In April 1995, Daily Variety reported that Viridis had been hit with layoffs. The Hollywood trade magazine cited IVI’s pulling out of a deal for more multimedia software as the cause.
“I think we had five titles with one publisher, IVI, and one with Discovery, Savage,” Milota said. “We were doing PC titles by then: AnnaTommy, Eco East Africa, to name a couple. As for CD-i titles, though, I can only remember these: Stay Healthy For Life: An Interactive Diet, Draw 50 with Lee Ames, Zelda’s Adventure, [Sesame Street: Numbers], an unnamed title programmed by Gavin James called Jester, some sort of Direct TV tie-in title, Ripley’s Believe It or Not! the Interactive Board Game, and Food Dude. I can’t remember much more, as this was like 24 years ago. We also tried to do some 3DO games, like Fire Wolves, but that ultimately didn’t pan out.”
“I think we had five titles with one publisher, IVI, and one with Discovery, Savage,” Milota said. “We were doing PC titles by then: AnnaTommy, Eco East Africa, to name a couple. As for CD-i titles, though, I can only remember these: Stay Healthy For Life: An Interactive Diet, Draw 50 with Lee Ames, Zelda’s Adventure, [Sesame Street: Numbers], an unnamed title programmed by Gavin James called Jester, some sort of Direct TV tie-in title, Ripley’s Believe It or Not! the Interactive Board Game, and Food Dude. I can’t remember much more, as this was like 24 years ago. We also tried to do some 3DO games, like Fire Wolves, but that ultimately didn’t pan out.”
Philips Interactive Media knew the CD-i platform was failing, so Viridis had to branch out to [stay] alive.
[Thanks, Nintendo Player]
