Confessions of a CD-I Owner
I'm a sucker for the older sprite-based 2D Mario games and when I learned that a prototype of a Super Mario World-esque game called " Mario's Wacky Worlds " for the CDI had surfaced, I knew I had to play it. This was around 13 years ago. I hunted around for a while and found a decent deal on a CDI-220 system bundled with a game controller and a remote. When my system arrived, I set it up, burned a copy of the prototype to a CD-R and got about 10 minutes of fun poking around the incomplete demo before exhausting it. Next I tried out The 7th Guest which had held my curiosity since being announced as a title in development for the cancelled SNES CD-ROM addon. There was something wrong with the copy I downloaded and I couldn't get the game to work properly. So I took the next reasonable step and bought copies of the "awful" Zelda titles that were released for the system. Those two were good for less than an hour of combined fun so I put the system...