CD-i

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Artwork from CD-ROM and multimedia games. "CD-i" is an aesthetic, not a platform.

Animation showing abstract shapes moving over a purple background
Screenshot: early CGI imagery of a city at night. The city is lit up with lights that show up as small points, and it's so dark the shapes of the buildings can only be made out from the lights.
Japan Interactive Media logo featuring a CD-ROM flying through a blue backdrop. It's frequently interrupted by full-screen glitches featuring rolling multi-coloured lines.
Digital image of a book-like object and an animating diamond-like shape.
Screenshot of a brightly-coloured CGI scene. A live action woman in an elaborate dress lies on the ground on the Yellow Brick Road. Next to her are a CGI lion, a CGI television with a face, and an anthropomorphic power plug.
Screnshot of a game scene showing the inside of a library. A man with a moon for a head sits in a chair. The dialogue reads "You dooon't know? How sweet."
End credits to Cookie's Bustle with the theme song playing.
Game screenshot: a CGI scene showing a sign for "Kind Bus Co." featuring a smiling bus driver holding a lollypop. The slogan reads "Yes!! We are 'KIND' to the children the people who are in trouble. The first class bus service for you!"
Video: a training montage featuring Cookie Blair, a CGI cartoon bear.
Game screenshot: a silhouette of a girl's head; inside is a yellow CGI carton bear walking forward. The text on screen reads "Cookie Blair".
Game screenshot: a surreal CGI scene of Ronald McDonald with his head screwed on backwards, in and among mixed up looking characters. A sign reads "TNORFOTKCAB DNAL".
Screenshot: an early 90s computer game. Four panels depicting a kangaroo adventurer and his feline companion wandering through various jungle settings. The text in the centre reads "Meet an amicable array of friends and foes..."
Game screenshot: a primitive, early CGI scene of a bar with a number of CGI bottles.
Screenshot: a strange-looking CGI demon in a hellish area. Dialogue options include "Damn, you're ugly! What the hell are you anyway?", "It's just that the foul stench of your breath conjures up visions of fermenting maggots!", "Yea. Sure I'm scared. I'm not too macho to admit that.", "I'm coming for you, creep. And when I find you...", and "Talk is cheap, smiley. Let's get on with it!"
Game screenshot: a colourful hand-drawn map depicting a Japanese city in 1972. Labels indicate different parts of the city.
Screenshot of a surreal tile-based strategy game. It features several hand-drawn characters alongside some gnarled-looking trees. In the foreground, there are portraits of two characters engaged in a dialogue duel.
Screenshot of a black and white dungeon crawler game. A first-person battle scene, depicting a strange-looking chunky human-like creature wearing a mouse costume.
Screenshot of a Y2K-style CGI video game depicting a futuristic-looking TV with several large colourful buttons, depicting a green island.
Screenshot: a pixelated map of Africa and a pop-up dialogue box with a drawing of boats on a river with text about them.
Screenshot of a digital magazine titled "Hooked In". It features a pixelated image of a statue alongside text advertising this as the "premiere issue" with the blurb "Who is Kool K? Why is the Darklord Dark? Is Psychocat really psycho? All will be revealed!"
Screenshot: a cartoon PC with a smiling face and arms on its hips.
Game screenshot: a sleepy-looking cartoon rabbit eats grapes to the side of the screen, next to a name entry user interface which allows players to enter up to eight characters.
Screenshot: A "do you want to quit?" screen from a Korean game. The screen is presented as a playing card, with two raccoon dogs dressed as jesters - one facing up, and one inverted. The one on top holds a "yes" button, and the one on bottom holds a "no" button.
Screenshot: an image of a fantasy-style woman holding a sci-fi tool in front of a logo which reads "Spellgram".
Screenshot: a CGI scene depicting a first-person view of a spaceship cockpit. In the distance, through the ship screen, is a space station with a large sign reading "welcome".
Glitched screenshot of a Japanese quiz game with completely incorrect colours
Screenshot: a 64-colour pixel art image of a hallway. It's seen from a far angle, leading to a slightly wistful feeling. No people are visible.
Screenshot showing the Sailor Scouts in front of an abstract background.
Screenshot: a surreal CGI scene of basic geometric shapes inside a CGI shelf. They're all red. A grid is overlaid on top.
Screenshot: a cartoon telephone, with the keys each showing a different animal.
Screenshot: a cartoon cat and a cartoon rabbit leaping through the stars.
Animation: a set of four CGI symbols warp in from offscreen. The text "Freeland Studios" then fades in on top of them.
Animated GIF: the interior of a CGI castle. A spinning mystical orb appears, and then the CGI text "Horoscope" zooms in from out of frame.
Animated GIF: a translucent CGI doll rotates in a cloudy blue sky.
Animated GIF: the text "This channel is reserved for local access" and a pulsating glitch art background.
Animated GIF: black and white live action video depicting a fashion model, with the camera rotating around them
Screenshot of digital art: three overlapping letters which have been coloured in gradient strips.
Screenshot: an encyclopedia-style CD-ROM showing a mysterious image of the iwato kagura dance in a misty forest grove.
Screenshot: a TV showing an old-fashioned black and white cartoon, with a cartoon remote in the foreground.
Game screenshot: a soft pastel painting depicting two people in a hot air balloon above a surreal-looking planet.
Screenshot: a strange-looking cartoon figure bursts out of a primitive CGI closet.
Screenshot: a crowd of people gathers at a traditional Japanese fishmonger.
Screenshot: two characters stand on an old-fashioned bridge in front of a sunset. Both are anthropomorphic dogs, and both are wearing traditional Edo-era kimono. The shorter character is clutching a brush while looking emotional and leaning forward slightly.
Screenshot: ukiyo-e portrait of an anthropomorphic dog woman. Parody of Sharaku's ukiyo-e print of Segawa Kikujurō III as Oshizu, Wife of Tanabe.
Cartoon-style screenshot of a man standing in front of a vignetted view of a tree.
Ink painting of a small cat with a red cape in front of a large abstract bull.
Video featuring a surreal sci-fi animation of a spaceship preparing for departure
Screenshot: a door labelled "Dancer's Room", with a large "Do Not Enter" warning in front of it.
Screenshot: first-person perspective inside a truck looking out over a town. The town is an unrealistically-filtered photo mixed with CGI elements.
Screenshot: a cartoon image of a family on a hike near the top of a mountain.
Screenshot: CGI takes on Muttley and Dick Dastardly from Wacky Races, in front of a surreal psychedelic background.
Screenshot: a surreal Y2K-style CGI image of a space-age resort with two frog statues.
Video: Tetris played in front of a beach background with relaxing music. A small dog slowly wanders the beach.
Screenshot: a cartoon bear reading a picture book. A dancing elephant and kangaroo are coming out of it.
Screenshot: a closeup of an eye, with a red tint. The text reads "No Digital Video Cartridge installed"
Screenshot: a photo of a steep-angle tram climbing a hill above a harbour in China.
Screenshot: an artist's office with paintings everywhere.