cd-i zelda games

[herbietool]

just wondering if anyone has played or knows just how bad these games actually are.

[pjalne]

Played one for five minutes once. I don't remember much, but it was pretty bad. The entire system was doomed from the beginning. My dad borrowed one home from work when I was a kid, and the only game we bothered to play on it was Battleship due to the terrible controls. You couldn't really play a game more advanced than Pacman on it or manouvering would be impossible.

[herbietool]

Thanks for the info. I guess I can stop looking for them now.

[pjalne]

Well, they would be cool to have. There's a couple on ebay:

http://search.ebay.com/zelda-cd-i_W0QQsokeywordredirectZ1QQfromZR8QQsatitleZzeldaQ 20cd-i

[herbietool]

I've seen a few of them on there from time to time, but I just can't bring myself to buy them if they're that unplayable.

[the_dudefather]

i bought night-trap becuase of its reputation for being terrible

[adeptninja]

Yeah they make link seem like a homo and the story was real lame...somthing about a magic lamp if i remember correctly

[Guitar Woman]

oh god, I never thought I'd see the name CD-i anywhere again... :puke

[mew barios]

i played it for like 3 minutes in a bestbuy display once. ive always been curious about it cuz noone ever talks about it in depth, jus say stuff like oh it sucked :O an show that same awful picture from a cutscene over n over.

[WhiteRat]

oh god, I never thought I'd see the name CD-i anywhere again... :puke

ditto.

[Supafly345]

Weren't the controls just a VCR remote with a joystick protruding from it?

[Crying Baby Jesus]

HOLY SHIT I KNOW Someone who has one of those and He splays it all the time :o

He lives across the street from me.

[the_dudefather]

found this while searching for zelda cd-i info
http://epon.sepwich.com/omglink.gif
I want this game

[AChimp]

Aren't there emulators for this?

[Drev]

He looks like he's jackin off the goblet. :(

[the_dudefather]

you can download a bunch of videos at http://www.zhq2.com/videos.htm which feature gameplay footage of all three cd-i zelda games, thank god nintendo reversed the effect with OOT

[herbietool]

After watching these movies, it seems as though you would need to be heavily medicated in order to enjoy the gameplay.

[FS]

Whoever drew this game has a serious problem with eyelids.

[the_dudefather]

check out the woman zelda talks to in the wand of gameron(?) video thats just freaky (the one who asks for fairy dust)

to wrap up the day with terrible zelda related things:

http://www.wellexcusemeprincess.com/

[Crying Baby Jesus]

:lol WTF!

[herbietool]

*hangs head in shame for starting this topic*

[adeptninja]

I got some of the zelda TV shows on my comp...I only watch um in school and crap on my n-gage. Thats about it.

[Crying Baby Jesus]

lol

It lokks like someones filling zelda with embalming fluid offscreen

[pjalne]

Weren't the controls just a VCR remote with a joystick protruding from it?

Yeah. In fact, if you've played any of those games Disney includes on their DVDs, that's pretty much how most CD-i games played. The Zelda ones are actually pretty sophisticated compared to the average title.

[pjalne]

you can download a bunch of videos at http://www.zhq2.com/videos.htm which feature gameplay footage of all three cd-i zelda games, thank god nintendo reversed the effect with OOT

If you watch the Wand of Gamelot one with the sound off, it looks like they're talking in sign language.

[FS]

The animation reminds me of some 70s cartoons.

The Zelda game with digitized characters looks funny. The narrator has the worst fake beard I've ever seen. Ganon looks sorta good though.

[pjalne]

Is that old guy supposed to be the old man in the first Zelda game? Cause if it is, somebody please do a screenshot.

[FS]

It's likely, they both wear red.

http://www.fragile-minds.com/~fs/sigs/oldman.jpg

Pay me for the dreadlock repair.

[pjalne]

Thanks, dude.

[Supafly345]

I remember seeing the infomercial for cd-i so many fucking times I began to think it actually was the dawn of technology. They tried to profess it as a learning tool by showing kids pick the answer for 4x3 from a list of choices, showing that there is always a kid retarded enough to learn from just about anything.
BUt when they mentioned that it had games they only showed video from one of the zelda games of him jumping around. I thought that it looked much better than the nintendo link, and beat my fists together in anger knowing I would never play it. But now, thanks to the mirical of internet, I can be happy to be fortunate enough not to have played it.

[Crying Baby Jesus]

OH BOY WHATS FOR DINNER!?

The kings a lardass.

[FS]

The in-game graphics don't actually look so bad from what I can tell from the videos. But the controls look incredibly awkward.

[Shoeless joe]

My lord, I wonder how the hell they convinced Nintendo to even allow such shoddy productions to exist in the first place.