3DO DEVELOPERS UNIT with INTERFACE CARD "INTERNATIONAL STATION 1.0"

The special board that basically is the 3DO station is located in a large PC style case. The case you see isn't the computer the board goes into, it's the actual 3DO unit. What you are looking at is the card interface and it's tools, and the test unit the code is debugged on. Later on this was a modified consumer unit. If you want a glimpse of what the 3DO prototype looked like, the board is basically a finished version. The RAM is in slots. Now you know why the first 3DO units were front loaders. The 3DO hardware had some serious shortfalls, and was not popular in the US. However, in Japan it was strangely accepted and supported. There's about 10x the amount of 3DO titles in Japan as were released in other areas.

GOOD: It's huge, it's manly. Women love it.

BAD:  It's utterly useless except to a skilled programmer. You'll need to hunt down all sorts of things to make it work as intended. But it is a good way to make 3DO games and play unreleased games.

UGLY: It's 3DO. Enough said.                                                                                               RETURN