Even his early videos aren't exactly "lazy", as there's a fair amount of various footage, decent coverage of the various elements of each game etc. but his later videos are anything but lazy, which is why I always found the channel name amusing. He's also one of the very few RUclipsrs who seems level-headed and objective without an over-reliance on some over-the-top or fake "personality" to gain views.
@@yellowblanka6058 He sounds like a professional voiceover person. Ive watched some channels where the person just has an ordinary voice and it's quite hard to pay attention and stay interested in what they're saying. :(
@@LGR Thank you for putting so much work into your content, it shows. Oh, and Doom Eternal is !@#!# awesome (though it is kicking my ass more than 2016 did on "Ultra Violence", but I'm loving every moment of it)
Have to say, the 3DO had two great things lacking on pretty much every other consoles in history: an S-video port and a headphone jack on the controller. That was just brilliant.
@SPeacockYeah, S-Video seemed to be an NTSC thing Same with YPbPr, apparently, with the PAL GameCube and Xbox having all their high-resolution options disabled. Ironically then, the PS2 ended up with the most progressive-scan games in PAL regions.
The 3DO port of Doom is an interesting tale - a single programmer had something like 10 weeks to do the entire thing, all while the CEO was making wild promises.
The fact they pulled it off at all is amazing. I mean, it ended up being a terribly buggy mess, but I'll give them credit for it even reaching the marketplace.
I remember when I was a kid my neighbor worked for 3DO and was developing Gex. She had me over to play a beta version on her developer 3DO system and gauge my feedback.
My Dad rented one of these from Video Signals and we never returned it. That place ended up going out of business so we returned it on their final day open. The guy just looked at my Dad with the most blank stare and we walked out
@@youtuberobbedmeofmyname His father was a kind man, a wise man indeed, no steal, only return on the final day. (Translation: The dude probably never got around to returning it so on the final day, he probably didn't want to feel bad for stealing a console.)
If it weren't for the 3DO, then Naughty Dog would have never made Way of the Warrior and got in touch with Sony and Universal. They wouldn't have gone on to make Crash Bandicoot, which means they wouldn't have become a 2nd party developer for Sony and we wouldn't have gotten Jak & Daxter, Uncharted, or The Last of Us. So, thanks Trip Hawkins.
LGR, I don't know if you'll ever read this, but I'm so excited I gotta tell you! I got so lucky with my Panasonic 3DO FZ-1! I was at a thrift store and it was sitting amongst a bunch of CD players without a controller (I'm pretty sure the Panasonic logo threw them off- they probably just thought it was a CD player!), and bought it for 8 dollars! I already had extra video cords at home, and the only thing I had to buy in order to complete the console was a controller, which I was able to snag off of Amazon for about 10 bucks. And the best part? There was a copy of VR Stalker already in the drive. Long story short, I have a working 3DO and I'm playing VR Stalker on it, and all told I spent less than 20 bucks!
I remember looking at the 3DO back around 1994 or 95 with a friend when we were at a used game store. They were selling it for I recall $399 for the system used. He played some Mortal Kombat clone on it and while it looked good, it didn't look near $400 good. I do own one now, but that's primarily because I found it for a little over $10 at my local thrift store. And I do have some pretty good games for it, like Quarantine, Samurai Shodown, Wing Commander 3 and more I got on the cheap. After 20 years it still holds up. The FZ-1 is certainly good quality console-wise.
I think that I read once that he was irked to no end that Nintendo and Sega were taking a cut of his profits and was also irked when PC completely replacing consoles wasn't working out. That's why he he pushed the 3DO lol.
As a freshman in college in 1994 I spent half my first semester spending money buying a 3DO console. My parents were not happy and I was broke most of that first year living off ramen noodles but I was also the coolest dude in my dorm because of the 3DO and the endless hours of entertainment were worth every penny.
Discovered LGR from this video 5 years ago.. The video is obviously not quite there yet but the voice over / content is as great as it is today. Still one of the best gaming channels on the tube.
Wow, this brings back memories! When I was younger I had the reduced cost Panasonic model. I remember playing Gex and NFS the most. Can't believe I just now found your channel, while watching videos of old computers I had when I was younger. Great Video, Love the channel.
You can tell that when LGR started his channel after a mix of The Gaming Historian and a little bit of AVGN (but without the "A" I guess) and I like that, however, the modern LGR is still better 😂👌🏻
Holy cow. I've been watching lgr for 2 years at most. I just watch this today and It's amazing to see how much he's changed and evolved. I think Clints a pretty good success story. Would be interesting to see him write a book or something about his growth as he created and improved his channel doing what he enjoys.
I read the article of the 3DO and I saw a fact that some people didn't know: There are companies that have the hardware license but never actually sold the 3DO console, including Samsung, Toshiba, and AT&T.
There was also an ISA-based 3DO Blaster add-in card for PCs which would allow your PC to play 3DO games. You should try to get your hands on one of those!
