Nintendo's Weird Soundtrack CDs in the Late 90's.

[Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast]

Okay, who's the genius at Rare that thought this was a good idea? Nothing like a CD that I either can't fit into a player, or will undoubtedly wreck my machine.

[Spider2024]

What on Earth? This is the first time I've ever seen those CDs, or any CD that wasn't a perfect circle. Could those even play?

[agent817]

This is the first I have heard of this. They would more than likely play on CD players that have disc trays with the thing that sticks up in the center, rather other disc players like a CD-Rom or a DVD player, or even CD changer stereos.

[wildojinx]

I thought you were going to discuss "White Knuckle Scorin'"

[moondoggie]

Yeah how in the hell would those play anything?

[Vampiro138]

i remember around the time the beatles anthology came out, they released interview cd's of paul and john and the disc wasnt round but in the shape of their faces on each disc. i also believe they released a special edition of real love in the shape of an apple.

[Hassan bin Sober]

I think at the time most CD players would have had a tray or just opened from the top like a Discman or Playstation 1.

[Deleted]

This is the first time I've seen these in years. I always assumed in the pics in Nintendo Power there was just clear plastic around the design to make it a regular circular disc, and the photo was taken to make it look like those shapes. Stuns me that those were the actual discs.

[Malcolm]

I guess it was a good thing the Nintendo 64 didn't go with CDs after all.

[A Platypus Rave]

Jan 3, 2016 22:40:04 GMT -5 Hassan bin Sober said:

I think at the time most CD players would have had a tray or just opened from the top like a Discman or Playstation 1.

yeah most were top loaders, there were some that were trays but like portable players were top loaders.

also they should fit fine any anything, they are oddly shaped but they aren't bigger than a standard Disc and are still roundish so they should still fit.

I once got a disk that was pretty much the middle of a standard CD roughly the size of a Gamecube disk but in a more (_) shape than a fully round one... it almost broke my grandfather's computer since his cd-rom drive at the time didn't have a tray you just put the disk in and it would read... it wasn't big enough so the computer couldn't eject it... that was fun trying to remove it.

[triplethreatmark]

Jan 3, 2016 23:17:36 GMT -5 Malcolm said:

I guess it was a good thing the Nintendo 64 didn't go with CDs after all.

Imagine trying to fit the CD of Star Wars: Rogue Squadron in if it was shaped like an X-Wing.

[Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast]

Jan 3, 2016 23:17:36 GMT -5 Malcolm said:

I guess it was a good thing the Nintendo 64 didn't go with CDs after all.

Ocarina of Time on a Triforce shaped disc. That could double as a deadly weapon.