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On this #CDiDay we look at this French CD-i catalogue cover - Who knows how...
Many times interesting pictures pop up about CD-i items. This is a french CD-i catalogue showing the upcoming CD-i titles in 1995. I surprised me to see an ADI CD-i title on the cover, which shows the...
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Another proof that a USA version of Zelda's Adventure was in the pipeline,...
This catalogue was included in at least certain jewelcase versions of CD-i games that were released in USA. Interesting detail is that Zelda's Adventure is included in this catalogue with a USA...
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PIMA made CD-i versions of 'Deja Vu' and 'Shadowgate', but they were never...
It appears that the same team who converted Dark Castle to CD-i at Philips Interactive Media of America was also responsible for the conversions of the ICOM classics like Deja Vu and Shadowgate. Five...
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The CD-i 212 exists - it was a package deal by Philips offering a CD-i 210...
A few months back CD-i member showed us a CD-i 452 player, which was in fact the same as a CD-i 450 player including the Digital Video Cartridge. It appears Philips did this to more CD-i models, as...
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Rare CD-i Records #10: ADI - Accompagnement Scolaire (By Coktel Vision)
Rare CD-i Records #10: ADI - Accompagnement Scolaire (By Coktel Vision)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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#onthisday in 1996, Philips announced to discontinue CD-i officially and...
24 Years ago Philips announced the plan to close Philips Media and to discontinue CD-i as a platform. Philips mainly was about to stop any content related business. In 1986 Philips Media began its life...
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Dimo's Quest CD-i was based on Dimo's Quest for Amiga & DOS featuring Dimo...
Dimo's Quest on CD-i was originally a DOS and Amiga title with the same name. Dimo's Quest for DOS and Amiga featured Dimo the frog, instead of Dimo the kid as we know him from the CD-i version. The...
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Rare CD-i Records #11: Destination Great Britain (by World of Wonders, a 4...
Rare CD-i Records #11: Destination Great Britain (by World of Wonders)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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CD-i member RetroMan shares with us an demo CD-i of "Harvest of the Sun:...
CD-i member RetroMan possibly has the largest CD-i collection of us all. Including all the 'commonly available' CD-i games, video cd's, reference CD-i's about music, art or technology and all the other...
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Who has ever bought Philips CD-i reproduction copies just to save $350...
We've spent a few articles in the past in how to recognize fake CD-i demonstration disc to prevent people from paying a lot of money for it. Now it also happens the other way around. Various CD-i...
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Rare CD-i Records #12: HIT Karaoke (By Philips, FT Productions and EMI)
Rare CD-i Records #12: HIT Karaoke (By Philips, FT Productions and EMI)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 Dutch cooking course including CD-i disc and a paper cooking book: That was...
In the Netherlands Philips experimented with a combination of a physical cooking book together with an interactive CD-i disc, offering movies of how to prepare certain dishes as well as giving...
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Very rare CD-i promotional material, used for advertising, alumni, internal...
Over the years we've seen various CD-i merchandising and advertising material. I remember that Alan posted many merchandising items on his previous Philips CD-i Zone on Facebook, together with us on...
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CD-i member Jaco van Schie shares with us some CD-i scans of free...
CD-i member Jaco van Schie shared with us some nice scans of CD-i demonstration discs that were given away for free during the ninetees. If you had a subscription to CD-i Magazine, they were bundled...
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Rare CD-i Records #13: Antonio Vega – Océano De Sol · Extractos (CD-i promo...
Rare CD-i Records #13: Antonio Vega – Océano De Sol · Extractos (CD-i promo by Polydor)When you count all compatible CD-i discs, including all video-cd's, CD-i bridge titles and CD-i Rainbow formats,...
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CD-i was also interesting for tourism: Local Philips Media offices created...
With specific editions that we know of Lisboa, the capital of Portugal and Venice, a well-known city in Italy. Local Philips Media offices in Italy and Iberica worked on tourism titles in the series...
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"How do You Do?" was a Dutch CD-i compilation package including 4 English...
A simple way to offer english-only titles in other countries, like The Netherlands, is by offering it as a lanuage learning package. This is exactly what Philips had in mind when offering the CD-i...
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Philips Fantasy Factory developed an interactive TV Show version of USA's...
America's favorite musical gameshow in the ninetees was probably Name that Tune. Name that Tune is an American television game show that put two contestants against each other to test their knowledge...
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Wordplay on CD-i was originally published in 1977 in an early issue of...
Wordplay is a tactical word game for two, three or four players, published on CD-i by BEPL in 1993. Wordplay is a pretty rare CD-i title, I don't see it often. So for your collection, it's a nice...
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Just like on 3DO, there is quite some 'adult themed' soft nude content on CD-i
CD-i offered quite some 18+ content, something we would not always expect when thinking of the image of Philips and the education theme of CD-i. But most of the times, the Philips brand was not on it...
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