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ICDI pioneered with FMV games like Dragon's Lair on CD-i

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The Dragon's Lair games were produced by Super Club Home Entertainment Store in association with ICDI, "International Creative Digital Image", both were Philips subsidiaries at that time. ICDI was a team that existed between 1990 and 1996 consisting of about 6 people and located in the Philips building in Charleroi, Belgium. They developed consumer and professional real-time application for the CD-i and designed an authoring tool for CD-i applications.

ICDI has an interesting history as they developed the world-wide first MPEG video consumer application for CD-i with innovative design of close caption system used in later specification of VCD (Video Compact Disc, the pre-runner of the DVD).

ICDI also developed the first FMV (Full Motion Video) games on CD-i: SpaceAce, Dragon’s Lair 1&2, and in 1996 they ended with Braindead 13.

With this expertise it's safe to say they were able to deliver the best quality of FMV games on a home console. While CD-i in general was not very popular, it certainly took FMV gaming to the next level: The best versions of these games are the CD-i versions.

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