We've seen various CD-i title samplers but not that many that originate from USA. This 1994 Philips Media Games Sampler again shows something interesting on it when we go through the list of games:
To my surprise a video of Microcosm on CD-i is present, we haven't seen that before. Microsocm was a 1993-1994 CD-i project by the same team who ported The 7th Guest on CD-i, This was done by the Dorking studio of Philips in UK. Microcosm was one of the more notable games that was cancelled from the
CD-i roster of unreleased software to date. Mainly due to the fact it
was publicised on release schedules in the press throughout CDi Magazine
and other publications of the time. It was even advertised in CDi
Magazine USA March 1995 Issue 4 pages 36-37. Robin Keir was working here and he was the main developer of this conversion.
Robin: "We went up to their offices near Liverpool to talk to the people there
and find out more about the game. They had developed a version on some
weird Chinese PC clone type system - I can't remember it's name, but
Philips bought one for us to play with. The whole deal with Microcosm was for us to port it to CD-i in order to
show off the MPEG movie hardware add- on. The computer rendered scenes
of traveling through the internal organs in your "spaceship" were to be
presented via MPEG movie clips whilst the actual gameplay items
comprised software "sprites" layered on top of the movies. I had already grown tired of the project and its lack of support and
had hoped that the project would be canned since it was eating money and
it was also obvious that Microcosm wasn't after all a very playable or
exciting game. It was desperately lacking any gameplay. Other than the fancy graphics of was a deadly dull and boring game. It was dropped and we moved on to new projects."
[Thanks, Blazers, Robin, Devin]