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bitrate Collection (Many Pictures)
Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 11:18 pm
by bitrate
Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 11:18 pm
by bitrate
Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 11:18 pm
by bitrate
Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 11:19 pm
by bitrate
Pictured below are 3DO peripherals:
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Pictured below are individual close-ups of 3DO peripherals:
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Pictured below are loose 3DO pads:
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Pictured below are early proto 3DO pads:
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Pictured below are loose 3DO arcade sticks, a loose memory unit, function box, VCD adaptor, karaoke units and a SNES adaptor:
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Pictured below are US, Japanese and European 3DO dedicated magazines and books:
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Pictured below are various internal 3DO documents, flyers and pamphlets, developer newsletters, lithographs and marketing material:
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Pictured below are long-box US titles which were hung in Panasonic's lobby, Japanese 3DO calling cards, VHS tapes of 3DO focus groups/3DO game development/3DO game attracts/etc., ALG arcade interface hardware, 3DO clothing and 3DO office supplies:
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Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 11:19 pm
by bitrate
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 12:48 am
by Mobius
So... Can I come over and play video games? I'm insanely jealous of your collection.
On a more serious note, I'd love to see some of those development content discs dumped/shared. It's be a huge help for homebrew.
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 1:10 am
by Lemmi
totally mind blowing collection
heh i see a few of my old things in there
looks like your missing a 3DO pin and the black 3DO shirt (which i have)
and out of all that i just want the games im missing boxes/manuals for
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 3:00 am
by 3DO Experience
Do you aspire to have at least 5 of each item?
This really is impressive and I'm glad you took the time to take photos of it all. I think we need to put some collectors on a suicide watch once they see they can never have anything close to this.
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 3:18 am
by bitrate
Mobius wrote:So... Can I come over and play video games?
Anytime.
Mobius wrote:
On a more serious note, I'd love to see some of those development content discs dumped/shared. It's be a huge help for homebrew.
I know, I need to get some of them uploaded. Dragging everything out of storage and taking these pictures was an absolute killer. I should have a little more free time in a bit and I'll see about getting some of those uploaded.
Lemmi wrote:totally mind blowing collection
heh i see a few of my old things in there
looks like your missing a 3DO pin and the black 3DO shirt (which i have)
and out of all that i just want the games im missing boxes/manuals for
Thank you, sir. That steering wheel was something I had been after for a long time. Unbelievably elusive.
3DO Experience wrote:Do you aspire to have at least 5 of each item?
At a bare minimum.
I am so glad to be finished taking pictures.
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 3:30 am
by 3DO Experience
Since you took the effort to take pics of everything I took the time to look at every picture. My mind is still numb.
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 3:39 am
by bitrate
3DO Experience wrote:Since you took the effort to take pics of everything I took the time to look at every picture. My mind is still numb.
Haha. I appreciate that.
This was something I have wanted to do for a long time, and I've been telling people I would do it for a while now too.
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 4:57 am
by mattyg
Tears of joy knowing that so much is safe and preserved - any genuine Aussie Goldstars there?
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 5:12 am
by bitrate
mattyg wrote:Tears of joy knowing that so much is safe and preserved - any genuine Aussie Goldstars there?
You know, I don't believe there are any Aussie Goldstars. It's something I'll have to fix.
Now that I look at this mess, it seems I forgot to add a couple of pics...
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 2:30 pm
by BryWI
You know it's rare when bitrate doesn't have 3 of an item. Nice collection! I think this topic has come up before but i don't remember the answer... Anything you are still looking for?
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 8:58 pm
by Austin
3DO Experience wrote:Since you took the effort to take pics of everything I took the time to look at every picture. My mind is still numb.
My mind was numb just from looking at the first few. I'm surprised I didn't go into a coma after I looked at all of them.
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 9:25 pm
by Trev
How big of a house do you have bitrate?
No words left to describe your pics .... It's like a video game high/intoxication.
Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 4:25 am
by bitrate
BryWI wrote:You know it's rare when bitrate doesn't have 3 of an item. Nice collection! I think this topic has come up before but i don't remember the answer... Anything you are still looking for?
There will probably always be 3DO items I am looking for, which is part of what keeps it interesting.
