Jason's cool, how he sees things is very unique and he doesnt have the same biases a lot of retro gaming fans do. I wouldn't be surprised if Jason got PO'd just to give a shot, but maybe he's aware of the Nightdive remake that just dropped lol Its hard to tell because he's really just out there sorting through the deals, like a picker almost.
Sweet Jesus. Watching you play Flashback is like watching one of those mobile game ads designed to incite rage via total player failure. It's not that complicated my guy. Love your videos.
Having played Flashback at the time, i can attest this was how pretty much all of us experienced it. the game might worked with experience older gamers, but kids had a horrible time with it lol
Played battle chess onmy uncles cpu eay back when, and had cpu beat. Was going to check mate next move but cpu wouldn't stop "thinking" so i never got the victory.
This video is a good blessing. Thanks for uploading these weird arse vids, Poser Graves! 😂 I hope you're doing ok with the hurricane and all. Many prayers, bud.
I love the hell out of my 3do. Granted, I paid $30 for it at a used game store in 96/97 and not $700, but going from SNES to this was kinda really neat and it kickstarted my love of FMV games. Plus, the store I bought it from was also selling 3do games for $5-10, which was the perfect price for a teen without much money, so I had a pretty decent library for the system. Got a ton of 3do games on my Steam Deck now.
Next to Happy Console Gamer and Razorfist, ur the best gamer tuber since classic Spoony. Keep an eye on ur nonbinary company...especially around young uns. I dont wanna see u get EDP'd or Mr Beasted.
I take that back. [Gex] "Maybe on par with the original Donkey Kong Country." Maybe inflation is transitory. Maybe Jeff E. did it himself. Maybe NBA Jam is as good as NBA Hangtime. Maybe Paperboy 2 music isn't funky. Shame on u.
@@RahanPlays DKC is one of the best games, with one of the best soundtracks, that pioneered the pre-rendered style, with amazing atmosphere, controls and iconic characters. It has spawned 4 sequels counting DKC returns and tropical freeze. Had multiple ports and spawned the dk land games that are all great. DKC 1 may be the best game ever made. It may be my favorite game, DKC Zelda and Mega Man are my favorite series. To say, Gex and Donkey Kong Country are pretty much the same.... Sacrilege. Aquatic Ambience, Jungle Beat, Mine Cart Madness, The King K Rool theme, Tree top village theme, fear factory Iconic stages and songs. I can't recommend the YOU play Donkey Kong Country hard enough. It's just as good as 2 and a truly magical game. It has aged wonderfully as well. The music alone puts the game in ALL TIME classic status. If u have played it before, please, for the love of all that is holy u owe it to urself to play it again. I mean, Family Jukesx7 DKC1 remixes give it all time status. I was born in 85. So I understand nostalgia is a factor but I also understand gaming perfection. DCK2 is the default best and I may agree with that but that's not bc DKC1 is weak in anyway. Everything about dck1 is iconic. No offense to Gex but Gex ≠ DKC1.
I remember my first experience seeing a 3do, it was 1994 at a curcuit city there was a snes a playing mario kart then there was the 3do playing need for speed, I couldn't believe my eyes 3do looked incredible. mario kart looked so outdated.
I remember this thing well and fondly. I never owned one (it was much too expensive and we were much too poor), but i was just beginning to read gaming magazines when this was announced and followed it's life story as it was happening. It always looked pretty good, a step up from 16bit games for sure, but it was expensive and wasn't really doing anything that the PC couldnt, it didn't help that a lot of the games also came out on PC. What really killed it was the PSX coming out right as the 3d0 was about to hit its stride. the high price and premature 3d hardware just couldn't compete with the PSX. There were murmurs and rough prototypes of a 3d0 successor but it never amounted to anything. it was an interesting concept (design the hardware and have electronics manufacturers compete in manufacturing) but the costs were just too high. I'm so down to watch you go down the rabbit hole though, i'll experience it vicariously through you lol. I was an avid PC Gamer at that time (yay piracy) so i did get to play a lot of the games, but there were still some exclusives. I'm still really into 90s PC Gaming and still discover gloriously weird/horrible PC/3d0 multiplats.
