Grumbles about CD-ROM Painful for Michigan Firm. (Originated from Detroit Free Press)
ANN ARBOR, Mich.--Jan. 31--These should be high times for Media Station Inc.
The Ann Arbor software company produced the "Lion King Animated Storybook" for Walt Disney Co. Huge Christmas sales made the CD-ROM program one of 1994's best-selling computer programs for kids. The "Lion King" software, along with a similar product featuring Winnie the Pooh, helped the firm gross between $1 million and $2 million in the fourth quarter of 1994.
But success has been marred by the kind of bad publicity that battered Intel's Pentium computer chip. Hundreds of consumers have said that the "Lion King Storybook" runs badly on their home computers - or that it won't run at all.
Bitter customers have posted dozens of messages on the America Online computer service, where Disney operates a public bulletin board. …
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