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Brett Hull Hockey and Robinsons Requiem were released. I have them both and I think Brett Hull Hockey is still available from Gooddeal Games and Robinsons Requiem might still be available from Songbird.
Soul Star is one that I tried to get working but it didn’t until AFTER I filmed this! Oh well, I suspect there will be other opportunities to feature it (along with other Jag protos.)
Some of these definitely had potential; but the NFL game looked like regurgitated garbage considering that NFL Blitz came out for the N64 at or around the same time which looks and plays exponentially better than the Jaguar. My younger brother is the only person I've ever known to own a Jaguar; and compared to other consoles of the time; really had nothing better to offer than the Jaguar CD port of "Dragon's Lair." Yep, that about sums it up. 64 bit my ass.
The thing about the Jaguar is that Atari had the basis for a good and even great system. However, just like other Atari systems, they failed to support it, failed to make it easy to program for 3rd party programmers and pulled the plug on it way too early. If they would have put a little effort into it and believed in its virtues, they likely would have had a system that could hold up. Quite a few of these games were WAY ahead of their time. You can clearly see the potential in the system and if you tapped into it, you could put a pretty damn good game together. It's too bad. Atari was also going through a buyout/takeover by a weak hard drive company called JTS and that certainly didn't help things either. I loved my Jaguar system until it finally gave up the ghost.
Are you german? Dein Jaguar hat den Geist aufgegeben? After the fail of 5200 and 7800 nobody believed in Atari anymore. That's why there was so few 3rd party support for Lynx and Jaguar. And Atari didn't have money or power to support them longer. To me, everything between Sega CD and PS1/Saturn is the "lost console generation". Nobody knew what to do with cds except putting good quality music and loooong intros on them. Then came FMV games. Has there ever been a good FMV game except Night Trap and Plumbers don't wear ties (which is just photos, not video!)? Some great series started on these systems: Rayman (Jaguar), Need for Speed (3DO), ... Somehow i'm fascinated by this "generation" (Turbo Duo, Sega CD, Neo Geo CD, LaserActive), 32X, 3DO, Jaguar, CD³², CD-I. But there are not many really great games for these systems, at least compared to other generations.
@@maxheadroom22and26so it was a good idea that the JagCD was optional? Just port all 3d games from ST and Amiga and up the framerate! Also: why did Amiga had 32 bit sound, but Jaguar 16bit ? Is it because Tom integrates a memory controller? Sony and Microsoft and 3do entered the market. No idea why Atari could not re enter.
Except it did see a release. Just recently actually, in November. The game was finished, remastered and released on PC (GoG), Intendo Switch, PS4 and Xbox one.
@@MicklowFilms I think a lot of it is down to expectations of what 64 bit gaming should look like, the 32X did Asteroids in 3D via Darxide and that looked more impressive than Jaguar Asteroids for example Robinsons Requiem was out on 16/32 bit systems. Ultimate Brain Games looks like a 16 bit title
@@GregsGameRoom Oh wow, I thought the flicker was just something awry with the capture/TH-cam compression. Shame that it exists throughout the entire game.
these all look worse than Genesis or SNES games of the time. With the exception of maybe Native which looked decent in the sense that those 16-bit systems couldn't do the cheesy explosions as well. I wanted to like the hockey game but compared to NHL on Genesis it looks like shit. great compilation of shit you have here!!
Actually Brett Hull Hockey did come out for the 16-bit systems and the Jag version is WAYYY better featuring better graphics, object scaling, and a little more play-by-play by Al Michaels. This one would have been nice if it was finished/released.
Eclipse did with Iron Solider 1 and 2 Rebellion with AVP and Skyhammer Teque with WTR Atari with Hoverstrike U. L And Missile Command. ATD with Battlemorph
Thanks for watching! Here are some other interesting videos:
Is Jaguar really a 64-bit System? th-cam.com/video/PtyDRrv0nH4/w-d-xo.html
Why I LOVE Atari! th-cam.com/video/YE7FbLzMA4Q/w-d-xo.html
Why I HATE Atari! th-cam.com/video/ADVOHcn43lQ/w-d-xo.html
I just hope that one day Phear can be found and played :(
Brett Hull Hockey and Robinsons Requiem were released. I have them both and I think Brett Hull Hockey is still available from Gooddeal Games and Robinsons Requiem might still be available from Songbird.
Soul Star is one that I tried to get working but it didn’t until AFTER I filmed this! Oh well, I suspect there will be other opportunities to feature it (along with other Jag protos.)
Some of these definitely had potential; but the NFL game looked like regurgitated garbage considering that NFL Blitz came out for the N64 at or around the same time which looks and plays exponentially better than the Jaguar. My younger brother is the only person I've ever known to own a Jaguar; and compared to other consoles of the time; really had nothing better to offer than the Jaguar CD port of "Dragon's Lair." Yep, that about sums it up. 64 bit my ass.
@@nickparsons337 I LOVE the 2 second crowd soundclip loop...
Love seeing these unreleased games. Thanks for sharing!
Of course,
Looks like some of these had potential, thanks for sharing
With experienced programmers, for sure!
