I loved my 3DO - bought it in the fall of 1994 when the price dropped to $399. There was a very brief window where there was some developing momentum but Sony really took the wind out of their sails (and sales) with their marketing muscle and lower priced console. Road Rash sold me on it.
I bought mine in the Summer of 94 for $450. It came with Crash n Burn, John Madden Football and FIFA Soccer. The console was and still is, in my opinion amazing. I haven't completed the library yet, but I hope to one day. I need 26 more games and 1 cartoon and 1 demo to finish the entire North American library.
@Brian Babin And unfortunately for the 3DO unlike the highly prized and still sought after Neo Geo the 3DO had its time and that time has passed. 3DO games are okay depending on the title. There are way more titles pretty much any title from Neo Geo I would go back and play today 3DO barely a handful.
3d0 had the absolute best version of Star Control II. Loved the music in it SO Much. Also adored Cammy and Fei Long's Themes in SSFTT. Return fire had my friends and I entertained for hundreds of hours.
Yeah I second that. I never got that far but something about that game was just incredible for its time. I was a little kid then- wonder how it would hold up now. I tried so many times just exploring and ultimately getting wiped out lol.
@@bojangles6444 It was also like the only console game you can get laid by an alien in. Me and a friend beat the game and it took a long time and we still hadn't been to every planet. Nor did we discover every secret either..
Aside from price, the other aspect which kept systems like the 3DO out of my house was a lack of local retailers that sold it. Even if I wanted to purchase a 3DO when it was on store shelves, there was not a store in my town that sold the 3DO or it's games. It was this way with every obscure video game console in my hometown. TG-16, Atari Jaguar, 3DO, CD-I, it was around a 4 hour drive to get to the closest retailer that sold any of them.
Ditto. Playstation and Saturn stole the 3DO's shelf space at the EBs near me. Funcoland (remember them???) never had them in stock. The only way that I got one was that a mom & pop rental store started selling off their rental game systems.
Man, the 3DO never EVER gets the appreciation it deserves. For a console released in 1993, nothing else even came close to the raw power of the 3DO. Unfortunately, being an early CD based console, it was plagued with plenty of FMV trash games, but just underneath all that crust were games that truly deserve more love and attention nowadays. I often see people lump it together with the CDI, and that has to be the biggest disservice to a console I have ever seen.
3DO had a lot of FMV games, and edutainment and "multimedia" and lots of various crap no one wanted. As well as a fair amount of just truly bad games, given the low licensing fees. But it also had a bunch of excellent ports and original titles. There was a fair amount of crap to sort through, though.
Bah, is a crappy overpriced Console. It's gex in no5, for the love of God. In ps1, it isn't even in the top 150. If you get it for five bucks, you could play some good games. But if you bought it back at his time, and you weren't a rich guy, oh boy, you were fucked.
This channel is so wholesome, reminds me of a food travel show, except you travel to different eras and taste games. I can have this running in the background non stop. Love it bro, will be here when you hit 1 million subs, easy.
Loved the 3DO as a kid. My dad was all about buying cutting edge technology...as soon as it ended up in the clearance section! The 3DO was my first and only 3D console until we got the PS1 around 2000. The graphics and the sound blew me away. I too have fond memories of Road Rash, and it would probably be in my top 3 for the console!
I bought a 3DO to play SSFII when it came out on this system. Had to max out my first credit card to do it. There were adapters sold that allowed you to use fight sticks from Nintendo and genesis. I spent countless hours trying to beat this game in single player. I have fond memories of this underrated system.
I absolutely LOVE the 3DO. I got it in 1994 when I was 12 years old and I absolutely fell in love with it. The games you picked are all great, and of course any top 10 is entirely subjective to one's own experiences. For me, I'd have Space Hulk, Star Control 2, AD&D Slayer, and Immercenary in my top 10 for sure. Another great video as always Sega Lord X!
Awesome system, I got mine when I saw Super SF2 Turbo was available for it. later got Road Rash, Need for Speed and Samurai Showdown as well. I think I was one of the few that got it from my local Electronics Boutique lol.
Literally, I went to your channel hoping to see something new that I've missed about 20 minutes ago and watched 3 vids in between of getting ready for the nighttime and low and behold.. You WERE coming out with something! Collective consciousness 😂 crazy..
I remember going almost every day after school to an electronic store near the school back then to see the 3do in action and i’m always was mesmerized with those graphics and the sound and with the futuristic design of the console that see so sofisticated and pro (well for that time), and i remember they have the console connected to a sound system and wow i was soo blown away with that sound. And i remember they have the first first model of the console because the controller was the flat controler with the flat D-pad and the 3.5mm jack., i read somewhere that that console with that version of the controller was provided to the stores only to promote the console and personally a like that controler more. I remember almost begging to my dad back then to buy me the console but every time he says no because the console cost $500.00 was too expensive back then.
I've learned to respect the 3DO, it did video really nicely and a lot of the games on it that were also on sega cd were head and shoulders above their counterpart. Love the original Gex still too.
I remember when I saw Starblade in an arcade somewhere when I was a kid. It was one of the most amazing things I'd ever seen hahaha. It was unbelievable
Yeah man, I was going to write the same thing. Wing Commander 3 was a amazing in it. Years later I saw a 3do with Wing Commander on it and it was still good.
@@FunkMasterJunk i had a pair of 120W speakers and a decent amplifier. In fact still do. That made the game sound absolutely great. Even some sports games like FIFA International Soccer sounded great (also those were the times when EA Sports games were about... well... sports simulation). A few years later I managed to convert that setup to 4 channel one. That added even more oomph to the games that supported Dolby stuff.
Seeing the 3DO in 1993 after only knowing SNES and Genesis was life changing! 3DO was soooooo far ahead of anything else out there, it still sits in my memory as a sleek, sophisticated piece of tech I could only dream of acquiring until much later on.
Well said. I got a 3DO for Christmas '95 and it blew away everyone who saw it. NFS, Road Rash, Samurai Shodown, SSF2T, Gex, and a few others I owned and loved to death up until the release of the Playstation. I love how you correctly emphasized the issue of timing, judging these games within the time period they were released. NFS was literally jaw dropping. 3DO was also the only way to even play SSF2T at home in the US until it was released again in 1997 on the Street Fighter Collection disc. Without the 3DO, I wouldn't have been able to even play my now-favorite version of SF2 until 3 full years after its release in arcades.
Need for Speed in particular impresses me in this video. I didn't expect it to have such a realistic approach to the driving and environments, the roads the player drives on are far more realistic than other driving games of that era tended to feature. I have heard of the series of course, but I think I only played a much later version of the game in the early 2000s on my PS2.
