Yesterware

The 3DO isn't a great platform.  It's also not a particularly bad one either.  I've only ever met one person who professed nostalgia for it (specifically the game "Twisted").  There aren't really any "killer app" games for it.  Supposedly its version of Need For Speed is superior to the Playstation version in some way (I never bothered investigating the rumor).  There are a handful of interesting games.  Star Control II, a couple of Wing Commander titles, "D", etc... Regardless it's still a great piece of gaming history and represents an alternate view of the way things may have gone.  Comparing it to the other consoles of its time, the best way I can sum it up is to say that the 3DO iterated where the Playstation and Saturn innovated.  Like the Atari Jaguar, the 3DO was more of an extension of the 16-bit arc rather than the start of a new 32-bit trajectory. I'm in the process of getting ODE's for all of the platforms I can, an...