6,000,000,000 people world wide. 50,000,000 are English. Represented as a fraction I'm already a 1/300 of the human population. Of those 50 million lets assume only 50,000 bought 3DO multiplayers. (Perhaps generous but I'm keeping the numbers easy.)
Of which no more than 4 had every copy of every game for the 3DO. Of which I am the only one stupid or egotistical enough to run a website on the topic. Which means I was in a minority to begin with. I then joined increasingly smaller minorities until, well, it was just me. I represent 1/6,000,000,000 of the human population - Unique? Or freak? Tough call, even for me.
Add-ons. When do you think the executives at Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo will get it through their thick skulls no one buys add-ons? Not disks, not drives, not memory, not rumble packs, not expansion graphic accelerators, not nothing. They all seem unable to learn from the past. History to these people is something that never ever repeats itself and is therefore probably best to ignore it.
...of cause history itself is littered with corpses muttering something to contrary - If you notice there is my opinion something of the 3DO about the 360 - but no one listens and we will have to wait and see.
Because of the cheapness and when I say cheap, we are talking pocket-money cheap, with regards the 3DO development kit, it seems to me at least that the 3DO fostered several different types of developer. The good, the bad and the ugly.
Of the ugly we have the riff-raff like Mirage - makers of Rise of the Robots or Core - makers of BC Racer and of cause the lamentable writer of Cyberdillo.
Of the bad we had habitual porters. American Laser games, Interplay and an entire Udon shop crammed with half-arsed Japanese developers.
Of the good we were blessed with Crystal Dynamics, Microcabin, 3DO studio and of cause - Electronic Arts.
If it had not been for these developers I would have ended it all by now, by hot wiring an American Laser games gun to a car battery and then ricocheting bolts of 3DO generated hard-light at my welcoming brain.
...where was I? Oh yes - add-ons'.
Shockwave opertion Jumpgate is an add-on for the original, inspired or inspirer of ID4 - Shockwave.
It's exactly the same as Shockwave except it has you taking the fight to the aliens, and spread across 5 missions you scamper across the universe in an attempt to purge them from existence.
It won't run without detecting a save game from the original Shockwave and it was, as I recall, a tiny bit cheaper.
If you liked Shockwave, as I did, then this is for you. If you didn't well, err, don't buy it.
It's the usual EA polish with high quality renders, excellent 3D graphics and a moderately fun and balanced shooter.
And because it is an add-on, it is quite rare too.
3DO Kid.
That game looks interesting or as the kids say "the game looks like it's the shizzle-bomb diggity"... I have no idea why they say that. peerhaps its a complex mixture of Teacher mandated ritalin dosage combined with inhuman amounts of exposure to modern childrens television at a young age. Damn you Barney the Dinosaur!!!