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- Sat May 28, 2011 10:53 pm
- Forum: 3DO Main Forum
- Topic: What did the 3DO need?
- Replies: 53
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Actually, Sony was pretty cheap on licencing at launch, but got more expensive later. They also came close to emulating 3DO's anything goes on content approach, but that REALLY changed. Nintendo was the worst monster we've had, historically. Insane fees, penalties for multi-platform releases, extra ...
- Sat May 28, 2011 9:58 am
- Forum: 3DO Main Forum
- Topic: What did the 3DO need?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 26497
Television ads weren't as important back then, but you make a good point in that 3DO barely advertised anywhere. By comparison, Sony parlayed experience in related fields and sent free promo materials to every store they could find, no matter how small. Go into our old Gameworld and you'd be assault...
- Sat May 28, 2011 9:30 am
- Forum: 3DO Main Forum
- Topic: What did the 3DO need?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 26497
- Sat May 28, 2011 9:25 am
- Forum: 3DO Main Forum
- Topic: What did the 3DO need?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 26497
them all together. Including the sound chips. Anyway, most of that power was used keeping these two boards working together and made the system notoriously hard to program for at no extra payoff. 3. "Multimedia entertainment wankfest of next week". Notice how consoles are replacing the rest of the e...
- Sat May 28, 2011 9:14 am
- Forum: 3DO Main Forum
- Topic: What did the 3DO need?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 26497
and thus had to make a profit on consoles. I don't think the real production costs were ever made public. An amusing note: The Saturn was built to beat the 3DO in the early design stages with a completed 2D board when the PS1 specs were released. The solution? Create a second 3D board to work with t...
- Sat May 28, 2011 9:04 am
- Forum: 3DO Main Forum
- Topic: What did the 3DO need?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 26497
d-pad until the Dual Shock came out. 2. Early tech adoption. Can't be helped. It's always more expensive to go first, but that's not the only reason the price sucked. I have a friend who worked at 3DO post-console who explained that no first party console turns a profit, being sold near cost. That's...
- Sat May 28, 2011 8:56 am
- Forum: 3DO Main Forum
- Topic: What did the 3DO need?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 26497
What did the 3DO need?
Okay, obviously the 3DO fell like a meteorite with an inexplicable anchor. Time for wild speculation as to how it might have lived. Add/debate as you see fit! 1. PC ports. The design made this inevitable, but did 3DO even TRY to court devs into bringing quality games? I saw one dev chat shut down ha...
- Sat May 28, 2011 12:35 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Hospital food
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5434
- Fri May 27, 2011 3:58 pm
- Forum: 3DO Main Forum
- Topic: 3DO Games you've spent the most time playing.
- Replies: 37
- Views: 21506
- Fri May 27, 2011 2:24 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Hospital food
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5434
Yeah, the free clinics in Florida were huge fans of strict borders. The one here asked for an ID, but didn't even slow down at the fact that I had nothing. Real champs. I know nothing about Japanese healthcare. I was very Henry Rollins in health when I lived there, and made it a quest to know as lit...
- Thu May 26, 2011 7:12 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Hospital food
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5434
- Thu May 26, 2011 7:07 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Hospital food
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5434
American hospitals are typically run by huge "gifts" from drug manufacturers. I went to a free clinic and walked out with two excellent prescriptions. A big private hospital, same health issue? EIGHT KINDS OF PILLS. That helps breakfast go down. Now this private hospital also had a menu that was at ...
- Thu May 26, 2011 6:56 pm
- Forum: 3DO Main Forum
- Topic: 3DO d-pad underrated?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 17019
- Thu May 26, 2011 6:50 pm
- Forum: 3DO Main Forum
- Topic: 3DO Games you've spent the most time playing.
- Replies: 37
- Views: 21506
The major addictions in college (I was a late adopter, paying $150 for anew unit) were the game shows and Battlesport. But the main single player obsession late at night was definitely Star Fighter. Freeform maps AND deformable terrain on the 3DO. It made it look like every other dev had their thumb...
- Wed May 25, 2011 5:05 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Hospital food
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5434
- Wed May 25, 2011 5:01 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Hospital food
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5434
(I like crisp vegetables and not murdering the nutritional value of) but mayo? The ads lie unless they say this: Mayonaise: Say hello to bad breath, fat, and empty calories. Mayonaise: Finally, eating semen without the social stigma. Mayonaise: Raping the shit out of eggs and macaroni since the poin...
- Wed May 25, 2011 4:49 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Hospital food
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5434
Hospital food
I've had some time to register my full dislike of many, many things people are moronic enough to put in food. The average Western idea of "edible" is horrifying. I mean why not have a higher volume of red and green peppess than the actual BREAKFAST they cover? So you can make it to age 24 and be abl...
- Tue May 24, 2011 3:21 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: favourite movies
- Replies: 17
- Views: 11028
- Tue May 24, 2011 3:17 pm
- Forum: 3DO Main Forum
- Topic: Long time franchises?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5617
- Tue May 24, 2011 2:24 pm
- Forum: 3DO Main Forum
- Topic: Long time franchises?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5617
- Tue May 24, 2011 10:17 am
- Forum: 3DO Main Forum
- Topic: The nicest thing you can say...
- Replies: 38
- Views: 20527
- Tue May 24, 2011 7:40 am
- Forum: 3DO Main Forum
- Topic: The nicest thing you can say...
- Replies: 38
- Views: 20527
- Tue May 24, 2011 4:32 am
- Forum: 3DO Main Forum
- Topic: Frakin' Console.
- Replies: 23
- Views: 12389
- Mon May 23, 2011 12:19 pm
- Forum: 3DO Main Forum
- Topic: IF DOOM had been as good on 3DO as it was on Jaguar . . .
- Replies: 35
- Views: 20619
- Mon May 23, 2011 12:11 pm
- Forum: 3DO Main Forum
- Topic: IF DOOM had been as good on 3DO as it was on Jaguar . . .
- Replies: 35
- Views: 20619
Burger Bill was named for his habit of buying a ton of burgers during the dev crunch period and hoarding them in a desk drawer, taking up to a week to go through them. An office greeting would be to say "Bill" to him, and he'd reply "Burger." I asked Romero how accurate Masters of Doom was. He told ...
- Mon May 23, 2011 11:56 am
- Forum: 3DO Main Forum
- Topic: Frakin' Console.
- Replies: 23
- Views: 12389
- Sat May 21, 2011 6:09 pm
- Forum: 3DO Main Forum
- Topic: Frakin' Console.
- Replies: 23
- Views: 12389
- Sat May 21, 2011 5:21 am
- Forum: 3DO Main Forum
- Topic: Frakin' Console.
- Replies: 23
- Views: 12389
For my part: Liver failure *Make will *Figure out who I savage first with my newfound impunity *Wait, the ER doc jumped the gun. Liver DAMAGE, not failure *Damn Jaundice *Never gonna hear the end of this. Lost 25 pounds *No... never gonna hear the end of THIS *Yep. The woman's dad thinks I'm on crac...
- Tue Feb 22, 2011 10:10 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Sony's NGP
- Replies: 48
- Views: 27800
Instead we look for graphics. We look for Ridge Racer, for Street Fighter, for Uncharted, for whatever, big names, big spender, big dazzler. Are you REALLY in such a rush to malign series with excellent gameplay just because they don't use Nintendo's current version of the Super Scope Six and thus ...
- Thu Feb 17, 2011 11:03 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Sims 3 mutant edition
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4148