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3do by other companies

Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 10:10 am
by Bas
Panasonic wasn't the only manufacturer of 3do, right? I've never seen a picture of a 3do player other than Panasonic. You?

Re: 3do by other companies

Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 1:30 pm
by 3DOKid
Bas wrote:Panasonic wasn't the only manufacturer of 3do, right? I've never seen a picture of a 3do player other than Panasonic. You?
Yeah - Trip was planning on getting everyone making them - and he nearly did:

Panasonic, Sanyo, Samsung, Goldstar, Creative Labs,Toshiba reckoned they would make a Portable, AT&T, Scientific-Atlanta, Atari and Creative labs threatened to make arcade machines out of 3DO technology.

Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 3:43 pm
by BryWI
american laser games had a prototype arcade machine witha 3do in it.

http://www.arcadeflyers.com/?page=flyer&id=4409&image=2

Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 8:34 am
by Gir Draxa
Hmm..


Well, here's my webpage which reviews not only 2 Panasonic models, but the Robo, the TRY and the Goldstar version of the FZ-1.

3DO Collective

The AT&T one looked nice too (deep blue weirdness!), but I've only just seen the mockup one in NEXT GENERATION.

Drax

Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 2:43 am
by 3DOKid
That ROBO one looks the business. 4 Disc changer? Does it work? Do you have any other pictures of it? it looks like it was ripped from the wreckage of one the space ships in "Space 1999"... (If we all remember that TV show!)

Which controller did it have?

Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 1:42 am
by Trev
I remember seeing a full page preview of the ALG orb game in an issue of EGM. It would have been a difficult home port though, since the 3DO lacked any track ball controllers. ALG also had plans to stick Way of the Warrior (go figure :? ) in an arcade unit. Does anyone know if these were actually released in limited quanities or not?

Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 4:25 am
by zenkov
This is usual practice for that time. For example Saturn, was produced by Sega, Hitachi, JVC, Samsung and SunSeibu.

Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 3:34 pm
by BryWI
orbattak was likely a fully playable machine but it is unknown if it was released. there is a known image of this game floating about on the net that runs in freedo 1.7 iirc, but it cant be played because no controls are emulated. You can only watch the attract mode.

there is also a known image of an arcade version of maddog 2 from this same arcade machine setup that also runs in that version of freedo.

these games were recovered from someone who had won these machine/games from some contest iirc. So I cant say wether or not if these even had a limited release.

Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 7:01 am
by Gir Draxa
Trev wrote:I remember seeing a full page preview of the ALG orb game in an issue of EGM. It would have been a difficult home port though, since the 3DO lacked any track ball controllers. ALG also had plans to stick Way of the Warrior (go figure :? ) in an arcade unit. Does anyone know if these were actually released in limited quanities or not?
EGM did a small photo of the full arcade machine a looooong time ago. Not sure if they included a review or more info other than hating the sticks for it.

Here's the only listing I could find for it on the net:

Way of the Warrior Arcade

Drax