3DO Interactive Multiplayer
Manufacturer	Panasonic, Sanyo and Goldstar
Type	Video game console
Generation	Fifth generation era
First available	NA September 1993
CPU	ARM60
Media	CD-ROM
Units sold	2 million[1]

Crash 'n Burn on the 3DO, the system's first bundled title.

3DO Interactive Multiplayer (often called simply 3DO) was 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 RJ Mical of New Technology Group. The system was conceived by entrepreneur and EA Games founder Trip Hawkins. ^[2] 3DO can refer to: The 3DO Company, a developer of computer and video game software and hardware 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, the name of a number of video game consoles based on specifications created by above company This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1051x943, 139 KB) from fr. ... A console manufacturer is a company that manufactures and distributes video game consoles. ... Panasonic is an international brand name for Japanese electric products manufacturer Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. ... Sanyo Electric Co. ... LG redirects here. ... Game console redirects here. ... Video games were introduced as a commercial entertainment medium in 1971, becoming the basis for an important entertainment industry in the late 1970s/early 1980s in the United States, Japan, and Europe. ... In the history of computer and video games, the 32-bit / 64-bit /3D era was the fifth generation of video game consoles. ... North American redirects here. ... Notable events of 1993 in computer and video games. ... CPU redirects here. ... The ARM architecture (previously, the Advanced RISC Machine, and prior to that Acorn RISC Machine) is a 32-bit RISC processor architecture developed by ARM Limited that is widely used in a number of embedded designs. ... The CD-ROM (an abbreviation for Compact Disc Read-Only Memory (ROM)) is a non-volatile optical data storage medium using the same physical format as audio compact discs, readable by a computer with a CD-ROM drive. ... This is a list of video game consoles and handheld game consoles that have sold five million units or more. ... Game console redirects here. ... Panasonic is an international brand name for Japanese electric products manufacturer Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. ... Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) The year 1994 was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by the United Nations. ... Sanyo Electric Co. ... LG redirects here. ... The 3DO Company (formerly THDO on the NASDAQ stock exchange), also known as 3DO, was a game console developer and 3rd party game developer. ... RJ Mical created video games at Williams Electronics, helped invent the Amiga computer, co-invented the Atari Lynx and the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer with Dave Needle. ... Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS) is a leading video game developer and publisher. ... William M. Trip Hawkins III (born 1953) is a Silicon Valley American entrepreneur and co-founder of Electronic Arts, The 3DO Company and Digital Chocolate. ...

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 ($699.95 USD at launch), limited 3rd-party developer support, and an over-saturated console market prevented the system from achieving success comparable to competitors Sony and Nintendo. ^[3] (Clockwise from upper left) Time magazine covers from May 7, 1945; July 25, 1969; December 31, 1999; September 14, 2001; and April 21, 2003. ... The United States dollar is the official currency of the United States. ... Sony Corporation ) is a Japanese multinational corporation and one of the worlds largest media conglomerates with revenue of $66. ... Nintendo Company, Limited (任天堂 or ニンテンドー Nintendō; NASDAQ: NTDOY, TYO: 7974 usually referred to as simply Nintendo, or Big N ) is a multinational corporation founded on September 23, 1889[1] in Kyoto, Japan by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda cards. ...

Features and catalogue

The original edition of the console, the FZ-1, was referred to in full as the 3DO REAL Interactive Multiplayer. The console had advanced hardware features at the time: an ARM60 32-bit RISC CPU, two custom video co-processors, a custom 16-bit DSP and a custom math co-processor. It also featured 2 mebibytes of DRAM, 1 mebibyte of VRAM, and a double speed CD-ROM drive for main CD+Gs or Photo CDs (and Video CDs with an add-on MPEG video module). ^[4] The 3DO included the first music visualizer in a game console, converting CD music to a mesmerizing color pattern. The controller was also original for its time; a headphone jack and volume dial was available at the bottom of the initial version. 32-bit is a term applied to processors, and computer architectures which manipulate the address and data in 32-bit chunks. ... Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC), is a microprocessor CPU design philosophy that favors a smaller and simpler set of instructions that all take about the same amount of time to execute. ... CPU redirects here. ... A co-processor is a secondary processor in a computer that handles tasks that the general-purpose CPU either cannot implement, or does not implement for efficiency reasons. ... In computer science, 16-bit is an adjective used to describe integers that are at most two bytes wide, or to describe CPU architectures based on registers, address buses, or data buses of that size. ... A digital signal processor (DSP) is a specialized microprocessor designed specifically for digital signal processing, generally in real-time. ... MiB redirects here. ... Dram can mean several things: Dram (unit), an imperial unit of volume Dram, an imperial unit of weight or mass, see avoirdupois and apothecaries system Ottoman dram, a unit of weight, see dirhem Armenian dram, a monetary unit DRAM, a type of RAM Category: ... VRAM an acronym for Video RAM. Generally a term used in computers to describe RAM dedicated to the purpose of displaying bitmap graphics in raster graphics hardware. ... The CD-ROM (an abbreviation for Compact Disc Read-Only Memory (ROM)) is a non-volatile optical data storage medium using the same physical format as audio compact discs, readable by a computer with a CD-ROM drive. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... Photo CD is a system designed by Kodak for digitising and storing photos in a CD. Launched in 1992, the disks were designed to hold nearly 100 high quality images, scanned prints and slides using special proprietary encoding. ... VCD redirects here. ... The Moving Picture Experts Group or MPEG is a working group of ISO/IEC charged with the development of video and audio encoding standards. ...

