When is the Nintendo Switch VR headset being released? The Switch literally is the only console that comes with VR controllers built in, but no, they wasted the opportunity 😭😭 So much could've been done with the HD rumble and Joy-Cons with a wrist strap, but no 😢 (And no, Labo VR doesn't count, it should be more than an Ikea cardboard headset, like it should be already built when you but it and use the same plastic the rest of the console uses... Like that's still better than nothing of course, but I wish it was more.)
Im still searching for a fully working Atari Jaguar for my collection. To this day I have never even seen one in the wild so I am eager to find one and just spend a full day playing the hell out of it someday haha
DreamcastGuy I feel very fortunate to have gotten my Jag brand new, along with a ton of new games, back in the late 90's/early 00's when new old-stock was plentiful and everything was cheap! I paid at most $30 for Rayman and Atari Karts, which is unheard of now. I've stumbled upon many Jaguar's in the wild, but I have a couple great retro shops around me that always seem to have great stuff. I haven't purchased a game off eBay is 3 or 4 years.
@@myrongaines5542 some great titles but $45-69 for games is elevated. Defender 2000 is a game I don’t own, but I’m not over $195 for a copy. After the system died there were still a couple of companies working to put finishing touches on unreleased games and sell them, and they were $80 a pop. With inflation they’d only cost about $105-110 dollars. Scarcity it one thing but putting money on the hands of those that work to program games is another and supporting authors feels worthwhile.
Got a Jag when it came out. BEGGED my parents for it. Played the hell out of some Club Drive and Kasumi Ninja. And I can't forget about AVP... I still have it in my garage. Still works. Hell, I can remember my first 2600 for Christmas. lol.
If Atari Vs Predator is the best the console has to offer, that says it all.... :(. It's choppy, difficult to control and you can only get fun when playing the marine, the Alien and the Predator sucks hard. I'm having difficulties to undertand that anyone likes this console games, even Cybermorph, but I guess the world's big enough for all opinions.
Super Burn out is the reason to own a Jag for me. I'm a huge fan of Yu Suzuki and that sprite scrolling racer really reminds me of a lost title that he would create. (Though that's not to say it's not original in it's own right.) It's super fun.
DharmaDaniel Same here, I absolutely adore Super Burnout. I actually had referenced Yu Suzuki in the original script but though the youngins might not have got the reference haha!
Doom should 100% be on this list. The controller scheme was the best on any console (including the PC). The only downer was the audio was restricted to only sound effects, no music.
+Samuel Coe Doom for the Jaguar is fantastic for sure. If you want to see my thoughts on Jag Doom, it was featured in this video: czcams.com/video/STHHk3PqiZo/video.html Check it out :)
I got a Jaguar last month, and needed a game for it. Thanks to this video, I bought Super Burnout on eBay... It's the best sprite-based motorcycle game I have ever played. Good eye, sir.
+implantgames Can I ask You something? I never had a chance to play on Jaguar but back in the days I wanted to have it because of Pitfall. The screens were great just wonder what do U think about this game?
+implantgames You may want to have a look at "The Apprentice", "Steel Machine", "Burn:Cycle", "Mutant Rampage", "Dimo's Quest" (a port of the Amiga title with improved music and a graphical makeover, proving that there could have been several Amiga ports on this platform), "Zenith", "RAM Raid"/"Atlantis - The Last Resort" (the latter being a single-player graphical makeover of the former, which I prefer graphically), "Hotel Mario" and the NAMCO titles. There's also "Lemmings", "Creature Shock", "Dragon's Lair" and "The 7th Guest". While the CD-i has very few good games (mainly due to Philips' policy to not market it as a games console) , they do exist.
+SDFcommander Thanks man! While the Jaguar has issues, including a lackluster library, I feel it is way over-bashed. There are some gems, and they controller is fairly comfortable.
Does anybody here know if cybermorph on atari jaguar uses the same flight physics as zarch on computers? if so i would like to know and see proof thanks.
Super Burnout is my favorite Jag game as well. The sense of speed is amazing. There is one track, Tokyo I believe, that is brutal for me. When recording your vids, do you use the XRGBmini with scan lines on? SCART input I'm assuming? Looked great in 720p.
m15granger The footage is all S-Video as I do not currently own a scart cable for the Jag. Scanlines are off while recording, but I do enjoy them on when I am not recording footage. And I agree about Super Burnout, the sense of speed is awesome!
+implantgames You've gotta spring for that RGB cable, bro. That was the first thing I got for my Jaguar, and it looks awesome both on my PVM and my BenQ monitor via the Framemeister.
this is one Atari i do not have but really want. Thanks for the "top 5 " picks. it does give me a slight idea of where I need to start when I start collecting for the Jag.
+Dad72hthorn The Jaguar is a neat peace of hardware for sure, and there are some great games for it. I'm a bit bummed everything for this system has really spiked in price over the past few years :(
+implantgames Yes I noticed that on ebay!! I went ahead and ordered one on ebay at what I thought was a good deal for a used one. And I also found one of the cheaper games to get for it....I got Checkered Flag for $10.. what I was really wanting was Doom and maybe Atari karts. But I will settle with Checkered Flag at the moment I always wanted that game too. But I do think you should know this video was kind of the pushing point for me to get me a Jaguar..thanks. :) figured if I'm going to get one I better do it now before the price gets any higher.
Raiden scrolls left and right in the arcade because the monitor is turned 90 degrees on its side....so yes that big brown stained panel on the Jag version AND the stupid left right scrolling being implemented together is a monumental mistake. Clearly the correct thing to do is to show ALL the playfield so the screen width of a regular 4:3 screen is filled with graphics and sod the scrolling reveal left and right. It looks like an Atari ST version.
Raiden is not 4:3 and the game is not designed for that. Curiously any Raiden version I've played on PS3 or PS4 has those frame graphics left and right on 16:9 TVs. The same with vertical shmups on Dreamcast, like Under Defeat.
+Peteman Reviews Yeah, Jaguar prices have been climbing steadily since I get into it back in 2000 or so. I doubt I paid more than $30 for any of these games, and now some are creeping towards the $100 mark :(
I have all of these except Atari Karts. It's just too expensive. Great review! It's nice to hear someone say nice things about these games for a change. \\//,
Indeed. Gotta thank Ubisoft for supporting the Jaguar and actually put some effort into it. It payed off, Rayman is a classic and the new games are fantastic!
