Am I the only person here unlucky enough to have owned a Jaguar?

[Doctor Zhivago]

Damn, the Jaguar sucked ass. I mean, it's a little sad when a system's best game is Tron: Deadly Disks. I tried selling it for five bucks, (Keep in mind that this was when it was new) but no one wanted it. So, the thing's still sitting in my closet collecting dust.

[Crono]

Lol...thats a pathetic system..poor you

[The Germanator]

My friend had it...Club Drive was a pretty kick-ass game, and there was some other game where you were a big robot, and you get to blow a city up and stuff, it was kinda cool. Rayman first came out for it too, but, it was a pretty bad system. Heh, my friends even had Jaguar CD, I can't even name a game for that crap.

[Drunk Hobbit]

I remember a commercial for it. A bunch of people are in an elevator and going up they past screens of games playing on other systems and then Jaguar's at the top and a woman on the elevator is talking about how great it is or something. Also remember Jaguar sitting at Blockbuster...those are my memories...chii!

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a wut-now?

[Jonbo298]

I keep thinking I remember a long time back there was an infomercial for the Jaguar. I dont know if its true, but I keep thinking I watched it once or twice.

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wut is a jaguar and who developed it?

[Doctor Zhivago]

Well, the Jaguar is probally the worst system ever made (I always thought it looked like crap, but my Grandma gave me one as a birthday present). It came out some time in the early '90s and was developed by Atari. I think that's what finally put them out of bussiness, in fact.

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i c.....does n e one have n e pics?

[Tombor]

Originally posted by FreakyBob
Damn, the Jaguar sucked ass. I mean, it's a little sad when a system's best game is Tron: Deadly Disks. I tried selling it for five bucks, (Keep in mind that this was when it was new) but no one wanted it. So, the thing's still sitting in my closet collecting dust.

Are you sure what system you had? Tron Deadly Discs got released for Mattel Intellivision and Atari VCS.

Anyway, yeah Jaguar sucked. There were only 4 games that were really any good. Iron Soldier (the robot game The Germanator mentioned), Tempest 2000 (which is ultra bad ass cool), Alien Vs. Predator, and Rayman. It did have a half-way decent port of Flashback but the Sega CD, 3DO, and Genesis versions had better music. And all the other versions had better control. I bought mine for $24.99 at Kay-Bee and got a bunch of games at $10. At one point I think I had about every release save the homebrew stuff. I think there were about 54 releases before people started making games after Atari folded. I got a Jag CD at one point but I didn't have many games. I remember it had a ****ty Space Ace. There were like 12 games for that. I've been told Iron Soldier 2 and Battlesphere are really good on it and that Hover Strike was the first game with bitmap polygons. Of course those people who told me are obsessive jerk-offs who bought Nuons.

If you're looking for a screenshots of the games Atari Age (http://www.atariage.com/software_search.html?SystemID=JAGUAR) has shots of every release ever and a couple prototypes.

I remember the ads too. I remember the one Dan mentioned. It was on Sportscenter one morning at 6 am. Jag was big **** in 7th grade. It had that Neo Geo mentality back in my day: the big expensive system no one had and no one knew about, but all wanted. Except that Neo Geo rocked. Hard style. Speaking of ads I have an old EGM that had a two page ad for Jag right before launch. The funny thing is half the games they listed and had screenshots for never came out.... sigh. Those were the days.

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some of the screenshots don't look that bad....
and there are some nice - looking games....such as bubsy (anyone remember playing that game on snes?:D), or Alien Vs. Predator, or Wolfenstein 3D (which i still have on my comp right now - it's a kick a** game) and Doom:D

EDIT: Worms is on there!!!! dude!!! i want that system...i got $15...:D

[Tombor]

Wolfenstien was pretty good I remember... one of the better home ports. Mostly because it actually used the keypad on that damn controller. Same thing with AvP. It actually had seperate controls for each character (Marine, Alien, Predator) and each mapped really well. Never played Worms. It was released by Telegames and only available 2 ways: Telegames (http://www.telegames.com) (were you can still get it) and EB (which you can't get it anymore).

I've seen Wolfenstien for like $10-15. Good luck on AvP and Worms though. Telegames wants something like $70 for Worms, mostly because it was released post-Atari and isn't mass-produced, and AvP wields about $70-80 on ebay if you have all the packaging for it. Which you NEED. The game came with overlays for each character that, if not used, makes it nearly unplayable. If you can find the PC AvP get that... its from the same developer and plays the same. Same level design. Though I think the Marines levels are larger and actually consist of outdoor levels. Predator and Alien play the same as the Jag version.

[Doctor Zhivago]

Yes, Tombor, what you said earlier is correct. I did (And sadly, still do) own a Jaguar, but Tron: Deadly Disks wasn't on it. That was an Atari 7600 game, if I'm not mistaken. I owned a Jaguar and an Atari 7600, and got the two systems mixed up because they were both developed by Atari. So I guess I should change my sentence to "....It's sad when a system's best game is White men Can't Jump". And I think that helps get my point across even better.