Diving into some unknown console library seems like a fun idea, I've considered getting into AmigaCD32, FM Towns Marty, or Pippin but they're like $600 consoles and the games aren't easy to get either. 3DO seems to have the most diverse games out of them. If you like that Bach game, Digital Dreamware for 3DO is worth looking into if you can find it for a reasonable price, I'd play it if I could.
That copter game giving you a "TIME LIMIT REACHED" message that reminds me of a similar thing happening to the spyro demo on crash bandicoot ps1...except it could be bypassed and the full game files were present on the disc I would be willing to bet there are 3do discs out there that you could also find full unlockable games on demos for that nobody ever has because....itd 3do
I bought the first FZ10 sold in the DFW metroplex. Put a deposit on it at an import shop right after it was announced. I spent like two months obsessed with Star Control 2. Loved that game. I also remember that i loved Gex, Road Rash, Wolfenstein, Soccer Kid, Return Fire, Samurai Showdown, and a few others. My wife (girlfriend then) loved the 3DO Wolfenstein and played it for hours. Once I was leaving to work a 12 hour shift and my dad came in with a cup of coffee and fired up Road Rash. He was still playing it when i got home! Great console.
Rented flashback as a kid and had absolutely no idea. Couldnt get further than a few screens. I'd played prince of Persia and Another World, so not like anything was that new
Wanted to make a seperate comment regarding Need for Speed. It blew everyone away when it came out. it was the first 3D racing game that tried to be realistic but also arcadey and packed full of exotics. it definitely appealed to car fans but also it was a great game for the time. i played it a lot on PC... there was nothing else like it. The soundtrack was kicking too. There's a reason it kicked off a massive franchise.
A note on disc burning (and this isn't directed towards you, but just a general statement because this has always come up since CD burners became a thing): Burning a disc at the slowest speed possible is nonsense. Yes, it's always been recommended, and it's always been nonsense. My justification for this is all of the burning I've done since I bought my first Plextor 2x CD-R drive back in the mid-90's. The first key thing is the quality of the drive. Back in the 2x days, some drives worked a lot better than others. Plextor was the brand I had, and they were among the best, most reliable drives. I always burned my discs at 2x and never had problems. Unless... The second thing key thing is the quality of the media. This has always been all over the place. Lots of brands that others have claimed success with, I've had poor results with. The best results I've gotten are when I've bought a spindle from a certain brand and burned 30 or so discs and then tried to use them. Lots of brands would spit out random coasters (discs that don't read properly). Some brands would spit out almost nothing but. Verbatim used it be a great brand, but they have resorted to making garbage within the last 10 years, if not earlier. Here's the problem: virtually nobody bothers to make CD-R media anymore, and if they do, the majority of them don't care to make quality discs. So there's really only one brand left that makes decent discs, and it's Taiyo Yuden. But Taiyo Yuden sold their manufacturing facilities to another company. So now your only option is to buy CMC Pro (you'll see them listed as "Powered by TY Technology"). These discs burn just fine every time. They also read well in old devices of any sort. I've never had a read problem with these discs until a drive has died completely. And again, I only burn them at max speed. Modern burning drives all tend to work the same: either they burn a disc properly or they don't. Slowing down the burn speed does nothing to make the disc more readable. It never did (with the exception that maybe you had slower media (ie 2x media in a 4x drive)). Either you have a good burner and a good CD-R disc, or you don't. Changing the burn speed is never going to compensate for that. It's about damn time this stupid myth got put to rest. Edit: I forgot to comment on NOS media ("new old stock"). I'm not a fan of this for two reasons: 1. it's a crapshoot whether your brand new discs that were pressed 20 years ago will still work properly (disc rot is a thing), and 2. I think you should support the brands that are still bothering to make CD-R media, which almost no one is buying anymore (even if there is seemingly only 1 brand making media that actually works consistently). I don't think it's worth paying a premium to a secondary seller in order to get a certain brand or disc just to find out that half of them don't work anymore. And besides, when you go to burn more discs, then what? Better to just use the modern discs that actually work well.