Thanks for the reviews. Of course, I disagree on some of your choices but you did an excellent job. It makes me want to boot up my Jaguar (which I still do on occasion) and play MY favorites!!
To help you solve the mystery of Rayman's presence on the Jaguar, it is to be known that Rayman was initially a Jaguar exclusive title (though some early prototypes of a SNES version have been recently found, they never made it further than the prototype stage). Playstation and Saturn versions were ports. Enriched ports, but still ports.
That doesn't solve the mystery. The mystery is *why* was it being programmed for the Jag in the first place? The answer is probably because Atari was still reasonably popular in France.
@@implantgames Nope. Because the Jaguar had the power to do such 2D animation with 16 bit color/60 FPS. 3DO was too expensive and the 32X could not pull that off. PS1 and Saturn came 1 year later. So what brought the devs to Jaguar was it's capabilities matched their vision for the game.
Nice List, Yes Burnout is pretty neat. I had Raiden but sold it may moons ago. Jaguar would have competed had IBM been able to produce the consoles, apparently Atari HAD 2 MILLION PRE-ORDERS across the world. Many in Europe where the Atari ST was popular. IBM where not savvy with manafacturing high volume and managed only a pitiful 250'000 units, with many pre-orders being canceled. They couldn't claw back the hit after that , especially after the news of PS1 and Saturn was out. Here in the UK Atari made Rumbleows sole distributor for the system, they very shorlty after went into liquidation, leaving Atari without a distributor in the UK.
They had a low yield. Now I don’t know if engineers modify the masks while the production runs. I can only imagine that some parts of the chips had trouble to reach the clock rate. Also the design has race conditions. So I guess that engineers modified the masks to tune transistors width or even change a route or two.
Just miss DooM and Iron Soldier ! Maybe Val d'Isère ?! But yes this games are absolutely brillant on Jaguar. Good to see video like that for this console.
DooM is amazing and I rather enjoy all three cartridge ports in their own way. I'm not high on Iron Soldier like many Jag fans are, but Val d'Isère is pretty cool and unique!
It's games like these that show just how awesome the Jaguar could have been if companies and consumers gave it a fair chance. Since it got crapped on for no reason these amazing games didn't get their chance to shine.
No Alien vs Predator or Doom? Those games showed how advanced the Jaguar was at the time. Doom was a perfect PC port and AVP was jaw-dropping at the time.
Doom for the Jaguar was a perfect PC port? You must have never played Doom on an actual PC then...cuz the game actually has music (awesome music to be exact).
No Iron Soldier? I've never played it myself but the video reviews i've seen of it impressed the hell out of me.. No way could a PSX or N64 do that, and I think it's even more impressive when you consider that the Jaaaaag wasn't really designed to be a 3-D powerhouse in the first place
You would be mistaken if you think the PSX or N64 couldn't do a version of Iron Soldier. You only have to see Mario 64 for examples of draw distance and there's also Spyro on the PS1 which use more polygons and texture mapping not just flat shaded at a good frame rate. and then there is Iron Soldier 3 on the PS1 czcams.com/video/B8xsXcR1xxc/video.html
Atari Jaguar could have done it, and with great games it could have been great (the 64bit thing doesn't bother me, and the control just you may have to deal with it), but with the lack of good game and some bad decisions, it failed, garnering all the criticism.
Raiden, check. Atari Karts, check. Tempest 2000, check. Rayman, check. Super Burnout, uncheck -- guess i need to find this one. Defender 2000...the reason I purchased a Jaguar....still my favorite Jaguar game!
Good list, to bad Rayman and Atari Karts go for so much these days. Personally I would replace Rayman for Iron Soldier, but Iron Soldier not for everyone.
twoquickcapri Iron Soldier, and to a lesser extent Cybermorph, are a couple games most Jag fans like but I just can't get into... Doom and Wolfenstein would have been worthy additions to this list.
My only complaint about Super Burnout would be that it is too bloody difficult. I only manage to come in last, not matter what. You talk about bending the rules to go faster? How? If there's a trick to it, the game didn't tell me.
The first few times I played Super Burnout, I also thought it was bloody hard. I kept trying, and found that the controls are finicky but tight. Once you start to 'get it' the game is great. It's really a superb racer.
+blipsqueak Hey man, thanks! I actually reviewed Power Drive Rally about a year ago, if you want to check that out: czcams.com/video/d86PBE35G3o/video.html I also did a second Jag list that you might find interesting: czcams.com/video/xvHAXm_pIi8/video.html Cheers!
I agree with your choices, especially Super Burnout. That is an amazingly good racer - and yet people outside of the Jaguar community know nothing about it.
Though I love Doom, Rayman, Raiden, and Tempest 2000, those games are on almost every platform nowadays it hard to recommend the Jaguar version. Raiden, Rayman and Tempest 2000 you can also get on Sega Saturn and/or PlayStation and I had play many great versions of Doom nowadays it's just not worth it to get the Jaguar version.
I have a similar conundrum with the 3DO. My top games, Need for Speed, Road Rash, D, and Gex were also available on the PSX and Saturn. On the flip side, Doom is somewhat different on the Jag (putting the number pad to good use), Raiden is a unique port, and Rayman has chiptunes instead of Red Book Audio. But yeah, when you factor in price, it doesn't seem worth it.
Voan Siam Tempest 2000 on the Jaguar is the DEFINITIVE way to play it. It's even better with a Dial modded controller and with said controller it's a masterpiece of gaming.
+Luis Arturo Juegos I don't own the Saturn version yet... but I've been meaning to finally sit down and play through the PSX version and hear the CD soundtrack. Pretty awesome 2D platformer!
The Jaguar was a mess. And look at my Avatar lol! This should be called "5 games you can actually play on the Jaguar without throwing the TV out the window!" ;)
+Karly Warly blue lighting is probably the best game on the Jag cd, either that or Primal Rage(the 3do & Saturn are the better ports). neither great games but it's a cool looking attachment.
Nothing in this list screams "Next Gen console!" though. And thats what you needed back in the day, games that sold the thing. Not "Here's a slightly more polished version of what you've already seen before!"
