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International Collector’s Trust & Help!

Back in December 2020, Blazers and Seventy7 contacted me about a Portuguese guy selling his little but good collection. I was already aware about this sell, but as I already owned all the titles, I let it go (available since September).

I sent to Blazers a picture with this Arte Rupestre do Vale do Côa and the Iberoamerica set, and of course, he thought I jumped into this before him to buy them. No no no… I am not this kind of person…

I already owned them since a few years but never shown them before (I only recently shown a little part of my collection).

Blazers and Seventy7 asked me if I could make the deal come true:
I was going to buy it here in Portugal, verify the material conditions, and then, send it to overseas.

It took some weeks until I reached a deal with the seller about the price and custom costs, but everything gone right.

I had to repair some stuff including a gamepad with broken contacts.
A few weeks later Seventy7 received the package in safety.

I asked nothing in return, they needed help to get some stuff, I was available and made it come true.

I even added 6 Video-CD’s as gift from my personal collection.

I am really happy for them and I can’t forget the good things they are doing for our community and the preference they give to The World of CD-i.

Thank you guys!


CD-i Live Streaming on YouTube

Today at 07.00pm (London & Lis bon), 08.00pm (Paris & Berlin) @WrestlesGaming and @RetroRGB are going to stream live about our beloved Philips CD-i on YouTube.

Live play of many games including Peacekeeper Gun titles!

Don’t miss it!

Watch here!


REVIEW – Iberoamerica (4 titles)


I really enjoy writing reviews, but when we are talking about different kind of titles, especially Multimedia ones, the need to share my experience with all of you is even bigger.

It took me two complete weeks to write it as we are talking about 4 titles. Tons of screenshots and image edition has been released to give you the best overview as possible of this very rare complete set of 4 titles.
I want you to feel just like you was playing the title yourself.

I was going crazy (literally) with those 4 titles… tons of screenshots and editing… which one is from which title… I don’t think I will review again 4 titles at the same time!

About them, many of you already know the existence of Iberoamerica – 500 Años Despues (500 Years After), this is a set of 4 titles sold separately:
Iberoamerica – Descubra un Continente
Iberoamerica – Descubra su Historia
Iberoamerica – Huellas del Futuro
Iberoamerica – Arte y Cultura Iberoamericana

This is a Spanish titles set produced by Sociedad Estatal Quinto Centenario and published by Philips Media Iberica in 1992.

Read it right here!


CD-i 205 Japanese player and more…

It only could be him… Blazers…
Once again he came to our forum and rubbed it in our face his new entry into his personal collection.
A lot from Japan that includes a wallet with a CD-i player used to be rented (just like the ones in Europe) and many Japanese titles.

Looking at this lot, a particular title jumped into our eyes (and Blazers eyes), we are talking about Horoscope, from 1994. We still have to test it to define if it needs the DVC or not.

Besides this particular title, let’s take a look at the CD-i player, we are talking about a Japanese 205/11 model, using 100V power suply (normal to Japan). The CD-i 205 was the 1st model launched in Europe in 1992 so this model variant is from 1992 or 1993, made in Belgium and sold in Japan by Marantz (Philips bought Marantz in the 80’s).

We can see a difference in the DVC, usually you would read “Digital Video Cartridge for CD-i players”, but on this one you can read:
“This apparatus has been assembled with piece parts from the trial-run and thus not intended for measurement as it don’t meet the requirements of the specifications“.
Knowing that, we can define this specific player was not meant to be sold to public, or at least, the DVC came from the Philips testing department.
Now, Blazers needs to try the 205/11 with this specific DVC and verify if all titles that do need the Cartridge will work perfectly (I do believe so).

If in the USA the CD-i was in the beginning known as “The Imagination Machine”, then in the Japanese market, it was known as “The Super Home Media”.

Thank you Blazers 😉


Review – Arte Rupestre do Vale do Côa

We have in our possession since many years an absolute rarity title called Arte Rupestre no Vale do Côa.
This is a Portuguese commissioned and published by IPPAR (Instituto Português do Património Arquitectónico e Arqueológico) in 1995, a governmental institute and CITI (Centro de Investigação para Tecnologias Interactivas) was the selected company to make it to show in an interactive way Rock Art found in the Foz Côa Valley that you can discover here: Foz Coa Valley UNESCO World Heritage.

Read the article here.