Crash 'n Burn Review - The 3DO's First Game

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!!SCREEN FLASHING IN VARIOUS PLACES!!
In 1993, Panasonic released their $700 3DO console with one game. That game, was Crystal Dynamic's, Crash 'n Burn.
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Episode Notes:
1. This game has known issues. It can hard lock and reboot the system randomly.
2. I remember the Best Buy liquidating its 3DO stock in 1996. Among the games in the bin was the long box Crash n Burn. I passed, forever regretting the choice.
3. Crystal Dynamics went on to create Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver, one of my favorite games.
4. Despite 1993 going poorly, 1994 was a stellar year to be a 3DO owner. It went from nothing to play to so much to play you didn't have enough money to buy it all.
5. There was to be a sequel for this on the M2, which was essentially to be the 3DO 2. That system never found its way to retail as a consumer games console, unfortunately.
6. The Japanese version of this is also cheap and works on American systems.
7. Captured on real hardware via the original S-Video output.

[@zachreddy]

To put it another way, this game was only released two years after F-Zero's American SNES release, and one year after Mario Kart. Those games were still considered graphically impressive at the time. There's really no modern frame of reference for how quickly technology and game design advanced in the nineties.

[@-haso]

Exactly. It’s hard to put into words how it felt going from flat racers in the 16 bit days and seeing the hills in Crash N Burn. The graphics (and price) truly felt next gen.

[@AlvarezAzel]

Indeed, we're never get that jump of evolution ever again if you think about it. We went into the 90's with our 8bit/16bit machines playing stuff like Mario or Sonic and we ended the 90's with systems like the Dreamcast which were so far ahead of anything else before it. That's just 10 years yet there was a huge advancement in technology and the games along with it. Nowadays you play a game from over 10 years ago and it's not much different to anything released this year.

[@andrewhudson7108]

I think the best way to describe the jump from 16 to 32/64 bit was like instantly going from silent films to films with sound and color.

[@quickcar5255]

I'd rather have Mario Kart

[@GiordanDiodato]

and just a few months after Starfox.

[@retrogames3404]

Incredible game of the time. More homesick than him, it was Road & Track: The Need for Speed, the first. It was very good, as was Road Rash 32bit too.

[@dave101t]

i still play the 32bit road rash, via ps1 emulator. happy days!

[@RetroDawn]

@@dave101t Try out the 3DO version. It's even better!

[@aceassn716]

No Mercy

[@msd5808]

Really loved the long draw distance of the tracks in this game. Still looks impressive to me.

[@deepblue8143]

I wanted this console so bad when I first saw it. I'll never forget, I was in Tower Records and when I saw Fifa, Need for Speed and Road Rash and ny jaw just dropped. I knew at that point that I was witnessing the future. In fact I felt the same way when I first saw Virtua Fighter and Battle Arena Toshinden for the first time. I miss those days so much. My mom saw thw price tag on the 3DO and just like that my dreams were crushed. Now as an adult I fortunately have money for these consoles but unfortunately not a lot of time.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

@Shawn Macdonald Yeah now that's a statement I can stand behind. The first time I ever played a neo geo arcade machine I knew I wanted it. Unfortunately the console version was as rare as hen's teeth back in those days especially in the US and cost as much as a decent used car back in those days. But neo Geo it holds up, the 3DO on the other hand nope definitely not.

[@Lightblue2222]

@@JohnDoe-wq5eu if anyone is talking 3D than the neo geo doesnt hold up at all. NFS and RR are more impressive than anything on neo geo. But as far as 2D games neo was arcade perfect.

[@DerivitivFilms]

dude! get a Virtual Reality (Oculus Quest 2 is easiest entry) set up, you'll get those feels again.

[@deorodant_oh-one6875]

Yeah life's shit.

[@stuartbagley2586]

FIFA on 3DO was mind blowing and I’m not even a soccer guy.

[@daveruda]

Thinking back to this time period makes it seem so exciting. I mean the amount of consoles and home computers was huge. So many choices. The 3d and cd tech was something really special at that point. The future had so much promise for awesome games. You dont see much of that anymore.

[@Gunh3d1]

Well said!! I feel exactly the same. Sometimes i almost feel guilty for not being more exited with the current games and hardware..