+Andrew Vrba The Jaguar was doomed to fail right from that start as Atari (Tramiel) didn't have, or didn't want to spend, the money necessary for game development and proper marketing. It's amazing the system has any great games at all, especially the exclusives like Tempest 2000 and Alien vs. Predator.
@@implantgames It was revealed at Summer or Winter CES 1994 as an exclusive for the Jaguar, there were rumors it could be Ataris new mascot. Later in 1995 it was announced for Playstation. You should believe some Jaguar veterans.
I had a Jag and a Jag CD and I'm gutted that I sold the both of them (in 2003) from a collecting point of view but there is no arguing it- the vast majority of games were awful. Alien Vs Predator was astounding at the time but was as buggy as hell and does not hold up well at all. The only game worth playing now is Tempest 2000 (I'm not counting Doom which you can get elsewhere) which is quite possibly the greatest arcade game ever made. Atari Karts and Super Burnout!- I owned both of these in the 90s and they were both terrible compared to like for like games at the time. (Although they were better than Club Drive and Checkered Flag!) However, I appreciate your passion for the system. I wish they'd given Jeff Minter free reign back in the day and he could have brought out 2000 versions of all their classics and possibly let him release the version of Defender 2000 he wanted to!
@@turrican3839 I’ve actually gone back to burnout and like it- still not as good as games like ridge racer. Atari Karts was no where near as good as super Mario kart.
Back than Ubisoft was just a little-known french publisher and they just started development of their own games. I think Rayman was one of their first console games. Atari Jaguar version was the original version (not counting attempts on Atari ST and SNES-CD). The Playstation wasn't released when development began.
Rayman was initially developed for the Atari ST. Later a SNES-CD version was planned, but the hardware was never released. So development moved to a Jaguar version, and was announced as exclusive title in late 1994. Focus was later shifted to the Playstation version.
I owned a jaguar at the end of its lifespan when they where discounted. I think it was a ok system but is in line of the snes / mega drive / amiga 1200 of capibilities. This system couldnt handle 3d very well, the best most fun games where 2d games on this systems.
Exception is tempest 2000 if you can call it a 3d game. Got this as a pack in and turned out 1 of the most fun games on the system with a awsome soundtrack. Its a shame that 3d was all the hype back then i think the system had a lot of potential for awsome 2d games.
I should be thankful for a yt video not trashing the Jaguar, but: people are still buying Jaguars for Alien vs Predator, Doom or Iron Soldier. IMO those games show what the Jaguar is about, they are technically beyond anything the 16 - bit systems could do and provide some nice depht of gameplay. Super Burn Out and Atari Karts are both quite shallow carbon copies of better originals, coming much too late in the Jaguars lifecycle and being absolutely behind the curve in terms of technology and gameplay features. Being an early adaptor of this system, I ignored Raiden because it was nothing special and I played much better shmups on the SNES. Instead I played and enjoyed hours of Cybermorph before buying my second game, Tempest 2000. The 16 bit stuff was lame, and I still think most of it is.
Alien vs Predator is subpar, poor collision detection and bad maps. Iron Soldier is boring with poor item placement and weird time restrictions not compatible with said item placement. Doom is pretty bad ass though.
+Chris Chaton It is definitely not an all inclusive list. I did a video comparing SNES/32x/Jag Doom you might want to check out here: czcams.com/video/STHHk3PqiZo/video.html And I took a look at Alien vs. Predator along with Iron Soldier in this video: czcams.com/video/xvHAXm_pIi8/video.html Hopefully you are a Jag fan!
+Breno Volpini Oh man, Raiden is such a classic! To be fair, an older game in a niche genre probably wasn't the best choice for a launch game. It would be like a Do Don Pachi game launching with the Xbox ONE...
The graphics of Super Burnout are mesmerizing?? There are countless racing games from the same year that look better and the gameplay, while fast, looks mind numbingly boring.
Which racing games from that same year look better? The scaling and frame rate are both literally flawless, so I'm not sure what criteria you're judging with.
Even Hang On for Master System looks almost the same and controls better... I don't care about and old dead console, it's not like I want to flame and I understand that the Jag owners want to feel proud of it, but it's one of the worst consoles of the time, almost as bad as the CD-I; even the 32x, the 3DO or the AmigaCD 32 had better games.
Well, I'm not the biggest racing or shmup fan so this didn't really sell me on the jaguar. The only game that really looked good to me is rayman and that's already for many other systems. It would be a neat system to have just for the relative obscurity of it, but there just isn't enough good games for me to justify getting one. Let's be honest, none of the games in the jaguar library are super mario, castlevania or chrono trigger level of quality games and I looked at the list of games jaguar had to offer. and considering there's so many good games out nowadays with Steam and all that, it makes it even less tempting. Its interesting to watch videos about at least.
+7stringguitarplayer Well then I think i have done my job :D My goal is to inform, not sell. The Jaguar is a neat system for sure, but with prices heading north I'm not sure it is really worth it unless you a fan of the few genres the system was well represented with.
Explain how was this 64-bit, or decent 64-bit? You know +/-1 year after Jaguar, PlayStation came out right? A 32-bit, (but a real 32 bit) that had far better games than Jaguar right? How can you say those things at the beginning of the video?!
This game console is like the Sega Saturn, it's really complex and difficult to program according to developers but unlike the Saturn, this is essentially a frekenstien console as it comes with 3 "processors". One of them, the "Tom" chip is capable of partial 64 bit operations for the Blitter function but the chip itself is still a 32 Bit chip by design.
+tnightwolf it's still a 32-bit architectured GPU, but with a combination with other GPU somehow (idk how) adds up to 64-bit. even the official slogan for this says: DO THE MATH
Mohhamad Aliff The saturn was not "super difficult to program for". It was difficult to adapt lazy ports for without serious recodes, as well as the fact that Bernie Stolar refused developers SDKs (software development kits). They would call sega and get told no!!! Stolar was a Sony mole, I tell you.
rudi angath well processing speed isn't the bottleneck with that generation's systems. It was all about the memory size. Just so much you can cram onto a 4k rom cart. Also the low cost home entries were severely lacking in RAM. Compare to the 8 bit computer titles on 48 or 64 K ram systems where the game comes on a much larger disk.
