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Oct 1, 1993
Topic Started: Apr 1 2008, 04:31 PM (502 Views)
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That's when the 3DO came out in America. I called every day to see when it would be in and I was convinced it would be the best system ever. I sold off most of my Neo Geo cartridge and Sega Genesis games to pay for it. I think it was $699.99. I still have the box in my closet with the price tag on it. For what it's worth, I loved it at first although there were no real games for a long time. For some reason I got off of Sega and Neo Geo, putting all my time and effort into "waiting" for games like Road Rash, Jurassic Park, Demolition Man, SSF2T, Total Eclipse, and more. It wasn't the best time in my gaming life that's for sure. I think that's when things started to fall apart actually... game wise and life wise for me. I prefer the 1987-1993 period. I don't know what the hell I was thinking.... I loved the Genesis and Neo Geo. Why I went all out for 3do, i'll never know.
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Yeah, that was a mistake...but then, hindsight is always 20/20. I too have done stuff like that that I've regretted to this day. The 3DO, though wowing me at the local Software Etc. display window with Gex's incredible color depth, Way of the Warrior's *huge* sprites and Road Rash's 3D, the price was always just *way* too far out of my reach. I remember seeing them "clearanced" out at $300 years later...but even that was way too much.

The most I have ever spent on a console has to be the Sega CD and Xbox. I got the Sega CD using my own money for $265 at KB Stores one birthday, and then the Xbox some years ago for $299(I believe).

Over the years I've had a Neo Geo AES, a Neo Geo CD, a Lynx, a GameBoy(Black and Green), a Nintendo 64, an Atari 2600(ugh), a GameCube(with GBA Player) and a Virtual Boy...all were sold/traded off at some point though. I even sold off my SNES to get the Saturn...and I do regret that, not that that Saturn isn't an excellent console, but rather I just had such a nice collection of SNES games when I sold it. Now, I can't even remember what I used to have for it....though I do have another one now.

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Well, if EA had their way with the industry like they do today you would have been an early adopter for their first worldwide console franchise. Considering that the first two years of games for the PS1 and Saturn were only marginally improved over 3DO titles, you may well have made a good consumer decision. It really all comes down to whether you enjoyed the games and how many of them you enjoyed.

After people started calling great systems like the Saturn, 32X or Sega CD "rip offs" I decided to look at the actual cost of playing games on those systems. I decided to make the standard what everybody else did, SNES gaming. The cost of the average SNES cartridge was $65, and SFX carts were as much as $80. Sega CD, Saturn and 32X titles were $50 at launch, so I decided to divide the cost of the systems by how many games I owned for each of them. Just to keep this really simple, I'll divide the system costs by tens. If I bought ten 32X games and the console at $160, then I paid $66 per game, if I bought twenty games then I paid $58 per game. If the SNES was not a rip off at $65 for the games alone, then neither was the 32X.

So, at this rate, if you paid $700 for a 3DO and bought 45-50 games you were not ripped off by the standard set by the average SNES title. If you bought 30 games at full retail you were not ripped off by the standard set by the high end SFX SNES titles. Since I purchased a 3DO (for $40 last year mind you) I have found myself eliminating many Genesis, SNES, Sega CD and NEO GEO titles that were high on my want list because they were of better (or equal in the case of the NEO GEO titles) quality on the 3DO. Exclusives like SSF2 Turbo, Star Control 2, and other titles that were ported to Saturn and PS1 only sweeten the pot because the originals always run better than ports.
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Apr 9 2008, 08:08 PM
It really all comes down to whether you enjoyed the games and how many of them you enjoyed.

I think this is a really good point. I paid $265 for my Sega CD and thought that's a shitload of money, the enjoyment I got out of it and its games were immeasurable in comparison to the cost of buying it. Still, though, there's a big difference between "almost $300" and "almost a grand". ;)

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