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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.
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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 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.