If I remember, did NEC also like to randomly throw the word "CD" into their ads, or is it just me?

I remember Johnny Turbo. He was talking about how Gate of Thunder was "one of the most intense CD-shooters". Oh, a CD-shooter. So, the game's like Duck Hunt? Sounds like a good follow-up to a PC-98 game called Cray Shoot (actually a DH clone that should've been Clay Shoot). Y'know once we've rid the world of super-computers for whatever reason, gotta destroy the removable media they left behind.
And by the ad, Lords of Thunder has "seven of the most ruthless graphically-intense CD bosses". So... are we fighting evil CDs, controlling an army of audio-tapes perhaps?