The 3DO Experience

[@abcmaya]

This is probably the best 3DO video on youtube.

[@Proticity]

Better than the AVGN's? Wow

[@daijdaiji3434]

I played gold star 3do then after I bought ps1 .3do games start to disappear , sad how this console didn’t continue

[@abcmaya]

@@daijdaiji3434 i know it was an awesome system. just like the dreamcast

[@MrSez1979]

Absolutely

[@gamebit9063]

Which joystick did you use to play Snow Job?

[@snethss]

This is the first 3DO overview that actually understands the platform. It was a different time and place.

[@bubsy3861]

I hope to find same one for a Jaguar at once. )

[@MaxAbramson3]

Remember that, in the early 90s, you just didn't get an experience like this anywhere. Developers didn't know how to make 3D games or handle the long load times. As a kid, though, I suggested making a lightweight version of this beast to open it up to millions more. With only a 320x240 video mode, you'd only need 256KB of that expensive VRAM. A cheaper 1xCD-ROM would have awful load times, and you couldn't play some FMV games, but who cares about those. Finally, they really could've gotten by with a smaller 24-channel DMA and only a single video coprocessor. All of the games made for the light version would run on the $700 behemoth, and most titles didn't need the extra $300 worth of bolt on.

[@cyrollan]

​@@bubsy3861 I absolutely love my Jaguar. Maybe I'll make a video of it one day

[@Chud_Bud_Supreme]

Man, I miss the 90s. 3D games back then may have looked janky, but you can't deny they had a certain charm for such an experimental time

[@kryptoblade501]

yeah the 90s had imagination and ambition with the little recorces we had, nowa days we have all the resources and tech but lack imagination and ambition mostly

[@mkratos17]

@@kryptoblade501 with the enormous budgets spent on games they can't take chances this is why we see so many sequels remakes/remasters even games that sell well are considered failures if they don't hit gta levels of sales

[@kryptoblade501]

@Pezz 82 true yeah back in the 90s we had the passion and creativity with the little resources at the time but now those leaps arent so big but maybe with the ps5 and new xbox we will finally get those big technological leaps

[@jesuszamora6949]

@@kryptoblade501 I don't expect anything huge, really. It's clear the focus of the PS5 is gonna be mostly about 4K, while Xbox Scarlett doesn't seem to have much of a goal, and I suspect it will be the final Xbox console before they move on to a software/services vendor.

[@someguy3186]

It was the most interesting time for gaming. Besides the major consoles there were many interesting ones like the 3do, Jaguar, Neo-Geo, Turbografix-16, and so on. Consoles all had considerably different hardware as well, and thus they often specialized in different kinds of games. Even multi platform games often had considerable differences. Now, consoles are basically budget PCs, and there’s nothing distinguishing them besides a small handful of exclusives.

[@ScottWozniak]

I did the same thing you did. I saved money, and by the time I almost had the $700, the price dropped to $500 😄

[@Mechaghostman2]

More money for games. :p

[@Justforvisit]

@@Mechaghostman2 Exactly my first thought as well xD

[@2fernandoc1]

Your name is literally Scott Wozniak lmao

[@danielespeziari5545]

This "fourth-and-a-half" generation (as it is sometimes called) has always fascinated me. Back then I was a SNES owner, and I used to read about 3DO and Jaguar in magazines but never actually played them (I haven't yet, sadly). So they were kind of legendary and out of reach to me.

[@MrCalverino]

GOOD OL' DAYS 😃

[@rars0n]

I'm sorry you never got a chance to play them. Back when the 3DO price dropped to $399, my friend's brother bought one and we would spend many late nights getting our fill of some really cutting-edge games compared to the old trusty SNES. Really, the SNES is a much better console to own with a plethora of amazing games for it, but there's still quite a few good games for the 3DO, and there was certainly something special about experiencing the huge technological advance that it offered well before the Saturn and Playstation were released. While it might not seem like it now, at the time it seemed like a huge leap over the 16-bit consoles. I eventually bought myself a Jaguar off ebay in 1999 with 11 games for $25. I had a mild bit of fun with it but just didn't appreciate it enough, and while I turned it around for a profit (I think I sold it for about $90 a couple months later), I'm kicking myself now for not holding onto it as well. I like the 3DO a lot more than the Jaguar, I just enjoy some of the games more, but the Jag is interesting. That was a really unique and weird time in the gaming industry. It really only draws a parallel to the early beginnings, back when half a dozen companies were making game consoles. The SNES and Genesis were still strong, plus you had the Sega CD and 32X, the 3DO, the Jaguar, the CD-i, the Neo-Geo, and the Saturn, PSX, and N64 right around the corner. Within a period of 3 years you had no less than 12 competing platforms, if you include the add-ons such as the Jaguar CD separately. That's not even including the stuff that was either less common or non-existent in the US market, like the Amiga CD-32. Absolutely insane time to be a video gamer. While we have great options today like Raspberry Pis and other emulation methods, we're never going to see this kind of diversity and quantity of video game hardware ever again. Maybe that's a good thing, I guess, but I kinda miss those days.

