Rare Philips CDi 350 & 370 Handheld Review - Gamester81
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2024
- The Philips CDi was released in 1991 until 1998, and this is a review over the system.
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This peace is what all true warriors strive for!
@@penatio I just wonder what Ganon's up to!
0:08:15 I thought that was only an UA-cam animation going viral... I would-of never thought it was to a real actual game. :P
"Zelda's Adventure looks like a pretty good game actually."
No.
Great video man and thank you so much for that shoutout! Really kind of you and much appreciated. I've never gotten my hands on a portable CD-i, but I here they are some of the best units to have. I believe the 370 is one of the few (if not the only) system that has an actually easy to replace timekeeper battery.
Thanks for showing these, great overview!
Amazing! I never even knew these existed! Great video!
Magnavox must've looked at Philips's game console and made a "Mag"-nificent face-palm and said, "This isn't how you were suppose to take video gaming to the next level!"
Its amazing at how many different things were on the market way back in the day. Bold, innovative designs but they didnt have the development capital to make a large go of it.
Once again... you amaze me with your stuff.
When I played a CD-I device when I was in elementary school, that is when I first head of the company Philips. However, I have heard of Magnavox years before that when I played the NES on an inexpensive Magnavox brand TV. Ya know, I never knew that Philips itself was the originator of the Compact Disc which I never even seen until like maybe early 1994, as well as the compact cassette which I used to use alot. Philips sure was involved in engineering multimedia equipment for me.
THe CD-i sucked, but truthfully I'd be stoked to own one in the 90s and even now.
Yeah if I could afford to pick up this portable cdi I would pick it up and play some shitty zelda games my friends be like wtf is that? And I be like you don't even want to know. lol.
I feel the same. As horrible as the CD-i is (as far as I heard), I would sort of be interested in having one of these, for curiousness and stuff.
I would have a CDi for Hotel Mario.
I never knew these existed, been gaming since 1976! Thanks for the info.
szor1 0-0 your awsome
Very interesting stuff. I never heard of these versions.
Keep up the good work.
Thank you for the video gamester81
Thanks,
for the shout out .
Looking for one of those Paddle Plug N Plays so congrats on get it and on the rest of them and a great video from as always. : )
awesome review john
I have a Sony CDI brand new in the box going up for auction this evening on eBay.
Nice review man! I remember when the portable ones were out back in the day, I really wanted one, but I had the CD-i 450 which I liked a lot. I still have a couple of issues of the CD-i magazine and use to bring them to school because hardly any of the other kids had heard of the system. A lot of people on youtube make fun of it now, but every one of my friends enjoyed coming over to play it back then.
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Sony also made a portable CDi. It's really pretty and very modern looking for the time it came out, but its very hard to come by these days. It was insanely expensive and very few units were sold. Great vid :-)
Thank you for explaining that. These people wont stop bothering me!!!
Super rare and super cool, both of them. I guess I got lucky to have found two of the console models. Nice video!
Wow! Never seen or heard about a portable CDi before! Thanks for the info John! Looks awesome.. The case that it came with looks super cool. Great vid!!!!
@superlegoman64 CD-i's were made up to 2000 I believe, and were used a good while after that too as a business tool. As a gaming system it died out at around 1998, as a retail device a good while earlier still.
Weird that the d-pac is on the right hand side rather then the left like we're used to.
Oh, and I watch HBG's videos all the time. Great stuff he does! ;)
Those CD-i handhelds are monsters fighting with the Sega Game Gear in Tokyo for dominance over who is the largest, less conveniently sized handheld.
The MsPacman game on the CDi is amazing - it only features one moving ghost I believe!
The intention was aimed at the UA-cam poops that used the CD-I games as source material. AVGN did a review of the games and system.
0:02 looks like a burnt in plasma TV
@dungeonblaster It's really on the right. It's not designed with games in mind though, these units were mainly used to augment business presentations. Much like how we use laptops for presentations these days.
But that blue lead you got. looks like a Caravan plug. My family has had a few caravans over the years and they looked like that.
But they're mostly used for stuff like Car lights for bumpers than anything else.
Amazing systems never seen them but they look really awesome thanks a lot for this review.