I've never played anything on a jaguar before but I have played the original Tempest and I hated it. I don't see any fun in it at all and watching videos of Tempest 2000 or even Tempest 3000 just seems like the exact same shit only with better graphics. Mehhhh. No thank you
Developement for Jaguar was too hard for his own good, Atari was never very good making hardware since Atari 2600... and yes, the controller sucks, you can't argue with that xD. Even this 5 games are not really console-sellers, no wonder how they failed so much, they did't care much about game quality. And no third parties, no win. PD: The motorcicle game... it's not much better than Hang out in Master System, in fact the latter is much more playable xD. Overall I think the Jag was not overrated, is was poorly made and had almost no support at all. So is the hardware is crap and the games are crap, the final conclusion is: crap xD. Greetings.
When is the Jaguar virtual reality headset being released ? I've been waiting 23 goddamn years !
I hate to be the one to tell you.... it was cancelled :(
When is the Nintendo Switch VR headset being released?
The Switch literally is the only console that comes with VR controllers built in, but no, they wasted the opportunity 😭😭
So much could've been done with the HD rumble and Joy-Cons with a wrist strap, but no 😢
(And no, Labo VR doesn't count, it should be more than an Ikea cardboard headset, like it should be already built when you but it and use the same plastic the rest of the console uses...
Like that's still better than nothing of course, but I wish it was more.)
Im still searching for a fully working Atari Jaguar for my collection. To this day I have never even seen one in the wild so I am eager to find one and just spend a full day playing the hell out of it someday haha
DreamcastGuy I feel very fortunate to have gotten my Jag brand new, along with a ton of new games, back in the late 90's/early 00's when new old-stock was plentiful and everything was cheap! I paid at most $30 for Rayman and Atari Karts, which is unheard of now. I've stumbled upon many Jaguar's in the wild, but I have a couple great retro shops around me that always seem to have great stuff. I haven't purchased a game off eBay is 3 or 4 years.
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Honestly I sold my Jaguar a little while ago with a load of games, sometimes in life the memory is far better than reality.
Same here. Sold my Jaguar with JagCD and a lot of game a few years ago. It was a nice machine with too little good games.
@@myrongaines5542 some great titles but $45-69 for games is elevated. Defender 2000 is a game I don’t own, but I’m not over $195 for a copy. After the system died there were still a couple of companies working to put finishing touches on unreleased games and sell them, and they were $80 a pop. With inflation they’d only cost about $105-110 dollars. Scarcity it one thing but putting money on the hands of those that work to program games is another and supporting authors feels worthwhile.
My favorite game for Jaguar was Alien vs. Predator - a DOOM killer...
+Artur Bross How did this even get left out? It was the only reason I bought the Jaguar back in the day.
@@Odseus An overrated game, Clunky controls, repetitive gameplay. Poor sprite animation. Good but not great in my opinion.
@@johnmc3862 it came out in 1994. That alone is astounding.
Got a Jag when it came out. BEGGED my parents for it. Played the hell out of some Club Drive and Kasumi Ninja. And I can't forget about AVP... I still have it in my garage. Still works. Hell, I can remember my first 2600 for Christmas. lol.
Alien vs Predator easly beats every game on this list
+Michael Zarcos Different strokes for different folks.
If Atari Vs Predator is the best the console has to offer, that says it all.... :(. It's choppy, difficult to control and you can only get fun when playing the marine, the Alien and the Predator sucks hard. I'm having difficulties to undertand that anyone likes this console games, even Cybermorph, but I guess the world's big enough for all opinions.
@@imakaze Atari vs Predator??????
LMAOOOOOO🤣
I agree with you
@@implantgamesnext time remove port games.
Super Burn out is the reason to own a Jag for me. I'm a huge fan of Yu Suzuki and that sprite scrolling racer really reminds me of a lost title that he would create. (Though that's not to say it's not original in it's own right.)
It's super fun.
DharmaDaniel Same here, I absolutely adore Super Burnout. I actually had referenced Yu Suzuki in the original script but though the youngins might not have got the reference haha!
Doom should 100% be on this list. The controller scheme was the best on any console (including the PC). The only downer was the audio was restricted to only sound effects, no music.
+Samuel Coe Doom for the Jaguar is fantastic for sure. If you want to see my thoughts on Jag Doom, it was featured in this video: czcams.com/video/STHHk3PqiZo/video.html Check it out :)
implantgames Great video, I'm just surprised you didn't include it in your top five Jaguar list!
I will say it was one of the best console ports of doom I ever played when comparing to the original PC version even though it lacked any music.
I got a Jaguar last month, and needed a game for it. Thanks to this video, I bought Super Burnout on eBay... It's the best sprite-based motorcycle game I have ever played. Good eye, sir.
+Dave Bladegun Awesome man, and I agree, Super Burnout is my favorite 2D motorcycle game. Everything is soooo smooth, such a gem!
+implantgames Can I ask You something? I never had a chance to play on Jaguar but back in the days I wanted to have it because of Pitfall. The screens were great just wonder what do U think about this game?
Even "bad" consoles like the 3DO (I like the 3DO btw) have good games
+Atticus Falcon Yes indeed :) Except maybe the CDi...
+implantgames You may want to have a look at "The Apprentice", "Steel Machine", "Burn:Cycle", "Mutant Rampage", "Dimo's Quest" (a port of the Amiga title with improved music and a graphical makeover, proving that there could have been several Amiga ports on this platform), "Zenith", "RAM Raid"/"Atlantis - The Last Resort" (the latter being a single-player graphical makeover of the former, which I prefer graphically), "Hotel Mario" and the NAMCO titles. There's also "Lemmings", "Creature Shock", "Dragon's Lair" and "The 7th Guest". While the CD-i has very few good games (mainly due to Philips' policy to not market it as a games console) , they do exist.
the Jaguar was neat!
Indeed!
>Rayman on the list
>Makes a Rayman review, and you conclude that it isn't a good game.
Soooo whatt?
Pandering
I got all five, it's true they are excellent
Arethius Awesome :D
Great list. The Jaguar was a system I never owned but it is nice to see it had some gems!
+SDFcommander Thanks man! While the Jaguar has issues, including a lackluster library, I feel it is way over-bashed. There are some gems, and they controller is fairly comfortable.
+implantgames How do you feel about the upcoming Coleco Chameleon which uses the shell of the Jaguar?
