Dactyl Joust for the Atari Jaguar

Beta of the game Dactyl Joust for the Atari Jaguar 64-bit game console. Running pretty smooth.... I'd love to get my hands on a real running demo!

Video made possible by Carl Forhan from Song-Bird Productions.

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[DevilMaster]

Is the ROM available to download somewhere?

[Neon360]

Sadly not that I'm aware of..... would be nice to have!

[ViciousAlienKlown]

That game had some serious potential but so did Black Ice White Noise. Both of these games were being worked on late in the Jag's lifecycle and were axed when Atari went into thin air. The console was difficult to program on and only a few developers actually took advantage of the system. The Saturn had the same problem.

[v65animal]

It looks a lot like Panzer Dragoon for the Saturn to me.

[xnonsuchx]

@v65animal - Panzer Dragoon was a shooter on rails...though it looked kinda nice. Dactyl Joust was supposed to be a 3D version of JOUST.

[neogeon]

well allegedly the PS2 is hard to program for, but IMO the software library says different. There are only a handful of people that know enough about the inner workings of the PS2 to comment on how hard it is to program for.

[thorgallpl]

ps2 and ease of programming? LOL

[060falcon]

This game looks pretty cool! Nice and fluid 3D animation... also Joust is one of my favorite multiplayer games, so maybe this 3D version would have kicked ass...

[CLS2086]

Good, reminded me PanzerDragoon

[leechapman76]

Wow. Great video. Where did you find it? This would have beena great game had it hit the shelfs. Is the code still out there for some talented programmer to pick back up and finish?

The charm of the Jaguar for me is that it didn't do so well. I like systems most others hate. Keeps things original.

[A31Chris]

The crazy thing is, according to developers, this title was programmed in C/C++ for the jag with custom tools to achieve this. Unfortunately those tools are gone with the wind now.

[neogeon]

that's usually what it came down to in any console war: initial price and ease of programming, that's why Sony has come out on top with the PSX and PS2, and hopefully they will get their act together so PS3 doesn't end up like the Jaguar.