Do you remember when we showed you the game rooms of collectors/players who have a working CD-i included in their game setup, one year ago? Many other CD-i collectors don't have the luxury or intention to have a working CD-i room exposed or just ready-to-play, but they do sometimes have a huge CD-i collection in boxes or put in piles inside a closet. Let's have a look at what is available. (Top picture is by Gary Paluk, who has a nice CD-i collection as well!). Of course you know the CD-i collection of Jorg Kennis, the collection that is the basis of ICDIA and a great unique source for Interactive Dreams, you can read more about this collection here and here. Who else has shared his/her CD-i collection with the CD-i Community?
-Adrian Zanoli: Our CD-i member Adrian Zanoli has a beautiful collection, focused on hardware but with also a lot of software. His portable CD-i players really stand out, as well as the boxed CD-i 550 player and the various controllers.
-Omegalfa / Luis Mota: Luis has his collection stacked away in a closet, just like me by the way. He collected quite some nice unique CD-i titles and from what we can see his collection is more focused on software. Thanks to this collection we can enjoy various CD-i scans in the Encyclopedia of The World of CD-i. He owns a lot of Video CD's as well, and worth noticing are the folders on top of the CD-i 660 in the second picture.
-Blazers: From what we've seen online, we think Blazers has one of the largest CD-i collections, including a complete set of long box CD-i USA releases, as well as various unique CD-i titles. First he shared them on the AtariAge forum, but recently his collection is scanned and archived thanks to CD-i member Seventyy Seven.
-Todd MG: Todd recently showed us his CD-i collection as well: There are quite some rare pieces inside:
-cdifan/dkoelkast: Worth noticing is the collection of cdifan, the author of CD-i Emulator. Next to a lot of CD-i software, what makes his collection special is the CD-i hardware. He has various players as well as development kits and original hardware CD-i Emulators. Most of them are exposed at his cdiemu.org website. Here we see a combined visit of cdifan and CD-i member djkoelkast in an attempt to extract CD-i software. Djkoelkast never really showed or shared his CD-i collection online, but this gives a nice peek in what they have available.
-Daniel Hyatt: Our CD-i member Daniel Hyatt mainly exposed his love for CD-i Magazine. He owns a complete set of CD-i Magazines as released in UK, including all the cover discs, which is a great achievement. The CD-i Magazines are pretty rare to get hold of, especially the very first issue!
-Jacob Davis: Jacob also shared his CD-i collection and it is a pretty big collection, including rare USA titles as you can see in these pictures:
-Wendy Alphenaar: A CD-i collection with mainly dutch titles, including rare ones:
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-Orlando Arroyo: Orlando (oaacdi) shared pieces of his CD-i collection, like this awesome set of controllers: One of the few who owns the Sega2CDi adapter and the original Tecno Plus CD-i Joystick. On top of that he has two awesome CD-i players by DVS and LG:
-Omegalfa / Luis Mota: Luis shared a few items of his CD-i items that are worth mentioning: He owns a Gamester CD-i gamepad as well as a CD-i 660, we hope he will share more pictures of these:
-cdifan: cdifan's collection is next to software, focused on hardware and he has some rare CD-i items, including the original CD-i keyboard (which only works on the CD-i 180, and the hardware CD-i Emulators (which we have never seen somewhere else). Also the scanner is a rare CD-i piece (Only used in professional CD-i applications):
-Michiel Roos: Michiel shared some rare pieces over the years, including recently his CD-i prototype of the Lego Mindstorms CD-i disc, as well as a unknown prototype of Algebra TV Interactive:
-Alan Bradford / Alan_eng / Alan CD-i Zone: Alan has one of the biggest CD-i collections including rare CD-i merchandising items, which he shared on the previous Philips CD-i Zone group (doesn't exist anymore, but the contents are all available on Interactive Dreams):
-Blazers: Next to his full collection of USA long box releases, he also has a wide variety of rare CD-i discs which we haven't seen elsewhere. Thanks to CD-i member Seventyy Seven they will all be preserved on Archive.org, a great (if not the greatest) collection of CD-i scans currently online.
Jorg Kennis: More rare CD-i items that we never saw before are the CD-i Graphics/ touch tablet (for use with the CD-i 180, officially called the 22ER9030 Graphic Control) and the Japanese CD-i disc 'The Adventures of the Spaceship Beagle':
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