If you wanted to, you could rent an Atari Jaguar, a Jaguar CD and Highlander: Last of the MacLeods. There were so many consoles back then and places like Microplay that stocked everything. I too rented a 3DO back in the day, several times. Good thing the SEGA-CD had turned me off to FMV games, as who knows what picking up a CD-I and Burn Cycle might've led to. So picking up a 3DO (along with many hours of playing video games/Street Fighter II) inadvertently led to a lengthy career in game development and eventually tech. Maybe it was luck that I was one of the few/only people attending that were knowledgeable about video games AND also happened to own a 3DO console, but after talking to some of the team after focus testing was done, I ended up landing and starting a QA job there a few weeks later. The game devs and marketing team wanted feedback on an upcoming title, which turned out to be Captain Quazar. While I had fun with other games such as Need for Speed, the Samurai Shodown port, and Wing Commander III, if SSF2T hadn't come out for it, I probably wouldn't have picked the system up-which might have changed how things worked out for me in life.Ī few months after grabbing the system, I responded to a post on the 3DO usenet group and attended a focus group test at 3DO HQ in Redwood City, CA. ![]() I'd played the hell out of the previous SF games in the arcades, Super Nintendo, and SEGA Genesis, and until the Saturn/PlayStation SF collections came out, the 3DO was the only way you could enjoy a home console version of SSF2T. The system seller for me was Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo. I bought one in either late 1994 or early 1995 after the price was cut from $699.99 to $399.99. PlayStation hype was unreal and the Goldstar 3DO that had brought us that legendary arcade experience at home was quickly forgotten after a few rounds of Toshinden on a co-worker's Japanese PS. At the end of that same summer I ended up working at the Software Etc we bought the adapters from. I can't remember what happened to the console though. My mom would come home to a house of 10 or 15 random kids and want to know what the hell was going on. ![]() Our house was basically the neighborhood arcade until the summer of '95 when a kid got a Saturn. We found an SNES controller adapter at a local Software Etc, and were able to use a couple of Capcom fighting pads. We played the hell out of the demo disc that included games like Shock Wave and Offworld Interceptor. The only games that we owned were SSF2T and Samurai Shodown. It was probably to make up for his other fucked up shortcomings as a father. We knew how much it was worth and couldn't believe he dropped that kind of cash on a gaming console. My father brought a Goldstar home for Christmas in late '94.
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