News – The World of CD-i

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!

New video on YouTube dedicated to the CD-i !

Check out the Youtube video by Gunhed TV, a video dedicated to the Philips CD-i, in french with 2H30 long! English subtitles might be added soon.
He uses a very special humor, pretty cool on this video.

When I discover his work, two years ago, I sent a mail asking if he knew the Philips CD-i. He said yes… That was the beginning of our exchange around this system. I sent him the French magazines Generation CD-i so he could use to create videos using them. I scanned then put to Abandownware.

When I knew he was at the Hedg’convention at Villejuif in France, I came with a Philips CD-i 450 series and with some titles and offered to him this stuff.
A few months ago, he wrote the script… be sure to watch the video!
@Olivier

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