3DO Magazine Live Issue 13

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Overview

Full Name: 3DO Magazine Japan Issue 13 1/2 1996
Issue 13
Date January/February 1996
Region: JP
Barcode: T1064681131483
Cover Disc Yes
Notes:

Cover Disc

Cover Disc Overview - 3 page overview (Pages 94-96)

News

Panasonic Buys M2 - Small article on how Pansonic have bought the exclusive rights to the M2 (Page 86)
Start Of REAL Year End Campaign - Small article on how members of the REAL Club will be getting a Blue Forest Story Calendar, and they also have a potential to win a Autobahn Tokio Leather Jacket (Page 86)
REAL Land Graduation 2 Launch - Article about how Neo Graduation 2 took over REAL Land in Akihabara for its launch (Page 86)
Osaka International Trade Fair 95 - News around the Osaka show and the Panasonic booth, its had the Dolphin demo on show and was playable, it also had the "latest video" which looks like the Genki demo (Page 87)
3DO British Ads - Article around the Don't be a Dodo advert in UK press (Page 87)
E3 Finally Held In Japan - Article around how E3 will be hosted in Tokyo for the first time in 1996 (Page 87)
Grand Chef Launch - Article on the Grand Chef Launch (Page 87)
D Wins Award - Article on how D won an award at the Multimedia Grand Prix (Page 87)
Final Romance 2 Jigsaw - Article on how a Jigsaw is being given as a promo for the first 2000 people who buy (Page 87)

Coming Soon

Coming Soon Japan (Page 110) - List of games that are coming out in Japan

Ones that never made it:

HouseKeeper - Hummingbird Software
World Cup Golf - US Gold
Clockworks - Tokumon Bookstore
11th Hour - Virgin Interactive
Waterworld - Interplay Productions
Station Invasion - Studio 3DO
Casper - Interplay Productions
Kingdom - Interplay Productions
Creature Shock - Virgin Interactive
Clay Fighter 2 - Interplay Productions
Go Sennin - J Wing
The Audition - Rainbow Software
Gem Encyclopedia - Ematec
StarFighter - Studio 3DO
即戦力の定石 - Cant find info on this
D2 (M2) - Warp Interactive
TV Pot - Aladdin Studios
Dragons Lore - Multisoftware
Naoko and Hidebo The Genius of Arithmetic 3 - Gakuman
Naoko and Hidebo The Genius of Kanji 2 - Gakuman
Naoko and Hidebo The Genius of Kanji 3 - Gakuman
Naoko and Hidebo The Genius of Japanese Language 1 - Gakuman
Virtual Pool - Interplay Productions
Battlesport - Studio 3DO
Panzer General - AMT Savannah
POed - Studio 3DO
Special Pachinko Collection - Sunsoft
Shogo Hirata Interactive Picture Book:Little Red Riding Hood - Elcom
Shogo Hirata Interactive Picture Book:Isop Monogatari Vol 2 - Elcom
Shogo Hirata Interactive Picture Book:Thumbelina - Elcom
Shogo Hirata Interactive Picture Book:Sleeping Beauty - Elcom
Shogo Hirata Interactive Picture Book:Peter Pan - Elcom
Shogo Hirata Interactive Picture Book:Pinocchio - Elcom
Shogo Hirata Interactive Picture Book:Ugly Duckling - Elcom
Phoenix 3 - Studio 3DO
Flying Nightmare - Domark Software
Frankenstein - Interplay Productions
Hell - Gaga Communications
Bodyconscious Digital Rave! Part 2 - Trans-Pegasus Limited
Mysterious Tarot - Jaleco
Yokomachi 4-chome Ghost House - Warp Interactive
Rise Of The Robots - Multisoft
Lost In Time - Coktel
Return to Zork - Bandai Visual

Coming Soon Japan (Page 110) - List of Hardware that are coming out in Japan

Ones that never made it:

TDK - NV-RAM Card Reader and Card and Modem Card
Sanyo - Video CD Adapter

Coming Soon Overseas - List of games that are coming out in the US (Page 126)

