+JuggerNaut+ wrote:nobody paid attention to those though. they weren't going to be a must have format.
they didnt know so at the time though. especially cdi had quite the marketing schemes going on
hey, they even had the Nintendo Revolution controller idea!
i can agree with that, but even i wasn't excited for cd-i. i believe it was philips(?) that came out with the first player. my rich friend who had every damn thing in the world had to have it so i got to check it out pretty early on. needless to say, i left knowing i was glad i didnt plunk down almost $500 for nothing.
aye, the cdi was a great idea, just released too early. people were happy with their vhs (now with longplay!) so the thing became a halfassed gameconsole instead - burn cycle was the shit
we had two for some reason my dad bought one for the living room (he's a movie nut) and we had a devkit in our bedroom