Distributor: Sanyo

Manufacturer: Sanyo

Released: Japan1993

Units Sold: 2 Million (All 3DO systems)

RS: 5/2

Expect to pay: 80 GBP, 130 USD

List of games available at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_3DO_games

Best Fan Site:

http://classicgaming.gamespy.com/View.php?view=ConsoleMuseum.Detail&id=39&game=12

Official console homepage:

Not available

General Info

The Sanyo 3DO was marketed in Japan only. This version featured the most unique design containing the waves you can see on top of the unit.

Top 10 Must have games:

Need for Speed, Crash n Burn, Road Rash, Alone in the Dark, Wing Commander 3, P'Oed, Hell, Gex,

Fifa, Madden.

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Technical Specs:

ARM60 CPU - RISC Architecture. 32 bits, running at 12.5MHz (roughly equivalent to a Motorolla 68030 running at 25MHz.

Two Video Co-Processors - running at 25MHz each. 16 million animated pixels a second internally that are interpolated when displayed to provide 64 million onscreen 16 bit pixels. Each pixel is capable of being distorted, scaled, rotated and texture maped. Hardware supported transparency, translucency, color shading, and RLE compressed textures. !6.7 million colors available with a 640x480 screen resolution available ultimately.

DSP - 16 bit (20 bit internal), running at 25MHz using Pipelined CISC architecture. Supports on the fly sound decompression, filtering, and various mixing, manipulatingand synthesizing features. Capable of producing 16bit stereo sound, and a 44.1KHz sampling rate, as well as supporting Dolby(tm) Surround Sound.

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