Reviewing *ALL 71* Atari Jaguar Games!!!

The Atari Jaguar didn't have a long life and it's library of games is all over the place in terms of quality and fun-factor. Some don't live up to the hype of being 64-bit, but does that mean they aren't fun? Let's find out by reviewing EVERY COMMERCIALLY RELEASED Jaguar Game!
Games Featured:
0:00 - Intro
1:27 - Atari Karts
2:34 - Alien vs. Predator
3:39 - Attack of the Mutant Penguins
4:25 - Brutal Sports Football
5:34 - Bubsy
6:27 - Cannon Fodder
7:07 - Checkered Flag
8:07 - Club Drive
9:03 - Cybermorph
10:39 - Defender 2000
11:59 - Doom
13:14 - Double Dragon V
14:18 - Dragon The Bruce Lee Story
15:06 - Evolution Dino Dudes
15:52 - Fever Pitch Soccer
16:32 - Fight For Life
17:18 - Flashback
18:08 - Flipout
19:04 - Hover Strike
20:17 - Iron Soldier
22:04 - I-War
23:16 - Kasumi Ninja
24:27 - Missile Command 3D
25:56 - NBA Jam TE
27:06 - Pinball Fantasies
28:08 - Pitfall The Mayan Adventure
29:28 - Power Drive Rally
30:38 - Raiden
31:38 - Rayman
32:53 - Ruiner
34:21 - Sensible Soccer
35:18 - Super Burnout
36:20 - Supercross 3D
37:14 - Syndicate
38:09 - Tempest 2000
39:53 - Theme Park
40:50 - Trevor McFur in the Crescent Galaxy
42:12 - Troy Aikman Football
43:21 - Ultra Vortek
44:40 - Val D'issere Skiing and Snowboarding
45:48 - White Men Can't Jump
46:55 - Wolfenstein 3D
48:18 - Zool 2
49:08 - Zoop
50:07 - Jaguar CD Games Intro
50:17 - Baldies
51:39 - Battle Morph
53:20 - Blue Lightning
54:06 - Brain Dead 13
55:33 - Dragon's Lair
56:41 - Highlander
57:41 - Hover Strike Unconquered Lands
58:38 - Myst
59:44 - Primal Rage
1:01:13 - Space Ace
1:02:05 - Vid Grid
1:03:09 - After-Life Jaguar Games
1:03:28 - Aircars
1:04:44 - BattleSphere / BattleSphere Gold
1:06:36 - Breakout 2000
1:07:37 - Hyper Force
1:08:47 - Iron Soldier 2 Cart / CD
1:09:56 - Protector / Protector SE
1:11:17 - Skyhammer
1:12:20 - Soccer Kid
1:13:30 - Total Carnage
1:14:32 - Towers II
1:15:36 - World Tour Racing CD
1:17:00 - Worms
1:17:59 - Zero 5
1:18:54 - Outro
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[@GregsGameRoom]

If you don’t own a Jaguar I HIGHLY recommend the BigPEmu! It’s very very good! (And yes I used it to capture footage for this video even though I could play them all on real hardware with less quality capture.) Every Konami NES Game: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d4CUoqWcr953qqs Sega 32X vs. Atari Jaguar: kzbin.info/www/bejne/il6teWifjrynipY

[@serbonkers4130]

Thanks. I will try it

[@keith-gl1kc]

The emulator is 10 out of 10

[@cleanTron]

The special moves and finisher in Kasumi Ninja been activated with the third button and then make random moves on the pad like rotate or left right, sometimes they make them, mostly not but in no way on purpose.

[@spacefractal]

yes that last game seens very cool. im love textureless graphics and in good pace, just limited to 30fps. But as im wrote in a comment, its not a big bigger for 3d games when done right.

[@billwoods9302]

I worked as a tester at Atari in their final years, just before they sold out to JMS Industries and closed the videogame department. Some of the games I tested were AVP, Pitfall, Highlander, I-War and Jeff Minter's versions of Tempest 2K and Defender 2K. I worked with some of the best, most skilled gamers I've ever met. They had to be. Everything Jeff Minter coded had 100 levels, and to make sure they were beaten, he added additional levels that no one would know about unless they beat the game in its entirety. Defender 2000, had an additional 100 levels of even crazier difficulty after beating the game called 'Vindaloo Mode.' I'm a little surprised that you covered all the games that were released, but never mentioned the Virtual Light Machine (VLM.) Jeff Minter, with the help of a mathematician named Ian Malcolm, coded the Jaguar CD with over 72 customizable visualizations for playing music CD's in the CD drive. The visualizations could be manipulated in real time by using the direction pad and the shoulder buttons. Years later, Minter would develop the VLM 2.0 for PC which he would loan out to DJ's in the UK for dance parties. Those days were an amazing part of videogame history, and it's nice to see younger generations holding an interest or even a passion for the work done during that time. Damn nice video! Cheers!

[@GregsGameRoom]

Awesome memories you have! I love the VLM but it’s not really a game. It actually deserves a video of it’s own. Maybe along with other similar visualizers. (Also playing music from CDs is a KZbin no-no.) Thanks for posting!

[@thefurthestmanfromhome1148]

I've long been a fan of Jeff's work, but he wasn't the person to update Defender for the Jaguar. He'd tried updating it with Defender 2 on the ST and Amiga, mixed results, bringing the awful lightning gun weapon from that to D2K, was a mistake. I appreciate Atari messed him around, originally wanting D2K on CD, then moving it cart, but it looked like an Amiga title, your main ship was far too large, the bonus level was weak. Gameplay was far too chaotic, survival was more luck than Judgement. Bethesda did it far better with Protector

[@briantran3791]

Man you must have played the same game for weeks!

