2; Pillowpants; Wed 6th Jul 2022; I still think it's pretty awesome how they managed to get Mario and Zelda titles on the CD-i. Philips were ahead of their time with that machine and it's a shame ...

Had it not been for the ill-advised deal between Nintendo and Philips, the CD-I system would just be a forgotten footnote, an expensive game system that ran decent versions of FMV games like Burn ...

Created for the Philips CD-i in 1994, Hotel Mario was developed by Philips Electronics after acquiring the rights to the Super Mario and Legend of Zelda games after its plans of bringing a CD-ROM ...

I n the early 1990s, Nintendo and tech company Philips collaborated for game releases on an interactive CD player known as ...

We now come to our second and quirkier game in this entry - Hotel Mario. This is a unique inclusion as it was on the Philips CDi; this system was the off-shoot of an abandoned plan to bring a CD ...

Hotel Mario, developed by Philips's Fantasy Factory studio, is actually a bit better than the CD-I Zelda games -- but that's like saying being punched in the stomach is a little bit better than ...

There’s no escaping the fact that the Philips CD-i was not a popular console. It certainly has its place in history, ... Forget what you’ve read or seen about Hotel Mario.