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Beschreibung:
This is a big collection of 3DO games (60 games).
The 3DO Interactive Multiplayer (often called simply 3DO) is a video game console originally produced by Panasonic in 1993. Further renditions of the hardware were released in 1994 by Sanyo and Goldstar. The consoles were manufactured according to specifications created by The 3DO Company, and were originally designed by Dave Needle and R. J. Mical of New Technology Group. The system was conceived by entrepreneur and Electronic Arts founder Trip Hawkins.
Despite a highly promoted launch (including being named Time magazine's "1994 Product of the Year") and a host of cutting-edge technologies, the 3DO's high price (US$599 at launch), limited third-party developer support, and an over-saturated console market prevented the system from achieving success comparable to competitors Sega and Nintendo. This console was released in North America on October 4, 1993, Japan on March 20, 2025 and in Europe in 1994.
Since its discontinuation, the 3DO has been frequently derided by video game historians, citing a lack of decent exclusives and an "astronomical asking price". The 3DO however has gained a cult following with fans of the system. In 2009 IGN chose the 3DO as its 22nd greatest video game console of all time, slightly higher than the Atari Jaguar but lower than its four other major competitors: the SNES (4th best), the Sega Mega Drive (5th), the Sony PlayStation (7th), and the Sega Saturn (18th).
History
The 3DO Interactive Multiplayer was originally conceived by The 3DO Company, founded in 1991 by Electronic Arts founder Trip Hawkins. The company's objective was to create a next-generation, CD-based video game/entertainment standard which would be manufactured by various partners and licensees; 3DO would collect a royalty on each console sold and on each game manufactured. To game publishers, the low $3 royalty rate per game was a better deal than the higher royalties paid to Nintendo and Sega when making games for their consoles. The licensing method accounts for why the 3DO was available from no less than four separate manufacturers.
However, this made the system extremely expensive. The manufacturers had to make a profit on the hardware itself, whereas most major game console manufacturers, such as Nintendo and Sony, sold their system almost as a freebie, in the hopes of making up for the loss with software sales. This caused the system to be quite unaffordable to the common consumer, one of the biggest factors in its downfall. Some sources claim that 3DO was priced at $699, far above competing game systems and aimed at high-end users and early adopters. Hawkins has argued that 3DO was launched at $599, and not "higher myths that are often reported." For a significant period of the product's life cycle, 3DO's official stance on pricing was that the 3DO was not a video game console, rather a high-end audio-visual system and was priced accordingly, so no price adjustment was needed. Despite this, the promised "early adopters" never showed up to purchase mass quantities of games.
The launch of the platform in October, 1993 was well-promoted, with a great deal of press attention in the mass media as part of the "multimedia wave" in the computer world at the time. Even so, the 3DO was awarded Worst Console Launch of 1993 by Electronic Gaming Monthly.
Price drops announced in February 1996 were perceived in the industry to be an effort to improve market penetration before the release of the promised successor of 3DO, the M2. Heavy promotional efforts on the YTV variety show It's Alive and a stream of hinted product expandability supported that idea; however, the M2 project was eventually scrapped altogether.
The 3DO system was eventually discontinued at the end of 1996 with a complete shutdown of all internal hardware development and divestment of the M2 technology. 3DO restructured themselves around this same time, repositioning their internal software development house as a multi-platform company supporting the Sony PlayStation, Sega Saturn, and computer platforms.
The higher quality of later CD-ROM based systems that emerged in the mid-90s, the limited library of titles, lack of third-party support, and the initial high price point are all considered to be among the many issues that led to the 3DO's demise.
List of Games:
1. Alone in the Dark
2. Alone in the Dark 2
3. Ballz - The Director's Cut
4. Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon S
5. Bust-A-Move
6. Cannon Fodder
7. Captain Quazar
8. Casper
9. Crash 'n Burn
10. Creature Shock
11. Crime Patrol
12. D
13. Defcon 5
14. Demolition Man
15. Doctor Hauzer
16. Doom
17. Doraemons - Yuujou Densetsu
18. Dragons Lair
19. Family Feud
20. FIFA International Soccer
21. Gex
22. Icebreaker
23. Incredible Machice
24. Jurassic Park Interactive
25. Killing Time
26. Lemmings
27. Lost Eden
28. Lucienne's Quest
29. Mad Dog II - the Lost Gold
30. Mad Dog McCree
31. Need For Speed
32. Night Trap
33. Novastorm
34. Olympic Summer Games
35. Out of this World
36. PaTaank
37. PO'ed
38. Powers Kingdom
39. Return Fire
40. Road Rush
41. Samurai Shodown
42. Sewer Shark
43. Shock Wave
44. Shock Wave 2
45. Space Hulk - Vengeance of the Blood Angels
46. StarBlade
47. Starcontrol II
48. StarFighter
49. Strahl
50. Super Street Fighter II Turbo
51. Syndicate
52. The Horde
53. Theme Park
54. Total Eclipse
55. Trip'd
56. Twisted
57. Twisted JP
58. Way of the Warrior
59. Wing Commander III - Heart of the Tiger
60. Wolfenstein 3D
Tools:
1. 3DO emulator (Bios Included)
2. JoyToKey (Which will allow you to use a Joy Stick or a controller to play the games instead of the keyboard. It simple to use.)
Sprache: Englisch / Multi?
Größe: 30,03 Gigabyte
Format: 3DO Disc Images
Passwort: Kein PW
Hoster: Share-Online.biz
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