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Rare CD-i Chronicles #43 - Bavaria Film: Eine Interaktive Entdeckungsreise...
We talked about the Bavaria CD-i a few weeks back and now that it was preserved at Archive.org it is again featured in the Rare CD-i Chronicles series, including HQ scans and even image and video...
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Rare CD-i Chronicles #44 - Journeys Through Victorian London (Museum of...
Like many other CD-i titles after 1995, this title struggled with the publishing. It was one of the final CD-i projects by Valkieser (who brought CD-i a lot of titles including the Tim & Bear...
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With this cover on the back of your CD-i player, can you tell whether there...
When you find a CD-i player on an auction site that you want to buy, how can you be sure what you are buying? The state of the player is hard to judge from a few pictures. Originally these players were...
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Next to the various CD-i demo discs, sometimes a few pre-production...
Thanks to CD-i member Seventy777 and the collection of CD-i member of Blazers, various unique CD-i material reaches our CD-i Community. What we see here is a pre-production prototype CD-R disc of a...
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Burn:Cycle was a Cyberpunk game on CD-i in 1994 - We're not the only ones...
The Cyberpunk style of these games certainly speak to the imagination and with the release of Cyberpunk 2077 it is nice to see the way how this theme developed from an early Cyberpunk game on CD-i:...
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CD-i Manuals (hardware & software) are not always easy to find, but thanks to...
Over at ICDIA we used to have a chapter with original Philips CD-i manuals, but since Philips got a nice service support page (find it here) it was skipped as what better place for manuals would serve...
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Retrostuff spotted these Videotronic CD-I 360 POS systems: Videotronic...
Dutch based Videotronic built several professional kiosk/POS (Point of Sale) systems based on the CD-i 470 system integrated in a CRT television by Philips. These systems were used in shops,...
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What was the reason why CD-i was not succesful? What are the main reasons for...
Matt Davies asked us the following: "Just out of curiosity, what in your opinion is the reason for Cd-I downfall? I think they tried to push more and more models into the market and it each bite of...
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Christmas Country 2: The Lost Levels was the CD-i sequel to Creative Media's...
You know Creative Media was a very small company. Games like the original Christmas Country were finished in just six months time, because otherwise it would not pay itself back. It's times like this...
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In this poster from the 'Philips Invents for You' era, they highlight the...
This French Philips poster combines the highlights of Philips in its Audio/Video domain of the early Nineties. As it uses the slogan 'Philips Invents for You' this poster was printed before 1993, as...
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The Philips CD-i Player Manuals section at ICDIA has been restored, after...
The Player Manual section at ICDIA disappeared in 2003 by request of Philips as they set up a general support website which included all kinds of manuals of all their products. This worked well a long...
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The CD-i 220 Service Manual gives away what kind of submodels (/00 up to /97)...
The Service Manual of the CD-i 220 (download it here) give away some details on what type of submodels actually exist. Perhaps we can add the 220/97 to the comparison table at ICDIA, as it is not...
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'Labyrinth von Kreta' was a fully translated german version of 'Labyrinth of...
The 1997 CD-i game 'Labyrinth of Crete' might well be the very final CD-i game that received a full translated version in a different language: Philips Media released 'Labyrinth von Kreta' also in...
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Next to Bell Atlantic's Info-Active digital phone directory on CD-i, they...
Recently we saw some unique scans of Bell Atlantic's Info-Active digital phone directories and Yellow Pages in Washington DC, USA. The title was produced together with CapDisc, who we know of various...
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Happy Christmas from the team behind Interactive Dreams! We wish you happy...
Happy Christmas from the team behind Interactive Dreams! We've had a lot of fun in 2020, we discovered many new details and trivia bits about CD-i, and we've even met quite some new people who were...
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The Woodstock '94 CD-i disc was a '2CD' disc set with 'Kilby Predicts...'...
CD-i member Seventyy Seven noticed in the Woodstock '94 CD-i disc (See it, Hear it, Feel it) (which we covered here) that a 'Disc 1' was labeled on the disc, and Arethius RGC kindly showed us a...
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Pegasus on CD-i was an interactive storybook adventure for children,...
Philips CD-i offered many titles in the category 'Interactive Storybooks'. Especially in the first years of the CD-i and many of them originating from USA, many of these storybooks are also getting...
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Next to the remastered versions of Link: Faces of Evil and Zelda: Wand of...
Only a few weeks back CD-i member Dopply created remastered versions for PC of the CD-i games Link: Faces of Evil and Zelda: Wand of Gamelon. It received a lot of positive attention online. Now CD-i...
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There's a lot of Philips CD-I consoles selling for $300-$500 on ebay these...
CD-i member 'Wrestling with Gaming' observes that the current price of CD-i players on sites like eBay is about 300-500 euros: "Personally, I think that's too much for just the console. If you're in...
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This is a CD-i prototype of Tetris by Philips POV, featuring alternate music...
Earlier this month a prototype of the CD-i game Tetris was uncovered by Seventyy Seven, originating from the CD-i collection of Blazers. Now he has a video of this prototype online which shows the...
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