The only thing my dad left me before he left was his CD-i. Needless to say he really hated me.

@kutulukutu

6 жыл бұрын

nights1515 I mean... lol, tho...

@excessmaterial

4 жыл бұрын

Didn't you eat his corpse?

@jp-47471

4 жыл бұрын

They worth like 200-300 now.

@kamengamer5372

4 жыл бұрын

@LIQUID FX Thank you

@xxSpike1989xx

4 жыл бұрын

You're dad didnt leave you, hes just out buying cigarettes.. Some say to this day he's still out there trying to buy cigarettes and cdi games..

Yeah I remember super long 30 mins infomercials trying to sell this that would just repeat allll day!

@itsaPIXELthing

9 жыл бұрын

Here in Europe these type of systems would sell much better than "traditional" consoles. Parents would only buy a video game system only if it had a educational side to it. Great episode!

@Tolman18

9 жыл бұрын

Happy Console Gamer! Love you like a brother man. Keep up your great videos. :)

@retrogameraaron4778

9 жыл бұрын

HappyConsoleGamer I remember those CD-I infomercials...they would usually be on late at night in my area. I was flipping through channels one night, and suddenly I see some guy on TV playing a side scrolling Zelda game I had never seen before.

@JesseDylanMusic

9 жыл бұрын

HappyConsoleGamer I was young enough that the infomercials made me want a CD-i. Thank goodness they were, what, $700?

@pompomgirl422

6 жыл бұрын

HappyConsoleGamer 🍽

The Flowers of Robert Mapplethorpe... BEST GAME the CD-i had to offer.

The CD-i wasn't built for gaming. Phillips always said that the purpose of the system was CD multimedia and gaming was merely a last thought... (Kinda like a smartphone) Phillips never believed gaming and because of that they gave VERY low budgets and VERY tight deadlines for developers to make games for that system... Also, as far as I know, the CD-i didn't have a dedicated sprite layer, or heck, I don't even know if we can call what they used as backgrounds a "Background layer" Developing games for that system was kinda like developing for a machine like the PC-6001, the ZX spectrum or an old 90s cellphone... Not ideal, but it can be done... The difference is that the CD-i could display far prettier images as you can see in The Apprentice...

@markasscop

9 жыл бұрын

its like they knew the odds were stacked against them,so its like why even bother trying to make a decent game hi,by the way,even on people im not subscribed to i see you there

@Grefintiuk

8 жыл бұрын

+Ruko Michiharu They are better smartphones games than this CD-i crap.

@retroland9703

5 жыл бұрын

So true

@LevelUp_ErikJ

4 жыл бұрын

You're right. The CD-i didn't have a dedicated sprite layer.

@petewillson205

3 жыл бұрын

Yep it was a multimedia machine before dvds came out, bringing computer tech to the tv, hoping to bridge the gap, with consumers afraid of computers with something they could hook up to their tvs, midway through, when the multimedia education machine was selling they tried to turn it into a game machine,with a small install base and cds being cheap to make, they signed on some game developers, sega and Nintendo had all the good developers locked up, and this was an afterthought so you got this. I remeber a friend had it and the golf game and his group loved the machine, compared to snes and sega, grafix did blow competition away

The ugly side of the multimedia age of gaming. You should do a whole episode devoted to interactive movies.

@frankschneider6156

9 жыл бұрын

Agree .... 1 or 2 episodes completely dedicated to FMVs would be interesting .... They are mostly crap, but they are part of gaming history.

@frankschneider6156

9 жыл бұрын

***** Really ? I've seen all of their episodes and don't recall. Well, its probably just the onset of Alzheimer. But thanks anyhow.

@DuckAlertBeats

9 жыл бұрын

***** are you genuinely trying to persuade people this was a good games system?! Oh man now I've heard it all

@DuckAlertBeats

9 жыл бұрын

It's all true!

