Difference between revisions of "Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia"

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{{sub-stub}}'''''Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia''''' is a piece of [[Sega Mega CD]] software which acts as an interactive encyclopedia. It was only released in North America and was bundled with the [[X'eye]].
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{{sub-stub}}'''''Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia''''' is a 1994 software program developed by [[The Learning Company]] for the [[Mega-CD]]; it was only released in North America, as a pack-in with the [[X'eye]].
  
At the time, it would have been one of the first interactive encyclopedias, sporting over 34,000, 5,000 pictures and 30 video articles from the American Library Accociation. In comparison, at the time of writing the English [[wikipedia:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]] has 3.8 million articles and [[wikipedia:Wikimedia Commons|Wikimedia Commons]] has over 12 million freely usable files, making ''Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia'' a bit redundant in the modern age.
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''CIE'' is, of course, an multimedia encyclopedia licensed from the [[wikipedia:Compton's Encyclopedia|Compton's series of print encyclopedias]], sporting a comparatively impressive 34,000 subjects, 5,000 pictures, and 30 video articles from the American Library Accociation. It is part of a sizeable series that presumably started in 1989 and had a number of entries throughout the '90s; a possible relation between this Mega-CD product and the similarly titled 1992 [[wikipedia:Phillips CD-i|CD-i]] product is unknown.
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A "version 2.10" exists; differences are unknown.
  
 
==Physical Scans==
 
==Physical Scans==

Revision as of 05:28, 12 November 2013

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Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia
System(s): Sega Mega CD
Publisher: Sega
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Genre: Miscellaneous

















Number of players: 1
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Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia is a 1994 software program developed by The Learning Company for the Mega-CD; it was only released in North America, as a pack-in with the X'eye.

CIE is, of course, an multimedia encyclopedia licensed from the Compton's series of print encyclopedias, sporting a comparatively impressive 34,000 subjects, 5,000 pictures, and 30 video articles from the American Library Accociation. It is part of a sizeable series that presumably started in 1989 and had a number of entries throughout the '90s; a possible relation between this Mega-CD product and the similarly titled 1992 CD-i product is unknown.

A "version 2.10" exists; differences are unknown.

Physical Scans

Mega CD, US
CIE MCD US Box Back.jpgCIE MCD US Box Front.jpg
Cover
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Disc
Comptons mcd us manual.pdf
Manual