I LOVE the 3DO. such a great and underappreciated system! I was lucky enough to find one (Panasonic FZ-1) 5 years ago almost to the day for a literal 2$ (although it had no controllers so I had to buy those normally for 25$ lol) and it is a truly great system :D. My favorite game on it is its Road Rash :). Edit: Wow! I hadn't watched the video when I made this comment, so I didn't realize that it was also the #1 game here! Awesome coincidence! :D.
@@FantasyVisuals i played Space Hulk on PC at the time and it was the scariest game i ever played. When gamers began talking about how scary Resident Evil was when it came out later and i played it, it didn't hold a candle to the terrifying feeling of having your squad eaten in those dark first person corridors.
Star Control 2 on 3DO was considered the definitive edition for years. It's only been surpassed by people who have updated the code for the PC. It's a great game if you've never played it. It's a little grindy at times, but it has a very funny cast of aliens, great combat, and some laugh out loud moments. I encourage you to check it out.
@@CasperEgas Yeah they've aged like milk in a hot car. Clunky as hell not to mention ugly and basic to look at. I was glad the game alone in the dark and you nightmare came out on the PlayStation Dreamcast etc. It gave the old series the proper RE treatment before the series went off the rails with the newer games.
I still have my 3DO that I got when the price came down to the bargain price of $500. It was pretty impressive for 93-94' but really never got to it's full potential. My favorite games would be Star Control 2 which is a great game, Starfighter,D,Wing Commander 3 which is a fantastic version of the game especially with the flight stick,D+D Slayer, and of course Road Rash. There are a few more good ones but it never really had much of a library especially RPGs of which there were only a handful. The only real JRPG,Lucian's Quest,is ok at best and quite expensive now.
Same here, I played Starfighter and Wing Commander III yesterday. Still fun all these years later. Some will say the ports on the Playstation and Saturn are better but Starfighter is the best on the 3DO (no fog filling the screen).
Out of curiosity, have you played Star Control 2 for 3DO? It's a PC game whose only port was to 3DO. If you haven't played it then you definitely need to at least give it a go!
I think a lot of the modern 3DO hate comes from it’s price, and a weird conflation between it and the Philips CD-i For a device from 1992 it was basically using magic and is insanely impressive. Also great pick with Killing Time I didn’t realize that was on Steam and immediately picked it up
@@SegaLordX I think the main problem is it has not held up and if you owned a PlayStation and then a 3DO you would not get the appeal at all. Somebody compared the price and the timing of its release similar to the Neo Geo home console and I would say yeah that's a good comparison except that I feel like those games have held up way better and probably because they relied more on 2D. The 3DO is a product of its time nothing against it it's just a fact.
So nice to see some love for this forgotten but underrated console. Not all with the 3DO was perfect, but what we got here was honestly still pretty good. I'm still trying to add Killing Time to my collection, but I have gotten some fun out of Escape from Monster Manor which came first. It's not nearly as story driven and a bit more repetitive, but I really like the spooky/Halloween cheesy vibe I get from it. I also firmly stand by my opinion that Need for Speed on the 3DO was much better than the versions that came to the PS1 and Saturn. It was more realistic and the other versions were missing the one thing that made Need for Speed cool and that was Mr.X. The PS1 and Saturn versions became too arcade-like in gameplay and were quickly overshadowed by the far superior Ridge Racer titles + Gran Turismo on PS1 and Daytona USA + Sega Rally on the Saturn.
I only had one friend back in the ol' high school days who had a 3DO. He specifically got it to play Super Street Fighter II and we were in total awe when we first played it. But none of us could justify the price for the console in those days and I think around that time we were still holding out hope for the SNES CD-ROM. But dude you are bang on right, when we played Road Rash, it was instantaneously addictive as hell. I had so much fun spending countless hours playing it, even once winning a race by having my rider take a wipe out mid air and crossing the finish line, hahahaha So many funny bugs in that game. Great video!! Would looooove to acquire a 3DO but they have shot up in value like effing crazy these last few years. It's the only way to play Road Rash in my opinion.
Thanks, great timing as I just bought a FZ-1 from Japan. Starblade looks beautiful, definitely going to check it out. I’ve mainly been playing Star Control 2 so far, but I guess that’s not your type of game...
I loved this system as well. Loved the games you listed. I also have fond memories of star control 2, the horde, wind commander 3, foes of ali and dragon lore
This is a great retrospective that hit all the main points of what made the 3DO such a great gaming console. I never owned one, but I remember trading one of my friends some Super Nintendo games so that I could borrow his 3DO to play games like Road Rash and Super Street Fighter 2 for the weekend. These games were miles ahead of anything that was out on any mainstream console at the time. Considering that the 3DO was creating games like these when the 16-bit SNES was at the height of its popularity is impressive. Timing really is everything, but if the 3DO wasn’t so expensive we might have a different dominant gaming company today.
Dude this review was spot on for this system, at least for those of us that lived it. I was a senior in high school at the time, and also able to work. I was able to buy one and a lot of the games in question. It was like owning a neo geo, round 2! Peace and love!
For Christmas 94’ I got the 3DO, the light gun, Crime Patrol, and Total Eclipse. Every night it played my OffSpring cd to bring me to sleep. Love everything 3DO. I even got a Trip Hawkins autograph!
As always another great video. Will always remember being very impressed with Madden on this. 1 person in town had a 3DO & he had Madden & maybe 1 other game & a bunch of guys would hang out & take turns playing Madden. It'd be cool if a 3DO Mini would be released. There was a Turbografx 16 Mini released so why not this? Would love to play some of these games on 1 device that I could take with me when I travel & hook up to any TV. Keep up the good work
Thank you for giving the 3DO a fair review, I got mine in late 1994 and for at least 3 years enjoyed it tremendously until I sold it after buying a PC and discovering PC gaming. I bought another 3DO in 2016 and this time I'm not selling it again.
Such a cool and fresh take on a console that I didn’t even know about growing up, being born in ‘91. Only knew of the 3DO from AVGN, which was hilarious, but I am definitely happy to have seen this video! Those games look awesome, I could only imagine comparing the snes and genesis to those once you got it back in ‘94. Really blew me away, honestly!
3DO was ahead of it's time. Yes, it had a heavy price tag but the games looked so much better than anything else at the time of release. I remember seeing it on display at best buy just wishing that I could get one. Years later (when it declined), I got one and loved it.... still own it, although I haven't fired it up in years, I'll never get rid of it.
