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Behind the scenes is a simple tale of someone who managed to convince some investors to give him a half a million dollars because 3DO was "The up and coming thing". The CEO of Art Data had absolutely no idea on how software development worked and was totally convinced that all you had to do to port a game to another platform was to just compile it.  He spend about 6 figures to buy the rights to DOOM to make a name for himself and I was the THIRD company he contacted (Mostly because I did the excellent 3DO port of Wolf 3D) and lied to me about how complete the game was on the 3DO. I was told the game was running and mostly done (And there were magazine articles already published that said so), however, I found that there was NOTHING done so I started from scratch. 

It was 10 weeks of the most grueling death march I have ever done. I vowed I'd never do that again. So far, I've kept my vow.

~ Programmer Rebecca "Burger" Heineman gives her side of the Doom 3DO story in, of all the places, a YouTube video's comments section.

At the beginning of 1996, two 3DO games broke fans' hearts: Doom and Mortal Kombat 3. MK3 was shown working, featured on magazine covers and by all accounts was ready for release, but it never materialized. Doom was another story. Randy Scott of Art Data Interactive promised for two years a game that “[had] simply no comparison between the PC and 3DO versions…” he was right, just not in a good way. ADI had wrestled to put Doom onto the 3DO. Plagued with staff problems and over-ambitious ideas, “Burger” [Becky] Heineman was eventually contracted to do a basic port of the PC version in just ten weeks to meet a Christmas deadline. Through no fault of 3DO, or Burger [Becky]’s, it was widely considered the worst conversion of the game.