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| | CD-i - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | CD-i or Compact Disc Interactive is the name of an interactive multimedia CD player and format developed jointly by N.V. Philips in the Netherlands and Sony Corporation in Japan and released in 1991. |
 | | The first Philips CD-i player, initially priced around USD $400, was capable of playing interactive CD-i discs (its native format, also known as Green Book), Audio CDs, CD+G (CD+Graphics), Karaoke CDs, and Video CDs (VCDs), though the last required an optional "Digital Video Card" to provide MPEG-1 decoding. |
 | | CD-i is noted for the release of several spinoffs of popular Nintendo video games featuring characters typically seen only on Nintendo consoles, although those games were not developed by Nintendo. |
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