3DO, Any Channel Enter Long-Term Affiliated Label Agreement; 3DO Braces For Smash Hit With PO'ed; Retailers Abuzz with Consumer Demand for New Title.REDWOOD CITY Redwood City, city (1990 pop. 66,072), seat of San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1868. Manufactures include commmunications, electrical, electronic, and medical equipment. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 23, 1995--The 3DO Company today announced that it has entered a multi-year Affiliated Label agreement with Any Channel, Inc., granting 3DO distribution rights to all Any Channel titles for the 3DO(TM) platform for three years. 3DO may also license the rights to publish and distribute Any Channel titles throughout the rest of the world. The first title to be distributed by 3DO under the Affiliated Label agreement is PO'ed(TM). Due out in September, PO'ed is already one of the most requested games at stores selling 3DO(TM) products. Under its Affiliated Label program, 3DO will sell PO'ed through its distribution channel, including more than 8,800 retail outlets in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . The company will also manage all publishing, marketing, and distribution activities for the title in the rest of the world. Additionally, PO'ed will be available via 3DO Direct Sales at (800) 336-3506. "The reaction to previews of PO'ed has been overwhelming from our retailers and customers," said Jim Gregg, 3DO's Vice President of Sales. "3DO gamers are in hot pursuit of this title and are already filling out waiting lists. PO'ed will be one of the standouts for the holiday season." PO'ed sends gamers on intense flying, running, enemy-blasting missions to save the U.S.S. Pompous spaceship and its crew. The spaceship has been pulled into a hole in space and overrun by an army of aliens. It is up to the ship's chef to take on the mutant monsters who have seized the ship. The player takes flight in a jet pack or sneaks through the lost-galaxy metropolis by foot hunting down the cosmic creatures keeping the ship at bay. Multiple levels of full 3-D outer space cities and characters give gamers hours of interactive challenges. Amid the constant seek-and-destroy gun battling are missions that require quick thinking and fast fingering to repair the spaceship, activate the Space Ripper Software that extracts raw audio data from a music CD. See ripping and MP3. for a fast get-a-way, and rescue the ship's crew. PO'ed is loaded with special effects special effects, in motion pictures, cinematographic techniques that create illusions in the audience's minds as well as the illusions created using these techniques. , including unrestricted flight and ground movement within 3-D surroundings, intelligent collision detection See CSMA/CD and collision avoidance system. (networking) collision detection - A class of methods for sharing a data transmission medium in which hosts transmit as soon as they have data to send and then check to see whether their transmission has suffered a collision with for characters and weaponry, and large, real-time rendered characters. PO'ed will be supported with an aggressive marketing campaign, including print advertising in video game publications. The title will also be promoted via on-line services, including 3DO's World Wide Web site (http://www.3do.com), in dealer brochures, 3DO Club newsletters, retailer videotapes, and on 3DO's Sampler sampler, sample piece of needlework or embroidery, of silk, cotton, or worsted, for the preservation of some pattern or as an example of the ability of a child or a beginner. In museums and private collections there are samplers dating from as early as 1643. CD. PO'ed is scheduled to be available in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and Europe in September at an estimated retail price of $59.95. The Japanese market rollout will start in November. "Choosing the 3DO platform for our first title was an easy decision," said Brian Yen, President of Any Channel. "It's the only system available today that is powerful enough to run real-time 3-D games, which means users will get the full impact of the fast action, detailed scenery, and creepy characters we built into PO'ed." Any Channel, Inc., based in Palo Alto Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif., was founded in July 1993. The company was started by a group of graphics engineers from Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , Inc. whose goal was to develop interactive titles that could deliver workstation-level 3-D rendering and graphics on home gaming platforms. PO'ed, the company's first title, was developed specifically for the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer(TM) system. Based in Redwood City, Calif., The 3DO Company (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :THDO) develops and licenses advanced interactive technology to hardware and software companies worldwide. The company's award winning product design, the 32-bit 3DO Interactive Multiplayer system, was created to deliver a breakthrough in interactive entertainment at an affordable price. 3DO also develops, publishes, and distributes CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). software products and peripherals for the 3DO system. The current 3DO system is available worldwide from Panasonic, GoldStar, Sanyo, and Creative Labs. -0- Note to Editors: 3DO, the 3DO logos, and Interactive Multiplayer are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of The 3DO Company. All other brand or product names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners. CONTACT: The 3DO Company Tuesday Uhland, 415/261-3142 Diane Hunt, 415/261-3214 |
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