Interview Keith Lehman and Paul Day from Laser Lords

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CD-i Queen might be for sure the biggest Laser Lords fan I meet in my life.
In the last year, she was lucky enough to get in contact with Keith Lehman and Paul Day, two Spinnaker employees who worked on the production of the game and answered an interview.

She (CD-i Queen) is planing to make an audio version of this interview in the future. She can be contacted on Twitter, Twitch and YouTube.

I hope you all enjoy reading my interview as much as I enjoyed coming up with the questions.

CDIQUEEN: Questions will be shown in black.
KEITH: Answers will be shown in blue.
PAUL: Answers will be shown in red.

Read the full interview here.


Return to CyberCity BETA version

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Last week, we’ve got a very exciting comment on our YouTube channel on our Escape from CyberCity Full Play.
Justin from Dallas (Texas – USA) saying this:

“I just found a CD case at the thrift store titled RETURN TO CYBERCITY. Inside is a burned disc labelled the same as the title as well as ‘BETA 95.03.17 for PC-REALMAGIC’ Does anyone know if a sequel was even planned? WTF is this thing?”

Yes, indeed, a sequel was planned, and we even have some pictures of the artwork of this Return to CyberCity sequel has been shown on different CD-i related magazines.

I answered him, and he very kindly contacted me back by email… with some pictures!

This is the 1st time I see a BETA disc about it. It is on his way to Hidden Palace for preservation, and I am awaiting to see if I can get a copy of it to test and take some screenshots or even a video of gameplay.
It was already known Fathom Pictures was behind this work, as it is the same company who made Escape from CyberCity.
As the CD label says, it is a PC version and needs an MPEG playback card to run under a Windows 3.1 OS.

The question is: Does a complete PC version has been published? As far as I know, no. But this BETA was also unknown to me, so… we never know…

With a physical copy, we will try to see if a reverse engineering is possible to get a CD-i version of it.

Take a look at those pictures from Return to CyberCity artwork I found in one of my many old HDD 😉

Take a look at the similarities between the BETA cover and the artwork pictures:

You can see Fathom Pictures at the bottom right side, and “CyberCity” letter type is the same.

Even if this is a PC version, this is a very exciting moment for the CD-i Community!
Thank you very much Justin!


High Scores competition – Steel Machine

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Next game for the High Scores challenge.
Thank you and congratulations for the winners on Hotel Mario™!
We’ve got a new challenger, Derio (Basque Country – Spain), he got directly access to the TOP 5 with his score! You can check the result here.

For August, let’s play Steel Machine!

Take a picture of your High-Scores until you lost all your lives, without using any Continuous!

NOTE:
Independently of the language version of the game, we accept all High Scores.
You can join the competition at any moment, even if you never sent us any scores before!
The objective is to play games you use to place in your showcase, use your gamepads, give something to eat to your CD-i player and of course, enjoy again playing interactive games just like in the 90’s.

Good luck!


High Scores competition – Hotel Mario™

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We are back with another game for the High Score competition.
We’ve got some problems during June and weren’t able to update the website.

Congratulations for the ones who joined us on Thunder in Paradise™ in May! You can check the result here.

For July, give a try playing Hotel Mario™ and show us what you are able to do!
No worries, you don’t need to reach the last Hotel, a low score can be enough to access the Top 5!

Play until you lost all your lives, without using any continuous.

Take a picture of your High-Scores until you lost all your lives, without using any Continuous!

Let’s get some spaghetti!

NOTE:
Independently of the language version of the game, we accept all High Scores.
You can join the competition at any moment, even if you never sent us any scores before!
The objective is to play games you use to place in your showcase, use your gamepads, give something to eat to your CD-i player and of course, enjoy again playing interactive games just like in the 90’s.

Good luck!


New video on YouTube dedicated to the CD-i !

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Check out the Youtube video by Gunhed TV, a video dedicated to the Philips CD-i, in french with 2H30 long! English subtitles might be added soon.
He uses a very special humor, pretty cool on this video.

When I discover his work, two years ago, I sent a mail asking if he knew the Philips CD-i. He said yes… That was the beginning of our exchange around this system. I sent him the French magazines Generation CD-i so he could use to create videos using them. I scanned then put to Abandownware.

When I knew he was at the Hedg’convention at Villejuif in France, I came with a Philips CD-i 450 series and with some titles and offered to him this stuff.
A few months ago, he wrote the script… be sure to watch the video!
@Olivier