Also known as 3DO Interactive Multiplayer
3DO is a video gaming hardware format developed by The 3DO Company and conceived by Electronic Arts founder Trip Hawkins. The specifications were originally designed by Dave Needle and RJ Mical of New Technology Group, and were licensed by third parties; most hardware were packaged as home video game consoles under the name Interactive Multiplayer, and Panasonic produced the first models in 1993 with further renditions released afterwards by manufacturers GoldStar, Sanyo, Creative Labs, and Samsung Electronics.
Key facts
- Information appliance.name
- 3DO
- Information appliance.logo
- 3DO_Logo.svg
- Information appliance.logo_size
- 65px
- Information appliance.image
- 3DO-FZ1-Console-Set.jpg
- Information appliance.caption
- The first 3DO machine, Panasonic FZ-1 R.E.A.L. 3DO Interactive Multiplayer
- Information appliance.developer
- The 3DO Company
- Information appliance.manufacturer
- Panasonic, Sanyo, GoldStar, Creative Technology
- Information appliance.type
- Home video game console
- Information appliance.generation
- Fifth
- Information appliance.units_sold
- Worldwide: 1.38 to 2 million
- Information appliance.media
- CD-ROM
- Information appliance.cpu
- 32-bit custom RISC CPU (ARM60)
- Information appliance.cpu_speed
- 12.5 MHz
- Information appliance.memory
- 2 MB RAM, 32 KB SRAM, 1 MB VRAM
- Information appliance.storage
- 32 KB SRAM
- Information appliance.online_services
- Planned but canceled
- Information appliance.top_game
- Gex (1+ million)
- Information appliance.successor
- Panasonic M2 (canceled)
via Wikipedia infobox