PC Magazine

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.