Yeah the 3DO is for sure underrated and underappreciated. I got mine in 1998 at a local retro game store for $39 plus tax and it included one original controller and the rca composite cable. (And obviously the power cable was hardwired into the system) Over the years I have gotten games for it. I have the FZ10 model that is the front loader. The most common one, but I think the best designed model overall. Also so glad you put Road Rash at #1. To this day, I still love to break out that game and go back in time! Here is a list of games I enjoy. And also I own most complete in box. Road Rash, Need For Speed, Gex, BladeForce, Demolition Man, Wing Commander, Rebel Assault, Shock Wave, Crash 'N Burn, Return Fire, Madden Football and many more. There are also more games I got this past year that I haven't played much yet. But would like too sometime here soon.
I had Star Control 2, it changed my life and I play it once a year on my original FZ1. I remember working a babbage's and buying a game a night, copying it ( no copywriting ) and bringing it back the next day.
I bought that console just to play Road Rash like it more than ps1 and saturns version, I discovered recently other nice games too like, Ghost Manor, Luciene's Quest, Eye of the Typhoon, Primal Rage, Puzzle Bobble, Total eclipse, Policenauts, Space hulk, YuYU hakusho, and many more
Damn, that's $1400 in today's money. When I got mine they were marked-down to $300 and that was a huge amount of money for us, I was surprised my mom was willing to buy it for me. Didn't occur to me that they were marked-down because the console had been cancelled. A month later they were on clearance for $50. Still makes me mad.
Most of the games on this list I never got a chance to play, but the ones I did play very much deserve to be on this list. I never had enough games on the system to make a top ten list, but I loved the hell out of my 3DO until Final Fantasy 7 gave me a reason to move on. My favorites in no particular order are: Doom -- I know it isn't the best version, but it was the version I grew up with, and I never knew what I was missing. I spent many a night blowing up demons with this one. Samurai Showdown -- Epic game. You nailed it here in the video Gex -- Definitely a good game. Not amazing, but fun enough that I beat the thing a few times. I never thought it was all that hard since it kept burying me in extra lives. Return Fire -- Nailed it again in the video. Absolutely fantastic game, and I loved the expansion pack, too. Star Control II -- I loved the first game on Genesis, and the sequel was even better. The voice acting is great, and the humor is spot on, as is the gameplay. Also, I believe this remains the only console port of the game, making it one of the few games worth picking up for 3DO to this day. Space Hulk -- Good god, this game is tough as nails, but something about it kept me coming back. I never beat it, and I doubt I ever will, but I was addicted to it once upon a time. Captain Quasar -- Probably my favorite game on the system. Awesome run n' gun adventure with a lot of exuberant humor and destructible environments. That opening movie alone is worth checking out. Its only other release was on PC back in the '90s, so it's also one of the few games that is worth tracking down on 3DO today. The Horde -- I only ever played the demo of this game, but I played the hell out of it. I always wanted to get it, but my older brother thought it was dumb, so i kept my love for it secret.
Feels criminal not to include Immercenary. If you haven't played it, get it!(and be sure to at least look into the manual for added story an explanation of some things) It's the main reason I even got a 3do a couple years back after seeing it on my friend's 3DO.
Another great video 👍🏻 I remember back in the day, I had the Genesis and enjoyed playing Another World (UK version). I saw the 3DO version in a gamer mag and I salivated over the quality of the graphics compared to the 16 bit. I could never afford one back then; my first 32 bit console was the Playstation. The thing is however, I disliked the “jaggies” on the 3D polygon environments - this didn’t seem to occur on the 3DO.
In the UK, I remember the 3DO being even more of a non-entity than it appears to have been in the USA. Huge price, barely any marketing, and almost zero presence in game stores. I barely know anything about it, but I'd be keen to pick one up for the handful of decent exclusives, and just general collectability of it. For games like Gex, Road Rash, Need for Speed, Street Fighter, Neo Geo ports etc, I'd be inclined to stick with the Saturn versions now, though I can see the appeal of the 3DO versions at the time of their release.
Retro gaming hippie approves! I finally dusted off the 3do tonight and have 2 of the games on this list. Gex is a pretty amazing game in many ways. Hopefully it did well other systems. I recall loving star flight I believe that was the name.
I'm a simple man. You could give me an ice cold soda, a slab of velveeta snack cheese on a plate, with a pile of wheat thins crackers, and fire up some Wolfenstein, and I'd be totally happy and entertained for a whole day.
Very nice video, finally someone else is a 3DO apologist, I love my system so much I own 2 different models and looking to purchase the Sanyo version. While it was rife with fmv games (my personal favorites), the only thing I won't be able to afford is lucieene's quest, since a CIB copy is over 1000 lol.
I bought my back in 1996 right before itnwas discontinued. I still have Goldstar and 2 Panasonic units that i still get games for it and sometimes i still play it. My favorite systems were Sega Cd and 3DO both considered as failures but still enjoy both of them.
I remember having one around 2004, I was quite impressed by it even that late, Gamesmaster magazine over here in the UK always used to be quite fond of it back in the 1990's and I had a great time with Return Fire, Road Rash and Snowjob.
The 3do is like an interactive b movie dimension. I think you really had to be there to see it. I really have a soft spot for it. I think it may have been the first console I saved up for and bought on my own.
Some 3do games were jaw dropping at the time. It was unbelievable to have this graphics and sound at home. I will never forget how awesome it was to experience street fighter, way of the warrior, samurai showdown, roadrush at home in my friends house. CD quality sound, so colorful, big freaking full motion videos, 3d graphics in some game. WOW. Going back home to my Mega Drive and looking at the graphics it offered. It was... disappointing a bit. Like seeing Neo Geo AES at the gaming store. Jaw dropping. I agree about Road Rush as best game on the platform.
I bought a 3DO about like 5 years ago at a auction in boise,ID. They didn’t know what it was. They thought it was like a vcr or DVD player. Best 15 bucks spent
While I was never able to own a 3DO, I was always vastly intrigued by it. I got to play it /maybe/ once or twice thanks to a demo kiosk in a department store but due to its price it was always a no-go for me. It tends to get a lot of flack from other channels for the games that flopped on it but over time I've come to see how experimental and, as you've pointed out here, ahead of its time it was. Really awesome to see it in a light like this. What an exciting time this was for consoles overall. Thanks for another insightful and kickass video!
Thanks for the trip down memory lane! I actually exchanged my Sega Genesis, CD, 32x Plus 2 turbo controllers to extensions Mortal Kombat, sonic CD and a bunch of other games just to get the 3DO and one controller in exchange. I was 17 and just move in an apartment by myself and I would actually skip meals just to buy a game at the end of the week. I remembered playing 19 hours straight of Killing Time on my day off. Captain quazar, Road rash & Hell: a cyber punk thriller we're also filling up my weekends. It crush me when I heard the 3do 2 wasn't going to be made.
Knowing how low the bar was between 1990-1994 for 3D graphics at home, the visuals in this video are mind blowing. It is definitely easy to dismiss the 3DO in hindsight when the ps1 came out in 95 and PC dominated 3D graphics with the voodoo in 96, but in 1993? The 3DO was more impressive than even top of the line PC 5 times as expensive!