[@jaahnnn]

That was neo geo for me. I always heard about how awesome it was but never played it and heard it was so much money and the games were expensive too. My friends brother had a 3d0 and it was terrible even back then. It was fascinating cuz it wasn't cartridges like genesis or snes but there were no games and the few they had sucked. You weren't missing anything with 3do but I look at neo geo vids on KZbin and it looks like it was well worth it. I think it held up from the early 90s all the way til like 2001

[@dignan193]

Same here. We were all SNES and Genesis kids. All i ever saw of the 3DO and Jaguar was in the magazines, felt like worlds away.

[@JoshuaJacobs83]

Same here. Those were great times and I wish the “Console wars” still existed. Competition forces innovation.

[@Its_Only_Money]

It was crazy because me and my mom didnt have that much money growing up and I remember getting this as a gift from my uncle. I went from maybe getting a console once the new iteration came out, to being way ahead of the curve in terms of video games. A local microplay had 3DO games for sale for very cheap because nobody was buying them. I would either trade my old games for them or just buy them for next to nothing... I had all of these games as a kid, except for Snow job, gex, doom, PGA tour, the japanese games, pinball, lucien quest , soccer kid. Also had a few more games that weren't mentioned on here that I played to death. Virtuoso, Space Hulk, killing time and Hell. Thanks for making this video. It brings back a lot of memories. Cheers!!

[@bradybrapples]

my older brother tried to talk me into seling all our nintendo and super nintendo stuff and taking all our detassling and rock picking money and buying one of these as a kid - and as fun as some of these games may be, I'm so, so glad i didn't agree to it

[@autobotstarscream765]

Did you hold out for the N64?

[@G.L.999]

Your brother should've sold his Sega stuff back then if he wanted one!

[@johnpenguinthe3rd13]

Development behind Doom for 3DO is one hellish story (pun intended). Long story short, the guy who got the rights to do Doom for 3DO gave the ONE (yes, ONE) developer only a FEW WEEKS to get the game ready and this guy who got the rights had NO knowledge of how video games were made and believed it would be a simple copy and paste PC to 3DO conversion for the ONE developer to easily do. That ONE developer who received this hellish task tried their best given the horrible conditions of doing a job by herself that would normally take an entire TEAM of people to do combined with an insane time limit (a few weeks isn't enough) and threw out the finished product. I don't know if it's still up, but I remember seeing a documentary about this on KZbin.

[@royoncelluloid4813]

When I got to the Samurai Spirits part I got an overwhelming feeling that you probably should’ve spent that $700 on a Neo Geo.

[@SegaLordX]

Owning a Neo Geo AES had another set of problems past the price of the system. Carts for it were an additional $300 for every game. Even with my dedication to the hobby I couldn't afford any sort of real library for it.

[@Thor-Orion]

@@SegaLordXthat’s why you turn an MVS into a console.

[@user-dv2hc8zt3o]

29:51 I'm actually more surprised that you knew another kid with a 3DO back then.

[@SegaLordX]

Knew 2 in fact.

[@MyKeeP81]

i owned one. it went on sale for like 400 bucks after a little bit and i got one from my parents. it just needed way more games cuz it was pretty powerful

[@maxmatson1578]

I remember getting the 3DO back in 94, I think just for Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo & Samurai shodown alone! I also wish I could have got the Japanese version of the "D's Diner" director's cut!

[@hard4games]

Really enjoying this channel! Thank you for the quality content!

[@nolahahnshouse3389]

I had almost all the games you listed on here! I really loved my the 3D0 my brother bought back then.

[@DrBagPhD]

Didn't expect to see you guys here!

[@Borh7777]

I have very fond memories of space hulk also on the 3DO.

[@Sly2Cooper]

Space Hulk scared the hell out of me sometimes.

[@drunkensailor112]

Star control 2 is so amazing. This game can't be recommended enough! True triple A game on 3do and only really great exclusive.

[@Ramjet164]

drunkensailor112 I agree but having the best port of a lot of games at the time was big for me. The 3do fifa is an exclusive and for me no other port of nfs are road rash better to this day.

[@rars0n]

@@Ramjet164 You also couldn't get a better Madden game at the time. Even the Playstation version of Madden '96 got cancelled because it wasn't up to their quality standards.

[@Ramjet164]

Adam Baldwin agreed

[@rkfan1012]

I totally agree that the 3DO Super Street Fighter II Turbo OST is the best from that series. Thanks for the quality content.

[@CAPCOM784]

Loved the soundtrack as well!🙂

[@RegalPixelKing]

I think that the 3DO being 700 dollars was the biggest downfall of this console. It also never really had its own Ocarina of Time, Final Fantasy VII, or Panzer Dragoon Saga to set it apart from the competition. I feel like it was closer to 300-400 dollars like the PlayStation and Saturn then would have sold much better and maybe would have sold on the level of the Saturn or maybe even the N64. Edit: About the awful Doom port, it's makes since that it was such trash. I really feel sorry for the developer. Essentially the guy who bought the licence for Doom on the 3DO knew nothing about porting. All he gave the single developer that he hired to port Doom was a copy of Doom on DOS, a folder with some JPEG images of various monsters, and a couple of months. The fact that a Doom game exists on 3DO at all is a miracle even if it is the worst version of the game.

