Great video! I was the guy that wrote Atlantis so was obviously delighted that you enjoyed it so much. It started as a Friday afternoon coding exercise where I used a non-intrusive hardware debugger that I had developed (that was my day job at Philips research at the time) to optimise a standard ray caster down to bus cycle level to get it fast and smooth. A standard approach would get 2 fps but Atlantis typically runs at 20 fps. I literally showed the demo (which used !borrowed" DOOM graphics at the time to Dave Mac at Philips Media and the rest is history.

@TheLairdsLair

2 жыл бұрын

Great to have you comment here, Atlantis is easily the best game for the CD-i on a technical level, would have loved to have seen that engine exploited further.

@Sketcz

6 ай бұрын

Hello Paul. Have you ever been interviewed about Atlantis? It would make an interesting article! Do you have an online portfolio with contact details?

@PaulClarke-wm1pb

5 ай бұрын

@@Sketcz Yes I was interviewed for the Black Moon Project - you should be able to search for that online

Seriously though, I've always wanted a CDI but even today I can't afford one and just finding one that actually still works is getting harder to do. It would be an awesome console to own ☺️

I've watched a handful of CD-I based videos but I was surprised to see a few games I've never seen mentioned before. Atlantis, Tetsuo Gaiden and that first game shown off at 0:15 were all new to me. Unsurprising to see both Mutant Rampage Bodyslam and The Apprentice on this list, as well as Hotel Mario, which most CD-i videos often praise and mention it's unfair reputation. Great video and always fascinating to learn more about these less focused on consoles.

The Wand of Gamelon & Faces of Evil had some serious Narm Charm (look it up if you don't know what I mean by that.) "YOU KILLED MEEEE!!!" "Good."

Lucky luke is pretty good and if i’m correct also a exclusive. Also Christmas country and Christmas crisis are cd-i exclusive games that are nice.

@TheLairdsLair

2 жыл бұрын

Good shouts!

The Flowers of Robert Mapplethorpe! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Lol 🤣😅😅😅

If a Sega Genesis can run Wolfenstein 3D on bone stock hardware then the CDi can do something similar. I say this because the CDi is more powerful than any other 16-bit console on the market (minus the Neo Geo AES) and has a similar, albeit better 68000 variant as the Genesis.

You say "there is no jumping on their heads like in other Mario games" while the video proceeds to show Mario doing just that!

@TheLairdsLair

2 жыл бұрын

I should have said it's not the main mechanic of the game I suppose.

Zenith is an awesome game, best game on the console for me.

Coming from a non fanboy perspective The Apprentice genuinely looks great and Zenith looks fun! A lot of the other sprite based games seemed to move quite slowly. I can't work out is that's by design or hardware limitation. Atlantis might be a technical marvel but just one enemy at a time?

@TheLairdsLair

2 жыл бұрын

There's no sprite hardware or anything to help it along, it's pure CPU, a bit like the Atari ST in that regard.

@catmantraprivate4628

Жыл бұрын

CD-i actually has a more powerful cpu than 3DO. It definitely could run doom. (3DO has a new home brewery version available now btw. Full screen and good..!)

Bought a 450 a few weeks back 👍🏻🕹

I saw a cd-i at a Goodwill a couple years ago and I keep kicking myself for not grabbing it

I will play The Apprentice on my Miyoo Mini Plus lmao when it arrives

Dammit! Your video makes me want to get a CDi now, I think my missus would kill me if I got another console!

Seriously, this might be the worst game system of all time. I think we can safely throw out the "not even meant to be a game machine hurrdurr" argument unless you can find sales numbers for that stupid add-on you had to buy to play vcds on the thing, which is kind of another moot point regardless since noone cared about vcd in the first place. Photo cd? Are you serious? Using a standard 480i 4:3 crt tv? Yeah, no thanks. I would rather play Jaguar games using the Virtual Boy for a screen.

@theseob

2 жыл бұрын

No one cared for vcd? That’s why systems like the saturn, amiga cd32 also had a vcd expansion. Please look further than your local market. VCD was pretty huge in Asia, where it was the video system of choice for lots of years, even when dvd was out. Seeing the rest of your reaction, you clearly didn’t grow up during that period.

Also, i had one of the VCR CD-i's, one pictured in the advert. somehow they bundled mine with a controller along with the shitty IR controller, thing was a Glorified CD ROM with av out, i sware XD but, had all Three of the Zelda titles, Mario hotel game and Voyeur, which came in pack with the System. But it was not as bad as most people make it out to be, The CD-i, i mean not Voyeur. Voyeur was a shit tier game XD

so friggin cool.

That Boxing game is a slightly changed version of Cinemaware's TV Sports Boxing!

@TheLairdsLair

2 жыл бұрын

Never played that, but it's very similar to Evander Holyfield Real Deal Boxing on the Mega Drive, as I said in the video!

Finally got the low Audio fix'ed. still Love ya stuff TLL

@TheLairdsLair

2 жыл бұрын

I haven't changed anything, the lower audio was only on the really old videos that I re-uploaded from my previous channel before I got a proper microphone.

@O5-XIV

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheLairdsLair Ah well cool beans :)

is it even possible to have your gameplay any smaller on the godamn screen??

@TheLairdsLair

7 ай бұрын

Yes

You seem erm easy to please if you think the Zelda gameplay isn't bad

I grew up with a Philip’s CD-i and a copy of Hotel Mario. Easily one of my least favorite games, and the first game that ever made me chuck a controller.

Burn cycle

@TheLairdsLair

2 жыл бұрын

Not a CD-i exclusive!

@theseob

2 жыл бұрын

It has a pc version, that i also own. A nice big box version with dogtags included.

Looks like a terrible system...