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The 7th Guest

Category Game
Genre Adventure
Players 1
DVC Yes
Producer Virgin
Publisher Philips Media
Year 1993
Catalogue # 8110040 (Europe)
8120083 (France)
8130105 (Germany)
8140076 (The Netherlands)
3106902522 (USA)
EAN 8712581100407 (Europe)
8712581200831 (France)
8712581301057 (Germany)
731069025221 (USA)
Discs  2
Videos
Screenshots
Covers


Controller Gamepad
Tips & tricks The 7th Guest – Tips
Description A stunning interactive drama of mystery and intrigue… You don’t know you’re in the mansion of the long-gone master toy maker, but you do nkow that you’re not alone…

The 7th Guest on CD-i promises to keep you on the edge of your seat with a combination of vivid imagery, special effects and cinematic shocks. The 7th Guest features CD-i Digital Video, terrifyingly real virtual environments, haunted rooms to explore – complete with live actors – bizarre puzzles to solve, games to play and a chilling soundtrack.

Remarks 2 versions of the game was realised:
– The 1st one only works perfectly with the 1st DVC version.
– The 2nd one works perfectly with both DVC versions.
Check this great article from RetroStuff
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The 7th Guest – Testing Phase 1

Category Game
Genre Testing – Phase 1
Players 1
DVC Yes
Producer Virgin
Publisher Philips Media
Year 1993
Catalogue # 8110040 (Europe)
EAN
Discs  2
Videos
Screenshots
Covers
Controller Gamepad
Tips & tricks The 7th Guest – Tips
Description
Remarks Label:
The 7th Guest – 1.13 – 14-04-94There is a misunderstanding about the released date.
The final version came out in 1993.
A picture of the disc may help.
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The 7th Guest – Tips


The 7th Guest

Scene select:
Save a game under the name “badger”.
You can select the chattering teeth in one of the corners of the screen.
Press an action button to see an overview of all scenes of the game to which you can jump instantaneously.


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The ACT College Search 92

Category Multimedia
Genre School
Players N/A
DVC No
Producer American College Testing (ACT) & CapDisc
Publisher Philips Media
Year 1992
Catalogue # 310690068-2 (USA)
EAN 731069006824 (USA)
Discs 1
Videos
Screenshots
Covers


Controller Remote
Description 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 servicesYour 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.
Remarks
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The Adventure of the Space Ship Beagle

Category Game
Genre
Players 1
DVC No
Producer Denshi Media Services
Publisher Denshi Media Services
Year 1990
Catalogue #
EAN
Discs 1
Videos
Screenshots
Covers
Controller Gamepad
Tips & tricks
Description
Remarks
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The Amsterdam Stock Exchange Interactive

Category Professional
Genre Information
Players N/A
DVC Yes
Producer Explainer Interactive
Publisher
Year
Catalogue #
EAN
Discs 1
Videos
Screenshots
Covers
Controller Remote
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The Apprentice

Category Game
Genre Platform
Players 1
DVC Optional
Producer The Vision Factory
Publisher Philips Media Benelux
Year 1994
Catalogue # 8100199 (Europe) – English
8100239 (Europe) – French, Italian & Dutch
8100244 (Europe) – Portuguese & Spanish
31069001672 (USA)
EAN 8712581001995 (Europe)
8712581002442 (Iberia)
7310690016724 (USA)
Discs  1
Videos
Screenshots













Covers

Controller Gamepad
Tips & tricks The Apprentice – Tips
Description As Marvin, the apprentice of the great wizard Gandorf S. Wandburner III, you’ve not been having a good week. You undertake all the dangerous tasks that the wizard cannot be botherred to do himself. This platform game is the story of a week in your life.
Remarks This is a CD-i Ready disc.
It will play on your CD-i player and on any Audio CD player as well.
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Downloads Shikotei’s free Windows version.
More info right here.
Credits Seventy7 (European catalogue number)

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The Apprentice – Review


The Apprentice

The Apprentice is for sure one of the absolutely best games available on CD-i, this is a must have and a must play title!
This platformer game from The Vision Factory (1994)  and published by Philips Media is graphically perfect, with amazing animations!


The story
You are Marvin, the apprentice of the castle’s sorcerer, and you will play 1 week in Marvin’s live and will make all sorcerer’s dirty work… The sorcerer will always find things for you to do, and you will do them always with a high level of joy! Find a book, find again the same book that falls into a well, find the sorcerer’s cat, get some ice cubes for the sorcerer’s drink, find the sorcerer’s crow and find the sorcerer’s teddy bear!

The game
This game is full of fun, but also extremely hard!! With bosses to defeat at the of each levels!

6 levels with 3 stages each, so 18 stages in total, plus all 6 bosses and bonus stages after defeating all bosses!
Hours and hours of fun in this amazing jewel!

Take a look at the screenshots!

Level 1 + Boss



Level 2 + Boss


Level 3 + Boss


Level 4 + Boss


Level 5 + Boss


Level 6 + Boss


You have 10 minutes to reach the end of each stages, and 1 or 2 check points are available to avoid starting from the very start of the one you are playing. In most part of the levels you go from the bottom to the top, except for level 2, were you start from the top and go to the bottom,as you are inside a well.
You use button 1 to JUMP and button 2 to FIRE. Using buttons 1+2 will PAUSE the game and let you decide if you want to quite the game.

A very smooth game, easy to control the character and no bugs at all, like in some games a character fall when he is still on the platform because of 1 or 2 pixels… This DO NOT APPEND here… a perfect game…!

As I said, the game is very hard. At the beginning it is quite easy, but it is just to let you get some experience and skills… The more you continue into the levels and stages, the harder its becomes! All stages are beautifully designed and calculated to be smoothly played.

