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Leonardo Da Vinci 500 years death celebrating

The world is celebrating 500 years after the death of a Great Master.
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was a painter, architect, inventor, and student of all things scientific.
Born in Italy (Vinci) and died in France (Clos-Lucé). He past his all life in investing everything around him and invents many things that only today we able to reproduce.
His most famous work is La Gioconda, best known as Mona Lisa.

Why am I talking about him? What Leonardo Da Vinci has to see with CD-i?
EVERYTHING of course!
As an inventor, just like Philips, he was always ahead of its time, just like CD-i was.

Part of his work was also involved into the human anatomy, and this is why we want to celebrate the 500 years of his death with The Human Body, a Multimedia CD-i title based on Leonardo Da Vinci work, it will show you everything you need to know about the most complex and perfect mechanism in the universe.

Special thanks to Marco Parisio Java for the title covers.

Litil Divil™ 2

The unreleased titles is a very interesting subject. While we was “out” of the scene and preparing our return, we made a lot of research. From this research came Gremlin Interactive (bought by Infogrames). This is a long way after an interview we’ll publish this year. This leads us to an unreleased CD-i title, Litil Divil™ 2.

You can find Phil Plunkett’s artwork here.

More Unreleased CD-i titles…

Continuing in the YouTube videos under the CD-i Unreleased titles, here is a very good overview of several titles.
This is from YouTuber Jenovi who made some researches from several places, including The BlackMoon Project and Interactive Dreams.
In this video he speaks about the following titles:
The Apprentice 2; Battle Chess; The Lost Vikings; Breaker; Scramble; Dead End; Discworld; Microcosm; Space Ranger; Super Mario Wacky Worlds; Mario Takes America; Urban Murderfiles – Episode 2 New Jersey and Voyeur™ 2.

New Addition – Cathédrales Gothiques d’Europe

Here is another extremely rare French title, Cathédrales Gothiques d’Europe.
Our member AretiusRGC shared it with us on Philips/Magnavox CD-i Collectors Club Facebbok group. He found it on a magazine dedicated to sell CD-i titles.

We received pictures of this title and we have also added the title on the database of The World of CD-i.

In this title, you will be able to discover pictures, information and shorts videos about 31 European cathedrals from many cities:
Albi, Amiens, Anvers, Auxerre, Barcelona, Beauvais, Bouges, Bruges, Burgos, Canterbury, Carcassonne, Chartres, Cologne, Ely, Fribourg, Gérone, Leon, Lyon, Milan, Noyon, Orvieto, Paris, Poitiers, Prague, Reims, Rouen, Saint-Denis, Senlis, Sienna, Strasbourg, Toledo, Toulouse, Vienna, Wells and York.

New Addition – The ACT College Search 92

This is not everyday you will see this title, even less for sell…

I am talking about The ACT College Search 92. Only sold in the 2 first years pf CD-i existence, an US exclusive title than will help American students to find the right college for there needs.

Published in 1992 by PIMA and released by CapDisc And Amarican College Testing (ACT).

Thanks again to Blazers who posted on our forum pictures, we can now have a detailed vision of one of the rarest CD-i title, only available on long box size.

The ACT College Search disc allows students to identify the colleges that meet their needs is this comprehensive interactive four of the four-year colleges in the United States.
You can also search colleges by:
– Location
– Size
– Student life
– Affiliation
– Tuition
– Admission selectivity
– Majors
– Settings.
You will view photographs and find detailed information for four-year colleges in these areas:
– Admissions Requirements
– Activities available
– Housing
– Cost and financial aid
– Student body profile
– Sports
– Programs of study
– Special programs and services

Your selection can be stored for easy access to review and compare schools. When you have identified a list of schools that meet your profile needs, the Next Step section will provide advice to help you make your final decisions and complete the admissions process.

New CD-i website!

The CD-i Completionist is a website run by Dante (aka alarmsoundslikewhoop), the man who wants to review every single games on the system!
A brilliant initiative from a newbie on the CD-i scene but already a lover of the system!
He is from Georgia (USA) and uses his CD-i 220 model to test and write the reviews.

Be sure check it!

Many are already do and much more are upcoming!
The 7th Guest
Alice in Wonderland
Christmas Country
Dark Castle
Dragon’s Lair
Inca
Jeopardy!
Link: The Faces of Evil
Litil Divil
Mad Dog McCree
Mega Maze
Merlin’s Apprentice
Monty Python’s Invasion from the Planet Skyron
Name That Tune
Pinball
Tetris
Who Shot Johnny Rock?

Congratulation and keep the good work!

New Title Addition – Swiss Riviera

Swiss Riviera or “La Riviera Vaudoise” in Swiss CD-i title for tourists.
This title in the first one form an unknown number guides collection.
We still can’t define it is a free disc from a Magazine, or if it was a gift from the Swiss National Tourist Office.
You already know the other Swiss title Swiss Click, but both titles haven’t anything to see between them.
The person responsible for the title, Pierre Georges Penel, died in 2003 aged 56. We are still looking a way to contact other people who worked in this title to define if more CD-i titles are included in this guide collection.

About this specific disc, as told before, this is a pure touristic title about a specific Swiss region. The other titles may talk about other Swiss regions (if they do exist).
You can choose between French, English, German and Italian right at the start before the main menu.

There are a lot of videos, even if no Digital Video Cartridge is needed, but they are all windowed and pretty small.
All you need to know about the Swiss Riviera is right here! Restaurants, Hotels, what to visit, etc…
Tons of pictures, videos and audio will help you to prepare your next travel to this Swiss area.

Thanks to digger2 (our website member) who sent the original copy to us, we will soon make an exclusive video of this title.

New titles addition!

We have added new titles on our data base:

CBR – Theorie Examen – Demo Disk
Megapool TV-Wandpresentatie
ERM Produkt Catalogus #3
Free Gold Club Disk
Depression – The Search for the NaSSA
Bilinçli Seçim
Annual Report 1992/1993
Muziek in Economie

Enjoy!

Nobelia Demo v0.1 free download

Nobelia, the latest CD-i homebrew game by TwBurn is now available for download!
You will enjoy for sure this incredible game! And the music… oh the music…
Just try and be delighted!

Read TwBurn interview here.
Get more info about the game here.
TwBurn GitHub page.

Download the BIN/CUE Demo 0.1 (09-05-2021)
(Burn it on a CD-R and play on your CD-i player)
Play the 4 levels of the demo!

Controls

Up/Down/Left/Right

Move character

Button 1

Start game on titlescreen

Place bomb (tile in front of you needs to be empty)

Activate chests/switches

Restart level after death

Button 2

Detonate remote bombs (when you have this powerup)

Resurrect after death (debug option)

Known Issues

Game might not (correctly) run on all NTSC machines
There is game/audio stutter in some cases, for example after destroying objects with a bomb or opening chests
Titlescreen is unfinished, there is no “exit” function

Othello & Mega Maze catalogue numbers

If you take a closer look at both discs calatogue numbers, you will see they match. But as they are completely different titles, this can’t happen as Philips Media always gave unique numbers for each titles.
But there is more… Othello® and Mega Maze shares the same number twice.

Othello – Testing Phase 1 uses 8100083 (1993/11/26)
Mega Maze final release uses 8100083 (1993/09/13)

Mega Maze – Testing Phase 1 uses 8100163 (1993/03/04)
Othello® final release uses 8100163 (1993/??/??)

We will assume the final release title as the correct catalogue number.

This is not the first time we saw those kind of errors, look here.
Typo from Philips Media? A change of catalogue number in the middle of the way?
That is not a problem as we saw it and defined how to pass through this issue.

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