@frankschneider6156

9 жыл бұрын

TheGameRage1 Dragon's Lair is a classic, but to me it's also a prime example of form over substance. Sure it looks absolutely awesome, but the gameplay ? You perform certain actions at exactly defined points in time, that you recall from former failures when you died, no skill needed and otherwise no possibility to influence the game (like a rail shooter). And after you have beaten it once, the replay value is not that high. Same with Space Ace. If you are objective, you'll agree, that Dragon's Lair is a bad GAME (from a gaming perspective), although the visuals are of course stunning (at least 1983 they were). Same is true eg with Rebel Assault - great visuals (well 1995 at least) - poor gameplay. And it's also true (at least in my opinion) with most other FMVs. Don't get me wrong, i don't want to badmouth them, so if YOU get a kick out of them, then this is great, but i simply don't, at least not from those, that i played. The only ones i really i liked were Wing Commander III and IV, and they didn't use videos for gameplay, so don't really qualify as FMVs. But maybe i've just played the bad ones. Cheers

My main memories of the CD-i pre Internet Infamy were mainly the educational titles due to the fact that my school actually sent some CD-i units home with certain students over weekends which was always a weird idea in my mind. Also, someone must have liked the CD-i Zelda games at some point because I remember critic reviews at the time being very positive, and I even found some of those old magazine reviews and even Wikipedia mentions them. It's hard to believe but true.

@TechRyze

2 ай бұрын

Philips probably paid for adverts in the magazine in exchange for fake reviews. It's unfortunate, but there are lots of questionable reviews in magazines - even in a few otherwise decent publications.

00:52 introduction of CD-i 02:59 Tetris 04:30 Hotel Mario 06:08 Pac-panic 06:58 Burn: Cycle 08:19 Zenith 09:29 The Apprentice 10:26 Link - The Faces of Evil / Zelda - The Wand of Gamelon 12:36 Tetsuo gaiden 14:20 Zelda's Adventure 17:02 Kingdom - The Far Reaches 17:57 Kingdom - Shadoan 18:46 MicroMachines 20:05 Solar Crusade 21:04 Escape from CyberCity 22:01 Kether 23:10 Mutant Rampage Bodyslam 25:10 Thunder in Paradise Interactive 27:17 Atlantis - The Last Resort 28:20 The 7th Guest 31:28 ┌∩┐(◣_◢)┌∩┐

@asadavis9532

3 жыл бұрын

Underrated comment

@lowbudgetcontent8858

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your work!

The people who developed games for the CDi either didn't understand video games or had a great deal of contempt for what made video games good. Look at all the progress that the NES, Genesis, and SNES had made up to this point with responsible controls and non-stop gameplay. The CDi ignores all of that in favor of clunky controls that serve only to navigate you from one boring FMV to the next. Even Tetris, which plays respectably on the CDi, is hampered by some programmer who thought that the action needed to be interupted to remind you of your progress. It's like the design theory of the console was "How can we bring the fun to a screeching halt?" I think a lot of these FMV games could have been prevented if the designers were locked in a room for two weeks and forced to play their own games. Watch how annoying the same cut scenes become after you've seen them for the fifth or sixth time. Very few of the games on the platform are even worth playing, and that's pathetic. It's pretty sad when Pac Attack and Micro Machines are your two best games.

@tetrisdave

9 жыл бұрын

Good points.

@idnyftw

9 жыл бұрын

***** all that power but can't save without a working battery :/

@idnyftw

9 жыл бұрын

***** bet you don't even know how to use a saw

@TVsMrNeil

9 жыл бұрын

***** As good as SNES???? I'm just going to assume that you're joking. The CDi perplexes me. I'm not completely sure what they were trying to do. A lot of the software plays like a DVD menu without the movie. Maybe an annoying FMV every now and then. This was back in the days when we thought Encyclopedia Britannica on CD was going to be a thing. All I know is that the machine was NOT designed for games in mind. The games that try to run like software on other platforms are janky and slow. Even Micro Machines is not as good as the NES version. It's as if the CDi wasn't intended to be a game console.

@idnyftw

9 жыл бұрын

Neil Purcell don't bother, dude's a troll

I had to take a break from watching this video because my viridis was acting up.

@tetrisdave

9 жыл бұрын

LoL. It's a serious condition. Get it checked out by a doctor before it's to late.

