Overview

Full Name: 3DO Magazine Japan Issue 11 1994
Issue 4 1994
Date November 1994
Region: JP
Barcode: T1064681161480
Cover Disc Yes
Notes:

News

New Products (Page 41) - Report from CES, showing the Goldstar machine, that it be released in May in Korea and the US, the VCD upgrade is undecided. Samsung showed off their machine (No picture), but unsure of when it will be released. AT&T had postponed their machine, and cancelled the modem to focus on the Genesis. Also brought up is the Flight Stick Pro and 3DO Blaster.
New Project (Page 41) - Half page article about how the M2 will be using the PowerPC to run (It will also be compatible with 3DO games by having its chip in the system)

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Coming Soon Japan - List of games that are coming out in Japan:

Need to translate better

Coming Soon Overseas - List of games that were meant to have come out in the US but never did: (I haven't included games that were listed and released)

Absolute Entertainment - Penn & Tellers Smoke & Mirrors American Laser Games - McKenzie & Co, Shootout at Old Tuscan Art Data - Chess Wars, Doom 2 Atlantis Interactive - The Atlantean Book Of Destiny, UFOS are Real Cerebre - Eye Spy Crystal Oasis - Rad The Rock Hopper Digital Pictures - Maximum Surge Electric Dreams - Angel Devoid Electro Media - Wonder Lust Elite - Powerslide Gametek - Baldies Infromgrames - Alone in the Dark 3 Interplay - Frankenstein, Kingdom 2, Waterworld, Clayfighter 2,Rock And Roll Racing L3 Interactive - Real Line:An interactive learning cube, The Ultimate Fighting Style JVC - Varunas Forces Meta-Design - In Your Face Microprose - Vikings Morpheus Interactive - Saturncide Origin Systems - Wing Commander 4 Panasonic - Theo the Dinosaur, Obelisk, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, Paramount - Star Trek Manual Psygnosis - Discworld Readysoft - Dragons Lair 2 Rocket Science - Cadillac's and Dinosaurs, Loadstar, Wing Nuts Runandgun - Duelin Firemen Studio 3DO - 3DO Games Decathlon, Baseball Universal - Disruptor US Gold - Dream Team Basketball VideoactV - Fun!, InteractV Aerobics:Hi Low & Combo, Planet Vegas, Tigernaut Beyond the Stars, Time is Broken, Toon Time 2 Virgin Interactive - Dragon Vivid Interactive - The Blind Spot, Taken it off, Winner Takes All

Features

Ladies & Kids - Pages 62 and 63 - Monthly article giving reviews on what games are good for Women and Children. Ladies games include Puzzle Bobble, Trip'd, Incredible Machine, Lemmings and Crayon Shin-chan. For the Kids the games I couldn't translate
For Adults - Pages 64 and 65 - Monthly article giving an insight into adult games, the two games featured are Psychic Detective
3DO Awards - Pages 83 to 87 - Special feature giving awards to the best 3DO games in different category's:

- Overall Winner - 1st - Policenauts 2nd - D's Dining Table 3rd - D Directors Cut 4th - Sword & Sorcery 5th - Return Fire

- 3D Shooting Game - Shock Wave Operation Jumpgate

- Action - Gex

- Simulation - Theme Park

- Adventure Games - Policenauts

- Sports - J League Virtual Stadium

- Edutainment - Emit Vol 1

- Hip Hop = Policenauts

- Graphics - D Directors Cut

- Music - Sword & Sorcery

- Cost Performance - Short Warp

- My Favourite Game - Return Fire

Previews

Road And Track Presents Overtrack (Page 36) - Full page preview
Policenauts (Page 37) - Half page preview
D (Page 37) - Half page preview
Myst (Page 38) - Third page preview
Makaroni Horenso Interactive (Page 38) - Third page preview
F1GP (Page 38) - Third page preview
Insect Wars (Page 39) - Third page preview
Theme Park (Page 39) - Third page preview
World Cup Striker (Page 39) - Third page preview
Sailor Moon (Page 40) - Quarter page preview
Idol Janshi Suchie (Page 40) - Quarter page preview
Belzerion (Page 40) - Quarter page preview
Peter Frank: Tower of Puzzles (Page 40) - Quarter page preview
Other mentions - (Page 40) - Table of upcoming games, that include - Demolition Man (Virgin), Yu Yu Hakusho (Tomy), Sangokushi IV (Koei), Doraemon (Riverhill Soft), Montana Jones (Future Pirates), Samurai Shodown (BMG Victor), Tetsujin: The Return (Synergy, Inc.) and The 11th Hour (Virgin)]

Games Overview

Blue Forest Story (Pages 18-25) - 6 page overview of the game
Doom (Pages 26-29) - 4 page overview
V Goal Soccer (Pages 30-33) - 4 page overview
Rockman X3 (Pages 34-35) - 2 page overview
Clockwerx (Page 36) - Full page overview
7 Masters (Page 37) - Full page overview

Adverts

Publishers

Panasonic 3DO Real Einstein Ad - Two page ad, 1st page contains mainly Street Fighter 2, with smaller pictures for Novastorm, Pebble Beach and Murphys TV, the 2nd page is Alone in the Dark, with the bottom corner having Einstein. (Page 2-3)
Montana Jones Ad - Full page ad (Page 4)
J League Virtual Stadium Ad - 2 Page ad (6-7)
Electronic Arts Ad - 2 Page ad, with Road Rash and Lemmings taking up a quarter each, and Shock Wave in the centre taking up the rest. (Page 8-9)
Off World Interceptor Ad - Full page ad (Page 10)
Star Control 2 Ad - Full page ad (Page 11)
PaTaank Ad - Full page ad (Page 12)
Assault Agency! Megadasu! Ad - Full page ad (Page 13)
D Ad - Two page ad (Pages 14-15)
Sotsugyo: Graduation Final Ad - Two page ad (Pages 16-17)
Micro Cabin Ad - Two page ad with Powers Kingdom on one full page, and Puppet Tale and Life Stage Virtual House taking up half a page each on the other (Pages 18-19)
T&E Soft Ad - Two page ad with Waialae Golf taking up half a page, Augusta 3 a quarter and Pebble Beach Golf Links the other quarter. 2nd page contains Nova Storm (Half a page) and the other half equally containing The Incredible Machine, Microcosm, Stella 7 and Dragons Lair (Pages 20-21)
Pack In Video Ad - Two page ad with Nishimura Kyotaro Travel Mystery taking up a page, and Yamamura Misa Suspense and Burning Soldier taking up half a page each (Pages 22-23)
Theatre Wars Ad - Full page ad (Page 24)
Alone in the Dark Ad - Full page ad (Page 25)
Murphys TV Ad - Full page ad (Page 26)
Dragon Tycoon Edge Ad - Full page ad (Page 27)
Winning Post Ad - Full page ad (Page 28)
Mahjong Goku Tenjiku Ad - Full page ad (Page 29)
Horse Race Winning Law Ad - Full page ad (Page 30)
Mega Race Ad - Full page ad (Page 31)
Igo Time Trial: Thumego 1 Ad - Full Page ad (Page 32)
Battle Pinball Ad - Full page ad (Page 33)
Jurassic Park Ad - Full page ad (Page 34)
Strahl Ad - Full page ad (Page 35)