3DO M2 Tech Demo

[sameasabove]

RETURN FIRE!!

[damnittwice]

After this 3DO decided to make all those army men games that everyone loves....what do you mean nobody played them?

[SlapAttackGames]

DON'T CROSS THE STREAMS!

[TheGamerClubber]

Is this for real? It doesn't real show M2 power. I remember that a DINO fighting with a woman was also part of the video showing M2 power. I'm extremely sad it didn't come out, cause 3DO was very fun with some cool & inovative games like SHOCK WAVE, GEX, THE HORDE, CAPTAIN QUAZAR, NEED FOR SPEED & so many more. So sad Sony took of Panasonic from competition. Later Dreamcast came & who took him out of competition? SONY again, with PS2...DAMN SONY...I have PS3, by the way and still have my 3DO.

[Da1shocker]

Matushita spent 100 million for this game system and i'm sure they never came close to recouping that loss.

[turbografx]

Unlike the "M2 Racing" and FPS /Dungeon demo, which were both pre-rendered CGI, this polygon demo was realtime.

M2 had about two to three times the polygon horsepower of Nintendo 64, although M2 was nowhere near Dreamcast.

[aubba]

agree, the dreamcast was another generation

[airraideagle]

True.

People who say that M2 was close to Dreamcast performance are way, WAY off. The Dreamcast was at least TEN TIMES more powerful than M2.

When comparing M2 to N64 and to Dreamcast, M2 is closer to N64 than Dreamcast, even though M2 was around twice as powerful as N64. Does that make sense.

[GarthMcCreery]

@airraideagle more like 2-4 times more powerful

[redfoxbennaton]

3DO=Crap. 3DO was 50 times faster than any of thos macs that made CG cinemas. 3DO is a pure waist. Espetuly n64 was a waist. They had so much power that they were lazzy to make a dumb excuse like "Ow, my 1980's supercomputer is not powerfull enough to make seamless Visuals. Lets not way too much". Also, DC is terribly visualy overated. The look of it is worse than that of 5th Gen consoles. for example HOD2 and Carrier. You promise me movie quality graphics.

[morgangamer22]

COOL

[mrjustin5]

It's really too bad this was never released. Certainly cutting edge at the time it was. Playstation was too expensive and didnt have games I liked. N64 had shitty games (To me, anyway) designed for 4 year olds. N64 was too kiddy-machine for me. 3DO, SNES and early PC CD-ROM days were the best for me. Now I am wondering where time went and what happened to my desire for games. Xbox 360 and PC Nvidia Geforce 8800 GT ain't got nothin' on these old systems! I WANT QUALITY GAMES!

[irata2006]

Actually, Matsushita did release the M2... as the FZ-21 and FZ-35 media players. The atter model looked like a small, black desktop PC, and had a DVD drive. I have 2 of those units in my collection, as well as 2 development systems. Konami also used M2 hardware for about 4 arcade machines (Total Vice, Polystars, Heat of Eleven, Evil Night). There are some other unreleased games around, bt they're held by private collectors.

[mrjustin5]

irata2006 - Amazing! You've got some serious collectors hardware there! If I could have ONE item from the arcade it would be that two-player Shooter TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY ARCADE. The rattle/realistic fire of the machine guns and the countless quarters I plunked into that machine I could've owned one. I saw one on EBAY for $1,000 plus shipping ($150). Do you have any videos or pics you could put into videos of the hardware you have? Better put it up on Youtube! Thanks for the comment!

[VoidKeeper]

ummmmh playstation was too expensive??? and the 3DO wasn't? it didn't take long for the PSX to own the 3DO, heck even the Saturn which in my opinion was not that great was better than the 3DO.

[mrjustin5]

Well, yes, I I believe the playstation was the first hugely successful game system EVER to be sold at a retail price of $300. Now you might be 18 or 22 and not know that it cost that much upon initial release for YEARS. I know about 4 or 5 years later by 1998 or 2000 it was $150 or something.

