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According to Joystick Magazine, Team17 planned their cancelled 'Zelda'-like...
Thanks to CD-i member Roberth Anthony Martinez Rivero, some interesting CD-i information popped up. He showed us a scan of Joystick magazine issue 64, published in October 1995. In this issue, the...
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Exactly 25 years ago, Philips released the CD-i 450 in The Netherlands,...
In dutch shops, the CD-i 450 was introduced September 3, 1994. Philips started on September 2 an important marketing campagne, clearly stating a pricedrop of CD-i (now avalable below 500 NLG!) and...
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Philips CD-i plays a large role in dutch gaming history: Tom Lenting has...
As promised, read more today about the dutch book "Gamegeschiedenis van Nederland 1978-2018" written by Tom Lenting. Tom is no stranger in the world of CD-i: Between 2006-2013 he wrote several reviews...
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The status of current CD-i developments around homebrew and emulation:...
CD-i member Vincent Pistoia asks himself a very valid question: "Ive always wondered why there is not a active homebrew scene for the CD-i" - While many other retro gaming platforms actually do have a...
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Japan Interactive Media saw big opportunities for the CD-i kids line-up in Japan
And that's why JIM released more kids games on CD-i rather than games. After 1994 it seems to have stopped anyway, I didn't find any japanese releases of 1995 or later. Let's have a look at the kids...
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In 1997 there were still two CD-i hardware developers: Philips and ..... LG
Nice detailed pictures of the LG-GDI-S710, brought to our attention by a CD-i member on Facebook: "The front looks like the DVS VE-200, but it is lacking the PAL/NTSC switch on the back, that both the...
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Who can recommend Alice some nice CD-i games?
Instagram user Alice Automata gave the CD-i some nice attention when posting about this unit which she just picked up. Alice: "A few days ago I picked up this cripsy mint Philips CDi. For those of you...
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Virgin Interactive brought CD-i The 7th Guest, Lost Eden, Creature Shock and...
If one company brought amazing games to CD-i, let's discuss Virgin Interactive. Who would have thought that games like The 7th Guest and Creature Shock would run on the underpowered CD-i?When Virgin...
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The making of CD-i homebrew title 'Super Quartet' by Gameblabla
It was December 2018 when Gameblabla showed the world what he did for the Philips CD-i. He managed to port one of his games (based on Supra Killminds) for the Philips CDi and could confirm it works on...
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The World of CD-i excels in bringing the CD-i community the ultimate CD-i...
Newcomer The World of CD-i is online for a few months but really full of ambitions. It is formed by people who generally don't show up in the forefront, but it is built by CD-i member djkoelkast, who...
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The Lost Ride on CD-i has some bugs and crashes from time to time, but does...
We would like to investigate which CD-i players cause bugs/crashes in The Lost Ride on CD-i. Have you played it and you want to share your experience? Please comment below!The Lost Ride on CD-i was...
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A bit of statistics about Interactive Dreams (2019)
I recently discovered we have passed an average visitor count per day of 900 and it's still rising, so I predict we will reach 1000 visitors per day pretty soon! I think that's really amazing and it...
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Dutch exclusive CD-i "Lekker lezen over Huisdieren" was full of children...
School 2000 With this CD-i disc, kids between 9-13 would learn a lot about pet animals. The NBLC (Dutch centre of libraries and readings) chose 36 books, both fictional as educational, that you can...
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Philips Media presents 'CD-i Games Highlights-Previews-Gameclips', a video-cd...
The preview CD-i discs are my favourite collectibles. There were a few bundled with the CD-i catalogue that Philips sent out as a mailorder (although that depends on which country you lived in). In...
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This Philips IP shows they were working on 'CD-i 2' and what it might have...
A few years back, Philips started a lawsuit again against Nintendo about IP infringement of certain Philips patents. One was about the technique behind the wireless pointing device (read the Philips...
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The final Philips consumer CD-i model was the CD-i 740/05 in 1996 - Here are...
After focussing more on compact CD-i models in the 4xx CD-i player series, Philips returned once again to the 'component' model size in 1996 with the CD-i 740. When Philips decided to discontinue...
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The Philips CD-i Mini Console might never see the light of day, but one of...
While we at Interactive Dreams were preparing a series of articles to show you how to create your own Philips CD-i Mini, Reddit member 'TheLegendOfCap' even took it one step further by modelling a...
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Battle Chess on CD-i was a result of Philips licensing Caesar's World of...
Philips Media: "Battle Chess was a late in the game deal we did with Brian Fargo's company, Interplay and it was actually a result of us licensing Caesar's World of Gambling over to them for CD-ROM...
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Compatibility testing of CD-i games in CD-i Emulator 0.53 beta 4
When CD-i Emulator 0.53 beta 4 was released on CD-i in August 2018, it was a bad timing as the whole CD-i community was sleeping. It is quite a difference compared to the CD-i activity since a few...
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A hand-made dust-cover to keep your CD-i 220 dust free, if only Philips...
Philips made some nice promotional CD-i material like t-shirts, caps and bags, but the amount of accessories for your CD-i player was always limited. This dust cover is actually a very nice item to...
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