Which is better? Atari Jaguar or Panasonic 3DO?

[MikeB]

MikeB said:

3D0 by far, awesome specifications for its time. Sadly there was a severe lack of games production muscle from the makers and supporting companies.

Or the Amiga CD32, the first 32bit CD based games console which also plays CDTV discs, could handle VideoCD and could be build into a full computer with keyboard/mouse/harddrive/diskdrive/internet access/etc.

It sold great initially in Europe (software easily outselling PC CDROM, MegaCD and CDi combined for the UK) until the parent company died. One of big factor why the company died (or rather the final nail in their coffin) was the huge stock they build for the US launch, which they weren't able to sell (blocked by US court) due to patent issues.

 

Alien Breed: Tower Assault, Super Stardust and Banshee were great! Sadly its full potential was never realized.

It shared many of its games with the CDTV from 1990 which was mainly based on 1985 Amiga technology, but games like Lemmings and Defender of the Crown were great:

CDTV Defender of the Crown 2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af0vFi4sSzw (RIP onto harddrive lacking some music)

CD32 Banshee:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoWuYp-vs6c

Super Stardust:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHkMdtJtSYk (diskette based version lacking some audio and cinematics)

Best homeland produced CD32 game (yes some good games were made in Holland before Killzone as well )

CD32 Disposable Hero:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b-p2ka9mwA (sadly the same as the diskette based Amiga 500 version, but still great!)