>The CDi is failing at market! We need a killer app QUICK!>Stand back, boys, I've got just the thing...
>have mario and zelda>still loseCD-I was destined to fail.
>>12584301it's like bard simpsons getting a video game from his bleu-haired bio-mom.
>>12584301>look uo gameplay>its a cineamsscre video>they start the game>narrator keeps mentioning how sensual the flower are
>>12584369>mentioning how sensual the flower areSensual like a man's pooper
>>12584301I'm just impressed that Rolfe pronounced his name correctly, despite the spelling
I've actually seen Mapplethorpe's flower work at an art gallery before and it really was beautiful. He genuinely was a very skilled floral photographer.
>>12584301It's retro... but is it a game?
I like the part when Opeth's Orchid cover shows up
>>12584386That must have been a mowden of a challenge for him.
>>12584301It's the best game on the console.
>>12584301There were tons of semi-interactive digital encyclopedias like these back in the early days of CDs.They were cheap to make and were appealing enough to people interested in the subject back in the pre-internet era. I never understood how this particular one got singled out as some sort of unique bizarre product.
For me, it was picrel. I actually "played" this as a kid.>>12584405That album is amazing. Holy shiiiit.
>>12584342We're beating a dead horse here but still. How the FUCK do you gain access to two of the biggest characters in gaming and decide you're going to farm out the games to whatever random hacks accept your shoestring budget? Sure, the CD-i was gimped and it's not like they were ever going to make LTTP on it but if the fucking game boy could have multiple really good Zelda games on it somebody who knew what they were doing could have made something quality for the CD-i that would have actually drove sales in a way nothing else they had could. And they just didn't give a fuck. Why didn't they give a fuck?
>>12584390Mapplethorpes big thing is taking phallic like photos of flowers. They're literally flower dick pics.
>>12584852Gay Georgia O’Keeffe
>>12584301>Thank you mom, that's what I always wantedNo. 1 on every CDi kid's wishlist
there's plenty of silly non-game software for consoles like the playstation as well, the only difference is that that's in addition to the solid game library
>>12585470Why is there a picture of birds advertising a UFO themed disc?
>>12584823I think the people in charge of the CD-i just didn't understand how making games worked, so they assumed that game developers were completely interchangeable.
>>12584301
>>12584823Because it's a multimedia CD player with some games. If you look at it like that, it's not at all that surprising. It's not like the Nuon where the idea was an actual gaming DVD player with some hardware in service of the gaming part and that was still-born.The CD-i's VDP is marketed as "a low-cost implementation for a high-performance color display" and its feature list reads like some TV control system, you might notice gaming isn't included among its possible applications like "frame grabbing" and the venerable "remote control". As a CPU it has a 68K derivative that differs a bit from more standard 68Ks, generally being slower and having a non-compatible MMU. Not exactly changes to elevate its gaming prowess (its remote control prowess however...).
>>12584735>flipino artdun summon the filpino janny /pol/ poster....
>>12584345>you have selected: no
>>12584390based actual art appreciatoryou do not belong here amongst these Philistines
>>12585921don't act like you're above everyone else just because you appreciate a particular set of photographs of flowers
>>12585669it was a cd-rom multimedia system for a future that didn't anticipate the the internet eating its' lunch. the cdi seems nonsensical today but if you consider it was competing with printed encyclopaedias and not the internet it makes a bit more sense.the whole multimedia craze of the early '90s really went quiet once the internet became front and centre.
mapplethorpe was a fag. he took some nice photos tho
>look him up having only previously heard his name from the angry video game nerd>bunch of black and white photos of actual penisescool, very nice.
>>12585960That's nothing https://www.blind-magazine.com/news/the-censored-images-of-robert-mapplethorpe/
>>12584301ILL SUCK YOUR FLOWER STEMSYOU WANT ME TO EAT YOUR NECTAR?!?ILL EAT YOUR NECTAR!
>>12585964i wonder if mr. art appreciator knows this is what he's defendingman am i glad i only knew this as an odd cdi title about a flower photographer. i wonder if james knew about this, perhaps i should watch the cdi episode again
>>12585947I never thought about it like this. The CD-i would be pretty cool in a world without the internet.
>>12586046right? i'm by no means a cdi expert or fan, but even i can see that it only became a joke in hindsight (being really young when it came out). the cdi is a system designed for a future that never happened, it's something that you have to know the history around it to understandthe internet is so pervasive and constant these days that it's hard to imagine or remember when it was an inconvenient, optional thing nobody really knew where it was going.
>>12586046>>12586065British CD-i consoles actually could interface with the internet using a modem and CD-Online disc. You could receive and write email and view up to 10 Usenet posts at a time. There was even one game, RAM Raid, that supported free online multiplayer.
>Be artist>Be gay>Get aids>Die>Don't even get to experience your gameTragic...
>>12584735I always figured they were set up in places like doctors offices or lobbies at therapists or something, probably as tax writeoffs to have something other than cable in waiting rooms. Similar idea to edutainment stuff for computer labs but more sterile.
>>12586572lol
>>12585947>a future that didn't anticipate the the internet eating its' lunch.The internet was basically a joke until broadband, so there was still a use case for multimedia CDs, it's just that it was for your computer and not some cut down version for your TV.
>>12586575It did see some use as perpetual/edutainment players. It even has its own share of non-retro software that 100% only exists because companies still had CD-i capable players they might as well use.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5UblQ2hHYc
>>12585519Supposedly they didn't like games either. If you look at the early catalogs, it's only like 10% games and 90% other stuff.
>>12585947It was also way the fuck cheaper than a computer, so if you just wanted the multimedia features and not word processors and such, it was a very appealing alternative.
>>12586604Meh, the CDI meant something in the early 90s, but was prohibitively expensive, and by the mid 90s, you could do that and more on a PC/Mac>if you just wanted the multimedia features and not word processorsComputer does homework and spreadsheets, and by the mid 90s, that was becoming a necessity. If you didn't need a computer or something, you'd have more fun with an actual game console, and leave art to museum visits and video to Television/VHS.The CDI was ahead of it's time, but once it was time, it was basically an obsolete joke on it's way out, and you had more reasons to choose a 486/Pentium computer instead.
>>12586591Neat. Might have ironically been a more reasonable investment for those types of uses than as an actual game console, given how interactive software was and how inexpensive they would have gotten when failing their intended purpose.
>>12586639Multimedia edujunk was its intended purpose though. It's also got like 5 billion known karaoke discs, but Japan went easy on the porn this time iirc.
That one bit in Lester the Unlikely sends me every time. Say what you want about James but he’s a master of acting with just facial expressions
>>12584390You are so fucking gay
>>12585490>take blurry picture of a bird>tell people it's a super secret spaceship the government hides from you>call everyone who says it kinda looks like a bird a dumb sheepIt's just how that whole schizo scene works.
>>12584735People assume the CD-i was strictly supposed to be a game console so it having software where you just look at pictures of flowers seems weird.
