20 Games That Defined The Philips CD-i

[SuperMrBentley]

HOTEL MARIO.

[Keeginpwns]

Frankly, I'd rather have a 3DO than a CD-i

[SomeFluffer64]

Lemmings, anyone?

[PestileNCe85]

Did I really just see a game titled Chaos Control... So that's where Shadow got the name

[TheBrandonRegan]

Super Marios wacky world couldnt have defined CD-i since it was never released

[applemctom]

@TheBrandonRegan: that's a decent argument, but copies of the beta-version are on the market.

[jacksiin1000]

Sorry guys but the only good thing to come out of this monstrosity was the PlayStation series of consoles!

[LeSarthois]

@jacksiin1000 The Playstation isn't related whatsoever with the CD-i. The CD-i was first showed in 1989, and Nintendo started a deal with Philips in 1990, the year when the CD-i was released on the professionnal market. The CD-i don't come from the SNES add-on, it was already finished. Except that Nintendo deal made third companies thinking the CD-i could have been a videogame system, despite the fact it was NEVER designed to be one.

[ThePhil909]

aw wel atleast its better than jag atari hahaa got tht emu at th mo its terible

[rrrnl]

I would have liked to see included the following games:

-mega maze

-ceasars world of boxing

-cluedo

-dimo's quest

-secret misson.

[MapleBedas]

The zelda series on CD-I weren't terrible. They were actually playable and were a great challenge. I played through them numerous times. 

[KingHarkinianZC]

@MapleBedas WTF? Watch the AVGN review. I've played them myself. The controls suck, and everything about them sucks.

[MapleBedas]

@KingHarkinianZC I like the graphics and the cartoon cut scenes were entertaining. The music is pretty good too. ;)

[MapleBedas]

@KingHarkinianZC I played these games many times, as stated, so why do I need to watch AVGN's review? I have my own opinion about them, as do you, but neither my opinion or yours is difinitive. To each his own.

[videogameobsession]

Not a bad list of games.. You should have included

Laser Lords (first console RPG to have voice acting for every character)

Name that Tune

Space Ace

Mystic Midway Phantom Express

Ceasar's World of Gambling

Mutant Rampage (you may have included this I forget... )

[SwampLord9]

You totally forgot "The Flowers of Robert Mapplethorpe".

[PSspecialist]

FUCK the CD-i for ruining Legend of Zelda!

[videogameobsession]

@PSspecialist It didn't ruin anything.. Anyway, blame Nintendo for giving out their IPs to Philips during the shitstorm of their SNES PlayStation screwup.

Besides Faces of Evil isn't that much different from Zelda II on the NES.. only it has better music.

[PSspecialist]

@videogameobsession Ι wish they had given the rights to PlayStation. I believe the games would be better there. About Zelda 2 I didn't really like it either but it was playable. Those CD-i games were dreadful.

[Leomhack00]

MAH BOI !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MattTheSaiyan]

My favourite games on this system: "The Apprentice", "Tetris", "Hanna-Barbera's Cartoon Carnival", and "Zenith". My Least Favourite: "Video Speedway", a game so horrible it makes "Hotel Mario" look like "Super Mario 64". I also hate "Palm Springs Open" (nice graphics, lousy gameplay), "Caesar's World of Gambling", "Flashback" and "Video Speedway" (yes, that game is so terrible that I have to mention my hatred for it twice).

[vmystikilv]

There were 20 games?

[MrHongKongBuffet]

@vmystikilv

There were 135 in total.  About 50% of them were educational and another 20% shouldn't even be considered games (i.e. the Flowers of Robert Maplethorpe).

[mbrown7532]

I regret having ever bought that system back then. At $499- it was way out of my league but I had to have it. Then I paid another $199- for a MPEG adapter to watch VCD's.

The system was just way too slow! I could brew a pot of coffee in the time it took to look something up on the Compton Interactive Encyclopedia that came with it. I thought that would have been worth the price of entry alone- big waste of money!

[go2viraj]

Escape from cybercity and Chaos control.....Sonic anyone

[HerecomestheCalavera]

Nice video, I bet it was hard to even come with with 20 actual games for the system, since a lot of them was stupid things like Flowers of Robert Mapplethorpe and edutainment titles. But I am still jealous that the 7th Guest was never ported to the 3DO or any console at all for that matter.

[CarolineATRC]

I loved Laser Lords and Surf City, the latter that no one seems to have an footage of

[communistrecords]

Mario's wacky world wasn't a real CD-i game.  Course I don't blame you for picking it, it was either that or the flowers of Robert Mapplethorpe.

[haxor758]

speedway... u can burn the super marios wacky world beta onto a disc and play it straight from cdi..dragons lair thats about it

[gigaty123]

were there any good games on this system?

[ViperVenom128]

@gigaty123 look up the halfblindgamer. and there was a port of Tetris :)

[Highretrogamelord89]

@gigaty123

The Apprentice and Litil Divil.

[sergiostudios]

@gigaty123 well there was dragons lair and the seven guest