2:33 'Actual legitimate games'. Now there's a phrase I never thought I'd hear in a CD-i review.

how could they screw up Tetris on the CD-i? one direction turning level notification interrupting game flow

The Escape From Cyber City game you showed is clips from the super awesome 70s anime Galaxy Express 999. That seems pretty cool at least. It explains why it was so much higher quality visually than the other FMV games.

Dave I am that one person on the planet that likes the Zelda and Link games for the CD-I ! I have four of each game and use them as drink coasters, totally awesome conversation starters!

@tetrisdave

9 жыл бұрын

Well they would be good for holding drinks. Have you beaten any of them?

@MrKroogur

9 жыл бұрын

David White Actually i was joking. However! I will admit I was one of the suckers that bought the system near launch it came with the encyclopedia and I did have the 7th Guest which was indeed glitchy as well as Myst and thats as far as I went with the thing I was so disappointed in it I sold the lot and bought a 3D0 (which I still have and enjoy). Interesting side note Cd-I's were used by businesses for training videos, I took a part time job working at a Burger King (back in 2000) and they used it for their "interactive" training videos. www.telecompaper.com/news/burger-king-switches-to-cdi-for-staff-training--101509

@RetroJaysFTW

9 жыл бұрын

Me to a friend : OAHH!! Mah boi! This piece is what all true warriors strive for! *pointing at game cases*

@reinforcedpenisstem

9 жыл бұрын

Sounds like you like the cases, not the games.

@MrKroogur

9 жыл бұрын

I was joking with Dave about using the games as coasters but I will admit for the time both the system and the cases were rather appealing sadly the system and games were dismal as far as functionality . My Cd-i was the front loader and it blended in well with the VCR and other equipment in my entertainment center. I was happy to replace it with the 3DO.

The CD-i was developed as a multimedia platform first, and a game console second. A large part of the problem was it just wasn't designed to play video games, but design games for it people did.

One of my first jobs (in Colorado too!) was at a 7-11 and the training videos they made me watch all ran on a CD-i which was surreal at the time. I remember the thing always had issues booting up, as about 50% of the time you turned it on it would just turn right back off again. Also: your editing skills are getting really good, this video was professional as fuck :)

@RotaryPoweredRX

Жыл бұрын

they used a CD-i to train you? that's flippin funny

We had a place in town that rented CD-i titles, but I never even heard of anybody in our town who owned the system. And they sure didnt sell them anywhere we knew about.

Watching Game Sack feels like having a retro session with some good old friends who just came back from a games flea market with an exotic console.

I like Game Sack. The videos are informative and I always find out about new old things. Also, beards!

My greatest memory of the CD-i was when I was a kid in New York and my mom and I went to The Wiz. (R.I.P. The Wiz!) I went over to the electronics section (as usual) to see what was new and I ended up by a TV watching a demo of the Golf game for CD-i. And I SWEAR to you I thought I was watching TV. They had all the NBC graphics and announcers and for about 15 seconds I thought it was real. And then I noticed the system there and a guy using the wireless controller. I was BLOWN AWAY! I look at the graphics now and wonder what was wrong with me. But back then, it was absolute realism.

@tetrisdave

9 жыл бұрын

I've had those moments also when I've looked at games thinking "How could it look any better then this? This is real!"

@Tornado1994

8 жыл бұрын

+happyhappy joyjoy CD-i looked impressive up until 1993. By then, it was a joke.

@Tornado1994

8 жыл бұрын

happyhappy joyjoy Even in 1993, to me it wasn't impressed. I tried it out just to see what it could do, I found it lame and terrible and overpriced.

@AnonymousFrogNG

5 жыл бұрын

Did you mean. R.I.P Your CD-i? Because of those shitty batteries

Awesome review guys, very in-depth. The CD-i was my first ever system I played believe it or not and I've had it over 15 years. Yeah most of the games are shocking but there area few hidden gems on it and I've got huge nostalgia for it. :)

MAH BOI The CD-i is what all true retro collectors strive for. (not really)

"Tetsuo Gaiden is a shooter that kinda reminds me what Galaga would be like if it were horrible." I love you guys. Keep up the good work!

i watch youtube videos all day (during work, before bed, ect) and am subscribed to a ton of channels, but only game sack videos get me excited more than anything. i look forward to every new video! thank you guys for all you do

@tetrisdave

9 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Choice of the day: Game Sack, Super Bowl Game Sack, Super Bowl Game Sack all day long, screw football

"Can you imagine a company today making something that won't even boot when the battery dies?" Sony says "HI!"

