Atari Jaguar 1994 Promotional Tape (part 5/5)

[janmansde3dede]

8:50 did you add that music or is it beta CD music ?

[huguesjohnson]

@janmansde3dede - I didn't add music or modify the video in any way, I don't know for sure but have to assume it was beta music.

[nooblet911]

was that michael jackson?

[Djtechno758]

Does the atari jaguar have a joybox? I heard they have been making joyboxs since the first systems and i need one for the jaguar controller. plz tell me.

[CLeRKSfan4life]

No you have to live with the Jaguar controller of Doom!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Actually, I'm not sure.

[Sampler19]

I loved to play Burn Out :)

[faaaddas]

Burnout and Rayman were really decent titles.

[retrousoxide]

The Jaguar is a great console. Buy Alien V Predator, Tempest 2000, Ruiner Pinball, Raiden, Hyper Force, Sky Hammer, Defender 2000, Break Out, Missle Command, Rayman, Powerdrive, Iron Soldier, Wolfenstein and Doom and you have got a fantastic library of games.

[retrousoxide]

Sadly, most people, including video game collectors forget the excellent games and dwell on the poor quality titles that came out. If you consider that the Jag had approximately 70 officially released games in its short career, I would argue that other more recent console offerings share the same problem. How many truely fantastic games come out? 1 in 5 on average?

[jdsony]

This is the best video yet. Syndicate, Theme Park, Cannon Fodder, and Rayman are all top notch games. The problem with the Atari Jaguar though is that you can get all the good games elsewhere. Those games I listed all came out for PC and the majority of the other good games did as well. The SNES blows away the Jaguar for sheer number of awesome 5 star games easily. Most NES games had more depth than the average Jaguar game. Atari always had a problem with gameplay hence the video game crash.

[opelcambo]

i owned one of these in the 90;s - and the best game was syndicate and tempest 2000... now thinking back tho i would rather have given homeless people £50 rather then £54.99 for each game - i was brought up on ataris, so i stuck with them and avoided sega and amiga... if only i first got a amiga 500 instead of my atari st i might now own a aston martin haha

[aydx0001]

Sheer horror seeing these videos but thanks for posting them! I was a Jr. in high school and was so stoked to have this system. Most games just didn't live up to my expectations. Tempest, Iron, AVP, Rayman were good. The driving/flying/fighting games were far too choppy and controlled poorly...not the controller's fault, because it worked well elsewhere. The CD offered horrible games, too. But holy $hit, the system was made in the US!

[Cobradabest]

wow... arari jaguar sucks, the only game that looked good was CLub Drive and a few other games (of course Doom)

[vovochka80]

best 2d grafics console ever!

[GameGuyTroy]

Well, as an overall from all five videos, theres only about five fighting games on Jaguar, only one which is ok (Bruce Lee game). Which one of the four bad ones are the best? Ultra Vortex, Double Dragon 4, Kasumi Ninja, or Fight for Life?

[060falcon]

Ultra Vortekm and this isn´t a bad one ;)

[rpanneto]

Scary as it is.. ive completed every single game in these 5 promotional videos!

What a waste of my life!!

[freedom489]

I commend you for that, as it is a pretty impressive feat. I almost wish that I had the patience and willpower to play through some of these games. But nostalgia can only go so far...

[cresshead]

nice vid brings back memories of the jaguar system i had back then with cybermorph, club drive, temepest 2000,AVP, defender 2000 and doom all of which were really playable games.

still looking for tempest 2000 on ds or psp..that would be great!

[badfex]

Th reason this console flopped? Well, it was more to do with the fact that the majority of the games on the system had the depth of pong with added polygons.

'Do the math'? How about 'Make a game'?

[guyvf]

they were really scraping the bottom of the barrel with this portion of the tape. except for rayman and burnout, it all looks like crap.

[Daemonocracy]

Great games for the Jag were hard to come by but the I can think of a few treasures:

1) Alien VS Predator

2) Tempest 2000

3) Doom

4) Super Burnout

5) Rayman

6) Power Drive Rally

7) Missile Command 3D

8) Defender 2000

Wolfenstein, Cybermorph, Syndicate, Cannon Fodder, Flashback and Atari Karts were decent games too but that system didn't get much support.

[Daemonocracy]

doh! Iron Soldier and Hoverstrike should be 9 and 10 on my list.

