"JLC" <j.jc@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "G" <G@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> http://nfg.2y.net/games/polystars/
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> 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
Great post man. I remember reading EGM and Next-Generation magazines,
learning about the M2 and how it would change the videogame industry. I
first started using the internet in 1996 at the local community collage,
where they had a bunch of 486s and they had just started to get faster
Pentiums. I would read about everything to do with videogames, from
obscure
old Japanese consoles to new technology like 3DO M2.
I was a huge Sega fan back then and M2 was re****tedly about to become
Sega's
next console, or an upgrade for Saturn, after 3DO had sold the M2
technology
to Matsu****a for $100 million dollars (you probably remember all this)
but
the Sega-M2 deal fell apart completely. Around the time that there was
still a glimmer of hope for M2 to come out as a videogame console from
Matsu****a, that is when info started coming out about Sega's nextgen
console 'Black Belt' and their alternative 'Dural' console also. this was
in
early to mid 1997. whatever version of Sega's next console came out,
Black
Belt or Dural, either one would be significantly more powerful than M2 in
every way. by mid 1997, Matsu****a officially canned the M2 as a game
console and most of my focus turned to Sega and their next system, which
was
going to be the Dural instead of Black Belt. (the Dural prototype beat
Black Belt prototype in a head to head internal test at SoJ... then Dural
got renamed 'Katana' in late 1997 and was renamed again, as Dreamcast, in
May 1998)....... everything that I had hoped for in M2 was ****fted over to
Dreamcast. Warp's D2 game development moved from M2 to Dreamcast in
1998
and D2 came out in 1999, IIRC.
I remember in 1997-1999 spending some of my internet-time at the collage,
going over older usenet posts about the 3DO M2 - posts from 1995 to 1997.
I used Dejanews to read these posts. I loved Dejanews! even more than its
more recent form: Google Groups. those were the days indeed, man. I
remember printing out usenet posts, message forum posts and articles about
the M2 and the Black Belt, and Dural/Katana/, so I could read them at
home.
around that time, I got a WebTV so I could at least read some of the stuff
from home even though I could not access every website since WebTV had
limited memory and capabilities, and I could not print out anything. It
wasn't until I got a Dreamcast with its 56k modem and free dial-up ISPs
that
I could read more of this stuff from home, since Dreamcast did a better
job
than WebTV, lol. (I didnt get an actual computer until 2002) . man it
was fun reading about the development of M2, its games, the Sega Black
Belt,
and the Sega Dural/Katana/Dreamcast and its games, using my Dreamcast in
1999-2002 from home. those were the days also!
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