Some of the best-received titles were ports of arcade or PC games that other cartridge-based systems of the time were not capable of playing, such as Alone in the Dark, Myst, Out of This World, and Star Control II. Other popular titles included Total Eclipse, Jurassic Park Interactive, Gex, Crash 'n Burn, Slayer, Killing Time, Need for Speed, and Immercenary. Additionally, 3DO had the most popular port of Road Rash, and the arcade fighting game Samurai Shodown was ported to the system with all original graphics intact. The first home port of Super Street Fighter II Turbo was also available on the system, exceeding the original with its CD-quality audio. Alone in the Dark (1992) is a survival horror video game developed by Infogrames (now Atari). ... This article is about the Myst franchise. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Star Control II: The Ur-Quan Masters is a science fiction computer game, the second game in the Star Control trilogy. ... Jurassic Park Interactive was the only strategy-based simulation game based around the classic Spielberg film of 1993. ... Gex or GEX may refer to: Gex, a video game series about a gecko with a passion for TV Gex: Enter the Gecko Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko see Gex (character) for the protagonist of the above video game series. ... Killing Time is a horror-themed first-person shooter video game developed by 3DO. Though meant at first as an exclusive for their 3DO Interactive Multiplayer console, it was later ported to the Windows 95 PC platform in 1996 by Intrepid Software and to the Macintosh when the 3DO system... Need for Speed (NFS) is a series of racing video games by Electronic Arts, released on platforms including the personal computer, 3DO, PlayStation, PS2, PS3, GameCube, Wii, Xbox, Xbox 360, Game Boy Advance, PlayStation Portable, and various other gaming platforms. ... Immercenary is a 1995 3D first-person shooter video game for the 3D0 console by Electronic Arts. ... It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles accessible from a disambiguation page. ... Screenshot of The King of Fighters XI (2005, SNK Playmore). ... Note: This article is specifically about the original Samurai Shodown game. ... Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers was the penultimate release of a long string of fighting games in the Street Fighter II series. ...

However, the 3DO library also exhibited less sucessful aspects of home gaming at the time. It was launched at the dawn of CD-ROM gaming, and early titles on 3DO (and Sega CD alike) frequently attempted to use interactive movie-style gameplay. Such titles relied entirely on full motion video with little interactive influence from the player, often patternized beyond a flexible standard. Night Trap, Mad Dog McCree, and The Daedalus Encounter are some of the more notorious titles from this era. Also, digital video was of very low quality at the time, especially on low-cost consumer devices. Aside from this, the most significant issue with interactive movie games was their limited level of interactivity and depth. Some games followed a single unfolding of events entirely, motivated simply by correctly timed prompts executed by the player. The Sega Mega-CD (Japanese: メガCD) is an add-on device for the Sega Mega Drive released in Europe, Australia, and Japan. ... It has been suggested that FMV game be merged into this article or section. ... Night Trap is a video game that was released on October 15, 1992. ... Mad Dog McCree originally appeared as an arcade shooting game in the early 90s. ... The Daedalus Encounter is a computer game from 1995. ...

