Star Control II & buying a 3DO, is it worth it?

[Tanegashima]

One day, in the early 1990's my brother and I were walking around in a mall and came across Babbages. In the window was a screen with a 3DO hooked up and it was looping the intro from Star Control II. We owned the original PC game Star Control and loved it. But needless to say, that "CGI" intro blew us away. We could never afford the 3DO at the time, nor anything else for that matter...but we knew we wanted that game. It never happened. Now I'm considering buying a 3DO, mostly so I can get SC II. However, I know its moronic to drop (from amazon/ebay) at least $150 for the system alone, another $50 for the complete game and most complete 3DO games seem to run in that price range. So, does this system have enough "good" games to be worth buying. I already have Gex on the Saturn, so what else is left? I've heard Captan Quazar is pretty cool...but still 2 games, is it worth it??

[Dartagnan1083]

A 3DO contains next to no worthwhile titles.
I myself certainly don't see myself ever getting one, and I spent $300 on a TurboDuo.

[Lemmi_Is_God]

for one thing never pay $150 for just a 3do system, if you pay that much you better get star control and a game gun with it for that price

most 3do systems should only cost around $50 just for the system and a controller max, but if you want a complete boxed FZ1 then i could see paying up to $150, i havent checked ebay in awhile but i couldnt see them skyrocketing in price in the past 3 years by 200%

i would recommend the FZ10 its lighter and cheaper to ship
i own all the US released 3do games but ive only played alittle over half of them, and many of them are still sealed (i just cant bring myself to open them)

these are the ones i like
Star Control II
Captain Quazar
Corpse Killer - (cheaper on the Sega CD just because the 3do game gun is expensive)
Daedalus Encounter
Dragon Lore
FIFA Soccer
Guardian War
Horde, the (also on the saturn)
Icebreaker
Incredible Machine
Lucienne's Quest - (expensive)
Need for Speed - (the original not the crap they have today)
Off World Interceptor
PO'ed
Space Hulk - (better than the saturn version)
Psychic Detective
Quarentine
Return Fire
Road Rash -w/Music CD
Robinson's Requiem
Shockwave 1 and 2
Super Wing Commander
Wing Commander III
Twisted the game show
Zhadnost: The Peoples Party


i left out all the gamegun games i like

[Dartagnan1083]

While that list makes me nostalgic for the mid-90s, I can't help but point out that many of those titles were ported, either to the PC, Saturn, or PSX.

Just be sure you're aware of what you're paying for.

[FoxHound]

If you get one, get Samuria Shodown! it is the best port from arcade(Blows SCD verison away). and if you have a kid of the age of 5, get Fatty Bears Fun pack, Really cool game for a kid. I also like the street fighter game as well. I paid 35 for my FZ1 system on ebay it came with a crap golf game and all hook ups and about 4 days later I found a box for the system only selling for .25 buy it now. I couldnt pass it up.

[Lemmi_Is_God]

While that list makes me nostalgic for the mid-90s, I can't help but point out that many of those titles were ported, either to the PC, Saturn, or PSX.

Just be sure you're aware of what you're paying for.

your probably right but since i dont play games on my PC or collect for the PS (except for the rpgs mostly) and i usually dont buy the same game for different systems, its all new to me

out of my list i only have 2 of those on the saturn also

i found this list on another site for games only released for the 3do - i dont know if they included PC ports or not or if its acurate

Ballz: The Directors Cut
Blond Justice
Burning Soldier
Coven, The
Crash 'N Burn
Cyberdillo
Demolition Man
Endlessly
Escape from Monster Manor
Flying Nightmares
Foes of Ali
Ice Breaker
Immercenary
Immortal Desires
Iron Angel of the Apocalypse
Iron Angel of the Apocalypse: The Return
Jurassic Park Interactive
Love Bites
Mazer
Mind Teazzer
PaTaank
Phoenix 3
Plumbers Don't Wear Ties
Scramble Cobra
Sex
Shanghai: Triple-Threat
Sid Meier's C.P.U. Bach
Slayer
Snow Job
Strahl
Super Models Go Wild
Supreme Warrior
Trip'd
Twisted: The Game Show
VR Stalker
Way of the Warrior
Zhadnost: The People's Party

[Bratwurst]

If you're hurting for Star Control II you might want to look into the public domain port of The Ur-Quan Masters:

http://sc2.sourceforge.net/

It's basically the 3DO game made to run on Windows, Linux and MacOS X, among other systems. Good fun and well done.

[MN12BIRD]

I have a Panasonic 3DO. The original style with motorized tray load. I bought it last year out of the local classifieds for $30 with Alone in the Dark. I also bought Road Rash for it off EBay shortly after for about $10 and no shipping! I mainly wanted the system for Road Rash. When I was younger my friends and I rented the system with the two games I have now and some FPS with digitized actors. It was kinda a haunted theme and you had thompson SMG's with round mags. Thats all I remember about that one lol my friend really liked that game I liked Alone in the Dark, Road Rash and Need for Speed. It was the system we all wanted but no one could afford at the time. You know when it came out it was something above us all.

[Tanegashima]

Well I bought one, its brand spanking new in the box Panasonic FZ-10 top-loader, it came with on the side:

Wolfenstein 3D
Out of this World
Gex
John Madden Football
Iron Angel
Syndicate
VR Stalker

$130 bucks, a friend of mine actually found a guy with a bunch of these things, never opened and I mentioned it to him...

I also bought:
3rd Party 3DO turbo, six button controller
SNES controller adapter
SNES controllers...
Alone in the Dark 1&2
Escape From Monster Manor
Return Fire 1 & 2
Captain Quazar
Star Controll II (why I put this on the bottom I have no clue)...

[Lemmi_Is_God]

Well I bought one, its brand spanking new in the box Panasonic FZ-10 top-loader, it came with on the side:

Wolfenstein 3D
Out of this World
Gex
John Madden Football
Iron Angel
Syndicate
VR Stalker

$130 bucks, a friend of mine actually found a guy with a bunch of these things, never opened and I mentioned it to him...

I also bought:
3rd Party 3DO turbo, six button controller
SNES controller adapter
SNES controllers...
Alone in the Dark 1&2
Escape From Monster Manor
Return Fire 1 & 2
Captain Quazar
Star Controll II (why I put this on the bottom I have no clue)...

glad to hear you got one, i got my FZ10 from media play at a nice closeout price of $43.74 in the late 90's

nice that you got SNES controller adapter, SNES controllers also (thats if you like those controllers)
im more of a 3do/sega style controller myself
you also got a nice collection of games too

you can check out my 3do collection from the link in my signiture

[Henry Spencer]

I'd honestly save the money and just use the FreeDO emulator...but that's just me.

[MN12BIRD]

Emulation can't beat the real deal. Just owning the system can bring back memories!

[Collision Cat]

When I was younger my friends and I rented the system with the two games I have now and some FPS with digitized actors. It was kinda a haunted theme and you had thompson SMG's with round mags. Thats all I remember about that one lol my friend really liked that game

Escape From Monster Manor? <---< Look, it's a link.