{"product_id":"philips-cd-i-console-cd-i","title":"Philips CD-i Console (CD-i)","description":"\u003cp\u003ePhilips at first marketed CD-i as a family entertainment product, and avoided mentioning\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003evideo games\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eto not compete against game consoles.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eEarly software releases focused heavily on educational, music, and self-improvement titles, with only a few games, many of them adaptations of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eboard games\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003esuch as\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eConnect Four\u003c\/i\u003e.  By 1993 Philips encouraged\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eMS-DOS\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand console developers to create games, introduced a $250 peripheral with more memory and support for full-motion video, and added to new consoles a second controller port for multiplayer games.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe attempts to develop a foothold in the games market were unsuccessful, as the system was designed strictly as a multimedia player and thus was under-powered compared to other gaming platforms on the market in most respects.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eEarlier CD-i games included entries in popular\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eNintendo\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efranchises, although those games were not developed by Nintendo. Specifically, a\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMario\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003egame (titled\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHotel Mario\u003c\/i\u003e), and three\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLegend of Zelda\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003egames were released:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eZelda: The Wand of Gamelon\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLink: The Faces of Evil\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eZelda's Adventure\u003c\/i\u003e. Nintendo and Philips had established an agreement to co-develop a CD-ROM enhancement for the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eSuper Nintendo Entertainment System\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003edue to licensing disagreements with Nintendo's previous partner Sony (an agreement that produced a prototype console called the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eSNES-CD).\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eWhile Philips and Nintendo never released such a CD-ROM add-on, Philips was still contractually allowed to continue using Nintendo characters.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Other","offers":[{"title":"Complete - Good","offer_id":40278240100514,"sku":"PHCDISYSGD1","price":174.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Game manual only","offer_id":42395998945442,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Game Only","offer_id":42395998978210,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Complete - Very Good","offer_id":42395999010978,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":42395999043746,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1104\/2322\/products\/2560px-CD-i-910-Console-Set.jpg?v=1631639014","url":"https:\/\/j2games.com\/products\/philips-cd-i-console-cd-i","provider":"J2Games","version":"1.0","type":"link"}