Atari Jaguar 1994 Promotional Tape (part 3/5)

[kevenzz]

Double Dragon 5 is the worse fighting game ever..... I remember renting it when it just came out for sega genesis...... What a waste of a week end that was.

[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.

[mjdoomreviews]

i think its funny how the 32x hell even the megdrive version of virtua racing has better graphics and framerate than checkered flag

[frigginjoe]

Yeah the Jaguar was just not what was needed to start off a new generation of hardware. It did flat polygons with a choppier frame rate than Virtua Racing on the Genesis in many cases, and really wasn't a well made 3d game system.

3DO was better in terms of design, but they it saw fit to arm it with a 12mhz processor. Geez. Sony made a system that could recreate Ridge Racer, and any developer could get textured 3d running smooth on it.

There wasn't a chance for the Jag or the 3DO.

[Draven84]

There are a few real good games for the Jag, but the game library is thin nevertheless... Bubsy shown here I have on my Jag, but it's nothing to the SNES games.

Instead I'd say

Tempest 2000

Alien vs Predator

Rayman

Ultra Vortek

Doom (best console vers after PS1)

...too bad most of the Jag games are bad (including most of mine :/ )

[mandude83]

So you would rather play Kasumi Ninja over Street Fighter 2 or better yet, Street Fighter Alpha 2?

[Outlander11]

The jaguar rocked! Genesis was good, but a 16/32bit 8mhz 68000 just doesnt cut it. Snes?? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!? That POS used a 65836 at 3 1/2 mhz, ie. an apple IIGS. Snes had to have an additional superFX cpu in every "decent" game that came out for it. Such a POS.

Jaguar was unique, and had some great games, but was too pricey and poorly marketed. The hardware was so capable! But like saturn was hard to code for, even by atari themselves. It never saw it's full potential. Snes, jesus, HAHAHA!

[Draven84]

WHAT are you talking about? It doesn't matter if the hardware kicks the most ass if you can't get good games for it! Jaguar failed because it was too difficult to program for and thus lacked a number of good games. SEGA tried, first with the CD, then with 32X, then with Saturn, SNES outlived all of that and N64 came along. Atari's 2600 outlived the better, but buggy, 5200. SEGA Dreamcast whooped ass when it came, and about a year later, it was dead. SNES (almost Genesis too) had most best games.

[phonedork]

Exactly!!!! Atari had decent hardware that was more powerful on PAPER.... BUT NO FUCKING GAMES! The 3DO was more powerful then the SNES or the Sega, but it sucked. These ARTARDS like to talk about how powerful the Jaguar was and thats it. Its like they have little man syndrome. I prefer the Atari 2600,7800, and even the 5200 over the Jaguar piece of shit.

[phonedork]

Man the Jaguar SUCKED!!! All those games could have been done on a GENESIS or SUPER NES! Brutal Football looked cool and Flashback seemed more smooth on the animated clips. Tempest 2000 is the best on the system! But I can play it on my Sega Saturn.

[MikeZdoesit]

I agree, The snes probably would have done a better job then this thing

[CLeRKSfan4life]

Doing a simple comparison of Doom on both the Jaguar and SNES is proof that the SNES didn't have the power of the Jaguar. SNES (or Megadrive) couldn't have handled games like Iron Soldier, Alien vs Predator or even I-War. Maybe at a push the SNES could've done Cybermorph, but there would be a lot more flat shading and a lower resolution. The SNES is powerful but to say it could replicate the Jaguar's entire library is just fuckin' stupid.

[phonedork]

Even if the Jaguar has a better version of Doom or Alien VS Predator that still means jack shit. You are comparing to a fucking 16bit system. If it was as great as some of you ARTARDS say it is then I guess we would have another Atari system. It was a flop and most of those games could be done on a 16 bit system. Yea the Jaguar is a more powerful as a system. But so what!! Its means nothing without any games. 3 or 4 good games is not enough.

