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The CD-I was never meant to be a video game console, it was designed to be a "Interactive Multimedia" CD player, an expensive toy that people with money don't mind buying, using it a few times and forgetting they even bought it when something new catches their attention. When the system started to show signs of being a major flop for Philips, they pivoted the direction of the CD-I into the uncharted territories of video games.
The CD-I is mainly best known nowadays for having games based on Nintendo being home to three [https://www.mobygames.com/game/21134/zelda-the-wand-of-gamelon/ particularly] [wikipediahttps:Intellectual property|IP//www.mobygames.com/game/21409/link-the-faces-of-evil/ notorious][https://www.mobygames.com/game/21411/hotel-mario/ games]loosely based on Nintendo copyrights, such as Mario and Zelda, due to previously having tried which were mainly made possible by Philips's prior attempts to develop a CD add-on for the [[Super Nintendo emulators|SNES]]. Their takes on Nintendo intellectual property were have earned so infamously terrible much infamy over the years that you would be hard-pressed to find anyone who doesn't immediately think of them when whenever you mention the CD-i. However, there were a few cult classic games for the systemas well.
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