Game series that were originally launched on the 3DO by Electronic Arts, Studio 3DO and Crystal Dynamics established themselves on other 32-bit consoles, such as the Sony PlayStation. One major hit for the 3DO, Return Fire, an advanced tank battle game, was ported to the Sony PlayStation and Microsoft Windows, but was met with limited success. Electronic Arts (EA) (NASDAQ: ERTS) is an American developer, marketer, publisher, and distributor of computer and video games. ... The 3DO Company (formerly THDO on the NASDAQ stock exchange), also known as 3DO, was a game console developer and 3rd party game developer. ... Crystal Dynamics is an American video game developer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. ... The original PlayStation was produced in a light grey colour; the more recent PSOne redesign sports a smaller more rounded case. ... 3DO can refer to: The 3DO Company, a developer of computer and video game software and hardware 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, the name of a number of video game consoles based on specifications created by above company This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might... Return Fire is a 1995 video game developed by Silent Software, Inc. ... Sony Corporation ) is a Japanese multinational corporation and one of the worlds largest media conglomerates with revenue of $66. ... PlayStation redirects here. ... Windows redirects here. ...

The 3DO is one of few CD-based units that feature neither regional lockout nor copy protection, making it easy to use for pirated software.^[5] Although there is no regional lockout present in any 3DO machine, a few Japanese games cannot be played on non-Japanese 3DO consoles due to a special kanji font which English language consoles could not read. Games that did not and still had compatibility issues include Sword and Sorcery (which was released in English under the title Lucienne's Quest) and a demo version of Alone in the Dark. Regional lockout is the programming practice, code, chip, or physical barrier used to prevent the playing of media designed for a device from the country where it is marketed on the version of the same device marketed in another country. ... Copy prevention, also known as copy protection, is any technical measure designed to prevent duplication of information. ... This article is about maritime piracy. ... Japanese writing Kanji Kana Hiragana Katakana Hentaigana Manyōgana Uses Furigana Okurigana Rōmaji   ) are the Chinese characters that are used in the modern Japanese logographic writing system along with hiragana (平仮名), katakana (片仮名), and the Arabic numerals. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Console may be: An organ term for the area of an organ including the keys, stops, and foot pedals manipulated by the organist. ...

3DO hardware

Models

• Panasonic FZ-1 R.E.A.L. 3DO Interactive Multiplayer (Japan, Asia, North America and Europe) - The first 3DO system, which was initially priced at $699.99 in the U.S. The price was later reduced to $399.99 in the fall of 1994. ^[6]
• Panasonic FZ-10 R.E.A.L. 3DO Interactive Multiplayer (Japan, North America and Europe) - Less expensive than the FZ-1, the FZ-10 is also smaller, a primary selling point along with the new top-loading design.
• Goldstar 3DO Interactive Multiplayer (South Korea, North America and Europe)
• Goldstar 3DO ALIVE II (South Korea only)
• Sanyo TRY 3DO Interactive Multiplayer (Japan only)
• Creative 3DO Blaster - PC ISA expansion card with a double-speed CD-ROM drive and one controller that enables a PC to play 3DO games.

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System specifications

Processor

• 32-bit 12.5 MHz RISC CPU (ARM60) made by Advanced RISC Machines (roughly equivalent to 25 MHz 68030)
• Math co-processor
• 32kb SRAM

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Display

• Interpolated 640x480 resolution output to screen, upsampled from 320x240 or 320x480 internal resolution with either 16 bit palettized color (from 24 bits) or 24 bit truecolor ^[7]
• Two accelerated video co-processors capable of producing 9-16 million pixels per second (36-64 megapix/s interpolated), distorted, scaled, rotated and texture mapped

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System board

• 50Mb/s bus speed
• 36 DMA channels
• 2 mebibytes of main RAM
• 1 mebibyte of VRAM
• 2 expansion ports

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Sound

• 16-bit stereo sound
• 44.1 kHz sound sampling rate
• Supports Dolby Surround Sound
• Custom 16-bit Digital Signal Processor (DSP)

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Media

• Double-speed (depending on manufacturer) 300 kB/s data transfer CD-ROM drive with 32 kB RAM buffer
• Multitasking 32-bit operating system

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Demise

By the early 1990s, the video game market had become overcrowded with a plethora of consoles. Sega, Nintendo, Commodore, SNK, and Atari each had a video game system on the market. When viewed internationally, the chief competition for the 3DO during its peak had been Nintendo's SNES, the Sega Genesis and NEC's TurboGrafx-16 platforms. The higher quality of later CD-ROM based systems that emerged in the mid-90s (primarily the Sony PlayStation), the limited library of titles, lack of third-party support, and a refusal to reduce pricing until almost the end of the product's life cycle were among the many issues that led to 3DO's demise. ^[8] This article is about the video game company. ... Nintendo Company, Limited (任天堂 or ニンテンドー Nintendō; NASDAQ: NTDOY, TYO: 7974 usually referred to as simply Nintendo, or Big N ) is a multinational corporation founded on September 23, 1889[1] in Kyoto, Japan by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda cards. ... Commodore, the commonly used name for Commodore International, was an American electronics company based in West Chester, Pennsylvania which was a vital player in the home/personal computer field in the 1980s. ... SNK redirects here. ... This article is about the corporate game company. ... The Super Nintendo Entertainment System or Super NES (also called SNES and Super Nintendo) was a 16-bit video game console released by Nintendo in North America, Europe, Australasia, and Brazil between 1990 and 1993. ... The Mega Drive/Genesis was a 16-bit video game console released by Sega in Japan (1988), Europe (1990) and most of the rest of the world as the Mega Drive. ... For information on the Japanese version of this console, see PC Engine The TurboGrafx 16 is a video game console released by NEC in 1989, for the North American market. ... Sony Corporation ) is a Japanese multinational corporation and one of the worlds largest media conglomerates with revenue of $66. ... PlayStation redirects here. ...

