Max
Magic won the 1994 European Multimedia Award for best General Enterainment Title
of the year
Max
Magic was developed to run on the Compact Disc Interactive (CD-I) format introduced
by Philips and was distributed by Philips Interactive Media of America (PIMA)
Max
Magic and his human partner can demonstrate an astonishing performance of mental
magic around the television screen. The title features Max Maven, the famous
mentalist who designed the tricks, and whose likeness is featured in the product.
fIt's
a shame that the Philips CD-I format went the way of the eight track tape ...
as Max Magic remains my most favorite stop along that sad and lonely street
that I call the Boulevard Of Broken Dreams ... the place where titles go that
no longer have a hardware player that runs them ... encoded in some weird digital
format that never caught on!
Max
Magic can be customized to perform with the assistance of a human partner ...
who is secretly controlling the presentation via the CD-I remote control.
The
absolute coolest part is the way his head opens up and you can customize Max
to speak to you by name, and setup your own "routines"
Max
Magic can also entertain by himself .. in this "experiment" ... Max
reads the spectators mind and announces their astrological symbol
As
an amatuer magician, I was always forgetting "my lines" and screwing
up the tricks ... so it was only natural for me to want to make a "foolproof"
magic set for all the wannabee magicians like myself.
Max
Magic remains the only interactive entertainment title that I made that I
still am known to play with ... as any visitor to my home is inevitably forced
to sit through a perfomance of me and my friend Max Magic
