Rare Philips CDi 350 & 370 Handheld Review

[benboo247]

i have a plug n play genesis and atari

[cincinatus90]

AVGN is NOT you tube poop.

[PanterAmetal100]

8:22 lol!

[CatNasty]

"Zelda's Adventure looks like a pretty good game actually."

No.

[Bloxxer42]

The side-scrolling Link game is pretty good, but it would be good if they actually cut out the cut scenes.

[RetroToledo]

Would be kinda sweet if it also played VCD's as well, but I don't suppose that was ever thought about at the time.

[NatsukaAi]

Why do I want one of these so bad?? T_T They SUCK O_O

.....But they ARE what true warriors strive for!!!

[JackDaScarecrow]

MAH BOI!!!

[AmazingDX]

this thing is portable mah boi!

[MPSecare]

omg faces of evil..... bwahhahaahh 

[MPSecare]

CDI had some cool programs. Also some of the worst ever.... haha

[web1bastler]

omg phillips, what have u done to link!?!?!?!?!?!?

[smashdude64]

BECAUSE YOUTUBE IS WHERE THE POOP IS!!!!!

[Alda1981]

You must see the avgn mate about zelda games...

[BoomBoy13]

YOUTUBE POOP: WHERE THERES SMOKE, THEY PINCH BACK

[acwrobel1]

HAHAHA THAT WAS TERRIBLE

[Kalatos]

What's for dinner?

[killchain187]

MY BOY

[truth96130]

This looks like the computer that John Luke on (star trek next generation) has on his desk in his office.

[FrogJam95128]

I believe they should have at least made the voice acting more serious, and Link never talks anyways, but I can't hate on these games even if they are bad because then we wouldn't have the great ones we have now.

[slim100023]

avgn has zelda adventures

[SBluvr99]

Great for Youtube Poop on the go! ;)

[rescuehero942]

Plug and Play TV Games are better than Hotel Mario.

[smashdude64]

MAH BOI, This Peace Is What All True Warriors Strive For.

Dinner

[mandoligno]

MAH BOI

[brunobliss]

having the controller upon the cd player? hmmm getting nervous would be a problem no?

[erickalmeida21]

I WANT THE GAMEPLAY -'-

[speedometer111]

I never knew that Philips was in the gaming industry

P.S.

I hope they make another gaming system

[SpeedySPCFan]

Mah boi, this is what I am having for DINNER.

[Synochra]

I know one of the guys who created it :)

[Ccoolty]

You've never seen a AC inverter before?

[cmonconan]

@iPhoneBananas Dont be sad, America stole high tech nazi rockets! cheer up! lol

[vainxler]

I have seen this watch before.. (at a long time)

What is it?

[iwantm21]

MAH BOI !!!!!!!!!! YEY

[UberLifeTroll]

LOL

[LordSamuelJ]

I used to have a CDI 605T developers unit... wish I held on to it. Now I have a couple Magnavox systems, one is a 450 and the other is a 550. I got them for really cheap. I had the chance to buy a philips 350 portable unit for 45 dollars but turned it down. Wish I would have bought it. Oh well Im sure Ill find another.

[GuldurKhand]

Zelda adventure... I lent that game from a friend couple of years ago, it is a pretty hard game, for a kid of 8 years old.

[angelpichu1]

can the cdi play dvd's?

[jlong908]

@angelpichu1 no dvds came out at around 1996

[angelpichu1]

@jlong908 awww, that sucks then.......

[Emaline90]

@angelpichu1 no as that wasnt a format at the time. CD-i is a format of disc that can play all sorts of media. There were CD-i movies though. I have Ghost and the Hunt for Red October.

[angelpichu1]

so is the phillips cdi a 16 bit game system? or is it a made up number of bits all it's own?

[froggydarren]

@angelpichu1 it was a 32 bit but didnt have much in the way of graphics power as all it really did was stream graphics and movies off the disc so the most games played like slide shows....games that you and me would class as 'GAMES' tended to look alot like super nintendo games lol....

[kaza12345678]

i like it

[cmonconan]

Yes i know they invented the COMPACT DISC... YES THEY DID

Dont call the Dutch dumb or crazy, we invented the western world as well..

DO SOME RESEARCH.

[cmonconan]

Dutch console.. HAHAAAHHAAA

Phillips needs to focus on shaving.. lol

[PSPmyDS]

MEH BOIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII­IIIIII!

