Legacy Code: Memes, Dreams, and the Philips CD-I (Indiegogo Promo)
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Legacy Code is a documentary about one of the greatest untold stories in video gaming: how the Philips CD-I was developed, changed gaming forever, was completely forgotten, and then inspired one of the internet's most bizarre and enduring memes.
Legacy Code will tell the story of the Philips CD-I by the people who were there from the beginning. It will feature interviews with executives and developers at Philips, and the cast and crew of its three most notorious games: Hotel Mario, Zelda: Wand of Gamelon, and Link: Faces of Evil.
These games inspired untold thousands of amateur editors to remix their cutscenes (a phenomenon that continues even today), spawned whole YouTube subcultures, and forever changed public perception of gaming's leading icons: Mario and Link.
This documentary will ask the people involved in the CD-I, and these games, how they feel about all this. Many of them are being asked for the very first time.
Here is a list of CD-I insiders who have expressed interest in being interviewed:
Marc Graue (Voice of Mario and Luigi in Hotel Mario)
Bonnie Jean Wilbur (Voice of Zelda in Faces of Evil and Wand of Gamelon)
Jeffrey Rath (Voice of Link in Faces of Evil and Wand of Gamelon)
Mark Berry (Voice of Ganon in Faces of Evil and Wand of Gamelon)
Tony Trippi (Composer for Faces of Evil and Wand of Gamelon)
Kathy Swain (Effects and Animation on Hotel Mario)
Terry O'Brien (Effects and Animation on Hotel Mario)
Igor Razboff (Animation producer for the games)
Bill Havlicek (Audio producer on Faces of Evil and Wand of Gamelon)
Keith Lehman (Developer on the "Green Book", the set of standards for all Philips CD-I content)
Mark Sprague (Spinnaker Software, a key CD-I developer)
Laura Cohen (President, Philips Interactive, North American Division)
Dave McElhatten (President, Philips Interactive, Games Division)
Sarina Simon (President, Philips Interactive, Children's Division)
Bernard Luskin (President, Philips Interactive, Educational Division)
Legacy Code is a documentary about one of the greatest untold stories in video gaming: how the Philips CD-I was developed, changed gaming forever, was completely forgotten, and then inspired one of the internet's most bizarre and enduring memes.
Legacy Code will tell the story of the Philips CD-I by the people who were there from the beginning. It will feature interviews with executives and developers at Philips, and the cast and crew of its three most notorious games: Hotel Mario, Zelda: Wand of Gamelon, and Link: Faces of Evil.
These games inspired untold thousands of amateur editors to remix their cutscenes (a phenomenon that continues even today), spawned whole YouTube subcultures, and forever changed public perception of gaming's leading icons: Mario and Link.
This documentary will ask the people involved in the CD-I, and these games, how they feel about all this. Many of them are being asked for the very first time.
Here is a list of CD-I insiders who have expressed interest in being interviewed:
Marc Graue (Voice of Mario and Luigi in Hotel Mario)
Bonnie Jean Wilbur (Voice of Zelda in Faces of Evil and Wand of Gamelon)
Jeffrey Rath (Voice of Link in Faces of Evil and Wand of Gamelon)
Mark Berry (Voice of Ganon in Faces of Evil and Wand of Gamelon)
Tony Trippi (Composer for Faces of Evil and Wand of Gamelon)
Kathy Swain (Effects and Animation on Hotel Mario)
Terry O'Brien (Effects and Animation on Hotel Mario)
Igor Razboff (Animation producer for the games)
Bill Havlicek (Audio producer on Faces of Evil and Wand of Gamelon)
Keith Lehman (Developer on the "Green Book", the set of standards for all Philips CD-I content)
Mark Sprague (Spinnaker Software, a key CD-I developer)
Laura Cohen (President, Philips Interactive, North American Division)
Dave McElhatten (President, Philips Interactive, Games Division)
Sarina Simon (President, Philips Interactive, Children's Division)
Bernard Luskin (President, Philips Interactive, Educational Division)
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