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Game rooms that include CD-i - Next to your Playstation, Xbox, Sega and...
Some of you have a great opportunity at home to build your perfect gameroom: A place where all your consoles sit together, all attached to a beautiful screen. Sometimes, CD-i even fits in! It's...
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XDRA was the previous name used by McNo, a UK retailer, publishing exclusive...
Our CD-i member Kieran Hurst recently shared a rare CD-i title by XDRA, published in 1994 exclusively for Autosport Magazine. Does XDRA ring a bell with you? Let's have a look. XDRA Limited was the...
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Pyramid Adventures on CD-i is another overlooked CD-i platformer, featuring a...
It's a pity this game is pretty rare on CD-i. It never got a lot of attention, probably because this was no normal retail game. But it is a very nice platform game equally fun and good as Christmas...
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French Magazine 'CD Consoles' previewed 'Evidence: Last Report' on CD-i in 1995
Microids is a french producer which is actually still today very active on the videogames market. In 1996 that same Microids released Secret Mission on CD-i, a very nice adventure game. As with many...
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From the archive: The history of the compact disc interactive platform
History of the Philips CD-i 1984 Philips and Sony began independently to work on another derivative of CD which would combine audio, text and graphics.1985 The two companies joined forces to develop...
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A few more close-up pictures of a professional CD-i 605-T Player and a few...
The final authoring/developing CD-i player made by Philips is the CD-i 605T/20. It is a professional CD-i player with an original price of 3750 dollar (1997). Compared to consumer CD-i players, it...
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A few unreleased CD-i titles that we know nothing about (neither does the...
unsharp pictures generally don't make it better, but it's still worth to have these discs up here, to get a little more attention to them. I've heard about the titles before, but I've never seen them...
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Every aspect about all types of CD-i players is documented in this renewed...
Welcome to the original CD-i FAQ 2020 Edition, originally written by Jorg Kennis in early 2000 and updated in 2019 by Sebastiaan Batenburg, together with Jorg Kennis. Proudly presented by Interactive...
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The SNES 'FX Chip' development started as an upgrade chip for the Philips...
Philips invested in a 'FX chip' into a gaming module to upgrade CD-i with 3D graphics in 1992-1993, developed by Argonaut. At one point there was talk of adding a "game cartridge" with some sprite...
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CD-i Magazine in UK & USA - What did they write and what did it look like?
The UK edition of CD-i Magazine was published by Haymarket Publishing and ran for 20 issues. The first issue was printed in October 1993. The last issue, issue 20, was published three years later, in...
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Let's dive into Alice in Wonderland on CD-i: Including background, a...
Alice in Wonderland is an adventure games that plays a bit like a linear version of the Sierra Adventure games like Leisure Suit Larry and Space Quest. Mind you, the quality is far away from these...
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Japanese company 'Maspro Denkoh' released a GPS car navigation system with a...
We discovered quite a few new CD-i players this year, especially from Japanese companies. Recently we received a tip about Japanese company "Maspro Denkoh". Nowadays Maspro Denkoh is a Japanese brand...
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Plastic/rubber coatings on certain CD-i products will degradate over time and...
Dead timekeeper batteries, leaking capacitors, broken disc trays and belts: CD-i players are not really future proof. Of course it's not just CD-i players, all retro electronics suffer from...
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Before Philips Freeland Studio developed "The 7th Guest" on CD-i, they...
The Philips Freeland Studio in Dorking (UK) was next to the ADS department in Redhill (UK) a very talented group of people who did amazing things on CD-i. In Dorking, Philips developed the excellent...
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When Philips launched internet access on CD-i with CD-Online, they also...
Until 1996 CD-i only had a keyboard available with the professional CD-i players. It was not used in consumer models. When Philips launched internet access in 1996 by releasing the CD-Online discs,...
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CD-i developer CIGAM was almost forced to transform "Mario Takes America"...
A former CIGAM employee talks about the CD-i game "Mario Takes America":Other than the 2 years I worked on this I was never a video game developer. I work doing TV shows and Commercials. Doing the...
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The Festive Season starts in December and Philips Media was full of CD-i...
Today we celebrate 'Sinterklaas' in The Netherlands. It's a nice family tradition and marks for us the start of the festive season. When browsing through the dutch CD-i Magazine, it brings back...
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Tetris CD-i was also released in Japan by Japan Marantz (so not by JIM)
The Japanese CD-i history has uncovered itself quite a bit this year, I've never seen so many stuff from Japan about CD-i ever before. Tetris CD-i is another peculiar release in Japan as it was not...
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A complete overview of what types of discs are supported on CD-i you can find...
Welcome to the original CD-i FAQ 2020 Edition, originally written by Jorg Kennis in early 2000 and updated in 2019 by Sebastiaan Batenburg, together with Jorg Kennis. Proudly presented by Interactive...
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How base-case CD-i discs and CD-i compatible formats actually benefit from...
Every Digital Video incorporates an additional 1.5 MB of RAM. This memory consists of 1 MB of standard RAM, and 512 KB of decoding RAM for buffering data when decoding MPEG audio and video. All of...
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