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The design of the Philips CD-i 220 Matchline Player was based on the Philips...
Did you know that the design of the Philips CD-i 220 Matchline Player was based on the design of the Philips VR813 Super-VHS Recorder? Philips did this more often to copy designs of its own products...
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This is what the press had to say about 'Caesar's World of Boxing' when...
CD-i member Kieren Hawken shared with us more press articles that were published in classic game magazines, featuring CD-i titles. This time it is about Caesar's World of Boxing, an original Cinemaware...
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This 'Digital Audio/Video Module' was shown in a preview of the upcoming...
This 'Digital Audio/Video Module' was shown in a preview of the upcoming 'Digital Video cartridge' for use in CD-i players early 1993. This article, shared with us by CD-i member Orlando Arroyo, shows...
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After many years, CD-i member Andy AVAV Systems found his CDi Audio...
CD-i member Andy AVAV Systems found an old hard disc that contains the original compiling software. It gives a rare insight look in how these Background Music CD's were originally compiled and what...
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Eaglevision produced in 1995 an interactive version of Rien Poortvliet's...
When I was young, one of the books that was on my bookshelf was a copy of "De kabouter", a classic by Rien Poortvliet. In english it is called "Gnomes". It appeared that producer Eaglevision produced...
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With more Goldstar Interactive Education CD-i discs surfacing, let's create a...
CD-i member Matt Tyrrell (TheFriendlyNeckbeard) bought a couple of Goldstar Interactive Education CD-i discs, which belong to a series of CD-i discs released by LG Electronics to use in educational...
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The Kyocera Pro 1000S Portable CD-i system has a superimpose function and a...
I never realized that the Kyocera Pro 1000S CD-i player is on the front actually called "Superimpose CD Interactive". In fact, this player has a superimpose function button on the side, what could it...
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Philips also released a white trackerball, next to the classic dark grey...
One of the key aspects of the CD-i format is its wide variety of controllers. Next to the gamepads Philips offered a CD-i Mouse and a CD-i Trackerball. For consumers these were in a dark-grey color. I...
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Unique pictures of the 1990 Japan-exclusive CD-i 'The Adventure of the Space...
In the past 20 years that we were hunting down CD-i titles and searching for information of all CD-i titles, there are still some very rare titles that we have never seen before. One example that has...
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This flyer was in your original CD-i 210 player box, giving a short overview...
A quick look at a flyer that was inserted in the original CD-i 210 packaging and perhaps also with other player models. Click on the images to view them in a higher resolution! Thanks to member Deev...
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CD-i developer BEPL released two free CD-i games in 2004: Solitaire and...
Do you remember there are a few freeware CD-i games available for download? In 2004, BEPL published two ISO files of two prototype CD-i games: Solitaire and Tic Tac Toe. Interactive Dreams tested the...
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The official soundtrack of Tetris CD-i by Jim Andron was pressed on vinyl...
The Philips CD-i offers some exclusive games that also have beautiful soundtracks. Our community often share the love of the music in Burn:Cycle, The Apprentice and also Tetris. The CD-i has an...
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Philips internal "Personeelswinkel" was one of the biggest CD-i retailers and...
When the Philips MyShop was still called "Personeelswinkel" (PW in short they sent out these advertising folders regularly. As it was about Philips products only, CD-i was also available in it with...
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Most CD-i games were FMV in nature: Philips asked for it so CD-i titles could...
Most CD-i games have, in one way or another, integrated Full Motion Video in their content. That's because this new thing, Full Motion Video, was one of the key feautures of the CD-i platform. Before...
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Ledge Multimedia seems to have just one conversion in its roster of game...
There are a few games in the past which caused some major changes in the games industry. One of these revolutionary games is Myst: a first person adventure using a point and click interface. It started...
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Burn:Cycle on CD-i: Amazing what CD-i can do without the Digital Video Cartridge
Following this nice retro review of Burn:Cycle on CD-i, I agree with the reviewer that this game has something special. It truely shows digital video on CD-i, without using the Digital Video...
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Promotional T-shirts of popular CD-i games: Look at these T-shirts of Litil...
I remember that Alan posted some shirts before on the Philips CD-i Zone and if you search for it, you'll find it back in the Interactive Dreams archive. I remember the ones that Alan posted also had...
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Creative Media developed the CD-i game Tank Doodle in 1997: Draw your own...
Another unreleased CD-i game made by Creative Media in 1996 for use with their prototype of the Family Box Plug. This tool was a mutliplayer set to play with four people on CD-i simultaneously....
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CD-i platform game 'The Apprentice' got a totally different boxart in USA...
Philips Interactive Media in the Benelux published The Apprentice on CD-i in 1994 for the european market. I always found it interesting to see that when Philips Interactive Media of America published...
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An interactive audio-visual journey was possible on CD-i - "the breakthrough...
Next to edutainment, movies and games, Philips positioned music as another big thing for CD-i. In a world without Spotify and other audio streaming services, the music industry was also in the Ninetees...
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