Gooday Gaming Guests - Panasonic 3D0 and Philips CDI

Episode Date: January 7, 2025

Very Awkward 3D Graphics and Game Play.

Alright for a system today we're going to pick some fun stuff. We're going to start with 3DO. The Panasonic 3DO. Let's get a little history on the Panasonic 3DO so it was an interactive multiplayer by Panasonic and Goldstar which is now LG and Sony so during this era, so it was released in

1993, there was a couple models I had one of the two models FZ1 was the first model it came out in 1993 there was a couple models i had one of the two models uh fz1 was the first model it came out in 1993 it was 700 bucks whoa uh the graphics were really really awkward aimed to have higher graphics had like the mini movies dragon's lair Space Ace and all that. So it had a 32-bit RISC processor. CPU ARM60. Capable of 3D rendering.

16 bit stereo CD-ROM. So it was CD-ROM based. Right, yeah. And it also had the external storage thing that I had gotten. So the FZ1 was the original and most iconic. The FZ-10, more compact, course-resistant, the top loader.

Gold Star, now LG 3DO, a cheaper alternative to the Panasonic model. And Sanyo had a TRY lesser known and rare version released in Japan huh let me look at that let's go to eBay I've never seen those so yesterday I did a price on the who's at the PC engine light was in the thousands I was like. That's why I never got one. Let's see what the Gold Star one is. So let's hit eBay and see if we can find out what that's going for. Curious now.

I've had the top loader and the front loader. And then I had the memory thing. Gold Star. LG Gold Star star I see games here we go three in a box so the 3d oh it looks pretty cool 450 bucks penny sign like gold stop in a sonic 3d oh so I never had one of them 3d oh controller pad oh I like the design that's pretty cool all right so that one was 300 bucks and let's look at this the cno i'm sure this is gonna be really expensive let's see how much this one's if you go on ebay and try to get one of these i'm not buying anything else but i can't afford it uh but it's fun to look and tr 680 for the Samsung

for the Sanyo 3DO oh so that's something new I learned something new today I didn't know there was two different kinds other than the ones that I knew of alright so if you want to spend $700 you can get yourself one of those 3DO is known for games like Road Rash

GEX, Need for Speed Star Controller 2, and then D. So I have D, and I also have that in Sega Saturn. That is the most awkward 3D graphic game ever. And it's almost like Doom style. You can only turn one way at a time and go forward.

It's so hard to play. It's pretty fun, but it's really, really awkward. So awkward. The price of these was $6.99. Tough competition. Sega Saturn, Super Nintendo, and later PlayStation. So 3DO.

All right, so let's see. There was a boot process. Let's just go to boot process. Process of 3DO. Let's see if it works for me. go to boot process muster up for some info here this is activated 3do had his head BIOS basic in out system firmware system core routine initialized. CPU, GPU and CD-ROM. BIOS check. Display splash screen. CD-ROM check there. 3D was primarily executable.

The file was often named something like 3DOEX. A common convention. 3DO games. I would never want to play a 3DO game. And then the other ones were like Dragon's Lair and Space Ace were like quick decision games you have to pick something fast or you die

and it's really really hard to play those so it had multimedia read BIOS in the support game but also you can do CD, CD photos copyrighted uh troubleshooting so that's about that all right so there was a 3do uh memory mem readaptor i got it from Japan.

Storage. It was like a storage adapter. And it was really expensive to get. I sold it with my other stuff. The purpose of the map was to save games. Yeah. It used a battery backup SRAM. Static Random Memory.

You had to put a disk in it to access it. Portable storage, small internal battery, SRAM. Supported games with saved functionalities. A rarity there. It was not widely produced. It was rare.

Non-universal support. Some later models like the Gold Star and the FC-10 did not have the expansion port required for the adapter. Oh, I didn't know that. So-10 did not have the expansion port required for the adapter. Oh, I didn't know that. So the one I had had the expansion port because it was connected to test it. Again, all that stuff, if you type it in, you can see many videos of me testing that expansion thing. Everything that I talk about now or before, there's a video somewhere of me. Because I had it.

