Trevor McFur in the Crescent Galaxy - Atari Jaguar

Trevor McFur is a side-scrolling shooter game with breathtaking visuals for the time of its release.
There aren't many people who like this game -- it is pretty tough, after all.
I've always liked it, though. I haven't gotten very far, but even then, I still tend to like this game.
You should be able to get it pretty cheap, so no big deal to pick it up and give it a try for yourself :-)

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Entertainment

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• trevor
• mcfur
• crescent
• galaxy
• atari
• jaguar
• jag

[ChannelUmptyThree]

THIS was meant to compete with Star Fox?

[viMasterJag]

@ChannelUmptyThree No, it wasn't. Where did you get that idea?

[zephichan]

Everyone says the graphics are 'amazing', they weren't. Large cart size + lots of DRAM + prerendered graphics != good graphics, not even 'for the day'. The SNES had a lot less to work with, and still came out with better sprites during its entire run.

This was a crappy rush-job by Atari (like always) to compete at launch with Starfox.

The Jaguar, and games like this, directly lead to the failure dissolution of Atari Corp.

It doesn't look like it'd be remotely any fun to play, either. ._.

[viMasterJag]

@zephichan There were other BIGGER problems at Atari that DIRECTLY lead to their demise. The Jaguar & its games were not the biggest cause, but the management behind them and the fact that they didn't have enough money to invest in it in the first place.

Pump more money into the Jaguar and development tools and we'd be reading a different story.

The Tramiels were cheap, cheap, cheap.

[SuperCosmica]

Breathtaking? It's nothing more than a Project-X rip off. And a bad one. Tempest 2000 really stole the show on the Jag and against all odds too.

[viMasterJag]

@SuperCosmica And yet you could call Project-X a rip-off of Gradius.

In any case, I liked the game, but many people did not because they didn't have the gonads to get their trash kicked enough to get far.

T2K is obviously a much better game, though.

[glsmops]

I'm one of those people who don't like the game :)

But I played it 'till the end! It's not tough, you just need to learn attack patterns, that are always the same.

[J25x]

Super NES could not have pulled these textures off.

[msbae]

If anything, I'd say this game is a cheap knock-off of Gradius or R-Type, not a competitor for Star Fox.

The Super NES could have done these kind of graphics using the same technology that was used for Donkey Kong Country.

[Lupucillo]

This looks like a fan game.

[ChadSpeaks]

It's like Gradius meets Wing Commander programmed by unemployed meth addicts!

[Supertomiman]

my biggest complaint is that everything produces shrapnell or dubree and it ends up killing you, not to mention the enemies that go behind you as soon as they appear on screen...

[spiffyvictory]

Just to chime in:

Apparently the game was originally developed on Atari's cancelled Panther console (which was supposed to directly compete with Genesis and SNES, and launch in 1991). Jag was moving faster than expected, so Atari cancelled Panther (which was almost done) and concentrated on Jag development (they launched Jag in '93). And the Jag launch was rushed, so what you're seeing is an unoptimized port of a Panther game serving as a glorified demo on Jaguar.

[SonicRchannel]

I got this game the day I got my Jaguar at launch… I personally enjoy it, but I hate the fact that you are FORCED to continue… I love challenging games that push me to improve! - my only other complain, the lack of rapid fire! my thumbs take punishment while I play!

[LanceCampeau]

Graphics aside... this is as bad as the reviews of the day spoke of.... holy absence of music.