3DO, to me, was ahead of its time and unfortunately priced too high to really compete. It was almost like a 32-bit preview, with clean full-motion video and multimedia functionality- and had several gems for games. Madden on 3DO was impressive for its time. The definitive 32-bit versions of Road Rash and Need For Speed are there. Crystal Dynamics put together some great games for it, like Gex and Total Eclipse. The library isn’t large, but I think it’s a platform worthy of owning for the right price.
jgfjgfify The only reason I owned a 3DO was that I bought one used at a local independent game store and got a great deal from the owner. I never would’ve spent $700. I also got in very late (early 1995). It wasn’t long before I traded it away towards a launch PlayStation- but, by that time, the console’s value was already tumbling.
The 3DO was essentially designed to be like the VCR of video games. If it had survived, the price of hardware would have dropped as more manufacturers came on board much the way that VCRs dropped from $1000 to $150 within a few years.
Man, I recently hooked my 3DO back up. Last night I looked in my tall-box 3DO Road Rash and found the soundtrack CD along with John Madden Football... no Road Rash. D: At least there's a PSX tall-box Road Rash on the same shelf, but I was really looking forward to trying out my 3DO copy!
Loved the 3DO - when it hit the market it was so far ahead of the 16 bit consoles and even the PC. They dropped the price to 399 in late ‘94 which is when I bought mine. For a short time it was killing it - then Sony dropped the PS1 and outspent 3DO on marketing. It died quick!
I was a manager for Babbage’s during the Panasonic 3DO launch period. It was indeed $700. During a company wide contest I won a system. This was supposed to boost sales through feedback to our customers. It never really worked. Again, $700 was a lot of scratch, especially in 1994. I still have mine, with several games, and it still works. It was a great system and was ahead of its time.
My dad got a 3DO from a dude in front of a pawn shop that said he'd trade him if he bought him a guitar in the shop. I used to love Road Rash, Street Fighter and Samurai Showdown. He also had a "grown-up" game I was not allowed to play but every now and then I found it in the disk tray lol.
I've a 3DO in July 2022!!!! Now the real challenges to find games that that are nice condition but if you look on eBay every one of them are beat up and scratched disc they want for way too much it's crazy
Yes! It's my fav game of all time (can't you tell by my avitar?). I play thru it at least once a year. I currently have 48 hrs into the new Star Control Origins game. Highly recommend it!
@@marshallkobe three is the worst one. Star Control Origins is almost a direct sequel to Star Control 2. I played three for about 2 days when it came out and never touched it since
Hi, I was one of those crazies that got the 3DO when it came out here in the UK and it's still one of my favourite consoles. If you're looking for recommendations I would go for: Return Fire (probably my favourite on the console, in both single and two-player. Very strategic and the use of classical music is great) Gex Wing Commander III (which you have) Road Rash (the best version of this game on any console!) Road & Track Presents: Need For Speed The Horde Demolition Man (not great, but still fun and Stallone and Snipes filmed stuff just for the game) Way of the Warrior (again not great, but it's interesting to see the beginnings of Naughty Dog) Space Hulk: Vengeance of the Blood Angels FIFA International Soccer (look up the cheats as Hot Potato Mode is a blast in two-player) The Twisted Gameshow and Zhadnost: The People's Party are fun party games Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Slayer Off-World Interceptor The Shockwave series There are also excellent versions of Cannon Fodder, Syndicate and Theme Park I would recommend getting hold of an official gamepad, if you can, as all of the third party pads (except the six button pad released with Super Street Fighter II Turbo) are very cheap and nasty. Probably even harder to get hold of is the 3DO flightstick, although it makes a hell of a difference when it comes to Wing Commander, Flying Nightmares and Star Fighter (hard to recommend the latter two without it). Interesting fact about the 3DO: There is no copy protection on the CDs. Use that information however you like :)
Agreed, flight stick is a must for Wing Commander 3. I would also recommend Shockwave, Alone in the Dark 1 & 2, Escape from Monster Manor and if you like RPG's, Guardian War. 3DO is a beautiful system that at one brief point in time was cutting edge electronic sophistication. Will always be my fave console. If only it's successor, the M2 could have made it to market.
Legendary Axe was a nice looking game for its time. R-type,Vigilante, and Splatterhouse are what really made me get one on clearance before they stopped making games for it.
I also got 2 ps2s lol One singstar slim and one regular slim. Last year i got a pink japanese one and a slim. I'm almost content with the amount of PS2s i have Might get coregrafx early next year and sell the 16
This is a great retro system. Definitely connect it with s-video and get yourself an original controller. Some other must own games are: Road Rash, Killing Time, Gex, and Star Control II.
Hey, John! FYI, when you see people close the drive tray by pushing it they aren't actually pushing it in. It retracts on its own after you nudge it. It's designed to and I've never seen a tray-load drive that doesn't. The button is pretty much there for ejecting only. Heck, there are many PCs that block the button and only let you eject with software. It's literally the exact same as a slot load where you nudge the disc in and it triggers the mechanism to draw it in automatically but you have to hit a button to eject it. Many people "follow" the disc in with their hand so it looks like they are pushing it but that's not usually necessary. I only find myself doing that if my nudge caused the disc to hop out of alignment and I try to correct it on the way in.