I would have put Star Control 2 in the top 10 instead of Killing Time or John Madden, but otherwise yeah. Solid list. I also liked Lucienne's Quest, but I don't think that was all that popular.
Star Control 2 is pretty cool, definitely top tier 3DO material. Lucienne's Quest was also good, but the problem was that it's the only English translated version out there and it's only on 3DO, a console that was already a rare commodity to find in consumers houses due to its price. This makes Lucienne's Quest ludicrously rare and expensive these days. It was also on Saturn re-titled Sword and Sorcery, but alas it remains exclusive to Japan with no official translation. :(
I bought my FZ-10 3DO on clearance shortly after purchasing the newly released PS1 and Sega Saturn. I paid $50 for it at K-Mart, and it came packed with Sewer Shark. I still have it today and have played relatively low hours on it considering its age. It's basically like new and is one of my most prized possessions in the game room. I love Twisted: the Game Show. Thanks for the great content SLX.
Thanks again for the 3DO love, it is well deserved and needed. My favorite games on the system that I still return to from time to time are Road Rash, Need For Speed, Slam N Jam 95, and Twisted. I enjoyed John Madden, Battle Chess, Crime Patrol, Super Street Fighter II Turbo, and Myst as well on the system. I had Alone in the Dark, Out Of This World, Samurai Showdown, Way of the Warrior, Primal Rage, Mad Dog McCree games, Hell, etc. but didn't play those as frequently. I didn't get Gex until much later but wish I had as a kid as I know I would have logged some hours on that game. I didn't have Return Fire but that game looks great.
1996 I went to funcoland and traded in a number of games I didn't want anymore to get the 3DO. I got lucky to get Return Fire for free since it was sitting in the console and the people working there didn't know it was in the tray. Also got SSF2T, Total Eclipse and Off World Intereceptor and a few other titles. I wanted to get more games but the Saturn took priority since the games coming out for it really got my attention and the 3DO wasn't getting anything new.
one thing easy to neglect today is that time game of a couple of years of a game being released on a console then another. Road Rash was a delicious masterpiece on the 3DO hands down, though it simply did not feel the same on ps1 because of that time difference. Had an absolute blast playing Street Fighter there too, even with the sketchy 3 buttons controller (I think you could map them). It was a clean arcade port and I was deep into the franchise back in the day I did not own a 3DO but my neighbor had one. We had a lot of fun playing Xtreme games which would easy be part of my top10 for the platform. We played together there at least once a week until we got a bit older and had some issues fighting for girls
Actually Genesis' Road Rash games used polygons for the roads and real sprite scaling for the approximation of track objects. I read that on an interview with one of the programmers back then. It used 100% of the Genesis' processing power back then. So no 3d fake scrolling tracks. This can be confirmed by simply using an overclock able emulator that shows the game running at more frames per second and you'll see clearly what I mean.
What always struck me as weird is how so many early CD-based systems seem to have focused more on flashiness or over-extending their performance capabilities, instead of capitalizing on the increased storage to provide more game variety, smoother animations, and so on...
The when, the where and the how you played games definetly changed your experience of the them. I dreamed of getting the 3do but my Mum never bought me one after splashing out on the short lived Mega Cd. I will never forget though the time my mum bought me an imported sega mega drive and popped it in my bedroom 3:00 a.m christmas morning. Played E-swat for the rest of the morning then got given revenge of shinobi as another present. One of my best gaming memories.
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I loved my 3DO - bought it in the fall of 1994 when the price dropped to $399. There was a very brief window where there was some developing momentum but Sony really took the wind out of their sails (and sales) with their marketing muscle and lower priced console. Road Rash sold me on it.
Weren't all 3 32 bit consoles the same price by the end of 1995?
i still play that version of road rash, albeit via ps1 emulator as 3do emulator is.....tricky. insta-save helps.
I bought mine in the Summer of 94 for $450. It came with Crash n Burn, John Madden Football and FIFA Soccer. The console was and still is, in my opinion amazing. I haven't completed the library yet, but I hope to one day. I need 26 more games and 1 cartoon and 1 demo to finish the entire North American library.
Also the ps1 being more powerful in 3D and 2D (at times).
@@dave101t I downloaded a bunch of (well, 24) 3DO games today and they all seem to run absolutely fine in Retroarch.
Loved The 3DO and I love this channel.
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And unfortunately for the 3DO unlike the highly prized and still sought after Neo Geo the 3DO had its time and that time has passed. 3DO games are okay depending on the title. There are way more titles pretty much any title from Neo Geo I would go back and play today 3DO barely a handful.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu Neo Geo could never do NFS though. So 3DO was more powerful at least with polygons. I'll live with my ps1 ver tho..
I only love one of these lol
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3d0 had the absolute best version of Star Control II. Loved the music in it SO Much. Also adored Cammy and Fei Long's Themes in SSFTT. Return fire had my friends and I entertained for hundreds of hours.
yeah SC2 is one of my favorite games of all time, like a very very short list, ff7 is there too.
Yeah I second that. I never got that far but something about that game was just incredible for its time. I was a little kid then- wonder how it would hold up now. I tried so many times just exploring and ultimately getting wiped out lol.
@@bojangles6444 It was also like the only console game you can get laid by an alien in. Me and a friend beat the game and it took a long time and we still hadn't been to every planet. Nor did we discover every secret either..
Aside from price, the other aspect which kept systems like the 3DO out of my house was a lack of local retailers that sold it. Even if I wanted to purchase a 3DO when it was on store shelves, there was not a store in my town that sold the 3DO or it's games. It was this way with every obscure video game console in my hometown. TG-16, Atari Jaguar, 3DO, CD-I, it was around a 4 hour drive to get to the closest retailer that sold any of them.
Had to get them out of the back of game informal magazines that’s how I got mines paid 600 plus tax and shipping tho
Yep. No one around me had one, and no retailers sold 3DO stuff. And at the huge price, no wonder.
Ditto. Playstation and Saturn stole the 3DO's shelf space at the EBs near me. Funcoland (remember them???) never had them in stock. The only way that I got one was that a mom & pop rental store started selling off their rental game systems.
Man, the 3DO never EVER gets the appreciation it deserves. For a console released in 1993, nothing else even came close to the raw power of the 3DO. Unfortunately, being an early CD based console, it was plagued with plenty of FMV trash games, but just underneath all that crust were games that truly deserve more love and attention nowadays. I often see people lump it together with the CDI, and that has to be the biggest disservice to a console I have ever seen.
The Neo Geo AWS (introduces 1990) says high :)
@@billcook4768 Could the AES really be considered a more powerful system? It couldn't even do 3D graphics.
