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Plus: Catching up with a spring blossom’s worth of recompilation progress in just the last 2 weeks.
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When I see the words “The 3DO Company,” my mind goes to a very specific place: Battletanx. The arcadey masterpiece that was 1999 sequel Global Assault probably spent more hours slotted into my teen years N64 than any game this side of Goldeneye or Mario Kart, thanks to a genuinely inventive array of asymmetrical multiplayer modes, tank archetypes and impressive-for-the-time destruction.
The second place my mind goes is Army Men: Sarge’s Heroes, the shittiest videogame I’ve played in my entire life (and my best friend in first grade owned E.T.).
So, y’know. Win some, lose some.
I have no personal affinity with the 3DO itself, an oddball console that the company launched in the early ‘90s, but by all accounts it falls into the “lose some” category. It only lasted a few years before The 3DO Company shifted to just developing and publishing games for the Nintendo 64, PlayStation and PC. Despite shutting down in 2003 (should’ve made more Battletanx and fewer Army Men), the company legacy does live on today in a few forms. 3DO originally published pioneering online 3D MMO Meridian 59, which I wrote about last year on PC Gamer because it’s one of the oldest videogames in existence still being updated today. It came out in 1996!!
Also, more relevant to this newsletter: the 3DO console now has a MiSTer core. Somebody get Trip Hawkins a MiSTer Pi, stat.
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