Slayer and Road Rash is about the only reason to get a 3DO. When I did own a 3DO way way back in the day. I had a lot of fun with Slayer. It's Dungeon Hacks big brother, 4 random dungeon bosses. 10 to 20 levels deep, make it one of the hardest games. Starvation, poison is a joke or lethal magical or non magical beasts depends if you need a enchanted weapon or not. Crazy game for the 3DO.
My friend's brother bought an FZ-1 brand new, right after the price had dropped to $399. I spent a LOT of time in 1994 at his house playing the 3DO. That system was downright MAGICAL back then. There was nothing else like it, and unlike what many people think in hindsight, it was a HUGE leap beyond the SNES that I had and even the Sega CD (which I didn't have, but would always play every time I went with my mom to Sears*). 3DO didn't always have a bad rap. There was still a lot of enthusiasm for it in 1995, and it was considered a viable competitor to the Saturn and Playstation at least up until 1996. The hardware had its limitations, but was surprisingly powerful considering it launched more than full year before the Playstation (2 years if you were in the US). The games that were designed for 3DO tend to be best on that console, or at least I prefer them on 3DO. Road Rash, for instance, runs faster on Playstation but the variable frame rate drives me nuts on the PSX, whereas on the 3DO it still varies but is less noticeable and less impactful on the gameplay. The FZ-1 is still my absolute favorite console design ever. It's hefty and feels substantial, it looks great, it's big but not too big, and it looks right at home with other high-end AV equipment. The controller feels very solid (way more so than Genesis or American Saturn controllers), the cord is thick but soft, and the headphone jack is extremely handy to play in silence. And unlike some, I love the daisy-chain design because it means you're not limited in how many controllers you can plug in (and you only need one port on the front of the console). Very forward-thinking. The 3DO, whether people realize it or not, was quite revolutionary. It pioneered a lot of things that would help push the industry forward, like CD-based media (being the first CD-only console) and drastically lower licensing fees. It also was, to my knowledge, the first console to us an operating system in order to maximize the ease of software development. If anything, 3DO was TOO far ahead of its time, *Speaking of which, Sears also had a CD-i kiosk on display, and while that thing always mildly interested me, I never had much fun playing with it. It always had that terrible remote-like thing attached to it which was no fun to use, and the kiosk focused more on the multimedia stuff than gaming. Philips decided far too late in the device's life to embrace gaming, at which point it was too late. Anyone remember the Phil Hartman commercials?
Not fully related to the 3DO but around this time the CD-I came out. Best Buy had it, and I'm pretty sure, one other console in a SEPARATE section of the store. They'd mostly show off the multimedia aspects. I remember it/them were always playing 2 Stupid Dogs cartoons. But I know 100% one was the CD-I, but I can't think of what the other would have been. Amiga CD 32 jumps out at me, but I definitely didn't use that wonky controller. It was probably not the 3DO, but may have been, but I think the 3DO was in the regular game section. At least it was the first time I saw it. Anyone know what kind of CD-I competitor may have been out at the time? Maybe it was just two CD-I's but they definitely had more than just the CD-I in that aisle.
Hey, correct me if I’m wrong cause it’s been years since I’ve done the bin and cue stuff but if I remember correctly, the Que file was the instructions to the burner and the bin file was the data package itself?
I liked Flashback and Out of this World, beat both of em back in the day on the SNES. It's not that bad once you get the hang of the controls and understand how they work.
Also some day I would love to chat with you about the role video games played during childhood trauma. Your breath of fire observations brought me to tears, because I had similar experience. Your best work comes from that earnestness.
To be fair- the open source The Ur Quan Masters game is probably better in every way and plays on modern systems. The 3do version does have some fmv scenes though. It's a really fun game so o hope you cover it sometime
Whenever I see a video like this I'm like "damn, when are you gonna get to the next SNES RPG?" but then I'm thoroughly entertained by it anyway and have a lot of fun. Just keep doing whatever the hell you wanna do lol
Star Control II can also be played on PC for free as The Ur-Quan Masters, an open-source version released in the 2000s en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ur-Quan_Masters
