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3DO Experience wrote:I too liked both the Saturn and Dreamcast controllers.

Yes the DC controller was one of the best, but they could have just taken the SS "Model 2" controller, stuck a thumb pad where the D-pad is, and called it a day.

Link worked for me. Thanks.

There's a site with MP3s, but you have to sign up.

They modeled the Dreamcast controller after that Saturn one. Classic!

bitrate wrote:Here it is. These are just zipped WMA's for quicker upload/download, so if anyone wants better quality let me know and I'll upload a disk image or something.

Pataank Soundtrack

Link isn't working for me.

I interviewed Daniel Auld, who programmed 3DO stuff at Tose in Japan.

Policenauts uses the mouse.

Shockwave Assault was released on the Mac. Is it the same as the Pippin version?

Chris Conway of EA talks about porting it here. He also talks about what happened to the ports of Shockwave 2. (They were cancelled.) The Mac version was eventually released.

If you don't mind me asking, do you have a manual? Are there any credits in there or in-game? Thanks.

Fire Wolves (Firewolves) was shown at E3 1995. It was described "as a first-person Zelda".

Burning Soldier came out for PC. It was published in Japan in 1998 by Itochu.

According to Melf at Sega-16, Michael Knox, co-founder of Park Place Productions, passed away last week from cancer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeIilKTf0OI At about 1:16, there's footage of what appears to be 3D Football. Unfortunately, the colors on the video are all warped. IIRC, those 3D game...

Looks like it was released for Windows and Mac.

The Harmony Engineering website mentions Dinonauts, an educational game that was released for Mac and Windows. I'm assuming it has nothing to do with Virgin's Dinoblaze or Panasonic's Theo the Dinosaur.

I think the 3DO could have limped along if the PlayStation hadn't steamrolled everybody right away. Wasn't it brought up here that 3DO sales (in the US, anyway) picked up in that period between the Saturn's surprise launch and the launch of the PlayStation?

Received a copy of Twisted, played for less than an hour...

Crap! The 3DO has a battery? That's the one thing I don't like about the Saturn (especially since my Saturn seems to be malfunctioning in that regard - always forgetting the time and other settings), but at least there it's easily replaceable.

3DO Experience wrote:Wouldn't the shrinkwrap and cardboard get in the way?

Good thing I opened 'em, then.

The ESRB database has some stuff (though I'm sure Army Men and High Heat Baseball 2000 are incorrect).

While 3DO Kid was playing with the 360, I was playing with sealed copies of Bust-A-Move, Burning Soldier, and Guardian War.

Yeah, that was pretty much DOA, and the 3DO got caught up in the hype. It settled down into a games machine, but marketing it as a multimedia device at first probably didn't help anything. And that whole "this is a multimedia machine, not a game console" thing is at least partly why the FZ-1 was or...

bitrate wrote:Yeah, Goal Field Hunter is one of the harder to find Japanese titles. Even more so than V Goal Soccer '96 probably.

Shame Tecmo didn't make more 3DO games.

A few more questions have been added.

I operate Game Developer Research Institute , a website dedicated to finding out more about game development companies and people. One of the companies we've been especially interested in researching is the contract developer TOSE , which has been profiled in recent years by Gamasutra and 1up . I ca...

The back of the case just shows some screenshots with a bunch of balloons. Those screenshots are just of the TV Asahi logo, it looks like. Judging by the screenshot here , you're just touring Yamada's Memorial Museum (which actually exists). Since it was developed by System Sacom, it probably works...

I've bid on this game before. I'd like to know something about it myself.

Time Warner Interactive/Atari Games (formerly the arcade division of Atari) and Atari Corp. (which made the Jaguar) were separate entities.

Why are you researching the developer? Why not? That's what we do at GDRI, dig up info on obscure contract developers. I'm especially proud of the work we've done with Opera House. You won't find more information about it anywhere else. And if you need anything else, please do ask. I'd really like ...

YouTube video game reviewer/ranter Armake21 recently shared his...love...for Phoenix 3. I've not played the game, but it doesn't look THAT bad. Watch the video here.

(WARNING: Coarse language)

Icebreaker has become one of my favorite games since getting my 3DO a couple of weeks ago. Very clever and underrated. Nice to see a sequel.

3DOKid, I should probably thank you for the F1GP video, as it's helped a little with my research on Opera House (the game's developer).