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The CD-i FAQ 2020 Chapter 9 explains the possibilities to run CD-i on your...
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 most used CD-i player in 2020 in our CD-i community is the 220 model -...
Thanks for your involvement in this: Perhaps we should do this more. We asked you what type of working CD-i player you currently use. What is your workhorse, your main CD-i player? It gives an...
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This might give away some clues how a touchscreen was attached to a CD-i player
What piece of hardware could be connected to this DVS CD-i player? It was a retail unit at K-Mart, playing a disc about a car battery promotion video. Could it be an online feature? A print feature?...
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The definitive Philips CD-i Masterlist: A reference list of 1) all CD-i Games...
At Interactive Dreams we are often asked if a masterlist exists of a specific CD-i genre, like a complete list of CD-i games or official Philips Video CD's. The various lists on the internet are often...
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In Spain and Portugal Philips bundled CD-i with a triple 'Juegos' pack...
CD-i member Xenon (Salva) showed us a nice CD-i triple pack that was bundled in 1994 with every CD-i 450 player. The games package was simply named 'Juegos' (Games in spanish) and consisted of three...
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Friday is movie night! Bust out the 'Pop Secret'& the CD-i
The longer I look at this picture the more nostalgic I feel about the CD-i. This picture is made by CD-i member VGCollectaholic. It captures the ninetees feeling with CD-i, the first possibilities to...
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Let's see what Retro Gamer, Game Informer and Tekno Magazine published about...
CD-i member Daniel Hyatt (CD-i Appreciation Group) collected nice game magzines that actually covered CD-i articles. Even Retro Gamer Magazine has published CD-i articles in the past years, and others...
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In Spain the 'Salvat Enciclopedia Interactiva' received a final physical...
At Interactive Dreams we discussed several regional releases on CD-i before; CD-i titles which were only released in one country. And you probably know I especially like the encyclopedias released on...
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When Mario stomping a Goomba in Hotel Mario CD-i, the white bubble contains a...
Look very closely at this picture and you'll see Mario stomping a Goomba. Those with a very keen sense of observation will notice that the white bubble contains a PEACE symbol! It's unlikely you'd...
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Bertelsmann Universal Lexikon presented a comprehensive german-only...
Pathe Interactive and the Interactive Media Fund (EU subsidary program) made it possible for Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag and Turner Publishing to release a german encyclopedia on CD-i, in the same line...
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Kingdom: the Far Reaches was originally released in 1984 as Thayer's Quest;...
The same team that brought you Dragon's Lair also produced the excellent FMV Adventures Kingdom: Far Reaches and its sequel Kingdom 2: Shadoan. The game had an orchestral soundtrack by the same team...
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CD-i was part of a home shopping research project by Freemans thanks to the...
Above you see a rare view on the CD-i disc "Essentials - the new shape of home shopping by freemans (1994) (barclays - philips)". Published in 1994. It is a professional CD-i disc that is quite...
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While Philips CD-i tried to be more like a games console in 1994, other rival...
While we always think of CD-i when we see Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia, this title was apparently also released on Sega CD, one of the rival formats of CD-i at the time. It seems that in the...
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The distinct style of Link & Zelda on CD-i inspired people to create special...
While the art style of the CD-i Zelda games are often point of discussion, it has also created a very special fan-art style by the community. Several artists who are fan of the genre have specifically...
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The Lost Ride on CD-i runs flawless on a CD-i 210 and the CD-i 220, but...
In September last year we investigated on which type of CD-i player The Lost Ride on CD-i runs the best. We talked about the efforts that The Lost Boys went through, as one of the tools that was the...
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There were two CD-Online discs in the UK, the first one was also re-released...
In Europe the CD-Online discs had a different look compared to the CD-Online discs that were released in UK. Also in the UK, the first one was released in february 1996, bundled together with the UK...
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Mah-Jong is a Japanese CD-i exclusive published in 1994 by Japan Interactive...
Mah-Jong is another exclusive CD-i title that was published by Japan Interactive Media in 1994 in Japan. The title is fully Japanese. Mah-Jong is a very popular game in Japan. Please note it is a...
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The CD-i Internet Kit in full details - Including the manual and a close look...
CD-i member Jer Main Vur Link found a fully new CD-i Internet Kit, which s pretty rare to find and thankfully he made some nice pictures of it. Jer Main Vur Link explains: "I found this CD-i Internet...
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This Frog Feast CD-i advertisement might be the only CD-i ad in online media
Philips Media published heavily in printed media to advertise CD-i. The CD-i hardware and software was promoted in CD-i catalogues, CD-i magazines around the world but also in local videogames...
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Tony Rowe worked at Interweave Entertainment, the company that developed...
Recently we met Tony Rowe, a member who worked at Interweave Entertainment. We learnt earlier from David McElhatten (who was the president of Philips Media Games) that Voyeur 2 was in fact not...
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