Does anybody here know if cybermorph on atari jaguar uses the same flight physics as zarch on computers? if so i would like to know and see proof thanks.
my 5 are tempest 2000, AVP, Doom, cybermorph,wolfenstein 3d
+cresshead I've always wanted Wolf3D and I regret passing it up a few years back. Thanks for sharing!
Ew cybermorph?
How is Alien vs. Predator not on this list?! Otherwise, great video. Thanks for doing a good Jaguar video.
+Stefan Homberger Haha, I love the Jag as much as the next guy buy AvP just doesn't do it for me. Viva la Jag!
Super Burnout is my favorite Jag game as well. The sense of speed is amazing. There is one track, Tokyo I believe, that is brutal for me.
When recording your vids, do you use the XRGBmini with scan lines on? SCART input I'm assuming? Looked great in 720p.
m15granger The footage is all S-Video as I do not currently own a scart cable for the Jag. Scanlines are off while recording, but I do enjoy them on when I am not recording footage. And I agree about Super Burnout, the sense of speed is awesome!
+implantgames
You've gotta spring for that RGB cable, bro. That was the first thing I got for my Jaguar, and it looks awesome both on my PVM and my BenQ monitor via the Framemeister.
this is one Atari i do not have but really want. Thanks for the "top 5 " picks. it does give me a slight idea of where I need to start when I start collecting for the Jag.
+Dad72hthorn The Jaguar is a neat peace of hardware for sure, and there are some great games for it. I'm a bit bummed everything for this system has really spiked in price over the past few years :(
+implantgames Yes I noticed that on ebay!! I went ahead and ordered one on ebay at what I thought was a good deal for a used one. And I also found one of the cheaper games to get for it....I got Checkered Flag for $10.. what I was really wanting was Doom and maybe Atari karts. But I will settle with Checkered Flag at the moment I always wanted that game too. But I do think you should know this video was kind of the pushing point for me to get me a Jaguar..thanks. :) figured if I'm going to get one I better do it now before the price gets any higher.
implantgames well Kris I own a Jag and a modded Jag cd and still am happy with it. Got Cannon Fodder on the way to add to my collection. :)
Raiden scrolls left and right in the arcade because the monitor is turned 90 degrees on its side....so yes that big brown stained panel on the Jag version AND the stupid left right scrolling being implemented together is a monumental mistake. Clearly the correct thing to do is to show ALL the playfield so the screen width of a regular 4:3 screen is filled with graphics and sod the scrolling reveal left and right. It looks like an Atari ST version.
Raiden is not 4:3 and the game is not designed for that. Curiously any Raiden version I've played on PS3 or PS4 has those frame graphics left and right on 16:9 TVs. The same with vertical shmups on Dreamcast, like Under Defeat.
With a decent controller and at least 50 games above the level of this list Jaguar has a chance.....
You did a very nice list. I agree that this are some of the finest games on the Jag. Looking forward to see more Jag related videos from you.
+Björn Baranski Thanks man! I'll have to look through the Jaguar shelf and see what I haven't covered yet. Such a great, underrated, system :)
The games do look good, shame they cost so much to get now
+Peteman Reviews Yeah, Jaguar prices have been climbing steadily since I get into it back in 2000 or so. I doubt I paid more than $30 for any of these games, and now some are creeping towards the $100 mark :(
I have all of these except Atari Karts. It's just too expensive. Great review! It's nice to hear someone say nice things about these games for a change. \\//,
***** Thanks man! The Jag has it's share of stinkers for sure, but there are definitely some gems on the platform.
Rayman was developed for the Jaguar because it was actually the target platform.
Indeed. Gotta thank Ubisoft for supporting the Jaguar and actually put some effort into it. It payed off, Rayman is a classic and the new games are fantastic!
Wolfenstein is also excellent on the jaguar and as others have mentioned, DOOM is sublime on it.
+Christopher Kelly I passed up a boxed Wolf 3D a couple year back, and have regretted it every since!
Thanks for supporting Atari Jaguar. It all began with Atari
Atari Karts looks like it would be a fun 2 player game.
Fuacata!
Men,ignore that no-sense comment
My comment
Have you ever played Skyhammer? I heard it was pretty good.
Commrade Conrad I have not played it, but hope to acquire it someday. Most folks seem to like it.
problem with Atari Karts.. is the fact it is so damn rare and expensive theses days and its one of the last titles for the system.
Jason Hicks Yeah, I feel very fortunate to have purchased Atari Karts for $30 or so 15 years ago.
Thanks for the reviews. Of course, I disagree on some of your choices but you did an excellent job. It makes me want to boot up my Jaguar (which I still do on occasion) and play MY favorites!!
+Ed Rogers (Logan, UT) Thanks man :) What are your top 5?
+implantgames 1. Tempest 2000 2. Cannon Fodder 3. Ruiner Pinball 4. Pitfall 5. Rayman
+implantgames 1. Tempest 2000 2. Cannon Fodder 3. Ruiner Pinball 4. Pitfall 5. Rayman
+Ed Rogers (Logan, UT) I own all of these but Cannon Fodder. I'm not much of an RTS guy, how "hardcore" is Cannon Fodder?
Not very. It's pretty humorous too.
To help you solve the mystery of Rayman's presence on the Jaguar, it is to be known that Rayman was initially a Jaguar exclusive title (though some early prototypes of a SNES version have been recently found, they never made it further than the prototype stage). Playstation and Saturn versions were ports. Enriched ports, but still ports.
That doesn't solve the mystery. The mystery is *why* was it being programmed for the Jag in the first place? The answer is probably because Atari was still reasonably popular in France.
implantgames you may be right. The ST line of computers was really popular here until the mid 90’s after all.
@@implantgames Nope. Because the Jaguar had the power to do such 2D animation with 16 bit color/60 FPS. 3DO was too expensive and the 32X could not pull that off. PS1 and Saturn came 1 year later. So what brought the devs to Jaguar was it's capabilities matched their vision for the game.
Nice List, Yes Burnout is pretty neat. I had Raiden but sold it may moons ago. Jaguar would have competed had IBM been able to produce the consoles, apparently Atari HAD 2 MILLION PRE-ORDERS across the world. Many in Europe where the Atari ST was popular. IBM where not savvy with manafacturing high volume and managed only a pitiful 250'000 units, with many pre-orders being canceled. They couldn't claw back the hit after that , especially after the news of PS1 and Saturn was out. Here in the UK Atari made Rumbleows sole distributor for the system, they very shorlty after went into liquidation, leaving Atari without a distributor in the UK.