@crazisaturn2274

2 жыл бұрын

I don't get it.

On the Micro Machines bit. "You're stuck using the yellow vehicle" It then cuts to footage of a red vehicle bring used.

@davidforgeas2235

4 жыл бұрын

it was yellow on yellow so I guess it was about this particular stage

@Atlink

2 жыл бұрын

I think he meant in races - the Red Car looks to be for time trials, as there's no placement indicator, and there's a timer.

I think it's a curious piece of history so it is fun to explore to learn more about it, but I will own 50 game systems before I get a CD-I.

@chaosdimension6433

Жыл бұрын

got one for 20 at a thrift store, you dont say no to that lol

Fond memories of Media Play in the early days of DVD.

@ElComanche

3 жыл бұрын

Media play was the GOAT.

When I was nine or ten (around '92/'93), I stole one of these from the 'multimedia room' of a school that my sister took gymnastics lessons from. When I went back a week later for some of the 'games', I was terrified that they'd set up some kind of sting operation. But I'm guessing nobody noticed the system was even gone or whatever, and I left with about twelve titles in my backpack. They were all crap, and most of them were pre-school level 'edutainment' junk like 'Little Monster at School' and some Sesame Street thing, but I did get a few 'actual' games like 'Link: Faces of Evil' and 'Steel Machine'. Even for the time, I remember being drastically underwhelmed by the marvels of the 'futuristic' technology. Also, kids, don't steal, stealing is bad, mmmkay?

@NijiDash

9 жыл бұрын

Cool story brah.

@BloodyBobJr

9 жыл бұрын

Did u return to that school a 3rd time and steal the heart of young beautiful girl? Ahh that be like a plot to a sappy romance..

@NijiDash

9 жыл бұрын

Jere Aho The CD-i is his girl.

@Danbotology

9 жыл бұрын

***** Sadie-i.

@tasken_lander_redux4775

9 жыл бұрын

***** It turned him gay.

This is such a great video, I'm glad you guys covered so many games, usually videos about the CDI are just all about the Nintendo rips

The Tetris music is great! So good in fact that I've got it on vinyl. It's vaporwave before such a genre existed, honestly one of my favorite albums and so glad I own it.

Thumbs up just because of the Yanni reference. Lmao that Tetris music rocks

@AdmiralBison

8 жыл бұрын

I still like Yanni, especially 'Aria on Air' I have the 'Opera House' rap remix of the song and I remember the British Airways commercial featuring the song.

OMG. The music from Tetris is something that I would make... Some of the games look alright. The CD-i kinda resembles like an old PC. I sorta find the "edutainment" games rather interesting. When I got my first Win PC, it came with an encyclopedia and was rather fascinated by it. Yeah I'm one of those weird ones.

@anthonygonzalez934

9 жыл бұрын

my game sack

@RetroDawn

5 жыл бұрын

Of course, when it came out, PCs of the day mostly could only put 16 colors on screen at once. Except for then-expensive and not yet ubiquitous VGA cards with 256 colors on-screen, and the Amiga, which could put up to 4096 on screen with HAM mode or color register changes via the Copper. With the CDi, any pixel could be any of 16.7 million colors, more than TVs could display. And it had a CD-ROM drive, which allowed for ~700MB of storage vs., at best, 1.44MB per floppy.

This probably one of the most in depth videos I have ever seen about the CD-i.

Wow. I wish I had a friend that beat the shit out of me like Dave does. He's a great buddy.

@tetrisdave

9 жыл бұрын

Do you also wish you had a friend like Joe who smashes your game boy?

@AmberShort

9 жыл бұрын

Yep. Both Joe and Dave get beat up by each other in their videos from time to time. How can you not love these guys? I like Joe's reaction when he gets punched. And Dave's cries to his mommy. Just wanna hug them both.

@KWKBOX

9 жыл бұрын

David White Do you think AVGN jumped the shark? hagensalley.wordpress.com/

@tetrisdave

9 жыл бұрын

In that leather jacket? No way!

