A 3DO Collection - bitrate

bitrate · Post by **bitrate** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 2:21 am

Thought you guys might get a kick out of this.

I'm finally getting my 3DO collection out of boxes and sorting through stuff. As I go along I will be taking photos of everything and making notes.

I'm going to start off with photos of US released long box games. The picture below is what I have retrieved from 22 Wilcopy paper boxes (and also what I was able to almost fit into the camera frame). I'll take another group shot of the rest of my long box games when I finish picking these ones up and sorting like titles together.

Here are some imports.

Some Alphas / Betas / Protos / Previews

Lemmi · Post by **Lemmi** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 3:01 am

thats impressive

Blades · Post by **Blades** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 6:31 am

You only need to do one more thing to complete your mission in life...

Send all those games to me.

I'll be standing by my mailbox...

BryWI · Post by **BryWI** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 6:42 am

So many repeats. looks like you got the leftovers from a store(s) getting rid of stuff. It's still cool to have that though (didnt want to sound negative) You could make some money on ebay!

Vance · Post by **Vance** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 7:08 am

Sweet jesus...

Hey, I'm about to reopen my game store and I like to stock retro stuff. If you want to sell some of your redundant copies, I'd love to talk.

bonefish · Post by **bonefish** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 3:13 pm

Oh my... that is one big 3do collection.

Pull the doubles

Hound · Post by **Hound** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 9:29 pm

10 copies of Guardian War? It's a decent enough game, but not that good. I see 6 Total Eclipses too. I might be able to redo the 12 days of Christmas just going over that photo, lol. Thank god it's not 20 copies of Plumbers Don't Wear Ties though. That'd be grounds for a tar and feathering.

Vance · Post by **Vance** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 1:03 am

Well it's not 3DO, but it was my old store shelves:

bitrate · Post by **bitrate** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 3:38 am

Blades wrote:You only need to do one more thing to complete your mission in life...

Send all those games to me.

I'll be standing by my mailbox...

You got it man. Hope you have a large mailbox

BryWI wrote:So many repeats. looks like you got the leftovers from a store(s) getting rid of stuff. It's still cool to have that though (didnt want to sound negative) You could make some money on ebay!

I did buy some of these games from a store clearance, but a large portion of them come from buying up 3DO lots. You should see how many consoles I have to go with these games

Vance wrote:Hey, I'm about to reopen my game store and I like to stock retro stuff. If you want to sell some of your redundant copies, I'd love to talk.

I'll keep you in mind if I decide to let loose with some of them. First I have to sort through the rest of them (believe it or not, there are more).

Hound wrote:10 copies of Guardian War? It's a decent enough game, but not that good. I see 6 Total Eclipses too. I might be able to redo the 12 days of Christmas just going over that photo, lol. Thank god it's not 20 copies of Plumbers Don't Wear Ties though. That'd be grounds for a tar and feathering.

Ahem, there are 11 copies of Guardian War in the picture

Some of them are factory sealed and some have the cover variation

Start heating up the tar... I might yet have 20 copies of Plumbers Don't Wear Ties when I finish sorting...

pav82 · Post by **pav82** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 11:55 am

how about selling the double games you have?

Post by **3DOKid** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 1:48 pm

For an orderly queue.

Trev · Post by **Trev** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 10:56 pm

Vance has given me an idea of what to do w/some of my own kitchen cupboards

Can't wait to see all your import goodies bitrate ... icluding those Korean titles

Vance · Post by **Vance** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 1:19 am

Had to be done. You can see the manga and more recent games are in my walk-in closet, but you don't see the rest of the boxes. All the consoles, peripherals... creap, a box of controllers higher than your waist, powergloves hanging off the shelves, you name it. I had a big store.

Before that, I had taken one of my shelving units and put it in the spare bedroom of my previous apartment (the shelves were given to me by a closing down Waldenbooks in the first place) and just made that the stock room. I coasted for awhile on eBay. Sell the stuff, go into the next room and pack it like a factory.

bitrate · Post by **bitrate** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 10:41 pm

Included a pic of some of my imports.
Enjoy

BryWI · Post by **BryWI** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 7:25 pm

nice

T2KFreeker · Post by **T2KFreeker** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 8:26 pm

Damn! No wonder I can't find any 3DO games floating around man, YOU HAVE ALL OF THEM!!! I thought that my collection was impressive at one point, but yeah, i feel like I am standing next to John Holmes Naked. This sucks. Impressive indeed.

