Poll: Does anyone actually own a CD-i?

Redlin5_v1legacy

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If you've watched AVGN play the console, you know what I'm refering to. Did anyone on the escapist ever have the misfortune (or fortune...????) to play one? Do you own one or did you own one? Do you even know what I'm talking about?

Make your choice.
 

Angelcraft

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Apr 15, 2010
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CD-i looked like it sucked. It was the equivalent to how expensive the PS3 was without the cool game options.
 

Hazy

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Jun 29, 2008
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Hell no. I know what it is, but I would never blow money on it.

I'm willing to go great lengths to obtain some pretty rare loot - owning a CD-i is not one of them. Especially with the lack of games that interest me.

Now a Saturn on the other hand, that would be nice...
 

Gigaguy64

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I was interested in one until i saw those games that dare use the Legend of Zelda name.

I didn't know what to think the first time i saw them.....
 
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I never had one, if i could find a cheap one i would pick it up, not because i want to play it, just because i collect video game consoles
 

kickyourass

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I don't think ANYONE owns one of those anymore, except for people like the AVGN who put themselves through the torment of playing those god awful things for our amusement.
 

Kouen

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Mar 23, 2010
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Nope, CD-i Sucks don't think there's even 1 good game on it
 

maxusy3k

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Voted but the poll seems to have not recognised it.

I used to have one, my father bought it pretty much when it came out in the UK. It was a pretty revolutionary thing at the time!

The games we had were:

The 7th Guest - which was way more awesome than the PC version on account of it's actual, recorded music playing off the CD instead of the MIDI versions the PC was lumbered with.

One of the Zelda games, can't remember the name but it was the one that featured Zelda herself as the player character. It wasn't a great game by any stretch, but it lived up to the idea of being Nintendo Hard, for sure.

Then some light-gun style shooter, Escape from Cybercity or something. Also pretty hard, from what I remember... but pretty good and very non-linear, for a rail shooter. It was more in the style of, say, Dragon Quest than an actual rail shooter.

My main memories were being overjoyed when - after trying to play Zelda with the horrible joystick built into the standard remote - my father bought the joypad for it, and many family nights clustered around trying to work through the puzzles on The 7th Guest. It also let me explore a lot of the music my father was into via video-CDs - mainly Queen and David Bowie.

Good times!
 

War Penguin

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Jun 13, 2009
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No, I don't and haven't owned a CDI. And here's why...
Of course, I have a hard time believing that ALL of the games on that console was bad.
 

reg42

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madbird-valiant said:
I hate AVGN so fucking much. And no, I've never used one.
I've never seen the big deal about him. He's really just not funny.

OT: Hell naw. I wasn't even alive when it came out.
 

AndyVale

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I remember we had one at school. Apparently it was for educational games. Honestly don't remember learning anything though.
 

DigitalSushi

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my friend had one, his dad was a tech junkie so had all the latest and greatest things to come out such as Laser Disc players and the like.

It was an impressive piece of kit, people forget that it was a multimedia platform not a games machine, so its educational titles and film disc where were it was brightest.

Games sucked though, I actually played both Zelda titles.