[@Sly2Cooper]

It's a stigma many Doom ports carry. Doom 3DO could be a half-decent game (if you look at what Star Fighter or Blade Force squeezed out of the console) if it was not for the executive stupidity. Saturn Doom could also be a very different game with the most advanced graphics amongst all the consoles. But oh well... Played a hell out of Doom and Ultimate Doom on my PlayStation.

[@christopherwalkinalloverya5824]

iD Software wouldn't allow the developers of DOOM ports to use hardware accelerated textured polygons. They insisted that the ports use software based graphics, simply because they didn't want texture warping in the game. Doom would've been sooo much better on consoles without that ridiculous demand..

[@GisherJohn24]

yep, nobody could afford it. They should have gambled, like XBOX did at launch, they took a hit on the consoles but made tons on the games!

[@maroon9273]

@@Sly2Cooper especially if lobotomy would have developed doom for the Saturn.

[@aimwell8813]

Yeah, I heard the DOOM 3DO story. The people who made it didn't know anything about ports and weren't even given source code.

[@aviatingfear2328]

Man, you are the first person that I have personally seen that made a 3DO video that literally was the first time I saw the GOOD side of the 3DO. So many video creators do the typical done to death games that we all know suck. But now I can see the actual appeal back in the early 90's. Thanks for that, man.

[@mediaglitch]

Great video man, I just picked up a 3DO at a garage sale for 40 bucks so this was very informative

[@Clay3613]

How, you lucky bastard!

[@patbrown911]

The only time I ever saw a 3DO here in Brazil was in a rental store and it blew my mind, but it was almost impossible to play because of the huge "waiting list". By the time I was finally able to play it, no one was giving a crap about it anymore.

[@LucasCardamone]

Eu, nascido em 94, ouvia quando criança meu pai falando sobre "Como o 3DO era um videogame foda", mas nunca vi um até o youtube me recomendar esse vídeo

[@juliospezziadesouza]

Eu sou um piá de merda nascido em 2000, e eu queria ter ido pra Blumenau mês passado, eles tinham um museu de video games, com coisa bem básica, os consoles main stream, mas no meio disso tudo, tinha um saturn, um atari jaguar e um 3DO, sendo que os visitantes poderiam jogar nesses consoles, uma puta oportunidade perdida.

[@miesvaillanykyisyytta3252]

@@juliospezziadesouza Interessante. Eu nací em 1985 (lamento o meu portugues) e acho que nao seja muito justo comparar o Saturn com esses outros titulos muito menos influentes. Com isso dito, nunca vi um Atari ou 3DO aqui na Finlandia mas nao arrependo nao te-los experimentado. Ainda tehnho um Saturn.

[@theroboxer3282]

@@miesvaillanykyisyytta3252 fogo, para um finlandês o teu português é perfeito! Parabéns!

[@anhedonic2252]

I loved my 3DO. Played the shit out of "Battle Sport" and "Road Rash".

[@bringbackmy90s]

Sailor Moon, Quarantine, Myst, Shockwave 1+2, Captain Quazar, Super Wing Commander, Wing Commander 3, Casper, Killing Time, Immercenary, Panzer General, Star Fighter, Alone in the Dark 2, Stellar 7, Johnny Bazookatone, Slam'n Jam '95, even Defcon 5

[@leonidaschryssinas1723]

sailormoon? wow

[@leonidaschryssinas1723]

Lucienne's Quest, D&D : Deathkeep, Demolition Man, GEX, The Horde as well

[@bringbackmy90s]

@@leonidaschryssinas1723 great mentions, friend!

[@leonidaschryssinas1723]

Gex was essential, that's why I got it on the sega saturn, as well as D

[@bionikball75]

Hahah. That’s right. “Corpse Killer” had Jeanpaul Jeanpaul from “Seinfeld”. Great observation.

[@Tolbat]

The 3DO was out years ahead of the competition and got little respect. It was an amazing piece of hardware, and I will always love it.

[@mazonemayu]

A friend of mine got ripped off on one of these things, by a store owner back then. It was in that period when the PS1 & Saturn were already out & thriving and the 3DO was on its way out. The store owner only had one 3DO in store (prolly his last one), and a ton of Saturn & PS1 consoles, so he told my mate that the 3DO was the way to go & that he only had one left, coz they sold like hot cakes, showing him all those other consoles that didn't sell one bit...my mate took the bait & bought the bloody thing. He was so angry afterwards. He bought a PS1 next week LoL

[@felman87]

The 3DO was a weird console. It had a ton of ram, as much as the PS1 would have when it launched in 2 years. But the CPU was a paltry 12.5Mhz. The Sega CD had just as much processing power. Granted, it was a 32bit CPU, so it could utilize all that ram (Sega CD was essentially as powerful as a 16bit system could be, Sega put as much ram into it as the CPU could handle). 2D games like Gex were great but when it came to 3D, that 12.5Mhz just wasn't enough to give you a good experience. 3D graphics are CPU intense and 3DO really should've put a better processor in that machine.

