Philips CDI
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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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.
This game can be used with the peace keeper revolver
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You have been chosen to repel the attacks of the Kesh Rhan extra terrestrials who are threatening Earth.  In command of a space fighter you will travel through universes in full screen synthesized images, going from the island of Manhattan to the heart of a virtual reality computer, reaching ultimately the pitfalls of outer space.  Quick...
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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,...
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Finally a platform game for CD-I with lots of enemies. Play and explore the exciting long lasting fun filled 16 levels of Christmas Country.
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Do you qualify to help Santa work his way through 24 levels, recover the lost reindeer, find the dangerous presents and defeat the evil toys? Surviving is not enough; there are points to be scored in the eight bonus levels if you can find them!
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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...
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Clue, one of the world's most popular detective games, is back on CDi. Three new mysteries come to life with live actors, sensational video and the powers of interactive investigation. Once again, Mr Boddy has been found murdered in his mansion. Your job is to be the first to identify the killer, the murder weapon and the room in which the deadly...
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Discover what really happened at Arlington Hall, the famous Cluedo mansion. Why was Mr Boddy murdered? Who had the motive. and opportunity? Where is the weapon hidden? Watch the drama unfold in the film as you witness the events of that fateful weekend. Question the suspects, and explore the house for hidden evidence.
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The entire twenty-six volume Compton's Encyclopaedia comes to life on your television! You can instantly access high resolution visuals, CD quality sound, and exciting video and audio segments! Travel to the past in a Time Machines. or around today's world in an interactive world atlas. Listen to the music of Bach or Vivaldi. Examine the valves of...
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Connect Four is the ideal game for the entire family. The games are quick and the rules are simple: take turns trying to connect four of your playing pieces horizontally, vertically or diagonally. But you can't place them anywhere - the pieces will drop until they hit another piece or the bottom of a column - so you'll have to think ahead. The...
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Swingin' soul tunes and the artists who sang them come alive on your TV screen. Sea of Love, The Girl from Ipanema, The Stroll and It's a Man's World are just few of the eighteen top charted tracks from the 50's and 60s featured on this fully interactive disc. Mercury Records presents The Cool Oldies Jukebox.
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Introducing the first Rainbow disc one CD that will play on audio players, Mac and Windows computers and CD-I players. Hang out with the Cranberries as they share 5 previously unreleased tracks, concert footage, home videos, interviews, song lyrics and photos.
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Enter the most colourful world a child could ever imagine. The Crayon Factory, and extraordinary interactive environment where kids play and learn! Each existing trip to the Crayon Factory is a new experience, loaded with fun-filled activities that help your child develop critical learning skills. Narrated by Julie Walters.
Big Box version complete with 8 Crayola Crayons, and signed by Julie Walters.
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Prepare yourself for hours of fun and facial mayhem with Caricature. With a few simple clicks on the CDi controllers you can distort, disfigure or improve some very famous faces from our library of one hundred photos on this disc. Included in these are royalty, politicians, sports personalities and celebrities.
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We have no idea what's out there but whatever it is, it isn't friendly. Take no chances, shoot anything that moves. It took Argonaut 3 years to cram this Double CD full of stunningly rendered 3D environments. Play this eerie, creepy game at night with the lights out and your headphones on. If you dare!
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Dark Castle looms over the landscape like a plague. Its evil ruler, the Black Knight mist be defeated. And you're the only candidate to do it. First you'll have to make your way through chambers of nasty hazards. The castle guards are hunting you, plague infested rats and bats attack, the Dragon breathes scorching fire, the Torturer wants to get...
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Aesop's Fables have been handed down from generation to generation. Now, 12 of these wonderful tales have been given a contemporary look and feel through CDi. Stories with a moral, and stunning graphics and animation, are complemented by the narration of Danny Glover and an original score by Jazz great Ron Carter. The CDi technology allows...
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It is the Age of Chivalry. A time of maidens in distress and black-hearted villains. king Richard has been murdered and all of England is engaged in civil war. Amidst the growing chaos, the Saxon Lords have rallied around your banner and chosen you to lead them in the fight against the hated Normans, Victory will not come easily. Your skills with...
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So you call yourself a real game freak, do you? Go ahead then, sharpen up those steel nerves, fine tune your incredible reflexes and get to show just how cool you really are. For in this heroic game you will face countless challenges…Become Dimo and find your way through 51 levels full of action and adventure!
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Northern Edition features British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario and Northwest Territories. Fish facts, getting away, fish tales, fish du jour, lure lake, explore a lake, yellow screens.
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The lovely Princess Daphne has been kidnapped by the evil wizard Mordroc.  She's been whisked away to be placed in the charge of a wicked fire-breathing Dragon called Singe.  You must lead Dirk, our hapless hero, through Mordroc's castle.  Help Dirk defeat the monsters lurking in every room.
This game requires the Digital Video Cartridge to play.
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Hero, swordsman (and now family man) Dirk the Daring returns to find that is nemesis, the evil Mordroc, has once again kidnapped Princess Daphne in a diabolical scheme to take her for his bride. As Dirk, you must follow Mordroc into his trap-laden trip through time to find and rescue Daphne again! This timewarping animated adventure takes you...
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If it's war you want, it's war you're going to get! Targeting the Drug King Lopez and his entire drug distribution chain is truly an international war. Drug Wars is a multi-level action thriller that will take you through it all, from small town traffickers to big city cartels. You'll fight international drug runners on the border. And, if you're...
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A catastrophe is about to strike Earth. Population expansion, environmental devastation and plummeting food production are rapidly threatening global civilisation and the survival of life itself. Only the U.N. Agency ECOM (Environmental Command) can prevent disaster. That's why the world look to YOU.
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Two clever tricksters convince the Emperor they can weave the finest cloth ever seen. And the garments they'll make from it will be invisible to anyone lacking intelligence! As the work progresses, who has the courage to speak the truth? This delightful version of one of Hans Christian Andersen's best loved tales is told by John Gielgud, with...
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The Earth is under attack. The evil Guardian's forces are in control. Only a few continue to resist and only you can help. Your mission is to survive the dangers of CyberCity, fight your way to the train and destroy the guardians planet. Beware, things are not what they seem. Escape from CyberCity is the first CD-Interactive action adventure to...
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