The problem with this thing is its graphic chip has NO features whatsoever, just a "dumb" framebuffer. No hardware sprites. No scrolling. Nothing. Even the NES is FAR more capable than this thing when it comes to putting things on the screen and moving them around. The only advantage it has is, it is technically a 32-bit system, so it has a huge color pallette. So most of the games ended up being pretty, non-moving backgrounds with VERY limited sprites (since it had to be done entirely in software), plus it could stream video off of the disk. I watched a video on the Zelda games, and they basically pushed the hardware to its limits. I have to say, the boneheaded design that is similar to the arcade board "suicide battery" is the worst thing about this system. That was absolutely unacceptable.

Ha!! You can hear Joe laugh at that Viridis joke at 14:30

Watching this gameplay reminds me of a severe punishment for gamers where you are forced to play these games for hours on end.

@tetrisdave

9 жыл бұрын

Yeah Clockwork Orange style.

@Grefintiuk

8 жыл бұрын

+Prince Raw D haha yeah man this games are pure shit.

Freaking Media Play. Oh, man. I have some neat memories of that chain; I bought Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance for the PS2 from there with a mall gift card I got for Christmas in 2001. I went to a Titanic VHS launch party there (and even dressed as Jack Dawson). Fun times. The first (and only) game I ever saw and played on a CD-i was The Palm Springs Open, which looked and sounded tons better than any golf game I'd seen to that point. Sadly, the price was prohibitive... so I never bought one. Curiously: the FMV stuff looks really high-quality! Finally: That ending was fantastic. I'm still laughing over here. Thanks again for all you do; I really, really enjoy your work.

"Escape from Cyber City" has actual clips from anime movie called "Galaxy Express 999 " , and was based on a series that aired for several years , spawning 113 episodes .

4:08 Because when you think Tetris, you think the great outdoors. Seriously, what's up with the background?

@tetrisdave

9 жыл бұрын

Seriously. New age Tetris.

@kbbbb7

9 жыл бұрын

Because they could. It seemed "cool" back then to have that style of music and "real photos on a console! Wow!"

@JackBandicootsBunker

9 жыл бұрын

Not like it was a bad combination. Check out "The New Tetris" for N64, its "New Age" feel was quite okay.

@cheezerscameback9145

8 жыл бұрын

Talk about ahead of its time. The tetris motion backgrounds are the same ones you can buy off psn for the background of your ps3

@TheJeremyHolloway

4 жыл бұрын

Tetris on computers had backgrounds. That was prior to the Atari Games/Tengen version and Nintendo's version for the Gameboy and NES. Those were the versions that focused on the game being front and center, if not the entire screen.

Kingdom: The far reaches. AKA Thayer's Quest. Was supposed to be released on the RDI Halcyon.

Thank you for putting yourself through this pain for our enjoyment. Don't drink too heavily in trying to recover from playing this. And I really hope the night terrors aren't too bad. Maybe next you can do the Hyper Scan?

Link: The Faces of Evil and Zelda: Wand of Gamelon actually are guilty pleasures of mine.

Kingdom: The Far Reaches is on the RDI Halcyon as Thayer's Quest, the system made by the same people who made Dragon's Lair in 1983.

This is one of the greatest consoles ever. I don't know how someone could live without it.

@tetrisdave

9 жыл бұрын

We've managed so far....lol

@Arcane_Digital

2 жыл бұрын

@@tetrisdave Speak for yourself. Without a CDi of my own, I’m unable to drive, write checks, grocery shop…frightened of post offices and haven’t seen my accountant in years. It’s no life, least not one worth mentioning…

I loved that version of Tetris so much. Each level with moving water had the best music and it was just so relaxing.

I think the reason why it bombed was because it was marketed wrong. People thought it was supposed to be like the next SNES when in reality, video games wasn't on the top of the list of what it does. I had one and in actuality it was a cd-rom like device that you can play on your tv, and it also plays video games. If Phillips would've marketed it as it was supposed to be seen as then I don't think it would've failed as hard as it did.

The music on some of these games is actually pretty awesome, especially some of the early 90s Indie Industrial stuff.

