Blue Lightning - Atari Jaguar

Blue Lightning is a re-make of the Atari Lynx classic by the same name.
You're a fighter pilot and must destroy air as well as ground targets.
This is a pretty fun game, but I think it could have been better had the programming team tried to push the Jaguar a bit more by giving the game better graphics.
The audio is awesome, though!
Despite its graphics, many believe this is one of the good Jag games out there.
It's on compact disc and was packaged with the Jaguar CD.

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• blue
• lightning
• atari
• jaguar
• jag

[ephiany1]

Um. Wasn't this game developed and released in 1995, not 1993?

The FMV on this is quite stunning, even for 1995. Too bad about the in-game graphics... they're not _bad_, but they are mediocre, and mediocre graphics on a launch title is decidedly bad form. As you point out, though, the audio is nice. Gameplay doesn't look too bad, either.

[viMasterJag]

Yeah, it would have been more like '95.

But I agree -- and many fans of the original on the Lynx agree that it could have been much more.

[MegaErrorist]

I love games from this era- it takes ages, from this, to actually get into the game as it's too busy showing all the pretty, plastic-y FMVs to make you think "Hell yeah, this looks awesome!". Then, when you've navigated every single one of them you get something excessively mediocre.

[AirFerno]

AfterBurner is much better than this!

[bpotts0401]

looks like Afterburner 32X....which isnt good

[TheRedCoke]

I skipped to 32seconds and thought this was the gameplay and was like wow... LOL

[prectec]

The jag was a good machine technically but when you have 16bit developers making softaware you get 16bit looking games. Nintendo and sega always release there own titles showing the developers the capabilities of the machine that sets a benchmark for developers. Atari developers where not good enough to showcase the machine

[nicolunacba]

@nicholasthetaylor oh yeah! sorry!

[nicholasthetaylor]

@viMasterJag Wow. I had no idea that this was released. Was still stupid of them not to release it on launch (let alone have it in the shops). When was it released? What games work with it? Would have been handy in AVP and Doom for strafing

[viMasterJag]

@nicholasthetaylor Shoulder buttons would have been nice from the get-go, but they did incorporate those into the 6-button pro controller, at least. That's usually what I play with now.

[nicholasthetaylor]

@nicolunacba Afterburner clone you mean surely

[nicholasthetaylor]

@viMasterJag

"Most people who have played extensively with the pad prefer it over most others, actually. "

I have played extensively with the pad myself and although it sits well in the hands, the buttons are poor quality, which means you have to concentrate on compensating for this instead of enjoying the game. I like the telephone keypad, though it would have been smart to include shoulder buttons. There were some good ideas in the pad, but it wasn't well made. A poor man's Sega pad