One of the better TH-cam channels. Sharing interesting stuff with your family mixed in there. Totally chilled out. Not playing some character or bragging about accumulating tons of junk.
Thanks! Yeah, early one I told myself 'I never wanted to be another channel who talks in front of a wall of games, there's already too many of those'. I happen to have a collection, but I don't collect.
Thanks for this! I’ve always been curious about the 3DO, and thought about picking up one myself at some point. Fun to see how it runs! Loading times on the games you chose were surprisingly okay!
Nice! The 3DO supports S-video out, so if you have an S-video cable, definitely try that-if you didn't in this video. Phoenix 3 has some cheesy FMV video in it, but it plays a lot like Blackthorne, and it has some really fun 3D space ship sections. Definitely check it out.
Seriously debating getting one of these to complete my 1993 console collection. Before this video wasn't so sure I needed this, but after watching this video has changed my mind.
11:07 A Samurai Showdown sequel/romhack with Earthquake replaced by Golga, and instead of a chain-sickle, he wields a chain mace with an Eric Cartman plushie on the end :P
He probably ended up homeless because he bought a 3DO. That price tag was brutal back then. I specifically remember a lot of the stores at the time wouldn't allow returns on the system so if you bought it you were stuck with it. Unless you put it up for sale in the newspaper. Lol. How times have changed. I could sell a 3do in twenty minutes online today.
That's so cool John. I've never even played a 3DO but always wanted to check it out. This thing was almost too advanced for what gamers expected from video games in the current era.
Played the 3D0 when it came out, a buddy of mine lived at home, he was working, single, and had the $700 to drop on it. He was a Dragon’s Lair fanatic, and bought it for that. Road Rash and Return Fire! were fun games on that system. I was noticing on Wing Commander, Rollins was Courtney Gains, which I remember from The ‘Burbs in ‘89. Isn’t it fun to buy those high dollar systems for cheap now and give them a run?
@@jgfjgfify "Allowed other companies"? The 3DO console was ALWAYS made by other companies; the 3DO Company didn't manufacture a thing. This is not like the situation with the NeoGeo at all. 3DO's whole business model was to have other people risk their own money to make and sell the hardware and 3DO just sat back and collected the royalties. Great for 3DO, but crappy for Panasonic and Goldstar where they needed to retail their console for +$700 because the sale of the console itself was the only time they can make money from the 3DO platform unless they started publishing games themselves, like what Panasonic did with Super Street Fighter II Turbo.
Yes they did, I have owned at least one copy of every console. The Panasonic fz1 is the original and comes with a slightly larger controller that has a headphone jack but the console is unable to access the internal memory without using a disk. Eventually the tray on mine stopped working and it would sometimes just randomly restart once it got old. Goldstar made a model that was cheaper and this console model is the least reliable of the bunch and most likely to stop working, it also had some issues using burned disks which I liked to use to protect my original copies. I would not reccommend the Goldstar at all unless you get it free. Sanyo briefly made a Japanese version called the Try, I'd rank it above the Goldstar but below the fz1. The reason I would avoid this one is due to rarity because it will be totally impossible to find a part for if needed. The best choice imo is the Panasonic fz10, by far. It is the one with the lid that pops up to insert the CD instead of the tray. It is capable of managing the memory without using a disk to do so and is a very reliable system. It also has slightly faster processing speed than any of the other options. I have had two Fz10s, one which my son took when he moved out to go to college (It still works today) and the other one got stolen during a break in. Both were very old one owner machines that were used a lot and had no issues whatsoever with them.
a friend let me borrow his 3D0 and some games to test it out for him before he put it on E-Bay. Some of the game discs were scratched up REALLY bad but played perfectly. I was impressed. None of the music or fmv movies skipped at all. No disc read errors. And I mean they were scratched BAD.
As soon as you said you got Samurai Shodown and Super Street Fighter II Turbo, you got my attention. Those are the best fighting games you could get on that console!!!! Loved the video man! I should tag you on my post on Twitter when I got my 3do console. I think you'd get a good laugh outta it.
I LOVED the 3DO. We had a pool hall with TVS and systems hooked up to it to rent (as well as arcades) and the 3DO was the number one system at our place (we also had the PS1 and Saturn). Best game on the 3DO was Wing Commander 3 Heart of the Tiger. Immercinary was amazing, and Return Fire are a couple of MUST haves. Awesome system... but it came out WAY too expensive for mainstream gamers. ** another note: the 3DO had better video quality than the PS1, so when those games were ported over, the video quality stunk. The Wing Commander for the PS1 had pretty bad video.
those controllers were not original controllers, which might explain why mappings were messed up. I had original 3do, roommates and I would play Star Control 2 for days on end. Another good one is Gex, and I liked Crash & Burn (packin as I recall) and Shockwave. I also for some reason remember trying to play madden, but it felt like controls were really messed up, like no diagonal when moving.
The same version my Mom got me back in the days with Samurai Shodown, Super Street Fighter II Turbo, Shock Wave, Gex, Road Rash, Star Blade, and other good games. I sadly sold mine to my older brother for just $75 dollars in good complete condition when I lost my part time job at SEARS.