I didn't have a Gold Star and I didn't have the C&O. But I had FZ1 and I had FZ10. And I had the storage. And somewhere there's a video of it. Pretty fun. Alright, so that's kind of... Let's see what the... Game...

Game library. For 3DO. Let's see what kind of game library there was for 3DO. 200 official games. Probably more than I thought there was. Games like GEX. I've never heard of that. Crash and Burn.

Wolfenstein. Out of this World. Probably from Gripping Story. That sounds like G.E.X. I've never heard of that. Crash and Burn. Wolfenstein. Out of This World. Probably from Gripping Story. That sounds like fun. Road Rash. D. The Horde. Comedy starring Kirk Cameron. Mixed action, strategy,

and comedy. That sounds weird. First Person was Doom. P.O.E.D. Mist was there. John Madden. Night Trap. Oh, Night Trap was Doom. P.O.E.D. Mist was there. John Madden. Night Trap. Oh, Night Trap was on that too. Night Trap has Dragon's Lair. Yeah, there's Dragon's Lair.

Total Eclipse. Space Shooter. I have some of those games too, still. Exclusive titles. Lucan's Quest. That sounds like fun. Let's check that one out. I've never had that one. So I'm going to cross-reference in the eBay here while I'm doing it. Because usually when it says it's hard to find, it's going to be real expensive.

I heard this. Yep. 3DO. Lucan's Quest. $700 from Netherlands. For a 3DO game. $700 again. Whoa.

$1,400. Pretty cool. Alright. So that's how expensive these games can get. Whoa, that was expensive. Alright, let's see what else we got here. So that one's one of the most expensive games I've seen in a while. Alright, so now we're going to go on to a similar system.

Which is the... Philips... CDI. History. Phillips CDI history this one's really fun basically the same kind of era 1990s I think was a little bit earlier the idea of the CDI in the mid 80s as well brought the expansion capabilities to CDd format the goal is to create new standard of multimedia partnership with sony uh green book launched the first cdi system the cdi uh 910 i have two of them actually still i got rid of my good 450 released in 1991 my 450 had the memory upgrade. It's a cartridge thing and you can put it in the 450

and then you can play the better games. Interactive multimedia. CD based. Powered by the Motorola 68000 series CPU. Which was in a lot of those earlier

systems we've learned. Hotel Mario, I have a boot copy of that. And I have the link, the faces of evil and Zelda, Wand of Galmore. And it's the only time that Link actually speaks. It's really funny. If you type that into my YouTube, you can see a little remix of Link speaking. And I also have Hotel Mario as boot games. These Zelda games were developed due to

a failed deal with... It was a failed deal between Philips and Nintendo. They made them anyway. It says, were infamous for their awkward controls and cheesy motion videos. Cut screens.

Party and puzzle games like Apprentice Connect 4. It was high priced. At launch, a CD-i was $700. So they all were. Confusing market for CD-i's as rather than dedicated, it was more of a multimedia than saying it was a dedicated gaming system.

Poor libraries lacked compelling exclusives. Production halted by the mid-90s. Cease production of CD-i. The last games and software released in 1998. Legacy. It was a failure, but it holds a gaming. CD-i's today are very collectible.

Yeah, they're really, really fun. If you can get those Zelda games original. Oh, actually, I do have one of the original the wand but it doesn't work but I have the original case and then I have three of them the other three I have is a boot copy that a buyer gave me

when I bought the system off of him for lots of money what is the game library library What is the game library? Library. Library. CDI. Let's see what we got in the game library. What's on there? Hotel Mario 1994.

That one's pretty cool. The Apprentice. Lucky Luke. Atlantis The Last Resort. The Apprentice. Lucky Luke. Atlantis, The Last Resort. 3D person shooter. Zelda, The Wanda. Link, The Face of Evil. Zelda's Adventure.

I think I had that too. Seventh Guest. That was a PC game too. Mists. Lingo. Full motion was Dragon's Lair. Space Ace. I still have a...

Oh, I have another one too. I have a... Dark Tower or something. Simulation Parties. Infamous titles. Mario. Rarity. Yeah.