[figaro589]

Link and the FECES of evil

[OldSkoolStudio]

lliked for shoutout to halfblindgamer, hes real cool guy yea, covers alot of cd-i

[FoodOnCrack]

im sorry to say but id rather have my cdi than my 360

[OldSkoolStudio]

@FoodOnCrack same, just becouse i grew up with it

[sneskegagama]

From what I understand Nintendo was afraid that Sony was going to make all the money on the CD add-on A.K.A Playstation so they began talks with Philips. Nintendo told Sony that they wanted to scrap the project and Sony later then found out that Nintendo was Working with Philips and was angry.Sony then went on to make the Playstation. As for the CD-i Nintendo then began to realise that Games weren't ready for CD and told Philips to scrap the project and thus the CD-i was born.

[masticina]

Oooh the CD-I ... making both games terrible and business meetings boring. Unbelievable ;)

[3dorigami1945]

how much

[ftolmsteen]

YTPs wouldn't be the same if Cdi didn't make these awful games. In a way, we are grateful.

[mrbluswirl]

I hear that Finland has a lot of copies of zeldas adventure, which completely sucks

[ZENXMETAL]

What's with the watch???

[SATANECRONOMICUS]

Wow thats fuck funny. shitty animation! haha XD XD

[HenryFreechman]

need to plug it in to play it? i think philips was missing the point....

[19pieman]

awesome review john

[Ricjones1994]

WHAT?! Nintendo was planing to make a playstation add on for the super nintendo?! That explains why the PS1 controller looked like the snes controller...

[sagat4]

@Ricjones1994 Yes my friend. Look up the Sony/Nintendo partnership on Google

[SOUTHWESTENZ]

this stuff people send you, do you get it for free?

[133MHzz]

Portable YouTube Poop Player! D:

[TheOdysseyKid]

@133MHzz I'd take it on vacation just to play "MAH BOI" in everyone's ears!

[smashdude64]

@133MHzz :D

[JokeriPokeri17]

OH MY GOD!!! The king got trapped inside!

How in the hell did you found that?!!?

How rare are those?

[BlueSnech]

look at how high the qualities

[notyoursavior78]

That would be hilarious to be playing a portable cdi on a airplane.

[partylikepacman]

the crazy thing is how advanced that technology was at that time a bunch of outputs on a portable!

[crownroyal]

That little fucker is loud lol

[gtq838]

I have a sega naomi if you want it... I have the virtua tennis cart is well. ripped it out of one of my arcade cabs

[johneymute]

wooaah those porteble machinery,s were super,ultra,mega ahead of it,s time back in 1991,i just can,t believe that the first cdi home console was so huge and heavy like a old vcr.

sure those portebles were extreamly expansive but you got what you pay for,color lcd screens especiaaly the big ones like this were extreamly hard effordeble.

even laptops back then had a b&w screen,nintendo was still stack with their b&r screens for their shitty virtualboy.

[BlueKewne]

DINNER.

[roozie11]

NOT RARE NOT RARE NOT RARE NOT RARE

[MattTheSaiyan]

I happen to like the CD-i. It's a very odd system and I like odd things, and has a few nice games and pleasantly dated multimedia programs. That said.....that "Zelda" game looks like pure garbage and an insult to the real "Zelda" games.

[TyBlood13]

I Have a Star Wars arcade machine too!!!!!

[theonik2006]

They actually made a portable version of this atrocity?

[SamuraiClinton]

In today's world, I think GP2X-sized game systems (or computers of that size) are capable of being way more portable with even way more processing power on storage with 10x+ the storage density than CDs (in which CD-i was made for), and they don't even need moving parts, since SD and USB flash memory are the WAVE OF THE FUTURE.

But I understand if you're the retro enthusiast who idolizes the bulky equipment with moving parts.

And for a portable console to be heavy kinda defeats its purpose

[pancakewafflebacon]

@SamuraiClinton you're missing the point

[emilner5]

The screen looks too dark.

[JohnnyRimShot]

Hand held CDi?

Never heard of it, until now.

Definitely remember the Philliips CDi though. It competed with the 3DO for the title of "Most Expensive Interactive Movie Player CD-ROM Thing" in the mid 90's.

This channel is awesome. So many rare and cool consoles I've never heard of.

You have a 64DD a Jaguar CD AND a Laseractive Sega?

I'm impressed.

[rescuehero942]

I Still have that Tetris Plug N Play Game but it died because of battery leakage

[DemoTensionRekool]

i prefer the 350 screen, a lil'bigger XD

[TheAppleMan100]

7:33 with out that and the cdi we wouldn't have youtube poops

[DeathToTheseWalls]

I would feel like such a BAMF sitting in a public place, playing my CDI 370

[rescuehero942]

Nice Plug & Play TV Controllers you got.

[RUB1XCUBES]

where u buy it?

[Stinger198]

playstation isnt a mistake -_-

[LoticaStudios]

@Stinger198 No, he said that Nintendo's decision of not staying with Sony was a mistake, since it was so popular.