I'v had my FZ-1 and FZ-10 for a long time (sence the early 2000's) and i love it... The port of Need for Speed and Road Rash alone make it worth picking up now..
ohh look for the dedalus encounter its mostly a FMV title like wing commander but it has some cool puzzles to solve in it... Gex is cool... Star Control 2 was awesome thats a port of the PC version.. i could go on and on :-)
Picked my fz1 at a pawn shop in 1998 for $30 with need for speed, wc 3, super wc, road rash and gex. Still use mine today. Such a underappreciated system
I had a GoldStar 3DO back in the day my father actually won in a poker game from one of our older cousins who was a big gamer, and had almost every console from the Atari 2600, and up, it was how I got to play SEGA Master System, and TG-16 as a kid. we had it for about 2 years before it gave out the magic smoke, and in a stupid move now, but made since at the time sold it off to a local pawn shop who still took it knowing the PSU had went, along with 2 controllers, and 1/2 a dozen games. I used the money we got from it to help fund a computer build I was doing at the time in high school.
I picked one up a few years ago, love it! I remember a cousin having one when i was a kid, and he had Daedalus Encounter. I played the crap out of that game, but i never could solve the last puzzle. I picked up a copy after buying one, and finally finished it. Its an awesome game! Also Gex is cool!
I'm glad you're showing this off. Too many people hate this system and have no idea what it did or what games came out on it. I think they confuse it for CDI or something.
Buy/burn alone in the dark 1& 2, Battle Chess, D, Doctor Hauzer, Doom, Flashback: The Quest for Identity, Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller, Lucienne's Quest, MegaRace, Night Trap, Off-World Interceptor, Out Of This World, Phoenix 3, Psychic Detective, Quarantine, Return Fire, Road Rash, Samurai Shodown, Sewer Shark, Star Control II, Star Wars: Rebel Assault, Super Wing Commander, Syndicate, Way of the Warrior and Wolfenstein 3D
I picked up one last year at a yard sale. It came with all the hookups and 5 games just no controllers. I still haven’t gotten a controller. I put the games in to make sure they all worked but haven’t actually played any of them.
Welcome to the 3DO family. The system is not copy protected so explore the library that way. I ti s a little difficult to find games in the wild. Games I would suggest: Burning solder Escape from monster manor Hell: a cyberpunk Thriller Jurrasic Park Interactive Killing time Mad dog 1 and 2 as well as the light gun Pebble beach Golf links Pretty Soldiaer Sailor moon s Quarantine Real pinball roadrash Slayer Space Pirates The Daedalus Encounter The Eye of the Typhoon Twisted the game show and Finally Way of the Warrior
If you're into Full Motion Video (FMV), then anything made by Digital Pictures (e.g., NighTrap, Ground Zero Texas, Double Switch, etc) is great. I have a 3D0 since day one and over about 20plus years, I have obtained all the games (nearly 321 plus). I absolutely love this console! Happy hunting and playing. BTW, the Wing Commander series is awesome on this platform.
I bought the second version Panasonic came out with on fire sale at Babbages back in the day. Funny enough I just picked up the Goldstar version at a local resale shop right after Xmas.
Have great memories of playing Monster Manor in 94 with my girl late at night in the dark high. Sound was great and scary hooked up to the stereo system.
Remember when I was younger that I rented the 3DO from video store on weekends. Night Trap, Strahl, Burning Soldier, D, Space Hulk, and any gun game is some good cringey fun (Space Pirates FTW!). Best 3DO model released imo is the Sanyo TRY from Japan.
This era in video games was really experimental. Companies were using emerging technologies to see where they could push it, and they weren't always good. The next great wave (at least for me) came during the time of the XBOX and PS2.
Battle Sport was exclusive to the 3DO but after the console was discontinued, it was released for ps1 and sega saturn. The Saturn Version is US exclusive and very expensive on eBay. Cool Video :)
I had Wing Commander III on PS1. It was 4 discs I think. I still have it but it is currently in storage. I loved that game. I never had a 3DO but a friend of mine bought it and spent like $600-$700 on it when it first came out. I did the same thing as you, I bought a PS1 instead. Anyway, very cool that you got it and enjoy Wing Commander III and the rest of the game you got! Cheers!
I remember at the video store around the corner from my house where I use to rent video games from eventually started carrying 3DO Games and even a system to rent. I'm guessing at least one person had the system (or rented it) as the games themselves seemed to be rented most of the time. They maybe carried about 16 games overall. Eventually the 3DO would go up for sale and at $70, that's the cheapest I've seen it. Somebody grabbed it but I eventually got the N64 they rented out which was also $70. I do have a copy of Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo for the 3DO and I've seen 3DO Consoles for sale every once in awhile but excluding maybe online, they go for usually $200 or more. I know the 6 button controllers that eventually came out are almost impossible to find, let alone being able to get one at a decent price. I've played my SSF2T on a 3DO Emulator before but part of me wouldn't mind playing it on actual console, 3 button controller be darned. I've only played a handful of 3DO Games in my lifetime but I think it was a good system that just costed way too much and eventually the lack of titles compared to Sony, Nintendo and Sega's systems also contributed to its demise.
