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With +/- 150 released CD-i games and +/- 50 unreleased CD-i games, 25% of all...
CD-i member Glen Parsons made a sharp remark when we posted more info of the unreleased CD-i title 'The Case of the Cautious Condor' by Tiger Media. Glen: "Why were so many games developed and never...
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The official Philips Museum now offers a free virtual tour, and you can all...
Have you ever visited the Philips Museum? It is located in Eindhoven, The Netherlands and it features the whole heritage of Philips Electronics from the past. Well, kind of. I'm always a bit...
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The Goldstar GPI-1100M CD-i Player was a portable CD-i player without a LCD...
The GPI 1100 was basically a GPI 1200 without an LCD screen. It turned out that the small design of the portable player was ideally suitable for in-store and kiosk applications, where there was no need...
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Infogrames borrowed the rotoscoped animation in the CD-i game "Tennis Open"...
Anyone who is vaguely familiar with the Philips CD-i will remember the visually stunning CD-i golf game 'The Palm Springs Open'. While the gameplay was a little slow-paced and unresponsive at times,...
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Philips POV was planning a new interactive Star Trek movie, a spin-off just...
This article was published in Edge Magazine in 1994. It has an interesting (and returning) quote about a new Star Trek movie, specifically developed on CD-i. Edge Magazine: "A new Star Trek is also...
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The first stand-alone professional CD-i player was the CD-i 601, available as...
Online probably worth a couple of hundred dollars, professional CD-i players are pretty rare. The CD-i 602 was identical to the CD-i 601, but equiped with a floppy disk drive for additional storage...
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While playing on the Bang & Olufsen BeoCenter AV5 CD-i player, the B&O remote...
Recently we posted more info and pictures of the Bang & Olufsen BeoCenter AV5 with integrated CD-i player. You can find more info here. I know you can activate the cd-i player with the B&O...
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"Digital Video Optional" - Which CD-i games did benefit from the extra memory...
There are a few CD-i titles that are marked as 'Digital Video Optional'. It means that in principle these titles are designed as base-case CD-i titles and playable on any CD-i player, with or without...
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Let's look at some details on the packaging and menu structure of the LG...
For a long time we wondered what the missing link is between LG GDI-700M and DVS VE-200. The DVS VE-200 is always considered as one of the most beautiful CD-i players that have been produced. The...
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Girl's Club: A fantasy dating game made by Philips POV in 1992 to attract...
From the same CD-i developer who brought us Thunder in Paradise and Voyeur, Philips POV was also responsible for this rare virtual dating game on CD-i. It's a real innocent title focused on girls in...
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Philips POV had its roots in Cinemaware and one of its classics, "Wings", was...
One of the most profitable Philips CD-i developing groups was Philips POV (Point-Of-View). "The history of Philips P.O.V. Entertainment Group begins in the Cinemaware offices in the late 1980s. A core...
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CD-i Passport of "Battleship" - 1991 - CapDisc (Capitol Multimedia)
Developed by: CapDisc (Capitol Multimedia)Published by: Philips Interactive Media of AmericaOriginal release: 1991Genre: Boardgame adaptation CD-i type: Compact Disc Interactive, base-case standard...
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Several companies released a Philips CD-i player with their own brand like...
Last August we talked before about this Memorex CD-i player and recently another popped up as it was presented to our office. This Memorex branded CD-i player was in fact a redesigned version of the...
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In 1993 SPC Vision created a seamless MPEG branching CD-i demo "Special...
In 1993 SPC created a seamless MPEG branching demonstration CD-i: Special Operations Squadron. In 1993 SPC demo’d the game ‘Special Operations Squadron’ which was one of the very first titles using...
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Join our Facebook Group >"The Philips CD-i Community, by Interactive Dreams"
Yes, our Facebook page is growing nicely and also on Instagram we have a unique place sharing our CD-i news and trivia, thanks so much for joining our little community! We have now our own Group...
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Actually more CD-i titles used the Digital Video Cartridge when it was...
Last week we posted some background information on CD-i titles that were labeled 'Digital Video Optional' - While Philips never officially used this term, there were some titles actually using the...
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Philips ADS planned the same kind of creative introduction movie in Pac-Panic...
Without a doubt it was the introductory animation to Lemmings CD-i that put Johnny Wood on the map for his creative playful approach to game design bringing an extra incentive to the CD-i version of...
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"TV Sports Football" was an Amiga classic by Cinemaware and Philips POV...
In 1994 Philips POV developed and released the CD-i football game "NFL Hall of Fame Football". This was actually a conversion of Cinemaware's classic "TV Sports Football" that was released on the...
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In 2008 we saw some great CD-i homebrew promises with a true 'mode 7' effect...
This my friends is Mode-7 programming in effect on CD-i! Usually associated with games on the SNES including Super Mario Kart, Chrono Trigger and F-Zero. A strict definition of Mode-7 is a simple...
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CD-i developer "Compact Disc Incorporated" created Pyramid Adventures but...
CD-i developer 'Compact Disc Incorporated' was mostly active in the professional field of CD-i but also released a few commercial titles, including two games (that we know of now). We've discussed...
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