One of the great things of our CD-i Community is that we get to know a lot more CD-i releases than those which were available in our country during the heydays of CD-i. Who never remarked that CD-i only had limited games in the shop? I was highly surprised to find so many unknown CD-i titles were created but only released in a local country. In The Netherlands we also had several exclusive Dutch releases, like interactive versions of TV shows 'Lingo' and 'The Nationale Spelling Wedstrijd'. In USA we had 'Third Degree' and 'Jeopardy', excellent CD-i titles that I only found out about in the recent years.
Also France had some exclusive CD-i releases, including this interactive version of the French-exclusive TV-Puppet-Show Les Guignols L'Info. In 1995 Canal+ Multimedia and Philips
Media France teamed up to create an interactive version of the french
TV-Puppet-Show Les Guignols L'Info on CD-i and CD-ROM. The game was
developed by In Visio SARL and ported to CD-i by ICDI, the same team who
ported Dragon's Lair and Brain Dead 13 to CD-i.
The Guignols de l'Info is an adventure game inspired by the famous show
broadcast on Canal +. In a number of fixed screens, you play as a novice
journalist. In your company, the glory is at your door ... Still must
crush the competition! To do this you must constantly take a look at the
level of the "gigamat" to see where you are placed. It's up to you to
choose which reports you shoot and which ones you broadcast. It plays
like a point and click adventure and is French only. The graphics
display a fairly simple aesthetic giving the game an air similar to that
of a cartoon.
[Thanks, Tetsuoshima]