[@molhoy]

The graphics on this game are fascinating. Unlike MegaRace, which used entirely pre-rendered track graphics (essentially the same as playing FMV with the car sprites and collision overlaid on top), Crash 'n Burn uses true texture-mapped polygons, with the perspective changing correctly in relation to your car's position on the road. However, in order to achieve (for the time) decent performance in combination with the incredibly long draw distances, the developer came up with an ingenious method of pre-calculating all of the possible positions that your car could appear on the track, then having the 3DO stream these from the CD on the fly. This allowed them to render true polygons with the ability to shift the perspective, but without the need for the 3DO to calculate the perspective in real-time. In short, the polygons are rendered in real-time, but the calculations to determine the perspective are not. This explains why it's not possible to turn the camera around, since introducing this variable would have increased the number of calculations exponentially, making it too difficult to implement. I read a really interesting article about this years ago, but can't for the life of me find it now, so please forgive me if some of the detail is incorrect as this is all from memory!

[@acecarrera1]

This game may not age well, but I can tell you this, it had the wow factor that many later games lack.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

If we're talking about 3DO games in general then yes. It never got better it only went downhill from this.

[@alex.starostin]

@@JohnDoe-wq5eu Uhh, what? 😄 Both Need For Speed and Road Rash on 3DO were far ahead in terms of wow factor

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

@@alex.starostin Both road rash and need for speed came out roughly the same time July and August 1994. That was roughly a year before the PlayStation and Saturn would launch. And they were not nearly enough to save the 3DO from being completely destroyed by them. Also it was far from "way ahead".

[@johneygd]

Road rash simply shredders starfox and that boring vertox game into peaces, 3DO was far ahead off nintendo, in 1993 you couldn’t ask more then outdated 1980’s 3D graphics on a nintendo console from nintendo, with their super fx chip, thip, starfox was all you could ask for,

[@johneygd]

@@alex.starostin yep, 3D games from nintendo and others on the snes with the super fx chip just simply did get crushed into pieces, starfox,fortex stunt race fx,dirt trax,dirt racer ,doom and winter gold weren’t all that fun, it’s choppyness and small screen size did not make those games that much fun, they did more feel like experiments rather then being real polished games, But the 3DO WIth it’s launch games were centainly amezing, it deserved waaay more attention then it actually did.

[@darthv72]

It amazez me that this game has never been remade, remastered or rebooted for more modern systems. It is still a blast to play but I cant help imagine what a solid 30fps or even 60fps could do.

[@turdhat]

Had a 3do on launch day and I never had a single regret. Loved the system. Even the clunky games had that 3do feel and I just loved it. Return Fire, Star Control 2 and many others still get booted up in this house from time to time.

[@SkyScourgeGod]

I'm really happy that more people are starting to give the 3DO and it's library a second chance at a decent retro gaming life. I bought mine earlier this year and it's been a blast collecting games for it. Even before I bought mine I really believed that the 3DO was better than most people gave it credit for. Not perfect by any stretch, but if you were a 90's kid like me there is something there to appreciate. As for Crash 'n Burn, even without considering the time and era it came out in, I'd say the game is pretty alright. As you mentioned before it's nothing too special, but it's pretty damn impressive for it's time and has a certain charm that only cheesy 90's games can ever have. There's certainly much better racing games on the 3DO like Need for Speed, Road Rash or even Mega Race, but Crash 'n Burn is still worth a look if you find it for cheap.

[@Hmbs271]

This is actually pretty impressive and something I'd never expected from the 3DO.

[@matt.willoughby]

Need for speed was a 3DO game and light uears ahead of crash and burn

[@Hmbs271]

​@@matt.willoughbyTrue, though it also released almost a year later. This being a launch game and coming out in '93 is still very impressive and unexpected.

[@zackschilling4376]

I got the 3DO one year for a birthday present, after it dropped in price.

[@twoheadedthingies5000]

What I like most about your channel is your enless positivity about even those things that are considered "bad" by most... It's refreshing! I got my 3DO in 2006, paid £70 for it with nineteen games - it's become one of my Top Five consoles ever since then.

[@Fuuntag]

Impressive draw distance and effects. Very impressive, wonder how they did that fo-motion blur in the tunnel.

[@thomaselers7416]

I played this to death when it first came out. I feel it was a very ambitious game for its time. (Remember this was released long before Wipeout) I remember playing this, thinking "the future is now". 😂

[@MixologistMilo]

More coverage of games on other retro consoles please

[@thomaselers7416]

I second that. I'd love to see some Atari Jaguar titles

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

@@thomaselers7416 So would have anyone who owned a Jaguar back in those days. That thing never seem to get anything and if it did it was either broken or extremely poor port.

