CD-i Philips – The World of CD-i

This is a great pleasure for us to finally welcome you to Your CD-i website!
After 12 years, we are proud to bring The World of CD-i back.
This place will give you all the information you need to know about our beloved ahead of its time interactive player.
Title information, all genres included such as game, educational, multimedia, music, video, photo-cd, cd+graphics, and more!
Also a lot of material will be available like screenshots, videos, cover scans, downloads, tips & tricks, tutorials and more!
This is the place that should never have been gone!

We want to thank all the active Interactive Community that still kept working hard to stay up, especially The Black Moon Project with his Forum, CD-i Philips Zone FB page (now gone), Interactive Dreams, ICDIA, CD-i Emulator, and other Facebook Groups. This shows how big our Community is!

The World of CD-i doesn’t want to take the place of anyone, we only want to be another website to contribute to the Community, allowing each one of you to participate in its growing.

This website gives you the opportunity to add missing information on titles and add new material, directly through an editor page. It will then be revised by our team and, after validation, your information will be available and your name will also be added on the credits tab. This is interactivity!

To get full access of the website please don’t forget to register!

Some of the parts of this website are still being worked on. If you find anything that does not work or you think is inconveniant, please let us know using our contacts or our community forum.
Also many titles are still being added, as screenshots, videos, etc…

Enjoy just like we enjoyed bringing it back!

I couldn’t confirm this information on any magazine articles from the era, so I can’t say if this is true story.
In 1991 Sega decided to jump into the online gaming, not like today with multiplayer online games, (this is a CD-i revolution with Ram Raid) no, just to download exclusive games.
To be able to do such a thing you needed some quite specific things.
– 1st, you needed to live in Japan or Brazil.
– 2nd, you needed a Sega Mega Drive.
– 3rd, you needed a Mega Modem add-on.
– 4th, you needed a Meganet subscription.
– 5th, you needed a game called Toshokan (or Sega Game Library).
This is where Sonic Eraser was available to download.
Well, nothing really special… very easy…

So what does it have to see with CD-i?
I found over the net some sites who claims that a Game Gear and a CD-i version was planed (as I said, I still can’t find any proof of that).

This is game developed by Sega, up to 2 players like Columns or Puyo Puyo.
The game was only available for a very limited world zone, so unknown for almost everybody until February 2004 when Sonic KulT website managed to get the Rom.
It will be hard to confirm the possible CD-i project due to the specificity of the game (Japan/Brazil zone & Online).
To be true, this means CD-i could also get a game from Sega Mascot, Sonic! Just like Philips did with Zelda’s and Mario!

You can try the game using the online emulator from Let’s Play Sega!