#3d0

[glitchphotography]

Video Lab 03 / Greenhouse <<< The Synthesis Academy (5032)

[Scene created in “The Life Stage: Virtual House” (1993) for 3DO, Video Art onscreen by Sky Goodman]

[dandanthegamerman]

Ultimate Future Games' Top 100 Games of the Future from June 1995.

No doubt some of these would become stone-cold classics, fondly remembered and re-released to this day. But on the other hand it has the CDI FMV shoot-em-up Thunder In Paradise in it. As in, the Hulk Hogan Knightrider-in-a-boat-that-is-also-Baywatch series. Surely the gaming scene wasn't in that bad a state in 1995?

[hardcore-gaming-101]

Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger

Orchestral music swells as we are presented with the game’s title (accompanied by a tiger’s roar) and… actor credits!? Big names too, including Tom Wilson, Malcolm McDowell, and none other than Star Wars’s Mark Hamill as the star. Before long, a giant ship emerges from a jump point. With pointed, asymmetrical edges, it’s not unlike a giant mechanical claw, and it enters orbit over the homeworld of the Kilrathi Empire: Kilrah. A Confed commando team has been captured in the Kilrathi capital, led by none other than your beloved Jeannette “Angel” Devereaux. Brought before Prince Thrakhath and the Kilrathi Emperor himself, she remains defiant. On the planet Vespus, Col. Christopher Blair (that’s you!), examines the wreck of the TCS Concordia alongside James “Paladin” Taggart. You have once more lost the carrier you called home, and there is no news of Angel’s whereabouts. Admiral Tolwyn reassigns you to the TCS Victory, an old rust bucket quite unlike the top-of-the-line Concordia. On the way over, a news broadcast states that despite Confed’s statements to the contrary, the war is going badly for humanity, with rumors of a plan for an emergency evacuation of Earth. But your assignment to the Victory will prove to be much more fateful than you initially thought…

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[nomorepixels]

Night Trap

© Virgin Games 1992

Image sourced from hardcoregaming101.net

[randomisedgaming]

Front and back box artwork for the North American release of the 1993 3D0 title by Electronic Arts:

Road & Track Presents: The Need for Speed 

Original scans from Mobygames, cleaned up and corrected by us.

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[yourmomsbasementonline]

Uncle Danny – 3DO (Part 1) The 1990s put out some strange systems that quickly became distant memories for a lot of us.

[lunaticobscurity]

there’s a new post up at the world’s greatest obscure videogames review blog~! and today’s subject is a japanese wrestling game, following the grand tradition of having real wrestlers with silly uncopyrighted names! it’s also the lunaticobscurity debut of the 3d0, how exciting :D go and read it!

and like always, it would be really nice of you to reblog this post, and maybe also become a subscriber on patreon, to get early access to new posts as well as lots more screenshots that the hoi-polloi get, too :D

[hardcore-gaming-101]

Top 47K - Jak II (and Doctor Hauzer!)

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank Naughty Dog’s slightly darker, slightly better (?) Jak and Daxter sequel. Then stick around for Doctor Hauzer, the Japan-only survival horror game for the 3DO!