[@horny4gnolls325]

atari karts dev be like. "we need to get some of that paralax scrolling for our backgrounds, lets get a guy who has never seen the horizen and has no idea how distant objects work to program it"

[@iwanttocomplain]

If you’re interested in how the Jaguar generates music, it uses wavetable sound, which is a sample, aggregated into a table to allow rapid manipulation of the sample - giving more sound design possibilities than a standard adsr envelope sample. Basically, it’s sample based.

[@ArneChristianRosenfeldt]

So like Amiga. But in addition it also has a cosine ROM and fast MAC. So you can do all that Fourier shenanigans. Change pitch, muffle . FM. Sampling happens internal to Jerry and the DSP. What rate is possible? I think you can calculate effects per octave and the interpolate and carry over to the next higher octave. So bass channels are cheap. And top sampling rate not too expensive. The expensive part is to fetch individual 16 bit samples over the system bus. The SDK doesn’t seem to cache wavetables. The Jaguar way of sound is to set Jerry to low priority and have a queue in SRAM. The problem is that JRISC stalls if more than one sample load is in flight or one sample write to the DAC. But it has interrupts and timers. But you may not switch the bank while a Load is in-flight. So you can only use a small number of registers per thread. I guess that you could check if the instruction pointer in the other threads moved? It may make sense to load a registers in one burst timed into the vertical blanking because often there are long periods of inactivity. So JRISC may only block every 4th load or so. Use MOVETA for the second bank. Use ROR, OR for unaligned reads. Jerry bus timing is buggy. You have 6 cycles = 6-1 instructions to do something meaningful with 16 bits of data before the next Load.

[@iwanttocomplain]

@ArneChristianRosenfeldt so sound comes from Tom and Jerry chips?

[@ArneChristianRosenfeldt]

@@iwanttocomplain Tom and Jerry both have a JRISC core. It is too weak for graphics, but over-powered for audio. If you look at the PCB, Tom has the R2R network on one edge for video. Jerry has the traces to the DAC.

[@thefurthestmanfromhome1148]

​@@iwanttocomplainAnd a quick soundbite from one of the team who worked on Kasumi Ninja, regarding the aspect of sound on the system. "“I was promised this amazing music system from Atari for KN on the Jaguar so I wrote loads of cool music and then it turned out the system couldn’t handle it and Atari’s code was dreadful.”

[@iwanttocomplain]

@thefurthestmanfromhome1148 you can’t be writing chiptune music without a chip to test it on.

[@TheOFF-GRIDiot]

I thought I had patience for what I do on my channel. You win dude.....71 titles.....many of which were NOT easy to deal with.....and then all the editing..... You the man.

[@GregsGameRoom]

It was a slog, but worth it

[@AngryCalvin]

One of the most misunderstood consoles. In 1993 this was a huge deal. These graphics were amazing back in the day. This console was seriously overpowered compared to anything else. You can’t just dismiss it comparing it to 32 and 64 bit consoles that came years after. The timing might have been questionable and the lack of popular titles didn’t help. But this was still super high tech. We were blown away by the Jaguar during its time. Not by Virtua Boy.

[@thefurthestmanfromhome1148]

The 3DO, whilst weaker than the SNES, never mind the Jaguar, at 2D,handled Texture-Mapping better than the Jaguar. The Jaguar hardware needed at least another 2 revisions to get the bugs out, far better Dev tools and games bigger budgets, then we could really of seen what it was capable of, in the right hands.

[@Cwiiis]

Hoverstrike (and the CD sequel) are actually really fun once you get to grips with the physics and controls - I find them both surprisingly enjoyable given the general critical reception, they're definitely worth persevering with!

[@PKmuffdiver]

Man, I watched the whole thing. Well done. Growing up i never knew anyone with the Jaguar system. Pretty cool to see what it had to offer!

[@leeartlee915]

I’ve never seen someone with such pride over their Jag collection. You even have it placed in its personal discoteq

[@OGHUGO]

Wow an hour+ long video? You outdid yourself Greg.. ! Thank you for your hard work, great video!

[@GregsGameRoom]

Thanks for checking out the video! Yeah, it was a ton of effort!

[@PeteOliva]

You just had to be there for Myst. It was just so cryptic and mysterious at the time, and really used CD-ROM technology to great effect to do things you couldn't do before CD-ROM technology.

[@TheChrisRolla]

Fun fact Fight for Life is the Beta version The full version was hidden away when Atari didn’t pay the dev but people played it at trade shows and said it was much better

[@kylekostamo1880]

The young highlander cartoon was pretty awesome. I watched it everytime it was on, highly underrated show and not spoken about nearly enough, especially when it comes to the countless lists through out the whole internet.

[@beagsx3]

Owned one of these back in the day and can remember being really underwhelmed. However nice to see that there is a very active home brew scene keeling it alive

[@GregsGameRoom]

I like the homebrew scene, but most Jag homebrew don’t push the hardware too hard.

[@user-or6yn8pm3c]

I'm glad I didn't buy one. Atari ST and Lynx were fun. I decided to wait two years for the OG Playstation.

[@ultramaximusreviews]

I've got Dragon's Lair & Space Ace on DVD and you play with the TV remote. It's the best version I've seen. Looks exactly like the arcade.

[@GregsGameRoom]

Yep, I wonder if those are still available?