My buddy had this in high school when I was growing up. We were in awe watching him play Demolition Man because the FMV was so much better than my Sega CD 😁
Road Rash, Return Fire, Cannon Fodder, Gex, Killing Time, Wing Commander III, Alone in the Dark, Space Hulk, Star Control II, Lucienne’s Quest, The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes, Jurassic Park Interactive
I remember when I got mines it was 3DO gold star Spent $500 for it back in 95 And even till today it’s my favorite video game system And a pretty good game for it is killing time don’t know if you ever played it
Recommend Family Feud. I used to had a 3DO picked it up at ZenkaiCon (anime convention) for $70 I believe. I had Family Feud long before I had the system. I forgot what game I got to go with the system, but traded it all in. Kinda missed it though. It had the standard 3 button controller which have the player 2 port on the top of the controller next to the right shoulder button.
I had one briefly when I was younger. We played around with it and discovered we could actually use the Sega Genesis 6 button controller to play games. It really made up for the poor factory controller when playing (especially fighting games)
IMO Super street fighter 2 turbo is one of the best ports till this day. I love the Panasonic 3DO FZ-1 deck and still have mine till this day you scored John. Only issue i have ever had was resoldering caps and cleaning the board otherwise awesome. Good luck on finding games tho. Also look for Advance Dungeon & Dragon's Slayer a doom clone dungeon crawler worth ever penny. Anyhow let me shut my mouth and enjoy your 3DO buddy.
“Super Street Fighter II Turbo” for the 3DO has the best Street Fighter stage music to date. And never included on any modern Street Fighter compilation.
Cool video, are you sure that the problems with the pad is that the connecter end some of the holes for the pins were really worn and huge, my original Master System pad had the same thing happen for the same reason.
Still have and love my 3DO, always felt it was an underrated system. Road Rash, Need For Speed, Twisted: The Game Show, Slam N Jam 95', Super StreetFighter II Turbo, John Madden Football, Myst, and Way of the Warrior were all great games. I also enjoyed Battle Chess, Gex, and the light gun games (Mad Dog Mcree and Crime Patrol). 3DO's Road Rash, Need for Speed, and Slam N Jam are still to this day my favorite games for their respective genres.
3DO, to me, was ahead of its time and unfortunately priced too high to really compete. It was almost like a 32-bit preview, with clean full-motion video and multimedia functionality- and had several gems for games.
Madden on 3DO was impressive for its time. The definitive 32-bit versions of Road Rash and Need For Speed are there. Crystal Dynamics put together some great games for it, like Gex and Total Eclipse.
The library isn’t large, but I think it’s a platform worthy of owning for the right price.
jgfjgfify The only reason I owned a 3DO was that I bought one used at a local independent game store and got a great deal from the owner. I never would’ve spent $700.
I also got in very late (early 1995). It wasn’t long before I traded it away towards a launch PlayStation- but, by that time, the console’s value was already tumbling.
The 3DO was essentially designed to be like the VCR of video games. If it had survived, the price of hardware would have dropped as more manufacturers came on board much the way that VCRs dropped from $1000 to $150 within a few years.
Man, I recently hooked my 3DO back up. Last night I looked in my tall-box 3DO Road Rash and found the soundtrack CD along with John Madden Football... no Road Rash. D: At least there's a PSX tall-box Road Rash on the same shelf, but I was really looking forward to trying out my 3DO copy!
Just picked one up along with a PS1 and Genesis model 2 for $50! I'm pretty stoked! No controller though .. I'll have to find one. Cool videos btw
Agreed! Gex is an awesome platformer :)
Loved the 3DO - when it hit the market it was so far ahead of the 16 bit consoles and even the PC. They dropped the price to 399 in late ‘94 which is when I bought mine. For a short time it was killing it - then Sony dropped the PS1 and outspent 3DO on marketing. It died quick!
I was a manager for Babbage’s during the Panasonic 3DO launch period. It was indeed $700. During a company wide contest I won a system. This was supposed to boost sales through feedback to our customers. It never really worked. Again, $700 was a lot of scratch, especially in 1994. I still have mine, with several games, and it still works. It was a great system and was ahead of its time.
My dad got a 3DO from a dude in front of a pawn shop that said he'd trade him if he bought him a guitar in the shop. I used to love Road Rash, Street Fighter and Samurai Showdown. He also had a "grown-up" game I was not allowed to play but every now and then I found it in the disk tray lol.
Was it "plumbers don't wear ties"?
nixxhimself but of course 😎
Road Rash on the 3DO is simply phenomenal!
Loved the soundtrack!
Agreed 😎
Love the soundtrack!
Road Rash 3D on the PSX was really great too.
GOAT
Wing Commander 3 and Space Hulk were my favorite 3do games.
"seen that logo 15 times, how about you show me a game." Ad cuts in. Hahaha now that's good ad timing.
haha
If TH-cam made books the ads would be before and after each chapter.
adblock plus. easy fix
I wanted one so bad back in the day but it was 700 dollars . ..
And i bought the PlayStation instead....
Best decision i ever made.
same here.
Everyone did the same .I was working and It took me a month to save $ 100 .
The original 3do controller had 3 buttons but you could buy 4 or 6 buttons
I've a 3DO in July 2022!!!!
Now the real challenges to find games that that are nice condition but if you look on eBay every one of them are beat up and scratched disc they want for way too much it's crazy
Star Controll 2 was awesome. It was released on Ms-dos as well. However, the 3do version is the only console version of the game. It's a classic.