They had a low yield. Now I don’t know if engineers modify the masks while the production runs. I can only imagine that some parts of the chips had trouble to reach the clock rate. Also the design has race conditions. So I guess that engineers modified the masks to tune transistors width or even change a route or two.
super burnout in two words: HOLY SHIT!
I did an update video on the Jag encoded at 60 frame per second, and it is even more unbelievably gorgeous :)
Just miss DooM and Iron Soldier ! Maybe Val d'Isère ?! But yes this games are absolutely brillant on Jaguar. Good to see video like that for this console.
DooM is amazing and I rather enjoy all three cartridge ports in their own way. I'm not high on Iron Soldier like many Jag fans are, but Val d'Isère is pretty cool and unique!
Atari Cars, Tempest 2000, Rayman, Wolf 3D, Doom, AvP, NBA Jam, Bubsy, Zool, Super Burnout, Syndicate
It's games like these that show just how awesome the Jaguar could have been if companies and consumers gave it a fair chance. Since it got crapped on for no reason these amazing games didn't get their chance to shine.
No Alien vs Predator or Doom?
Those games showed how advanced the Jaguar was at the time. Doom was a perfect PC port and AVP was jaw-dropping at the time.
Doom for the Jaguar was a perfect PC port? You must have never played Doom on an actual PC then...cuz the game actually has music (awesome music to be exact).
No Iron Soldier? I've never played it myself but the video reviews i've seen of it impressed the hell out of me.. No way could a PSX or N64 do that, and I think it's even more impressive when you consider that the Jaaaaag wasn't really designed to be a 3-D powerhouse in the first place
Infinitrium I've always found Iron Soldier boring, haha. I'll probably never review it as the backlash from the Jag community isn't really worth it...
Infinitrium Agreed! Iron Soldier's insane draw distance & smooth frame rate blew my mind back then!
You would be mistaken if you think the PSX or N64 couldn't do a version of Iron Soldier.
You only have to see Mario 64 for examples of draw distance and there's also Spyro on the PS1 which use more polygons and texture mapping not just flat shaded at a good frame rate.
and then there is Iron Soldier 3 on the PS1
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Rayman on the Atari Jaguar was the first and original Rayman game! Even the Playstation version came after.
Atari Jaguar could have done it, and with great games it could have been great (the 64bit thing doesn't bother me, and the control just you may have to deal with it), but with the lack of good game and some bad decisions, it failed, garnering all the criticism.
+TheArcadeStriker The Jaguar definitely had potential, but was doomed before it was ever released with poor management and a lack of resource :(
The developers of Rayman chose the Jag because this game could not have been made on any system up till this point(1993).
Raiden, check.
Atari Karts, check.
Tempest 2000, check.
Rayman, check.
Super Burnout, uncheck -- guess i need to find this one.
Defender 2000...the reason I purchased a Jaguar....still my favorite Jaguar game!
Doom on the Jag is really good, albeit without music.
Power Drive Rally is also an amazing racing game .
Good list, to bad Rayman and Atari Karts go for so much these days. Personally I would replace Rayman for Iron Soldier, but Iron Soldier not for everyone.
twoquickcapri Iron Soldier, and to a lesser extent Cybermorph, are a couple games most Jag fans like but I just can't get into... Doom and Wolfenstein would have been worthy additions to this list.
My only complaint about Super Burnout would be that it is too bloody difficult.
I only manage to come in last, not matter what.
You talk about bending the rules to go faster? How?
If there's a trick to it, the game didn't tell me.
Give this a view: czcams.com/video/yOM656s9N_8/video.html
The first few times I played Super Burnout, I also thought it was bloody hard.
I kept trying, and found that the controls are finicky but tight. Once you start to 'get it' the game is great.
It's really a superb racer.
Check out Power Drive Rally. My #1 game. In the same vein as Drift Out or other arcade rally racers.
+blipsqueak Hey man, thanks! I actually reviewed Power Drive Rally about a year ago, if you want to check that out: czcams.com/video/d86PBE35G3o/video.html I also did a second Jag list that you might find interesting: czcams.com/video/xvHAXm_pIi8/video.html Cheers!
+implantgames Cool! I knew your voice sounded familiar! I've seen both of those videos already! I am now subscribed.
I really respect your lists, much better that Biffs choice of gamed
+hoffy1888 Thanks :) Is he still around?
is there a way to turn of the heads-up screen on Raiden? Its so annoying!
No. It would also break the game as too many enemies would be on the screen.
oh see! thanks. It is so annoying on a small tv screen though!
It would have been cool if they implemented a real TATE mode, then you could have the correct aspect ratio without the HUD.
Desses eu só não tenho o Rayman. Os outros 4 eu consegui, e não foi fácil. É muito difícil colecionar Jaguar no Brasil.
E eu não tenho Atari Karts, esse é o mais raro e caro...
atari karts was too easy i finished it over a weekend back when it came out....was okay but not in my opinion not better than mario kart on snes
+cresshead I agree, the first three are far too easy. The fourth though... hard as hell.
I agree with your choices, especially Super Burnout. That is an amazingly good racer - and yet people outside of the Jaguar community know nothing about it.
Interesting video but you really should work on your delivery. The robotic monotone doesn't do you much good.
+Kandi Gloss Thanks for the feedback!
Where did you learn to fly?
Avp. Number 1
+hoffy1888 Oh man, I have a hate-hate relationship with AvP :D
I do like your list :)
Atari jaguar is underated Atari jaguar has a lot of great games Atari jaguar for the win.
I'll always have a soft spot for the Jag :)
Were are they? :(
Atari karts blow out super Mario kart 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪You are crazy
You should try getting a dial modded controller for Tempest 2000 it really takes the game to another level.
Wow...top 5 list with not one game I would want to try...The Jaguar is way worse than I thought.
Right on!
Though I love Doom, Rayman, Raiden, and Tempest 2000, those games are on almost every platform nowadays it hard to recommend the Jaguar version. Raiden, Rayman and Tempest 2000 you can also get on Sega Saturn and/or PlayStation and I had play many great versions of Doom nowadays it's just not worth it to get the Jaguar version.