[@CelinhoFilho]

I got Mad Dog McCree on DVD. The film, as expected, is equal to the arcade but it's almost impossible to play with the remote. The target is extremelly slow. It's like the CDI version which has the exactly same problem.... with a laser gun! Go figure.

[@mactonight1980]

Greg, on kasumi ninja you can pick different characters after you defeat them in story. You got to beat it on harder setting to get real ending and boss fight.

[@GregsGameRoom]

Really should be able to pick any character from the get-go…

[@mactonight1980]

@@GregsGameRoom yeah I dont understand why they did that.

[@Cafeman_2D]

Pretty long & thorough vid, enjoyed it even though I wouldn't play half those games.

[@GregsGameRoom]

Hard to really find the time anymore.

[@iwanttocomplain]

So you would play half those games is still quite positive.

[@Gruntvc]

I've always heard AVP was the best game for the Atari Jaguar. Wish it was included in the Atari Game Collection that came out last year on pretty much every console and pc. Cannon Fodder and Syndicate look neat too. Way better than the versions SNES and Sega Genesis got of those two games.

[@GregsGameRoom]

Current Atari would have to re-license the characters from (I guess) Disney now. Certainly a pretty penny…

[@edy1361]

It's probably the most overrated Jaguar game. Stiff to play with levels as simple as Wolfenstein 3d. I soon went back to playing Doom, within about two days bitd. A major disappointment.

[@thefurthestmanfromhome1148]

​@@edy1361it was the best Aliens title, for it's time, but titles like Alien Resurrection on PlayStation, AVP on PC, blew it out of the water. Jane Whittaker's awful spaghetti A. I routines, running on the 68000,really killed the frame rate. The Predator and Xeno campaigns really needed more depth as well.

[@wimwiddershins]

Like most "failed" consoles, you know the hardware can do more, there's glimpses of it in more than a few of these.

[@thefurthestmanfromhome1148]

More where exactly? Likes of John Carmsck said if they'd built Doom from scratch for the Jaguar, they'd target higher resolutions, better frame rates, WTR Racer coder said his routines could be further optimised ditto Battlesphere coder.. Rebellion say they pretty much maxxed out the hardware with Skyhammer. Slight improvements in frame rates would of been possible, but the hardware simply wasn't as powerful as the Sega Saturn and fell behind the 3DO in areas like Texture-Mapping.

[@ScrapKing73]

A roommate and I had a HELL of a lot of fun playing Hover Strike co-op, with one player driving and the other shooting. I recommend trying it that way and seeing if you still feel it’s a D-grade. Easily a B+ grade game for me!!

[@ScrapKing73]

I haven’t played the CD sequel… I actually bought a JagCD unit and Hover Strike CD, but my JagCD didn’t work (a chronic problem, sadly).

[@thefurthestmanfromhome1148]

​@@ScrapKing73They moved coding to the GPU, which saw an increase to the frame rate of between 3 and 5 FPS, textures are some of the cleanest on the system and there are a lot more missions. It's basically the version Atari should of put out instead of the cart version, but is it the Battlezone 2000 Atari originally envisioned? Hmnnn...

[@ScrapKing73]

@@thefurthestmanfromhome1148 That's great information, thank you. :) If only my JagCD actually worked! :(

[@aluinie]

Thanks for doing this enjoyed a number of jag games. Tempest 2000 was my favourite.

[@SinistarPro_Mike]

Finally able to watch this (after putting together a new pc), and man what a great dive into the Jaguar. I'll admit, I never bothered with this system during the release, but emulation has definitely given me a new found respect for the console. Even more, I think I'm in love with the Jaguar ports of Defender and Tempest! Great stuff Greg! 👍

[@GregsGameRoom]

Thanks man! This was definitely my most challenging video yet!

[@seethransom]

I love my Jag. I found enough fun games to play! Printing a new d-pad has also improved the experience. I see these puppies are fetching about $400 now. As an Atari collector, I enjoy having it as part of my collection. However I would have never paid $400 for it.

[@bananonymouslastname5693]

Pretty fair I'd say overall. I have most of them, and you were pretty balanced with being harsh on the games that deserve it yet positive on the games that earned it. If you're nuts and somehow can have a LAN party with 7 other Jaguar users (I only know one in my life, and that's my brother that I gave a Jaguar to when I got a spare and have played Doom over JagLink with), you can play Air Cars or Battlesphere Gold 8 player. I do think Ruiner is a real sleeper that you did give some positivity to here. I have a lot of fun with it. It may not be a Naxat pinball game, but both tables are pretty fun to play with solid scoring opportunities.

[@dad7275]

Thanks for taking out the time in this interesting video. I know the graphics is nothing special but Breakout 2000 is a great game in my opinion. Not as good as Tempest 2000 but its maybe my second favorite Jag game. As bad as Checkered Flag is I did take put the time (and patience) to beat it. I really want to try the revised version.

[@GregsGameRoom]

Breakout 2K is good, it's just a little boring. It puts me to sleep...

[@entertainmentwizard2703]

Great Video!

[@natecw4164]

You can tell someone has actually spent time with the controller when they bring up how comfy it is. Odd looking? Yeah. More comfortable than their competitors at the time? No question.

[@toypop96]

I bought a Jag for fairly cheap in the early 2010s (still have it), and was expecting the worst after having seen the controller constantly get put on ‘worst controllers ever’ lists. As soon as I held it for the first time, it immediately clicked. The D-pad could be a tad better in my opinion, and I feel as though the number pad really wasn’t needed - though that adds to the charm these days. Other than that, it’s far nicer than the initial appearance would suggest.

