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916032 No.916032 [Reply] [Original]

So someone just gave me an atari jaguar with a handful of games, and like what the fuck. I thought this was supposed to be a 64 bit console... can someone legitimately explain this to me. I've got SNES games that look better than this thing

>> No.916037

you gotta DO THE MATH bro

>> No.916047
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>>916037
heh heh!

>> No.916056

System architecture was dreadful, and extremely complicated to program for. Very few games were able to navigate it with success.

Check out Alien vs. Predator. Game looks fucking incredible for 1994. It still looks good today.

Anyway, the Jaguar is fun to collect for, and most of the infamous games fall under "so bad they're good". There are actually good games on the Jaguar. The /v/ Recommended Wiki is spot on in this regard.

>> No.916064

>>916056
That was actually one of the games that came with this. I don't care for it unless you're playing as the marine. I do like the Doom port for it. I don't like the lack of music, but still a really good console port.

>> No.916065

>>916056
This is the one and only Jaguar game worth playing on Jag. Came to say this.

>> No.916067

"Bits" don't mean what you think they do.

>> No.916070

>>916064
There's also some top down RC Pro Am type racing game that I remember playing a bit.

>> No.916075
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>>916032
Lazy developers who just used the 68000 for everything.

Now go play some Cybermorph and Iron Soldier.

>> No.916084

>>916065

Nope. Tempest 2000 bro. Also, Rayman.

>> No.916086

>>916032
my neighbor had that system

Alien vs. Predator
Bubsy

were the only playable things he had, everything else was shit

controller was a fucking pain in the ass

I remember back then in post-Street Fighter 2 era, it was stupid not to have a 6-button controller

Every controller has to have 6 buttons.

>> No.916090

>>916032
You're a lucky bastard, OP. Shit's expensive as hell online. AvP and Rayman and Tempest were already mentioned, but you could always play some hilarious shit like the Mutant Penguins from Space. It's gold.

>> No.916104

It can be a very neat, rewarding system to own if you carefully research which games to get, and pretend that the rest of the library doesn't exist.

>> No.916119

The system was fucking impossible to program for most developers.. and Atari was short sighted in looking at their own dick enough to not help developers around their own system..

ID software of doom had to develop and make thier own code to make the console link up work, and only after 3 or so years after the death of the jaguar, a small indie company had perfect code for it..

It was just a badly presented console with potential, rushed and fagged up by obnoxious management with a juggernaut of a name which could have made it a flavour next to playstation.

The action with it now is with the homebrew and getting a flash card with it, the homebrew scene is fooking huge.

>> No.916131

There are some decent games on the jaguar. I like val d isere, super burnout, iron soldier, the aforementioned fps games, tempest, and a few others.

>> No.916145

Why did they ever feel the need to revive the numerical pad thingo? It's just so awful and unnecessary ;_;

>> No.916149

>>916145

Good gamepad design was never Atari's thing.

>> No.916151

>>916149
But things like this just seem like common sense. It's like people who had no idea about video games or even intuition and comfort were tasked to create this abomination.

>> No.916153

>>916145

I think the idea was to make it easier to port games from the PC.

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>>916086
>not having 22 buttons on your controller

>>916145
The number pad was pretty useful for FPS games and the PC ports (Cannon Fodder, Syndicate, etc.).

The biggest problem with the controller was the ergonomics. Horrible. Worst feeling controller ever made. The d-pad was also terrible. Mushy and just not comfortable. Again, the worst d-pad in the history of gaming.

>> No.916180

"Despite the intense marketing efforts by Atari, the Jaguar is in fact a 32-bit console rather than 64-bit, as a whole; only one part of its two CPUs were 64-bit."