CD-i member Muh Mullet recently shared some new CD-i memorabilia with us, rare pieces of CD-i history that we have never seen before. The top one here is an internal testing disc of Golf Tips, but it is clearly different compared to other known CD-i testing discs. It has a 'not for resale' stamp that goes together with the name of the publisher: Philips Professional publishing. We're still interested to find out more about the organizational structure of Philips Media. Golf Tips CD-i was designed in the same series as "Wimbledon Challenge", both CD-i titles by Icontact and Philips Professional Publishing.
It seems like these CD-i titles by Philips Professional Publishing were lacking the design rules of commercial CD-i titles by Philips Media, and these two discs, both by Icontact and both published by Philips Professional Publishing, also have the same design. It seems like these discs were only meant for professional use. Both CD-i discs offer the Japanese language, which is pretty unique. Who owns a copy of Golf Tips? It is actually just a reference title offering tips for playing golf, no other element is in the title. On the other hand, Wimbledon Challenge actually offers a quiz game, which makes this title more interesting for us as game collectors ;)
ERM was/is a Electrical Retail Magazine and a wholesale in The Netherlands (and Belgium) who were one of the first publishing a digital product catalogue, and in 1995 this was also on CD-i. The CD-i version was made by SPC Vision, the same company who was behind the CD-i classics 'The Apprentice' and 'Dimo's Quest'. They also made quite a few professional CD-i titles like this ERM catalogue.
This Italian CD-i poster below shows classic CD-i titles that were released in
1992-1993 in 4 themes of the total CD-i library: Kids (Bambino), Music
(Musica), Culture/Art (Classici) and Games (Giochi). As Digital Video is
not mentioned here, we expect this poster was used in 1992 or early
1993. The games section is promoted with games like Battle Ship, Pinball
and Dark Castle, while in the kids section we see Italian localized
versions of Richard Scarry and other American CD-i kids titles. In the
Cultural art theme, we see this is an important subject in Italy, as it
has always been like that. We are still discovering new Italian CD-i
titles :)
[Thanks, Muh Mullet]