There are definitely some gems on the 3DO. If you haven't played it before, gather some friends, daisy-chain some controllers, drink some beers and play Zhadnost: The People's Party. I remember having a blast with that party game when I was a kid. The Soviet-themed commercials between segments are awesome! And if you like camp, you will also have a blast with the 3DO. Sometimes just laughing with friends at some of the crap that also was on the system was more fun than playing a good game together, and since you can burn all those old, crap games, why not?!
I stumbled on your channel from Reddit. And have watched over 5 hours of content in the last 10 hours. Thank you. So much nostalgia. And then this. I remember playing FIFA on the 3do which I still have. Oh man. The memories
I just got my 3DO a while back for $60 from L And J Vintage Video Games and Toy at Frank and Sons in City of Industry, CA. Got some decent games for it too. I love the thing!!!
Your old videos hold up man. I kinda like the laid-back, relaxed style of them. RUclips culture has morphed over the years into a very high-energy presentation platform. These are chill, maaaaaaaan.
I love the 3DO so much, I have two. One NA model and one JP Model, just because one game isn't compatible with the US one! One interesting thing, the best version of Out of this world, Road Rash and Need for speed were released on thw 3DO. I own every versions of theses games, even the late aniversary HD edition of Another World(Out of this world) and they are not better(beside higher resolution). The latter HD version of Out of this world is even missing sound effects!! Sound is better on the 3DO than the Playstation.
Domspun Yeah, something that a lot of people don't think about is the fact that games that were originally released for the 3DO that got ported to the PS1 run and look better on the 3DO. A good example is Shockwave. The PS1 release doesn't even have a blue sky in the first level, just a black background without even any stars. Road Rash on the 3DO has a better draw distance then the PS1 release, and Gex looks better on the 3DO. I personally think that the PS1 is a better console overall, but again, PS1 ports of 3DO games tend to be inferior to the 3DO originals. And as far as memory management goes, you don't need the disc mentioned in this video-the 3DO will tell you when the memory is full when you try to save one too many games. Then it will let you manage the memory.
+David Halligan Yep. Better graphics, and color. And I love the PS1, and PS2. But the 3DO is in a class by itself with some great titles. And managing game save memory is no issue at all for me.
At age 21, I was one of the idiots that saved and shelled out the $599 (and that was a sale price) for a new FZ-1. It WAS better than anything out there when it was brand new, but it wasn't THAT much better. I enjoyed Total Eclipse...and any sci-fi fan that doesn't love Star Control II: The UrQuan Masters is not a sci-fi fan. Super Street Fighter II was an unresponsive joke. Samurai Showdown was actually a decent port. The Horde was memorable, but ultimately stupid. Wing Commander III was amazing, but the 2nd disc was screwed up so I didn't get to finish it. Overall, a good system, but wasn't worth the price. I ended up selling it and all the games to a friend two years later for $150.
I own all 3 models of the 3DO. I have enjoyed the 3DO for over 20 years. Some of my favorites. Super Wing Commander WCIII GEX Shockwave Series Starblade Road Rash The Need For Speed
I didn't care about the 3DO in the past, because it was considered a bad console and associate with full motion video interactive games which I don't like. But after seen some good presentations, it raised my interest. There were a lot of hidden gems. Also, games I know on PC, but with improved CD audio music. I have never seen such improved Another World port at the time. Wow, it almost looks and sounds like the HD remake on Steam. The music in Doom is the best imho, although the game was terribly slow. Bad luck because they were gonna make a good version, but the development went into hell for two years, so they scrapped and did a fast port (yes it's the software rendered from PC running on the petty 12.5Mhz ARM). Need for Speed was great. Hidden gems that I didn't knew like Killing Time (that atmosphere/music, also nonlinear and huge map like a Castlevania, realtime videos of ghosts and more. Although too slow), Slayer (D&D 3d dungeon crawler I am gonna just start playing) and more. But they suffer from something. The videos I have seen on youtube are smooth. But on real machine it's much slower, almost unplayable. It's a pitty. I tried, the 3do emulators. Yes,. the CPU is the culprit. While ARM was a quite good CPU, 12.5Mhz weren't enough. Just overclock on emulator at 20 or 25 and things start to get much smoother. If they could have added a 25mhz ARM, costs allowed or something, things would be different. All those hidden gem look great on youtube probably because they overclock the emul, but on real machine they are so slow they get unplayable. It's a pitty because I like there was some life in the machine, it wasn't just the FMV interactive crap people think it is. The machine had a 3d GPU similar to Saturn and maybe better (quad rasterizer, now with alpha blending and gouruad shading which I think the Saturn was missing) but it needed a better CPU to calculate 3d transformations and what polygons to send and all that. Also, the Doom port on Saturn suffered from the same, hasted port of software renderer from PC, but of course because of higher speed CPU it was not as slow. Only on PS1 they really utilized the hardware to make a great version. Anyway, good review. At least, I still enjoy a great version of Super Street Fighter 2 (dat music, SF classic but remastered!) and explore the few 2d or 3d games that can still be playable.