P.S. its Hi, not High
3DO had a lot of FMV games, and edutainment and "multimedia" and lots of various crap no one wanted. As well as a fair amount of just truly bad games, given the low licensing fees. But it also had a bunch of excellent ports and original titles. There was a fair amount of crap to sort through, though.
Bah, is a crappy overpriced Console. It's gex in no5, for the love of God. In ps1, it isn't even in the top 150. If you get it for five bucks, you could play some good games. But if you bought it back at his time, and you weren't a rich guy, oh boy, you were fucked.
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This channel is so wholesome, reminds me of a food travel show, except you travel to different eras and taste games. I can have this running in the background non stop. Love it bro, will be here when you hit 1 million subs, easy.
Loved the 3DO as a kid. My dad was all about buying cutting edge technology...as soon as it ended up in the clearance section!
The 3DO was my first and only 3D console until we got the PS1 around 2000. The graphics and the sound blew me away.
I too have fond memories of Road Rash, and it would probably be in my top 3 for the console!
I bought a 3DO to play SSFII when it came out on this system. Had to max out my first credit card to do it. There were adapters sold that allowed you to use fight sticks from Nintendo and genesis. I spent countless hours trying to beat this game in single player. I have fond memories of this underrated system.
I absolutely LOVE the 3DO. I got it in 1994 when I was 12 years old and I absolutely fell in love with it. The games you picked are all great, and of course any top 10 is entirely subjective to one's own experiences. For me, I'd have Space Hulk, Star Control 2, AD&D Slayer, and Immercenary in my top 10 for sure. Another great video as always Sega Lord X!
Every commentor needs to tell a friend about this channel and to sub. We gotta get X over 100k.
I thought The Need for Speed was incredible when i saw it running on this system. Such a leap up from 16 bit racers.
NFD is THE game that sold me on the system.
Thanks for mentioning that Killing Time is available on Steam. I've always wanted to play that game, but I never owned a 3DO.
No problem. Works on most modern machines too.
It is a bit different than the 3DO version, but both are worth playing.
Awesome system, I got mine when I saw Super SF2 Turbo was available for it. later got Road Rash, Need for Speed and Samurai Showdown as well. I think I was one of the few that got it from my local Electronics Boutique lol.
Literally, I went to your channel hoping to see something new that I've missed about 20 minutes ago and watched 3 vids in between of getting ready for the nighttime and low and behold.. You WERE coming out with something!
Collective consciousness 😂 crazy..
I miss 90s gaming mags. You could see what all the games looked like on all consoles. Also the interesting ads at the back were always cool.
Yes thank you for making this! I had a feeling you were going to make a 3DO video for some reason! Love the console.
I remember going almost every day after school to an electronic store near the school back then to see the 3do in action and i’m always was mesmerized with those graphics and the sound and with the futuristic design of the console that see so sofisticated and pro (well for that time), and i remember they have the console connected to a sound system and wow i was soo blown away with that sound. And i remember they have the first first model of the console because the controller was the flat controler with the flat D-pad and the 3.5mm jack., i read somewhere that that console with that version of the controller was provided to the stores only to promote the console and personally a like that controler more. I remember almost begging to my dad back then to buy me the console but every time he says no because the console cost $500.00 was too expensive back then.
I've learned to respect the 3DO, it did video really nicely and a lot of the games on it that were also on sega cd were head and shoulders above their counterpart. Love the original Gex still too.
Love my 3DO still to this day. Still play my FZ1
I always loved that machine too, and mine still works! lol
@@rgm4646 LOL damn that shit is fucking funny you son of a bitch
I remember when I saw Starblade in an arcade somewhere when I was a kid. It was one of the most amazing things I'd ever seen hahaha. It was unbelievable
My fave game on the system was Wing Commander 3. I mean talk about an amazing port of the PC game.
Yeah man, I was going to write the same thing. Wing Commander 3 was a amazing in it. Years later I saw a 3do with Wing Commander on it and it was still good.
@@FunkMasterJunk i had a pair of 120W speakers and a decent amplifier. In fact still do. That made the game sound absolutely great. Even some sports games like FIFA International Soccer sounded great (also those were the times when EA Sports games were about... well... sports simulation). A few years later I managed to convert that setup to 4 channel one. That added even more oomph to the games that supported Dolby stuff.
Super Wing Commander was good too!
It even had Luke Skywalker
Seeing the 3DO in 1993 after only knowing SNES and Genesis was life changing! 3DO was soooooo far ahead of anything else out there, it still sits in my memory as a sleek, sophisticated piece of tech I could only dream of acquiring until much later on.
Well said. I got a 3DO for Christmas '95 and it blew away everyone who saw it. NFS, Road Rash, Samurai Shodown, SSF2T, Gex, and a few others I owned and loved to death up until the release of the Playstation. I love how you correctly emphasized the issue of timing, judging these games within the time period they were released. NFS was literally jaw dropping. 3DO was also the only way to even play SSF2T at home in the US until it was released again in 1997 on the Street Fighter Collection disc. Without the 3DO, I wouldn't have been able to even play my now-favorite version of SF2 until 3 full years after its release in arcades.
Need for Speed in particular impresses me in this video. I didn't expect it to have such a realistic approach to the driving and environments, the roads the player drives on are far more realistic than other driving games of that era tended to feature. I have heard of the series of course, but I think I only played a much later version of the game in the early 2000s on my PS2.
I LOVE the 3DO. such a great and underappreciated system! I was lucky enough to find one (Panasonic FZ-1) 5 years ago almost to the day for a literal 2$ (although it had no controllers so I had to buy those normally for 25$ lol) and it is a truly great system :D. My favorite game on it is its Road Rash :).
Edit: Wow! I hadn't watched the video when I made this comment, so I didn't realize that it was also the #1 game here! Awesome coincidence! :D.
That Was The 2nd Game I Got For My 3DO My 1st Was Dragons Lair ❤
Starfighter and SpaceHulk , the latter of which was completely terrifying .
Hope you keep your system. It's tremendous fun.
@@FantasyVisuals i played Space Hulk on PC at the time and it was the scariest game i ever played. When gamers began talking about how scary Resident Evil was when it came out later and i played it, it didn't hold a candle to the terrifying feeling of having your squad eaten in those dark first person corridors.
Star Control 2 on 3DO was considered the definitive edition for years. It's only been surpassed by people who have updated the code for the PC. It's a great game if you've never played it. It's a little grindy at times, but it has a very funny cast of aliens, great combat, and some laugh out loud moments. I encourage you to check it out.
I’m surprised “Alone in The Dark” isn’t on the list. It was Resident Evil before Resident Evil existed.
