CDI Episode 26: Rise of the Robots

Finally it's here! I know some of your were waiting for this one for a long while, but here it is. One of the worst, overhyped games EVER... for the CD-i! Can that format save it from the utter suckage label it already has? Well let's have a look shall we?

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[Theowne]

Was the CDI less powerful than the Super Nintendo? It looks like the Super Nintendo version was actually much smoother and integrated. Perhaps the team simply put more effort into that one.

[HalfBlindGamer]

@Theowne The CD-i's main strength lay in its capability to play full screen MPEG movies and redbook audio. When it comes down to pure processing power, it was extremely weak. It was especially bad at rendering any actual graphics that were not a movie, it had very limited video memory and most of the games needed some trickery to make even the most basic things possible, like horizontal scrolling for example.

[Theowne]

@HalfBlindGamer I guess I keep getting CDI and 3DO mixed up. Interesting that the wiki page describes the CDI as a media player first, and a console second....well, anyways, take it as a compliment that I'm watching all your videos while clearly knowing nothing about the CDi.

[HalfBlindGamer]

@Theowne The CD-i was primarily intended as a media player, games were just an afterthought (initially). This also explains why it lacks any real power, it just wasn't meant to be a console in its design (Philips didn't think there was a market for that). After its release, the games sold best, and that's when they kind of changed their strategy and I bet they regretted their limited view back then. Just look at how well the PS1 did, which can be seen as sort of a successor of the CD-i.

[Rdude60]

Sebastiaan, do you have the music from this game available? Since this pretty was the best off this game, and you made the Cd-i tetris music availble :). And to be honest, the game was pretty fun back when I was 6 :P who cared about special attacks back then lol. SPAM BUTTONZZZ@@. For some reason we only got multiplayer working a few times, and the multiplayer was pretty cool. Mainly cuz the other chars have special moves.

... nonetheless I agree that this game was kinda suckish lolol.

[HalfBlindGamer]

@Rdude60 Sorry, I do not have the music for this game. Once I hope to get back to ripping some CD-i music from games, as there is some great music to be had for sure. For now, I don't have the time for it though (it's pretty time intensive, depending on the game).

[jeystonemusic]

Rise of the Robots wasn't a game..it was a clever scam

[SRZsmack]

I WANT THE SOUNDTRACK!!!! PLEASE RIP AND MAKE ONE~!!!!

[vokaber1DMLUVBTKMVK]

@SRZsmack you're not the only one!! -=]

[Psychlonic]

Too bad there's not enough interest in something like a RotR MUGEN remake where the controls and moves aren't shit. The graphics were there, the music was there (in some of them), the story was capable of being half-way decent, rip all of that shit and give them a better array of moves with instant control response and the game would be boss.

[thepirategamerboy12]

There is one extra feature when u have a dvc inserted, You get an option to use just sound effects and turn off the music, With no dvc, You can not turn off the music and have sound effects. You can only have music. Wow! (Not)