This is by far the best review of the CD-i on the internet, nice job guys. And another thing, how did Philips got the licence for Zelda and Mario?

@frankschneider6156

9 жыл бұрын

Serros Retroman gamewise absolutely, hardware-wise imho not. If interested you might check out the channel of gerion79 for his reviews of the CD-i (or Sega CD, NeoGeo CD or Amiga CD32 etc). but be warned: the style also differs. While Game Sack is about fun, entertainment and games, his reviews are more hardware and fact-oriented.

@ThunderDragonRandy

9 жыл бұрын

Nintendo partnered with Philips during that time. But because Nintendo partnered with Sony's rival Philips, Sony dropped their Play Station (a CD addon) for the Super NES and turned it into a standalone console called PlayStation to compete in the gaming world.

@Serros13

9 жыл бұрын

Frank Schneider Yeah, I should've specify that I meant gamewise, that's where Game Sack is best (besides, games are all that matters about a console). About hardware stuff I usually check gamester81 but I would check that guy you mention as well.

@Serros13

9 жыл бұрын

***** No they don't. Mario and Zelda were created by Shigeru Miyamoto, get your facts straight bro.

@Serros13

9 жыл бұрын

***** Muted, because I don't waste my time with fucking trolls like you.

Just riding out a cold before I go back to school, relaxing on the couch watching a bunch of episodes of game sack. love the show guys it's really chill. "HEY THIS IS NO VIDEO GAME"

Good review and the best "post show" segment section in Game Sack history. Nice work lads!

Yes! A new game sack, or should I say beard sack?

I went into this video thinking I might find at least one reason to get a CDi, but no, all I found was disappointment. I'll take a 3DO over this any day.

This is the best video on the CD-i anywhere. Thanks!

I love how you guys chose the popular more common genres that existed at the time to compare the performance and the gameplay of them in the CD-i, this is one of the best reviews of the "console" there is, it really shows how it was compared to the popular ones of the era. It really tried to bite more than it could chew! Great review and I loved the ending as always!

If I had bought this when it came out like I wanted I would have been so depressed

@greenkoopa

7 ай бұрын

And broke

I agree with Bucky Monk about doing an Amiga review, although I would love to see an Acorn Archenemies review, not many people have heard let alone played one, it had somewhat of a British only fanbase, I have produced a review of what I have managed to play, but I'm sure you guys could give it the full once over.

Been watching you guys for years. Keep up the good work

Nothing like waking up on my day off to a new Game Sack. A good start to the morning, for sure.

escape from cyber city = anime galaxy express 999 incase you guys are wondering

@MarsGundam

9 жыл бұрын

Glad I'm not the only one who noticed.

@kite198

9 жыл бұрын

yeah galaxy express 999 is one of my favorite animes i had to say something XD

@kite198

9 жыл бұрын

nahhh its galaxy express they probably just grab scenes from the anime and decide HEY LETS MAKE A GAME OUT OF IT because theres alot of scenes from the footage of that game i recognize from the anime XD

@AKATenn

9 жыл бұрын

GE three nine was my favorite movie growing up, always wanted that game, but I always knew CD-I was crap and got a sega-cd instead :D best version of flashback I ever played was the sega cd version.

@LouGojira2

9 жыл бұрын

Escape from Cyber City was also released in arcades as Freedom Fighter. I couldn't make heads or tails of it and thought it was horrible, but surprised it actually made it to a console.

thank you game sack and god bless you for all the hard work you do with these ...beautiful videos always ..please keep up you are No1

@tetrisdave

9 жыл бұрын

Thank You!

Seeing 7th Guest footage brought back many childhood memories, I remember it and it's sequel being scary as hell back in the day. I wonder if I'll still like the game if I played it today.

I love those endings with Dave praising a bad console haha.

Where is Dragon's Lair 1 & 2, Space Ace??? The best versions of these games out there. Anyway, great episode, like usually! Keep on going, guys. You do a fantastic job. By the way, I didn't know the thing with the battery. That makes me fear.