While that game was probably good on the 3DO it was available on the PC in 92 and ported to the 3DO in 94.
The games are difficult and fun but I hate that the zombies or ghosts can shoot weapons.
I didn't play it back in the day and really can't get into them now. Both part one and two...
the game was scary but clunky like hell, RE perfected what AITD tried to accomplish.
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Yeah they've aged like milk in a hot car. Clunky as hell not to mention ugly and basic to look at. I was glad the game alone in the dark and you nightmare came out on the PlayStation Dreamcast etc. It gave the old series the proper RE treatment before the series went off the rails with the newer games.
I absolutely loved the 3do,i always liked hell:a cyberpunk thriller.
That was one of the 1st 2 games I sought out the 3DO for, right after Star Control II.
Hell got a bad rap but for me it was simple: I loved point and click adventures, I loved cyberpunk atmosphere, and I loved 3DO.
Yes! The soundtrack is awesome
@@jasonharris644 i know! I always loved the track during the opening credits.
I still have my 3DO and miss the 90s! I still listen Road Rash and Need for Speed soundtracks and Night Trap gave me nightmare when i was kid haha
Great video. Lots of fond memories of the 3DO here. No FIFA though? I remember being blown away by that game and the audio when it came out.
for sure... do you remember the crowds chanting? I don't even like sports games but FIFA brought me around!
I still have my 3DO that I got when the price came down to the bargain price of $500. It was pretty impressive for 93-94' but really never got to it's full potential. My favorite games would be Star Control 2 which is a great game, Starfighter,D,Wing Commander 3 which is a fantastic version of the game especially with the flight stick,D+D Slayer, and of course Road Rash. There are a few more good ones but it never really had much of a library especially RPGs of which there were only a handful. The only real JRPG,Lucian's Quest,is ok at best and quite expensive now.
Same here, I played Starfighter and Wing Commander III yesterday. Still fun all these years later. Some will say the ports on the Playstation and Saturn are better but Starfighter is the best on the 3DO (no fog filling the screen).
@@ViciousAlienKlown I couldn't have said it better. Both games are quite good. Wing Commander is a game that needs to come back.
Out of curiosity, have you played Star Control 2 for 3DO? It's a PC game whose only port was to 3DO. If you haven't played it then you definitely need to at least give it a go!
I think a lot of the modern 3DO hate comes from it’s price, and a weird conflation between it and the Philips CD-i
For a device from 1992 it was basically using magic and is insanely impressive.
Also great pick with Killing Time I didn’t realize that was on Steam and immediately picked it up
Most 3DO hate is born of ignorance, inexperience, or both. Most people never owned it when it mattered.
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I think the main problem is it has not held up and if you owned a PlayStation and then a 3DO you would not get the appeal at all.
Somebody compared the price and the timing of its release similar to the Neo Geo home console and I would say yeah that's a good comparison except that I feel like those games have held up way better and probably because they relied more on 2D. The 3DO is a product of its time nothing against it it's just a fact.
So nice to see some love for this forgotten but underrated console. Not all with the 3DO was perfect, but what we got here was honestly still pretty good. I'm still trying to add Killing Time to my collection, but I have gotten some fun out of Escape from Monster Manor which came first. It's not nearly as story driven and a bit more repetitive, but I really like the spooky/Halloween cheesy vibe I get from it. I also firmly stand by my opinion that Need for Speed on the 3DO was much better than the versions that came to the PS1 and Saturn. It was more realistic and the other versions were missing the one thing that made Need for Speed cool and that was Mr.X. The PS1 and Saturn versions became too arcade-like in gameplay and were quickly overshadowed by the far superior Ridge Racer titles + Gran Turismo on PS1 and Daytona USA + Sega Rally on the Saturn.
I recently RGB modded my 3DO and replaced the disc drive with USB Host (optical disc emulator). Love it
I did as well... MNEMO Internal mounted 128GB USB drive with 330+ games on a Japanese 240p switchable console.
One of my favorite consoles. Great video!
Long as it's not above the Sega CD
I only had one friend back in the ol' high school days who had a 3DO. He specifically got it to play Super Street Fighter II and we were in total awe when we first played it. But none of us could justify the price for the console in those days and I think around that time we were still holding out hope for the SNES CD-ROM. But dude you are bang on right, when we played Road Rash, it was instantaneously addictive as hell. I had so much fun spending countless hours playing it, even once winning a race by having my rider take a wipe out mid air and crossing the finish line, hahahaha So many funny bugs in that game.
Great video!! Would looooove to acquire a 3DO but they have shot up in value like effing crazy these last few years. It's the only way to play Road Rash in my opinion.
No star control 2?
Thanks, great timing as I just bought a FZ-1 from Japan. Starblade looks beautiful, definitely going to check it out. I’ve mainly been playing Star Control 2 so far, but I guess that’s not your type of game...
I loved this system as well. Loved the games you listed. I also have fond memories of star control 2, the horde, wind commander 3, foes of ali and dragon lore
This is a great retrospective that hit all the main points of what made the 3DO such a great gaming console. I never owned one, but I remember trading one of my friends some Super Nintendo games so that I could borrow his 3DO to play games like Road Rash and Super Street Fighter 2 for the weekend. These games were miles ahead of anything that was out on any mainstream console at the time. Considering that the 3DO was creating games like these when the 16-bit SNES was at the height of its popularity is impressive. Timing really is everything, but if the 3DO wasn’t so expensive we might have a different dominant gaming company today.
Dude this review was spot on for this system, at least for those of us that lived it. I was a senior in high school at the time, and also able to work. I was able to buy one and a lot of the games in question. It was like owning a neo geo, round 2! Peace and love!
Awesome Video. Great to hear the opinion of someone who was there in the prime of the 3DO.
For Christmas 94’ I got the 3DO, the light gun, Crime Patrol, and Total Eclipse. Every night it played my OffSpring cd to bring me to sleep. Love everything 3DO. I even got a Trip Hawkins autograph!
As always another great video. Will always remember being very impressed with Madden on this. 1 person in town had a 3DO & he had Madden & maybe 1 other game & a bunch of guys would hang out & take turns playing Madden. It'd be cool if a 3DO Mini would be released. There was a Turbografx 16 Mini released so why not this? Would love to play some of these games on 1 device that I could take with me when I travel & hook up to any TV. Keep up the good work
I remember how a 3DO used to cost around 10-15% of the price of a brand new car in my country, back in 1995. xD
Thank you for giving the 3DO a fair review, I got mine in late 1994 and for at least 3 years enjoyed it tremendously until I sold it after buying a PC and discovering PC gaming. I bought another 3DO in 2016 and this time I'm not selling it again.