Yes! It's my fav game of all time (can't you tell by my avitar?). I play thru it at least once a year. I currently have 48 hrs into the new Star Control Origins game. Highly recommend it!
@@CaptFwiffo Yes, we are happy campers to hear this! =)
Agree favorite game of all time. I tried to play 3 but lost interest.
@@marshallkobe three is the worst one. Star Control Origins is almost a direct sequel to Star Control 2. I played three for about 2 days when it came out and never touched it since
Hi,
I was one of those crazies that got the 3DO when it came out here in the UK and it's still one of my favourite consoles. If you're looking for recommendations I would go for:
Return Fire (probably my favourite on the console, in both single and two-player. Very strategic and the use of classical music is great)
Gex
Wing Commander III (which you have)
Road Rash (the best version of this game on any console!)
Road & Track Presents: Need For Speed
The Horde
Demolition Man (not great, but still fun and Stallone and Snipes filmed stuff just for the game)
Way of the Warrior (again not great, but it's interesting to see the beginnings of Naughty Dog)
Space Hulk: Vengeance of the Blood Angels
FIFA International Soccer (look up the cheats as Hot Potato Mode is a blast in two-player)
The Twisted Gameshow and Zhadnost: The People's Party are fun party games
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Slayer
Off-World Interceptor
The Shockwave series
There are also excellent versions of Cannon Fodder, Syndicate and Theme Park
I would recommend getting hold of an official gamepad, if you can, as all of the third party pads (except the six button pad released with Super Street Fighter II Turbo) are very cheap and nasty. Probably even harder to get hold of is the 3DO flightstick, although it makes a hell of a difference when it comes to Wing Commander, Flying Nightmares and Star Fighter (hard to recommend the latter two without it).
Interesting fact about the 3DO: There is no copy protection on the CDs. Use that information however you like :)
Agreed, flight stick is a must for Wing Commander 3. I would also recommend Shockwave, Alone in the Dark 1 & 2, Escape from Monster Manor and if you like RPG's, Guardian War. 3DO is a beautiful system that at one brief point in time was cutting edge electronic sophistication. Will always be my fave console. If only it's successor, the M2 could have made it to market.
I got a TG16 and Dreamcast in 2020
I can't stop playing Legendary Axe long enough to play anything else
Legendary Axe was a nice looking game for its time. R-type,Vigilante, and Splatterhouse are what really made me get one on clearance before they stopped making games for it.
I got two N64s and another PS2 in 2020. Got both my DCs in 2014. I probably won't have a PCE for another 10 years or so.
I also got 2 ps2s lol
One singstar slim and one regular slim. Last year i got a pink japanese one and a slim. I'm almost content with the amount of PS2s i have
Might get coregrafx early next year and sell the 16
Finally got one with about 40 games-controller- and gun. Never even seen one in person so I’m pretty hyped.
This is a great retro system. Definitely connect it with s-video and get yourself an original controller. Some other must own games are: Road Rash, Killing Time, Gex, and Star Control II.
'54 seconds ago' wow.
The 3DO was my favorite 'console I'll never have' as a kid in the 90's.
The road rash game from Electronic Arts is the best version on the 3DO.
even better than the ps1 version?
@@SneakyGreninja much better...
Yes it is!!!
@@SneakyGreninja 10 times better.
I actually have that game on 3DO, Saturn and PS1 and the 3DO version is by far the best one.
Hey, John! FYI, when you see people close the drive tray by pushing it they aren't actually pushing it in. It retracts on its own after you nudge it. It's designed to and I've never seen a tray-load drive that doesn't. The button is pretty much there for ejecting only. Heck, there are many PCs that block the button and only let you eject with software.
It's literally the exact same as a slot load where you nudge the disc in and it triggers the mechanism to draw it in automatically but you have to hit a button to eject it. Many people "follow" the disc in with their hand so it looks like they are pushing it but that's not usually necessary. I only find myself doing that if my nudge caused the disc to hop out of alignment and I try to correct it on the way in.
One of the better TH-cam channels. Sharing interesting stuff with your family mixed in there. Totally chilled out. Not playing some character or bragging about accumulating tons of junk.
Thanks! Yeah, early one I told myself 'I never wanted to be another channel who talks in front of a wall of games, there's already too many of those'. I happen to have a collection, but I don't collect.
Thanks for this! I’ve always been curious about the 3DO, and thought about picking up one myself at some point. Fun to see how it runs! Loading times on the games you chose were surprisingly okay!
Nice! The 3DO supports S-video out, so if you have an S-video cable, definitely try that-if you didn't in this video. Phoenix 3 has some cheesy FMV video in it, but it plays a lot like Blackthorne, and it has some really fun 3D space ship sections. Definitely check it out.
Gotta also pitch RGB mods if you can get one. The 240p RGB looks really nice
Seriously debating getting one of these to complete my 1993 console collection. Before this video wasn't so sure I needed this, but after watching this video has changed my mind.
11:07 A Samurai Showdown sequel/romhack with Earthquake replaced by Golga, and instead of a chain-sickle, he wields a chain mace with an Eric Cartman plushie on the end :P
I live in a homeless shelter in 97 some homeless guy had 3do he let me try it I loved it I wish I own one lol
He probably ended up homeless because he bought a 3DO. That price tag was brutal back then. I specifically remember a lot of the stores at the time wouldn't allow returns on the system so if you bought it you were stuck with it. Unless you put it up for sale in the newspaper. Lol. How times have changed. I could sell a 3do in twenty minutes online today.
