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Chronicle #30: NFL – Instant Replay

The World of CD-i Chronicles #30

NFL – Instant Replay

I am going to review a game not well-known by many of you, especially if you are from Europe called NFL – Instant Replay.
I want to thank you Seventy7 (our website member) for sending me a copy of this title.
NFL means National Football League, but you might know in other-seas, football is in fact American Football… our football, in Europe, is Soccer in USA… Are you still with me…?
I am not a big fan of NFL, to be true, I only knew what is a Touchdown… but after playing this game, believe me, I know much better this fighting game… I mean… this sport game…! 😉

SOME HISTORY:
Produced by CapDisc and published by Philips Media of America (PIMA) in 1995, this is game is licensed by NFL, one of the most famous sports in the USA. CapDisc is also responsible for games like Mad Dog McCree™ and many other games available on CD-i.

Read the full review here.

Chronicle #33: Les Schtroumpfs – Le Téléportaschtroumpf – Review

The World of CD-i Chronicles #33
Les Schtroumpfs – Le téléportaschtroumpf

A few days after we received the covers of Les Schtroumpfs – Le Téléportaschtroumpf from Testsuoshima, we received from Seventy7 with the help of Blazers a copy of the game. The perfect opportunity to review it.

Of course, most of you know them as “The Smurfs” (USA), or “De Smurfen” (The Netherlands).

Read the review here!

Chronicle #8 – Alien Gate – Review

Chronicle #8

With my job and the Covid-19 who took the whole week, I had to make a last minute chronicle!
Oh damn! What the hell?! Hell? Yeah! Hell! Let’s talk about Alien Gate!

SOME HISTORY:
This is not my favourite game, by far, but there is some very cool graphics on it. When Philips was still balancing between the family multimedia player and the gaming introduction, SPC Vision came with a demo of this game and Philips loved it! Very worked graphics for the early 90’s.
This is how Alien Gate came to the Philips CD-i, from a scratch demo made by a new programmer that became a SPC Vision employee.

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Chronicle #9 – The World of CD-i History!

The World of CD-i Chronicle #9

The website celebrate April’s Fools Days 1 year after we came back. But the story is longer than that… let’s have a look together!

Officially launched on the 13th of March 2003, the first ideas dated from 1997, six years earlier. Unfortunately without any computer to create the website, Omegalfa (Portugal) kept all CD-i related stuff over the years and later near the fall of December 2002 started to code the 1st version of the Le Monde du CD-i website…

Keep reading!

Chronicles #2 – Find the best CD-i controller!

Hey guys, this is Omegalfa from The World of CD-i for the 2nd Chronicle!

Now that we have a better knowledge to choose a CD-i player, let’s get a good controller!
You have for sure heard about the remote controllers that comes with a CD-i player:

“Very difficult to play with!”
“Who is the crazy guy who designed this?”
“It is supposed to play games with this?”

In fact, the remote controllers that came with a CD-i player was a little bit difficult to use for gaming, but keep in mind a very important thing, the CD-i wasn’t supposed to be a gaming console but a familial system, where you could watch a movie, check an encyclopaedia, listen music, play games and I pass many other possibilities…
So the main objective of the remote control was to simply move the cursor and click using a button.

Read the full Chronicle right here!

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Chronicles #3 – The different CD-i cases formats

Since the launch of the CD-i back in 1991 in the United States of America and in 1992 in Europe, many CD-i cases formats have been designed by Philips Media. For collectors, it is an important subject do have a complete collection of one or other format or even both. So let’s take a look at them!

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Chronicles #4 – Catalogue Country Code

The World of CD-i Chronicles #4

This chronicle will be a little bit shorter than the others, but not less important, especially when you are a real collector.
We are today going to discuss the reason of a CD-i title being the way it is…
Many of you asked me, how to define an USA or other country releases.

First of all it is important to remember that as a multinational company, Philips, using “Philips Media” label publisher was in different countries, so you will find “Philips Interactive Media of America” (PIMA) for USA releases, “Philips Media Iberica” for Portugal and Spain, “Philips Media France”, “Philips Media Italia”, etc…
Each of them will publish regional titles with Philips consent. Doing this, each titles published will get a catalogue number, and each catalogue number will get a regional number, so all titles will be easily recognized.

To be more clear and specific about this, here is what you need to do if you want to purchase titles from an unique country/language or more than one country.

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