Philips Consumer Lifestyle created for Laserdisc would later be used again for the Compact Disc. Although Philips' and MCA's Laserdisc project never reached the VHS mass market level, Philips still thought the format should be able to succeed, and, in collaboration with Sony, launched the smaller CD in 1982. The DVD (Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc), the eventual successor of the CD (Compact Disc), met a long road of setbacks. Philips wanted to continue with the CD in a new format called "MultiMedia Compact Disc" (MMCD), while another group (led by Toshiba) was developing a competing format, then named "Super Density"
CD-i games from The Legend of Zelda series CD-i games from The Legend of Zelda series Link: The Faces of Evil, Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon and Zelda's Adventure are action-adventure games produced by Philips for the CD-i as part of Nintendo's "The Legend of Zelda" video game series. Not designed for Nintendo platforms, the games owe their existence to negotiations related to Nintendo's decision not to have Philips create a CD add-on to the Super NES. During these negotiations, Philips secured the rights to use Nintendo characters in CD-i third-party developer games. "The Faces of Evil" and "The Wand of Gamelon" were developed by Animation Magic and