@@-KillaWatt- I mean 700$ is still brutal today... You can get a PS5 for as low as 399$, which is almost half the price of a 3DO.
I bought another WC 3, The Horde, Star Fighter, Mad Dog McCree 2, and Who Shot Johnny Rock this week.
That's so cool John. I've never even played a 3DO but always wanted to check it out. This thing was almost too advanced for what gamers expected from video games in the current era.
I still have mine but it has a problem where it always says to insert disk even when a disk is in.
I’ve wanted a 3DO ever since I saw the AVGN episode! Gex looks like a good 3DO game. So does Star Wars Rebel Assault.
You should hook it up to your Commodore 64 monitor, bet the image looks great.
rageslave have u tried this
@@kicksex no I haven't, I don't own that monitor, but have heard that it handles old consoles really well.
Played the 3D0 when it came out, a buddy of mine lived at home, he was working, single, and had the $700 to drop on it. He was a Dragon’s Lair fanatic, and bought it for that. Road Rash and Return Fire! were fun games on that system. I was noticing on Wing Commander, Rollins was Courtney Gains, which I remember from The ‘Burbs in ‘89. Isn’t it fun to buy those high dollar systems for cheap now and give them a run?
I like these longer videos😃👍 Its not about just the software, John. It's about us watching YOU play the software
Didn’t the 3do have different models
There was also the FZ-10 which was the more flat version (like Sega CD model 1 compared to Sega CD model 2).
@@jgfjgfify "Allowed other companies"? The 3DO console was ALWAYS made by other companies; the 3DO Company didn't manufacture a thing. This is not like the situation with the NeoGeo at all. 3DO's whole business model was to have other people risk their own money to make and sell the hardware and 3DO just sat back and collected the royalties. Great for 3DO, but crappy for Panasonic and Goldstar where they needed to retail their console for +$700 because the sale of the console itself was the only time they can make money from the 3DO platform unless they started publishing games themselves, like what Panasonic did with Super Street Fighter II Turbo.
@@JohnRiggs Ther was also the Goldstar model, which stylistically looked like a lot of their VHS players.
There's a rare fourth model as well. Sanyo was in the 3DO market for the duration of a sneeze.
Yes they did, I have owned at least one copy of every console. The Panasonic fz1 is the original and comes with a slightly larger controller that has a headphone jack but the console is unable to access the internal memory without using a disk. Eventually the tray on mine stopped working and it would sometimes just randomly restart once it got old. Goldstar made a model that was cheaper and this console model is the least reliable of the bunch and most likely to stop working, it also had some issues using burned disks which I liked to use to protect my original copies. I would not reccommend the Goldstar at all unless you get it free. Sanyo briefly made a Japanese version called the Try, I'd rank it above the Goldstar but below the fz1. The reason I would avoid this one is due to rarity because it will be totally impossible to find a part for if needed. The best choice imo is the Panasonic fz10, by far. It is the one with the lid that pops up to insert the CD instead of the tray. It is capable of managing the memory without using a disk to do so and is a very reliable system. It also has slightly faster processing speed than any of the other options. I have had two Fz10s, one which my son took when he moved out to go to college (It still works today) and the other one got stolen during a break in. Both were very old one owner machines that were used a lot and had no issues whatsoever with them.
Finally, someone is talking about the more obscure consoles out there.
Just awesome...had 1 day 1...road rash...great memory
Pity no Road Rash, the 3DO has the definitive port of that franchise.
This was one of my favorite systems while growing up. MANY hours playing "Twisted" with some friends.
Are you still enjoying having won your lifetime supply of absolutely nothing?
Cool to see one in action looks pretty good for the time .
a friend let me borrow his 3D0 and some games to test it out for him before he put it on E-Bay. Some of the game discs were scratched up REALLY bad but played perfectly. I was impressed. None of the music or fmv movies skipped at all. No disc read errors. And I mean they were scratched BAD.
I also just got an FZ1 with WC3 from a great guy on reddit. Welcome to the 3do FZ1 club! I love WC3 one of my favorite 3do titles.
As soon as you said you got Samurai Shodown and Super Street Fighter II Turbo, you got my attention. Those are the best fighting games you could get on that console!!!! Loved the video man! I should tag you on my post on Twitter when I got my 3do console. I think you'd get a good laugh outta it.
I LOVED the 3DO. We had a pool hall with TVS and systems hooked up to it to rent (as well as arcades) and the 3DO was the number one system at our place (we also had the PS1 and Saturn). Best game on the 3DO was Wing Commander 3 Heart of the Tiger. Immercinary was amazing, and Return Fire are a couple of MUST haves. Awesome system... but it came out WAY too expensive for mainstream gamers. ** another note: the 3DO had better video quality than the PS1, so when those games were ported over, the video quality stunk. The Wing Commander for the PS1 had pretty bad video.
those controllers were not original controllers, which might explain why mappings were messed up. I had original 3do, roommates and I would play Star Control 2 for days on end. Another good one is Gex, and I liked Crash & Burn (packin as I recall) and Shockwave. I also for some reason remember trying to play madden, but it felt like controls were really messed up, like no diagonal when moving.