Listen next time. :)

[greekmcboy]

does this guy have every single console in the world?

rare and unrare?

[noideac]

i got that same Atari plug and play joystick. I believe it has 10 games on it (adventure, pong, vollyball, asteroids) just to name a few

[rctwik]

You are sooo rich!

[survivor5000]

pretty sweet watch

[T3hNuggies]

well excuuuuuuse me princess

[baahhhFATALITY11]

Mah Boi!!! This system is NOT what all true warrious strive for!

[moviemovies1]

8:19 MAH BOI!!!

[tenjhotenge]

@moviemovies1 I just wonder what Gannon's up to.

[DoctorJ1337]

Lol the 370 is like a giant gba sp!!!

Great video

[LaenPvP]

Oh god, not Dragon's Lair, that game was so freaking annoying, i remember at Golfland/Sunsplash in Mesa right off the 60 and Country Club use to have the arcade and i thought it was all cool until i tried playing it ;)

Anyways, you're form or near Phoenix right? I grew up all my life in Mesa, use to do the unlimited play at Golfland on halloween for 20$, fun times.

[CaptainAwesomeness34]

found a magnovox 200 CD-I version in a pawn shop for 35 bucks, bt i didnt buy it, did i pass something up?

[xprohitman21x]

@CaptainAwesomeness34 yes its worth a million just kidding idk :)

[Gorlokk666]

@CaptainAwesomeness34 well it goes for no less then $100 so yeah. but not unless you want one. But you couldve also sell it on ebay for like $80 if it was just the system or over $100 if it came with like the controllers and cords.

[CaptainAwesomeness34]

@Gorlokk666 DANG! i didnt think people wold pay that much for a console as crapy as that.

[MrStopmotion88]

Link: The Feces of Evil

[elsickocell]

The first dvd !

[Darkblade83]

I actually own a Goldstar system. Has a flip-top disc drive and is pretty small with a massive power block.

[DanielBMS]

Could these systems be hooked up to a TV?

[mattsprinter]

LG I think made one. Also SONY made another portable version.

[DrStrongBad]

@rescuehero942 *Ridiculous*

[kralle333]

Stop saying okay all the time >_<

[TheOLDSCHOOLreviews]

gangster watch



[myfavoritefriendful]

YOU TUBE POOP LOL

[Gorlokk666]

could i ask where you got one of them or both?

[NixonTech2071]

Youtube poop. That is all.

[animehatchetman]

link the fat of evil just kidding

[toshineon]

I had one of these as a child, too bad I threw it away.

[preziam]

5:37 is a power inverter, i have been using them for years to hook up things like tv's and vid game systems up in my vehicles. Sweet review btw.

[92greenz34]

im sure i get someone who dissagrees here, but the music is actually pretty good in that zelda game for being a crap game in most other aspects

[roozie11]

how meney cdis wher made

[byteusa]

When was it released, how many were sold

[gshowguy]

@byteusa I've heard that there were 570,000 CD-is sold, so, that's not a lot.

[TH3RM4LBroadcasts]

I think I have the same carpet as you.

I'm so jelouse, I want your stuff..

I should've never thrown my xbox boxes away.

[szor1]

I never knew these existed, been gaming since 1976! Thanks for the info.

[RaulBillieJean]

well that intro looks like a dvd better than a nintendo ds

[fmdof]

i always thought nintendo was afraid that sony was getting a little close to them, and they would run off and make their own system, so nintendo decided to team with philps instead, behind sonys back. Sony didn't leave, nintendo did.

[TAz69x]

lol, the portable CD-i's would have blown the mind of my schoolmates back in the 90's

[trillaboycloud]

yeah nintendo made a bad choice, the had an agreement with sony for the cd addon, but nintendo was the one who backed out of the agreement because they didn't think the market was good for them with cd's and kept to the cartridge base, sony already was 80 percent finished with the cd add on so they changed the look and put it out themselves, and since nintendo already had deals with the cd market with companies it caused square to fall out with nintendo i.e final fantasy 7 on playstation

[dave4shmups]

@Gamester81, can you switch between PAL and NTSC on the other versions of the CD-i? Because I watched the HalfBlindGamer's review of Zenith, and it looks really cool, but it was only released in Europe AFIK. Great video!!

[HalfBlindGamer]

@dave4shmups Almost all of the CD-i games are coded to run perfectly in both regions. So Zenith should run just fine on any NTSC system, at least I never heard any complaints on that game. The only game I know that has region issues is Family Games 2.

Most normal players don't have a region switch (there are a ton, so there are probably some that do). The portable ones do though. If you can find it, the 370 is probably the best CD-i to get these days.

[geno344]

GEE, it sure is boring around here...

