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Philips ADS took the liberty to upgrade Ms. Pac-Man CD-i to a 256 colour...
Arcade Classics was published on CD-i in 1996 and fully developed/coded/ported by Philips ADS. There were conversions on it of three Namco classics including Galaxian, Ms Pac-man and Galaga. NAMCO...
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The first batch of CD-i's soccer game 'Striker Pro' had the "World Cup '94"...
Striker Pro was a soccer simulation originally developed by Rage Software. It was actually a series that started in 1992 on the Amiga and was later ported to SNES (as World Soccer 1994), Mega Drive...
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"The World of CD-i" will write articles for 'Console Purist", starting with...
It's nice to see some updates again on The World of CD-i! This time it is about feature articles that will appear on the Facebook group 'Console Purist', every friday. On twitter you'll recognize...
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The USA CD-i Internet Kit Web-i might have been cancelled, but Philips tried...
While Philips and CD-Online released the Internet Kit for CD-i players in Europe (with notable releases in The Netherlands and UK) between 1996-2000, we are pretty sure that the USA version (Web-i,...
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The speed of the CD-i internet modem was only 14k4, but the real speed in the...
The CD-i Internet Kit was bundled with a 14k4 modem (it was actually released in a time that 28k8 modem were already generally available, and it was already discussed at this time why Philips only...
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CD-i prototype 'Treasures of Oz' is the only CD-i title that features...
Philips invested a lot in software techniques to get the most about the CD-i hardware. In general it was known from the beginning that CD-i was not very powerful when talking about sprites. Also...
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Which games can you play with two players simultaneously on CD-i? When do you...
Some early CD-i players offer two connector ports for pointing devices. Newer ones reserved the back port for serial devices only, like the modem or scanner. The splitter was mainly used to play two...
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Philips Media presents 'The World of CD-i 1995' - An internal view on CD-i...
CD-i Vice President John Hawkins played a large role in the distribution of CD-i and he even starred in this internal CD-i about the positioning of and overview of CD-i in 1995. There is a large...
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Shikotei's PC version of CD-i game 'The Apprentice' has been updated to...
CD-i member Shikotei released his free PC conversion of CD-i game The Apprentice in December 2019. Now we can all play the original The Apprentice rebuilt for PC. We have followed him a long way over...
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New banner design for Interactive Dreams made by Videogame Obsession (Matthew...
Thanks to the power of social media, Console Purist and the great people I meet here, CD-i member 'Videogame Obsession' remade a Console Purist banner for us. Graphics like these really strengthen the...
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Wishful thinking but not impossible: An Evercade cartridge including CD-i games
The upcoming Evercade handheld system by Blaze Entertainment is shaping up to offer new retrogaming experiences. It will be a gaming system that uses its own proprietary cartridges, each currently...
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From the archive: Have a look at the insights of the CD-i Peacekeeper...
CD-i member Alan Davenport asked us for some pictures of how the CD-i Peacekeeper Gun looks inside. It was featured before on Interactive Dreams, but for some reason some of the old articles are...
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Would it be possible to power up the CD-i 450 with a USB power supply?
Another 'future CD-i project' would be to discover if the CD-i 450 can be powered by using a standard USB power supply. You might remember the Philips CD-i 450 to have an external power supply and a...
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The best CD-i controller is arguably the SNES2CD-i adapter version, and even...
CD-i member Lee Brown proved that even without soldering you can get the SNES2CD-i adapter working on CD-i in ten minutes, when you have all the parts ready. This quick fix is interesting to test if...
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CD-i action based games were very frustrating with the default ThumbStick -...
Thankfully we now have excellent controllers on CD-i, but that was different in 1991 when the system was released. CD-i initially released to market with only the Thumbstick, an innovative way to move...
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Bertrand Brocard was 'Mister CD-i' at Infogrames France and brought CD-i...
In this interview, published in CD Consoles Magazine in 1995, Bertrand Brocard tells more about his work at Infogrames during the ninetees. Bertrand Brocard is a very friendly person who we spoke to...
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A CD-i version of Gearheads probably doesn't exist, but never rule out the...
Gearheads is a strategy video game developed by R/GA Interactive and Philips Media, and published by Philips Media for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS in June 1996. The player deploys wind-up toys to get...
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Infogrames released 'Big Bang Show' on CD-i in 1994: A remake of an old...
Slowly we discover more of the CD-i game 'Big Bang Show'. 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...
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The new chapter 8 of the CD-i FAQ *2020 Edition* brings you some CD-i...
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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Some professional applications on CD-i required a scanner, so Datalogic...
Philips supported many professional applications in retail environments with CD-i technology. One of the tools was in offering product encyclopedias, to store contents labeled with bar codes. The...
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