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Just got Zelda: Wand of Gamelon and Link: Faces of Evil for CD-i.
(ducks behind her shield to avoid getting hit by Musically Inspired, Datadog and DPX) Thought Zelda's Adventure was pretty OK. From the look of the instruction booklets I'm not impressed: killing enemies by hitting them with your sword, OK. Talking to friends and picking up rubies with your sword though??

I played almost all Zelda games, aside the ones for the CD-i.

Are they fun ?

Zelda's Adventure is OK, in spite of its flaws. It has live action videos, viewed from the top. Zelda's got to walk around and swat bats and all with her wand. There are seven worlds whe can enter from the main area, she has to encover part of a talisman from each of them.
CD-i was not conceived as gaming console and was sadly lagging behind when it finally started hopping onto the gaming market: the CD is 1-speed and memory is limited. Because of the limited memory and the intricate backgrounds, loading time between screens is a few seconds long; too long. Controls are very tricky to master. Live action frame rate is very low, costumes are hilariously ill-fitting and voice acting is cringing. But there's little live-action or voice acting.

Thing about the games is you're better off comparing them to the rest of CD-i, not to the other games of the same franchise on other consoles. Zelda's Adventure has quite a long shelf life and is good fun. Considering CD-i. Fans of the series would probably be offended.
Here's the intro. Do yourself a favour and don't read the Youtube comments.

Edit: Just looked into the other two games. Gameplay and looks are identical. Controls are a bit fiddly (CD-i's major fault). Also I have the Dutch versions of the games and the voices are a wee bit too familiar. But the game looks pretty good, animation looks typical CD-i with pixels and large colour slabs but it's survivable. It's nowhere near as bad as the Zelda fankids make you want to believe.

So instead of having to rescue a damsel in distress, she is now rescuing me ?
I checked out some playing the game films as well. The loading screen are indeed a bit long.

It doesn't look to be my cup of tea.

Well, if you want to check them out you can always drop by! Or borrow the games: in second-hand stores CD-i players cost about 2,50 E and the software disks go for one euro or less.

Does it have dungeons and trade quests ? Those are the fun parts in "rescue" Zelda games for me.
To be honest, I've never even seen a CD-i player, let alone play with one and you have a pinball machine as well! Your house looks like treasure cove. (sorry, I am in pirate mood as I am wearing a bandana against the sun)

I am still playing okami-den on my DS. It has a lot of loading screens as well

Heh! There's nothing but overgrown children in my house...
Zelda's Adventure has dungeons and fetch quests. Haven't gotten very far with the other two yet.

I would fit right in then Do you play the role of tinkerbell or are you one of the lost boys as well ?

All this Zelda talking makes me want to (re)play one.
That remake on the 3ds is tempting, but as I don't have a 3ds yet. It would be rather expensive....

Lost boy. Though my main interests are music, art and language, I'm a keen puzzler, juggler and hobby tinkerer who still buys meccano toys.
(Clicked "save draft" instead of submit three times in a row. I'm getting old.)

Another CD-i I still had to check out (I'm slow at that when it's educational) deals with the Bearenstein Bears. Had a good laugh at the reading game, where you must find the matching lower-case letter to the capital, and the letter K was assigned the A sound, and the letter V was assigned the B sound.

That sounds really confusing. Was the pronunciation Dutch or English ?

I am trying to get some things done, but this heat (room is in the sun) + 2 computers melts me.
(and my game are here as well).

Portal 2, a birthday-gift from my very best friend who knows me all too well .

Im currently playing Duke Nukem Forever and thats about it right now. Hopefully Im going to be playing Batman Arkym Asylum for ps3.

If you haven't playet Arkham before, you're in for a treat. I absolutely LOV that game and can't wait for Arkham city.

Bought Arkham Asylum during the Steam sale and started playing it last night. I've got about 6 hours into it so far and I'm completely loving it. It's easily moved into a place on my list of favorite games.