Image: Limited run games During the holiday season, we’re republishing select articles from Nintendo Life writers and contributors as part of our Best of 2023 series. Enjoy! The year is 1991. ‘Video games’ – the square-shaped plastic cartridges that millions of people blow into every day – are taking over the early adopters. However, they ...
The Philips CDI console contained several The Legend of Zelda games that were never ported to another console. One was The Legend of Zelda: Link: The Faces of Evil, Zelda: The Wand of Gannon, and the last one was Zelda’s Adventure. Creative mastermind John Lay decided to release a full port of the original CDi ...
Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Nintendo has been incredibly protective of its IPs throughout its history, largely retaining control and maintaining exclusivity on its platforms, aside from the occasional arcade machine. That makes the ‘Zelda’ trilogy on the Philips CD-i particularly fascinating (the system had Mario titles as well), as they’re oddities that are ...
If Nintendo is obviously proud of its The Legend of Zelda franchise, part of its history is being willingly forgotten by the Kyoto company. This pan corresponds to the three Zelda games released on the infamous Philips CD-i. And while Nintendo carefully avoids mentioning these titles, it may have broken that rule recently. It appears ...
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku‘s constant hangout for people who love video games and the cool sounds they make. Today we look back on 1992, when, according to Philips, a classic became a legend. You can call it … Teshtris. The Philips CD-i was one Disaster of a gaming platformOutside of strangely persevering enthusiasts, the ...
Game news Zelda: Mission impossible on CD-I? Still considered the “cursed” trilogy of the Zelda license, the works released on Philips CD-i still mark the nightmare they depicted. However, the good Nanix could show you that in the context of time we were in a Mission Impossible scenario … It is the result of a ...
An amateur video game developer known as Dopply on Twitter has released reimagined remakes of the 1993 Phillips CD-i action-adventure games Link: The Faces of Evil and Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon. The games were created in Game Maker over four years and feature the original assets. Here’s a bit more insight: “I developed these ...