A lot of... these also had a um the controls are really weird but it was a gamepad that i had i sold for a bit and a mouse i just sold recently for the cdi there's also what memory cartridge memory cartridge to play better games so the memory i know the 450 i could put it in but actually the memory cartridge is more then it's called the digital video cartridge d Enhances the capabilities Purpose Provided hardware support for the MPEG-1 Video decoder Capability of some of the games that Wouldn't play other than not having it

Several High profile FMV heavy games Required DVCs Burn Cycle 7 Seventh Guest. Dragon's Lair. Space Ace. Voyager.

An adult oriented FMV thriller. Interesting. Mad Dog. I'm kind of curious about that one. So I have my 910. I have two of them. And they work to some degree

I just need to get a memory thing for it and then sell the other one or sell it for parts one of the two I'm going to see what this Voyager one is

I don't see it anywhere no let's see let's try this oh it's a voyeur not not voyager yeah boy you're like somebody watching somebody else see See that you avoid you don't get caught disc That's actually not that bad only 1250 voyeur full motion factory Cdi $29 don't get caught so there's a bunch of them. It's not that rare I guess

$19 But I'm looking for a CDI 910. What did I say that was? A DVC? DVC. What did we just say that was? A DVC? DVC. So that's what I'm looking for.

Let's see what they're going for. If I can find one. I don't see any. CDI. They're around. There's one right there. Cartridge for the $180. So there.

It's called the Phillips CDI. 220. 910 and 200 cartridge. Those are expensive. Nothing I can do now, but pretty fun. All right, so let's go on to one. Let's see where we're at now in time. 15 minutes.

Let's see. I want to see how many consoles. Oh, there they are. So for separate consoles, there was one for the 150, the CDI 150. There's a CDI 470. And then the Gold Star had one too.

So the what models were there for CDI just do a compact I just want to get the model numbers philips models okay which is the cdi 205 one of the first cdi players then there was a philips cdi 210 and then a cdi 220 and then a philips cdi 450 required the digital video cartridge for advanced. Then it was the CDI 470, which I'd never seen. And then I had the CDI 910. North America released of the CDI 205. One of the first models in the US.

It was big. It was like a big DVD player with a VCR. That's how big it was. Big it is. I still have it. Bund player with a VCR. That's how big it is. I still have them. Bundled with a controller. Then there was the Magnavox CDI 200 series.

Released Magnavox 450. And then Gold Star. Oh, there was a professional model. CDI 601. Oh, there's a professional model. CDI-601. Oh, there's a lot more. 602. 605.

615 CDIs. And there was a portable one. CDI-350. And CDI-360. I never, I never. Philips CDI-910 compact or portable version of the CDI. Oh, there's a CD-I Mini. Then a CD-I180.

Development kit prototype model used for commercial release. Extremely rare. Later models included. So the CD-I400. You could add the thing. The DVC. Philips CDA470 and the Gold Star, let's check that on eBay,

came with the cartridge. Pretty cool. Let's see. Not seeing any of it right now gold star nope didn't come up let's look let's do a little search here

so that's the two those are both really fun systems but really awkward CDI 182 rare professional units were highly sought after so lots. CDI 182. Rare. Professional units were highly sought after. So lots of the CDIs.

Decline and Legacy. Alright, so that's all the different ones here. A rare variant was a Sony Discman IDP-100. Experimented with CDI but released only one model in Japan. Wow. Pretty cool. I still have some CDI games.

Pretty fun stuff. Alright, so that's my systems for today. Let's see then tomorrow. We'll pick something. Oh, I'm going to do Amiga 32 CDs, which is basically kind of the same I think in the same year

except it was from Europe. And that's one that's really fun. Then I have the Apple Pippin, R-Mark Pippin. That's really fun. I had a couple of those. There's really no way to play games on those. At least I couldn't find it. It was all internet driven somehow.

So the Apple Pippin. Check that one out on eBay. It's really expensive. Yeah so we'll just stop there for today. And we'll pick up and do a couple other ones tomorrow. Alright have a good day. Alright bye.