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The $700 Dream: The Complete History of the Panasonic 3DO Before PlayStation rewrote the rules of console gaming, Trip Hawkins and some of the biggest companies in electronics and entertainment tried something even more radical. The 3DO was not supposed to be just another game console. It was supposed to change who controlled the console business in the first place. Panasonic REAL 3DO FZ-1. The machine most players associate with the 3DO… Read more

Rip and Tear: The Definitive History of the Original DOOM On December 10, 1993, a file named DOOM1_0.ZIP was uploaded to an FTP server at the University of Wisconsin. There was no multi-million dollar marketing campaign, no flashy Super Bowl commercial, and no coordinated launch event. There was only a 2.39 MB compressed file, unleashed onto the nascent internet and the sprawling network of Bulletin Board Systems (BBS). What happened next wasn't… Read more