[@maroon9273]

Should use the arm3, arm610 or better the arm600.

[@alritedave]

This is absolutely true. The CPU was about half the speed it needed to be, and lacked onboard cache. This was seriously bad for 3D!! Also there were other issues. 3DO Company insisted that developers do everything through the BIOS rather than working to the metal, and according to devs this limited the machine's capability to about 60% of what it could do. Then there was the dev kits which weren't optimised and took ages to be so. So overall the 3DO was kinda handicapped against PS1/Saturn/N64. Still better than the Jaguar though!

[@maroon9273]

@@alritedave it is easier to program. Had the jaguar had better sdk and tools. Jaguar would have perform better than the 3do.

[@alritedave]

@@maroon9273 That's debatable. The Jaguar's lack of on-chip cache hurt it too. That being said though of the 2 the Jaguar might be slightly ahead in 3D (likely due to reasonable CPU speeds). Anyway, the Jaguar with CD-ROM drive and Pro controller was a decent possible platform. To.bad it was segmented and released way too late.

[@shiru8bit]

The M68K CPU could handle dozens megabytes of RAM, while Sega CD only had 0.5 MB, which in fact makes porting regular cartridge games quite troublesome. The main CPU isn't much of the issue on the 3DO, as it does not draw the frame on its own, and is fast enough (sure much faster than Sega, you can't just compare MHz between two different architectures). The real bottleneck is the rendering processors, you just can't draw frame any faster than they could, and they're complicated RAM blitters, so no match to the previous generation instant-draw hardware. Other than that, 3DO internals design was quite good, especially the SDK.

[@jameswalt1]

"with the dude that overslept at the Olympics on Seinfeld" 😂😂😂

[@tartuffethesprywonderdog5883]

@Julien St-Pierre separate *knob

[@VickHushpuppy215]

SLX be on point wit the references 🤣🤣

[@norbkowa]

Loved 3do and always wanted it and finally could afford it after it was discontinued. Got a Goldstar unit which wasnt too reliable and froze sometimes and finally about 6 months ago got a first gen Panasonic. Love looking at the units they look so high end and nicely designed that it even looks good today.

[@Postpost90s]

Great video dude, don't be afraid to stand outside the Sega box so much because this video is solid

[@ThePaulsace]

I had a goldstar 3do back in the day, I think it cost me £90 brand new, had loads of great games for it, need for speed and fifa we’re great, so was killing time and shockwave

[@ninjamaster3453]

Seeing the price tag on this and the CDi, in addition to all the big bucks for CD drives for TG16 and Genesis, it seemed like this generation was going to be rich man's one, or a niche like neo Geo AES.

[@pskila]

Working class families need not apply. The prices of the systems back then were highway robbery.

[@jesuszamora6949]

Which is why they failed, while SNES and Genesis thrived. You can't price for the classes and expect the masses to hop along.

[@ninjamaster3453]

@@jesuszamora6949 seeing old store prices from 1990, Genesis game prices were 50-60 for titles we love. That's like $120 in today's money. No wonder parents complained or couldn't swing it.

[@jesuszamora6949]

@@ninjamaster3453 Heh, there were more than a few super expensive games. One of my first SNES games, Final Fantasy II, was $80, a price that persisted with most RPGs. I didn't have a Genesis, but we all know Phantasy Star IV was $100 or thereabouts thanks to info provided by Sega in their various collections.

[@pskila]

@@ninjamaster3453 still too much for a working class family Hench the reason why emulators and such thrive for ppl who just want to play outside of having the physical hardware. True with the net neutrality and other factors it will get costly. But these cable providers will lose their minds if ppl just cut off the TV and do something else

[@Maultot]

What I miss here is the Video Game from Demolition Man, thats one of the exclusive games from the 3DO they took the filming from the set, great looking game but sad to play ..

[@scobo4743]

You forgot Space Hulk. It was so intense!

[@iPlaySEGA]

Believe it or not... I bought a 3DO only because of Way of the Warrior... 😅 At least the OST was great!

[@uscusc11]

Yes. Me too. Where is way of the warrior in this video??

[@dknotts30]

Omg, that was the fighting game I had that I spoke of earlier, sooo much fun!

[@muddyeyeball15]

Thanks for the history lesson; never had access to one in my childhood social circle; do remember being freaked by playing 'D' however and recall the GEX flashback from gaming mag ads back in the day...your channel is always entertaining and great content presentation, thanks.

[@edwardiii8409]

My friend's dad had one. They first game she had was Sailor Moon, though we couldn't read Japanese it was fun.

[@leeartlee915]

I remember going to some random guys house growing up and they had a 3DO on playing games. I remember glancing at the screen, my little 11 year old brain thinking “wait, that’s all it can do?” The 3DO was just not enough horse power for the money it cost. The PS1, which came out 1-2 year later, could push 4 times the polygons and cost less than half the 3DOs price at launch.

