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Dodge training title for employees

 

This double disc professional title poped-up on ebay this week for the insane price of 10,000$. Yes, it is true, no extra zeros on it…

This is one of the reasons, some unknown titles will never be tested or preserved. This is pure speculation get the bigger profit as possible.

You will tell me, everyone can sell to the price he wants, he owns the title, he decide what to do. Look at me for example… I want to go to Japan with my family for 50€ each… one thing is what I want, and one thing is what is real.

If having a complete CD-i collection is already difficult due to the incredibly large variety of titles, with prices like this, or even with prices around the 500$ and 1000$, maybe it isn’t bad idea to just look at the pictures on the internet…

Sorry about that, it is just me talking to myself…

Let’s go back to the business, 1997 Dodge Product Preview. We are talking about double CD used by Dodge for the sellers training, just many other companies did on CD-i.

Videos was shown and the employees had to answer questions.

After completing it, each employee get points. Those points was stored under their profiles stored in the CD-i player memory, this way, he could try to get a better scoring.

Dodge employees learn more about the 1997 Dodge cars, caravans and engineering  features on disc 1, and about trucks on disc 2.

It is about the 1997 Dodge world, but it has been made in 1996 by Chrysler Interactive Training.

Finally, thank you Sixtersfan105 for letting us know about it on ebay, and thank you to all preservationists that, I hope will never let us down, even with prices like this one…


Latest Addition – September 2021

40 new additions, including new titles added on the database and new cover scans. We hope you will enjoy them.

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Catalogue numbers confusion and titles languages mixed up!

Our good friend Retroman called me last day and showed me something that made a tilt in my mind…
Look at those two What’s That Bird? copies and discs. Both have the same catalogue number 8100016.
The one on the left just says “What’s that bird?” and the other on the right says “What’s that bird? – Britain and Europe”.
When we look at the discs, the one from the left says “What’s that bird? Europa” and the one from the right keep saying the same as the cover.

 

Now, let’s take a closer look at the disc from the left one…
We have an European catalogue number (8100016), an English title (What’s that bird?), a Dutch/German/Spanish (?) name (Europa) and all the copyrights texts are in French. What a confusion…

Retroman did put the disc on his CD-i player and both titles are exactly the same, 5 languages selection (French English, German, Italian and Spanish). So what happened with other titles out there, happened also here. The same version has been used for different countries.
The confusion here is about “Europa”. In 1992, Philips Media affiliates in Europe was emerging, the way how catalogue numbers should be given might still not be clear at that time, and being a multi-language one, “Europa” might be to embrace more than one country.

This discussion came a few days before MrMii6 and Seventy7 tagged me in the Discord server about Link™ – The Faces of Evil cover variant, using the English title for the Dutch version (with Dutch catalogue number).

I have another title for you that is Dutch that uses the European catalogue number, Body Contour.
But in this case, both discs (this is a double disc title) and the booklet, are using the Dutch catalogue numbers.

Another example are the Video-CD’s, you can easily find this kind of format over the internet, and many of them are subtitled for other languages.
Retroman also showed me one title from of his enormous Video-CD collection, Fine Things, an English language with Dutch subtitles.
This movie is using an European catalogue number (810****) instead of a Dutch one (814****).


Felix the Cat – Review

Thanks to Steep Haywire, without his charity and good graces the world would never be able to play this unreleased CD-i title! Not only did he share it with us, but he jumped through all of the hoops to try to get the best dump possible.
THANK YOU Steep Haywire!!

Also a Very Special Thanks to Seventy7 and his Preserve CD-i website for sharing every time with us titles in first hand.

Created by EMG Publishing, this game actually never got released to CD-i but Philips Media did gave the catalogue number 8100250 to the title, so it was meant to be released in 1995, but for some reason didn’t make it. Only the PC-CDROM got published by Philips Media in the same year, still a CD-i prototype version exists but was very well kept!
The Adaptation for CD-i was in charge by Gary McGroarty and the CD-i programmer was David Armstrong.
The complete game’s name is Felix the Cat’s Giant Electronic Comic Book.

Read the complete review!


Website Mega Improvement

The website is being improved at this moment (and since a few weeks now).
Slowly you will see some “little” changes that will definitely blowup the way you use to surf  over the site for your searches. I am sure many of you have already noticed some changes…

This will take at least 4 months to conclude… but you can be sure you will enjoy it!
We will announce when it will be finished. For now, you will still be able to visit the website as normal.