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Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia

Genre: Miscellaneous

Number of players: 1

Release	Date	RRP	Code
US	1994		T-118015
US (2)	1994		T-118025

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Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia is a 1994 software program developed and published by The Learning Company for the Mega-CD; it was only released in North America, both as a stand-alone product and 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 Association. It is part of a sizeable series that presumably started in 1989 and had a number of entries throughout the '90s.

History

At least three different versions were released, two exclusively as pack-ins with the X'eye and one at retail. The initial X'eye release is dated 05/04/1994, which is significantly earlier than any of the other builds. The second X'eye release is dated 09/28/1994. It adds a series of slideshows which use photos from the encyclopedia's library with recorded explanations. It also greatly expands the number of articles in the database. The retail release, dated 10/03/1994, is almost identical to the 09/28/1994 build except for an updated set of credits and some changes to the CODEHOLE.BIN utility library.

Magazine articles

Main article: Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia/Magazine articles.

Physical scans

Mega-CD, US
Cover
Disc Manual Reg Card

Mega-CD, US (X'Eye pack-in)
Cover
Manual Disc (blue variant) Disc (red variant) Disc (black variant)

Technical information

ROM dump status

System

Hash

Size

Build Date

Source

Comments

✔

CRC32
MD5
SHA-1

383,027,904

CD (US)

T-118025

References

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+{{sub-stub}}'''''{{PAGENAME}}''''' is a 1994 software program developed and published by [[The Learning Company]] for the [[Mega-CD]]; it was only released in North America, both as a stand-alone product and as a pack-in with the [[X'eye]].
 ''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 [[wikipedia:American Library Association|American Library Association]]. It is part of a sizeable series that presumably started in 1989 and had a number of entries throughout the '90s.