Philips CD-i (1991)
The Philips CD-i was sold as an interactive multimedia player rather than a console, which is why so much of its catalogue is encyclopaedias and film discs. It is remembered almost entirely for a handful of licensed games Nintendo permitted and has never mentioned since.
At a glance
- Released
- 1991
- Plays in a browser
- No — desktop app only
- Native launchers
- Philips CD-i – CD-i Emulator
- Bring your own games
- Yes, and only your own — Leumas hosts no game files
How it plays here
Philips CD-i needs a native emulator, so it plays in the Leumas Consoles desktop build rather than in a tab. The app finds an emulator you have already installed and hands the game to it; it never bundles or downloads one for you.
Where your games live
Yours and nobody else's. Every game you upload goes into your own library, and no other member can list it, open it or reach the file — not by browsing and not by guessing its name. Leumas does not host game files, does not link to them and cannot supply them: you bring a copy of something you already own, and it stays yours.
Playing offline
The Windows build runs the same deck on your own machine with no network at all. Your library and your save states live in a folder next to the app, the emulator cores are packaged inside it, and it can also hand a game to a native emulator you already have installed.