Developed by: PF Magic
Published by: Philips Interactive Media of America
Original release: 1992
Genre: Interactive TV Show, Quiz
CD-i type: Compact Disc Interactive, base-case standard CD-i disc, no DVC required
Catalogue: 310690073-2 (USA)
Releases: USA only! Originally released in USA only in a jewelcase (including a carton slipcase) -
Language: The game is english only.
Emulator: Works in CD-i Emulator 0.53 beta 4 or higher
Description from the developer:
Would you lie to protect your boss who is having na affair? If you got na anniversary gift you didn’t like, what would you do? If you found $1 million, would you keep it? You know how you would answer… but what about your friends? Do you think you know? You’ll be quizzed on love, familt, career, Money and potpourri. Sometimes you’re right, and somtimes you’re not! The answer will surprise you. It’s 3rd degree, the first CD-i game show. You are the contestant in the hot seat in this interactive game. Meet hilarious hosts and a very astute judge. Choose from na assortment of colorful characters and challenge your friends to three rounds of provocative dilemas! In 3rd degree it all adds up to lots of laughs, and the kind of lively conflict everyone loves. After all, it’s just a game… isn’it?
Game Facts:
This game used original photographs of live actors which were shot with a Sony Mavica, one of the first-ever digital cameras. The camera cost more than $10,000 and saved the images to a 2-inch floppy disk. PF Magic didn’t know anything about the real interior workings of the CD-i player, so they used a library of routines called Balboa from a company called Viridis. They enabled PF Magic to read the data off the CD and so on without having to write assembly language.Development time took about a year. Ernest Adams was the only programmer of the CD-i game.
Review:
Third Degree on CD-i was the first title by PF Magic on CD-i and this interactive Quiz/TV show was exlusively released in USA. If you loved the TV show itself, you will find many recognition here. There are live actors and questions about love, career, family, money, and many others. You need to be with at least 3 people to play this, as this game requires you to 'lie', or trick each other in order to earn points. Third Degree was a gameshow in USA between 1989-1990. A game show wherein a panel of celebrities have to figure out what some people whom are brought out on stage are. Like they could have been pilots during the war, or demonstrated a revolutionary product. And if the panel fails, they win something. PF Magic created a digital CD-i version of this TV Show in 1992. The game was a multiplayer party game aimed at adults and teenagers. The game would show you an embarrassing situation and then you would try to predict what another of the players would do in that situation. If you guessed right, you got points. We couldn’t use video, but we used slide shows with good quality photography, which was unusual at that time.
From the Disc
Produced by PF Magic (Ernest Adams)
A 1992 PF Magic production in cooperation with Philips Interactive Media inc.
Copyright: Copyright Philips Interactive Media of America 1992