Old 3DO Receipts

[bitrate]

I was going through a lot of my long-box 3DO titles a while back and every once in a while a receipt would show up. I thought it was kind of interesting as it provided a sort of snapshot of time from when 3DO games were retailing on store shelves.

The receipts also help to establish a rough timeline for 3DO releases, which is something that is not well documented. Obviously, they don't dictate absolute release dates, but they do create a sort of upper limit to when the title was released since the game had to be available when the receipt was printed (excluding predorders).

If anyone else has receipts for 3DO hardware/software I encourage you to scan them and include them in this thread.

Here are the ones I found:



Pictured below is a Babbage's receipt for AD&D Slayer.
Dated: Sept. 7, 1994



Pictured below is an Electronics Boutique receipt for Mad Dog McCree.
Dated: Nov. 17, 1993



Pictured below is a FuncoLand receipt for Dragon's Lair.
Dated: Jan. 25, 1996



Pictured below is a Software, Etc. receipt for Star Wars Rebel Assault.
Dated: Dec. 3, 1994



Pictured below is a Best Buy receipt for Monster Manor.
Dated: Jan. 19, 1995



Pictured below is a Best Buy receipt for Wing Commander 3.
Dated: Sept. 22, 1995

[Lemmi]

nice to see ones older than my receipts, so none of them are yours then?

mine dont start untill march 1997, and i have every receipt from 1997 untill now saved

if i find them again i might scan a few
oh, oh, oh i have a receipt from 1982 or 83 for a magnavox odessey2 system i might have to scan because i know where that one is

[3DOKid]

That's ace

[Lemmi]

here are the first 3do items i bought, and as you know Funcoland never had new items for 3do to sell


these are the store bought games 1997, alot of my receipts are faded


Here is the new panasonic 3do fz10 system from media play 9-29-97 (the last 1 in the store, if they had more i was ready to buy them)


more games and the Starter Kit - and the start of the buy 2 get one free offers they had. heh and the start of me writing on receipts from fleamarkets


and here is the last new store bought 3do game i got, along with the fleamarket 3do finds


and here is the Maganavox Odyssey2 system receipt i got with a fleamarket find


and now the boxed Atari Jaguar Core System - 5-3-97


opps forgot the pics of all my receipts, alot of them are from Ebay in the form of Money Orders

[bitrate]

nice to see ones older than my receipts, so none of them are yours then?

No, unfortunately. While I managed to keep my original system and games complete and mint, I did not hold on to the receipts. I was a little too young at the time, so most of the games were birthday/Christmas gifts, where I didn't have access to the receipts anyway.


Lemmi - LOL at your collection of receipts.
Awesome additions to the thread.

If we can get enough of these it will make for an interesting timeline of 3DO sales. Unfortunately, I'm guessing there won't be many more entries.

[3DO Experience]

Wow that is great! I sadly only saved the receipts to my Nintendo purchases, and didn't detail many of the ones without the purchase item listed. If I find any for 3DO, mine or otherwise, I'll scan & post them.

[Trev]

Cool thread! I've nothing to contribute to it, sadly, however, I've enjoyed looking through it.

[Martin III]

Awesome idea. This makes me wish I'd been holding onto more of my Wii game receipts. That's something I'll have to do in the future.

Being a latter-day 3DO owner, obviously I have no receipts to show. For those who have 'em, thanks for sharing!

[ArfredHitchcacku]

All I can say, amazing. A piece of a culture and media market long dead. Ace indeed.