[@esmerylan]

Funny you mention being able to choose your own path as something Brain Dead 13 has over Dragon's Lair, as the original plan for Dragon's Lair was to include more options along those lines and there's even some footage of a prototype that saw limited location testing where you could go more than one way in some of the scenes. But the idea was scrapped, apparently because it was too complicated to fully implement (probably also due to the limitations of the LaserDisc player too, since it would have to do a lot more work).

[@GimpyDingo]

I didn't know Blue Lightning came out for Jag. I had it for the Lynx and not a bad game. I want to check out the Jag version for the hell of it. Always meant to check out White Men Can't Jump as it's gives strong Barkley Shut Up and Jam vibes. Hyper Force reminds me of Electro Cop on Lynx with the multi layers of background/foreground elements. I did own a Jag for a while. Oh Kasumi Ninja... I need to track down Iron Soldier III.

[@thefurthestmanfromhome1148]

It's Blue Lightning in name only, totally different Dev team for the Jag version, ATD, who openly admit they were in over their heads with it no real idea what they were doing.

[@fradd182]

So, many 3D games there. It was obvious where gaming trends were heading at that time, and Jaguar's limited 3D abilities probably hurt console the most when comparing to PS.

[@cyrollan]

Thanx to the algorithm for sending me this video. I currently own a Jaguar and quite enjoy it.

[@Sketcz]

Towers II: "there's no in game music" - dude, I can literally hear the music playing in the background as you're saying that!

[@GregsGameRoom]

You got me there. When I wrote the script I wasn't watching the video clips.

[@Sketcz]

@@GregsGameRoom Great vid otherwise. I sat and watched the entire thing. Thanks for being comprehensive!

[@mactonight1980]

I got jaguar in early 94 at babbages right when it came out in the south. At that time next generation systems were 3do, 600 bucks, sega cd, 200 bucks, genesis extra, and neo geo if you could even find it 800 bucks. Saturn a bit later at 400 bucks. Expensive. Jaguar was 249.99 and then 159.99. They did try to give you a pretty good game system for a cheaper price. I really think atari still had that stigma from 1983 that they couldn't shake at the time. So people were weary including publishers. Idk I wish it would have done better.

[@GregsGameRoom]

Jag was pretty cheap in comparison. Fits with Atari’s “Power without the price” motto.

[@CelinhoFilho]

I feel Jaguar games where much worse even compared to Genesis and SNES. It had slighly better graphics (and MUCH better sprites!) than its 16 bit counterparts, but it lost big time to gameplay, music, chalenge and fun factor. It seems like they forgot to insert music chips in the hardware and the programmers got obsolete in their vision. A good example is their version of "Mario Kart" which had better graphics but NO music, NO items, NO weapons, NO intersting characters, NO challenge. Another example is the racing game where you drive around colecting flashy balls. Doesn't it feel like a 3D 64 bit version of a Atari 2600 game? Well. That's just my opinion. To me it seems that they took too much time to really use the machine they had in their hands. Even with the ports from 16 bit games (Dragon the bruce lee story, Super pitfall, Flashback) they forgot to insert good music to match the updated graphics.

[@mactonight1980]

@@CelinhoFilho remember Atari at the time was a family smaller company than the others and was transitioning from computer to video games. Atari karts did have music, great music and items that were used for tires, speed, reverse direction. I have to disagree with the 2600 comment. Way off. Avp is not 2600, doom, wolfenstein, even checkered flag not 2600. Lol

[@MarceloNMF]

​@@mactonight1980I see your point of view. It bugs me that various Jaguar games seemed like they were half developed. Maybe they were short in personal, a smaller company like you said. I have limited experience with Jaguar. I give you that. A friend of mine got one in the later nineties. He had like 5 games. Alien vs Predador was great but the others were pretty lame. Pitfall was cool but not much different from the SNES version. Thank you for your imput

[@mactonight1980]

@@MarceloNMF now had atari given it a little more time maybe more experience with the hardware would have made development easier? Idk. I know towards the end games started to roll out but too late.

[@Jolt7800]

As I begin to watch this video, I can feel the pressure, the burden and the responsibility; to take on this challenge….

[@GregsGameRoom]

It was a daunting task, but rewarding because I got to play games that I hadn’t spent much time on. I do need to figure out Syndicate though!

[@starrybear9778]

Wolfenstein 3-D on the Jaguar. The 1st game that introduced me to motion sickness and my inability to play an 1st person game from that point on.

[@lunabourke3923]

Great vid, its cool to see all the Jag library together, it does show that it wasn't a disaster in the games department (most of the time). I heard Sensible Soccer is best in two player btw, so it might be worth a try with friends. It makes me think it is weird how Atari held back in Europe to support American shipments when it would probably appeal more to Europe with a lot of Amiga/ST ports, I think it was a big reason for why my dad got it (that and the best version of Doom on consoles at the time was on the Jag).

[@10p6]

Don't you think it is bizarre that Atari did not release a Tempest 2000 CD game for the Jaguar CD Drive? The cart version has some slowdown due to bus contention with Audio / music on the DSP, but with CD they could have used the awesome CD audio and possibly added more levels /' features, and recycled most of the code making it a quick easy port.

[@RWSCOTT]

great content & a cool trip down memory lane! It's nice to see some of the later quality titles. Back in the day, I played the hell out of Doom, Tempest 2000, Defender 2000, Iron Soldier, Cannon Fodder, AVP, Power Drive Rally... great games. 2 things I noticed: I'm pretty sure the guided missile appears in IS1 in later stages, and I think it's pronounced gur-ad shading. Also, agree 100% re: Trevor McFurr and could not *believe* Atari put it on their 50 Collection (instead of like, Iron Soldier?) O_o

[@kevinstrade2752]

Would a post Jaguar homebrew video be possible? There are some nice homebrews for the Jaguar and CD.

