From the vault of Philips Media Benelux: 'Total Football Encyclopedia' was another unreleased CD-i project after the succesful Philips Media Encyclopedia release

The deluxe packaging of the Philips Media 'Interactieve Encyclopedie' was succesful enough to develop other encyclopedia entries, like this 'Total Football Encyclopedia' on CD-i. When Philips Media launched the Benelux exclusive 'Interactieve Encyclopedia' on CD-i, a special deluxe leather-look packaging was designed to make it look closer to the book version of an encyclopedia. Philips even started a promotional campaign to trade in your paper encyclopedia to get a discount on this digital edition. It is one of the most beautiful CD-i packagings we've ever seen, that is for sure. In the end, according to the sales figures by the Dutch Philips Media Benelux publisher, this encyclopedia was one of the best running Dutch CD-i releases. It gained enough profit to explore new CD-i projects similar to this encyclopedia approach and even beyond the Benelux territories. In 1996, the first follow-up was released: The Philips Media Medische Encyclopedie. But more editions were planned. To this end, Philips Media developed the 'Philips Media Total Football Encyclopedia' on CD-i and CD-ROM around 1996-1997. This version was full of everything that was related to football/soccer including a CD-Online link with updates to matches, scores, et cetera. In the end, this product was never released, due to the fact Philips Media stopped their CD-i business around the same time.