[@liquidgeorge]

Hey man, this is a great video, with some wonderful memories. I would have been 8 during the US release of the console. There was no way I could afford one of these bad boys then, but I remember being blown away by magazine and catalogue screenshots, and I vividly remember almost every game you covered.

[@Jabroniville]

Wow- I was not expecting such a thorough "Okay so here are all the games I owned" thing- you must have been LOADED as a kid, lol. A good, honest review. I know so few people had a 3DO that 95% of the videos on it are "so I never owned one" and just a list of games and a history of the machine, so finding lists of stuff that I've never heard of is interesting. I like that "early generation of 3D games" where these super-short, choppy, unfinished things are presented as finished products and we all ate it up because they looked so unique, lol. I'm also a bit astounded you had ANOTHER kid at school who had a 3DO.

[@TheIndulged1]

I waited 2 year's then brought my 3DO for about $50 I hit the jackpot

[@jayz4evr]

Brought or bought?

[@TheIndulged1]

@@bike-cave-man2527 I bet he's probably heard how much they sell for now, *Evil laugh*

[@rars0n]

2 years after it launched, the 3DO was selling for $399, not $50. I remember when Best Buy was dumping their stock of Panasonic FZ-10's in 1997, they were selling for $80. I should have picked one up (although I really dislike the design of the FZ-10, especially compared to the FZ-1). Likewise when they were selling the Virtual Boy for $25.

[@atranfanatic]

I waited 4 years and got it used for $40. lol

[@AunCollective]

@@rars0n I picked up my VB at that price point, with games going for as low as $2.50. Mario Tennis and Red Alarm were definitely worth those prices.

[@bifftannen1598]

I missed some platforms like 3DO, so thanks for these platform reviews. Well done!

[@DissociatedWomenIncorporated]

You ever play Starfighter 3000 on the system? I owned it on the Saturn and I adored that game, especially as a nerdy sci-fi lover.

[@whobitmyname]

pixel girl That one kept me hooked. I vaporized so many mountains in that game it's stupid.

[@DissociatedWomenIncorporated]

@@whobitmyname, I loved blowing up the pipelines too, but mountain sculpting was definitely fun.

[@MegaGasek]

... And the music guys, remember the music? It was fun...

[@danholcomb6089]

Forgot to mention that when you put a music cd in it gave you a trippy show

[@xmaverickhunterkx]

Totally had forgotten about Return Fire. Such a good game.

[@alritedave]

No he didn't. It's at 23:08...

[@xmaverickhunterkx]

@@alritedave I was talking about myself, but thanks :)

[@Will_Bx_NYC_718]

I remember those 3DO days, this system was incredible for its time. I never personally owned one, but a friend of mines did, and we would play the hell out of this system. Just it being CD based and 32 but blew our 14 year old minds away.

[@TPRES_74]

I remember the 3DO sitting on the shelf of the local Pawn store. They wanted almost full price. It sat on the shelf forever.

[@thomaskennedy7842]

I had a similar experience. I'd never even seen one in person but then a good 2 or 3 years after its heyday had passed I saw one in a thrift store. They wanted several hundred bucks for it even at that point. I had to sort of laugh.

[@MybeautifulandamazingPrincess]

Why don't you come up with something better then? It's easy to insult other people's work like that, go ahead and do better then idiot

[@TPRES_74]

@@MybeautifulandamazingPrincess - WTF are you on, your period? Nobody insulted any body's work. We now know It was a trash can. Now I talked shit. So pull up your panties and pull down your skirt.

[@admiralAlfonso9001]

The story of Doom 3DOs development is insane, and they did pretty good given the circumstances

[@watermalone3841]

I've bought cars that cost less than the 3DO!!

[@tdefilio9132]

😂

[@JesusChrist-is-not-MrNice]

During my teenager years, playing Road Rash on the 3DO I rented at a video club during a warm summer evening, before to go at a party with my friends. The feelings were so good.

[@bringbackmy90s]

Funfact: The 3DO enjoys cult status in Russia and in Brazil

[@LilRotte3]

Правда?

[@bringbackmy90s]

Комсомольская Правда

[@littleman7514]

Blyat

[@leonidaschryssinas1723]

wowzers

[@leonidaschryssinas1723]

how is the sega distributor named, btw? in Greece it's Zegetron S.A. while in Brazil it's TECTOY

[@sach1152]

Fifa on 3DO is the one that really set the series on the path to what it is now

[@johnjay6370]

Nice video. Just want to clear things up. The 3DO did not use polygons it used quads like the Saturn. The main problem with the 3do was the main processor, it was slow and that is why games like Doom ran slower than the Atari Jaguar or 32x. The processor was very very weak compared to even the 32x. The 3do also contracted out its hardware and that kept the price high, unlike Nintendo, Sony, and Sega. Example. Sony can sale the hardware at a loss and make it up with software sales. This was not possible with the 3do.