[@thomaselers7416]

@@JohnDoe-wq5eu I loved playing AvP, Tempest, Iron Soldier and Kasumi Ninja on it. Those were the golden Atari Jaguar moments IMO.

[@alex.starostin]

@@thomaselers7416 Doom was pretty good too

[@thomaselers7416]

@@alex.starostin Absolutely!!!!!

[@infernal_monkey]

The verticality of the tracks is still impressive, something many other 3D racers that would follow never came close to matching. There's something awesome about seeing a huge hill in the distance. Crash 'n Burn is a lot of fun with emulation since you can overclock the CPU for a smoother frame rate.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

I would never go to the trouble of getting a 3DO to play this. If I can play it emulated with a better frame rate though, absolutely.

[@infernal_monkey]

@King of All Buttocks RetroArch has a really solid 3DO core these days. It can be a bit of a pain to set RetroArch up, but there's some in-depth guides floating around KZbin

@King of All Buttocks 4do is an excellent emulator

[@MaidenHell1977]

Great review!! Only one of my buddies back in high school managed to get a 3DO, however I do not recall this game at all. I think it still looks impressive today, that draw distance is nuts for its time!

[@brentgranger7856]

Don't feel bad about missing out on the long box version. I passed on an opportunity to get the Star Fox competition cartridge, and it has become one of my biggest regrets of my childhood.

[@goeland4585]

Is no one gonna talk about the irony behind naming the console's first game "crash and burn"? Ominous innit

[@HesarealNoWhereMan]

P.O.ed was the greatest game of the 32-bit generation. Periodt.

[@robertlawrence9000]

I remember seeing the 3DO in magazines and reading about this game. It blew me away thinking of the possibilities of the system. I never could afford one but in later years, I got a Sega CD. When I finally got a PlayStation, I actually did buy Total Eclipse and Off World Interceptor for it. They were budget titles and decent for the money. Control wasn't too good but they had neat graphics and concepts. It would be awesome if they brought back the Crash 'n Burn in a reimagined remake. It could be cool to have a rocking soundtrack, cars, weapons and crazy character personalities with today's systems.

[@paxhumana2015]

Ironically, the title of the game would soon foretell the existence of the Panasonic 3DO.

[@GiordanDiodato]

the 3DO was starting to gain some popularity in 1994, but the release of the Playstation and Saturn put an end to that.

[@solidusgrcsnakegrc3322]

I always see your videos and loved em!! Great console although very underrated in my opinion, please make more 3do videos !!!

[@priscilam.9808]

If it was $700 dollars in 94 then according to Google that would be $1,229.39 dollars today. That is a heck of a high price for a console! Wow!

[@SegaLordX]

3DO and Panasonic were definitely crazy. 1 game ready for a 700$ machine. Not sure if it was a case of overconfidence or not knowing what they were doing.

[@msd5808]

@@SegaLordX I think they expected to appeal to an older demographic that bought stereos and nice TVs and other electronics. I remember they preferred demoing the system at stores like Circuit City. It was part of the "multimedia craze" at the time, because CD-ROMs were expected to become living room devices for multi purposes (like the CD-i), and game consoles weren't "just for kids anymore".. I did in fact use my Sega CD as my CD player as a kid though.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

@@msd5808 Yeah they were trying to market things like the 3DO and the CDI as some kind of multimedia device as opposed to a game console. (They were trying to get the whole hey it's like a PC but cheaper market) Unfortunately it's multimedia capabilities were extremely lacking and it's gaming capabilities we're almost as bad. That'll be fair at least the 3DO could play games decently something the CDI just sucked at.

[@BenadrylJackson]

I appreciate the historical content you provide here. As you mentioned, games like this are often overlooked and unfairly compared against those that emerged years later.

[@Gunh3d1]

Too bad you didn't show some of the superior weapons of the tournament mode in your videos. I remember vividly that blasting through enemy cars with the aptly named 'Hellfire Rotogun' was a genuinely satisfying experience.Thanks for the great review!!

[@DeVstatrOmga]

I remember my uncle had this game and when I got to play it, game graphics blew my little mind back in the day. I was still in the middle of the Sega Genesis craze with my friends at the time so in comparison the 3DO was super next gen.

