So, uh, I spent an estimated $7 on this machine at the local casino and I didn't win anything. Nothing. Not even one of those pity winnings that are at a weird diagonal angle and are made up of Jacks and net you, like, five cents. This streak of bad luck especially stings because this game has, like a 35 cent minimum bet. Bang for your buck, right? NOPE

If you're an old cat lady then this machine might have some appeal that'll get you to blow $75 and have you tap the screen like a freak (which, BTW, doesn't do anything! Stop!!!), but you're better off playing one of the many cheap slot machines that a casino inevitably has somewhere in the building. I enjoy a bit of Rawhide myself.

"But, Mundy! This listing is for a free play app version of Kitty Glitter! You know IGDB doesn't allow games where you can wage real money!"
It's the same experience anyhow. :)

Why doesn't Tall Man just walk around that long row of hurdles and allow himself to dropkick the Even Taller Man on every level? Is he stupid?

The video game equivalent of a ground proximity warning system going off.
If you ever play this game in a emulator that has sound layer settings, please disable PSG Channel 2. Thank me later!

My only hope is that if the CD-i Zelda games get decompiled and have code-accurate PC ports made, their startups should include OoT/MM quotes to honor these absolutely kickass ports.

If the world became grayscale due to the influence of an evil mist and the only things capable of stopping it were Mr. Blobby and his nuclear family, I'd be perfectly content looking like someone from a 1930s detective film. The lesser of two evils, you get my drift?

Oh, and this game confirms that Mr. Blobby canonically fucks. Thanks?

Me normally: Dude, I love birds. They are truly some of the most epic creatures.
Me after I get my shit stolen by that fucking Milk Road bird while trying to farm Rupees:

I wish the Infomaniac was real.

TOP 10 UK DANCE SONGS OF 2003:

1. "Dancing Minigame Beat" by The Boohbah Zone ft. Random Kids
2. "Crazy in Love" by Beyoncé ft. Jay Z

It's a Flash Pac-Man clone themed around everyone's favorite school health "documentary", except the ghosts/clowns/Ronald McDonalds don't go back in the pen when you eat them. Not much to write home about.

Also I thought this one depiction of Morgan Spurlock was a recolored Mr. Satan, lmao

A 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂 Brooklyn detective is asked by the model Tatjana Simic to retrieve some of her stolen photographs. He is directed to a mid-90s CGI office, where he manages to solve the case by tearing open random letters that contain the increasingly-sexual photos of Tatjana. However, he is constantly interfered by sapient blobs of ink and floating jigsaw pieces he needs to collect, as well as his need to open the letter one chunk at a time, in perfectly horizontal/vertical cuts like he's doing it with an Etch-a-Ske-

Oh hell, this is just 18+ Qix.

Somehow, this CD-i title manages to exude "2.4-star Flash adult game that you fondly remember alongside Meet 'n Fuck: Detective RPG" energies, long before Newgrounds was a thing. I honestly would've forgotten about my playthrough of Uncover had it not been for three things, two of which were emulation faults:

1) The only CD-i emulator that supports the Digital Video Cartridge can't handle multi-tracked CDs. You either have to merge the tracks into one file or open the first track containing the game data, and the latter option makes the emulator play horrible, glitched digital audio. This game is on a multi-tracked CD. As a result, the act of opening a single letter made me feel as nervous as that detective probably was.

2) It didn't help that the first picture I uncovered wasn't displaying properly, making the whole game feel like a classic Vinesauce corruption. (This was corrected by the second photograph, which properly displayed Tatjana in outlaw getup.)

3) Upon exiting the game, our "hero" is caught by the porno picture thief and, left with no other escape option, ends up having to defenestrate himself through the only window in the room.

Side-note: Why are there SO MANY porn or porn-adjacent titles on the CD-i. Sourcing from The World of CD-i, there's The Joy of Sex, Strip Poker Pro, Strip Poker Live, Voyeur, the cancelled CD-i port of Voyeur II, Loving for a Lifetime, Girls, Vegas Girls, Secrets of Tatjana and, of course, this very game. Plus, half of The Vision Factory's output features a sexy babe within them, most famously the nude easter eggs from The Apprentice, and there's likely a couple of obscure adult titles that I couldn't find.

This isn't a bad thing by any means, but this list combined with the CD-i's smaller-sized output makes it feel like a Certified Gooner Console.

Imagine getting this for Christmas. All your CD-i playing friends (few as they are) got Chaos Control and Burn;Cycle as presents, and yet you ended up with Gnomes.

It gets an extra star for being an adaptation of the book that inspired David the Gnome. Love that lil' guy.

I was obsessed with this game for, like, two weeks, but that was just enough time to get me to ask my seventh-grade science teacher if the experiments we'd be doing would be just like the game.

Fuck you Science Papa. When I embarrass myself in public I do it by myself, not with your or anyone else's help.

It's funny as hell that the best port of Ocarina of Time is named "Ship of Harkinian" and throws Faces of Evil + Wand of Gamelon quotes at you upon startup. The Great CD-i Zelda Vindication continues onward.

Can't wait for 2 Ship 2 Harkinian! (That is, if I don't get impatient and mess around with that N64 recompilation thing everyone's talking about nowadays...)