Such a cool and fresh take on a console that I didn’t even know about growing up, being born in ‘91. Only knew of the 3DO from AVGN, which was hilarious, but I am definitely happy to have seen this video! Those games look awesome, I could only imagine comparing the snes and genesis to those once you got it back in ‘94. Really blew me away, honestly!
Had a 3DO years ago. Loved so many games and wish I still had it.
3DO was ahead of it's time. Yes, it had a heavy price tag but the games looked so much better than anything else at the time of release. I remember seeing it on display at best buy just wishing that I could get one. Years later (when it declined), I got one and loved it.... still own it, although I haven't fired it up in years, I'll never get rid of it.
Your getting a like just cause. Great stuff. Thanks man.
200 games released?! didn't know there was so many.
There were a lot of games released in Japan and North America that didn't get released in Europe and other PAL territories.
I bought an original FZ-1 and have a library amassed at well over 300 titles.
Yeah the 3DO is for sure underrated and underappreciated. I got mine in 1998 at a local retro game store for $39 plus tax and it included one original controller and the rca composite cable. (And obviously the power cable was hardwired into the system) Over the years I have gotten games for it. I have the FZ10 model that is the front loader. The most common one, but I think the best designed model overall. Also so glad you put Road Rash at #1. To this day, I still love to break out that game and go back in time! Here is a list of games I enjoy. And also I own most complete in box.
Road Rash, Need For Speed, Gex, BladeForce, Demolition Man, Wing Commander, Rebel Assault, Shock Wave, Crash 'N Burn, Return Fire, Madden Football and many more. There are also more games I got this past year that I haven't played much yet. But would like too sometime here soon.
I remember my friend had one of these and brought it over one time. We played Twisted all night; it was a blast.
I had Star Control 2, it changed my life and I play it once a year on my original FZ1. I remember working a babbage's and buying a game a night, copying it ( no copywriting ) and bringing it back the next day.
I bought that console just to play Road Rash like it more than ps1 and saturns version, I discovered recently other nice games too like, Ghost Manor, Luciene's Quest, Eye of the Typhoon, Primal Rage, Puzzle Bobble, Total eclipse, Policenauts, Space hulk, YuYU hakusho, and many more
Love the 3DO. I remember buying mine at Macy's when it came out for $700. Loved Monster Manor and Twisted it was a great complement to my Neo Geo AES.
Damn, that's $1400 in today's money. When I got mine they were marked-down to $300 and that was a huge amount of money for us, I was surprised my mom was willing to buy it for me. Didn't occur to me that they were marked-down because the console had been cancelled. A month later they were on clearance for $50. Still makes me mad.
Most of the games on this list I never got a chance to play, but the ones I did play very much deserve to be on this list. I never had enough games on the system to make a top ten list, but I loved the hell out of my 3DO until Final Fantasy 7 gave me a reason to move on. My favorites in no particular order are:
Doom -- I know it isn't the best version, but it was the version I grew up with, and I never knew what I was missing. I spent many a night blowing up demons with this one.
Samurai Showdown -- Epic game. You nailed it here in the video
Gex -- Definitely a good game. Not amazing, but fun enough that I beat the thing a few times. I never thought it was all that hard since it kept burying me in extra lives.
Return Fire -- Nailed it again in the video. Absolutely fantastic game, and I loved the expansion pack, too.
Star Control II -- I loved the first game on Genesis, and the sequel was even better. The voice acting is great, and the humor is spot on, as is the gameplay. Also, I believe this remains the only console port of the game, making it one of the few games worth picking up for 3DO to this day.
Space Hulk -- Good god, this game is tough as nails, but something about it kept me coming back. I never beat it, and I doubt I ever will, but I was addicted to it once upon a time.
Captain Quasar -- Probably my favorite game on the system. Awesome run n' gun adventure with a lot of exuberant humor and destructible environments. That opening movie alone is worth checking out. Its only other release was on PC back in the '90s, so it's also one of the few games that is worth tracking down on 3DO today.
The Horde -- I only ever played the demo of this game, but I played the hell out of it. I always wanted to get it, but my older brother thought it was dumb, so i kept my love for it secret.
These graphics would have blown my mind back in the early nineties. Great video as always, SLX!
Great selection! Thankfully I got ha 3DO back in the early 2000's and got a good collection for $25.00 all of it. Glad the system is in my collection.
3DO was an amazing system. I enjoyed Star Control II, Slam and Jam 95, and Twisted was a good multiplayer game.
You should review Joe Montana Football on the Sega CD
That draw distance, tho...lol. No warping textures either it looks. Good stuff.
Good video. I've always been interested in the 3DO.
Feels criminal not to include Immercenary. If you haven't played it, get it!(and be sure to at least look into the manual for added story an explanation of some things) It's the main reason I even got a 3do a couple years back after seeing it on my friend's 3DO.
This. No one EVER talks about immercenary.
I have Immercenary on my original FZ-1 and have never played it. It does look really good... Thanks for the reminder to take another day off work...
Thanks for the trip down memory lane, great video
13:01 loved this port minus the lack of parallax scrolling but I loved the death cries had no echoes.
Another great video 👍🏻
I remember back in the day, I had the Genesis and enjoyed playing Another World (UK version). I saw the 3DO version in a gamer mag and I salivated over the quality of the graphics compared to the 16 bit. I could never afford one back then; my first 32 bit console was the Playstation. The thing is however, I disliked the “jaggies” on the 3D polygon environments - this didn’t seem to occur on the 3DO.
In the UK, I remember the 3DO being even more of a non-entity than it appears to have been in the USA. Huge price, barely any marketing, and almost zero presence in game stores. I barely know anything about it, but I'd be keen to pick one up for the handful of decent exclusives, and just general collectability of it. For games like Gex, Road Rash, Need for Speed, Street Fighter, Neo Geo ports etc, I'd be inclined to stick with the Saturn versions now, though I can see the appeal of the 3DO versions at the time of their release.
Retro gaming hippie approves! I finally dusted off the 3do tonight and have 2 of the games on this list. Gex is a pretty amazing game in many ways. Hopefully it did well other systems. I recall loving star flight I believe that was the name.
Was the Rodney Dangerfield .."no respect" 😂
In my opinion by far the best 3DO game was Star Control II, easily one of the best space exploration games of all time, and it was really funny too.
I always love Demolition Man on the 3DO because it was a completely unique experience. And all the custom videos shot for it.
I'm a simple man. You could give me an ice cold soda, a slab of velveeta snack cheese on a plate, with a pile of wheat thins crackers, and fire up some Wolfenstein, and I'd be totally happy and entertained for a whole day.
Very nice video, finally someone else is a 3DO apologist, I love my system so much I own 2 different models and looking to purchase the Sanyo version. While it was rife with fmv games (my personal favorites), the only thing I won't be able to afford is lucieene's quest, since a CIB copy is over 1000 lol.
