In addition to consumer models, professional and development players were sold by Philips Interactive Media Systems and their VARs. Philips marketed several CD-i player models.
The CD-i 220 player, designed for consumers, was available at major home electronics outlets around the world.
The CD-i 605 player, designed for professional applications and software development, contains a floppy disk drive and connects to a computer keyboard and other computer peripherals. It can also be connected to an emulator and has sof ...
Early software releases in the CD-i format focused heavily on educational and self-improvement titles, with only a handful of video games, many of them adaptations of board games like "Connect Four". The most popular games for the system were 7th Guest and Burn:Cycle. Later attempts to develop a foothold in the games market were rendered irrelevant by the arrival of cheaper and more powerful consoles, such as the Sony PlayStation. CD-i is noted for the release of several spinoffs of popular Nintendo video games featuring charac ...
