With the launch of the Sega Saturn in the UK, Ultimate Future Games magazine ran a feature looking at the prospects of the contenders in the looming 32 bit war and the CD-i still had enough of a market presence at this point to warrant inclusion in the discussion.
Friday, July 28, 2023
Dragon's Lair Fact File & Review - Electronic Gaming Monthly 61 August 1994
Dragon's Lair Fact File & Reviews of Dragon's Lair and Who Shot Johnny Rock? from EGM Magazine.
Thursday, July 27, 2023
Shaolin's Road Review (Translated to English) - French Generation CD-i Magazine Issue 3 July 1995
A review of Shaolin's Road from Generation CD-i magazine. Translated from French to English and reconstructed in DTP software to resemble the original review as closely as possible.
Below are pictures of the original scans I worked from for comparison -
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Scans of the full original French magazines can be found here -
Tuesday, July 25, 2023
'Lights, Camera, Action' CD-i Feature - CVG Issue 141 August 1993
CVG magazine takes a look at some of the upcoming releases for the CD-i in its initial coverage of the new wave of CD based consoles hitting the UK games market.
UK Retailer CD-i Catalogue from Tavistock Sound and Vision circa September 1993
Tavistock Sound and Vision is an independent electrical retailer based in Bedford in the UK which, I believe, is still going strong to this day. Back in 1993 they were fully behind the Philips CD-i and produced this catalogue / stock list to keep their customers up to date on the latest releases.
'CD-i - Great White Hope or Great White Elephant?' - The One Magazine Issue 24 September 1990
The One magazine makes an early attempt to introduce the CD-i standard to it's readers.
Friday, July 14, 2023
The 7th Guest Preview - ACE Magazine Issue 53 February 1992
A very early look at the development of what would become The 7th Guest. Not specifically concerned with the CD-i conversion at this early stage but interesting nonetheless.
Mega Maze Fact File - Electronic Gaming Monthly 60 July 1994
EGM Fact File, not really a review, not really a preview but i'll class them as previews given the abscence of review scores and the fact they sometimes focus on uncompleted games.
Philips Cashback Promotional Flyer Christmas 1995
Flyer for a promotional cashback campaign that ran in the UK during Winter 95/96
Tuesday, July 4, 2023
Litil Divil Review (translated to English) - Dutch CD-i Magazine Volume 1 Issue 1 October 1994
The language barrier always prevented me from fully appreciating the Dutch CD-i magazine, this was always a shame as it outlasted the UK bi-monthly and seemed to promise extra coverage of the latter years of the CD-i's life that we never got to see in the UK
Modern technology has allowed me to finally appreciate these, so here's the first review i've thrown through Google translate and 'Frankenstein'ed back together. Unfortunately it seems to be heavily based on the English review that appeared in CD-i magazine UK issue 7 from August 1994. Still, as a proof of concept for future translations it seems to have turned out fairly well so fingers crossed for more exclusive Dutch articles from later issues.
'Interactive Compact Disc - First Look' - Video Review March 1992
An article from US magazine Video Review taking a look at the then newly launched Philips CD-i 910 and the CD-i format with small reviews for -
Golden Oldies Jukebox
A Visit to Sesame Street: Numbers
Time Life 35mm Photography
Palm Springs Open
Renaissance of Florence
Louis Armstrong American Songbook
Richard Scarry's Busiest Neighbourhood Ever
Harvest of the Sun - Vincent Van Gogh Revisited
Monday, July 3, 2023
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Power Unlimited provides some welcome coverage of early CD-i games in its October 1993 Issue. Translated from Dutch to English and reconst...
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Print Advertisement for Chaos Control taken from the UK CD-i magazine.
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As far as i'm aware this magazine hasn't been scanned by the community previously so I thought i'd make it available here. Rathe...
