It's a shame what Atari became; if the company didn't cut corners (5200 controller), focus too much on acquiring crappy movie/theme licenses (then churn out disappointing games with said licenses), and give their programmers proper acknoeledgement, they may be a functional company today. By the time the Jaguar was released, the gaming public moved on from Atari.
That skiing game really shows off the Jaguar's 2D abilities. You said it looks 16-bit, and I'd say it most resembles 16-bit Super Scaler games like Space Harrier. In fact, the Jaguar was a pretty powerful 2D machine. Too bad it didn't get a nice chunk of excellent 2D games to give it a decent life like the Saturn got in Japan.
@sunburstbasser That was exactly the perspective that I was referring to. Outrun would probably be the closest to resemble it because of the terrain of the game. We played quite a few 2-D games on the Jaguar and all of them played very well. The problem that the jag ultimately ran into was the same the Sega Saturn ran into in the US market, the push for more polygonal 3-D games over sprite based 2-D games.
It's a shame what Atari became; if the company didn't cut corners (5200 controller), focus too much on acquiring crappy movie/theme licenses (then churn out disappointing games with said licenses), and give their programmers proper acknoeledgement, they may be a functional company today. By the time the Jaguar was released, the gaming public moved on from Atari.
gluserty 1 month ago
Iron Soldier had some pretty jaw-dropping graphics for it's time. And I must say, that commercial was just awful!
JMFSpike 1 month ago
That skiing game really shows off the Jaguar's 2D abilities. You said it looks 16-bit, and I'd say it most resembles 16-bit Super Scaler games like Space Harrier. In fact, the Jaguar was a pretty powerful 2D machine. Too bad it didn't get a nice chunk of excellent 2D games to give it a decent life like the Saturn got in Japan.
sunburstbasser 1 month ago
@sunburstbasser That was exactly the perspective that I was referring to. Outrun would probably be the closest to resemble it because of the terrain of the game. We played quite a few 2-D games on the Jaguar and all of them played very well. The problem that the jag ultimately ran into was the same the Sega Saturn ran into in the US market, the push for more polygonal 3-D games over sprite based 2-D games.
NewGenGamers 1 month ago