SANCTUARY WOODS FIRST COMPANY WITH 3DO SOFTWARE ON THE SHELF

SAN MATEO, Calif., October, 1993--Sanctuary Woods Multimedia Corp.
(NASDAQ:SWMCF; VSE:SWD.V) today announced that it's now shipping the
interactive CD-ROM storybook Shelley Duvall's It's A Bird's Life for
Panasonic's REAL 3DO Interactive Multiplayer. With this introduction,
Sanctuary Woods is the first developer to bring a shrink-wrapped product
to retail shelves for the breakthrough 3DO home entertainment system.

Created and narrated by actress and children's entertainment producer
Shelley Duvall, Shelley Duvall's It's A Bird's Life is a story about a
group of lovable, zany parrots that embark on an odyssey from Los Angeles
to the Amazon forest and back again.

3DO Technology Extends Product's Reach

Sanctuary Woods' introduction of Shelley Duvall's It's A Bird's Life for
3DO follows the product's award-winning success on Macintosh and MPC
platforms. The new version takes special advantage of the advanced
graphics, sound and user interface of the 3DO system. Along with
super-charged visuals, the 3DO version of Shelley Duvall's It's A Bird's
Life offers 50 times more animation, faster access time for smoother scene
transitions, crystal-clear sound and a simplified, TV-oriented user
interface.

In addition, this version includes new games and activities not achievable
on any other platform. For instance, Shelley Duvall's It's A Bird 's Life
for 3DO features a 3D finger painting game where children can leave
rainbow paint trails with different objects to achieve a colorful
kaleidoscope effect. Children can make the their pictures rotate, become
larger and smaller or speed up. The 3DO version also offers a counting
game that challenges children (and adults!) to count fast-moving objects
while they multiply, overlap and speed across the screen.

The Sanctuary Woods programmers are able to furnish these creative effects
because the 3DO technology allows screen updates many times faster than
Macintosh and PC technology, as well as providing many built-in function
calls for special graphics effects.

Created for children age 3 and up, Shelley Duvall's It's A Bird's Life
combines an original story, artwork by award-winning Teenage Mutant Ninja
Turtles illustrator Andrew Pratt and multimedia extras--such as animation,
digitized songs, interactive games and an encyclopedia of interesting
facts on world geography and the rain forest--to create an entertaining
and educational story experience.

Price and Availability

Available now, Shelley Duvall's It's A Bird's Life for 3DO is sold through
computer retail and consumer electronic stores that carry Panasonic's REAL
Interactive Multiplayer, including Software Etc., Electronics Boutique and
Babbages. Shelley Duvall's It's A Bird's Life for 3DO is distributed by
Electronic Arts Distribution and is available for a suggested retail price
of $54.95.

Sanctuary Woods Multimedia Corporation, an Electronic Arts Affiliate label,
is a leading developer of family-oriented entertainment and educational
multimedia titles distributed on CDROM for desktop and entertainment
platforms including Windows PC, Macintosh and 3DO. Sanctuary Woods
produces its titles under three brands: I-learn, I-tales, and I-ventures.

Founded in 1988, Sanctuary Woods Multimedia Corporation is a public company
currently traded on NASDAQ (SWMCF) and the Vancouver Stock Exchange
(SWD.V). Sanctuary Woods and its affiliates have sales, marketing and
operations headquarters in San Mateo, Calif., with artistic and
imagineering studios located in Victoria, B.C.; Toronto and Ottawa,
Ontario; and Dallas, Texas.

Sanctuary Woods Multimedia Corp
1875 S. Grant St, San Mateo, CA 94402
415-578-6340,  fax 415-578-6344

1006 Government St, Victoria, BC V8W 1X7 CANADA
604-380-7582,  fax 604-388-4852

223 Colonnade Rd S, Ste 111, Nepean, ON K2E 7K3 CANADA
613-228-8283,  fax 613-228-9169

10 King St E, Suite 102, Toronto, ON M5C 1C3 CANADA
416-360-1950,  fax 416-360-5694

2350 Lakeside Blvd, Ste 850, Richardson, TX 75082
214-437-2745,  214-234-6966

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