Philips globally, the scale advantages of the Japanese proved insurmountable and Philips withdrew the V2000 system and joined the VHS Coalition. Philips had developed a LaserDisc early on for selling movies, but delayed its commercial launch for fear of cannibalizing its video recorder sales. Later Philips joined with MCA to launch the first commercial LaserDisc standard and players. In 1982, Philips teamed with Sony to launch the Compact Disc; this format evolved into the CD-R, CD-RW, DVD and later Blu-ray, which Philips launched with Sony in 1997 and 2006 respectively. In 1984, the Dutch Philips Group bought out nearly a one-third
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