3DO Owners?

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I've been considering since forever to pick up a 3DO. :) I've wanted one of these ugly boxes since the dawn of time but just never come across them so I have to get one from eBay or some such. And they are rather expensive these days.

I'd like to hear some comments on favorite games. I definitely want to get Crash'n'Burn and Super Wing Commander.
 
OH goodness.... I can't even remember which games I had for that thing. I do remember that I paid way to much for it! lol.
 
I've got an original FZ-1 knocking around somewhere. I quite liked it when it came out, it just never went anywhere and was far too expensive. I had a couple of games, Crash n Burn, Super Street Fighter, and a tank battle game (Return Fire I think it was called).
 
I still have my Panny 3D0 with the motorized drive tray. Looks nice, IMO, but I've heard later revisions are quite ugly (honestly haven't seen any). Anyway, Space Hulk and Crash-N-Burn immediately come to mind as a couple of the games that I really enjoyed for the system (at the time).
 
Don't have it but I heard it has the best version of Star Control 2, so get that ASAP.

Classic game. I'd love if there was an update to the game where the ONLY thing they did was update the graphics but left the 2D playing field, gameplay, and story exactly the same.

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SB
 
I had a 3d0 ages ago, my favorite game was Need For Speed. We spent many hours on that game with my friends back in the day!
 
Anybody actually play with the 3DO Blaster? I briefly did tech support for it back in the day. LOL

Tommy McClain
 
Yeah. I played it a year or two ago, all the way through, no problems from what I recall. If there were a few minor glitches, I think the economy of playing it versus buying a 3DO still makes it the better choice. ;)
 
I still have my Panny FZ1, I love the look, it's just a shame the ugly joypad connector sticks out the front of it.

Need For Speed on the 3DO must be my second most played game ever after PC Doom, really loved it. The weight the cars have was the first time i'd played a racing game where the high speed handling of the cars seem to have some form of connection with reality. Also the routes instead of tacks fro racing on is awesome, such a shame that more racing games don't make use of this, if GT or Forza ever offered routes I would be in heaven.

StarFighter 3000 (revamped Archamedies title) was good fun although IIRC it wasn't very engaging as it was all set in a simulator, or maybe I didn't get far enough?

Return Fire was very good fun 2 player once you got proficent, although in common with most 3DO games framerate could be a problem.

SSF2 Turbo was excellent, just a shame the Pads weren't up to much, although I believe the latter smaller Panny pads were much improved.

Fifa presentation was amazing... at the time, and was reasonably good fun.

Battle Sport was another game which was great fun in 2 player mode, think of it as a 1 on 1 3D basket ball with Wipeout style vehicles.

3D road Rash was great, and was one of the first games to include contempory music tracks, unfortunately these tracks could only be listend to in the menu and not while actually playing, lots of cool tunes though.

Space Hulk was good but tough, a modern day version would be excellent.

PO'ed, everyone seemed to hate this but I absolutely loved it, the sound effects were fantastic, the gatling gun thing in particular, the level design was very diffent to any other game and it was all very wired; naked women aliens with rocket launchers for arms, dead elvis hanging up in the meat locker, frying pan melee weapon. Again if the framerate was better it would have been near perfect IMHO.
 
All I've ever played of any Star Control is some melee mode. :D

Yeah I've heard a lot of good things about 3DO's NFS1. Isn't it very similar to the PC version? Identical?

I really do want to get one of these consoles. The fact that they will happily read CDRs makes me excited too hehe. That's what got me to get a Dreamcast early last year. Console hacking and collecting gets my inner gearhead all pumped up. The once-$700 3DO definitely has that special mysterious air to it too. I'm only interested in getting a FZ-1.
 
Anybody actually play with the 3DO Blaster? I briefly did tech support for it back in the day. LOL

Tommy McClain

Yeah I bought one when they came out for my PC. I think I had Road Rash and Need For Speed for it. Don't think I ever bought anything else for it and it ended up in the trash eventually.
 
I was trying to remember which games I had for my Panny FZ-1 so I did a google search and just found out that the most popular games for 3DO were basically all porn. LOL.
 
Yeah I bought one when they came out for my PC. I think I had Road Rash and Need For Speed for it. Don't think I ever bought anything else for it and it ended up in the trash eventually.

No surprise there, it was a finicky beast. A lot of upset people when they found out they were required to have a proprietary 2x Pansasonic CDROM connected to it. IDE drives were a little farther down road. Also didn't help that the custom controller sucked eggs. LOL

Tommy McClain
 
Not really a 3D0 owner, but I came across this thread by accident searching if there is a thread discussing the capabilities of the hardware.
We barely saw anything taking advantage of it's capabilities and I wonder how capable it was.
 
Wow, this is a blast from the past. Regarding the hardware, I seem to remember it had "dual shading engines" and also some sort of hardware bug which stopped it from ever reaching it's full potential.

That's this evening spent Googling :D
 
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