MAH BOI, this peace is what all true warriors strive FOR!

[thejobloshow]

Is that Link game the only Zelda game that's named after Link?

[ProjectFreelancer64]

They made a handheld!? it was popular enough to have a handheld version!? WHAT THE CRAP. (nice vid BTW)

[HalfBlindGamer]

@ProjectFreelancer64 It's more of a portable version and it wasn't intended as a handheld gaming system at all. CD-i was a pretty successful medium as a business tool. This was more aimed towards easier use in that field.

[superlegoman64]

Though Phillips stopped making it in 1998

[superlegoman64]

Gamster, Technically the Cdi "died" in 1995 or 1996. If you owned a Video game store, what would you choose to sell? A ps1, N64, or a Phillips CDI?

[HalfBlindGamer]

@superlegoman64 CD-i's were made up to 2000 I believe, and were used a good while after that too as a business tool. As a gaming system it died out at around 1998, as a retail device a good while earlier still.

[sinistermoon]

Way cool man! I would totally take one on a plane lol.

[llowrida]

wow a console that ive never seen before thats pretty cool man!

[rejectofsoul24]

i sickens me that magnavox made a CDi

[Gamester811]

Cool video

[GoldenaxeTomi]

Wow i love Neo Geo

Neo Geo is the Best!!!

[Vip3rC4in0022]

ah cant recognize the hidden game

[scruffziller]

Its amazing at how many different things were on the market way back in the day. Bold, innovative designs but they didnt have the development capital to make a large go of it.

[scruffziller]

That would be hilarious if those games that Sean guy sent were worth thousands of dollars. Wow. I didnt know Sony was going to partner with Nintendo.

[RetroGamer3]

I love the way the D-pad is on the wrong side of the systems.

So CD-i.

[HalfBlindGamer]

@RetroGamer3 These units were not intended for games, most people prefer a pointing device (like a mouse) on the right side. For games... it's really awkward though. But as I said, these were not designed for games, but rather for presentations and such. You wouldn't want to hold that like a controller anyway, way to big! They have inputs for a normal (for CD-i...) gamepads too.

[shroyerdave]

Great video. I actually prefer handhelds to home consoles so it's cool to see another handheld that actually plays home console games. Now they just need to work on the Nintendo 64 handheld, and maybe a better handheld SNES than the FC 16 Go.

[MasterKOfficial]

I have the Philips CD-i 250 and 450^^ but the 350 & 370 are much cooler^^ nice review ;)

[28steryan]

I had no idea their was a CD-I handheld let alone 2, great vid' mate.

[HalfBlindGamer]

@28steryan There are like 6 even! If not more, crazy huh? One's actually from Sony even.

[Cypres1]

embarassing shirt

[maddog66]

I'm assuming that you can't move the system to dramatically while playing otherwise it would scratch the cds. Am I correct on that?

[KurosanNitebird]

@shaurz That's in the old show, not the CDi games.

[XxVicistxX]

Could you imagine if sony and nintendo actually joined together way back when, and what it would be today.....The Sony Nintendo PSWii........think about it

[KurosanNitebird]

@XxVicistxX How about the Nintendo Sony GameStation?

[XxVicistxX]

@KurosanNitebird haha i like it

[shaurz]

Well excuuuuuse me, princess!

[jackbrokeheart]

Sweet review, also, will you be reviewing that plug n' play stuff?

[awesomecdiperson]

Get the Apprentice for the cdi. its an amazing 2d platformer

[crazyfooInc]

HOW POPULAR COULD THE CDI HAVE BEEN?!?!? Great find Gamester!

[davidschelhas33]

lol im playing my ds lite right now

[HalfBlindGamer]

@TheBloodyKnife1 CD-i has no copy protection and pretty much all of the games are made to work on both PAL and NTSC systems. So it's really easy to play burned games on it indeed, back then most consumers did not have burners yet.

[thetylife]

Wow....Was the CDi doing that well that they were compelled to make a portable version of it...Good portable CD player back in the day I guess.

[JohnnyMo0dy]

Very interesting stuff. I never heard of these versions.

Keep up the good work.

[laprasking]

Wow, never realized there were so many CDi models. lol.

[rasj1983]

why they put the d-pad in the right....so unconfortable....

[clashed13]

sounds like a dreamcast when the disc spins

[KevinLieber]

I had no idea they made portable versions of this thing! Crazy! Also, I just looked up Zelda's Adventure on eBay and saw it going for $400. Yikes...

[dungeonblaster]

is the d-pad really on the right or is the camera playing tricks??

[HalfBlindGamer]

@dungeonblaster It's really on the right. It's not designed with games in mind though, these units were mainly used to augment business presentations. Much like how we use laptops for presentations these days.