Your birth year
2006
3DO
19931990s
3DO is 13 years older than you
It's from 1993, before you were born.
- Maker
- The 3DO Company / Panasonic
- Type
- 32-bit home console
- Debuted
- 1993
- Launch price
- ~$699 — roughly a mortgage payment in CD-ROM form
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About
As of 2026, it's 33 years old.
The 3DO wasn't sold like a console — it was a licensed standard, with Panasonic, Sanyo, and GoldStar all building their own machines. Visionary on paper, baffling at retail.
Then there was the price: about $700 at a time when the Super Nintendo cost a third of that. Trip Hawkins had built a gorgeous CD-ROM machine that almost nobody could justify owning.
A console designed by committee, priced for collectors, and remembered mostly by the people who actually bought one.
3DO through the years
1993
1993
Launch
Hits shelves at ~$699 with Panasonic's FZ-1 leading the charge.
1996
1996
Curtain call
The format fizzles as the PlayStation and Saturn eat its lunch.
You were born — 2006
