DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 17, 1995--Multimedia pioneer 7th Level, Inc. (NASDAQ:SEVL) today acquired the rights from Merit Studios (NASDAQ: MRITP) to distribute two products being developed by Distant Thunder Entertainment, the company recently acquired by 7th Level and now a wholly owned subsidiary.

7th Level paid Merit Studios $500,000 for the rights to G-NOME, the highly anticipated interactive movie on PC CD-ROM which will ship in 1995; and The Walled City, an interactive CD-ROM game. The addition of G-NOME to 7th Level's product line will bring the total number of shipping products by year's end to 9, compared to 3 in 1994.

G-NOME, called "one of...