[@Todd82TA]

From the mid-90s to just a couple of years ago. I had managed to buy / collect every single Atari Jaguar game. ALL of them except GORF 2000, black light, and an original Battlesphere Gold (I had a replica). I came to realize that I only every played like 10 of them, which I really, really liked. So I made it a point of selling off about 3/5ths of all my Atari Jaguar games, including everything that was CD-related. It was just before a move, so it actually helped out. I made over 20 thousand dollars selling my Jaguar stuff that I never used. I included that in the downpayment of the house I live in now. I kind of miss it, but not that much. I still kept the games I actually play, like Defender 2000, Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, Ultra Vortek, etc... but man... what a cool system.

[@GregsGameRoom]

And now you can get a Jaguar Game Drive and play all the games again for just $200. :D

[@Todd82TA]

@@GregsGameRoom that is awesome!!! I typed this in, and all I see are people selling hard drives. I guess it's an emulator and the roms are being sold on a drive? Is there any one in particular you recommend? Thank you so much! I had no idea about any of this... (getting my 2600+ this week, that's how I found your video, and ventured to this one)

[@GregsGameRoom]

It's actually a Flash Cart. You can even play JagCD on it! I did a review here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eGKQZ6tvp7dpp9k

[@big_ry82]

Some of the writing in this gave me 'Gaming in the Clinton Years' vibes. 😅

[@BHGMediaGroup]

the remote missile in IS2 is also in IS1

[@whoeverest_the_whateverest]

1:03:03 "right now oil are companies in control.d old animen" I kinda lol'd here

[@asap_zonk9159]

I just bought a complete collection of jaguar and CD games.

[@k9feces]

I’m getting secondhand buyers remorse watching some of these reviews. I would read all the boxes at The Wiz

[@zephyr8072]

“Choosing a character for story mode is a basic thing every fighting game should have.” *Soul Calibur V has left the chat*

[@VOAN]

Tempest 2000 is also now available for the Nintendo Switch, PC, and PS4 through the Atari 50 Anniversary Celebration collection and yes on that one it's actually the legit Atari Jaguar version of Tempest 2000 and not another port like the PS1 and Sega Saturn versions, not only that but Atari Kart and Tempest 4000 are also on those same 3 platforms.

[@TheLoganSomers]

I wish I could have played these forgotten gems; the first 5 years of my life I only knew of Dos and Sega Genesis. To think consoles/ games with 3D graphics existed at the same time/ prior is mind boggling! It wasn’t even until I played a Sega Saturn that i found out 3D was possible on a console and then Playstation exploded into my world shortly thereafter 🎉❤ 3D graphics in 93 is INSANE!

[@PixelPz]

Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening! Never stop another like 👍

[@10p6]

Great video. As you can see from my icon, I am a bit of a huge Jaguar fan :-)

[@ilkeryoldas]

Can you cover homebrews as well?

[@GregsGameRoom]

I did unreleased games and protos. I’ll get to homebrews and ST conversions eventually.

[@ilkeryoldas]

@@GregsGameRoom thanks! Doesn't have to be all that is out there, maybe some select good ones to check out would be nice 😊

[@kissthistwice5]

Great video. I've been interested in the Jag for a few years but don't have one. I'd love to see a mini come out of they can bail emulation but Skyhammer, Wolfenstein and AvP would be top of the wish list for me

[@CyborgPrime]

Love tempest 2000- still playing!

[@VyceEcho]

Well done sir. Absolutly enjoyed this!

[@GregsGameRoom]

Glad to be of service!

[@edy1361]

Cybermorph, you play as Will Smith piloting a dodgy aircraft with Jada constantly piping up to ridicule him. With tears in his eye's Will carries on regardless.

[@GregsGameRoom]

LOL

[@TobeyStarburst]

Love these videos watch at work so fun keep it up!

[@GregsGameRoom]

Thanks for watching!

[@Sinn0100]

So...I got my Jaguar in 1994 and I loved it. The reason I purchased one was for Doom. I really wanted a 32X but at the time I couldn't find one as they were sold out (think about that one for a second). I went with the Atari Jaguar and was very happy I did. I hear so many talk about how the Jaguar died because it didn't have any games or quality issues....here is my experience... I got my Jaguar with Cybermorph (not great), Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and AVP. Doom for the Jaguar was phenomenal and the very best way to play outside of a $2.5K-$3.5K PC. The no music issue I solved with a copy of the Doom soundtrack on CD running through my Sega CD on a smaller TV (it worked really well). The other games were absolute showstoppers for 1994 and weren't really being replicated anywhere else at the time (3DO Wolf was good but not that good). The next month I got Tempest 2000 and Iron Soldier. A month or so later I picked up Super Burnout...and on it went. Rayman, Cannon Fodder, Flashback, Raiden. Was the Jaguar the best console I ever purchased? Far from it. However, the experiences I got from mine were great and well worth the paultry sum of 250 bucks. Addendum- I dropped my Jaguar pretty quickly when I got my Sega Saturn and Sony Playstation on 9/9/95. I tried to get a Saturn during their surprise launch but couldn't find one even in Miami until the PSX went on sale. I traded a ton of games in to get them both but I digress... For reference- What the Wikipedia article is talking about is the difference between the background vs. pixels. The Jaguar runs the actual gameplay@60FPS while the background (like running water) is displayed @30FPS. Yes, it makes a big difference in picture quality. Oh and the Genesis port is better than the Snes one...so I don't get what you said about animations.

