There are several local initiatives on television featuring CD-i technology. It was often challenging to combine television standards with CD-i technology. CD-i member cdifan shares a memory about this: "I was once involved with a broadcast TV show where they put the actual video output of a CD-i 605 player "on air". The TV technicians were appalled at the quality of the CD-i output signal, esp. in regards to timing. I remember one remarking that it was "bad sh*t, barely good enough for household TV's but nowhere near broadcast quality"".
In Finland, they also tried to combine CD-i technology with television broadcasting. CD-i member Kristian Kuisma shares with us: "in Finland there was a live gameshow during mid 90's called "Game over", where people could call to the studio via phone and play Philips CD-i games at home while watching tv! This is quite a funny program, sadly there were no english subtitles".
Game Over was a Finnish game-themed program produced in 1994–1997. The show featured an impressive American-looking rubber doll, Vito, and a female presenter. The program played games on CD-i, but also on PlayStation , Jaguar and Sega Saturn game consoles. In the episode below, you can see them play Mortal Pong from Family Games 2: Junk Food Jive and Who Shot Johhny Rock?.
CD-i games were pretty simple by the current standard. However, combining telephone and CD-i technology posed difficulties, and the program often found itself in a situation where, for one reason or another, gambling got stuck or failed at all. The program maintained a list of the most popular CD-i games. One of the other games played in the program was Wacky World of Miniature Golf .
[Thanks, Kristian Kuisma]