One of the most beautiful tributes on the internet to a past Philips CD-i career is without a doubt The Fools Errand' website by Cliff Johnson. Cliff: "I shall always cherish Philips for granting
this fool $4,000,000 to build
a team to create and complete three lovingly
hand-crafted, puzzle-driven products. And the
opportunity to produce multitudes of stunning art and animation. In 1991, my CD-I career began when Sarina Simon approached me to do Hanna Barbera’s Cartoon Carnival,
ostensibly the same concept as another
product I had designed: Disney’s
Cartoon Arcade."
I set to work on Hanna Barbera’s Cartoon Carnival as
a team of one, programming the concept
in Hypercard in a tiny office on the second
floor near the men’s room. I soon
created Hypercards for Merlin’s
Apprentice and Labyrinth of Crete as well
and they, too, were green-lighted. Though
I had a $4,000,000 budget, I had no staff whatsoever to create
the projects.
Hanna-Barbera’s Cartoon Carnival was the first
CD-I game to take advantage of Philips’ Full Motion Video cartridge. By
completing a level of one of six games, the player earned a letter to
spell CARTOON CARNIVAL. After collecting all the letters, the player is
rewarded to one of sixty classic Hanna-Barbera cartoon video clips. This
product became Philips’ best-selling title."
[Thanks, Cliff Johnson]