Name: CD-Online Internet Browser disc 01
Year: 1996
Catalogue #: 8100332
“Welcome to RAM Raid: The best game on the internet, only available to CD-Online subscribers.
Your mission is to defeat others subscribers and became the best CD-Online RAM Raider and win the right to challenge RAM, the main computer.
Fight against RAM’s mercenaries, and defeat your fellow subscribers, RAM Raid is a heart-stopping jorney through “hyper-reality”.
Not bad right!!??
This message is shown after you inserted “CD-Online disc 01” and selected “the game”. Created back in 1996 by P.R.L. (Philips Research Laboratories) team and playable online via CD-Online server (not available anymore), this was the 1st ever world wide multiplayer online game.
After the creation of this game, Philips decided to create an offline version according to popularity of 1st person shooters known as DOOM like, and sell it as a regular CD-i game.
That’s when in 1997 Atlantis – The Last Resort born.
Atlantis use the same interface of RAM Raid and the same game’s engine, with absolutly new levels as new enemies. About the music, always the dance music, but a little bit polished.
Anyway, we need to say that the sensation betwen play alone against the computer is very differente than play a multiplayer game against opponents from other countries!
The Game is available on “CD-Online Internet Browser disc 01”
This is a CD-i disc with clickable links, they will let you browser to the internet.
2 modes are available: offline and online.
Offline:
This version is a trainning mode to prepare the player before the internet connection.
2 levels are available: “Practice Arena” & “More Practice”.
Online:
This is the game we are talking about!
9 levels playing in a multiplayer mode, connected to internet.
We all know this is no more possible anymore, since CD-Online was shutdown back in 1999. Connecting to the server, data files was loaded (needed to play online) like maps, enemies and other.
As inside the CD-Online disc, RAM Raid was an european realised only, the American internet on TV known as web-i never got this game.
UPDATE:
Some questions about in which CD-Online disc RAM Raid is available came out.
As the article explain, this game were developed back in 1996, one year before Atlantis – The Last Resort.
The CD case + the disc shown at the top of the article is CD-Online Internet Browser disc 01. This is where the game appeared for the very first time. But the game is also available in more CD-online discs.
Using IsoBuster you can easily define if RAM Raid is inside a CD-Online disc.
We show you 2 screenshots from two different CD-Online Internet Browser disc 01, each one a different language.
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- European version of disc 01
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- Belgium version of disc 01
CD-Online Internet Browser disc 01
– The European version with catalogue number “8101069 v2” is under English/French/Dutch languages.
V2 means that a earlier version is also available with the same catalogue number, but without v2.
CD-Online Internet Browser disc 01 – 96/10
– The Dutch version with catalogue number “8140153” is under Dutch/French (that is why the screenshot says Belgium.
Hi, I wrote this game while at Philips Research Labs. Feel free to ask any questions here about why, how, etc
The server files are lost forever, or is there a possible person who still keeps it?
I mean the server files of the multiplayer online game and the web-i / CD-online seevers.
There is a mistake in this article, RAM Raid was published on the second issue of the CD-Online disc, not the first one. The one that is pictured above, does not have the game. You need the yellow second disc.
I really don’t want to disappoint you Bas, but RAM Raid is definitely on the disc shown on the article.
In fact, the game is available in many CD-online discs, but the very 1st time the it appeared was on Disc 01 from 96/10, the blue one.
I will add scans from the blue and an orange one, both with the game on it.
Yes, the game is on the yellow one too…
No, there is no mistake on this article…
Cheers
Hi. I think they put it on a number of discs to keep up interest and people trying to work their way up the online leader board
Hi Omegalfa, that’s very nice information, no doubt you are correct! It’s just that I browsed through my old CD-i magazines and looked on what I’ve written about it in the past, and I was really convinced it was released with the second disc! It amazes me now that practically no attention goes to Ram Raid along with the first disc, and I also wonder if we are talking about the same disc, but I can’t check it. I totally believe you. Some details seem to live their life if it was so long ago.