[VoidKeeper]

yeah I kindah got mine around that time when it was still 300$ but I heard of the 3DO only a few years back because in Portugal at the time the 3DO was never released here, if any stores had it it must've been really secluded or died off in a very short time because not even games were sold.

[DasFresh]

saturn not that great? the saturn is arguably the best system for 2d fighters ever built. almost Every single saturn 2d fighter was an arcade perfect port.

[VoidKeeper]

for fighters sure, but the PSX has a lot of fighters too, at least the ones that I like most. The saturn has some games that a like, a lot actually, but the PSX has so many more that the Saturn didn't have, for me at least, from the Final Fantasies to the Skull monkeys it was awesome :P

[Grahamx227]

The problem with the PSOne though, was it's ram. Quite a few games lie Street Fighter and Jojo's Bizarre adventure paled in comparison on that console, since they were originally build for arcade machines.

[VoidKeeper]

I certainly prefer the Saturn for arcade or arcade style titles, that's for sure, shadows over mystara is awesome, even if it needs the ram adapter.

[barlog20]

@DasFresh:That`s a lie.I have the saturn and most of its 2d fighters was not Perfect ports but they were close perfect ports though.

[whiteguysamurai]

@barlog20 The Sega Saturn was a great deal more powerful than the playstation, as was evident by the Shenmue prototype. But that power was very hard to coax out of the Saturn.

[XcXtrippyXcX]

@whiteguysamurai That's false, compare that prototype to the PSX's ICO prototype, the Ico prototype looks better (even apart from the PR Cutscenes)

Although the saturn had two CPU's, they shared the same Memory Buffer which means that only one of them could process data at a time which almost renders the whole purpose of having two CPU's pointless if you ask me, any difference in processing power would be slight at best and only using assembly would you be able to reach such optimization.

[morgs2020]

I think games got much better with the introduction of 3D acceleration. There were some great games before that, mostly on the Amiga but the PlayStation generation brought amazing games.

[nooblet911]

I actually disagree. most would say that the 16 bit era was the most exciting period in gaming and I almost agree with that

[nooblet911]

woo

[fubar123456]

Wow I'm amazed anyone even remembers the M2. That thing had the worst controllers ever made (or not made as the case may be).

[capoxi]

the controllers that i saw on internet looks like the nintendo 64 ones. i think was better than the original 3do controllers.

[airraideagle]

Not only was there the M2, which was somewhat more powerful than Nintendo 64 and 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics, there was also 3DO MX, which was said to be "M2 on steroids". Eventually 3DO and MX were bought by Samsung. Nintendo almost used MX as the basis for their next system (after N64) before Dolphin/Gamecube was made. That deal died, and then Microsoft bought 3DO and MX. The MX was probably 1/3 to 1/2 as powerful as the Dreamcast.

[NIWatch44]

They got so close to launching this shit but had to pull out because Sony was killing everyone who wasn't Nintendo.

[capoxi]

the sega saturn sold more than nintendo 64 (in japan).

the major sucess of nintendo at the time was the game boy.

[digitalmorphine]

Great capabilities, but just a butt ugly video for a demo.

[gamefan1980]

M2 Accelerator aka THE BULLDOG! I remember reading about it in Gamefan Magazine. I have a 3DO in box still and open the serial port on the side for a good laugh.

[jbanzato]

O 3do foi uma grande idéia, mas muito mal usada... T+

[ztarwarz]

This would of had the potential to be a kick ass system if 3DO wasn't at the helm. And the m2 could have easily done those things in the video.

[realcatgirllover]

the M2 pictures and video footage were, indeed, mock-ups for marketing purpose.

[guyvf]

probably prerendered.

[airraideagle]

no, you're wrong.

Unlike other M2 techdemos (Car demo, FPS demo) this one was realtime....

[Brilliant2meNu]

Dude, I want one so bad, I settled for the Konami M2 with Polystars