Our newest member Tetsuoshima con tributed to The World of CD-i with many titles from his own collection.
Let me highlight one them… Les Schtroumpfs – Le Téléportaschtroumpf from Infogrames, in a time this company got all the rights of the CD-i catalogue after Philips decided to abandon the system.
Check this unfold-able:
Thank you again Tetsuoshima!
After giving the the privilege to be the place where he decided to share his personal collection of unknown CD-i titles, our website member Blazers sent more scans of other Michigan Judicial Institute.
I personally want to thank him for the time he is spending to share with us (you and us) this peace of history.
Those titles have been published between 1998 and 2000.
The Michigan Judicial Institute – A Commitment to Excellence
The Michigan Judicial Institute – A Guide for Court Support Personnel
The Michigan Judicial Institute – Court Staff Guide to PPOs
The Michigan Judicial Institute – Repeat Offender Readiness
The Michigan Judicial Institute – Your Guide to Accessing the Michigan Courts
Weather Kitchen™ is a USA title release in 1995 for kids aged 3 to 8 years old.
It is a fun, educational game for children ages 3-8.
The animated bowl guides your child through reading and weather lessons with toe tapping music.
You will need a DVC to play it and it is a CD-i Ready disc, so you can listen to the musics on any Audio CD player.
Good luck to find it, as it is a very rare one…
Blazers & Seventy7, you are the men!
Here are the newest and last addition from 2020.
NEW TITLES ADDITION
Professional
Breast Self-Examination (Blazers / Seventy7)
Cosmetic Techniques 1/4 (Blazers / Seventy7)
Cosmetic Techniques 2/4 (Blazers / Seventy7)
Cosmetic Techniques 3/4 (Blazers / Seventy7)
Cosmetic Techniques 4/4 (Blazers / Seventy7)
School
Mathtrak K1 (Blazers / Seventy7)
Karaoke
Karaoke Volume 1 (Dutch) (Blazers / Seventy7)
NEW COVERS
Professional
Getting Ahead – Making Time (Blazers / Seventy7)
Getting Ahead – Managing Your Boss (Blazers / Seventy7)
Getting Ahead – Money At Work (Blazers / Seventy7)
Getting Ahead – Presentation Skills (Blazers / Seventy7)
Photo-CD
Autosport Grand Prix Special (Blazers / Seventy7)
Multimedia
The ACT College Search 92 (Blazers / Seventy7)
Time Life Astrology (Marco Parisio Java)
Voetball (Football) (Blazers / Seventy7)
Wings Over the Gulf (Blazers / Seventy7)
Games
The Joker’s Wild jr™ (Blazers / Seventy7)
Thank you very much to our contributors!
Much more are coming…!
Here is the list of the latest titles and covers addition for November 2020.
NEW TITLES ADDITION
Video-CD Documentaries
EYEWITNESS – Amphibian
EYEWITNESS – Bird
EYEWITNESS – Cat
EYEWITNESS – Dinosaur
EYEWITNESS – Elephant
EYEWITNESS – Fish
EYEWITNESS – Horse
EYEWITNESS – Insect
EYEWITNESS – Jungle
EYEWITNESS – Reptile
EYEWITNESS – Shark
EYEWITNESS – Skeleton
EYEWITNESS – The Making of Eyewitness
In the Wild – Lions
In the Wild – Pandas
In the Wild – Tigers
In the Wild – Wolves
Video-CD Sampler/Demo
Matchline – Demo 96 (Blazers / Seventy7)
Digital Video on CD-i
Antonio Vega – Océano de Sol (Blazers / Seventy7)
Professional
Bell Atlantic® (Blazers / Seventy7)
Kids
Weather Kitchen™ (Blazers / Seventy7)
Multimedia
Exploration of Space (Blazers / Seventy7)
Shorelines (Blazers / Seventy7)
World Communities (Blazers / Seventy7)
Demonstration
Power Match (Blazers / Seventy7)
Much more to come….
Thank you for our contributors!
Thank you Alan Brown for sending us the pictures of your Beta Testing and Demonstration titles!
Mother Goose – Hidden Pictures – Demonstration
Lucky Luke – Testing Beta
Head Crash – Testing FPD
Surf City – Testing Phase 1
Compton’s Interactive – Testing – Phase 1
Sandy’s Circus Adventures – Testing FPD
If you also have in your possession titles that aren’t in our database or we haven’t any pictures of them, please take some shoots or scans and send them to us! We will enjoy to add all of them on The World of CD-i and credit them to you!
Our Italian contributor, Marco Parisio Java keeps sending to us more and more Italian titles versions and Italian exclusives titles.
Today we present to you Spartiti Interattivi per Chitarra Rock, this is a very interesting title as it is a Karaoke title but in a very special way…
You can choose between 2 kind of karaoke styles:
– Voice Karaoke
– Guitar Karaoke
If you use to play guitar, this title is definitely for you!