The thing about the Jaguar is that Atari had the basis for a good and even great system. However, just like other Atari systems, they failed to support it, failed to make it easy to program for 3rd party programmers and pulled the plug on it way too early. If they would have put a little effort into it and believed in its virtues, they likely would have had a system that could hold up. Quite a few of these games were WAY ahead of their time. You can clearly see the potential in the system and if you tapped into it, you could put a pretty damn good game together. It's too bad. Atari was also going through a buyout/takeover by a weak hard drive company called JTS and that certainly didn't help things either. I loved my Jaguar system until it finally gave up the ghost.
Are you german? Dein Jaguar hat den Geist aufgegeben?
After the fail of 5200 and 7800 nobody believed in Atari anymore. That's why there was so few 3rd party support for Lynx and Jaguar. And Atari didn't have money or power to support them longer.
To me, everything between Sega CD and PS1/Saturn is the "lost console generation". Nobody knew what to do with cds except putting good quality music and loooong intros on them. Then came FMV games. Has there ever been a good FMV game except Night Trap and Plumbers don't wear ties (which is just photos, not video!)? Some great series started on these systems: Rayman (Jaguar), Need for Speed (3DO), ...
Somehow i'm fascinated by this "generation" (Turbo Duo, Sega CD, Neo Geo CD, LaserActive), 32X, 3DO, Jaguar, CD³², CD-I. But there are not many really great games for these systems, at least compared to other generations.
@@maxheadroom22and26so it was a good idea that the JagCD was optional? Just port all 3d games from ST and Amiga and up the framerate! Also: why did Amiga had 32 bit sound, but Jaguar 16bit ? Is it because Tom integrates a memory controller?
Sony and Microsoft and 3do entered the market. No idea why Atari could not re enter.
"Thea Realm Fighters", an another bad one-on-one fighting game, was the last thing that the Jaguar needed 🙂
Exactly, as if Dragon:The Bruce Lee Story, Ultra Vortek, Kasumi Ninja and Double Dragon V weren't bad enough.
Thanks for this, man now I need to figure out how to get my cd stuff working on my game drive.
Thanks for the video. The two shmup games look pretty good.
Jaguar could have used more good ones for sure.
Wow thx great video.love jaguar videos.
I wonder why American Hero never saw a release... such amazing acting and cinematography.
Haha! The acting took a backseat to the nude dancers that I had to cut out.
Except it did see a release. Just recently actually, in November. The game was finished, remastered and released on PC (GoG), Intendo Switch, PS4 and Xbox one.
First time seeing Jaguar games. I'm not surprised why this console was an absolute commercial failure.
Most of the games in this video would have been pretty good had they been completed.
Why? Most of these games look good and showed what the Jaguar was capable of.
@@MicklowFilms I think a lot of it is down to expectations of what 64 bit gaming should look like, the 32X did Asteroids in 3D via Darxide and that looked more impressive than Jaguar Asteroids for example
Robinsons Requiem was out on 16/32 bit systems.
Ultimate Brain Games looks like a 16 bit title
Hope these will be eventually completed and have physical releases
17:30 That's Daniel Roebuck! I know him from Matlock.
The músic in the realm fighters Is great...is it the ingame músic???
There was no sound so I added that music.
1:45 Did the QB just complete a pass to himself?
Did the QB on arena football seriously throw the ball then dive and catch it??
Yeah, not sure how that happened
Native actually looks pretty good. How is the overall gameplay?
It feels really good. I just wish I could fix that background flicker!
@@GregsGameRoom Oh wow, I thought the flicker was just something awry with the capture/TH-cam compression. Shame that it exists throughout the entire game.
GD Drive?? Some sort of Everdrive?? Where can we find it??
Exactly. Just search "Jaguar GD" and I'm sure you'll find one.
varnum forces has the green mile actor i thinkit is he is a good actor. looked like it could a been ok
Yeah pretty disappointed it never came out. And sad that Duncan died so young.
omg, that Arena Football game is bad. Did the QB toss a pass and then dive for it and run it in for a TD?!
👍Are there roms and emulators to play these?
Well that fighting game straight up has a digitized naked lady. Huh.
It would appear so... but she's all lava, so it's okay. ;-)
She was the female version of Cinder from Killer Instinct :)
@@GregsGameRoom Hot.
these all look worse than Genesis or SNES games of the time. With the exception of maybe Native which looked decent in the sense that those 16-bit systems couldn't do the cheesy explosions as well. I wanted to like the hockey game but compared to NHL on Genesis it looks like shit. great compilation of shit you have here!!
Haha! The other systems would have had a hard time with Phase Zero, Space War 2000, Thea Realm Fighters (graphics-wise) and the FMV CD games.
Actually Brett Hull Hockey did come out for the 16-bit systems and the Jag version is WAYYY better featuring better graphics, object scaling, and a little more play-by-play by Al Michaels. This one would have been nice if it was finished/released.
They look good but what matters is the gameplay. And you couldn’t get games like Rayman or Alien vs Predator on SNES or Genesis.
@@MicklowFilmsRayman started life on the ill - fated SNES CD add-on, It's a 16-bit platformer at it's core.
Realm fighters, terribly programming
The jaguar could do some good stuff, but very rare any1 took advantage of the hardware, sad
Eclipse did with Iron Solider 1 and 2
Rebellion with AVP and Skyhammer
Teque with WTR
Atari with Hoverstrike U. L And Missile Command.
ATD with Battlemorph
Native looks like a crappy rip-off of R-Type
It was definitely the inspiration. Look up “Sturmwind” to see what it became.