I think it's a good example of how executives think they can just make an useless plastic box with circuitry, market it and expect to make millions from it. I wonder what the people who were involved in it are doing now? Not in a "hahaha, they ruined their careers!" sense, I'm just curious.

The CD-i is definitely not the worst system.  There are systems that came out that no one even remembers anymore because they did so poorly.  I've never played a CD-i, but it has a few games that were out on it and other systems at the time that are good.  The 7th Guest, Brain Dead 13, Dragon's Lair, etc.  Sure, that's not very many, but that's better than systems that had ZERO good games for them.  There's no reason to get a CD-i to play these games since they were available on so many other systems, but that doesn't mean the CD-i is the WORST EVER OH GOD I PLAYED THE ZELDA GAMES FOR IT AND OBVIOUSLY EVERY OTHER GAME ON IT IS LIKE THIS.

Obviously the CD-i is every low on the list of video game consoles, but it's not THE WORST.

You know I'd say that the Virtual Boy is even worse than the CD-i, because there were places that had boxes of them and never even knew they had them in stock because NO ONE WANTED THEM, and it actually made a lot of people sick when they played it, I would consider that grounds to be called worse than something that at least had a few good games that WON'T make you throw up when you play them.

Virtual boy looked interesting in the magazines

You've got to be kidding!

The CD-I is the best system, ever!

If you need instructions, on how to play CD-I games, check out the inclosed instruction book.




That being said, I wonder what's for dinner.

I played the CD-i many, many years ago and I'm pretty sure it was Mario hotel. I remember that the controller were awful (at least the one I used, it's the one with the misplaced joystick) and the game sucked pretty much too.

I wonder if the guy who owned it still has it. Maybe I should buy it just for laughs.

Virtual boy looked interesting in the magazines

The used game shop in my hometown has one (mostly just for novelty, I doubt anyone will ever buy it just like they'll never buy the 3DO or Sega CD they have), I want to ask them to let me try it sometime just to see if I vomit.

They also have a power glove and R.O.B. (they use R.O.B. to hold their business cards), if I ever won the lottery I would make sure that the news didn't get out around my town until I had the chance to walk in, buy all this display stuff they never really expect to sell, and go "HEH...YEAH...I'M GONNA GO PLAY WITH ALL OF THIS STUFF TONIGHT"

man, this one time we ran into a drunk guy wearing a power glove, he then proceeded to press some buttons on it and wanted to give us a brief history lesson about it.
Ever since then I've wanted a powerglove, but I have never found one yet.

You know I'd say that the Virtual Boy is even worse than the CD-i, because there were places that had boxes of them and never even knew they had them in stock because NO ONE WANTED THEM, and it actually made a lot of people sick when they played it, I would consider that grounds to be called worse than something that at least had a few good games that WON'T make you throw up when you play them.

I never owned a Virtual Boy, but when they came out I played a demo unit of one fairly often.  It was some Wario game.  I never got sick from playing it, but if I did play it for more than a couple of minutes I would start to develop an intense headache.  I couldn't see how someone could play it for more than 5 minutes straight.  The game itself was decent though from what I remember.

man, this one time we ran into a drunk guy wearing a power glove, he then proceeded to press some buttons on it and wanted to give us a brief history lesson about it.
Ever since then I've wanted a powerglove, but I have never found one yet.

well for about $100 you could come down here and buy one!  it's....really not worth that much unless you're some rich collector though!

I never owned a Virtual Boy, but when they came out I played a demo unit of one fairly often.  It was some Wario game.  I never got sick from playing it, but if I did play it for more than a couple of minutes I would start to develop an intense headache.  I couldn't see how someone could play it for more than 5 minutes straight.  The game itself was decent though from what I remember.

i have never played one, i just know that the majority of people that played them got really bad headaches/nausea

man, this one time we ran into a drunk guy wearing a power glove, he then proceeded to press some buttons on it and wanted to give us a brief history lesson about it.
Ever since then I've wanted a powerglove, but I have never found one yet.

they don't work at all

the cdi and zelda games usually ebay for over 100 bucks each. Did you seriously pay over 300 dollars because you were curious about something you heard was really bad or did you just watch the latest ANGRY VIDEOGAME NERD episodes on youtube where he reviews the same games you wrote about in your post?

the cdi and zelda games usually ebay for over 100 bucks each. Did you seriously pay over 300 dollars because you were curious about something you heard was really bad or did you just watch the latest ANGRY VIDEOGAME NERD episodes on youtube where he reviews the same games you wrote about in your post?

I'm going to guess that second one, but if he did play them I'm hoping he just emulated them.


Also, this is true about the 3DO and is possibly true about the CD-i and the Sega CD (haven't looked into it but it's very likely that this is true), but if you can afford the system, you can afford ALL of the games, because they had no copy protection (since no one really had CD burners at the time).  As long as you can find the download, you can play all the games on the original system.  Possibly foreign games too, I'm not sure.  So if you ever really DID decide you'd want a CD-i--although there is NO reason to buy this thing, let me restate that it SUCKS ASS it's just not the worst system ever--then make sure it's copy protection free and buy just the system.

But don't.  Because it's not worth it.

Philips CD-I hah worst!? Check out these retarded consoles.

We had the orange Pong thing.

And Vextrex was pretty cool, we had one of them as well.

All I remember about the cdi was that I saw it on display at sears next to minidisc players