With CD-ii U Month in our midst, we at Zelda Universe would like to take a step back and commemorate some of the best pieces of content from last year’s CD-ii Month. While there were so many pieces to chose from, we picked out content which we believe are some of our strongest work from last year. To start…
Alas! A whole month gone and CD-ii Month has come to an end. We hope you’ve had as much fun celebrating CD-i Zelda as we have, and that you may have even learned something new or at the very least had a few good laughs in the style of King Harkinian. It’s been a month…
We’ve had a bunch of contests running all throughout CD-ii Month and it is written: today it’s time to publicly announce every last one. Caption Contest 1 Daniel: Some nasty s**t is about to go down. Nick: It is written only Link can seduce Ganon. Caption Contest 2 Doug: A mirror?!? Of all the treasures…
In the early 1990s, Nintendo was in the early stages of creating a CD-ROM add-on for their Super Nintendo Entertainment System (known as the Super Famicom in Japan). One of the companies they were considering collaborating with was a company called Philips Entertainment. They signed a deal, but after witnessing the poor reception of Sega’s…
CD-ii Month is coming to a close, and we sure are going to miss it. But rather than mourn the ending of such a great event, let’s celebrate all the fun we’ve had with the biggest dance party the Island of Koridai has ever seen! Here we go with the final Music Monday of CD-ii…
The Philips CD-i is largely considered to be one of the worst video game consoles of all time, but it was never intended to be solely a gaming machine. In fact, in its early days, Philips placed a heavy emphasis on educational titles, music and movies, but as we all know they did attempt to…
We know how much the King of Hyrule loves his dinner and his wine! This depiction of the King of Hyrule from the CD-i Zelda games, mah boi, is beautifully illustrated by NecroBern, and attempts to show how the King would appear if he was in one of the proper Legend of Zelda titles.
We’ve seen King Harkinian take over Saints Row. Now watch him invade Final Fantasy VI in this YouTube Poop from Overlord Xenu. Descending from the heavens, the King asks his adversaries one important question: “I wonder what’s for dinner?” Gwonam can’t be left out of the action. Yelling his battle cry, “Squadala!”, he dives down…
Despite their ridiculed reputation, the CD-i Zelda games have some very interesting cultural references within them, and a fascinating history surrounding them. I discovered this after some extensive research of these three infamous titles, in a quest to compile a list of my favourite facts and trivia. The results are actually more compelling than expected, with…
The Zelda community has inspired some outstanding papercraft models, but none quite like this. Papercrafting can be a tedious and frustrating process for beginners due to the patience it requires to assemble models with a lot of small pieces or just a large number of pieces in general. Before taking on a task such as…
The ’90s gave us some totally rad games. A Link to the Past and Ocarina of Time, are a couple come that to mind. Most importantly, we have the ’90s to thank for Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon and Link: The Faces of Evil. In celebration of CD-ii Month, we are featuring musical picks from the ’90s with a CD-i twist. Amanda’s…
Cosplay was a big part of CD-i Month last year. Despite the relative obscurity of the CD-i Zelda games, I was delighted to discover that several people had donned brightly colored clothes, wigs and in some cases, beards — transforming themselves into the meme-worthy characters portrayed in the cutscenes. With a plethora of Kings, a few…
Who doesn’t love the dialogue found in the CD-i games? And by love, I mean laugh hysterically at the horrific writing. We want to see what you would say if you were writing the script! Write a funny caption for the image below. The two people that we think wrote the most amusing caption will each…
One of the most interesting aspects of the CD-i Zelda games is its unique cast of characters. Deviantart user Breakfast put together a special piece of artwork portraying the cast of these classic Zelda titles! From something done from memory via Microsoft Paint, this is quite impressive! What do you think of this portrayal of…
What happens when the King doesn’t get his dinner? He fights in the Steelport gang wars of Saints Row: The Third, scrubbing the floors with his enemies. He’s a top-notch gunslinger with impeccable aim, plus his dancing skills are what all true warriors strive for. I’m beginning to wonder why he ever needed Link’s help…
