I am not sure but I think it was one of the original designs for that remote..........and By the way they made a device for the CD32 called the TVI wich was a device you attach to the keyboard port and it gave the CD32 a modem and an infrared reciever, and the remote that comes with it is identical to the one in that pic of yours.......I happen to have 2 of these units and it basically lets you use the CD32 with remote control to play your CD's.......its also great for SCALA presentations and flipping the pages.............they say that this is compatible with the regular CDTV remote, so that you can use the CDTV remote to control the CD32 or the CD32 remote, to control the CDTV.