Loved playing road rash, Sf2T, return fire, and NFS in my high school years with friends. Miss those day
I bought my back in 1996 right before itnwas discontinued. I still have Goldstar and 2 Panasonic units that i still get games for it and sometimes i still play it. My favorite systems were Sega Cd and 3DO both considered as failures but still enjoy both of them.
I remember having one around 2004, I was quite impressed by it even that late, Gamesmaster magazine over here in the UK always used to be quite fond of it back in the 1990's and I had a great time with Return Fire, Road Rash and Snowjob.
The Need for Speed was goddamn beautiful.
The 3do is like an interactive b movie dimension. I think you really had to be there to see it. I really have a soft spot for it. I think it may have been the first console I saved up for and bought on my own.
Some 3do games were jaw dropping at the time. It was unbelievable to have this graphics and sound at home. I will never forget how awesome it was to experience street fighter, way of the warrior, samurai showdown, roadrush at home in my friends house. CD quality sound, so colorful, big freaking full motion videos, 3d graphics in some game. WOW. Going back home to my Mega Drive and looking at the graphics it offered. It was... disappointing a bit. Like seeing Neo Geo AES at the gaming store. Jaw dropping. I agree about Road Rush as best game on the platform.
I bought a 3DO about like 5 years ago at a auction in boise,ID. They didn’t know what it was. They thought it was like a vcr or DVD player. Best 15 bucks spent
Road Rash is terrific. I had the identical PC version and played the heck out of it.
While I was never able to own a 3DO, I was always vastly intrigued by it. I got to play it /maybe/ once or twice thanks to a demo kiosk in a department store but due to its price it was always a no-go for me. It tends to get a lot of flack from other channels for the games that flopped on it but over time I've come to see how experimental and, as you've pointed out here, ahead of its time it was. Really awesome to see it in a light like this. What an exciting time this was for consoles overall. Thanks for another insightful and kickass video!
I love the 3do... especially the fz1...the most beautiful console design ever
Thanks for the trip down memory lane! I actually exchanged my Sega Genesis, CD, 32x Plus 2 turbo controllers to extensions Mortal Kombat, sonic CD and a bunch of other games just to get the 3DO and one controller in exchange. I was 17 and just move in an apartment by myself and I would actually skip meals just to buy a game at the end of the week. I remembered playing 19 hours straight of Killing Time on my day off. Captain quazar, Road rash & Hell: a cyber punk thriller we're also filling up my weekends. It crush me when I heard the 3do 2 wasn't going to be made.
Knowing how low the bar was between 1990-1994 for 3D graphics at home, the visuals in this video are mind blowing. It is definitely easy to dismiss the 3DO in hindsight when the ps1 came out in 95 and PC dominated 3D graphics with the voodoo in 96, but in 1993? The 3DO was more impressive than even top of the line PC 5 times as expensive!
I would have put Star Control 2 in the top 10 instead of Killing Time or John Madden, but otherwise yeah. Solid list. I also liked Lucienne's Quest, but I don't think that was all that popular.
Star Control 2 is pretty cool, definitely top tier 3DO material. Lucienne's Quest was also good, but the problem was that it's the only English translated version out there and it's only on 3DO, a console that was already a rare commodity to find in consumers houses due to its price. This makes Lucienne's Quest ludicrously rare and expensive these days. It was also on Saturn re-titled Sword and Sorcery, but alas it remains exclusive to Japan with no official translation. :(
I bought my FZ-10 3DO on clearance shortly after purchasing the newly released PS1 and Sega Saturn. I paid $50 for it at K-Mart, and it came packed with Sewer Shark. I still have it today and have played relatively low hours on it considering its age. It's basically like new and is one of my most prized possessions in the game room. I love Twisted: the Game Show. Thanks for the great content SLX.
Glad you mentioned D and Shockwave in the description.
Thanks again for the 3DO love, it is well deserved and needed. My favorite games on the system that I still return to from time to time are Road Rash, Need For Speed, Slam N Jam 95, and Twisted. I enjoyed John Madden, Battle Chess, Crime Patrol, Super Street Fighter II Turbo, and Myst as well on the system. I had Alone in the Dark, Out Of This World, Samurai Showdown, Way of the Warrior, Primal Rage, Mad Dog McCree games, Hell, etc. but didn't play those as frequently. I didn't get Gex until much later but wish I had as a kid as I know I would have logged some hours on that game. I didn't have Return Fire but that game looks great.
1996 I went to funcoland and traded in a number of games I didn't want anymore to get the 3DO. I got lucky to get Return Fire for free since it was sitting in the console and the people working there didn't know it was in the tray.
Also got SSF2T, Total Eclipse and Off World Intereceptor and a few other titles. I wanted to get more games but the Saturn took priority since the games coming out for it really got my attention and the 3DO wasn't getting anything new.
one thing easy to neglect today is that time game of a couple of years of a game being released on a console then another. Road Rash was a delicious masterpiece on the 3DO hands down, though it simply did not feel the same on ps1 because of that time difference.
Had an absolute blast playing Street Fighter there too, even with the sketchy 3 buttons controller (I think you could map them). It was a clean arcade port and I was deep into the franchise back in the day
I did not own a 3DO but my neighbor had one. We had a lot of fun playing Xtreme games which would easy be part of my top10 for the platform. We played together there at least once a week until we got a bit older and had some issues fighting for girls
Oh man, gotta dig mine back out. Need me some Wing Commander III Ginger Lynn handling my "default loadout". She never disappoints!
I still have my 3do
Actually Genesis' Road Rash games used polygons for the roads and real sprite scaling for the approximation of track objects. I read that on an interview with one of the programmers back then. It used 100% of the Genesis' processing power back then. So no 3d fake scrolling tracks.
This can be confirmed by simply using an overclock able emulator that shows the game running at more frames per second and you'll see clearly what I mean.
I had so much fun playing NFS and Road Rash. They were by far the best versions. Way of the Warrior is my guilty pleasure.
I had both of these games on Playstation. 3DO was better for multiple reasons....
Never thought this system even had 10 good games. Thanks for the history lesson.
What always struck me as weird is how so many early CD-based systems seem to have focused more on flashiness or over-extending their performance capabilities, instead of capitalizing on the increased storage to provide more game variety, smoother animations, and so on...
The when, the where and the how you played games definetly changed your experience of the them. I dreamed of getting the 3do but my Mum never bought me one after splashing out on the short lived Mega Cd. I will never forget though the time my mum bought me an imported sega mega drive and popped it in my bedroom 3:00 a.m christmas morning. Played E-swat for the rest of the morning then got given revenge of shinobi as another present. One of my best gaming memories.