[Captaintrolltard]

SNES did better then cybermorph with starfox! A game that not only looks better, but plays better. Hell Virtua Racing on the Genesis kicks checkered flag's ass on the Jaguar all over the place. JAG Sucks, and shall forever go down in time as one of the biggest flops in Video Game History!!! The Atari 2600 is by far a better system!

[CLeRKSfan4life]

Yeah, it's one of the biggest, maybe THE biggest flop in console history, but I love it. I've got 8 games for it right now and they're all great. I still don't know why people think Starfox looks better than Cybermorph. Starfox is somehow brighter even though it uses bland colours, Cybermorph has a lot more colour and everything is much smoother. Plus with Cybermorph you can fly wherever you want. With Starfox you're practically on rails. But whatever, it doesn't matter.

[JohnnyUndaunted]

Just read the original feature this was posted at. I'm guessing "Double Dragon IV" was actually the SNES-exclusive "Super Double Dragon", which was a beat-em-up like the previous games. After "Super", decided to do their own "Double Dragon" sequel without Technos Japan's (the original developer) involvement. There was another DD fighting game after this one for the Neo-Geo, but this time developed by Technos themselves.

[huguesjohnson]

You're correct - Super Double Dragon was considered part IV which is why they called this one Double Dragon V. I need to go back and clarify that. It was still dumb to call it Double Dragon V since it was based on the animated series instead of the previous games; although that was the least dumb thing about the game I suppose.

[JohnnyUndaunted]

Double Dragon V was actually worse on the Jaguar than on the SNES and Genesis. DD5 was a mediocre piece of crap to begin with.

[BenimaruGEIST]

Is it just me, or was that song, in that Double Dragon game (at 1:46 thru 1:52), a rip of Led Zep's 'Kashmir'? And before that, I thought I heard something else familiar that was copied.

[KevinCali24]

Kinda resembles Kashmir, but not THAT closely...

[Sammyt3hSnake]

I'm a fanboy because I actually LIKE it?

[mistapaul]

sensi scoccer was the same on all systems!

had this game on jaguar,atari ste and amiga 500, amiga had better sound fx

[3dwardXP]

flashback for SNES did own, dunno bout on jag.

[Phwn]

Jaguar's games were kinda difficult, now games are very easy to end.

[thenamecolinwastaken]

Are people still doing the "More like 32 bit LOL" thing. Who the fuck cares? Between Mode 7, Blast Processing, the Emotion Engine, "real sports action", and all the other faked shit in gaming, why does the fact that the Jaguar's technology can arguably be considered 32 bit still get any attention at all?

[PSPdude36]

that looks like soccer on the atari 2600

[drevsdre9]

yea - i blew a paycheck on this garbage..though tempest was nice--then i went out to buy a 3DO lol

[WCWite]

flashback owned

[v65animal]

Tempest 2000 is a great game. I just pulled the Jag out of storage last weekend. Defender 2000 kind of stunk though. It had great potential, but it scrolled up/down and left/right the filed of vision/play was too small. It would be great to scale everything down and play it on a widescreen TV today. Xbox 360 needs to redo that game.

[doctorclu]

I think the Soccer game would have been funnier if they were actually little ants playing against each other. Brutal Sports is a fun game. Need to try Flashback. Bubsy was interesting... the Jack in the Bean Stalk level showed some knights in places that they weren't normally, and the multi ball box had a different logo. interesting stuff. :)

[PSPdude36]

64-bit (scoffs) more like 32-bit!

[realcatgirllover]

actually something in between 16 & 32-bit. ('_' )

[Sammyt3hSnake]

24-bit??

[realcatgirllover]

uhm..no. I meant the mix of components.

68k cpu: 16-bit

blitter: 64-bit

custom graphic/sound chips(tom/jerry): 32-bit

but the blitter alone doesn't make it a 64-bit system.

[badfex]

TEMPEST 2000!!!