The $6 Million Dollar Game Arrives on 3DO (January 29, 2016)

[KrisV]

Flashback Nation, a Twitter account dedicated to all things retro, recently put up this scanned cover page of the Winter '94 issue of 3DO Magazine UK. Wing Commander 3 is featured prominently on the cover, and the issue included a review of the "$6 Million Dollar Game." The coverdisk (which appears to be free sampler disk #1) would not have included the playable 3DO demo of Wing 3. That was included on the third interactive sampler disk, published the following year.

I remember this issue of 3DO Magazine, Bought Wing Commander with the console because of this. No regrets.

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Original update published on January 29, 2016

 

[Pedro]

It's weird to imagine $6million being a lot of money - especially when magazines were still priced at £5!!!

Take a small company, 20 people, probably 2 years for a game - assume about $45,000 for your staff, and each staff member takes up double their salary in other costs and you're up to $3.6million in production costs - now add the actors, the marketing, HR...