One man, one mission! - Queen
3DO is my favorite game console. Welcome to the 3DO Brigade!
John I have a legend of Zelda NES cart, can I send it to you for a vid? You can keep it. I've never been able to get it to work
The same version my Mom got me back in the days with Samurai Shodown, Super Street Fighter II Turbo, Shock Wave, Gex, Road Rash, Star Blade, and other good games. I sadly sold mine to my older brother for just $75 dollars in good complete condition when I lost my part time job at SEARS.
I'v had my FZ-1 and FZ-10 for a long time (sence the early 2000's) and i love it... The port of Need for Speed and Road Rash alone make it worth picking up now..
ohh look for the dedalus encounter its mostly a FMV title like wing commander but it has some cool puzzles to solve in it... Gex is cool... Star Control 2 was awesome thats a port of the PC version.. i could go on and on :-)
I recommend Road Rash, Need For Speed and The Horde.
Picked my fz1 at a pawn shop in 1998 for $30 with need for speed, wc 3, super wc, road rash and gex. Still use mine today. Such a underappreciated system
Great videos Riggs! Watch all of them! Keep it up!
You're at Portland. Did you saw portlandia?
I remember when best buy clearanced them out and I got it for 10 dollars
I had a GoldStar 3DO back in the day my father actually won in a poker game from one of our older cousins who was a big gamer, and had almost every console from the Atari 2600, and up, it was how I got to play SEGA Master System, and TG-16 as a kid. we had it for about 2 years before it gave out the magic smoke, and in a stupid move now, but made since at the time sold it off to a local pawn shop who still took it knowing the PSU had went, along with 2 controllers, and 1/2 a dozen games. I used the money we got from it to help fund a computer build I was doing at the time in high school.
I picked one up a few years ago, love it! I remember a cousin having one when i was a kid, and he had Daedalus Encounter. I played the crap out of that game, but i never could solve the last puzzle. I picked up a copy after buying one, and finally finished it. Its an awesome game! Also Gex is cool!
I'm glad you're showing this off. Too many people hate this system and have no idea what it did or what games came out on it. I think they confuse it for CDI or something.
I can relate to this, except I just bought a Sega Saturn this year! LOL
I LOVE Sega Saturn! great choice.
I just added the Saturn and Master System to my collection near the end of 2019. I've been wanting to find either a 3DO or the TG16 this year lol.
I bought one for my hubby. I think it was 2018. I love it!!
@@jgfjgfify i agree it's the best 6 button fighting controller ever.
I loved madden, Gex, road rash and the basketball game (forgot the name) on this system. Overpriced but I liked it.
MY favorite game is Star Control 2
Didn't Battlesport come out on the Saturn?
Buy/burn alone in the dark 1& 2, Battle Chess, D, Doctor Hauzer, Doom, Flashback: The Quest for Identity, Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller, Lucienne's Quest, MegaRace, Night Trap, Off-World Interceptor, Out Of This World, Phoenix 3, Psychic Detective, Quarantine, Return Fire, Road Rash, Samurai Shodown, Sewer Shark, Star Control II, Star Wars: Rebel Assault, Super Wing Commander, Syndicate, Way of the Warrior and Wolfenstein 3D
Would love to have Luciennes quest but it is outrageously expensive
Lost Eden is good too. Music and story are fantastic. It's a little like Myst.
I picked up one last year at a yard sale. It came with all the hookups and 5 games just no controllers. I still haven’t gotten a controller. I put the games in to make sure they all worked but haven’t actually played any of them.
Welcome to the 3DO family.
The system is not copy protected so explore the library that way.
I ti s a little difficult to find games in the wild.
Games I would suggest:
Burning solder
Escape from monster manor
Hell: a cyberpunk Thriller
Jurrasic Park Interactive
Killing time
Mad dog 1 and 2 as well as the light gun
Pebble beach Golf links
Pretty Soldiaer Sailor moon s
Quarantine
Real pinball
roadrash
Slayer
Space Pirates
The Daedalus Encounter
The Eye of the Typhoon
Twisted the game show
and Finally Way of the Warrior
If you're into Full Motion Video (FMV), then anything made by Digital Pictures (e.g., NighTrap, Ground Zero Texas, Double Switch, etc) is great. I have a 3D0 since day one and over about 20plus years, I have obtained all the games (nearly 321 plus). I absolutely love this console! Happy hunting and playing. BTW, the Wing Commander series is awesome on this platform.
Love that Pac-man cereal box plaque
I bought the second version Panasonic came out with on fire sale at Babbages back in the day. Funny enough I just picked up the Goldstar version at a local resale shop right after Xmas.
Have great memories of playing Monster Manor in 94 with my girl late at night in the dark high. Sound was great and scary hooked up to the stereo system.
Remember when I was younger that I rented the 3DO from video store on weekends. Night Trap, Strahl, Burning Soldier, D, Space Hulk, and any gun game is some good cringey fun (Space Pirates FTW!). Best 3DO model released imo is the Sanyo TRY from Japan.
The Need for Speed on this blew me away when i saw it back in '94. Good times!
Welcome to the club 😎
you going to get a drive emulater for it
This era in video games was really experimental. Companies were using emerging technologies to see where they could push it, and they weren't always good. The next great wave (at least for me) came during the time of the XBOX and PS2.