[@big_ry82]

Sensible Soccer is one of the best games ever made. Its beloved for good reason. (Syndicate too!)

[@joaogrrr]

i'm a simple man, i hear someone pronounce jaguar's name correctly, i like

[@Sinn0100]

Okay, okay...I posted once before but I feel like I have to say something here. Super Burnout was absolutely incredible when it released. The game was designed to emulate Sega's Super Scaler Technology and it succeeded spectacularly. At the time no other racing game existed like it for the home market. A+ Grade. Addendum- Sega themselves wouldn't step up to the plate and release their own Super Scaler racing game until the Saturn was widely available in stores. As good as Afterburner Complete and Space Harrier on the 32X were they were not racing games.

[@NALTOHQ]

What would be the best controller to use to emulate the Jaguar? Its so hard to get a real Jaguar now.

[@atariretrofan]

Great !!! My favoritues: AvsP, Tempest 2000, Raiden, Trevor (F?!) At the moment I have only 18 carts :-)

[@Turbotobi79]

Wow, that video looks like a ton of work. I got the Jag as a kid and bought it again this year. I also have a Gamedrive that runs roms and cd images as well. Today the CD Drives are insanely overpriced. I still enjoy playing Tempest, AVP, Doom, Wolfenstein and even Cybermorph. I think your ratings are spot on, except for Highlander. That is an F for poor gameplay, annoying camera and awkward controls at least in my book. I remember reading the previews for Freelancer 2120 that hyped me a lot but got cancelled.

[@thefurthestmanfromhome1148]

Only the PC CD version of Freelancer was ever started and had serious performance issues, Imagitec Design did get Atari to licence the Jag Doom engine, for the Jag CD version but project never got off the ground. Ex-Imagitec Design took the project with them and attempted to make it a PlayStation title, when they joined Gremlin, but it went nowhere. The Jag CD screens in press at the time, are taken from the PC CD version.

[@Turbotobi79]

@@thefurthestmanfromhome1148 Thanks. I was not aware the Doom Engine was supposed to be used. At least they had some fine concept art.

[@thefurthestmanfromhome1148]

@@Turbotobi79 Going to have to post this as separate posts.. Martin Hooley originally claimed that the reason game was canned was because Atari wanted them to include lots of Custom Lighting Effects and Texture - Mapping, which Jaguar couldn't handle, so they moved it to the PlayStation, then years later he claimed it was canned because it was obvious the Jaguar CD was going to flop at retail and Imagitec would never recoup their investment, which goes nowhere to explaining why they simply didn't push it out on PC instead

[@thefurthestmanfromhome1148]

@@Turbotobi79 An Artist gave this account: Freelancer was a shit storm from day one to be honest - the best thing about it was the concept art (by wayne reynolds) - I think we used a 3D system by a small team of about 3 people that were brought in from outside - mostly because by then everyone didn't like Emerson Best, who was a rookie producer at Imagitec and wound everyone up, thinking he knew it all. Emerson at best was a green producer - he was brought in for god knows what reasons - completely up his own arse - started to tell us how to do everything and was generally massively disliked." "I think Imag realised that the I- war engine wasn't going to cut it, and I think Martin Hooley was briefly going to stump up the cash for an off the shelf 3D engine, when out of the blue, a small team of people - a three man team, suddenly appeared. No Idea who the poor fu#kers were but we had a connundrum - we could do it in house or use this other team and it was better that the other team would put up with emerson cos we all didn't like him. It did get to a point where even the external team called martin and asked him why it was necessary that emerson called them every single day for 3 hours every single morning though.... #it should be noted the above source from Imagitec Design stated the game NEVER used stop motion models, something we know it DID.. Here's the guy who did the work. www.nevillebuchanan.co.uk/ So take the above claims with a degree of caution obviously still some old wounds amongst Imagitec Design staff.

[@thefurthestmanfromhome1148]

@@Turbotobi79 Scott Stilphen's Atari Documentation shows Imagitec Design did take delivery of the Doom Engine, which confirms comments Andrew Seed made... File dated:Feb 13 1995 Game has a ? next to listing for Original release Date. Status:Expected/Revised date: 4/95..bought Doom Engine..Revised Schedule needed' Another Imagitec Design musician told me.. This is a blast from the past. I was involved with the game Freelancer at an early stage, creating music, however this was still ongoing when I left Imagitec so don’t know if this ever saw the light of day. I know it didn’t on the Jaguar CD

[@mikemorrison377]

Greg, do you have a brick and mortar store? For some reason I thought Adam the woo bought a retro system from a place in central Florida and I thought maybe it was your store? Anyways, I was in the area this week and wanted to find a retro store while I was in the area.

[@Meteotrance]

Gouraud Shading is pronounced " GOO - RAW " it's a French name of Henri Gouraud the man who made a PHD thesis at the University of Utah for that shading algorythm, we must thank him he made polygonal 3D way smoother like is co mate Edwin Catmull at Pixar ...

[@jcollins1305]

Ahhh the golden age of the console wars. One thing Atari didn’t realize was that graphics may get people in, but to keep them, you had to have interesting, fun games that people wanted to play. There was no Link to the past, or Mario Bros, or super Metroid. First person space shooters are only fun for so long!