Got to wonder if the ARM CPU is really the culprit you say. I assume the custom floating point unit would be heavily involved in the calculation of the 3D geometry. The ARM 60 had no native floating point nor even a divide instruction, the '386 that were common at the time neither has floating point. The memory bus was the same speed as the processor so there shouldn't be a need for a cache, the video memory is separate VRAM so that won't steal cycles from the processor. A 12.5 Mhz ARM 60 should be around 10 MIP performance, close to the new 486DX that gave 11 MIPs at 33 MHZ and probably cost more than the 3DO. Don't suppose emulators allow speeding up the floating point but leaving the ARM at 12.5 Mhz? That would prove if the ARM was the bottleneck. The 3DO was a very important for ARM, it was the first consumer product that didn't come from ARM's founders Acorn and Apple computers. I had Acorn's Achimedes computer at the time and was hoping lots of games would get an ARM port and make their way to the Archimedes by way of the 3DO. Star Fighter started as an Archimedes game then got ported to the 3DO.
Wow!! I should start a channel where I review old LGR episodes!! Lol I didn't realize you have been doing this that long. Way to go! I love the ending of this too! I got my 3DO out of a Mad Dog II Arcade cabinet that was falling apart. I got the gun for it to along with the harness.
One reason the boxes for almost all cd's in the early 90's were oversized - the retailers felt it would deter theft. Much harder to stuff one of these massive boxes in your coat pocket.
I think Nintendo copied the shape for the N64.3DO did everything wrong. They should have made the system and lower the price. They could have competed with Neo Geo for less money and swept the house. It's crap and as a collector, I won't miss a damn thing.
Oh man, I remember seeing 3DO displaying Fifa in a store window downtown Toronto. $750.00 later, I brought it home that day. I actually really liked it until the bitter quick end. Thank you for the video. Can't stop watching your stuff.
The Doom port story is well documented online, out was more about not having enough time to optimize. I think this machine was decently powerful, I mean, it got The Need for Speed. And Gex. That was a cool game.
fuck yeah, sweet boards of canada! love the old school mini dv look. Always perplexed me why you use color bars after the title.....an artistic/aesthetic choice yes, but normally color bars go at the beginning of picture. Love your reviews dude!
IMHO I don't care what anybody says about the 3d0 cause I think that it's an underrated console just like the sega cd game gear gamecube psp etc. Heck I bought one back in 2013 and the games I got with it was amazing and being able to put your headphones into the controller to hear the game is pure genius lol
I used to drive down to a best buy store which was about 25 miles from here, skipping over 2 other best buy stores, just to stand around and play their Panasonic 3D0 system. I would stand there for hours playing it. The sales ppl would come up to me every 20 mins and I would just play it off like I am thinking of buying it and kept playing it. Back in 1994 that was pretty cool to play, and I am not sure if there were demo discs for 3Do but that best buy put actual games into it for demo, and they swapped them out every week or so. In 1994, this had very good gfx
Love my 3DO Luciennes Quest is quite fun Wolfenstein plays way better than doom Captain quazar is a Fun exclusive to consoles There is a lot of poo but there are good games too
Video Necro here on a 6 year old post... But your review brought back great memories... I bought my 3DO for full price back in the day.. The best games had to be Shockwave and Crash and Burn. Shockwave had GREAT video for its day and really created an excellent story (you can pull up youtube videos of gameplay). Crash and Burn was a very fun combination of racing and combat with guns and missiles on your car that I loved (I would drive the course backwards to catch people and kill all my opponents). Of the games you listed the Samurai Showdown was an excellent port. But as you said there were some horrific games as well "Microcasm"? and the "Demolition Man" come to mind as absolute turds.
I got my 3do complete back in '98 for $45. The model that is shown here in the video. (The cool-looking one) Came complete with controller, and all the hookups I needed. I use the RCA jacks to hook to my flat screen TV. I think it is a great console, just had too much competition. I have a handful of games for it. And looking to get more, as there are some great titles for it.
There was a MPEG -VideoCD- module and an external memory module available in Japan. Great review. Love my 3DO. My wife likes the look of it too, so it sits in the living room on the shelf. FZ-1. I have a light gun for mine, which is nice, but of course won't work on the LCD TV. It's one of my favorite systems with some great games. But no way I would have paid anywhere near what they were asking when it was released. ;-)
It's not that bad. completely watchable definately not bad where anything about it is irritating.. The unique content on this channel makes it irrelevant. I was born in 85 so alot of the stuff on here I saw and used growing up.
Andy T. Hey, I'm not complaining. I had just watched one of his newest videos before that and it was quite a difference that's all. I didn't really own any of this stuff when I was young. I just like to see all this old and sometimes obscure and weird tech.
Star Control 2 for the 3DO is one of the best games I've played. I know they have it for the PC as well, and it's good, but the voice acting, cinematic's, and music they added in the 3DO version made it worth the money. I bought my 3DO for $400 back in the day. The music in Road Rash is great, listen to the band Paw and Hammerbox in it, that's some underrated music right there. I thought Gex was way more entertaining than Crash Bandicoot. Great review like usual LGR.