My brother and I rented the pensonic from our local rental store. Good mornings.
The angle you shot this at isn’t doing the clarity any favors but it’s still very cool that you got one of these. Nice score.
Shit...I got that controller in a storage bin with a bunch of random 3rd party stuff and never knew what it was for.
Battle Sport was exclusive to the 3DO but after the console was discontinued, it was released for ps1 and sega saturn. The Saturn Version is US exclusive and very expensive on eBay. Cool Video :)
I had Wing Commander III on PS1. It was 4 discs I think. I still have it but it is currently in storage. I loved that game. I never had a 3DO but a friend of mine bought it and spent like $600-$700 on it when it first came out. I did the same thing as you, I bought a PS1 instead. Anyway, very cool that you got it and enjoy Wing Commander III and the rest of the game you got! Cheers!
the 3do was 700 to 750 dollar depending were you got it when it was out
I remember at the video store around the corner from my house where I use to rent video games from eventually started carrying 3DO Games and even a system to rent. I'm guessing at least one person had the system (or rented it) as the games themselves seemed to be rented most of the time. They maybe carried about 16 games overall.
Eventually the 3DO would go up for sale and at $70, that's the cheapest I've seen it. Somebody grabbed it but I eventually got the N64 they rented out which was also $70.
I do have a copy of Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo for the 3DO and I've seen 3DO Consoles for sale every once in awhile but excluding maybe online, they go for usually $200 or more. I know the 6 button controllers that eventually came out are almost impossible to find, let alone being able to get one at a decent price. I've played my SSF2T on a 3DO Emulator before but part of me wouldn't mind playing it on actual console, 3 button controller be darned.
I've only played a handful of 3DO Games in my lifetime but I think it was a good system that just costed way too much and eventually the lack of titles compared to Sony, Nintendo and Sega's systems also contributed to its demise.
Awesome video John! The 3DO is definitely an interesting console.
My buddy had this in high school when I was growing up. We were in awe watching him play Demolition Man because the FMV was so much better than my Sega CD 😁
Road Rash, Return Fire, Cannon Fodder, Gex, Killing Time, Wing Commander III, Alone in the Dark, Space Hulk, Star Control II, Lucienne’s Quest, The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes, Jurassic Park Interactive
I remember when I got mines it was 3DO gold star Spent $500 for it back in 95 And even till today it’s my favorite video game system And a pretty good game for it is killing time don’t know if you ever played it
Alone on the dark has great sound effects. Play in the dark. It's fun.
Recommend Family Feud. I used to had a 3DO picked it up at ZenkaiCon (anime convention) for $70 I believe. I had Family Feud long before I had the system. I forgot what game I got to go with the system, but traded it all in. Kinda missed it though. It had the standard 3 button controller which have the player 2 port on the top of the controller next to the right shoulder button.
I had one briefly when I was younger. We played around with it and discovered we could actually use the Sega Genesis 6 button controller to play games. It really made up for the poor factory controller when playing (especially fighting games)
I'm still looking to get one of those. Already got a bunch of games, same with the CDI.
Bought mine when it released. John madden was amazing. Road rash and need for speed were incredible
Love the port of Wolfenstein 3D on the 3DO. Escape from Monster Manor is fun too.
Kind of feels like the controls could've been worked out before hitting record...
IMO Super street fighter 2 turbo is one of the best ports till this day.
I love the Panasonic 3DO FZ-1 deck and still have mine till this day you scored John.
Only issue i have ever had was resoldering caps and cleaning the board otherwise awesome.
Good luck on finding games tho.
Also look for Advance Dungeon & Dragon's Slayer a doom clone dungeon crawler worth ever penny.
Anyhow let me shut my mouth and enjoy your 3DO buddy.
Congrats dude
My old boss worked for them while this was released. We kept one in our cubicle with a rubbermade tub FULL of games. Thems were the good times...
Just subscribed & I gotta know.. what was being made in the kitchen?
Star control 2 on the 3DO greatest game ever!!! I loved my 3DO in the 90’s
Make sure you get the map with star control 2 .
God bless you and your son Big JR... your a god!! Love to your and the fam. Oh and your content rocks mate!!! Let the little man do his thing.
The controller doesn't look that good for fighters, did Panasonic release a fight stick?
but it run crysis?
"THE HORDE" Strat-tower defence, RPG, FMV video adventure, action game of many genres!
Check out Guardian War, and Luciennes Quest. Two of my 3DO favorites!
“Super Street Fighter II Turbo” for the 3DO has the best Street Fighter stage music to date. And never included on any modern Street Fighter compilation.
Cool video, are you sure that the problems with the pad is that the connecter end some of the holes for the pins were really worn and huge, my original Master System pad had the same thing happen for the same reason.
Still have and love my 3DO, always felt it was an underrated system. Road Rash, Need For Speed, Twisted: The Game Show, Slam N Jam 95', Super StreetFighter II Turbo, John Madden Football, Myst, and Way of the Warrior were all great games. I also enjoyed Battle Chess, Gex, and the light gun games (Mad Dog Mcree and Crime Patrol). 3DO's Road Rash, Need for Speed, and Slam N Jam are still to this day my favorite games for their respective genres.