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Queensland Australia’s Tourism on CD-i

Queensland – Australia’s Sunshine State takes you to this Australian State and explores the diversity of its six major tourism regions. It includes:

  • Gold Coast
  • Outback Queensland
  • Far North Queensland
  • North Queensland
  • Central Queensland
  • South East Queensland

From clear blue seas surrounding the great barrier reef to the lush rainforests and vibrants cities, Queensland will thrill you!

We can’t confirm yet the year of the release of this title as nothing in indicated on the covers, booklet, nor on the CD of even on the final title credits (this title do not have a credits screen). But we can confirm it has been produced and published by Disctonics, and it do require s a Digital Video Cartridge to be played.
A considerable amount of full screen video footage is available on it.
To define the year release, we should use Isobuster or dump it, but we believe it is around 1994.

Take a look at the Disc Type… it says Data Storage, but in fact it is a more a Video-CD title.
Why? Because when we used the LG GDI 700M CD-i player, it shows VCD on the display.
As I do not own this title, I can’t confirm more than this.

It includes the single Live it up in Queensland from Greville Patterson, that also can be purchased separately as Audio-CD. Listen to this single here:

Queensland – Australia’s Sunshine State is so far the only CD-i title published in Australia.
Do you know or have Australian title?

Pictures credits to Alan_CDiZone.


Golgo 13 – The Review of the most wanted Japanese game.

Let’s talk about one the rarest CD-i game you can find out there, Golgo 13, a Japanese title published by Japan Interactive Media (JIM) back in 1992. It is completely in Japanese and its owner, Alan_CDiZone (one of the biggest CD-i collector I know) wrote this review for The World of CD-i.
Hopefully our Community is big enough to find someone able to read Japanese, I am talking about VAN-Gluon of course! A living legend!

Golgo 13 – Review

A big shoutout for them!
Thank you both for your excellent work!


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Morshu’s pins

People keep saying CD-i isn’t good, the truth is they just can’t stop talking about it.
People are still interested into that kind of stuff.

Those are pins from “Link – The Faces of Evil” on CD-i. Morshu, here is staring with 3 different positions taken from the cut scenes where he asks if you need a rope, a lamp oil or some bombs.

Personally I’m not supporting this kind of things because it’s just to make fun of it.
Still, it seams to be quality.
Made by @LemonCremeS.

Still, many collectors will want to have it.

Thank you Dopply for sharing this with us.


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…