10 CRAZIEST Things Nintendo Has Ever Done
3. Giving Their IPs To The Phillips CD-i
Of all the fantastic video game companies that were around at the time; all the brilliant third party developers on PC and other systems, why Nintendo chose to lend their IPs to Philips for the CD-i often gets talked about with no answer as to how it came together.
Well, after a CD-based deal with Sony deal fell through, Nintendo returned to their first choice, Phillips, and in concession for ultimately passing them over allowed the company to make titles for their upcoming CD-ROM console, the CD-i.
This was decision all involved would never be allowed to live down.
If you want to know why Nintendo is so religiously and obsessively protective of their IP and brand, games like Link: The Faces of Evil, Zelda: Wand of Gamelon, Zelda's Adventure, and Hotel Mario are why. Not only are the games fundamentally broken and nonfunctional, but the animated cutscenes have lived in infamy for decades.
The acting is terrible, the animation somehow worse, the story is incoherent (mostly due to the first two points), and generally it's just pure nightmares all around. We'll likely never see a full third party game utilizing the Nintendo IPs without Nintendo watching them like hawks ever again due to these awful games. Thanks a bunch, Philips.