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. 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. Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... The Panasonic M2 was a video game console design developed by 3DO and then sold to Matsushita (known internationally as Panasonic) for $100,000,000 [1]. Before it could be released, however, Matsushita cancelled the project in late 1997, unwilling to compete against fellow Japanese electronics giant Sonys PlayStation... YTV is a Canadian cable television specialty channel aimed at youth, available nationwide through cable and satellite television. ... Its Alive was a childrens variety show that aired on YTV from May 14, 1994 until 1997. ...

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 (Studio3DO) as a multi-platform company supporting the Sony PlayStation, Sega Saturn, and PC platforms with a re-launch of Star Fighter and the PC launch of the first commercial, 3-D MMORPG, Meridian 59. The business's most successful post 3DO software release is considered to be the Army Men franchise which was their featured product line up until the company filed for bankruptcy and liquidated its assets in 2003. Take 2 Interactive acquired the rights to the Army Men series. The 3DO Company (formerly THDO on the NASDAQ stock exchange), also known as 3DO, was a game console developer and 3rd party game developer. ... PlayStation redirects here. ... The Sega Saturn ) is a 32-bit video game console, first released on November 22, 1994 in Japan, May 11, 1995 in North America and July 8, 1995 in Europe. ... A stylised illustration of a modern personal computer A personal computer (PC) is a computer whose original sales price, size, and capabilities make it useful for individuals. ... An image from World of Warcraft, one of the largest commercial MMORPGs as of 2004, based on active subscriptions. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For the plastic toy soldiers, see Army men. ... Notice of closure stuck on the door of a computer store the day after its parent company, Granville Technology Group Ltd, declared bankruptcy (strictly, put into administration—see text) in the United Kingdom. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. ...

Aborted successor

The 3DO Company designed a next-generation console that was never released due to various business and technological issues. Called the M2, it was to use dual PowerPC 602 processors in addition to newer 3D and video rendering technologies. Late during development, the company abandoned the console hardware business and sold the M2 technology to Matsushita. While Matsushita initially claimed to be planning a game console with the technology, it was shortly thereafter re-branded for the kiosk market competing with the CD-i system. The Panasonic M2 was a video game console design developed by 3DO and then sold to Matsushita (known internationally as Panasonic) for $100,000,000 [1]. Before it could be released, however, Matsushita cancelled the project in late 1997, unwilling to compete against fellow Japanese electronics giant Sonys PlayStation... PowerPC is a RISC microprocessor architecture created by the 1991 Apple–IBM–Motorola alliance, known as AIM. Originally intended for personal computers, PowerPC CPUs have since become popular embedded and high-performance processors as well. ... Logo for the Panasonic brand Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. ... CD-i or Compact Disc Interactive is the name of an interactive multimedia CD player developed and marketed by Royal Philips Electronics N.V. CD-i also refers to the multimedia Compact Disc standard utilized by the CD-i console, also known as Green Book, which was co-developed by...

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3DO in Popular Culture

• Eraserheads's song "Overdrive" was inspired from the Japanese version of Need for Speed which is only available on 3DO and front man Ely Buendia owns a 3DO during that time.
• In the anime and manga, Sayonara Zetsubō Sensei. The protagonist, Nozomu Itoshiki labeled the 3DO console as his useless investment.

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See also

• 3DO Rating System
• List of 3DO games

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Primary market competitors in the high-end A/V space

Multi-purpose audio/video systems

• Commodore's CDTV
• Philips' CD-i
• Pioneer's LaserActive

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References

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External links

• Project FreeDO - the 3DO console emulator
• MESS - 3DO console emulator
• 3DO Today - Large 3DO resource site
• Defunct Games: 3DO Review Archive
• UK ran 3DO related blog - profiling 3DO Multiplayer games
• 3DO related online forum

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