3DO's M2 Hardware Revealed

Thanks to NFG Games for their new feature on a rare Konami arcade board using 3DO's M2 hardware. This hardware was intended to be a home-based console successor to the much-maligned 3DO console during the late '90s, but, as the article explains, "The M2 chipset shown was basically over-hyped vaporware. The actual chipset never made it into any console, and aside from three or four arcade releases and one ridiculous real estate viewing system the M2 was basically quietly forgotten." These photos of the hardware itself, plus screenshots of the Konami 'Polystars' arcade game running on it, show that "...the hardware was nothing special for the time, and the only released games bear all the hallmarks of early 3D games: flat shaded polygons with minimal textures."

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i actually owned a 3DO

[johndoejersey]

and i loved it to pieces, however the range of games never ranged above the typical fifa/madden/nhl type games which could be bought for any other console.

Thats plus the 400 uk sterling price tag probably didnt help either...