What's the story about multimedia? Commodore thought it was the next big thing and made the CDTV. There were some useful multimedia software that came out like Encyclopedias, but most of it people would not pay more than 5 or 10 dollars for.
When multimedia software came out the developers expected big bucks for putting a few video files on a CD-ROM, but it didn't happen. So they went to games on CD, which was very popular.
So what happened?