I remember watching a gut shell out about $740 for one of these at Babbage's. I remember thinking I'd go ahead and get a few more miles out of my SNES. Glad I did.
Old LGR is VHS quality. It's perfect.
human eye cant see mroe than vhs quality
that's what I was thinking 😄
Yeah
VHS is healthier. If you're picking out less detail, you've got less eye strain... lofi, my lads
yours Truly ya but crts can strain eyes pretty bad. VHS on like a 480p tv I guess could work
"The 3DO is what it is, so take it or leave it" -- and suddenly the name of his channel makes way more sense.
Ha! Yep.
Even his early videos aren't exactly "lazy", as there's a fair amount of various footage, decent coverage of the various elements of each game etc. but his later videos are anything but lazy, which is why I always found the channel name amusing. He's also one of the very few RUclipsrs who seems level-headed and objective without an over-reliance on some over-the-top or fake "personality" to gain views.
@@yellowblanka6058 He sounds like a professional voiceover person. Ive watched some channels where the person just has an ordinary voice and it's quite hard to pay attention and stay interested in what they're saying. :(
@@yellowblanka6058 Thank you for the compliments -- albeit 3 years later
@@LGR Thank you for putting so much work into your content, it shows. Oh, and Doom Eternal is !@#!# awesome (though it is kicking my ass more than 2016 did on "Ultra Violence", but I'm loving every moment of it)
Have to say, the 3DO had two great things lacking on pretty much every other consoles in history: an S-video port and a headphone jack on the controller. That was just brilliant.
Why not just buy a Xbox 360 then????
The original snes also supports s-video. So does the neo-geo, ps1 and saturn.
@SPeacockYeah, S-Video seemed to be an NTSC thing
Same with YPbPr, apparently, with the PAL GameCube and Xbox having all their high-resolution options disabled. Ironically then, the PS2 ended up with the most progressive-scan games in PAL regions.
The 3DO port of Doom is an interesting tale - a single programmer had something like 10 weeks to do the entire thing, all while the CEO was making wild promises.
The fact they pulled it off at all is amazing. I mean, it ended up being a terribly buggy mess, but I'll give them credit for it even reaching the marketplace.
it's a very intriguing tale: ruclips.net/video/rBbIil2HPSU/видео.html
Is this not the tale of every programmer and every CEO that ever lived?
@@drygnfyreYeah because The 3DO wasn’t powerful For doom so to compensate the screen size could be changed
I remember when I was a kid my neighbor worked for 3DO and was developing Gex. She had me over to play a beta version on her developer 3DO system and gauge my feedback.
My Dad rented one of these from Video Signals and we never returned it. That place ended up going out of business so we returned it on their final day open. The guy just looked at my Dad with the most blank stare and we walked out
why return it? you couldve had a classic gaming console forever.
@@youtuberobbedmeofmyname His father was a kind man, a wise man indeed, no steal, only return on the final day. (Translation: The dude probably never got around to returning it so on the final day, he probably didn't want to feel bad for stealing a console.)
Your dad was a scumbag. Probly why they folded.
you said you never returned it and then you said yo returned it, so which is it? do you even understand how english or logic works?
@@DickRileyTheConquistador Oh yes, I'm sure many kids missed out on renting a 3DO because of it.
If it weren't for the 3DO, then Naughty Dog would have never made Way of the Warrior and got in touch with Sony and Universal. They wouldn't have gone on to make Crash Bandicoot, which means they wouldn't have become a 2nd party developer for Sony and we wouldn't have gotten Jak & Daxter, Uncharted, or The Last of Us. So, thanks Trip Hawkins.
Thats true every company has to start somewhere
@@MrLordpistoia And then the PlayStation wouldn't been known for such classics.
Jake and daxter was great
@@PedroGomez-bd9ro I preferred Jak and Faxter.
Also, Need For Speed wouldn't exist
LGR, I don't know if you'll ever read this, but I'm so excited I gotta tell you! I got so lucky with my Panasonic 3DO FZ-1!
I was at a thrift store and it was sitting amongst a bunch of CD players without a controller (I'm pretty sure the Panasonic logo threw them off- they probably just thought it was a CD player!), and bought it for 8 dollars! I already had extra video cords at home, and the only thing I had to buy in order to complete the console was a controller, which I was able to snag off of Amazon for about 10 bucks. And the best part? There was a copy of VR Stalker already in the drive.
Long story short, I have a working 3DO and I'm playing VR Stalker on it, and all told I spent less than 20 bucks!
Lucky, I spent $120 on my FZ-10 X(
I got mine for 3 bucks cuz the dude thought it was a VCR lol
Sounds like me and PS1s, find them for like $5 at thrift stores next to the waffle makers, lol!
I remember looking at the 3DO back around 1994 or 95 with a friend when we were at a used game store. They were selling it for I recall $399 for the system used. He played some Mortal Kombat clone on it and while it looked good, it didn't look near $400 good.