[@mansellracing8690]

Waw I use to have a jag back in the day. And my favorite game was the aliens game. And i never knew Space ace and Dragons lair was on the jag though.I seem to remember Jaguar XJ220 was on this Machine but i can't find a video of it anywhere, Ime sure it was the jag. Wolfenstein was Amazing i use to love that game, and i don't play shootem ups. What a good little Machine it was, It just didn't get the Backing from the Big gaming company's, A bit like the 3do both were fantastic. Oh and Dragon lair and space ace were terrific on the Phillips CDI, Another grate Machine that just didn't get enough love. Loved your video my friend took me wright back to the 90's. Back when gaming was exiting my friend.

[@thefurthestmanfromhome1148]

Jaguar XJ220 was on the Amiga, then Sega CD, Atari ST version planned, but cancelled. No Jaguar version.

[@Alianger]

I think Atari Karts used a mod music player. "a DSP (actually, it's more like a general-purpose CPU with a few DSP-like instructions added), a 16-bit DAC, and nothing else (not even DMA support). So all sound synthesis stuff is 100% software. There's some sample code from Atari that implements FM and sample-based synthesis, and there are several MOD file players as well. You can also use whatever sound synthesis method you like, as long as it doesn't use too much CPU/memory/bandwith, and you are willing to code it yourself..."

[@rodrigogirao8344]

43:28 I suppose they changed it because there was a game called Vortex on the SNES.

[@miikasuominen3845]

Still have mine, with a working CD-unit also...

[@deckofcards87]

The Jaguar was such a wasted opportunity. Considering the hardware specs Atari were working with there's dozens of awesome PC titles they could've ported, but alas.

[@ThePoorMansRetroGameRoom]

Thank you for awesome look at at all theses games from someone who actually has played them. Its so refreshing to see an honest take on this powerhouse instead the same old uneducated lame take on this misunderstood system. Great video!

[@GregsGameRoom]

Agreed. Most of the Jaguar library is good!

[@ThePoorMansRetroGameRoom]

@@GregsGameRoom Power Drive Rally, Super Burnout, Iron Soldier, Rayman and of course Doom and AVP are awesome games. I agree with most of your grades here. I haven’t played any of the soccer games so can’t say on any of these. Tempest Rocks for sure! Sublime

[@Aaron-ug3qz]

I remember buying this when it came out. I loved the Jeff minter games and aliens. The other games purchased were duds. I think I gave up on it because I also had an Amiga and a turbo duo. I also remember the games were pricey and difficult to find.

[@angelriverasantana7755]

Instead of Zoop, I'd take Tetris AND Klax. I can find enjoyment outta Zoop. but I like puzzle games that pose a challenge and aren't droning piles

[@GregsGameRoom]

Heck yeah! Love me some KLAX! I think there’s an ST conversion cart though.

[@TrouserTrumpet]

When I collected every console I could a decade ago I had a Jaguar and about 5 games. Alien vs Predator, Flip Out and Zoop were my most played games. Flip Out I enjoyed a lot and admittedly I really like Zoop as well. The Jaguar isn’t as horrible as others claim it is. It’s alright.

[@lunsj]

I never owned a Jaguar but Greg likes the graphics better than I do. As a quote "The graphics are texture mapped which is a step up from Virtua Fighter" Is it though? I think VF looks better and it certainly seems to play far better so some of these reviews are confusing to me.

[@janicielle]

I had the Jaguar all throughout A school and C school during my navy days (until I got to the fleet and discovered the Playstation). I admit Highlander was difficult to control, but I managed to get the hang of it and complete the game. Sad to say the ending felt like a letdown to me. My roommates definitely had fun playing Tempest 2k. I'm happy to have recently found BigPEmu and that every rom that I have works on it.

[@josephb4086]

I enjoyed the jag as I'm not too harsh judging games. Doom, wolf 3d, avp, and a select few others are good games for the time.

[@dementeddaniel666]

This video just reaffirms how I thought back then, to just save my money. I wouldn't even try to emulate a single game that I saw in this. Thanks for taking the time to make this video though.

[@BeamerTime354]

Someone has a jaguar addiction 😂. I was one of the few that owned a jaguar and all my friends were impressed. Too bad it failed so bad.

[@raycavazos8927]

Ultra Vortex. Skull Crusher is the Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past. THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO....

[@CrazyArtEducator]

You obviously didn't have to pay much for each game? This video is for retro-philes. We love the details. Interviews of the game creators and other weird rumours about the games. You could have taken just about 10-20 games which have some special insights. Now you just roam through the list throwing B's at these historical beasts!

[@elmariachi5133]

The Jaguar's music is more like modules instead of MIDI tunes, as it didn't feature one of these terrible synth chips that where so unjustifiedly popular back then, but instead it had a real PCM sound chip, like only the Amiga (and in theory PCs with the Soundblaster which one either did not own or otherwise had no game making use of it, yet) had until that point. That's why it sounds better :)

[@ReoAard]

Thanks

[@alexgut1everything]

47:09 William Joseph "B.J." Blazkowicz (Polish pronunciation: [blasˈkɔvit͡ʂ]. Yeah,not easy for the first time for pronunciation,but... There is even harder names in Polish. But mine is simple... Kind of😜 ('cause it short version,not full).

[@SvennyMcG]

Found your channel recently and am really enjoying your content 👍 This video was a lot of fun, great work! Subbed 😊

[@GregsGameRoom]

Thanks! Glad you enjoy the videos!

[@TheSocialGamer]

Super Burnout is a very good example of a motoracer.

