Site Notice
  • We have a limited coverage policy. Please check our coverage page to see which articles are allowed.
  • Please no leaked content less than one year old, or videos of leaks.
  • Content copied verbatim from other websites or wikis will be removed.

Difference between revisions of "Philips CD-i"

From NintendoWiki, your source on Nintendo information. By fans, for fans.
Jump to navigation Jump to search
m
m
Line 7: Line 7:
  
 
{{stub}}
 
{{stub}}
 +
{{Nintendo console}}
 
[[Category:Consoles]]
 
[[Category:Consoles]]

Revision as of 05:51, 5 January 2011

Luigi in Hotel Mario

The Philips CD-i is a video game console released in 1991 by Philips. Acting in some ways similar to a modern-day DVD player, the CD-i represented a revolutionary new era for video games - a move to compact disc-based media over cartridges which had been used since the early 1980's.

The CD-i is the result of a failed deal between Nintendo and Sony to create a CD-based add-on for the SNES called the PlayStation Experimental. Sony, however, wanted a large share of the profit from this add-on, as well as the right to brand it with their logo. Without warning, Nintendo canceled the deal, moving to Sony's rival Philips to make the same add-on. Sony's research and development on the PlayStation Experimental led to the release of the PlayStation console in 1996 as a rival to the Nintendo 64.

When Nintendo eventually backed out of the deal with Philips, Philips demanded to use several of Nintendo's characters in games for the CD-i, leading to the notoriously poor Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon, Link: The Faces of Evil, Zelda's Adventure, and Hotel Mario.

NintendoWiki logo.png This article is a stub. You can help NintendoWiki by expanding it.


Nintendo logo.png
Home consoles
NES logo.png SNES logo.png N64 logo.png GameCube logo.png Wii logo.png Wii u Logo.png Nintendo Switch logo.png
Handhelds
Game and Watch logo.png GameBoy logo.png VirtualBoy logo.png GBC logo.png GBA logo.png DS logo.png 3DS logo.png
Other
Standalone consoles Arcade Pokémon Classics Cancelled