@RetroGamer3 These units were not intended for games, most people prefer a pointing device (like a mouse) on the right side. For games... it's really awkward though. But as I said, these were not designed for games, but rather for presentations and such. You wouldn't want to hold that like a controller anyway, way to big! They have inputs for a normal (for CD-i...) gamepads too.
I can't believe you own allll those systems and that's the first time you've seen a power inverter got one in my car can bring a small led tv and a game system on roadtrips
Where can i buy the battery for this? My father lost it 5y ago:) in my country, so difficult to find the accessories because They are not widely used. Can you help me?
5:37 is a power inverter, i have been using them for years to hook up things like tv's and vid game systems up in my vehicles. Sweet review btw.
I'm sitting here, watching this, while playing my 3ds, and thinking, "Wow, it's amazing how technology has progressed in the last 20 years"
@ProjectFreelancer64 It's more of a portable version and it wasn't intended as a handheld gaming system at all. CD-i was a pretty successful medium as a business tool. This was more aimed towards easier use in that field.
great vid 5 star ill show you guys my philips cdi soon.
It’s rare coz it was so expensive at the time way back in 1993
I wouldn't mind the 7th Guest on a plane trip, I'll probably only solve 2 puzzles though.
I have those tetris plug-n-plays, they work really well
I've watched the custscenes like a million times but this is my first time seeing the actual game.
Great video. I actually prefer handhelds to home consoles so it's cool to see another handheld that actually plays home console games. Now they just need to work on the Nintendo 64 handheld, and maybe a better handheld SNES than the FC 16 Go.
Lol the 370 is like a giant gba sp!!!
Great video
Sweet review, also, will you be reviewing that plug n' play stuff?
For professional use I guess it was handy. I never knew anyone with any CDi hardware. It was so expensive and as a gaming platform couldn't compete with Sega and Nintendo. It wasn't even originally marketed as a game system. But that's what it ended up being remembered as for the most part. It's because of that whole SNES disc add-on thing and those terrible Zelda games.
Wow, never realized there were so many CDi models. lol.
Well, that was the first standalone CD-based console, called the CD-I.
Wow....Was the CDi doing that well that they were compelled to make a portable version of it...Good portable CD player back in the day I guess.
Way cool man! I would totally take one on a plane lol.
In 1993 this was 1200 quid
DUDE you have the old H-handle star wars game?!?!?!? I'm gonna cry now...
If I had one of these as a child, my head would have exploded.
They made a handheld!? it was popular enough to have a handheld version!? WHAT THE CRAP. (nice vid BTW)
Nice watch : )
I never knew that Philips was in the gaming industry
P.S.
I hope they make another gaming system
Would be kinda sweet if it also played VCD's as well, but I don't suppose that was ever thought about at the time.
I had no idea that they made a portable version of CDI.
In today's world, I think GP2X-sized game systems (or computers of that size) are capable of being way more portable with even way more processing power on storage with 10x+ the storage density than CDs (in which CD-i was made for), and they don't even need moving parts, since SD and USB flash memory are the WAVE OF THE FUTURE.
But I understand if you're the retro enthusiast who idolizes the bulky equipment with moving parts.
And for a portable console to be heavy kinda defeats its purpose
Hi, Gamester81 do you know by chance how much was cost Philips CD-i 370 back in 1995/1996? I heard that was $1900.00 but I’m not sure if that is true.
The Philips CDi was the first console to use a cd drive.
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I would feel like such a BAMF sitting in a public place, playing my CDI 370
@HalfBlindGamer By the way John, the 370 was made by GoldStar ;)
I kind of want this just so I can take it on the plane and see what people's reactions to it are like.
This is the only video game system home-schoolers were allowed to have...the poor little bastards...
The watch you are wearing at 4:27 looks alot like a C-Watch, of which is a retro 90s piece. One day, I'd like to see an MP3 player watch be distributed in a similar look.
Gamester81, these are both really cool cdi models! Does either one come with the digital video cartridge that some games need?
Doesn't look like it, don't see any room for that beast of an expansion pack in this cute and tiny piece of failed entertainment hardware.
