3DO Club News Volume 7

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Overview

  • Full Name: 3DO Club News Volume 7
  • Issue 7
  • Date December 1995
  • Region: US
  • Cover Disc No
  • Notes:

Trips Note

  • Trip Hawkins pens a note that is similar to a magazines editors note, He states the following: Several great Studio 3DO games released for the Christmas period and Golden Gate will be available early 1996, they have several exciting sports titles planned for early 1996 as well as a "great growing line up of M2 games", the Panasonic M2 deal and how they will use it for DVD and interactive top set boxes, Panasonic will also be in charge of sublicensing the hardware and the M2 will be released in the 2nd half of 1996 (Page 2)

News

  • 3DO Inks $100m Deal with Panasonic for M2 - Article that states that Panasonic will also be using the technology in DVD Players and Set top boxes and the gaming console will be available late 1996 (Page 8)
  • 3DO Website Update - Small article regarding new features on the 3DO website including more details on the M2 and updates on various game including a Captain Quazar promotion (Page 8)
  • 3DO Game Guru - Small article regarding the Game Guru and what it will do (Page 9)
  • Impending Doom For 3DO - Small article about how Doom will be shortly released, it is the "best version" running at 20 FPS....(Page 9)

Features

  • Killing Time Launched At The World Of Terror - Article about Killing Time was launched at a Halloween popup called "The World OF Terror" which was a 50,000 Square Foot Tent outside the Great Mall of Milpitas in California. (Page 9)
  • 3DO Holiday Buying Guide - 2 page article on what are the "hot games" to buy for Christmas, these include - Battle Sport, Blade Force, Captain Quazar, Doom, Killing Time, Phoenix 3, POed and Star Fighter (Pages 12-13)

Preview

  • Snow Job - 2 Page Preview (Pages 4-5)
  • Phoenix 3 - 1 Page Preview (Pages 6)
  • Star Fighter - 1 Page Preview (Pages 7)
  • Golden Gate - Small Preview (Page 10)

Hints and Tips

  • 3 Pages of tips for games including Battle Sport, AD&D Deathkeep, Killing Time, Flying Nightmares, Primal Rage, Dragon Lore, Spack Hulk and POed (Pages 11, 14-15)

Game List

  • 3 Pages of 3DO Direct, the following games listed are unreleased - 11th Hour, Cadillacs & Dinosaurs, Clayfighter 2, Deadly Skies, Fire Wall, Firewolves, Golden Gate, Lemmings Chronicles, Loadstar, Maximum Surge, NHL Hockey, Passion Files, Penn & Teller, Power slide, Red Chair, Return to Zork, Sesame Street Letters, Theo the Dinosaur, Varunas Forces, Watereworld and Winner Takes All (Insert)

Credits

  • Editor in Chief - Jackie Pierce
  • Design & Layout - Barbara Burlington
  • Writers - Rick Reynolds, Jesse Stirling

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