I still need to get an Alive II (preferably, in box), would love to find WARP's D promotional key, a build of Rockman X3, a build of D2, Power Crystal... and the list goes on and on.
The things that I don't even know exist can be really exciting too. This happens about once every two years or so - something pops up.
Trev wrote:How big of a house do you have bitrate?
Thanks to Trip's vision of the future, it's much smaller than it should be.
Added some pictures that didn't get copied over by mistake, including a pre-production Panasonic FZ-1 Operators manual.
Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 8:21 am
by pitsunami
Just wow....those are some seriously great pics!! And ofcourse great stuff,
nice to see them gathred in a page!
I would love to hear some stories on how this collection built up during those years.
Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 4:28 pm
by sneth
why do you keep so many duplicates?
Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 5:59 pm
by pitsunami
sneth wrote:why do you keep so many duplicates?
Cause he is crazy!
Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 6:30 pm
by bitrate
sneth wrote:why do you keep so many duplicates?
What duplicates?
pitsunami wrote:Just wow....those are some seriously great pics!! And ofcourse great stuff,
nice to see them gathred in a page!
I would love to hear some stories on how this collection built up during those years.
Thanks pits.
Hmmm... stories. Well, there are a few I suppose.
Nothing earth-shattering though.
It's mostly me sitting at a computer in my off-time searching all corners of the internet.
There were a couple of 3DO related trips to Japan that were fun, and I have met some very nice people who used to work for 3DO as well.
Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 2:42 pm
by NikeX
Yes! This is the most complete 3DO / M2 collection on earth. I take this as a virtual museum. If you have time in the next months, years, bitrate, I think we all would like to see a new video, especially of the demo CD (apebot). I love the M2 logo. So unusual. I am impressed by your more than a decade long journey. It took me also a long time.
Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 9:16 pm
by Madroms
That's impressive!
We know that you need some items on your Korean collections, but what about your JPN collections: is it complete / games ? is it complete / demos ?
Did you manage to gel them all ?
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 6:00 am
by JohnnyDude
Just signing on to give you props, bitrate. Looking good! I've never seen a 3DO collection quite like it.
Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2011 4:26 pm
by bitrate
Madroms wrote:That's impressive!
We know that you need some items on your Korean collections, but what about your JPN collections: is it complete / games ? is it complete / demos ?
Did you manage to gel them all ?
Yes, the Japanese collection is complete - as far as I know, that is. I say this because I thought it was complete a year ago and then another title popped up that I had never heard of before.
Now that I look through the pictures I posted of the Japanese titles, I notice that another image didn't get pasted over. One of the Japanese non-exclusive pictures is missing of Off-World Interceptor, Corpse Killer, Virtuoso and Supreme Warrior.
Anyway, in answer to your question, yes, that is the entire Japanese library of exclusive, non-exclusive, and demo/sample titles.
I will insert the missing image when my photobucket bandwidth meter gets reset tomorrow and the images become viewable again.
Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2011 9:18 pm
by Madroms
ah, that's great! The JPN games library is not so easy to complete (I stopped trying to get it myself, I am missing about 50 titles) so I am happy to know someone manage to get it
And I didn't count the demo library, that's wonderful
Do you list all the titles somewhere ? I am willing to know how many there are and how far I am from the completion. For now, I have 203 JPN titles (games+demos).
And you may need to run a website with a comprehensive database withh all your stuff
Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 12:07 pm
by grand_barbare
fantastic!
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 4:46 pm
by ajgiov
Amazing sir!
Alive II
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 10:56 am
by Mr.Hunt
You haven't photo Alive II GoldStar
You connecting pci prototip M2 ? In sistem it seen ? (sorry for my poor english)
Re: Alive II
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 10:16 pm
by bitrate
Mr.Hunt wrote:You haven't photo Alive II GoldStar
That is correct, I am missing an Alive II Goldstar. Always on the lookout.
Although, I do have new 3DO Korean items to take pictures of and add to this thread.
Mr.Hunt wrote:You connecting pci prototip M2 ? In sistem it seen ? (sorry for my poor english)
No, I have not installed the Marvin card into a PC as I do not have a driver for it.
I highly doubt I will ever come across a driver for that card. It will most likely have to remain an interesting footnote in M2 history.