[@noaht2005]

I like how you add historical context to set the atmosphere at the time and make you appreciate something that I otherwise would have dismissed as ‘not aging well’

[@kupamon]

I always thought that the Saturn and Ps1 were a step back behind the 3do in therms of polygon rendering. That 3d is beautiful, it has really nice textures, the transparency effects are great. haven't see dancing polygons and jaggies in any 3do game

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

Unfortunately I can't think of any exclusive 3DO games worth going back to all these years later. I mean those early 3D games were rough and have aged very poorly for the most part. Also 3DO had a lot of FMV based games. And those even with their cheesy appeal just aren't great these days.

[@balorduomo]

I wanted to play this game so badly in 93. Never had a chance to even see it in action. Only a few screens on magazines.

[@Sinn0100]

I remember this well...I decided to wait for the first new machine that gave me Doom (it's all I cared about). That turned out to be the much cheaper Jaguar and for the most part I enjoyed it. I did get a 3DO with Road Rash roughly 6 months later and man was it pretty neat having both. I had a two TV setup in my bedroom and friends would come over and play the best gaming had to offer for the time. Crash & Burn was a very good game fir its time.

[@jymfiskburk2256]

I have been playing the crew 2 and Forza 3 and man im amaze how far videogames have reach, I mean in 93 this was impresive and if you think about it the only games that looked like this were only on arcade or PC, and this is a great achievement

[@skootdiggity1301]

I had to wait until 2018 to finally pick up a 3DO.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

It's a fun little relic but I hope you got it good and cheap.

[@Grail_Quest]

Thank you for this video. It's hard to find thorough reviews of individual 3DO games. I am so glad you emphasized the need to keep this game in perspective with other games releasing at the time. We were a Nintendo household, and I was always proud of the beautiful games that were made possible on the SNES due to it's expansive color pallette and sophisticated sound chip. That was the standard for console graphics fidelity at the time. Then, out of nowhere 3DO appeared on the scene with THIS! It was like from another universe. It was... 3D! The sprites were so detailed they looked real! Did you see the detail, and faux lighting in that pit stop scene!? Try doing that on SNES. No way was it happening on Genesis. The first time I saw a 3DO it was running this game and that moment will forever be seared into my memory, like the first time we saw a Pixar movie. It was hard to believe the graphics were possible. At that moment I became a die hard 3DO fan. All these years later, it is still my favorite console of all time.

[@BrooksterMax]

The 3DO was an impressive jump in 93. I love the fact it was innovative and tried something different with various manufacturers to build a platform. Alas it was not to be. Picked one up in recent times and enjoying its library.

[@archimagirus_sancti]

God bless you SLX; whatever happens in the coming weeks, keep making content because you are a damn fine reprieve from the world's insanity. I have a Sega collection that would make even you blush and it's always a happy place in a mad world. Keep on keepin' on, brotherman

[@archimagirus_sancti]

If you know how to make X-Band work, I'll take you on any day, any time ;)

[@LV--gb1lh]

All hail SEGA lord X! I like waking up in the morning and finding a new sega lord x video, it feels like the italian "la befana", a sort of the usa christmas morning. Btw i also watch these videos when i do poop, also in the morning. Anyway, talking about the game, i think that a sort of reissue in 60 fps would be great. Long Live Sega Lord X!

[@Choralone422]

I remember seeing that game right after the 3DO launched in 93. It looked amazing. But the price of the console totally killed any dreams I had of owning one. The $699.99 launch price equates to $1260.85 today! My family had invested in a good PC in the latter part of 92 so I was already able to play CD based games like Return to Zork & The 7th Guest by the time the 3DO launched. Sure the PC was a lot more expensive than a 3DO but we could do a lot more with it too!

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

The price guaranteed I would never own one until it was completely defunct. I wouldn't get one until the end of the '90s. And when I did get it it was a huge letdown.

[@Tsargate]

What a game indeed. Thanks for bringing it to light again ! I loved it so much with the Panasonic FZ10 we bought with a friend. It blew out eyes and mind at that time. It was so impressive. Makes me want to buy a 3DO again 😅😋, eBay here I come !

[@bmwmperor]

Bought my first 3do earlier this year. Was always intrigued when I was a kid reading about in magazines but its price was ridiculous and never got one. Really enjoy collecting for this system and will look for this game as I often overlook it since it gets bashed so much. Just recently got a CIB Daedalus Encounter but Return Fire and Road Rash are what I’ve put the most time into so far

[@digsbious]

Return Fire is great to this day!