After all 3 stages of each levels, you will reach a boss, and all of them are hard to defeat, but all of them have a trick 😉
And after defeating a boss, you will reach a Bonus Stage, where you can win an extra life collecting letters M-A-G-I-C.


The game features a Save Game option what is great! and only use a very small percentage of the CD-i system memory, a Hall of Fame is also showing the 20 high scores and a Demo mode that activate himself after a few moment.



I also must talk about the the fact this is also a CD-i Ready title format. For the ones that still don’t know what is a CD-i Ready disc, let me explain.
This is a format designed by Philips in the mid 90’s and is easily recognizable as after inserting the disc into your CD-i player, a “Play Audio” besides the “Play CD-i”.
On this special type of CD-i, the CD-i data track is stored in pause sectors preceding the track 1. That way it’s possible to play a CD-i on any Audio-CD player, including your car CD player!

This game uses a Digital Video Cartridge (DVC), but it is just optional. What does it mean? It means you can play the game without a DVC, but you will not be able to listen the Sound FX of the game. Only the background music.

Another important point to talk about is the fact CD-i Emulator has been developed by one of the guys who worked on the game 😉

Tips & Tricks
This part is awesome! Tons and tons of cheat codes!

Level select:
To enable the level select, hold down button 2 on the title screen and press Up, Up, Down, Down, Right, Right, Left, Left.
You will also get options for invincibility and choose the number of lives (if invincibility is set as off).


Marvinvaders Mini-game:
To play the “Marvinvaders2 mini-game, hold down the button 2 on the title screen and press:
Up, Right, Down, Left, Up, Down, Left, Right.


How to defeat all boss:
Boss 1:
Go to the second level, shoot, avoid projectiles, jump and go down.
Again more times.

Boss 2:
Shoot the tentaculs until the bandage appear.
Don’t forget to avoid fish-bones going up, to left and right.

Boss 3:
Go up, stay on the border and shoot jumping to avoid missiles and bombs fragments.

Boss 4:
Go up as you can, shoot until the seal move buttock to shoot the snow ball.
Go down 2 levels back, center and go up again.
Beware of stalactites falling.

Boss 5:
Shoot on the string of the bell always moving from the left to the right to avoid the bird and the spider.

Boss 6:
You must shoot the head.
The most difficult is to destroy the arrows (2 shoots for 1).

Nudalities:
At the game over screen, hold the button 2, and input the following codes to show special animations. These codes must be entered before Marvin stops walking across the screen.

Animality 1 – Up, Right, Down, and Left.


Animality 2 – Up, Left, Down, and Right.


Fatality – Down, Right, Left, Left


Nudality 1 – Right, Right, Down, Left, Up, and Up.


Nudality 2 – Left, Left, Down, Right, Up, and Up.


Nudality 3 – Right, Left, Right, Left, Down, and Up.


Nudality 4 – Left, Right, Left, Right, Down, and Up.


Nudality 5 – Down, Down, Right, Up, Up, and Left.



Good Points:
– 1 player.
– Any addicted gamer will love this game, a must have in your collection!
– DVC optional (to get Specail FX).
– CD-i Ready disc playable on any Audio-CD player.
– Great music
– Lot of cheat codes.
– Easy character control.
– Beautiful graphics.
– Fully compatible with the latest version of CD-i Emulator.

Bad Points:
– Who dares…

EVULUATION:
Graphics 10/10
Music 10/10
Gameplay 10/10
TOTAL 10/10

Contact: omegalfa@theworldofcdi.com
Twitter: @omegalfapt

Written by omegalfa, © 10/04/2020


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The Apprentice – Testing Phase

Category Game
Genre Testing Phase
Players 1
DVC Optional
Producer The Vision Factory
Publisher Philips Media Benelux
Year 1994
Catalogue # 8100199 (Europe)
EAN
Discs  1
Videos
Screenshots
Covers
Controller Gamepad
Tips & tricks
Description
Remarks Label:
The Apprentice – 1.05 – 20-10-94
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The Apprentice – Tips

The Apprentice

Level select:
To enable the level select, hold down button 2 on the title screen and press Up, Up, Down, Down, Right, Right, Left, Left.

 

Marvinvaders Mini-game:
To play the “Marvinvaders2 mini-game, hold down the button 2 on the title screen and press Up, Right, Down, Left, Up, Down, Left, Right.

 

How to defeat all boss:
Boss 1:
Go to the second level, shoot, avoid projectiles, jump and go down.
Again more times.

Boss 2:
Shoot the tentaculs until the bandage appear.
Don’t forget to avoid fish-bones going up, to left and right.

Boss 3:
Go up, stay on the border and shoot jumping to avoid missiles and bombs fragments.

Boss 4:
Go up as you can, shoot until the seal move buttock to shoot the snow ball.
Go down 2 levels back, center and go up again.
Beware of stalactites falling.

Boss 5:
Shoot on the string of the bell always moving from the left to the right to avoid the bird and the spider.

Boss 6:
You must shoot the head.
The most difficult is to destroy the arrows (2 shoots for 1).

 

Nudalities:
At the game over screen, hold the button 2, and input the following codes to show special animations. These codes must be entered before Marvin stops walking across the screen.

Animality 1 – Up, Right, Down, and Left.
Animality 2 – Up, Left, Down, and Right.
Fatality – Down, Right, Left, Left
Nudality 1 – Right, Right, Down, Left, Up, and Up.
Nudality 2 – Left, Left, Down, Right, Up, and Up.
Nudality 3 – Right, Left, Right, Left, Down, and Up.
Nudality 4 – Left, Right, Left, Right, Down, and Up.
Nudality 5 – Down, Down, Right, Up, Up, and Left.


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