Now I look closely. I see on the picture of the blue disc 96-10. I browsed back in my archive and the magazines to find that the first disc was released in february 1996 and the second one in october 1996. The yellow one is from october 1997. Maybe the blue one was already an update and it got confused for being the second one.
It’s true Paul that Ram Raid was released earlier than Atlantis, right? So in that way it is logic that it was on the 96-10 disc, but that is definately not when CD-Online was launched, so perhaps it’s not the first disc. Interesting details! Who knows more?
Hi Omegalfa, I looked up my first cd-online disc, and it clearly sais disc 01. This picture sais 96-10, which is the second disc (at least what happened in UK and The Netherlands). The yellow one is marked 97-10, which is technically disc 03. Please correct me if you find different stuff, I’ll post pictures soon. Thanks for sharing!
https://cdii.blogspot.com/2019/06/was-ram-raid-cd-i-released-on-first-or.html
I tried to make a timeline of the CD-Online discs. Please help me with the facts or additions, I just love the history 🙂
My apologies for all the spam! So my conclusion now is:
The picture above is actually from the second disc, with the name ‘CD-Online disc 96-10’. (still blue design) (released in October 1996)
The first disc is actually called ‘CD-Online disc 01’ and was only available within the Internet Kit, released in February 1996.
The third disc has a yellow design and is called ‘CD-Online disc 97-10’ and was released in October 1997.
Sounds like right?
No need to apologies when we are looking for the truth.
Just avoid saying the article is wrong when you are not sure…
The image of the article is actually from disc 01.
More than 1 disc of 01 have been made, English version, Dutch version, Dutch/French version and English/Dutch/French version.
At The World of CD-i we own 2 versions from disc 01 one from 96/10 and another one from and also 97/10 both with RAM Raid on it.
I have actualized the article at the bottom to be more clear about this point.
Well, it depends on what you call the first disc then. But I noticed that the disc 96-10 (the second disc) has a different menu and also a different catalogue number. Disc 01 is 810 1069 and disc 96-10 is 810 0332 (both 810 so the same language version). That means you have to see the different catalogue numbers on the box as well. But in my archive I see that only the original disc 01 came in a jewelcase. The 96-10 disc and the 97-10 were only in a plastic cover, attached to the mail. Now I’m curious to know if you can verify that disc 96-10 did not accidentally slip into the original disc 01 jewelcase? I can’t verify it anywhere else. Thanks!
I can’t see larger pictures of the boxes on your websites, the links are dead…. And I don’t own a jewelcase of disc 96-10, so as far as that goes, I can’t verify.
Yes we stopped Atlantis development so we could switch to Ram:Raid. I had to code all theIP stuff from the specs (SLIP & PPP/UDP/IP/UCMP) and map and league table client and server code (!) and my Philips Media ADS colleagues switched to Ram:Raid graphics and maps.
Thinking back I think we missed launch but made issue #2
I mean ICMP and a customer TFTP version for data loading over the IP link
To help you a little further and to prevent confusion: On top of this Ram Raid article you mention catalogue 8100332, which is the catalogue number of the 96/10 disc. The link with it goes to disc 01 v2, with catalogue nr 8101069 v2. So that’s not right.
The actual disc 01 has catalogue nr 814 0153. This one is in your catalogue linked to disc 96/10, and also with the wrong jewelcase (there is no jewelcase originally that goes with the 96/10 disc, it is aso not titled as disc 01, but just as disc 96/10). As far as I see, you don’t have the original disc 01 on your site. If you believe that disc 96/10 is the same as disc 01, I’m afraid you mixed up the two in the past (check the catalogue numbers of disc and jewelcase, to see if they are the same!)
The picture on top is from the 96/10 disc. The name you mention above it is disc 01. That’s not correct either. I’m really trying to help you here, Luis. Thanks and keep up the good work!