Philips CD-i Games



In the early 1990s, Nintendo partnered with Sony to make a CD add-on for the Super Nintendo. It was called the PlayStation Experimental. Ultimately, Nintendo decided to abort the deal, and instead signed a deal with Sony's rival Philips. This deal too fell through, however, and part of the compromise between Nintendo and Philips was allowing Philips to produce Zelda games for their CD-i console.

Overall, three Zelda games were released for the Philips CD-i: Link: The Faces of Evil (1993), Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon (1993), and Zelda's Adventure (1994). These games contained FMV sequences and voice acting. The CD-i Zelda games are rarely acknowledged by Nintendo and have been repeatedly declared by Nintendo as not part of the Zelda canon.

Trivia

 * In one issue of Nintendo Power, a response in the Player's Pulse section declared that all current Zelda games could be played on a Nintendo GameCube if one owned a Game Boy Player and The Legend of Zelda: Collector's Edition. This statement obviously ignores the CD-i Zelda games.
 * On the popular video-uploading site YouTube, the cutscenes from "Zelda: Wand of Gamelon" and "Link: The Faces of Evil" are popularly used in humorous video remixes where the clips are edited and spliced together with various other material for a comedic effect. These videos are called "Youtube Poops". Other common sources include the game Hotel Mario, the Super Mario World Cartoon, and others. This genre of video was originated by SuperYoshi's video, "I'd Say He's Not On Our Tail", from 2004.