I do own one now, but that's primarily because I found it for a little over $10 at my local thrift store. And I do have some pretty good games for it, like Quarantine, Samurai Shodown, Wing Commander 3 and more I got on the cheap.
After 20 years it still holds up. The FZ-1 is certainly good quality console-wise.
Adjusted for inflation, the 3DO cost almost $1,200 in 2015 dollars. The Xbone is cheap in comparison.
That's cool, dude.
Damn what thrift store did you find a 3D0 at?
The only games I've ever found at thrift stores are PS2 sports games.
Oh My God I never realised there was a headphone jack on the pad until this video and I have owned mine for 6 months! lol
Hehe, yes indeed! Unless you somehow have one of the later, cheaper variants that removed it :)
Lazy Game Reviews Have you tried Plumbers Don't Wear Ties?
Plumbers Don't Wear Ties is obviously the best game on the system. No, the best game period.
Snow Job
+Jeiku Furame it's still one of earths greatest mysteries that the wonderful masterpiece has not been remastered for next gen consoles yet.
pierce washington Work on it.
Who drew your avatar?
Kane Smith I did. Why?
LGR's positive and cheery vibe in his videos are always a treat.
It's crazy to think that I have Trip Hawkins as a professor lol He still regrets leaving EA for 3DO. smh
805kill3R Wait, what? Trip Hawkins is a professor now?
that's pretty cool -- what and where does he teach?
Apparently it's a new thing. But being a Professor is pretty awesome, especially if he likes doing research.
I think that I read once that he was irked to no end that Nintendo and Sega were taking a cut of his profits and was also irked when PC completely replacing consoles wasn't working out. That's why he he pushed the 3DO lol.
As he should be. EA is incredibly successful while the 3do company is, well defunct and bankrupt.
I'm still here cause I'm getting my first 3DO! Think I've waited long enough
Brings back the memories. I was on the Origin test team back in 93 and got to do a little testing on the 3do version of Wing Commander.
i miss the old intro
same
This one had me expecting an 8-bit Rickroll...
I miss it too
It's Electric you're not funny
It always made me want a coke
As a freshman in college in 1994 I spent half my first semester spending money buying a 3DO console. My parents were not happy and I was broke most of that first year living off ramen noodles but I was also the coolest dude in my dorm because of the 3DO and the endless hours of entertainment were worth every penny.
And then the PlayStation came out the next year...
@@iSk00L And then the same blockbuster games on 3DO came out as really bad ports onto Playstation.
@@georgebalzer8219the Saturn ones are fine
"The Need For Speed" Looks like a fun game. It's ashame that the 3DO never made it because that console looks pretty badass
Released 9 years ago, shows up in my feed today.
Because you watch lgr videos that's why it's recommended 🙄
Discovered LGR from this video 5 years ago.. The video is obviously not quite there yet but the voice over / content is as great as it is today. Still one of the best gaming channels on the tube.
3:33 Twelve years later, they are around twice that price.
5:30 Blew by Nirvana
Jacek K I just commented this!!! Lol
very 1992
If you wouldn’t mind, I would like it blew.
Boards of Canada in the background
Wow, this brings back memories! When I was younger I had the reduced cost Panasonic model. I remember playing Gex and NFS the most. Can't believe I just now found your channel, while watching videos of old computers I had when I was younger. Great Video, Love the channel.
You can tell that when LGR started his channel after a mix of The Gaming Historian and a little bit of AVGN (but without the "A" I guess) and I like that, however, the modern LGR is still better 😂👌🏻
Holy cow. I've been watching lgr for 2 years at most. I just watch this today and It's amazing to see how much he's changed and evolved. I think Clints a pretty good success story. Would be interesting to see him write a book or something about his growth as he created and improved his channel doing what he enjoys.
Yeah this video shows you why he succeeded really. It’s great! I wonder if he could another SVHS video too! That was be awesome.
Going on a LGR binge since I just found it and did not expect BoC. LGR excellent taste in music.
Oh hey old me! Agreed that Clint does have excellent taste in music. Well, I'm off on another LGR binge. Later hater!
I read the article of the 3DO and I saw a fact that some people didn't know: There are companies that have the hardware license but never actually sold the 3DO console, including Samsung, Toshiba, and AT&T.
Tanzim K Rolf!
I had a 3DO as a child, I loved it so much. A lot of fond memories, glad to know someone else knows about it.
Subscribed!
I'm still waiting for that M2 upgrade for the expansion slot they promised.
Need for speed on the 3DO was more a driving simulator then a racing game.
Keeping within the speed limit actually kept cops from pulling you over.
If you drive into the cop cars they do nothing to you
2023 checking in ... Clint my guy, you were WAY ahead of your time bravo
This just popped up in my suggestions after being a Sub for years
Haha, same here!
LS2 Chevy Astro same
There was also an ISA-based 3DO Blaster add-in card for PCs which would allow your PC to play 3DO games. You should try to get your hands on one of those!
I can't believe you didn't Mention Star Control 2 - that was one of the best games on 3DO for me!
This.