[@SegaLordX]

The 3DO used polygons, just quadrilaterals instead of triangles. Its CPU was definitely underpowered compared to its graphics capabilities, however. Panasonic was fully capable of selling the 3DO the same way as a traditional console, they just weren't prepared with game divisions making software to offset the loss. They tried later, it was just too late.

[@Valthonis]

Good points. If I recall, I think the CPU was some 12 mhz Arm variant.

[@maroon9273]

CPU is very weak 12.5 MHz. Same speed as the Sega CD cpu.

[@johnjay6370]

@@maroon9273 same speed but at least 6x faster at processing. First it has a 32 bit bus. Second it processes it's data at 32 bit if it needs to. Third it is RIS and pipelines instructions so you really can't compare the 2. But the 32x definitely has a faster processor but that is it.

[@Valthonis]

@@maroon9273 problem is they are very different CPU architectures. The ARM60 at 12.5mhz was capable of about 10MIPS where as the Sega CD Motorola 68000 at 12.5mhz was only capable of about 2.2MIPS. No idea how it translates but not disagreeing about the 3DO cpu being slow, but not in the same class as the Sega CD

[@UberSynth]

I had total eclipse, road rash, need for speed and street fighter. I remember playing need for speed and trying so hard to turn the car around to try and go back. It wouldn't work and I remember the crashes. It was that I enjoyed the most. Total eclipse was the same. On rails, you couldnt turn around on the terrain part. I ended up selling my 3D0 to buy an imported playstation from Japan in January 1995 no one in my area seen one before. I connected it with a pal converter to a huge projection tv

[@heathweather5995]

Do the Neo Geo AES review next.

[@sido5857]

I played the hell out of NEED FOR SPEED on my 3DO.I was the only one in the projects with one.

[@sweetswing1]

I loved Road Rash on the Genesis and really wanted yhe 3do for that alone. They haven't made a RR game that comes close since.

[@paulmillercanada]

Same here! Just couldn't afford the console! I ended up getting road rash on the PC instead as it was exactly the same as the 3do version.

[@MyKeeP81]

road rash 3do the best

[@MoistMumble]

Rebecca Heinemen (the lady who ported Doom to 3DO) told the story of the development hell she went though on KZbin a couple of years ago. Look her up if you're curious. It's a good listen, she went though a LOT of bull to get that game even running on the hardware.

[@shiru8bit]

Soccer Kid is like the only game on platform that runs at 60 FPS, though.

[@pferreira1983]

Interesting, I didn't know that.

[@cptnoremac]

One thing you neglected to mention about the 3DO version of Doom, it got its own unique music: live instrument covers of the songs played by the CEO's band. Pretty cool!

[@Retro_Royal]

Joe might have dug out the Greendog :)

[@mitchmartin5360]

I remember renting one in 95 just when the ps one came out and couldn't get my hands on it yet. Rented Gex and Road Rash. Had a lot of fun with it. Just picked up my own fz 1 this year

[@SegaCDUniverse]

Wasn't Eye of the Typhoon extremely rare? I love the 3DO, had some great titles. And OH that FMV ; )

[@acereport8939]

Those games look pretty good. I’d probably get a 3DO mini console if they made one.

[@lutfimakarim8258]

Great review as always. However, you forgot to review Shockwave and the chance to note that the game was set at 2019. 😊

[@jesuszamora6949]

I will never understand why games in the mid-90s set themselves in the early 2000s with hyper futuristic settings. By that point, the year 2000 was around the corner.

[@TheDistorted]

Yeah some shows and tv and even books did it too. Pretty hilarious how overly optimistic they were about the speed at which they predicted technology would evolve xD

[@robertomillan5536]

Looks more powerful than Sega Saturn, being one year before (93-94). Impressed.

[@samurizzy]

Talks about nudity and adult content, with the next game being titled, "D".

[@nSquared75]

samurizzy Yeah “D” didn’t quite have the connotation that it does today.

[@kevinlawrence4812]

We see what's on your mind.

[@jesusmartinezrodriguez9545]

Didn't that Game included a cannibalism scene or something?

[@takehiro12]

Thank you for posting this, not enough good videos about the system. I miss my 3DO and wish I never got rid of it, so many great experiences.

[@theharvardyard2356]

10:05 SouljaPad? Precursor to the prestigious Soulja line of electronics? The perfect gamepad to Supaman Dat Ho!

[@PutlerHuyIo]

Proof that time travel DO exist.

[@yourb0y]

xaxaxaxxaxaxaxa

[@Gorilla_Jones]

I still have my launch 3DO, luckily I worked in the industry and got games as well. Me and my friends had the time of our lives during this time. 3DO, Jaguar, Saturn, PSOne, what a fucking time man. Best part I was in my late 20s so I could afford everything and appreciate it LOL. I really miss those days, the games were just awesome. All the games of this era give me the warm and fuzzy’ s 😁 FIFA was mind blowing at the time, we played the piss out of this game. Madden as well. C’mon science, please create a time machine so I can go back. We played a ton of Need for speed and Road Rash, Monster Mansion was also fun. I hate when kids these days look at these games with revisionist goggles, back then were awesome.

