Unknown CD based game system

ok my cousins have this system and I can't remember alot but this is what I can recall.

---Wireless IR controllers with a Blue D-pad and yellow and red face buttons.
---CD Based system. Alot of Edutainment titles. One that sticks out in my mind was a "How to" on Japanese
---Weird RPG game based in Massechusetts with some weird fisherman with an environmentalist twist to it.

That's all I can remember.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

 

pladia perhaps?

 

No. That was only released in japan.

 

Your description fits the Playdia perfectly - it's about the only system that could fit such an odd description, too.

 

Some weird CD-I perhaps... but that didn't have red buttons and a blue d-pad. It did have wireless controllers, lots of edutainment titles, and was cd based tho. Did they ever make 3rd party CD-I controllers? I'd imagine not...

 

lol... i have no idea what it is, but i can guarantee there is no game for the Playdia that matches that description :lol:

So i broadened my search to other CD based "edutainment" systems, and CD-I was the next closest match...

 

It does sound like the Playdia from the standpoint of the wireless controllers and colored face buttons.

But the fisherman game doesn't sound like something that I ever remember hearing about.

The Commodore CDTV and Amiga CD32 were released in the States, so perhaps those could be possibilities?

 

He's talking about the Memorex Vis

 

Wow, wtf! I've never even heard of that system.
When was it released?

EDIT: Interesting. Seems like you can still buy these. Marketed in 1993-1994 by Radio Shack stores...good info here:
http://www.oldsoftware.com/VIS.html

 

lol, once again AW is the master of obscure systems...

 

Wow, I have never even heard of that either. I wonder how many games came out for it, the specs, everything. So I assume radio shack only sold this?

 

I guess if I had a specialty, that would be it :icon_bigg

 

Touche.. :O

 

any infos about the monster?

 

Well, it's CD based system whose main focus was edutainment software catered to the younger crowd. As far as I know, the system, and its software, was only sold in Radioshack stores. Some of its software is compatible with windows 3.1. It has a weird memory card (VIS Save-It card), and the system can output S-Video. Like mentioned above, it was released in 1994. I can't imagine it lasting too long. Oh, and VIS stands for Video Information System.

^ All this info is easily found on the web... Try Google next time :110:

 

THERE IT IS! Ive been looking for what the hell that system was for years. I remember playing it in Radio Shack, but ive never seen it anywhere or anything! Awesome!

 

got it

Yeah, I got one and let me tell you, it's edutastic! Actually, the Sherlock Holmes game was pretty decent, a little better quality than the Sega CD and Pc-Engine versions.

 

this one has been brought up before on the forums, but the info in this thread is alot more concreate. Man talk about obscure though.

 

Yeah that'/s teh system.

I have no idea where my cousins got it and all the software they had for it (They had a good deal of the titles out there, the aformentioned Learn japanese software, the rpg game thing I mentioned)

Thanks guys.