The available songs are:
. Please Please Me (J. Lennon – P. Mc Cartney)
. Ask Me Why (J. Lennon – P. Mc Cartney)
. Daniel (E. John – B. Taupin)
. Your Song (E. John – B. Taupin)
. Fernando (B. Andersson – B. Ulvaeus – S. Anderson)
. Waterloo (B. Andersson – B. Ulvaeus – S. Anderson)
. I’ll Be There For You (J. Bon Jovi – R. Sambora)
. Living In Sin (J. Bon Jovi)
. Wonderful World (A. Fornaciari)
. Diamante (F. De Gregori)
Thank you Marco!
Queensland – Australia’s Sunshine State takes you to this Australian State and explores the diversity of its six major tourism regions. It includes:
From clear blue seas surrounding the great barrier reef to the lush rainforests and vibrants cities, Queensland will thrill you!
We can’t confirm yet the year of the release of this title as nothing in indicated on the covers, booklet, nor on the CD of even on the final title credits (this title do not have a credits screen). But we can confirm it has been produced and published by Disctonics, and it do require s a Digital Video Cartridge to be played.
A considerable amount of full screen video footage is available on it.
To define the year release, we should use Isobuster or dump it, but we believe it is around 1994.
Take a look at the Disc Type… it says Data Storage, but in fact it is a more a Video-CD title.
Why? Because when we used the LG GDI 700M CD-i player, it shows VCD on the display.
As I do not own this title, I can’t confirm more than this.
It includes the single Live it up in Queensland from Greville Patterson, that also can be purchased separately as Audio-CD. Listen to this single here:
Pictures credits to Alan_CDiZone.
Let’s follow with more RetroMan’s contribution with pictures of part of his collection.
We are now focussed in the special boxes. Many boxes have been released in limited editions, here are few:
Once again, thank you RetroMan, for the trust you gave to us and also for your patience!
I like to share my CD-i experience with people. Talking with my friends, people registered on this site, Facebook group or Twitter.
RetroMan is a person who do have an impressive collection of titles, hardware and accessories. But what I really love about him, is the fact he shares with me in a very natural way what he owns, just like if we was neighbours. I can see it is something he really enjoy to do: Discover CD-i stuff and share it with us, and I can’t thank him enough for that.
A few weeks ago, he was excited about a deal he was about to conclude… and what a deal…
He got the Green Book. Maybe for some of you it is nothing special, a green book is a green book, we can find so many coloured books in any stores… right…? NO!
I am talking about THE GREEN BOOK, the CD-i Holy-Grail, with all the specifications you need to create a CD-i related work.
When Philips and Sony defined the Audio CD specifications, they gave to it a name, the Red Book, in June 1980. This was the 1st colour from a long collection…
In fact, more books followed as Yellow Book (CD-ROM), Green Book (CD-i), Orange Book (CD-R and CD-RW), Beige Book (Photo CD), White Book (Video-CD), Blue Book (Enhanced-CD), Scarlet Book (Super Audio CD) and Purple Book (Double Density CD).
Any company interested in developing CD-i titles or release his own branded CD-i player had to get a paid licence from Philips to get the CD-i Full Functional Specification (Green Book).
The CD-i player is able to read the following Specification:
Red Book
Audio CD, CD-Text, CD-MIDI, CD+Graphics
Green Book
CD-i titles, Digital Video on CD-i (Movies & Music Videos)
Beige Book
Photo-CD
White Book
Video-CD (Movies & Music Videos), CD-i BridgeThat is why we call the CD-i player, a Multimedia player.
Coming back to RetroMan item, what can he do with this Green Book if he is not a programmer? And we can’t forget Philips did turned the Green Book accessible to anyone recently.
Well, that is simple, just like many of us, he is a collector, and every time something shines with a CD-i stamped on it, we try to get it.
The case sizes are 25.7cm x 8.8cm x 21.2 cm.
Now, there are more versions out there to collect…
– 1st version
November 1989
– 2nd version
September 1990
– 3rd version
March 1993
– Final version
May 1994
cdifan, our CD-i Titles Development responsible owns an Electronic Green Book.
So, before Editorial Green Book became available, Electronic Green Books was used.
You can access the specification through Read Only files.On the Change Log from this Electronic Version, we can read:
In that CHANGE_LISTS directory are revision documents for “Revision 3” from July (no year is stated), “revision 3.3” and “revision 4” (no months or years stated), and a final document that states:This list has been compiled of corrections, additions, clarifications and editorial amendments since the introduction of Revision 4 (dated 14 November 1988).
The CD-i Full Functional Specification (Green Book) will achieve here with the status which will be further referred to as release 1.0.
This list is dated and complete up to 15 October 1989.
Congratulations RetroMan you’ve got the latest version!
This version seems be in a plastic finish style. The older ones are made in Paper Box.
I am sure you will find more CD-i related things for your collection!