Philips Media
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| Philips Media | |
| Founded | 1891 |
| First Mario Game | Hotel Mario |
| Latest Mario Game | Hotel Mario |
| Current President | Gerard Kleisterlee |
Phillips Media are responsible for creating one of the biggest commercial failures of all time, the Phillips CD-i. The CD-i had one Mario Game, Hotel Mario.
[edit] Nintendo Games
With the home market exhausted, Philips tried with some success to position the technology as a solution for kiosk applications and industrial multimedia. The console still maintains a cult following on the Internet. Additionally, a Mario game (titled Hotel Mario), and three Legend of Zelda games were released: Link: The Faces of Evil, Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon and Zelda's Adventure. Nintendo and Philips had established an agreement to co-develop a CD-ROM enhancement for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (after Nintendo and Sony scrapped a previous deal on an earlier add-on for the SNES, which would eventually result in the creation of the PlayStation), and Philips was contractually allowed to continue using Nintendo characters after the deal fell through.
[edit] Marketing Competition
Interactive Kiosk (primary market)
- Panasonic M2
High-end A/V (secondary market) (multi-purpose audio/video systems)
- Commodore CDTV
- Pioneer LaserActive
- 3DO Interactive Multiplayer
Video game (secondary market)
- Sega Genesis with Sega CD CD-ROM expansion
- 3DO Interactive Multiplayer

