Raider 3do | Tomb

The market did shift. It shifted away from expensive, multimedia boxes and toward focused gaming machines. But for a brief moment in 1996, Lara Croft was supposed to help one last console stand up.

Let us know in the comments below. And if you have a spare $700, you can buy a 3DO on eBay and stare at it, wondering what could have been. tomb raider 3do

But graphics? The 3DO struggled with texture mapping. Lara would have likely been a flat-shaded, gouraud-shaded mess. And the loading times? The 3DO’s 2x CD drive was notoriously slow. Every door in St. Francis’ Folly would have meant a 45-second load screen. The market did shift

When Core Design announced Tomb Raider , it was a technical marvel. The fully 3D environments, the fluid (if blocky) animation of Lara, and the atmospheric lighting were cutting edge. It was announced for PC, PlayStation, Saturn... and the 3DO. Let us know in the comments below

Think about that. For decades, lost games like Star Fox 2 or SimCity NES have been rescued from old dev carts. But Tomb Raider on 3DO remains a complete phantom. There are no leaked QA discs. No grainy magazine screenshots beyond the standard promotional art. No "Build from August 12th" floating around a Russian forum.