With every console Wha Happun, we get closer and closer to examining the PlayStation Vita.

How could the console that brought us Plumbers Don't Wear Ties possibly have failed?

In germany there was still Software made for the 3DO deep into the 2000's for driving schools. They were basically just FMV's of people driving into certain situations you'd encounter in normal day to day traffic with multiple choice questions on how to handle it.

Honestly the failures of the 3DO and CD-i really make the success of the Playstation seem impressive, especially considering Sony had no experience in video games before

It's really interesting to see something on "Wha' Happun?" that didn't fail on account of any kind of cynicism but rather because there were simply too many mistakes made in it's creation and marketing.

Also nice to see that Trip Hawkins has moved on to things that are wholesome and straight up making the world better.

When the price tag was unveiled I actually recoiled in my seat a little bit.

The guy falling and spilling his McDonald's was true rage and pain. That scene touched my soul!

The 3DO is the only console I've ever sold when I didnt need money. I just didn't like it. Lol

The 3do : The Console released at the wrong place at the wrong time.

Trip Hawkins looks and sounds like a CEO from a 90s movie.

Failure as it was, there are some highlights and longlasting legacies from the 3DO. Insomniac and Naughty Dog both cut their teeth in the industry developing games on the 3DO. Insomniac first developed Disruptor on 3DO dev kits before switching to the Playstation - doing well enough with that game to make Spyro the Dragon a few years later. Naughty Dog wasn't a big name until they impressed the right people at Universal with Way of the Warrior to get signed to multigame contract - which led directly to Crash Bandicoot. Crystal Dynamics were the first first-party developer for the system - the same conpany responsible for Soul Reaver and the post Core Design Tomb Raider games also made Total Eclipse and Off-World Interceptor. Even Konami trusted the 3DO enough with a port of Policenauts that they were seriously considering making a 3D Metal Gear game on it, too. Imagine that: Metal Gear Solid on the 3DO!

You know the PS3 could a good "Wha Happen?", that whole Cell thing would be interesting.

When I was in high school, we had been the victims of a home robbery, and they nabbed my SNES and Genesis. When the insurance money came in, my parents said I could choose one of the newer systems -- but only one. My dad worked at Sears at the time (this was in 1995), and he outright said I could either get a PlayStation or a Saturn, or I could wait for the N64. But I could not, under any circumstances, get a 3DO.

My response: "What's a 3DO?"

The most amusing thing about the 3DO is that, despite being an American creation, it arguably saw the most support in Japan, of all places. Two region-exclusive variants (Panasonic's multi-disc ROBO & Sanyo's TRY), the best version of the original Panasonic FZ-1 (which allows you to turn off the 480i upscaling with literally the flick of a switch, even improving performance for some games), a memory expansion unit only sold in that region... And a crap ton of Japan-exclusive games. Yes, Japan not only got the largest portion of the 3DO's entire games catalog (214 games, or literally 2/3 of the catalog), but 139 of those were Japanese exclusives; literally, ~43% of the 3DO's entire catalog of games were only released in Japan! Quality of said games varies wildly, to no surprise, but it's still something no one really considers with this system.

13:30 There was exactly one good thing about the DOOM port for the 3DO. The music was done by the guy who ported it, along with his garage band, and they made some of the best versions of the venerable DOOM soundtrack to date.

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse may never exist, but hey, at least there's Darksiders.

Megaman Legends 3 has got an insane story of what happened in its development. Honestly even after 15 or so years after what Capcom did they still owe the fans an appology

I don't know why, but I giggles every time he says: "which was the style at the time"

The Atari 7800 is a system that would make a great episode of this show.  If it had come out in late 1983/ early 1984 like it was supposed to it would have dominated but for a whole host of What Happened type reasons it didn't come out until three years later and got slaughtered.

This is one of the few Wha Happun episodes with a fairly happy ending. Yeah the console failed but the 3DO company managed to do pretty well for a while after, and it's nice to know Trip Hawkins is still doing work.