[@lowbudgetcontent8858]

Can't stop noticing how you prolong every word at the end of a sentence. Congrats on your channel

[@TechnicolorDojo]

I remember the day my father came home with a used 3do and a stack of games. These days I wonder what truck it fell off of, but I still consider myself fortunate to have had one back in the day. Gex, Road Rash, Fifa `94, Need for speed, Demolition man, Quarantine, these were all formative games for me and I cherish those memories to this day. Anytime someone trashes the system, confusing it with the CD-I, I know they don't know what they hell they are talking about. This thing was legit. Thanks for doing your part to set the record straight, great work as always.

[@worsel555]

I own three models of the 3DO: The FZ-1, FZ-10 and the Goldstar which is complete in box (it still has a $299.99 price sticker on it). I didn't get into collecting for the 3DO until about 2000 in the very early days of Ebay which was like the Wild West, picked up an FZ-1 with 20 games for $50. Last time I looked not too long ago prices for the system have jumped way up to about $200, it went from people desperate to get rid of them like the 32X and now they are "collectors" items. Also, Space Pirates is the best FMV shooter ever. It gets quite the reaction when I stream it.

[@andrewdannunzio5283]

Yea I was going to sell my NEC TURBO GRAFFIX CD TURBO DUO U.S/ JAPANESE SYSTEM PLAYS CD U.S AND JAPANESE,WITH TURBO GRAFFIX CARDS.

[@TruTechnoGamer]

This brought a smile to my face :). The 3D0 was the first system i truly yearned for and really invested in. Many of the games you mentioned were favs as well including Road Rash and Gex. Other games you omitted that I loved include Demolition Man, Shockwave 2, Twisted, and Captain Quazer! "Congratulations, reality just hit your home!" :)

[@MrSez1979]

I read an interview with the project manager of DOOM on the 3DO... She was also apparently in charge of the amazing Wolfenstein port... So she def had talent, along with the actual coders... Supposedly according to her, they were given an utterly impossible timeline for DOOM... and had to ship it while it was almost in a prototype stage... What a waste of potential... I adored my 3DO...

[@sn-x-wt]

thank you kindly for adding the source of the intro and outro music! the Batman theme ("In the Sky Over Gotham City") is a pure awesomeness

[@daveanderson9895]

I appreciate your respect for the 3DO. I loved the 3DO.

[@b.o.353]

Saw one at Sears when it came out. Everytime I went to the mall I’d go and play a golf game demo. I’d forgotten how expensive it was. Great video and BEST I’ve seen on the 3DO on KZbin.

[@wojiaobill]

Hey Lord, you mentioned Alone in the Dark as an early survival horror game. Check out Doctor Hauzer for 3DO if you haven't already... I've heard some people refer to that as one of the early survival horror games as well (though it was two years later , in 1994). Thanks for the video :)

[@TheDistorted]

Interesting... Will have to check that one out myself too. Always looking to expand my 3do library. Appreciate the heads up.

[@schmeltingaccident]

I was 9 in 1993 so it was unfathomable for me to have owned a $700 dollar console back then. I was always curious about the underachieving consoles of the mid 90’s though. I really wanted a Jaguar when I saw the “Do The Math” commercials back then, but honestly I don’t remember seeing these consoles sold in department stores. Was the 3DO originally sold in like Radio Shack type places? Gotta add at the time I never even stepped in to a video game only store, till like ‘95 or ‘96.

[@SegaLordX]

Mostly game stores and specialty shops carried it. I purchased mine from a small electronics store in my town that accepted layaway.

[@schmeltingaccident]

Yeah that’s true. My friend’s older brother had for the time a fast dial up modem and a Laserdisc player that we couldn’t get near, back in like ‘95 or ‘96 😂

[@LastCallSRT]

You were a very very rich kid. AND SOCCER KID WAS KEWL.

[@pferreira1983]

It's awesome!

[@TheDistorted]

Never owned it when it first came out but was always curious and many years later retroactively procured a system and many games. I do not regret it. As you say, many of the games to be found on the system can be played elsewhere, BUT a lot of the 3DO ersions have something truly unique about them that sets them apart from the other ports. Be it a unique CD-quality soundtrack (SSF2T), redrawn sprites (Wolfenstein 3D), different gameplay (Need For Speed), or voice-acted scripts (Star Control II), what the 3DO offers is a unique flavour to these experiences that weren't recreated elsewhere. And it is for this reason (and DnD: Slayer!) that I love my 3DO!

[@Sly2Cooper]

Also Killing Time was the first game that streamed FMV into the game long before Neversoft done it in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater and Apocalypse for the PlayStation. And Star Fighter was the first console 3D game with destructible terrain. 3DO was surely a capable system now that I think of it.

[@TheDistorted]

Aye, very true bro.

[@vasileios6301]

3do is the first real next gen console,Psx and Saturn were just (great) improvements over it. The pioneer of the next gen 3d era is the 3do console and we ought to respect it. It gave us 2 great arcade 2d conversions (Samurai Showdown and Super Street Fighter 2),3d sports unseen before at home like Fifa and Slam and Jam,racing games like Road Rash and NFS,a great Doom port,fantastic FMV quality videos among all other things it offered. If Japanese were serious on it we would have seen much more many great stuff.

