Template:System-Infobox The Philips CD-i is a multimedia CD player developed by Royal Philips Electronics and released in North America and Europe. As a video game console, it was one of the first to use a CD format for games. The CD-i was originally released in 1991 at the price of $700 in the United States.
Nintendo originally made a deal with Philips to develop an add-on for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System to allow it to play CD-based games, after having previously made a deal with Sony. The project was later aborted, but Philips was able to obtain the rights to Nintendo's intellectual properties for us on the CD-i.
Using Nintendo's licenses, Philips released three games for The Legend of Zelda series, one for the Mario series (two more were planned but were cancelled), and a version of Tetris. The The Legend of Zelda and Mario games received very bad reception, and the system generally sold poorly. In 1998, Philips announced that the CD-i had been discontinued.
Mario games
- Hotel Mario
- Super Mario's Wacky Worlds (cancelled)
- Mario Takes America (cancelled)
Unannounced Donkey Kong title
A Donkey Kong game was apparently in development for the system. The only known report of it is the LinkedIn resume of programmer Adrian Jackson-Jones, which states the game was in development during the 1992-1993 period at RSP. Jackson-Jones "designed and implemented the game engine" for the project[1].
References
- ^ http://cdii.blogspot.com/2010/12/rsp-say-they-worked-on-donkey-kong-on.html (Accessed on 8-9-11)
