Editing Philips CD-i

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|Image=[[File:CD-i.png|300px]]

|Rel={{released|USA|1991|Europe|1992}}

|Dis=1998

|Pre=None

|Suc=None

|Units=570,000}}

[[File:Philips CD-i Main Menu.png|thumb|left|200px|Main menu.]]

The '''[[wikipedia:Philips CD-i|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, and was released in Europe the following year.

[[Nintendo]] originally made a deal with Philips to develop an add-on for the [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System]] to allow it to play CD-based games, after a similar deal with {{wp|Sony}} had fallen through. The project was later aborted, but Philips was given the license to use five of Nintendo's characters in games.<ref>Heath, Shona (March 28, 2013). [http://www.zeldauniverse.net/2013/03/28/an-interview-with-the-creator-of-the-cd-i-zelda-games/ An interview with the creator of the CD-i Zelda games]. Zelda Universe. Retrieved April 8, 2015.</ref>

Using Nintendo's licenses, Philips released three games for ''[[zeldawiki:The Legend of Zelda (Series)|The Legend of Zelda]]'' series, one for the ''[[Mario (franchise)|Mario]]'' franchise ([[Mario Takes America|two]] [[Super Mario's Wacky Worlds|more]] were planned but were [[List of unreleased media|canceled]]), and a version of ''{{wp|Tetris}}''. The ''The Legend of Zelda'' and ''Mario'' games received very bad reception, and the system generally sold poorly after 1994. Common criticisms of the CD-i were its price, the graphical quality of its games (compared to the Super Nintendo or {{wp|Sega Genesis}}), its poor library of games (including an influx of {{wp|Point and click games|point and click games}}, pornographic games, and {{wp|Educational game|educational games}}), and the controls. Special criticism was used for the controllers of the CD-i. There were four main models of the controllers of the CD-i; a basic controller with three buttons and a D-pad (despite the fact that the console only used two buttons), another that resembled a spoon, another similar to the first one but with a protruding stick on top, and one resembling a TV remote, which was the one that came standard with all the consoles. None of the controllers featured a start button. In 1998, Philips announced that the CD-i had been discontinued.

==''Mario'' games==

A [[Donkey Kong (series)|''Donkey Kong'' game]] was apparently in development for the system. The only known report of it is the [http://www.linkedin.com/in/adrianjonesgames 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.<ref>Unknown (December 13, 2010). [http://cdii.blogspot.com/2010/12/rsp-say-they-worked-on-donkey-kong-on.html RSP say they worked on Donkey Kong on CD-i]. ''Interactive Dreams''. Retrieved March 4, 2020.</ref>

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