Philips CD-i - Revision history

DogToon64 at 18:09, 13 April 2024

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Kosheh at 16:15, 6 February 2019

2019-02-06T16:15:50Z

Kosheh: Reworked the introduction.

2019-02-06T16:15:01Z

Reworked the introduction.

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The '''Philips CD-i''' is an entertainment system made by electronics/health care company Philips in 1991. More known for some licensed games that had Nintendo characters used in memes than anything these days.

Why entertainment system rather than console? It was because it was not originally designed as a console or even to play games but rather as a general multimedia package that can run educational software, play music and video CDs (with a Digital Media Card, also required for a few games that used FMV). More or less a video player that was made to compete with computers. The CD-i was a failure to the point of losing money and Philips pulled out of both the gaming industry and multimedia to focus on TVs (no longer though since they sold that division) and health care products afterwards.

==Suggested Emulators==

Emulation on the CD-i is still in early progress. While games such as Hotel Mario and the two Zelda side scrolling games work, many of its library however do not especially the Digital Media Card games.

===MAME===

MAME runs the CD-i and some games work but however has problems in terms of progress so don't except much more progress for a while.

{{Consoles}}
[[Category:Consoles]]

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 The '''Philips CD-i''' is an entertainment system made by electronics/health care company Philips in 1991.
-The CD-i was not originally designed as a console or even to play games but rather as a general multimedia package that can run educational software, play music and video CDs (with a Digital Media Card, also required for a few games that used FMV). The CD-i was a marketing failure, and today is infamously known as being a console that featured laughably terrible licensed games featuring Nintendo properties.
+The CD-i was not originally designed as a console or even to play games but rather as a general multimedia package that can run educational software, play music and video CDs (with a Digital Media Card, also required for a few games that used FMV). The system was a marketing failure, and today is infamously known as being a console that featured laughably terrible licensed games featuring Nintendo properties.
 ==Suggested Emulators==

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-The '''Philips CD-i''' is an entertainment system made by electronics/health care company Philips in 1991.
+The '''Philips CD-i''' is an entertainment system made by electronics/health care company Philips in the early 90s.
 The CD-i was not originally designed as a console or even to play games but rather as a general multimedia package that can run educational software, play music and video CDs (with a Digital Media Card, also required for a few games that used FMV). The system was a marketing failure, and today is infamously known as being a console that featured laughably terrible licensed games featuring Nintendo properties.
 ==Suggested Emulators==
+Emulation on the CD-i is still in early progress. While games such as Hotel Mario and the two Zelda side-scrolling games work, much of its library, however, do not. Especially the Digital Media Card games.
 ===MAME===
-MAME runs the CD-i and some games work but however has problems in terms of progress so don't except much more progress for a while.
+===[https://www.cdiemu.org/ CD-i Emulator]===
 {{Consoles}}
 [[Category:Consoles]]