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Even as a collector, I've never laid my hands on one of these. (lemmy.world)
submitted 23 hours ago by The_Picard_Maneuver to c/retrogaming
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[–] [email protected] 26 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)

My Mom was an artist for a small game developer in Bermuda (of all places...) In the 90s.

Not only did they have one of these in the office, which I would spend a lot of time at after school, but she had one at home as well. So I spent a formidable part of my childhood trying to learn CD-I games.

The two we had at home (I do not know their names and I've tried looking them up) were:

Photorealistic Ultraviolent Cyberpunk... It was like an FPS and Point and Click adventure at the same time. Lawnmower Man vibes.

Japanese Feudal Defence Simulator... Another FPS where you would defend a castle from waves of approaching samurai with a Bow.

The controller was a wackadoodle Trackball design and honestly a pain in the ass to use, but superior to my NES which I had (as my only comparison).

We never bought more games as... Well... They weren't sold on the island.

Edit: I've also played the Zelda game at the office, but honestly it was like they tried to make a Mario game using Zelda, and as stated below: it was awful.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver 12 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

This is the kind of story I was hoping to hear in this thread.

Did you enjoy it at the time, or was there a sense of it not being a great console? I know that we were much more forgiving of janky games back then, so it's hard to look at it fairly from 2025.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Graphically it was superior to anything else I had played (SNES and Genesis were the two available at the time) but it definately lacked polish, even to 8 year old me. The real kicker is that everything about it just looked... Different from what was being pushed by Nintendo and Sega with their consoles.

I also had access to PCs which would play Wolfenstien3D, so I would say the game play was also somewhat superior, but the CDi lacked depth with the games. (Or I was too young to advance in them beyong the first levels due to difficulty)

I also just remembered that there was another game which was incredibly well made... And it was all 90s western cartoon styled about a knight trying to save a princess from a dragon.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I also just remembered that there was another game which was incredibly well made... And it was all 90s western cartoon styled about a knight trying to save a princess from a dragon.

I think you're talking about Dragon's Lair-- I wouldn't necessarily call it well made. It was designed as an arcade game to munch through your quarters, so the gameplay felt pretty unfair with very short timing on everything.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 22 hours ago

That's the one.

I mean, it was better made than the other games I had access to.

And yes, its Ninja Gaiden levels of difficult.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Burn Cycle! Thank you!

I've never really tried searching for the game names. This thread has been great!

Maybe I should set up an emulator and get some nostalgia flowing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

Glad I could help!

[–] SpaceNoodle 4 points 19 hours ago

I never got through that stupid asteroid field in Burn:Cycle