Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium Diepeveen built an error-correcting coder-decoder that was delivered in the summer of 1978. The decoder was included in the CD prototype player that was presented to the international press. To commemorate this breakthrough, Philips received an IEEE Milestone Award on March 6, 2009. This breakthrough was also appreciated by Sony and they started a cooperation with Philips that resulted in June 1980 in a common CD system standard. Philips as a whole took a turn for the worse and by the end of the 1980s bankruptcy seemed a very real possibility. Under research director Kees Bulthuis the position of long-term
Varuna's Forces to do so. "Varuna's Forces" was being created by the same company who previously developed titles for the Philips CD-i based on both "The Joker's Wild" and "Jeopardy!" TV game shows. It also stars Michael Clarke Duncan in one of his first video game roles along with "Panic in the Park", among other actors that were involved in the production of the project prior to its cancellation. Though the Jaguar CD version was slated to be published in late , it was never released along with the 3DO version due to discontinuation of both platforms. The Saturn version was slated