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Yes, you read that correctly. I'm reading Sid Meiers' "Memoir!" which contains a fascinating factoid that is of interest to us. It seems that one of Meiers' games had a less than stellar public reception: his favorite project of all, a little gem called "C.P.U. Bach." It was apparently a method of "creating" Bach-ish fugues on your computer. The problem as Sid saw it, was that most PC's of the day had absolutely atrocious sound cards, which he felt was unworthy of Bach. (I'd have to agree there.) So he got together with our old pal Trip Hawkins, who had invented (or hired a hardware designer to invent) a computer with superb sound, that he called The 3DO. As he explained it to Sid, it was the next in the natural line of progression: Audio, Video, ThreeD-o. The 3DO Company was actually created to market these wondrous devices. Apparently they didn't sell any better than Sid's ill-fated music game. So they switched to buying out struggling game studios. (Sigh.)
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