I have a similar conundrum with the 3DO. My top games, Need for Speed, Road Rash, D, and Gex were also available on the PSX and Saturn. On the flip side, Doom is somewhat different on the Jag (putting the number pad to good use), Raiden is a unique port, and Rayman has chiptunes instead of Red Book Audio. But yeah, when you factor in price, it doesn't seem worth it.
Voan Siam
Tempest 2000 on the Jaguar is the DEFINITIVE way to play it. It's even better with a Dial modded controller and with said controller it's a masterpiece of gaming.
The least ergonomic control I've ever used. Rayman's still fun on it though.
Rayman is an amazing game, i have the SEGA Saturn version.
+Luis Arturo Juegos I don't own the Saturn version yet... but I've been meaning to finally sit down and play through the PSX version and hear the CD soundtrack. Pretty awesome 2D platformer!
Yes it is, in my opinion is a Must Have.
The Jaguar was a mess. And look at my Avatar lol! This should be called "5 games you can actually play on the Jaguar without throwing the TV out the window!" ;)
I challenge you to find 5 great Jaguar CD games.
+Nutz4Gunz45 Challenge declined ;)
+Karly Warly blue lighting is probably the best game on the Jag cd, either that or Primal Rage(the 3do & Saturn are the better ports). neither great games but it's a cool looking attachment.
+Rodrigo Girão
Some people really like Robinson's Requiem.
Blue lightning
Highlander
Battlemorph
Iron Soldier 2
Hover Strike (Okay I may be pushing it with this one!)
Nutz4Gunz45 impossible even for the avgn
Nothing in this list screams "Next Gen console!" though. And thats what you needed back in the day, games that sold the thing. Not "Here's a slightly more polished version of what you've already seen before!"
+Andrew Vrba The Jaguar was doomed to fail right from that start as Atari (Tramiel) didn't have, or didn't want to spend, the money necessary for game development and proper marketing. It's amazing the system has any great games at all, especially the exclusives like Tempest 2000 and Alien vs. Predator.
implantgames Tramiel. Ugh, that guy's name makes many an 80s kid wanna throw up.
+implantgames I almost mistaked that with Tamriel from the Elder Scrolls series.
Where is Alien vs Predator ?
Rayman WAS developed for the Jaguar first. After the failing of the Jaguar they brought it over to other consoles.
Got a source?
its on the wiki page but i do recall some interviews mentioning this too en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayman_(video_game)
Interesting, now I want to track down that issue of Game Pro :)
@@implantgames It was revealed at Summer or Winter CES 1994 as an exclusive for the Jaguar, there were rumors it could be Ataris new mascot. Later in 1995 it was announced for Playstation. You should believe some Jaguar veterans.
Wow you found a 5?
+Psynema Sure did :)
I had a Jag and a Jag CD and I'm gutted that I sold the both of them (in 2003) from a collecting point of view but there is no arguing it- the vast majority of games were awful. Alien Vs Predator was astounding at the time but was as buggy as hell and does not hold up well at all. The only game worth playing now is Tempest 2000 (I'm not counting Doom which you can get elsewhere) which is quite possibly the greatest arcade game ever made. Atari Karts and Super Burnout!- I owned both of these in the 90s and they were both terrible compared to like for like games at the time. (Although they were better than Club Drive and Checkered Flag!) However, I appreciate your passion for the system.
I wish they'd given Jeff Minter free reign back in the day and he could have brought out 2000 versions of all their classics and possibly let him release the version of Defender 2000 he wanted to!
Bruh did you just call Burnout and Atari Karts awful for their time
@@turrican3839 I’ve actually gone back to burnout and like it- still not as good as games like ridge racer. Atari Karts was no where near as good as super Mario kart.
@@turrican3839 I have since that comment rebought a Jag and have joined the atari age community- have a cracking collection of homebrew ganes now.
How about Iron Soldier, Hover Strike and Kasumi Ninja? Very good games. Greetings from Russia.
No Alien vs. Predator? :(
how did they get rayman?
I believe the French were very loyal to Atari right up till the end.
yeah i do see that
Actually Rayman was developed for the Jaguar.
Back than Ubisoft was just a little-known french publisher and they just started development of their own games.
I think Rayman was one of their first console games.
Atari Jaguar version was the original version (not counting attempts on Atari ST and SNES-CD).
The Playstation wasn't released when development began.
Atari Karts might of looked better then Mario Kart but the latter was about 1000 times more fun to play.
Did you know that Rayman was actually developed FOR the Jaguar?
It was also developed FOR the PlayStation and Saturn ;)
implantgames Yes. I was actually wrong. It was originally developed for the SNES.
Rayman was initially developed for the Atari ST.
Later a SNES-CD version was planned, but the hardware was never released.
So development moved to a Jaguar version, and was announced as exclusive title in late 1994.
Focus was later shifted to the Playstation version.
None of the 1rst person shooters?
Jag-u-ar! Not Jagwire
I owned a jaguar at the end of its lifespan when they where discounted.
I think it was a ok system but is in line of the snes / mega drive / amiga 1200 of capibilities.
This system couldnt handle 3d very well, the best most fun games where 2d games on this systems.
I agree, the best games were definitely the 2D games!
Exception is tempest 2000 if you can call it a 3d game.
Got this as a pack in and turned out 1 of the most fun games on the system with a awsome soundtrack.
Its a shame that 3d was all the hype back then i think the system had a lot of potential for awsome 2d games.
I should be thankful for a yt video not trashing the Jaguar, but: people are still buying Jaguars for Alien vs Predator, Doom or Iron Soldier. IMO those games show what the Jaguar is about, they are technically beyond anything the 16 - bit systems could do and provide some nice depht of gameplay. Super Burn Out and Atari Karts are both quite shallow carbon copies of better originals, coming much too late in the Jaguars lifecycle and being absolutely behind the curve in terms of technology and gameplay features. Being an early adaptor of this system, I ignored Raiden because it was nothing special and I played much better shmups on the SNES. Instead I played and enjoyed hours of Cybermorph before buying my second game, Tempest 2000. The 16 bit stuff was lame, and I still think most of it is.
Alien vs Predator is subpar, poor collision detection and bad maps. Iron Soldier is boring with poor item placement and weird time restrictions not compatible with said item placement. Doom is pretty bad ass though.
What about Towers 2 though?