It was the best version of Star Control 2 ever officially made what with the music and voice acting
There are definitely some gems on the 3DO. If you haven't played it before, gather some friends, daisy-chain some controllers, drink some beers and play Zhadnost: The People's Party. I remember having a blast with that party game when I was a kid. The Soviet-themed commercials between segments are awesome! And if you like camp, you will also have a blast with the 3DO. Sometimes just laughing with friends at some of the crap that also was on the system was more fun than playing a good game together, and since you can burn all those old, crap games, why not?!
Good lord, man. Did you record this on a tape camcorder from the mid 90s?
Yep!
Seeing his passion for retro hardware and amount of it lying around - he might have.
No, a cheap camcorder from the late 00s.
Riffelj
"- said the ass."
This came out in 2010.
I stumbled on your channel from Reddit. And have watched over 5 hours of content in the last 10 hours. Thank you. So much nostalgia. And then this. I remember playing FIFA on the 3do which I still have. Oh man. The memories
LGR: this old intro is really nice, please revive it.
I just got my 3DO a while back for $60 from L And J Vintage Video Games and Toy at Frank and Sons in City of Industry, CA. Got some decent games for it too. I love the thing!!!
Your Geeky Tipster
The original 3DO controller looks like a slightly modified version of the original Genesis controller (which had 3 buttons)
10y ago and you didnt changed in a bad way. This is rare on YT. Respect! :D
I remember really wanting one back in the mid 90s
It looks like a home cannon printer
Return Fire is the shit!! I still play it today. I rule at the Incredible Machine.
Your old videos hold up man. I kinda like the laid-back, relaxed style of them. RUclips culture has morphed over the years into a very high-energy presentation platform. These are chill, maaaaaaaan.
I love the 3DO so much, I have two. One NA model and one JP Model, just because one game isn't compatible with the US one! One interesting thing, the best version of Out of this world, Road Rash and Need for speed were released on thw 3DO. I own every versions of theses games, even the late aniversary HD edition of Another World(Out of this world) and they are not better(beside higher resolution). The latter HD version of Out of this world is even missing sound effects!! Sound is better on the 3DO than the Playstation.
Domspun Yeah, something that a lot of people don't think about is the fact that games that were originally released for the 3DO that got ported to the PS1 run and look better on the 3DO. A good example is Shockwave. The PS1 release doesn't even have a blue sky in the first level, just a black background without even any stars. Road Rash on the 3DO has a better draw distance then the PS1 release, and Gex looks better on the 3DO. I personally think that the PS1 is a better console overall, but again, PS1 ports of 3DO games tend to be inferior to the 3DO originals. And as far as memory management goes, you don't need the disc mentioned in this video-the 3DO will tell you when the memory is full when you try to save one too many games. Then it will let you manage the memory.
+David Halligan Yep. Better graphics, and color. And I love the PS1, and PS2. But the 3DO is in a class by itself with some great titles. And managing game save memory is no issue at all for me.
Guess every trash mus still have fans
Wow I didn't know you've been around this long. Glad I can watch all of these old videos.
the 3do version of wolfenstein 3d is amazing! and the port of doom isn't that bad either ':)
I like that short Krüder & Dorfmeister audio clip at the end!
the "two Clints" editing reminds me of Natalie Tran - but she never stopped doing it.
I think 3DO and Sega CD are both underrated in certain ways!
Yes your right both are underrated both systems should be more appreciated for how shitty there really were
Got mine for $100 Canadian and was and still am super happy with it. Mr X only makes an appearance in the 3D0 version of NFS for some reason too...
3do was so ahead of its time and it ruled all other systems of the time. i still have mine by goldstar
Uh....
I loved my 3DO! I barely remembered having it until I watched this. Brought back a LOT of good memories.
I like how he played Blew by Nirvana XD
Bleach is an awesome record !
Jerry Mondragon My ears perked up the moment I heard the initial riff. Great song.
12 years later, still a good video.
Holy shit this is totally Boards of Canada's Noglax playing in the background!
Watching in 2021
Still quality content
At age 21, I was one of the idiots that saved and shelled out the $599 (and that was a sale price) for a new FZ-1. It WAS better than anything out there when it was brand new, but it wasn't THAT much better. I enjoyed Total Eclipse...and any sci-fi fan that doesn't love Star Control II: The UrQuan Masters is not a sci-fi fan. Super Street Fighter II was an unresponsive joke. Samurai Showdown was actually a decent port. The Horde was memorable, but ultimately stupid. Wing Commander III was amazing, but the 2nd disc was screwed up so I didn't get to finish it. Overall, a good system, but wasn't worth the price. I ended up selling it and all the games to a friend two years later for $150.
I think it is awesome you have been uploading and active for as long as you have been :)
I own all 3 models of the 3DO. I have enjoyed the 3DO for over 20 years.
Some of my favorites.
Super Wing Commander
WCIII
GEX
Shockwave Series
Starblade
Road Rash
The Need For Speed
I got one after the first price reduction and Road Rash, Need for Speed, Star Control II, CPU Bach were my favs
Jeff Cossey isn't there 4 models of 3do?
