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Coktel Vision prepared 'Inca 2' in 1994 for CD-i
The reason why we have Inca on CD-i was mainly because Philips Media offered a budget to developers to bring their titles to CD-i. Inca was in this view a 'subsidized' product. Coktel Vision actually...
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Viridis handcrafted all models in Zelda's Adventure CD-i
Back in November 2012, Nintendo Player interviewed Jason Bakutis, a former Hollywood special effects artist who had worked on Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday and Casper. Later he joined Viridis...
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Krisalis designed digital video animation for The Lost Vikings on CD-i
In August 1994, CD-i Magazine pressed a very interesting article about three upcoming CD-i games. Philips Media signed an agreement with Interplay to develop three games on CD-i. Battle Chess, The...
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'Down in the Dumps' eventually was technically not possible on CD-i
Haiku Studios was developing Down in the Dumps for CD-ROM and CD-i. For CD-i, the use of the extra memory in the Digital Video Cartridge was needed to get all the animations going. The footage we have...
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CD-ROM version of 'The Dame was Loaded' actually credits CD-i programming
Alan from the former 'Philips CD-i Zone' made an interesting remark about 'The Dame was Loaded', which is another unreleased CD-i game. The game was actually released on CD-ROMHe asks: " do we have...
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ICOM developed and cancelled Beavis and Butt-Head in Virtual Stupidity on CD-i
Another lost point-and-click adventure game on CD-i was Beavis and Butt-Head in Virtual Stupidity, developed by Viacom New Media. It was actually produced by ICOM Simulations. A CD-i port of Virtual...
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Philips Research planned to release Atlantis: The Last Resort Soundtrack CD...
. .. but that never happened. As Johnny Wood more than once explained to us, Philips ADS (Advanced Development & Support, a Research department in their former Redhill facility) was never meant to...
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25 years later: Simon Boswell releases remastered soundtrack of Burn:Cycle CD-i
Originally released in 1994 Burn:Cycle was the first ever video game to have an orchestral soundtrack. Philips were the first company to employ a film music composer to score a game soundtrack : Simon...
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ICDI pioneered with FMV games like Dragon's Lair on CD-i
The Dragon's Lair games were produced by Super Club Home Entertainment Store in association with ICDI, "International Creative Digital Image", both were Philips subsidiaries at that time. ICDI was a...
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Pac-Panic might never have made it to CD-i, why is that?
Well for all of us I think Pac-Panic represented a major chance and a perfectly timed one for [Philips] all to prove our skills. Pac-Panic might never have made it to CDi. The machine used a 68020...
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The Sega Justifier Gun was the precursor of the Philips CD-i PeaceKeeper...
The Peacekeeper Revolver (Philips actually trademarked that name) is one of the only guns of its generation that still works on modern flat tv's. Philips did not invent the gun by itself, but borrowed...
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"Aliens Interactive" was a working CD-i prototype game by Dark Vision in 1993
Aliens Interactive, also known as Aliens Interactive CDI, was a working prototype for an unreleased interactive comic book game produced by Dark Vision Interactive and Dark Horse Comics for the...
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The World of CD-i & CDI Arcade - CD-i gaming streaming & podcasting
Brought to our attention by: The World of CD-i (=I'm so happy that it's back) CD-i member 'CD-i Arcade' has a Twitch channel dedicated to CD-i gameplay. We haven't seen that before! He is playing live...
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Classic CD-i Advertisement #1 - Link: The Faces of Evil
The Animation Magic games like Link: Faces of Evil is a well-known CD-i game, mainly because it is officially licensed by Nintendo (which makes it quite rare). It was developed in USA so the...
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Can you still create your own Video-CD's (VCD) nowadays?
I used to create my own Video-CD's of all kinds of movies that were not officially released on disc. I just got a CDR and with the Nero burning software it worked flawless. How would that go nowadays?...
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A sequel to Litil Divil CD-i was planned subtitled ‘Limbo Years’, some...
Philip Plunkett created this gorgeous concept art for Litil Divil 2, which was planned by Gremlin on CD-i. The follow-up to Litil Divil 1 started in 1994, right after development of the first game...
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You can create your own (CD-i compatible) PhotoCD with this software
CD-i member Marco Parisio Java posted a link to an original Kodak software download where you can create your own PhotoCD. PhotoCD is a compatible CD-i format to show your Photo's on television....
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Philips CD-i missed its originally planned release date in the fall of 1987...
Even in the ninetees when Philips CD-i was just released, the system was criticized on its low technical specs. Philips always commented that CD-i wasn't meant as a games machine in the first place,...
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RAM Raid: Realtime & Online First Person Shooter we thought was impossible on...
One of the things we expected that could never happen on CD-i: A realtime first person shooter like Doom, including online functions. But it did happen, thanks to the amazing brains at Philips...
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