I'll take a Plumbers Don't Wear Ties. Guilty Pleasure.

coombsb · Post by **coombsb** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 10:37 pm

And I thought I was nuts

I had about 400 long boxes at one point but then saw sense and sold a few lots on ebay to clear out, down to about 80 spare now, which is *almost* ok

Can you post a pic of the alternative covers for Guardian War please, I've only seen one.

T2KFreeker · Post by **T2KFreeker** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 11:19 pm

coombsb wrote:And I thought I was nuts

I had about 400 long boxes at one point but then saw sense and sold a few lots on ebay to clear out, down to about 80 spare now, which is *almost* ok

Can you post a pic of the alternative covers for Guardian War please, I've only seen one.

I agree. I would like to see the alternate cover for GW also.

coombsb · Post by **coombsb** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 12:24 am

Here's a side view of the different covers!

http://pictures.kyozou.com/pictures/_5/4477/4476542.jpg

Post by **3DOKid** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 12:49 pm

coombsb wrote:Here's a side view of the different covers!

http://pictures.kyozou.com/pictures/_5/4477/4476542.jpg

Why? ...

Hound · Post by **Hound** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 5:43 am

T2KFreeker wrote:Damn! No wonder I can't find any 3DO games floating around man, YOU HAVE ALL OF THEM!!! I thought that my collection was impressive at one point, but yeah, i feel like I am standing next to John Holmes Naked. This sucks. Impressive indeed.

I'll take a Plumbers Don't Wear Ties. Guilty Pleasure.

You mean you actually got some form of pleasure out of Plumbers? I don't even think tossing that "game" in a smelter would give me any pleasure.

Trev · Post by **Trev** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 7:47 pm

You mean you actually got some form of pleasure out of Plumbers? I don't even think tossing that "game" in a smelter would give me any pleasure.

Agreed!

Post by **3DOKid** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 10:23 pm

Tossing? That word obviously means something else in America... right? or am I missing the pun? Sorry. I'll get my coat.

T2KFreeker · Post by **T2KFreeker** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 4:42 am

3DOKid wrote:Tossing? That word obviously means something else in America... right? or am I missing the pun? Sorry. I'll get my coat.

bitrate · Post by **bitrate** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 5:42 am

Just added a couple pics of the fronts of some of my imports. More pics of different games to follow.

I have gone through and counted all of the unique 3DO import titles.

I counted a total of 147 different titles. This number does not include import repackages, promo packaging, etc. It is strictly a count of unique import games.
To my knowledge, this is the highest number of imports listed anywhere. Of course, every once in a while I'll come across another game I never new existed, so I'm sure this number will increase at some point (I hope

). As of right now though, I am unaware of any other import title that exists.

Madroms · Post by **Madroms** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 11:05 pm

hmmm, 147 jpn unique titles ? only games that have been released and for sale, not demos, not for sale and not limited edition, right ?

How many limited edition are there ? D and policenauts. Anything else ?

On my list, I count more than 210 jpn 3do games and I need about 60 of them. I also have 36 demos, which is far from a complete collection.

So it seems you have a good hope to find some new games/demos to add to your wonderful 3DO collection

coombsb · Post by **coombsb** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 1:49 am

I've got 210 on my list too

Based on the item codes I reckon I could be missing a couple (FZ-SJ2352 or FZ-SJ2353 anyone?) Only 14 demos though so sounds like I've got work to do there.

I've got 202 different US titles including demos etc, which I reckon is a pretty comprehensive list, though I'd be happy to hear otherwise!

Still waiting for that alternative cover shot of Guardian War, which is one missing from that US list.

bitrate · Post by **bitrate** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 2:06 am

210 !

Are you guys absolutely certain that you are not counting Japanese games that were also released in the US? Japanese versions of Road Rash, Escape From Monster Manor, etc., etc., etc. all have the FZ-SJXXXX designations but I don't count them as they were also released in the US.

coombsb · Post by **coombsb** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 3:03 am

Ah, so that's what you mean by unique! Yes I'm counting all games released in Japan, not those only released in Japan.

I'll have to have a recount, though it's tricky as the same game was released under completely different names in several cases.

Lemmi · Post by **Lemmi** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 6:42 pm

coombsb wrote:
I've got 202 different US titles including demos etc, which I reckon is a pretty comprehensive list, though I'd be happy to hear otherwise!
.

ive got 199 including 16 demo program CDs, the game guru, and Panasonic Demonstration CD, and beverly hills models (multi platform CD)
but 180 is the real number not including those

thats counting the repacks just as one game also, like the action pack and maniac pack.. etc