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Half translated copies of Link: Faces of Evil to fully translated and dubbed...
When CD-i member Robin Kivits posted a picture of his copy of Link: Faces of Evil, we noticed something different. Link: Faces of Evil was translated and dubbed in quite a few languages, including...
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Joystick Magazine already previewed the Kyocera/Philips CD-i 180 tower in its...
Joystick Magazine was a french gaming magazine that in november 1990 previewed the upcoming CD-i system. In the article, the Kyocera/Philips 180 tower is shown and while not many info is shared on the...
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Philips presented its final MSX2 computer as the first link between their...
New Media Systems was a department within Philips that was responsible for the development of the MSX line of computers. Philips was previously active in MSX as well, and CD-i was for New Media...
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In times of CD-i, games weren't always age-rated, but ELSPA and BBFC got more...
We cannot imagine nowadays that a videogame doesn't have an age rating on it. In Europe, we have the PEGI system, in USA we have the ESRB system. In the times of CD-i, other authorities were active...
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A Philips CD-i Testing Phase Disc of 'The Lost Ride', that can't be true
I wondered before if all these CD-i testing discs can be actually real, but this is the first time I am quite convinced we see a fake title here: This looks like a testing disc of The Lost Ride, made...
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SPC Vision started the 'Golden Oldies' CD-i titles as a time filler project -...
In 1997 SPC Vision started the Golden Oldies series on CD-i: Small arcade-like games collected and released on a physical disc. Volume one of the Golden Oldies series contained arcade conversions of...
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This CD-i player works since 1995 and the timekeeper battery is still...
CD-i member Johan Veenstra showed us his CD-i player that he owns since 1995 and the timekeeper battery is still running. I can confirm this with my own CD-i 450 player, which is also running since...
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A close look at a french CD-i exclusive: Le Journal Interactif 1995 et Le Jeu...
Thanks to CD-i member Mini we can have a close look at the 1995 french CD-i package 'Le Journal Interactif 1995' which was bundled with 'Le Jeu des Stars de L'info', a french exclusive quiz and...
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Thanks to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Orion was able to release Robocop on CD-i
Thanks to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer we had James Bond on CD-i but also Robocop! If you grew up with CD-i you will remember one of the more rare Video CD's published by Philips on CD-i and VCD. Orion holds...
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The Peacekeeper Gun uses AirMouse technology and functions as a normal CD-i...
Like many other game consoles in the ninetees the Philips CD-i had a sort of lightgun, just as we know the famous Zapper on the NES by Nintendo. The 'lightgun' on the Philips CD-i was not really a...
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The voice of Link in 'Faces of Evil' was Jeffrey Rath. in France, Link was...
The popularity of CD-i nowadays is partly because we have officially licensed Nintendo games on the CD-i System. While officially four titles have originally been released (Link: Faces of Evil, Zelda:...
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Philips Media France released a promotional Video-CD in 1995 with a lot of...
Philips Media promoted its upcoming CD-i titles in various Video-CD's that were bundled with either CD-i Magazine or the Gold Club CD-i catalogue. Some of them were locally released, like this french...
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Nintendo released offical video-cd's (VCD) to preview their videogames on N64...
It appears Nintendo of Japan published various official VCD's (Video CD's) that will perfectly play on your CD-i player. These VCD's are used in Japan to promote their videogames on the by that time...
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Philips promoted the Philips CD-i in its early years as "The Imagination...
In the early years of CD-i, Philips promoted it heavily as a true multimedia machine: A player that was compatible with Photo CD, CD+Graphics, Audio CD's and of course also CD-Interactive. It was like...
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A look inside the Videotronic touchscreen CD-i system, thanks to Ekim Skirdneh
CD-i member Ekim Skirdneh opened up his Videotronic touchscreen system to look inside how it works. Videotronic was a dutch company based in 's Hertogenbosch, close enough to Eindhoven to develop a...
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Build your own SNES to CD-i Adapter by using a ATtiny85 (programmed by...
SNES to CDi ATtiny85; This is a guest article by LarryE This version of the SNES to CDi is based on a small board that you can have built at a board prototyping company and combine with a few dollars...
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Philips Kaleidoscope was a new (and unknown) development team within Philips...
"Philips Kaleidoscope started in 1994, overlapping work on Merlin's Apprentice and Labyrinth of Crete for Philips Funhouse. It started and, unfortunately, ended with Oz, although we had done a couple...
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From the Archive: Silas Warner talks about his work at Novalogic: From Jigsaw...
Warner worked as a programmer at Novalogic: "I came to CD-i work across the country: I had just been laid off from Amiga and Atari work at Microprose and drove across the USA (on Route 66 and its...
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Philips planned to release 'Namco Compilation' on CD-i, but Namco renamed it...
These CD-i testing discs reveal a small detail that we've heard before from Johnny who worked at Philips ADS at the time Philips worked on its own CD-i titles in Redhill (1995-1997). It's the first...
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Zenith on CD-i: a 3d version of 'Commodore 64's Bounder' but a lot better in...
When reading this review I want you to consider some facts: it's estimated that all videogames, since they were conceptualised on computer mainframes in the 1960s, up to the present day, across all...
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