And then there were at least six more

[kjorteo]

*Screams externally*

I was on eBay looking just out of curiosity how much a physical CD-i would set me back, and I stumbled upon this lot. These aren't Interlight games, but Sandy's Circus Adventure and Zombie Dinos were similarly in the "My grandparents had all these kids' edutainment games" pile, and Sandy's Circus Adventure seems to have been met with Interlight levels of not existing anywhere on the current Internet that I was able to find.

God help me, this is going to be my thing, isn't it. This is what I'll be known for. Celine Kalante, the CD-i Children's Edutainment Expert.

Also keeping my eye on an auction for the system itself (fingers crossed,) which includes another game lot if I win.

I asked all of clan to please send help, but their reaction was basically the end of Edguy's Love Tyger video. I feel so enabled to do incredibly stupid things. Thanks, guys. <3

(Oh, and I got a roller controller, too. You know, for authenticity. Look, I honestly don't know how the edutainment pointy-clickies would even work on a normal CD-i controller. I thought this was the normal CD-i controller well into my adulthood; I'd never seen any other kind.)

Comments

[kjorteo]

Look. You know you were going to regret it if you didn't.

[kjorteo]

"God help me, this is going to be my thing, isn't it. This is what I'll be known for. Celine Kalante, the CD-i Children's Edutainment Expert."

And hey, why not? You wanted a niche. You wanted something you could add to gaming culture and be known for adding. Maybe this is it.

[kjorteo]

... You are correct on both points in your replies, of course. Thank you for the perspective. <3

[penguinmayhem]

ZOMBIE DINOS

[kjorteo]

Okay but

1) The game is called "Zombie Dinos from Planet Zeltoid"
2) The amazing intro and title song (trigger warning: bodaciousness, totally gnarly attitudes, Cam Clarke) includes the lyrics "back to where they came from, to the far side of the moon"
3) The actual game, when played, is about the bad guys trying to time travel back to the age of dinosaurs on Earth, zombify our dinos, and then send the zombified dinos back to the present to wreak havoc like a kaiju film.

I am spotting some inconsistencies with this narrative.

[xaq_the_aereon]

Wait...if they're zombifying *our* dinosaurs, why are the Zombie Dinos listed as being from another planet? Is that where the bad guys doing the zombifying are from, then?

Either way, I think the title might have an overstretched Zeltoid.

[kjorteo]

The zombie dinos are listed as being from planet Zeltoid and from the far side of the moon, depending on where you look, but neither is true! I feel like Muppet Cam Clarke lied to us.

[xaq_the_aereon]

Seems like it. Also, I'm genuinely sorry about muscling that pun in at the end. That one was a bit too forced for my liking. :/

[xaq_the_aereon]

Middle game, bottom row.

Title pretty well says it all. XP

[kjorteo]

You have no idea how excited I am to see what an early 90s multimedia encyclopedia type CD-i experience has to teach us about, like, anything. I mean I already know that Zombie Dinos was from before we as a culture knew about the feathers.

[xyzzysqrl]

This is what I'll be known for. Celine Kalante, the CD-i Children's Edutainment Expert.

Didn't you also want to do a playblog of a detective word-mystery edutainment game I can't remember the name of?

What I'm saying is, why limit yourself to the CD-i?

[kjorteo]

Eagle Eye Mysteries! Yes, that one's totally in the backlog somewhere.

[swordianmaster]

Yeah, I mean, it's probably really easy to get the Super Solvers games and set up a Windows 3.1 virtual box to run them on.

It would probably be less easy to get hold of a 3DO.

[xyzzysqrl]

The Obscuritory actually has a guide to setting up VMWare.