Why the 3DO didn't.

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• LA

  @Larry · 1 year ago

  I bought my 3DO about 2 years after it had come out second hand while on holiday in the Isle of Wight, &nbsp; then found a box full of 3DO games at my local Cash Converters for £20.<br><br>I was also working in an EB Games at the time and remember them paying for a huge amount of space in the store and covering the area with standees that said &quot;Don&apos;t Buy a Dodo, Buy 3DO&quot;. &nbsp; We all found it funny covering the &quot;Don&apos;t&quot; part in stickers :P

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• ES

  @espfusion · 1 year ago

  Anyone around for launch in 1993 knew that 3DO was never, ever going to be successful at $700.

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• TH

  @TheUAoB · 1 year ago

  The M2 was made, just never sold as a console. It made it into a handful of arcade cabinets, and the decendents of the hardware made it into millions of quiz machines and other embedded interactive systems.

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• VO

  @Voltaire-b8p · 1 year ago

  When I was 12, I broke my 3DO light gun, and my dad told me he would find someone to fix it because he enjoyed Mad Dog McCree.<br>I&apos;m thinking, &quot;Yeah, right. No freaking way. &quot; He got the phone book, and it turned out that American Lazer Games was 2 blocks away from his office in Albuquerque. <br><br>I went, they were all. &quot;You actually have a 3DO???&quot;. They gave me a tour and an unreleased prototype light gun that actually allowed for 2 players. &nbsp;<br><br>The normal light guns couldn&apos;t be used by 2 players because of the dasy chain controller ports.

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• TO

  @torshec8634 · 1 year ago

  And one more thing, was surprised this console was &quot;successful niche&quot; in Japan back in the early 2000s, &nbsp;could make a video and a special magazine focusing on just those Japan-developed games.

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• PL

  @plaztik76 · 1 year ago

  The price was crazy for the era it launched. The Console was, and is incredible.

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• JE

  @JesterEric · 1 year ago

  The 3DO concept was similar to the attempt to standardise home computers with the MSX &nbsp;standard. &nbsp; Panasonic, Sanyo and Golstar had previously made MSX computers. &nbsp;Manufacturers had to pay a royalty to Ascii and Microsoft but it was an open system for software. &nbsp; Worldwide it was not another VHS but obviously Panasonic liked the idea. &nbsp; The magazine you would want for MSX would be What MSX? Published in the UK November/December 1984

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• SP

  @Sparkypark · 1 year ago

  First video I’ve watched on your channel and thoroughly enjoyable it was too.

• RE

  @RetroBytesUK · 1 year ago

  Football games (or indeed football its self) has never been my thing, but when I saw Fifa on the 3do, it made me really notice the 3do. The second thing I noticed was the price of the 3do, and that was my excitement for the 3do killed stone dead. As I was never going to have 3do type money back then.

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• SC

  @Scoth42 · 1 year ago

  As a Jacksonville resident, I am... well, uh, yeah. You got me there.

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• SC

  @scroatychumbo · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ap5zPHMqF4&amp;t=18">0:18</a> Crank that corporate jam! Yeah!!!

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• 8B

  @8BitBoyUK · 1 year ago

  Cracking video mate, I really, really enjoyed that

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