Yea the blue button odd I have never seen that before????? But interesting and weird though wouldnt the portable lock out games like maddog mcgree and drug wars and police force because the light gun was kinda needed for those titles I could see why these failed not because of screen size but elemination of the gun would be a downer
Well as said this version was never designed to be a games console. It's main purpose was as a video player for professional market. For company reps to show customers product videos.
I had one of these as a child, too bad I threw it away.
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@angelpichu1 no as that wasnt a format at the time. CD-i is a format of disc that can play all sorts of media. There were CD-i movies though. I have Ghost and the Hunt for Red October.
You can only spend about three seconds staring at the way that the buttons were placed before you go "no no no no no no" and say that videogames weren't what the developers were striving for.
@TheBloodyKnife1 CD-i has no copy protection and pretty much all of the games are made to work on both PAL and NTSC systems. So it's really easy to play burned games on it indeed, back then most consumers did not have burners yet.
thanks so much for watching guys, i really appreciate it. until next time, happy gaming! take care. *walks off stage*
i got that same Atari plug and play joystick. I believe it has 10 games on it (adventure, pong, vollyball, asteroids) just to name a few
@youtubasoarus I agree, if it wasn't for pioneering technology like this, there wouldn't be DVD or PlayStation discs. Heck, even Blu-Ray still used conventions invented with the CD-i format. The music in the two Zelda platformers is also really good indeed.
It's a real shame Philips didn't care at all for the gaming market (we don't toys...), if they would have focused on that in the design they could have scored a real hit I think.
Awesome, you can bring 'MAH BOI' everywhere you go xD
The side-scrolling Link game is pretty good, but it would be good if they actually cut out the cut scenes.
I recently got this and it came with some Quiznos employee training discs. i can't get them to work though but im keeping them since im guessing they have to be ultra rare. the player itself works great though.
Upload 'em somewhere!
Did you ever get those discs archived?
@@BuckoBean29 nah. idk they're pretty scratched up. i think they're too messed up to read but i'll keep them and eventually get rid of them to someone that has more time to mess with them
@@TekMoliGy well if you ever want to get rid of them please let me know. I own a professional disc resurfacer and can make these discs look like new. I would love the chance to archive these discs for the world to see. Thanks.
Nice of the princess to invite us over hey Luigi?
@Gamester81, can you switch between PAL and NTSC on the other versions of the CD-i? Because I watched the HalfBlindGamer's review of Zenith, and it looks really cool, but it was only released in Europe AFIK. Great video!!
Huh, it has an additional input on the side... if you wanted, you could play one of the most compact versions of Mad Dog McCree with the zapper, that is, if the 350 came with the equivilant FMV card built in. If nothing else, you could still use the zapper to play games, which, is far better than the default remote style controller that came with the CD-i 220 (the model I own,) or the 350's default controls on the face of the system.
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The CDI 370 was over $1000 new...it was made by LG for Philips.
wooaah those porteble machinery,s were super,ultra,mega ahead of it,s time back in 1991,i just can,t believe that the first cdi home console was so huge and heavy like a old vcr.
sure those portebles were extreamly expansive but you got what you pay for,color lcd screens especiaaly the big ones like this were extreamly hard effordeble.
even laptops back then had a b&w screen,nintendo was still stack with their b&r screens for their shitty virtualboy.
I have the Philips CD-i 250 and 450^^ but the 350 & 370 are much cooler^^ nice review ;)
wow it works!
It will play on the 370, but not on the 350 because of the lack of the MPEG decoder.
sounds like a dreamcast when the disc spins
interesting, it's hard to believe they lasted long enough to make portable units
i think with this on the street nowadays and you see some random 3DS or vita gamers going by or whatever they are going to be like WTF IS THAT THING?. lol.
This looks like the computer that John Luke on (star trek next generation) has on his desk in his office.
Zelda adventure... I lent that game from a friend couple of years ago, it is a pretty hard game, for a kid of 8 years old.
@markvergeer Haha, it does have three :P But you can move faster then the screen can scroll, so it's no great port by any means.
Woooow.. this is great.. who doesnt want a portable cd-i to play all the..great.. games..
YTPs wouldn't be the same if Cdi didn't make these awful games. In a way, we are grateful.
I was unaware that there were cd-I handhelds... If there are so many different models how come it's hard to find one? Also what kind of watch were u wearing?
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