@tetrisdave

9 жыл бұрын

Thank You. We didn't cover Dragon's Lair and Space Ace since they were released on so many other systems. Hell I even had a copy of Dragon's Lair that played on my DVD player. Fun games.

kingdom the far recas was originily a halcyon game and the halcyon in 2500$ console with only 2 games from 1985

Thanks for doing The CD-i justice by covering some obscure titles and also hidden gems (such as The Apprentice which does seem like a hidden gem in this pile of software). Good to see that your system-focussed episodes are getting better and better over time.

Oh man, Twinkle Tale! You guys are the only retro gaming channel I bother watching. There's just so much of them out there, but you two are the only ones I get excited about. Good balance of knowledge and humor, plus I often learn a lot. But didn't the CD-i have the best version of Dragon's Lair ever made available?

@AmberShort

9 жыл бұрын

This show is so good that I'm going to watch this episode a second time.

Whoa. Escape From Cyber City is apparently based on Leiji Matsumoto's 1970s anime classic Galaxy Express 999? The character you're controlling in that game is unmistakably Tetsuro Hoshino, the protagonist of Galaxy Express 999. The old man you showed in that clip is an old man he befriends as part of the story. And the robots you're fighting all look like Count Mecha's soldiers. I'm not sure if the game was originally Japanese, and was based on the Galaxy Express 999 license, or if it's just an unabashed rip-off, but look up some footage of that show/movie sometime and you'll see exactly what I mean.

Dave flipping off Joe always gets a chuckle out of me. Also, in terms of grinding off the case of the ROM chip, couldn't you just solder the wires onto the pins? Or is it more of the battery is stored within the casing?

@FallicIdol

7 жыл бұрын

Dave giving the bird is classic.

My friend had a CDI growing up and we always use to play this mini golf game and it took me years of searching to find out what the title of it eas...Eugene Levy's Wacky World of Miniature Golf. I remember the cut scenes blew my mind back in the day.

@YumeKojoCosplay

4 жыл бұрын

Jake Smith Game Grumps played this and the results are hilarious.

Love the skits guys, it's always a laugh at the end.

Joe: Gee, it sure is boring around here. Dave: You call my house boring? Now you must die! Joe: My boy, have something I got from "The Mushroom Kingdom" (Later, when both are high) Joe: I wonder what's for dinner Dave: Whatever the wife says Joe: I hope she made lotsa spaghetti!

I'm going to have to give the Beard Award to Joe, for consistency. But Dave gets Most Improved Beard.

Hi guys! I love your videos... I used to own and run a retail video game store for a few years here in Mesa and we had CRATES of CD-i stuff, could never get it to sell even in bundles with arm loads of games. Then I hooked one up and "PLAYED" the CD-i. Now I understand why no one wanted it. You would think that with the extremely high price the machine could at least match the processing prowess of the SNES or the Genesis but it just never delivered. The 3DO was similar but at least there were a few games people wanted for that one. Keep up the good work!

i dont know how you guys do it, i have NEVER seen a bad video from you guys :) GREAT VIDEO GUYS

Finally! My favorite "bad" console. Very nostalgic for me, this is gonna be my favorite.

What an awful game system. My heart goes out to the poor souls who had it as a kid. Keep up the awesome work guys.

Dave beating the shit out of Joe at the end was hilarious

Seriously you guys are like the James Brown of obscure retro consoles. I don't think anybody put more time into their research or actual game acquisition.Bravo good sirs!

Wow, Media Play! I miss that place, it was awesome

I bought one of these for 5 euros, but it's missing the power supply. Stupid thing takes an Ethernet-like plug or something. Oh well, I guess it was cheap for a reason...

that skit at the end was great. i was doubled over with laughter when dave flipped joe off. great stuff guys, as always.

Great job always look forward to your new videos! Keep it up

i used to live in colorado springs and i would ge to media play all the time!!! i miss those days

Woke up with the worst headach and here is a gamesakku! and a CD-i episode! I miss oldschool media play :(

This still remains one of the best ending skits these lads have ever done.

You did it again guys. Another great video. Thank you!

@tetrisdave

9 жыл бұрын

Thanks Chicken Lipps!