[@Grail_Quest]

Congratulations on joining the 3DO Brigade! Welcome to the future!

[@Hamdad]

It looks like the camera follows the track, not the car, and as such the devs could have certain knowledge of how many and which polys would be onscreen at any point along the track. For the same reason that it helped Crash Bandicoot have loads of onscreen details, it may have helped this title have no pop-in.

[@hard4games]

Very happy to see this game get a fair shake! Good work!

[@spahr001]

My best friend got a 3DO near launch and the early. His first games were this, Total Eclipse, and Mad Dog McCree. This was definitely our favorite of the three. Total Eclipse seemed more impressive graphically but was very hard.

[@RetroDawn]

This game impressed me so much that, even though I had already given up driving--for anti-war and environmentalist reasons--when I graduated high school over a year earlier, didn't particularly care for driving games even prior to that, and was a partisan for the Atari Jaguar which I already had, I bought a 3DO in 1993 while the MSRP was $699 and I never regretted it one second. One of the best game machines ever created, created by one of the best teams ever--many of the original Amiga crew, including three of the best of that crew.

[@optima-nova772]

Love your perspective on these games man, nice review!

[@sargonsblackgrandfather2072]

Remember those days well. Arguing over which was the best; 3DO, Amiga CD 32 or the Atari Jaguar. Exciting times. Don’t really get that anymore just a new xbox or PlayStation every few years.

[@KevinRMcColl]

I would play this game all day every day! I got a 3DO a little before PS2 came out. I loved the headphone jack in the controler!

[@richwilde6550]

Remember seeing this on display in 1994 when I was 11, in a shopping mall, and just being completely blown away! I wanted it more than anything, but no way we could have afforded it! So expensive.

[@johneygd]

Wooow this game was light years ahead of it’s time, i can’t believe that it was overlooked by the masses, starfox was a well recieved game by the masses on the snes with it’s fx chip, but it was graphically & in terms of gameplay nothing compared to this game, the 3DO deserved way more attention then it actually did.

[@fortheloveofnoise]

Never knew about this game.....I however LOVED Crash n' Burn on the PS2. Most people hate on it for only having 4 cars....but it made up for it in customization, gameplay, modes, the awesome soundtrack, and race tracks.

[@joshuaupham5993]

I absolutely loved this game and played until I perfected each course! Would love to find an old Panasonic FZ-1

[@EDifyer881]

trust me people may place the 3do as the top 10 worst consoles but I find it to be underrated so in other words it's worth the investment but for fighting games you'll need an arcade controller otherwise well worth it

[@antenant9294]

My goodness, that looks amazing. I was fully aware of the 3DO at the time, but it was far out of the price range of myself and my friends, so never even got to see one in real life. Probably good that I didn't though, as I would have coveted this game like no other! The apparent ease by which Sega and Nintendo shrugged off this competitor, however, lulled me into a false sense of security over the strength of the companies and /i was fully convinced that Sony would Crash and Burn just as the 3DO had. Sigh. Hindsight...

[@Guns7469]

That hood mounted machine gun is very satisfying.

[@LRon-ef7ni]

I remember thinking as a kid, There’s no pop up!”

[@BubblegumCrash332]

Love your channel I watch every video but KZbin stopped showing your recent vids in my feed. Thumbs up anyway screw the algorithm

[@j.goggels9115]

Once again, you come up with great content. Like many, I had skipped on the 3DO, only to try the system out on emulator a couple of weeks ago. I was pleasantly surprised of the great performances of the system. I am sorry to admit the 3DO graphics beat the Mega CD. The Pi3B tend to slow down this otherwise good system.

[@snethss]

It's actually some some clever tricks here where it's actually not textured polygons for most of the track. This game still impresses me as well. It only looks aged when you include the FMV and digitized characters.

[@SegaLordX]

The engine is still using textured polygons, they are just precalculated. Meaning you can't turn around and go backwards.

[@Hektols]

Looks like an early Saturn/PSX but without showing how the scenario suddenly appears in the horizon and doesn't need the N64's fog effect, everything years before those consoles appeared. And this was the first game, I couldn't help but think that the 3DO never got a game to brought it to it's full potential.

[@ltonos9557]

They also had the vision to name it Crash n Burn, predicting the future of the console... nicely done!

[@diegocrusius]

i am happy you were excited and enjoyed this game. In my case the 3do was stupid expensive and I could not dream of even touching one. Luckily a friend got one for xmas and invited me a few times to his place. We played a lot of thos Xtreme racing games. If Im not mistaken he had some soccer game to play with his other friends for entire afternoons.