Ryuma King
lol it's rough to play and expensive as hell
you should make 5 great 3do games
Now though in 2017 Atari is going to reveal a new console.
Well, they have revealed it, but I am talking about showing off the new console and games coming up for it, can't be any more hyped!!
doom ? alien vs pred ? iron soldier ?
+Chris Chaton It is definitely not an all inclusive list. I did a video comparing SNES/32x/Jag Doom you might want to check out here: czcams.com/video/STHHk3PqiZo/video.html And I took a look at Alien vs. Predator along with Iron Soldier in this video: czcams.com/video/xvHAXm_pIi8/video.html Hopefully you are a Jag fan!
No alien vs predator on your list
Wow ALL FIVE of them? ;)
Hardy har har.
Rayman is my favorite
Umm where's doom & Wolfenstein? And where's alien vs predator?
AvP is way below average. Terrible maps, terrible hit detection, no thanks.
@@implantgames yah only the soldier is alright
Sorry, but I think Atari Karts is extremely bland. Just very meh, not bad, not great. Very expensive too!
i like the video but the games i didnt.
the game of the airplane is like tiger heli for nintendo 8bits
+Breno Volpini Oh man, Raiden is such a classic! To be fair, an older game in a niche genre probably wasn't the best choice for a launch game. It would be like a Do Don Pachi game launching with the Xbox ONE...
Raiden is timeless. I don`t know how much money I spent as a kid playing it on arcade but I assure You it was worth every penny. Great choise.
The graphics of Super Burnout are mesmerizing?? There are countless racing games from the same year that look better and the gameplay, while fast, looks mind numbingly boring.
Which racing games from that same year look better? The scaling and frame rate are both literally flawless, so I'm not sure what criteria you're judging with.
I prefer hang-on and super hang-on arcade versions :)
Fueldump on which systems of the time could you play an arcade perfect port?
Even Hang On for Master System looks almost the same and controls better...
I don't care about and old dead console, it's not like I want to flame and I understand that the Jag owners want to feel proud of it, but it's one of the worst consoles of the time, almost as bad as the CD-I; even the 32x, the 3DO or the AmigaCD 32 had better games.
Imakaze the fact that you think Hang On looks almost as good just shows that you're not objective.
Well, I'm not the biggest racing or shmup fan so this didn't really sell me on the jaguar. The only game that really looked good to me is rayman and that's already for many other systems. It would be a neat system to have just for the relative obscurity of it, but there just isn't enough good games for me to justify getting one. Let's be honest, none of the games in the jaguar library are super mario, castlevania or chrono trigger level of quality games and I looked at the list of games jaguar had to offer. and considering there's so many good games out nowadays with Steam and all that, it makes it even less tempting. Its interesting to watch videos about at least.
+7stringguitarplayer Well then I think i have done my job :D My goal is to inform, not sell. The Jaguar is a neat system for sure, but with prices heading north I'm not sure it is really worth it unless you a fan of the few genres the system was well represented with.
7stringguitarplayer
Tempest 2000 with a dial modded controller is a masterpiece.
Atari Karts as a great game? what are you smoking? I'd rather play mario kart SNES over this anyday
I'd rather play Super Mario Kart over Super Mario World. Does this mean Super Mario World is not great?
il controller non e' orribile io ci gioco alla grande!!
daniele sala Sono d'accordo, il controllore Jaguar non merita l'odio che riceve!
ho anche l'amiga cd32 e credimi il controller e meno preciso di quello del jaguar
Explain how was this 64-bit, or decent 64-bit? You know +/-1 year after Jaguar, PlayStation came out right? A 32-bit, (but a real 32 bit) that had far better games than Jaguar right? How can you say those things at the beginning of the video?!
This game console is like the Sega Saturn, it's really complex and difficult to program according to developers but unlike the Saturn, this is essentially a frekenstien console as it comes with 3 "processors".
One of them, the "Tom" chip is capable of partial 64 bit operations for the Blitter function but the chip itself is still a 32 Bit chip by design.
+tnightwolf it's still a 32-bit architectured GPU, but with a combination with other GPU somehow (idk how) adds up to 64-bit.
even the official slogan for this says: DO THE MATH
Mohhamad Aliff The saturn was not "super difficult to program for". It was difficult to adapt lazy ports for without serious recodes, as well as the fact that Bernie Stolar refused developers SDKs (software development kits). They would call sega and get told no!!! Stolar was a Sony mole, I tell you.
Intellivision had a 16-bit CPU, PC Engine (TurboGrafx-16) had an 8-bit CPU.
Now, what do you think which of those consoles had the better games?
rudi angath well processing speed isn't the bottleneck with that generation's systems. It was all about the memory size. Just so much you can cram onto a 4k rom cart. Also the low cost home entries were severely lacking in RAM. Compare to the 8 bit computer titles on 48 or 64 K ram systems where the game comes on a much larger disk.
I've never played anything on a jaguar before but I have played the original Tempest and I hated it. I don't see any fun in it at all and watching videos of Tempest 2000 or even Tempest 3000 just seems like the exact same shit only with better graphics. Mehhhh. No thank you
rayman is awesome but the sound sucks as does every game on this list
nba jam te
Hwo are the mascots from atari carts?!?!?!?!?!?! All you did was show boring footage and talk about the fps.
+samus vikerness One of them is the bear from Crystal Castles.
Developement for Jaguar was too hard for his own good, Atari was never very good making hardware since Atari 2600... and yes, the controller sucks, you can't argue with that xD. Even this 5 games are not really console-sellers, no wonder how they failed so much, they did't care much about game quality. And no third parties, no win.
PD: The motorcicle game... it's not much better than Hang out in Master System, in fact the latter is much more playable xD. Overall I think the Jag was not overrated, is was poorly made and had almost no support at all. So is the hardware is crap and the games are crap, the final conclusion is: crap xD. Greetings.
You're crazy haha :D
jaguar doesnt even look 32 bit.
+Mike Hawk
A lot of the games were actually 32 bit, not 64. They probably should have been sued.
always thought ultra vortek was awesome
Sadly even though a great take on the Jag... I had to thumbs down because of you calling the shooter a SH'MUP....👎😒
These games are 'great'? That's a bit of a streeeeeeeeeeetch.
+hydr0genjukebox I see what you did there.
Great for someone who has not played a videogame ever xD.