I dont know...Zenith actually kinda looks fun

@minayukiyukisato659

9 жыл бұрын

Screw that. The Flowers of Robert Maplethorpe is the best. xD

@crazisaturn2274

2 жыл бұрын

I would play it

Posts "Great vid" on a 32-minute long video 3 minutes after it's posted. Is obviously full of shit. (Not that it's not good but how do they really know?)

@TonyLikeGames2

9 жыл бұрын

I know. It seems like it happens every time.

@JimBeezie

9 жыл бұрын

I think it makes perfect sense. Such comments can be appropriate when the quality of a product is as consistent as found here on Game Sack. I myself would be more than willing to make such a comment having never-yet been disappointed by an episode of this series.

@n0isyturtle

9 жыл бұрын

Hi, I commented early and am sustained purely off of your KZread comment likes. Please like my comment so that I don't die from attention starvation.

@AKATenn

9 жыл бұрын

anyone who even attempts a CD-I review deserves a "great vid" post, just plugging the system in without falling asleep with boredom takes great skill and effort :P

@ShadeWMD

9 жыл бұрын

They're all good so the viewer was assuming this would be, too. If I eat a pizza 20 times and like it, I don't have to wait until I finish the 21st to know I'm going to like it, too.

WHOA, before clicking on this video I was already humming the Zelda Wand Of Gamelon map screen music (because in my opinion this song represent the CD-I), and you guys did put as the background music right at the beginning!

@awelcruiz

7 жыл бұрын

I can't hear that music anymore without also hearing "Looks like you've got a baby penis!"

@avideogamemaster

7 жыл бұрын

awelcruiz wth, is that a reference to what? lol

@awelcruiz

7 жыл бұрын

avideogamemaster Game Grumps' Wand of Gamelon playthrough.

@avideogamemaster

7 жыл бұрын

awelcruiz GG? yuck. But thanks

@YumeKojoCosplay

5 жыл бұрын

@awelcruiz Same

ok, ok I just have to say... I think a lot of people back in the CD-i days purchased one after seeing a game you didn't even talk about and that would be Dragon's Lair. That was the reason I purchased one (although it's long gone now) as back then no other home console could even come close to giving you the arcade experience of Dragon's Lair. The home computer versions were all cut down (like the animated Amiga version) or just completely different games (like the C64 version). I think the only version I can think of that came close was the Mega-CD version which was pretty much the full complete arcade game, The video quality however was vastly inferior to the CD-i version which looked pretty amazing back then on a crt screen. Sure it's a pretty terrible system overall but man those dragon's Lair and Space Ace games were the best looking home versions available anywhere. Great episode guys, keep up the good work.

The FMV-like graphics may have been impressive at the time (?) but there appears to be NO gameplay! (Apart from maybe that fighting game)

@TechniqueSan

7 жыл бұрын

Kinda like this generation.

@KillThad

7 жыл бұрын

^ too many keks

I just found a cdi at a thrift store for 25 bucks

@BassGoesBoom1

9 жыл бұрын

good deal

@tetrisdave

9 жыл бұрын

Well did you buy it or leave it? Did it have any "software" included?

@zemaduvant8676

9 жыл бұрын

To this day i have never seen anything other than the basic nes, snes, sega consoles when i go to the thrift stores, although the cdi has no good games it seems so i don't understand why anyone would want it.

@JackieFroSTALKER

9 жыл бұрын

I probably wouldn't get it even for that price cause it'd end up being a waste of space.

@Captain_Neckbeard

9 жыл бұрын

If I got one for free I would give it away or smash it.

managed to make the Atari Jaguar's games look halfway decent. Thanks for the review guys.

That was an amusing episode, and the after-credits scene was by far one of your funniest, which is really saying something as there is no shortage of funny at Gamesack.

Glad I never got a CD-i now.

0:13 Joe: "Hello and welcome to the Beard Sack."

This console is prime example of why scrolling, frame rate (well it was technically different being interlaced back then, but you know what I mean) and proper programming mean to gameplay. Just upping resolution from 720p to 1080p to 1440p to 2160p etc. etc. etc. doesn't mean shit if the game doesn't move and control smoothly. You can play a game with meh resolution as long as it runs smoothly and the controls are responsive. Phillips must have forgot this when they designed the system.

The bonus bits of your videos are hilarious.