I miss your lo-fi old school looking intros. To be honest they have a charm and timelessness about them. You should bring them back,
1:41 "that is so lame, but it is so RAD"
Ah TIM, brings back memories. When I was a kid one of my schools used to have it on the computer and we used to play it as part of the class.
The 3do and the Atari jaguar are like cousins
they both started in 1993 and ended in 1995
Because of Sony's PlayStation
Thank god cause those system were shit compare to PlayStation
Oh man I love when I stumble upon one of your old videos
I didn't care about the 3DO in the past, because it was considered a bad console and associate with full motion video interactive games which I don't like. But after seen some good presentations, it raised my interest. There were a lot of hidden gems. Also, games I know on PC, but with improved CD audio music. I have never seen such improved Another World port at the time. Wow, it almost looks and sounds like the HD remake on Steam. The music in Doom is the best imho, although the game was terribly slow. Bad luck because they were gonna make a good version, but the development went into hell for two years, so they scrapped and did a fast port (yes it's the software rendered from PC running on the petty 12.5Mhz ARM). Need for Speed was great. Hidden gems that I didn't knew like Killing Time (that atmosphere/music, also nonlinear and huge map like a Castlevania, realtime videos of ghosts and more. Although too slow), Slayer (D&D 3d dungeon crawler I am gonna just start playing) and more. But they suffer from something. The videos I have seen on youtube are smooth. But on real machine it's much slower, almost unplayable.
It's a pitty. I tried, the 3do emulators. Yes,. the CPU is the culprit. While ARM was a quite good CPU, 12.5Mhz weren't enough. Just overclock on emulator at 20 or 25 and things start to get much smoother. If they could have added a 25mhz ARM, costs allowed or something, things would be different. All those hidden gem look great on youtube probably because they overclock the emul, but on real machine they are so slow they get unplayable. It's a pitty because I like there was some life in the machine, it wasn't just the FMV interactive crap people think it is. The machine had a 3d GPU similar to Saturn and maybe better (quad rasterizer, now with alpha blending and gouruad shading which I think the Saturn was missing) but it needed a better CPU to calculate 3d transformations and what polygons to send and all that. Also, the Doom port on Saturn suffered from the same, hasted port of software renderer from PC, but of course because of higher speed CPU it was not as slow. Only on PS1 they really utilized the hardware to make a great version.
Anyway, good review. At least, I still enjoy a great version of Super Street Fighter 2 (dat music, SF classic but remastered!) and explore the few 2d or 3d games that can still be playable.
Got to wonder if the ARM CPU is really the culprit you say. I assume the custom floating point unit would be heavily involved in the calculation of the 3D geometry. The ARM 60 had no native floating point nor even a divide instruction, the '386 that were common at the time neither has floating point. The memory bus was the same speed as the processor so there shouldn't be a need for a cache, the video memory is separate VRAM so that won't steal cycles from the processor. A 12.5 Mhz ARM 60 should be around 10 MIP performance, close to the new 486DX that gave 11 MIPs at 33 MHZ and probably cost more than the 3DO. Don't suppose emulators allow speeding up the floating point but leaving the ARM at 12.5 Mhz? That would prove if the ARM was the bottleneck.
The 3DO was a very important for ARM, it was the first consumer product that didn't come from ARM's founders Acorn and Apple computers. I had Acorn's Achimedes computer at the time and was hoping lots of games would get an ARM port and make their way to the Archimedes by way of the 3DO. Star Fighter started as an Archimedes game then got ported to the 3DO.
Wow!! I should start a channel where I review old LGR episodes!! Lol I didn't realize you have been doing this that long. Way to go! I love the ending of this too! I got my 3DO out of a Mad Dog II Arcade cabinet that was falling apart. I got the gun for it to along with the harness.
Woah, your voice has changed a lot in 8 years!
Yea it's called puberty, bruh. Anyone who's ever seen the Brady Brunch reruns knows this.
It's amazing how much your production quality has increased since 2010.
*Coughs....Plumbers Don't Wear Ties....Coughs*
One reason the boxes for almost all cd's in the early 90's were oversized - the retailers felt it would deter theft. Much harder to stuff one of these massive boxes in your coat pocket.
I think Nintendo copied the shape for the N64.3DO did everything wrong. They should have made the system and lower the price. They could have competed with Neo Geo for less money and swept the house. It's crap and as a collector, I won't miss a damn thing.
I still have my 3DO from 1994. It still works and plays games flawlessly. Love it.
When you're feeling so nostalgic you watch retro RUclips videos about retro video game consoles.
"it's a R•E•A•L piece of shit" -AVGN
Rabid I love avgn but I love my 3do. it has some great games. I play the hell out of my 3do
Oh man, I remember seeing 3DO displaying Fifa in a store window downtown Toronto. $750.00 later, I brought it home that day. I actually really liked it until the bitter quick end. Thank you for the video. Can't stop watching your stuff.
