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.
The player embodies a journalist new to the World Company who tries to progress in the hierarchy to become the new presenter. In each game, the player, opposed to four other animators (among which Michel Drucker, Christine Bravo, Christophe Dechavanne and Michel Denisot) must carry out reports on various personalities. The player will investigate specific objects, all presented in still screens. Check out the video below to see
In 1996, they teamed up again to create a side-project based on one of the presenters of the satirical puppet show: PPD. He caricatures Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, former ancestor star of the TF1 channel.
The game was planned to be multi-platform including CD-i, but as CD-i was already declining in 1996, it was too risky to warrant a second try, so only the CD-ROM was released by Philips in 1996.
[Thanks, Steph, Abandonware France]