Kieren Hawken wrote a book about CD-i: "A-Z of Philips CD-i Games" and it's...
Kieren Hawken wrote quite a few books about games overviews of different console systems. Only recently I discovered he also wrote a book about CD-i, and I must say it's a pleasing collection of his...
View ArticleJohn Hawkins about the horsepower of CD-i in 1994: "The FMV cartridge slot...
Interesting article posted by Patrick Selten from dutch multi-platform magazine 'Power Unlimited' dated June 1994. It goes as following:"In The Netherlands 20.000 CD-i players have been sold up until...
View ArticleMerlin's Apprentice: Charming animation and excellent production values >...
First there was The Apprentice, a charming and catchy platform game; now Philips has introduced Merlin'sApprentice, a charming and catchy puzzle game. Maybe it's time to rename everything in the CD-i...
View ArticleJames Bond on Video CD: 11 titles were released, the Philips series is the...
Philips released the James Bond series on Video CD, but not all of them are available. Unreleased James Bond titles are: On her Majesty's Secret Service, The man with the golden gun, The spy who loved...
View ArticleJapanese CD-i Player by MannaSpace was a licensed Philips CD-i 450 model
This is actually the first manufacturer that I know who released a CD-i player in Japan besides Philips. Mannaspace was kind of OEM distributor and in this case licensed the CD-i 450 model from...
View ArticleThe first batch of CD-i games (1992-1993) had full translated versions in...
In Europe CD-i was launched in 1992, together with a line-up of games like Zombie Dinos, Alice in Wonderland and Dark Castle. For certain 'high-potential' titles Philips prepared local translated...
View ArticleBig Bang Show on CD-i was introduced in The Netherlands in 1998, while it was...
Big Bang Show was a game developed by Infogrames in 1994 on the CD-i. It was back then published as a regional title in France only. In 1998 however (mind the year is correct!) because of the drought...
View ArticleThe CD-i 602 was a professional CD-i player with a 3,5" floppy drive made in...
The CD-i 602 is a professional version for multimedia presentations rather than games. Of course it is compatible with every CD-i, although it didn't have an option to install the Digital Video...
View ArticleTurn your TV into an Internet browser with the CD-i Internet Kit
A rare look inside the dutch "CD-i Internet Kit" as how it was sold as of March 1996 in The Netherlands. Inside there was a 14k4 modem to hook up to the PTT line and the CD-Online disc 01. Thanks to...
View Article#onthisday Philips Electronics announced 23 years ago to end its Philips...
Exactly 23 years ago the world was about to hear the first signs that CD-i was going to an end. #onthisday in 1996 Philips announced the plan to close Philips Media and to discontinue CD-i as a...
View ArticleA flavour of what dutch game magazine 'Power Unlimited' posted about CD-i in...
In 1993 dutch game magazine 'Power Unlimited' launched in The Netherlands. In The Netherlands, I believe we had two major game magazines these years: Power Unlimited and Hoog Spel. Both covered CD-i....
View ArticleTAB Austria created the Quizard Arcades based on CD-i technology and now the...
Do you remember the QuizardArcade machines? These are interesting Arcades as they were based on CD-i technology; A fully operational CD-i 210 is inside and connected to a MCU board, built inside an...
View ArticleICDI & Canal+ delivered CD-i version of French TV-show Les Guignols de...
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...
View ArticleThe nudality & fatality scenes in The Apprentice slipped through Philips...
On the surface a cute platformer with one too many anime themes, The Apprentice reveals itself to be slightly more than we ever imagined with a host of Game Over manoeuvres from Fatality to Animality...
View ArticleA glimpse of upcoming japanese CD-i titles that were advertized in 1992
Interesting view on what Japan Interactive Media was planning to release on CD-i. Out of these four, we actually found two: Golgo 13 and Mah-Jong. Apparently Japan Interactive Media was planning a...
View ArticleWhat colors are the CD's printed top of your copy of The 7th Guest, purple or...
Some CD-i titles have slight variations in boxes or the CD print itself. Like sometimes the Philips shield is on the left and sometimes on the right. However, I'm mostly interested in the alteration I...
View ArticleCapDisc developed "Life & Times Of Winston Churchill" on CD-i in 1994 but...
Another unreleased title by CapDisc, developed in 1994 but never materialized. The website Videogameobsession.com found this one, let's have a look at some screenshots. (until now not a lot is known...
View ArticleThe source code of CD-i homebrew game "Super Quartet" is available here
Gameblabla about the source code of Super Quartet, itself based on the Frog Feast source code:"This is the source code for Super Quartet on the Philips-CDI. To compile it, you need the OS9 C compiler...
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