Re: remember M2 from 3DO? damnit I wanted that. why did they kill it?

"G" <G@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> http://nfg.2y.net/games/polystars/
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> Those screens were bull.
Man that page brought back a lot of memories for me. I was one of those
3DO 
fanatics back in the day. I still have my 3DO, but the games are so butt 
ugly I can't stand looking at them. I paid around $600 for mine. I still 
can't believe I paid that much for it. But back then it was thought to be 
the coolest console ever made. I've never since been so excited about a 
gaming platform. That was back when reading a NG was a novelty mostly made

up of collage students that had access to the Internet. I didn't have a PC

back then so I'd go to my local collage which was the University of 
Wa****ngton and log in using Unix. Man those where the days. I'd go in and 
then I'd just print out all the posts for the week. They'd print out on 
these huge printers that used that folding paper. Then someone would rip 
each piece for me and then try and staple them together. Sometimes I'd get
a 
stack of paper over a foot thick. I'd take them home and sit and read them

for hours. I never responded, because it was so hard to do. Those where
the 
days. Back then the guys that made the games would post updates on how
their 
games where coming along. There was a lot of inside info on a lot of the 
games that came out. It was all very exciting back then. That was back
when 
some guy was making a little program called Mosaic which he was calling a 
web browser. I had no idea what the hell that meant but it sure sounded 
cool!The first thing I did when I got my first PC (486/66) was get online 
and go to my 3DO NG. I'll never forget what it felt like when I was able
to 
print out the pages at home! I soon realized that I could just read them 
online,but at first I was so used to having it printed out I didn't know
any 
better! I remember very well all the talk of the M2 and how it was going
to 
change everything. One thing that wasn't mentioned on that site was that
3DO 
was working on a PC card that would allow you to have an M2 console in
your 
PC. I also remember all the talk about Sony way before the PSX came out.
How 
it wasn't going to be that powerful and how M2 would save the day. But it 
wasn't long after the PSX came out that the 3DO NG and all the hard core 
fans realized that we where doomed.
JLC