Ones that never made it:

Absolute Entertainment - Penn & Teller Smoke and Mirrors
Activision - Return to Zork
American Laser Games - McKenzie & Co, Shootout at Old Tuscon
Art Data Interactive - Chess Wars, Doom 2
Atlantis Interactive - The Atlantean Book Of Destiny, Mirage, UFOs are Real
Cerebre - Eye Spy
Crystal Oasis - Rad The Rock Hopper
Digital Pictures - Maximum Surge
Domark Software - Absolute Zero
Dynamix - Red Baron
Electric Dreams - Angel Devoid
Electronic Arts - NHL Hockey, Nevada 51, Shredfest
ElectroMedia - Wonder Lust
Elite - Powerslide
Gametek - Baldies
Goldstar - Firewall, Firewolves
Infogrammes - Alone In The Dark 3
Interplay - Frankenstein, Kingdom 2, Waterworld, Clayfighter 2, Rock and Roll Racing, Lost Vikings 2
L3 Interactive - Real Line: An Interactive Learning Cube, The Ultimate Fighting Style
JVC - Deadly Skies, Varunas Forces
Meta Design - In Your Face
MicroProse - Vikings
Morpheus Interactive - Saturncide
Origin - Prowler, Wing Commander 4
Panasonic - Olympic Basketball, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, BIOS Fear, ISIS, Theo The Dinosaur
Paramount - Star Trek Manual
Psygnosis - DiscWorld
Readysoft - Dragons Lair 2
Rocket Science - Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, Loadstar, Wing Nuts
Runandgun - Duellin Firemaen
Studio 3DO - Golden Gate, 3DO Baseball
Universal Studios - Disruptor
VideoactV - Fun!, InteractV Aerobics:Hi Low & Combo, Planet Vegas, Time is Broken, Tigernaut Beyond the Stars, Toontime 2 at the Park
Virgin Interactive - The 11th Hour, Dragon
Vivid Interactive - American Blonde, Ashley Is Cheating, The Blind Spot, Channel Blonde, Hot Roxx, Hot Slots, Intimate Journey, Man Parts, Mask, Naked Reunion, New Lovers, Parlor Games, Steamy Windows, Taken it Off, The Swap, Voices In My Bed, Winner Takes All

Features

Talk About M2? - Roundtable talk with Kenji Lino from Warp and Hiroyuki Tachibana from Panasonic. Doesn't really go into too much detail, just visions of how the machine could be in the future (Does mention DVD though) (Pages 21-22)
M2 Technology Is Like This? - Editioral overview of the M2, nothing new and just general specs, but shows a picture of the Genki Demo (Pages 23-24)
Ladies & Kids - Monthly article giving reviews on what games are good for Women and Children. Ladies games include Princess Maker 2, Neo Graduation 2, Policenauts, Moon Cradle, Sword & Sorcery and Blue Forest Story, For Kids: Eigo de Go! and Ogura Hyakunin Isshu-hen (Pages 78-79)
For Adults - Monthly article giving an insight into adult games, these include D Directors Cut, JB Harold Chicago Blues and The Tower (Pages 80-81)

Previews

Cannon Fodder - Half page overseas Preview (Page 84)
Wing Commander 3 - Full page overseas Preview (Page 85)
Blue Forest Story - Small Preview (Page 100)
Cyberia - Small Preview (Page 100)
Tanjo Debut Pure - Small Preview (Page 101)
Touhaiden Akagi - Small Preview (Page 101)
Defcon 5 - Small Preview (Page 101)
Grand Chef - Small Preview (Page 102)
Captain Quazar - Small Preview (Page 102)
V Soccer 96 - Small Preview (Page 102)
Tokimeki Mahjong Paradise Special - Small Preview (Page 102)
Hell - Small Preview (Page 102)
Primal Rage - Half page overseas Preview (Page 103)
BC Racers - Half page overseas Preview (Page 103)
Snow Job - Small overseas Preview (Page 103)
Psychic Detective - Half page overseas Preview (Page 104)
Frankenstein - Half page overseas Preview (Page 104)