[@retrooutput]

I've got quite a bit of time for the 3D0, I think had they got the price right out of the gate, things would have been very different... When you compared the 3D0 to the likes of the Jaguar, Cdi and CD32, it really comes up aces.

[@deckofcards87]

The graphical advancements happening back in the early 90s were exciting. Not so much today, where the industry feels more or less static

[@deckofcards87]

The original pack in game planned was 'Jurassic Park Interactive' but it was unfinished.

[@FatNorthernBigot]

I remember seeing the 3D0 in my local electronics store, sitting next to a PS1, but at nearly twice the price of the PS1. It looked like it had been gathering dust for some time.

[@random_gamer_guy82]

We take current generation systems for granted definitely. Although it is better obviously graphically, games then actually dropped complete and with everything to unlock. No day one patched crap and dlc and polished up nice. Never owned a 3DO I was to young at the time, a few years later I got a playstation and loved it though. Remember the 3D0 having a massive release price so don't actually know anyone having it .

[@puma0085]

Interesting video. The game looks really good for such a early 3d game. Never had a 3do when it was relevant because I could not afford it as a child. But I am interested in getting a 3do in the near future and start collecting for it. I think Crash n Burn is one of the 3do games I am going to get for sure.

[@jaymzx2587]

Great video man, I love these in-depth reviews! The draw distance is VERY impressive in this game. It kinda reminds me of the 1993 game Megarace, which also happens to be ported to 3DO. The track isn’t really rendered in that game, it is read from the CDrom as pre-rendered gfx and the game (therefor) plays more like a railshooter. Do you know whether this game does something similar?

[@molhoy]

Actually the graphics on this game are fascinating. As you say, MegaRace used entirely pre-rendered track graphics, essentially the same as playing FMV with the car sprites and collision overlaid on top. Meanwhile, Crash 'n Burn uses true texture-mapped polygons, with the perspective changing correctly in relation to your car's position on the road. However, in order to achieve (for the time) decent performance in combination with the incredibly long draw distances, the developer came up with an ingenious method of pre-calculating all of the possible positions that your car could appear on the track, then having the 3DO streaming these from the CD on the fly. This allowed them to render true polygons with the ability to shift the perspective, but without the need for the 3DO to calculate the perspective in real-time. In short, the polygons are rendered in real-time, but the calculations to determine the perspective are not. This explains why it's not possible to turn the camera around, since introducing this variable would have increased the number of calculations exponentially, making it too difficult to implement. I read a really interesting article about this years ago, but can't for the life of me find it now, so please forgive me if some of the detail is incorrect as this is all from memory!

[@jaymzx2587]

@@molhoy thanks for this! Love your insights, interesting stuff 👍🏻 it really was the era of creative thinking, because of the all the hardware-limitations. Nowadays, with all the available GPU/CPU horsepower and an abundance of memory, the need isn’t as high.

[@Windavinci]

Doesn't matter how good a console is graphically. If the price is too expensive for most people it won't sell well.

[@ZEKESPILLEDINKMUSIC]

0:34 Wait, HOW MUCH??? That's like when the Neo Geo AES launched in 1990, even though it was cartridge-based: large cartridges at that.

[@JuanGil221]

I know right, freakin crazy!...I wouldn't pay that much for a system now. What a waste of $$$

[@AnthonyRiddle]

I still like going back and playing this game from time to time. I think it's a good game and is quite impressive

[@MooseheadStudios]

say it again you have the only intro i don't skip

[@kyotokid]

That draw distance!

[@deepblue8143]

How did they achieve this with nearly zero pop up? That is extremely impressive especially seeing how much PS and Saturn titles suffered from such a thing.

[@alex.starostin]

I think they achieved it by dropping framerate to 15 fps, lol

[@DaveVoyles]

The backgrounds are pre-rendered, so it's essentially drawing FMV

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

@@DaveVoyles It's an impressive technique I'll give them that. It is a shame the frame rate takes such a hit though.

[@msd5808]

@@JohnDoe-wq5eu I don't think the backgrounds are prerendered... not the track at least. It was definitely impressive for its time

[@artoub8143]

@@msd5808 yeah turning in first person would be impossible with prerendered backgrounds

[@BeB02090]

How you don't have more subscribers is beyond me! Been watching for some time now. Hope all is well with you and yours. Another great one from you to all of us. Thanks a million!

