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Philips CDI
The CD-i or Compact Disc Interactive is the name of an interactive multimedia CD player developed and marketed by Royal Philips Electronics N.V. CD-i also refers to the multimedia Compact Disc standard utilized by the CD-i console, also known as Green Book, which was co-developed by Philips and Sony in 1986. The first Philips CD-i player, released in 1991 and initially priced around USD $400, was capable of playing interactive CD-i discs, Audio CDs, CD+G (CD+Graphics), Karaoke CDs, and Video CDs (VCDs), though the last required an optional "Digital Video Card" to provide MPEG-1 decoding.
Early software releases in the CD-i format focused heavily on educational and self-improvement titles, with only a handful of video games, many of them adaptations of board games like "Connect Four". The most popular games for the system were The 7th Guest and Burn: Cycle. Later attempts to develop a foothold in the games market were rendered irrelevant by the arrival of cheaper and more powerful consoles, such as the Sony PlayStation. CD-i is noted for the release of several spinoffs of popular Nintendo video games featuring characters typically seen only on Nintendo consoles, although those games were not developed by Nintendo.
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Hotel Mario was a puzzle game that featured Super Mario Bros. characters and three Legend of Zelda games were released: Link: The Faces of Evil, Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon and Zelda's Adventure. Nintendo and Philips had secured an agreement to co-develop a CD-ROM enhancement for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, and Philips was contractually allowed to continue using Nintendo characters after the deal fell through.
Although extensively marketed by Philips, consumer interest in CD-i titles remained low. By 1994, sales of CD-i systems had begun to slow, and in 1998 the product line was dropped. With the home market exhausted, Philips tried with little success to position the technology as a tool for kiosks and industrial multimedia.
Kids! Using Children Musical Theatre, customise songs, watch as your "personalised" songs are performed by a band of animated musical animals. You design the songs with a Cajun alligator recording engineer, a bass playing dinosaur, a clarinet nosed alien and lots of other "recording artists". You click to choose the style, lyrics and musical instruments, allowing thousands of variations for each song in pop, country and classical styles. In the recording studio, you can click on a character, and poof! It's gone from the screen and soundtrack leaving room for you to jam with the animated characters.
London Records presents the Classical Jukebox, the world's greatest music in a fully interactive visual program. History comes alive on your TV with the colourful lives of fifteen of the worlds most gifted composers. Discover how Mozart began to compose at age five. Beethoven wrote his finest work after going deaf at age 47. Now CDI's interactive features give you: Full fidelity, digitally mastered stereo sound. Over 90 minutes of video highlighting facts about the composers, their work, and the periods in which they lived. Ability to create your own customized playlist.
Hours of interactive play awaits kids with Cartoon Juke Box. Now, favorite children's tunes like Pop Goes the Weasel, and Row, Row, Row Your Boat, come alive as never before. Each song is illustrated with dazzling original animation.
This game can be used with the peace keeper revolver
Box:
yes
£0.00
Manual:
yes
£0.00
Trap shooting - a life like simulation on CD-I . Experience the excitement of trapshooting in your own living room. Practice, train your reactions, become a real sharp-shooter. There's shooting fun for everyone on this disc, with four variations are requiring different levels of skill.
Our favourite Hanna Barbera characters take you to a carnival of fun! Match colours at Huckleberry Hound's Gift Emporium. Catch balloons with Fred at The Flintstone's Balloon Ballyhoo. Rescue Scooby from a haunted maze in Scooby Doo's Adventure Isle. Snatch silly sounds at Yogi Bear's Pic-nic Place. Capture stray satellites in The Jetson's Space Race. Test your knowledge of Hanna Barbera's top trivia in Top Cat's Top Facts. Win a game and earn a letter to spell the words Cartoon Carnival. Then enjoy a classic cartoon clip in full motion digital video.
Our favourite Hanna Barbera characters take you to a carnival of fun! Match colours at Huckleberry Hound's Gift Emporium. Catch balloons with Fred at The Flintstone's Balloon Ballyhoo. Rescue Scooby from a haunted maze in Scooby Doo's Adventure Isle. Snatch silly sounds at Yogi Bear's Pic-nic Place. Capture stray satellites in The Jetson's Space Race. Test your knowledge of Hanna Barbera's top trivia in Top Cat's Top Facts. Win a game and earn a letter to spell the words Cartoon Carnival. Then enjoy a classic cartoon clip in full motion digital video.
Experience the real sights and sounds of the Caesars Palace casinos. Hear the jingle of coins and the gasp of the crowd as you challenge the house. Motion picture quality graphics and high fidelity, stereo sound effects make you feel as if you're right in Las Vegas. Caesars World of Gambling gives you the thrill of high stakes gaming in your own living room. This fully interactive disc tracks the wins and losses of up to twelve players at a time and accurately duplicates the games of the famous Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.
This game can be used with the peace keeper revolver
Box:
yes
£10.00
Manual:
yes
£10.00
Sol Cutter's latest data theft has gone straight to his head, along with the deadly virus Burn Cycle. Even now the virus is eating his brain from the inside out. As Sol Cutter, you have two hours to deactivate the virus using your brain - while you still have one! Burn Cycle features state of the art fully digitised live action sequences, magically surreal 3D environments, and interactive game play of mind blowing speed and sophistication.
Your sports fantasy comes true in the boxing arcadestrategy game that puts you in the ring at the fabulous Caesars Palace, Las Vegas. Behind the scenes, the managers, trainers, reporters, high-rollers and groupies who make up your entourage offer advice, encouragement and temptation. Under the lights, the world is watching as you tape the gloves, climb through ropes, and fight for the heavyweight crown.
Bryan Adams - Waking up the Neighbours includes Can't stop this thing we started, (Everything I do) I do it for You, All I want is You, Thought I'd died and gone to Heaven, There will never be another tonight, Do I have to say the words and Touch the Hand.
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