[devonjames10]

thats the rayman beta

[dpearsondeerpark]

This was great! I forgot about the "Virtua Fighter Killer" Fight for Life.

Didja get a load of the music they picked for Rayman?

I actually owned one of these back in the day. AVP was great, Tempest2000 was very good, Doom was good. Otherwise......

[stringanime]

Best looking game was that motorcycle game. Atari should have developed action games with that game engine used instead of 360 Poor 3D.

[Sherwoodhoodbud]

I really liked Iron Soldier, I played that for ages.

[noimnothindu]

64bit of crap

[hakadalmann]

The sound quality for the Jaguar really scares me...

I mean, the SNES had twice as good sound

[RazorFastClaws]

yeah right, that very much depends on how the programmers used the capabilities. Snes: Sound: 8-channel 8-bit Sony SPC700 digitized sound.

Jag: Sound CD-quality sound (16-bit stereo)

Number of sound channels dependant on software.

2 DAC's.

Stereo capabilities, Wavetable synthesis, AM synthesis, FM synthesis, FM Sample synthesis.

And may i add that it can do better than CD quality as it can do sound replay at 50Khz.

[hakadalmann]

Then it's a shame none of the games actually used its capabilities

[RazorFastClaws]

well they kinda stuck to the old Amiga soundtracker format. Which is 4 channel music and they probably didn't use 16 bit 50khz samples to create the music. to save cartridge space or just becos of lazyness.

[violentchikn]

well, why the games have a quality of a SNES starfox games or a virtuafighter sega 24bit??

i think sega32x and play stattion have more power in 32bit like this... 64??

.....

some games like a arcade NEo·GEO games...

w t f?

[Daemonocracy]

There plenty of lame looking games on the Jaguar but there were some gems as well. Cybermorph was far superior to StarFox in the graphics department, but it's game design wasn't as fun because it more about exploration than action. The Jaguar version of Doom destroyed the Sega 32X version, which wasn't even full screen. Fight for Life was just a bad game but Alien Vs Predator was one of the best games for any system, period. Jaguar was more like 32 bit though.

[32v2v]

um i own a 32x and the doom is full screen

[sandroace]

I dont know what 32x u own but mine is not fullscreen, I just checked to make sure I wasn't going crazy ;) I also tried with Kega emulator and again it is not fullscreen. Then I checked videos on youtube and screenshots and reviews and again all show that the game is not fullscreen. I would love to know how your playing doom 32x in fullscreen.

[32v2v]

mine is not an emulator it is the real thing like playing it off a sega genesis. enjoy your 32x emulator though.

[ViciousAlienKlown]

may not be an emu but its still not full screen, at this point you're just lying and you got called out twice yet you continue to lie...why....everyone knows the Jag version of Doom was better than the pathetic 32X Doom.

[oxxor77]

hahaha NEVER!

[Enzo012]

What they mean by full screen is without the border along the edges.

[ViciousAlienKlown]

I had a 32X with Doom and it wasn't full screen, didn't have as many levels and monsters and was slower. Doom on the 32X was not that good, while the Jag version was the best until the PSone version came out...period.

[yrly59e]

Fight For Life turned out much different than what was previewed here. In the end it was better looking by far. I liked the sountrack for the game which probably is why I played it as much as I did. It was unfairly blamed for being hard to control and the battles taking to long. All I can say is practice makes perfect. I can beat the game in 10 minutes. If anyone has seen the trick posted for the short battle with Junior at the end I was the one who discovered that. Guess I'm famous.

[WCWite]

Jaguar was a very fun system when I was 14

[AccursedSavior]

Oooh, Cannon Fodder; now THAT was a game. War really was never so much fun... until they came out with Command & Conquer and Battlefield 1942.

[spiffyvictory]

Its strange design made it a nightmare to program (like Saturn later on), and developers went lazy, had it run AI and logic and let the Tom chip (3 processors - the 32/64-bit GPU, 64-bit blitter and 64-bit object processor) do the graphics with the DSP executing other code and sound. Jag wasn't as powerful as the 32-bit Saturn or PS, but that doesn't mean it isn't 64-bit. Intellivision was 16-bit, but it wasn't more powerful than NES.

[spiffyvictory]

The Jag was, in fact, a 64-bit console. It had a 64 bit bus, and the blitter and object processor were 64-bit. The GPU that the blitter and object processor worked (they were co-processors) with was 32-bit, and the DSP was 32-bit. The Motorolla 68K chip they used was was not the CPU but rather one of the co-processors of the system. Developers could specify which they wanted to use as the CPU as the GPU and DSP were general purpose RISC processors. It was a 64-bit system.