Games Overview

D Directors Cut - 4 Page Overview (Pages 26-29)
Virtual Stadium Baseball - 4 Page Overview (Pages 30-33)
Noon Cradle - 4 Page Overview (Pages 34-37)
Sotsugyo II Neo Generation Special - 4 Page Overview (Pages 38-41)
Princess Maker 2 - 4 Page Overview (Pages 42-45)
Autobain Tokio - 2 Page Overview (Pages 46-47)
Wolfenstein 3D - 2 Page Overview (Pages 48-49)
Puzzle Bobble - 2 Page Overview (Pages 50-51)
Short Warp - 2 Page Overview (Pages 52-53)
Closed Mansion - 1 Page Overview (Pages 54)
The Tower - 1 Page Overview (Pages 55)
NOB Neo Organic Bioform - 1 Page Overview (Pages 56)
Pro Stadium - 1 Page Overview (Pages 57)
Royal Pro Wrestling - 1 Page Overview (Pages 58)
Final Romance 2 Hyper Edition - 1 Page Overview (Pages 59)
Super Real Mahjong PV - 1 Page Overview (Pages 60)
Housekeeper - 1 Page Overview (Pages 61)

Adverts

Publishers

Panasonic Real 3DO - Two page ad, 1st page has AutoBain Tokio, 2nd Page contains information on an Autobahn Time Trial, where you can enter in over 160 different stores to try and win an Autobain Tokio Branded Jacket, bottom section has 8 game screens including D, The Tower, Moon Cradle, Princess Maker 2, Royal Pro Wrestling, Closed Mansion, Monoshiri Jiyuugaku: Ogura Hyakunin Isshu-hen and Final Romance 2 Hyper Edition (Pages 2-3)
Grand Chef - Full page ad (Page 4)
Sanyo Try - Two page ad, including full page of Pro Stadium and 2nd page is mostly taken up by NOB Neo Organic Bioform and snall Taiketsu Rumiizu (Pages 6-7)
D Directors Cut - 4 page ad, including a page with a comic on and a Q&A (Pages 8-11)
Short Warp - 2 Page Ad on the limited edition run of the 9 mini games compilation, Short Warp by Warp, it shows a screenshot of each mini game. It says that if you send the game sleeve with the handwritten number on, you go into a lottery to win a prize, it doesnt state with prize (Pages 12-13)
JB Harold Chicago Blues - 2 page ad on the game (Pages 14-15)
Virtual Stadium - Two Page ad with competition to win an EAV rain coat (300 to giveaway) (Pages 16-17)
Royal Pro Wrestling - Full page ad (Page 18)
Defcon 5 - Full page ad (Page 19)
Moon Cradle - Full page ad (Page 20)
Princess Maker 2 with small mention of Sword & Sorcery - Full page ad (Page 106)
Closed Mansion - Full page ad (Page 107)
Tanjo: Debut Pure - Full page ad (Page 108)
Housekeeper - Full page ad (Page 109)
Daedalus Encounter - Full Page ad (Page 110)
Final Romance 2 Hyper Edition - Full page ad (Page 112)
D2 - Page page ad (Pages 114-115)
Panasonic Real 3DO 2 - Autobahn Tokio - Full page ad (Back Page)

Music

Sword & Sorcery Music CD - Full page ad (Page 111)

Books

D Guide Book - Full page ad (Page 113)

Tips

Pages 62-65 - Policenauts
Pages 66-67 - J League Virtual Stadium
Pages 68-69 - F1GP
Pages 70-71 - Bladeforce
Pages 72-73 - Space Hulk
Page 74 - Syndicate
Page 75 - Daedalus Encounter
Page 76 - Gex
Page 76 - Overdrivin
Page 77 - Slam N Jam
Page 77 - Way Of The Warrior
Page 77 - Theme Park

Media

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