Rare Photo CD Records #9 - The Flowers of Robert Mapplethorpe (Philips...
This rare CD-i by Philips Infovision actually holds the CD-i logo, but in principle this is more like a Photo CD with some enhanced CD-i features. This means that the disc is playable in every Photo CD...
View ArticleA bit of history of the Memorex CD-i player, how it had close lines with...
CD-i member Jacob Davis shows us his Memorex CD-i player and guides us through his attempts of repairing and cleaning it here. Meanwhile, the Memorex brand is always an interesting story on CD-i....
View ArticleThe first CD-i Magazine was an advertorial on the features of CD-i, issued by...
CD-i member Andy AVAV Systems shared a couple of slides of the first CD-i Magazine, published and issued by Philips itself. Andy: "This is Issue One CD-i Magazine , a Philips Advertorial on the...
View ArticleCapDisc made an interesting trivia game version of NFL Instant Replay in USA,...
A few years back we talked about the effort Philips POV took to make a real football sim releasing NFL Hall of Fame Football on CD-i in 1995. Fewer people (especially in Europe) know about the two...
View ArticleThree years after the PC release in 1996, 'Solar Crusade' on CD-i was...
Solar Crusade is an on-rails FMV shoot 'em up designed and published by Infogrames Multimedia created using Softimage 3D and modelled on Silicon Graphics workstations hardware for the Windows 95...
View ArticleThe story of a Japanese employee at Atelier Double, the company behind "Tokyo...
"In 1992, when I was in my third year at university, I worked part-time at a company called Atelier Double. This company consisted of one room in a condominium in Yokohama ... or rather, it was done...
View ArticleRare CD-i Records #91 - CD-i Digital Video Demonstration Disc (1993, Polygram...
We like the Digital Video logo on this one a lot, a transparent version of the coloured one. In all these years, we've never came across this one, despite all the efforts of cataloguing as much CD-i...
View ArticleDeveloper 'Crosstalk' was behind the Japanese CD-i title 'Horoscope' - they...
The GDRI (Game Developer Research Institute) researches the history of video games and their creators. They recently picked up a few stories of Interactive Dreams. With that, a few new details pop up...
View ArticleThis CD-i prototype shows a portable CD-i player that looks like a CD-i 360...
CD-i member Michiel Roos shared a unique picture of a CD-i prototype player that he owns: This looks like a portable CD-i 360 player but there are some difference. In the first part, lots of wires are...
View Article[Developers talk] How CD-i compatibility of MAME CD-i emulation got worse...
It seems like MAME CD-i compatibility is fluctuating up and down when it is being worked on: When the compatibility of a certain CD-i title is being improved, it impacts the compatibility of other...
View Article'Earth Rhythms' on CD-i was not a longbox USA CD-i exclusive, but it was also...
'Earth Rhythms' was another CD-i Ready disc by Philips ArtSpace, published in 1992 in USA. We're not aware this title was also released in Europe, but it was not USA exclusive: CD-i member Seventy7...
View ArticleRare Photo CD Records #10 - Philips Consumer Electronics präsentiert - Elle...
Again thanks to Blazers and Seventy7, some rare Photo CD's popped up, exclusively released in Germany to promote the Philips Photo CD players but these discs of course also work on your CD-i player. On...
View ArticleCD-i Fanart Collection #14 - Lysistrata from Laser Lords
After quite some CD-i fanart pieces about Zelda and Link, it is refreshing to see something different, something CD-i unique. CD-i member Mary Emma for example, we've never seen anyone before who knows...
View ArticleThe developer of the MAME CD-i driver has submitted a new version with...
CD-i member TheMogMiner is behind the development of the CD-i in MAME. Recently we discussed the reasons why the CD-i compatibility in MAME was getting worse over time in the past two years. The story...
View ArticleWhile Zelda's Adventure is copyrighted 1995, it was released to market in H1...
The copyright year on a disc and boxart do not always tell the right releasedate, it seems. Take Zelda's Adventure, a game that is copyrighted 1995 on both the disc and the boxart. It was only...
View ArticleCD-i Press Discs and Prototypes - A look at rare CD-i prototypes and even...
Sometimes an anonymous source drops in and brings a beautiful batch of CD-i prototypes of which several we never saw before. This is what happened with the new set of CD-i discs that were recently...
View ArticleReader Question: "The CD-i Community, where do I find it? How to reach them?"
The CD-i Community, what's that? Let's find out where you can find all the people interested in CD-i and the websites that holds the most CD-i information. There are quite some defunct sites and we...
View ArticleWhen show cased to the public for the first time at Classic Gaming EXPO 2002,...
For the first time since the artwork disappeared from our Black Moon archive (=2010), the full art (watermark free of course) is now available again, thanks to CD-i member Seventy7. This game was...
View ArticleThe first all-in portable CD-i player was the Philips CD-i 360 player; built...
CD-i member Jorne shows us a broken CD-i 350 player, this was the first portable CD-i player with a screen built by Philips. The CDI 350 was a lower cost follow-up to the CDI 360, because of its...
View ArticleReader Question: Which other console does have more than 10 different kind of...
In some ways the CD-i can be compared more to the PC, which had numerous different kind of controllers to play games/programs on. Still, the collection of CD-i controllers is remarkable for a format...
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