There were four main models of the controllers of the CD-i a basic controller with three buttons and a D-pad (the console only used two buttons the third was mapped to the first two buttons being pressed simultaneously), another that resembled a spoon, another similar to the first one but with a protruding stick on top, and one resembling a TV remote, which was the one that came standard with all the consoles. Special criticism was used for the controllers of the CD-i. Common criticisms of the CD-i were its price, the graphical quality of its games (compared to the Super Nintendo or Sega Genesis), its poor library of games (including an influx of point and click games, pornographic games, and educational games), and the controls. The The Legend of Zelda and Mario games received very bad reception, and the system generally sold poorly after 1994. Using Nintendo's licenses, Philips released three games for The Legend of Zelda series, one for the Mario franchise ( two more were planned but were canceled), and a version of Tetris.
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The project was later aborted, but in exchange for their involvement, Philips was given the license to use five of Nintendo's characters in games. Nintendo originally made a deal with Philips to develop an add-on for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System to allow it to play CD-based games, after a similar deal with Sony had fallen through.
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The CD-i was originally released in 1991 at the price of $700 in the United States, and was released in both Japan and Europe the following year releasing 9 days before the Japanese launch of the competing Mega-CD (later released in the US as the Sega CD), it was the second video game system to support CD-based games, following the 1988 launch of the PC Engine CD-ROMĀ² (later released internationally as the TurboGrafx-CD).
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Despite this, however, it primarily maintains a reputation as a video game console, in part because of the near-unanimous negative reception towards many of its most prominent titles, including ones based around Nintendo's IPs. At the time of its inception, the CD-i was not envisioned as a game console, being designed for general multimedia purposes based around various capabilities of the compact disc format (including music, home video, computing, and educational services) the inclusion of video game support was by comparison an afterthought. The Philips CD-i is a multimedia CD player developed by Royal Philips Electronics and released in North America and Europe.