Philips CD-I Infomercial
Holy, crap this is both bad
and good. I never came across this
infomercial back in the 90s, but I would have loved it. The games look really horrible, but I can see
what they were going for.
I love how the commercial
keeps using the word (Interactive).
Looking at the Wiki page, Sony
even developed CD-IS called Green Book.
It was a CD format used on the CDs in the CD-I.
Plus, Philips had the rights
to Nintendo characters after they attempted to develop a CD add-on to the SNES called the
SNES-CD. The games were leftover rights from that scrapped deal between
Philips and Nintendo. Sony’s
Playstation would also emerge out of this twisted history too.
The Biggest problem with the CD-I was the price
tag. It went for 700 at launch. Plus, the Sega CD add-on sold better than
the CD-I. And, that’s saying a lot. I vaguely remember reading about this game
system back in the day.
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