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The Saturn started off... well, oddly. A lot of people resented their sneaky reenactment of Pearl Harbor by shipping it unannounced to only a handful of retailers like Wal-Mart, and by the time the confusion was over the Playstation had clearly become the console to watch. Still, some of the early g...

PSX and N64 would be biohazardous to post for download, seeing as they are still intact companies that never released their systems into the public domain for development. As far as the 3DO, I'll need to see some documentation about that Microsoft thing, please. Last I had heard... which was at the ...

Ahh, 3DO boxes. The two-box system does now seem a little extravagant doesn't it? I think the 3DO had a pretty diverse collection of packing. You know, from the perspective of a game store owner, I wish we had stuck with PS1 packaging. That stuff was easy to gut, easy to display, and wonderful to s...

Nobody assumed the studio's title in any way, to my knowledge. The intellectual properties were picked up by various studios at auction... mostly Ubisoft, if I remember, but it's been awhile, and many IPs fell dead from lack of interest. 3DO was not a well-respected company at the time of its demise...

As in a download of the... I have no idea what you're asking, really. Documentation is legal as the only people bound by NDAs would be developers. If you're talking about the software, I have no idea if that's technically legal or what. I would guess no, but I would also guess that Trip Hawkins isn'...

So I've been open about three weeks now. It's scary and exciting. I know I'm going to be in the red for a long time, but it's hard to call yourself anything but a failure when you're making less than minimum wage. My girlfriend tells me I'm way too hard on myself, but then again she's also angry at ...

Shockwave was good, but a bit simplified for the sake of being simplified. And yes, the FMV was what it should have been. Didn't take itself too seriously and was spare enough to not keep us from the action. I just wish I felt like I had more actual control over the fighter. I actually liked Shockwa...

Had a similar one in my store, but this is definitely a different model. Controllers like that were made as a response to the initial pad's horrible handling on corners, specifically with Street Fighter in mind. The shoulder buttons were a bit awkward to use attacks with, so they were arranged in a ...

Played Twisted? Liked it? Get Zhadnost. It's largely the same game, except with a few innovations like simultaneous competition on the minigames, and a between-round cash grab minigame. The FMV segments are bigger and less grainy as well. Twisted is still a sentimental favorite, but I almost cried w...

It's funny how polarizing this game is on people. I don't think I have ever come across another game with so many on either side of the fence and no one actually ON the fence. This would be the first time I've ever heard anybody say a damn thing nice about the game, actually. What fence are we talk...

Welcome to the boards, those are some really good pictures of the hardware you have there! As far as the old 3DO rating system... those might be online somewhere. Maybe in the wayback machine snapshot of 3DO's site? Well, some people here DO have rather comprehensive collections, so maybe we can hel...

I was more referring to the fact that 3DO games were probably not ever tested on a thirty-two foot television. But my sense of humor is horrible. Anyway, I played a few 3DO games on a 47" projection a few years back over S-Video. Looks as good as 3DO will ever get, which isn't saying a whole hell of...

I may qualify for price protection, which is usually reserved for places that can order millions of games a month and deal directly with Sony et al. What happens is that I have five copies of Halo 3 which suddenly devalue from $60 to $30, so I've lost $150, right? Well, the price drop difference get...

"PS3 seems like an abysmal failure to me. So does XBOX 360 (I think Wii is undoubtedly winning)" Hardware sales between Wii and 360 are 3% apart. Roughly neck-and-neck. Software sales favor the 360. In the top five, the top THREE are all 360 titles (this discounts the pack-ins like Wii Sports and Fo...

NeilK wrote:I'm soon going to purchase a 32` Sony 32D3000 HD ready LCD TV.

I think you might experience some pixellation.

Depends how you mean. Imports from Japan, I would love to do, but I do not have the contacts yet. I JUST missed the Japan Expo, which I'm smacking my own forehead for, but I'm also friends with a guy who runs an anime store. An import anime store. He might have some leads for me. If you're asking if...

Here is the front of the store before it was repainted. http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p187/ReflexGamer/Picture005.jpg If you can't tell what it used to be, you might want to remember if you were kicked in the head recently. What those strips of paper were doing up, I will never know. It's obvio...

Thanks guys. I can use all the luck I can get, after all.

Gamestop is big and bad and you can find most of what's currently in print, so they're hard to compete with.

Bitrate, sounds cool! Small world, eh?

I have the pre-opening jitters. Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Vance, and I own my own videogame store. It's about to reopen in the Little Tokyo neighbhorhood of Los Angeles, in a rather slow-paced shopping mall. I am optimistic, but life doesn't really decide how to happen based on your m...

I cannot figure the point of extending this metaphor. Then again, people who repeat that "Why do we park on driveways and drive on parkways" crap make me cringe. Sony is in its junior year outing and making the mistake of hubris that's plagued most console companies when they've had a run of success...

I agree with you on the previous generation of consoles. I think it represents an era where graphics carried the interest. 3D in particular, even though it looked like a forest of warped, wobbly, dirty ham slices with fingerpaint all over them in the PSX days. I'm somewhat ashamed of the shallow in...

Tragically I watch more British television than American. Hell, I watch more Canadian programming than I do US stuff. Everybody Loves Raymond... Brooklyn accent, maybe? I'd have to look up some clips to be sure. "Normal" for American accents would be the Midwest diction, usually what you hear newsca...

Seriously, I loved Snatcher on my Sega CD. I even made Neo Kobe Pizza (surprisingly delicious), and nobody translated this little surefire 3DO seller. Cripes, we would have eaten a Konami release whole and asked for seconds. Imagine a Mystical Ninja (Goemon) game they could have made. I guess I'll j...

Funny, I've been banned from the New Otani Hotel (here in Los Angeles, right down the street from me.)

Also, what constitutes a very strong American accent? Hick? New Englander?

As far as commerical interests go, I don't think anybody has a problem with this. Toys for Bob donated what information they had to the Ur-Quan Masters project, I believe (which would be impossible under Activision, I had to run interview questions past somebody at Activision to be allowed to speak ...

I think the attempts at commercializing FreeDO were a natural step. If you look at the donations page, they've listed everything they've spent money on and what they've received (another good tool to let you know what you might be getting into here) and the result is a claimed -$3,107 balance. Reall...

bonefish wrote:I'm kinda thinking that companies have kind of given up on the 3do intellectual properties in some ways...

http://www.3do.com/

Whatever gave you that idea?

Japan is lots of fun. Especially watching the occasional bozo suffer extreme culture shock a few days in. People don't seem to get that it's an actual condition you can suffer. Let's see, prized memories in no particular order. *Accidentally wandering into a hostess bar and negotiating big cups of f...

Well I can't help in the slightest, but I thought I'd ask a couple of questions. Why not throw in with the FreeDO people? They haven't actually died, just bogged down to the point of near-total inactivity. The emulator is written in C++, in addition to C and Assembly, so it's kind of what you're tal...

Yeah, very likely. The first game's endings were based on weird criteria, looking at a couple of items if I remember. You can also save the lady cop instead of killing her, which is necessary for the better endings. SH2's endings were dictated by equally obscure, but extremely logical things. That w...