[@ZinhoMegaman]

Funny, unlike the current games in the Need for Speed ​​series where we only see the car cockpit in CGI / FMV, in this game there is a cockpit both in CGI and in the game.

[@mattnova18]

Now I really want a 3do!!! Maybe I'll finally get one for Christmas. :-)

[@miketate3445]

Wow. I don't remember the frame rate being that low. Cool art direction during the race however.

[@8-bitJoe]

There was also a Super Nintendo controller adapter for the 3DO. I still have one

[@BlueEyedVibeChecker]

"It's the kinda rock, techno hybrid you'd expect for the theme and setting... WRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR" Ah yes, my favourite rock, techno hybrid, engine sounds. Lmao.

[@3581richard]

I love every intro....SEEEEGGAAAAAAAAA..puts me in a good mood

[@EventHorizon_Alex]

I consider Crash and Burn a guilty pleasure and had a great time playing it, ham video and all!

[@weatherfox1]

This game was the one i used to show off my purchase of the 3DO.

[@felman87]

Poor 3DO. It wasn't a bad console it was just way crazy expensive for what you got. Even at the reduced price of $500. It was also better suited for 2D games over 3D, or at least 2D games with 3D elements. Polygon graphics require a lot of CPU power and 3DO just didn't have much of it. at 12.5MHz, it was underpowered for what 3D graphics needed to run smoothly. For comparison, the Sega CD had a 12.5MHz CPU in it as well, just that 3DO's was a 32bit chip whereas the CD was 16bit, so the CPU could handle more RAM (the Sega CD essentially was the most powerful 16bit console you could make, maxing out the RAM the machine could handle).

[@zendher]

Impressive graphics !!! Look at the dynamic sky!!!

[@mackw919]

Graphics still hold up

[@eddiedutra3359]

I bought my 3DO for 140.00 at my local used record store called, Rockaway Records. i wish i new what my first game was? Was it Super SF 2:Turbo, Samurai Shodown, or Guardian War? I only have 20 games in my 3DO collection. I manily bought it for Sailor Moon.

[@megagrey]

I'd sure as shit have fun with it. I can easily put myself in tbe mindset of years past and be impressed with how accomplished a game was at the time.

[@alritedave]

Is it actually texture mapped 3D? I’ve seen people say it’s streaming video. The draw distance is also huge for the era if it is 3D.

[@SegaLordX]

This is not an FMV game. Mega Race is the one streaming video.

[@alex.starostin]

@@SegaLordX Please do Mega Race 3DO Review, I think it's a fascinating game too

[@SegaLordX]

@@OriginalMasters Well, still polygons, you just only ever see the precalculated portions. The polygons come at the screen the same way every time no matter what. You can’t go backwards, you can’t go off the track in any way to change the perspective. I agree, quite innovative for them to do it this way. Showed visuals you’d never think the 3DO could pull off otherwise.

[@alritedave]

@@SegaLordX Yesh. If only the 3DO’s CPU was the rates 25MHz with some on-chip cache. On the 4DO emulator 25MHz is where the 3D gets to generally reasonable performance.

[@alritedave]

@@OriginalMasters Excellent. I didn’t think it quite looked right to be FMV.

[@wojiaobill]

I remember fawning over this title when 3DO was first released

[@entertainmentwizard2703]

Thought Crash N Burn was OK when I got the console a few years ago!

[@gligarguy4010]

Actual ads in the game? I guess we now know where EA got the idea from.

[@ZerotakerZX]

Wait, it's not a Sega game... We've been had!

[@dauth78]

I love this game.

[@MegaRayland]

I remember being extremely impressed seeing the still images on magazines. I was disappointed once I saw it in motion (even though I was impressed about how fast home 3D graphics were progressing).

[@specialformula14]

I always wanted this game as a kid.

[@zackschilling4376]

NICE DAY FOR A THRASHIN, EH?

[@teddym2808]

This game actually becomes fun in phoenix emulator.. Upscaled to 6x.. and, overclocked to 4x.. Silky smooth! It makes such a difference SLX.. I have the game too (my original copy from 2.5 decades ago) but I'll never play it on the real thing again LOL (as with most 3DO games, Phoenix just makes many of them completely different experiences).

[@johnjay6370]

Keep it up love the new content. Do doom on 32x jaguar 3do

[@robm5399]

Still play this today awesome memories