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Space Safari is a rare educational CD-i game by BEPL and was also part of the...
Philips promoted the educational side of the CD-i and started the School 2000 project, a subsidy program to promote development of educational software that could be used in schools. BEPL also...
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This astronaut popped up in every USA CD-i longbox release as well as on...
This astronaut including the CD is one of the most used pictures in CD-i releases, as it was included in every CD-i USA longbox release. Together with the game, each longbox release had had some small...
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The original CD-i Gold Club documentation, letters and member card by CD-i...
This again brings back memories: I've had the exact same member card back in the day. Many others of you will remember it as well: When you bought a CD-i player in The Netherlands, you could sign up...
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Rare CD-i Records #5: Nature under Threat (by Philips Professional Publishing...
Rare CD-i Records #5: Nature under Threat (by Philips Professional Publishing for the World Wide Fund)When you count all compatible CD-i discs, including all video-cd's, CD-i bridge titles and CD-i...
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The Philips Media Gold Club was a 'savings club' to save CD-i owners money on...
The Philips Gold Club was, next to The Netherlands, also available in USA. CD-i member Videogame Obsession (Matthew Henzel) shows us his member card and folders of the USA Philips Media Gold Club. The...
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From the Archive: Merijn talks to Dana Hanna, who worked as producer on the...
It's common place for game related projects to be cancelled without explanation as has been witnessed on occassion in the past including high profile titles like DiscWorld. Another trend which...
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The Multi Media Gold Club CD-i Magazines are here to download as well as a...
Many 'new' dutch CD-i publications are uploaded to a relatively new Video CD website, a place that we should keep an eye on: https://videocdoverzichtbe.weebly.com. I've never seen a large Video CD...
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Rare CD-i Records #6: Shari Lewis Lamb Chop's Play-Along Action Songs (by...
Rare CD-i Records #6: Shari Lewis Lamb Chop's Play-Along Action Songs (by Philips Interactive Media of America)When you count all compatible CD-i discs, including all video-cd's, CD-i bridge titles and...
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Gambling including poker, blackjack and roulette, without Caesar's but with...
Hey! Some rare copies of Vegas Girls just popped up. Vegas Girls is like an adult version of Caesar's World of Gambling. You can play Poker, Blackjack, slot machines and even Roulette. But instead of a...
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Lots of Karaoke Video CD's will give you a flavour of what was available on...
Where to begin! If you're planning to collect all the discs that are playable on your CD-i player, you're going to surprised by the sheer amount of titles that were released on one of the various...
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Accent Media Productions pioneered with interactive CD-i versions of well...
Various companies in the early ninetees were experimenting with bringing interactive versions of popular TV shows to CD-i. For example, SPC Vision brought a dutch version of Lingo to CD-i in The...
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Rare CD-i Records #7: Routes to Reading (by Collins Educational and New Media)
Rare CD-i Records #7: Routes to Reading (by Collins Educational and New Media)When you count all compatible CD-i discs, including all video-cd's, CD-i bridge titles and CD-i Rainbow formats, there are...
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A lovely article on Burn:Cycle in Issue 155 of Tekno Magazine
Tekno Magazine was inside CVG (Computer & Video Games), a long running videogames magazines in USA and UK between 1981 and 2004. The Tekno guides were about "all that gamers need to know about new...
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Kingdom: The Far Reaches on CD-i - a full-screen animated adventure with an...
As an adventure game, Kingdom: The Far Reaches lacks interactivity, depth and fun. As an ''interactive movie'', it's in dire need of decent characters and an intersting story. It'll wow the kids at...
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'Site Seeing in Digitaal Eindhoven' was a free give-away to all citizens in...
On this disc many interesting ideas and companies come together to bring a view on how the future may look like. It was 1997 and the joint initiative "TV Interactief" was started by Philips, Wehkamp,...
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A second copy of the Interactive Philips Magazine 1992/1993 pops up and now...
The title is called 'Interactief Philips Magazine '92/'93 Point of Information and it was used in a kiosk system at retailers. Last week CD-i member Jaco van Schie showed us the first copy and now CD-i...
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Rare CD-i Records #8: Comprendre le CD-i / Understanding the CD-i
Rare CD-i Records #8: Comprendre le CD-i / Understanding the CD-iWhen you count all compatible CD-i discs, including all video-cd's, CD-i bridge titles and CD-i Rainbow formats, there are thousands of...
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The recent release of 'The Last of Us Part 2' made the allusion to an...
With the recent release of "The Last of Us Part 2" on Playstation 4 by Sony Interactive Entertainment, another wink is made to the promising 'Interactive Movie' of the early ninetees. In fact it was...
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The wireless CD-i Commander was a prototype pointing device that combined the...
Here's another look at our wireless CD-i Commander, a pointing device for use with CD-i players but which was never officially released. It was planned to be released in 1996, but by that time the...
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Rare CD-i Records #9: Pinocchio (by Polygram Video)
Rare CD-i Records #9: Pinocchio (by Polygram Video)When you count all compatible CD-i discs, including all video-cd's, CD-i bridge titles and CD-i Rainbow formats, there are thousands of discs to...
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