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Mutant Rampage: Bodyslam was built on the Link/Zelda CD-i engine, but why...
Mutant Rampage: Bodyslam is a Double Dragon clone on CD-i. We always feel that it would be a perfect CD-i game for head-2-head simultaneous gameplay, but unfortunately it is one player only. While we...
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Rare CD-i Records #26: L'Architecture Cistercienne; Cistercian Architecture;...
Rare CD-i Records #26: L'Architecture Cistercienne; Cistercian Architecture; Die Zisterzienster Architektur (PACT Belgium, 1994)When you count all compatible CD-i discs, including all video-cd's, CD-i...
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Reader Question: "Are CD-i games released in PAL (Europe) and NTSC (USA) the...
"Are the games released in PAL (Europe) and NTSC (USA) the same? As when browsing it looks like they all share the same game cases and there are no markings indicating whether one is PAL or NTSC.. The...
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Rare CD-i Records #27: Foqus (Adatek / Alga, 1994)
Rare CD-i Records #27: Foqus (Adatek / Alga, 1994)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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Unique pictures of a 1995 electronics exhibition with Philips promoting CD-i...
There is not much known about these pictures but it came from a private collection, the source is known but will stay anonymous. It shows a look at an exhibition about electronics and we see companies...
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Reader question: "Does every longbox CD-i release also have a regular...
I think we're not sure, but for now we have to say no. Some early and rare longbox releases we've never seen in a jewelcase version, like: Anne Willan Presents The Food of France. This the rarest CDi...
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The Digital Video Cartridge offered more than a capability of playing MPEG...
Is it still worthwilde to invest in the Digital Video Cartridge for your CD-i player, especially if you are not a movie fan? It was cool for its time. Some CD-i members wonder: "Now, buying the add on...
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Felix the Cat was an unfinished CD-i game by EMG Publishing in 1995,...
Another unreleased but apparently 100% finished prototype: Felix the Cat was uncovered before on Interactive Dreams, it was an interactive cartoon /storybook, including small activities/minigames. It...
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The chance that you have a fully working Sony CD-i player is small (but this...
While most people talk about 'Philips' and 'CD-i' in one sentence, the CD-i format was actually a joint effort by Philips, Sony and Matsushita (Panasonic). The latter two Japanese companies did not...
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This should open a few eyes. A Philips CD-i game-magazine printed...
Philips CD-i: This should open a few eyes. Source: Diehard GameFan Volume 2, Issue 2 (January 1994) Scan source: Sketch the Cow/Jason Scott (Internet Archive)Interesting detail is that tit mentions...
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In Mutant Rampage: Bodyslam you can throw enemies and weapons, 'Streets of...
Last Saturday CD-i member CDiArcade (Matt Demory) was streaming Mutant Rampage: Bodyslam on his Twitch channel. If the time was a little inconvenient (there were 7 viewers online) you can always watch...
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Here you can closely inspect a mint Philips/Kyocera CD-i 180/181, 220V...
Most CD-i 180 sets that we have seen have a 120V input, no documentation left and no original box anymore. But this one is different, it includes all this. Thanks to CD-i member Toon for sharing with...
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Publisher Pixel Games UK just announced the second CD-i game re-release on...
On August 20, publisher Pixel Games UK released the first CD-i game on Steam: Mystic Midway: Rest in Pieces. With this re-release Pixel Games UK already announced this would be the first of a series...
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The popular Dutch duo 'Bassie & Adriaan' released 5 Video CD's including...
The Dutch duo Bassie & Adriaan was/is very popular in The Netherlands. The clown 'Bassie' and the acrobat 'Adriaan' made a lot of adventures in the circus and by hunting down the criminals 'De...
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Mobius Strip Tech now offers a full RGB installation as well as a Dual...
CD-i member Mobius Strip Tech has made a lot of improvements on his CD-i homebrew technologies since we last talked about it one month ago. Now he has a full RGB board available including detailed...
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Legends never die. That was the last sentiment left by the team behind some...
Pac-Panic set the high benchmark that Philips Advanced Development and Support (ADS) continually maintained in every game they released. With Arcade Classics and the DOOM clone Atlantis - The Last...
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Next to Mystic Midway: Rest in Pieces and the upcoming Voyeur CD-i...
CD-i member Dizzy made a list of CD-i games that are currently available via Steam. Next to the recent re-release of CD-i's Mystic Midway: Rest in Pieces and the upcoming Voyeur CD-i re-release, there...
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More badges and pins related to CD-i including a tiny Photo CD and a french...
More badges and pins related to CD-i: This time CD-i member Andy AVAV Systems shared a few we have never seen before, like the Photo CD badge that looks like a tiny Photo CD, and a french version of...
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In USA, the CD-i Internet service Web-i evolved into WebTv with seperate...
Philips and Sony took a license on 'WebTV' in USA in 1995. WebTV was a small company that was actually set up in 1995. Philips released the WebTV settopbox in the USA between 1995-1997. To us it is not...
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Sony seems to have released a third CD-i player: The Sony IVO-N7 CD-i player...
When we talk about CD-i, most of us automatically think of Philips, the Dutch electronics company who actively pushed CD-i on the market. The CD-i format however was originally developed together with...
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