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 ...
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 ...