[@snorlaxtreflip]

Soccer kid was also released for the genesis and mega drive

[@LLachs283]

imagine you want to contest the snes wich came with thousands of hours of fun with super mario world and you ship a console with "WHERE DID YOU LEARN TO FLY" XD

[@hankikolehmainen702]

Great marathon of games ps. doomscale yeah the doomscale

[@mattnordsell9760]

I used to have the 3DO version of brain dead 13. If I remember right, I couldn't play it because of scratches on the disc

[@cyrollan]

I've even done a few repairs on it.

[@randybutternubs4647]

I know the whole "64 bit" thing was technically a lie but imagine how hilarious it would be if some day in the distant future, homebrew gets so advanced that someone actually ports Super Mario 64 to the Jaguar.

[@randybutternubs4647]

@@FunnyVideoCollector Really? I did not know that. I never really looked into the N64's game development much except for its abysmally low texture memory leading to its famous blurry low res textures.

[@retrovideogamejunkie]

41:51 Looks like "my first design" basic program from the 90 ...

[@braillynn4903]

I do believe that the Jaguar Pro controller has the most buttons of any game controller. Could be wrong though.

[@That_hasselblad_guy]

Do you think a visual novel would work on the jaguar. Asking for a friend who is developing a jaguar game

[@iwanttocomplain]

The resolution is pretty low. So still images like in Myst rely on strong art direction to make a cohesive end product. It would be interesting to incorporate animated elements and a cool retro interface would add a lot to the 16/32bit pixel art aesthetic. I’m thinking of Heart of the Dragon, which is on the Sega CD which has hardly any colour but the artists more or less pulled it off.

[@ArneChristianRosenfeldt]

@@iwanttocomplainJaguar has 360 true color pixel on each scan-line. Or 720 CRY ( software dither the gradients after decompression!) . Not sure about overscan. You could scroll through larger artwork. So you say: Mac or PC is better? You can turn on interlacing. With enough jpeg compression, the image is smooth enough and doesn’t flicker. JRISC is optimized for “slow” discrete FT and cosine transformation. This allows you to subpixel smooth scroll through the 8x8 blocks. Still need to find a way to deal with the block artifacts. Would be so cool to see a video compression codec other than the cinepack in the SDK. Of course, best would be real-time 3d cut scenes as on N64 and metal gear solid. For parts. Gives this Amiga or WingCommander3 look. Atari in their wisdom decided that the Object Processor cannot pull at px precision. MPEG and cinepack motion compensation need just that. So one more application where the OP is useless. Maybe use it for low quality full screen scrolling and tearing in action frames.

[@iwanttocomplain]

I forgot to mention. Someone makes visual novels on the Saturn. So that might be easier.

[@ArneChristianRosenfeldt]

@MarcLawler-ep6lo Only transparency is the jumping at shadows fog under lamps. It should be additive, but CRY is multiplicative : we multiply light intensity with the pigments. Though , CRY creates negative intensity. I think gamma correction is also missing..at least we can apply it at the vertices. Transparency is more RGB interpolation. It is less critical regarding Gamma Correction. Only JRISC is a little able to do this at a low fillrate. Flames are addictive RGB. Maybe mode Towers II so that the flames have a white core ( saturate) and then a software additive„Halo“ .

[@ArneChristianRosenfeldt]

@@iwanttocomplain actually I cannot stand flickering SD CRTs. If you want easy on a lovely system, why not try the original iMac?

[@toaf6467]

you gotta play defender 2000 until you see fingers... you would give it a a grade im sure

[@joesshows6793]

Nothing looked 64bit with this system

[@GregsGameRoom]

Looks aren't everything.

[@AngryCalvin]

This was before 32 bit consoles were released. The hardware was ahead in its time but they couldn’t predict the future.

[@joesshows6793]

@@AngryCalvin yeah but we had already seen what 32bit can do and they were shoving the 64bit spec down our throats. Then we read the games are going to be 8-24mb in size (bit not byte) and again we were at a time were bigger was better.

[@cyrollan]

Bits are not a metric in which to base a systems merit.

[@thefurthestmanfromhome1148]

They got away with the 64 bit angle for marketing, as it used 64-bit architecture, it's not a true 64-bit machine in sense the N64 was.

[@thorstenguenther]

While I do not like those quicktime FMV games, I feel the urge to mention that all three look better on the CD-I. And I feel you underrated Zero-5, my only gripe with it that it is way too hard on the first level.

[@phqutub]

Being in grade school, my small hands could barely handle over an hour of playing. You would always end up setting it down and try to use it like an arcade pad. Doom was the only good game. Hard to remember most.

[@Imgema]

You don't seem to mind the terrible frame rate in some games like that Brutal Sports game. Also, watch the Digital Foundry video about Pitfall and you will see how smoother the SNES and Genesis versions run.

[@ArneChristianRosenfeldt]

The player moves as smooth as prince of Persia . Faulty monitor config?

[@Imgema]

The game runs at 30fps on Jaguar, see a scrolling comparison, this isn't about character animations.

[@ArneChristianRosenfeldt]

@@Imgema yeah, I could identify single frames. Weird that this is the limit here. After backface culling not many polygons are left. Maybe needs bones? The fighters only occupy a small area. I never understood why the court needs to rotate ( for normal moves ). Flatnshaded ( but with light) may look even better than dull textures all around.

[@thefurthestmanfromhome1148]

​@@Imgemaimagitec Design did a shocking Conversion of Pitfall to the Jaguar. Take a 60 FPS Sega Genesis /Sega CD title, reduce it to 30 FPS on a 64-bit architecture, 2D powerhouse console. And to think they were looking at converting it to the Atari Lynx, dodged a bullet there.

[@williamgregg8062]

@@thefurthestmanfromhome1148why and how does that happen? Just a lazy port or what?