TRIP HAWKINS?!?!😂😂😂 That is the MOST 90'S NAME EVER!!! 😂
Except he was born in the 1950s, but y'know :P
Man. This old intro nostalgia from watching you from 2010 :)
The Doom port story is well documented online, out was more about not having enough time to optimize. I think this machine was decently powerful, I mean, it got The Need for Speed. And Gex. That was a cool game.
Its a solid system. I sold mine a while back but I did like it - seemed ahead of its time in some aspects. 'The incredible machine' is awesome!
I like the boards of canada in the background..
Nlogax
Love these oldskool LGR vids, though the do make me feel old.
Best review ending comment.
I am surprised I missed this years ago. I have been watching your channel along time. I had different names over the years, but I always come here.
Boards of Canada background music!?
fuck yeah, sweet boards of canada! love the old school mini dv look. Always perplexed me why you use color bars after the title.....an artistic/aesthetic choice yes, but normally color bars go at the beginning of picture.
Love your reviews dude!
IMHO I don't care what anybody says about the 3d0 cause I think that it's an underrated console just like the sega cd game gear gamecube psp etc. Heck I bought one back in 2013 and the games I got with it was amazing and being able to put your headphones into the controller to hear the game is pure genius lol
Try playing "Plumbers Don't wear ties"
AirCooledMan2006 you make some good points that would be amazing
wow I never knew that
I used to drive down to a best buy store which was about 25 miles from here, skipping over 2 other best buy stores, just to stand around and play their Panasonic 3D0 system. I would stand there for hours playing it. The sales ppl would come up to me every 20 mins and I would just play it off like I am thinking of buying it and kept playing it. Back in 1994 that was pretty cool to play, and I am not sure if there were demo discs for 3Do but that best buy put actual games into it for demo, and they swapped them out every week or so. In 1994, this had very good gfx
Love my 3DO
Luciennes Quest is quite fun
Wolfenstein plays way better than doom
Captain quazar is a Fun exclusive to consoles
There is a lot of poo but there are good games too
Yeah a lot of poo but great games too!!!
Video Necro here on a 6 year old post... But your review brought back great memories... I bought my 3DO for full price back in the day.. The best games had to be Shockwave and Crash and Burn. Shockwave had GREAT video for its day and really created an excellent story (you can pull up youtube videos of gameplay). Crash and Burn was a very fun combination of racing and combat with guns and missiles on your car that I loved (I would drive the course backwards to catch people and kill all my opponents). Of the games you listed the Samurai Showdown was an excellent port. But as you said there were some horrific games as well "Microcasm"? and the "Demolition Man" come to mind as absolute turds.
boards of canada
The track is Nlogax for those unfamiliar
Which part of the video?
@@Gekneveld the beginning til 3:28.
I got my 3do complete back in '98 for $45. The model that is shown here in the video. (The cool-looking one) Came complete with controller, and all the hookups I needed. I use the RCA jacks to hook to my flat screen TV. I think it is a great console, just had too much competition. I have a handful of games for it. And looking to get more, as there are some great titles for it.
5:31 Nirvana - Blew. Nice LOL.
my same thoughts
There was a MPEG -VideoCD- module and an external memory module available in Japan.
Great review. Love my 3DO. My wife likes the look of it too, so it sits in the living room on the shelf. FZ-1. I have a light gun for mine, which is nice, but of course won't work on the LCD TV. It's one of my favorite systems with some great games. But no way I would have paid anywhere near what they were asking when it was released. ;-)
Wow! You've come a long way since video. Even for 2010 quality is pretty bad. Just saying. I like your channel overall.
That's what happens when it's a hobby with literally zero budget :)
And thanks, I've tried my best to make it look more respectable!
I can't believe you actually answered! :D Keep up the good work!
Very cool channel!
It's not that bad. completely watchable definately not bad where anything about it is irritating.. The unique content on this channel makes it irrelevant. I was born in 85 so alot of the stuff on here I saw and used growing up.
Andy T. Hey, I'm not complaining. I had just watched one of his newest videos before that and it was quite a difference that's all. I didn't really own any of this stuff when I was young. I just like to see all this old and sometimes obscure and weird tech.
Still one of the BEST LGR videos ever.
I guess they skipped the letters L M N O P Q And R and another company went with S 😉
+Jeffrey LaButte I don't get it.
+andrewbelmont665 Nintendo 3DS
Star Control 2 for the 3DO is one of the best games I've played. I know they have it for the PC as well, and it's good, but the voice acting, cinematic's, and music they added in the 3DO version made it worth the money. I bought my 3DO for $400 back in the day. The music in Road Rash is great, listen to the band Paw and Hammerbox in it, that's some underrated music right there. I thought Gex was way more entertaining than Crash Bandicoot. Great review like usual LGR.
I remember watching a gut shell out about $740 for one of these at Babbage's. I remember thinking I'd go ahead and get a few more miles out of my SNES. Glad I did.
lol... compares SNES with 3DO. how was life growing up in an 8 bit world?
You and all the other Nintendo sheep. You were playing Donkey Kong while we had the amazing 3do. Must have sucked to be you.