[@rars0n]

A great Doom port? What are you smoking? Did you even watch this video, or any other video about the 3DO port of Doom???

[@HuntersMoon78]

Doom sucks balls on the 3DO

[@LoneWolfAudio0524]

One game nobody EVER talks about is Hell: a Cyberpunk Thriller. It was my introduction to a SciFi and supernatural crossover, and even though I could never get past the first puzzzle when I was a teen, it stuck with me for over 17 years. I finally had to pirate the PC version - because I couldn't find it legally and still can't. It's worth a play if only for its very interesting story and fully voicef dialogue - my first intro to that too. I also loved D - both the first and its sequel - though I had to watch the Playthrough on Andoutube for the sequel. As for Out of this World - Another World was good on the 3DO, but I found the music way better on the Sega COULD - which is still the only platform where you can play its sequel Heart of the Alien - even on Modern consoles after the remasters.

[@tomariko]

I really love how the 3do games still looks good in 2019 ! I like this kind of 3d

[@doktorbundy7279]

Great overview over the console, I heard of it from time to time, but never what it was exactly.

[@mbe102]

Is it just me, or do a lot of the 'racing' games feel like 2d sprites on a pre-rendered video?

[@Prizrak-hv6qk]

Yes. 3DO did this type of "fake 3D" a lot, blending pre-rendered 3D looking spites and FMV on a very basic 3D play field. The actual 3D it was capable off was very limited. Less polygons per second than even the 32X.

[@Lightblue2222]

@@FloridaEbikes just looked it up. 32x had. 260,000 per second "130,000 per cpu."

[@Lightblue2222]

That was true with the space shooters. Pre rendered 3D video backgrounds you couldn't control. But the racers like Off Road Interceptor had real 3D backgrounds with 2D vehicles.

[@Lightblue2222]

@@FloridaEbikes I got it from Sega Retro on their 32x technical specifications. I didn't doubt it since it was advertised as more powerful than the 3DO

[@Lightblue2222]

@@FloridaEbikes coolio

[@wepif6341]

Saw this first in virgin megastore in Birmingham and had to have this machine saved for months and often just visited the store to watch the rolling demos

[@jba2048]

I remember a friend of mine had one of these and he wanted to trade me for my Super Nintendo, I said no.

[@lonesquiff6551]

The one thing I always think of regarding the 3DO was the arcade cabinets that had slots for console memory cards. That completely blew me away at the time.

[@alritedave]

3Dohdear... Actually it's a pretty cool system!

[@andrewdannunzio5283]

Yes it is had three of them,one just burnt out,might try and get it fixed or sell as is.

[@niklev83]

WOW! ... I am so sad that I missed the release of this console! ....The graphics look really great to me, and some games actually look better than what I remember on Saturn and Playstation 1... Thank You for this historic video! :)

[@mtreams72]

No "Wing Commander 3: Heart of the Tiger"?

[@MaJeStiKMaGiC]

My favorite console, I still have it with more than 50 games !!! Great video :)

[@indecent0079]

Finally subbed, sorry, already watched most of the sheeit but this is really good gaming here 👍🏻 Please do some Sega Skitchin’ 😈

[@YourNewBuddy]

Sheesh! What a HUGE documentary! I loved hearing how each part made you feel about how your money was spent. Saving up, back then, for that much, was a LOT of work! I got the Nike and Reebok pump shoes instead of the TurboExpress, and have always regretted it.

[@ConsoleShockOfficial]

I really like the 3DO, of the failed mid-90s consoles (3DO, CDi, Jaguar) I think the 3DO is the best one.

[@mattpowell8369]

Sega saturn??

[@jannatalis4697]

@@mattpowell8369 I think a lot of people who love the Saturn don't consider it as a failure. I don't consider it as such either.

[@ConsoleShockOfficial]

@@mattpowell8369 Im referring to the consoles released 92-94 (in the US/UK), such as the 3 I listed.

[@princegroove]

I have a Goldstar 3DO and really admire its design and form, it appears so futuristic and powerful.

[@bournedevinesupreme]

19:04 "to my broke ehhasss"

[@stefanurquelle7736]

😂 The way he said it reminds me of the guy that says "ehhass to ehhass" on Requiem for a Dream.

[@pferreira1983]

What's going orrrrrrrrn.

[@ButtaMilkBiscuitsGaming]

i brought my goldstar 3DO back in 1995, i didnt think at the time that it was on its last leg...but the fun that was had i will never forget it. Street fighter and samurai shodown. those were the days.

[@ItsJustMilkISwear]

The 3DO reminds me of the bad CGI sequences from lawnmower man.

[@sneed3840]

Gem

[@mikef8846]

When I see 3DO games, I say "Hey, those graphics are still pretty good." When I see N64 games, I say, "How in the hell was this ever allowed to happen?"

[@pferreira1983]

Well because...Nintendo. They get away with anything.