[deathslug]

Its final.

The Jag is by far the worst system that was ever made.

[hakadalmann]

Yup

[RazorFastClaws]

nope. Probably worst funded system ever. The hardware was the most superior of that day.. just badly used, cos of the lack of money and not given enough developing time in a lot of cases.

[hakadalmann]

Another thing is the piss poor controllers

[KevinCali24]

Ya, watch my Jag doom video and tell me it controls poorly. I think not. You are just regurgitating the same BS all Jag bashers say.  Follower...

[realcatgirllover]

Syndicate on Jaguar is actually a very good release btw. pales a bit in comparison with the 3DO version, tho. anyway, better than the horrible MD and SNES ports.

[LessthanJake14]

"Primary Target Destroyed!" Sounds really upbeat.

[AllPro777]

Wikipedia is an unreliable internet source, open to public editing. Anyone who takes Wikipedia as a serious source of information, is a brain-dead moron.

[LessthanJake14]

I looked up Tony Blair and it once said his middle name was "Whooptidoo".

[haddy91]

According to Wikipedia, the Jaguar is actually a 32 bit GPU with a 16 bit CPU. The whole 64 bit part is just a marketing ploy against the 32 bit 3DO and 16 bit Genesis and SNES.

[LairdOfForsyth]

Sensi and Cannon Fodder look far better on the Jag, play them and you will see the difference.

The Jag is not 2x32bit it actully has a 64-bit GPU, 32 bit DSP and 64-bit bus, the slave chip was 16-bit though which is what all the idiots refer too. Do the match and you will find it all adds up to alot more than 64 . . . .

[samwyse2006]

The worst laziness seem to be Sensible Soccer and Cannon Fodder which look exactly the same as the one's on Amiga hardware (released in 1987). Though Doom and AVP looked neat and I enjoyed Rayman.

[RazorFastClaws]

Thats because it is the Amiga version. Like all the games that were on the Amiga and made it to the Jag, they don't really use all the processors. They stuck too much to the original MC68000 code instead of rewriting it for the TOM and Jerry chips.

[megaproductions]

It was a 64 bit system, just didn't have any 64 bit games. Oh, irony. Game companies just didn't spend enough money on graphics for the Jag as they did for the PSX or the N64.

[dbonanno]

it wasn't 64 bit! It was two 32 bit processors in 1 system.

[frak126]

i.e. the hidden message in "do the math"

[dbonanno]

lol! So true...however, I really liked AVP on Jaguar.

[RazorFastClaws]

Wrong!

Atari Jaguar Specs

5 Processors 'Tom'

32-bit RISC GPU. [programmable]

64-bit RISC Object PU.

64-bit RISC Blitting PU

'Jerry'

32 bit DSP.

Also PPU: Motorolla 16 bit 68000 running at 13.295 MHz

Get the facts right.

[anss321]

Ey, the Jag can zoom in Syndicate. Too bad the frame rate is in the creek, but hey! Anyway it's clear that he Jag doesn't quite have the power for 3D games, and does not exactly dominate the SNES in 2D either. Hell Rayman (the Jaguar's flagship platformer) falls short of Donkey Kong Country in both graphics and music. No wonder the Jag failed, it was doomed before it got kicked out the door!

A next generation system needs next-generation games.

[hakadalmann]

how the fuck can this be a 64 bit system?! 1 of the worst consoles ever, i didn't even make it to Europe!

[realcatgirllover]

wrong. it was released in europe... your sh1t hick hillbilly country excepted maybe. -_-;

[hakadalmann]

what? wikipedia says it was only released in USA. Anyway, a weak system. PlayStation finished it off

[realcatgirllover]

who the f*ck cares what Wikipedia says? some authors there have no idea what they writing about. the Jag had a europe-wide release. hell, even japan got got it in late 1995.

for the "weak" argument: yeah, if you're into shitty license titles for the dumb masses, sure Playstation with it's shiny(and now ugly too) 3d graphics is good for you. have a wank...preferebly to some soulless stock 3d graphics or masturbate over your expensive new hardware you filthy good-for-nothing fanboy. I'm out...

[x0AuG0x]

Come on, man. The Jaguar was a miserable failure with few good games.