Scored me a nice Atari Jaguar lot

[vestcoat]

Yeah, good luck finding Towers, Iron Soldier 2, or Atari Karts. It would be nice to have Doom on the Jaguar again, but I don't miss AvP.

[Deletion]

khog, that's a sweet deal. I'd have $50 worth of fun just with Tempest 2000 alone. If you do decide to trade the system, let me know.

[ParanoiaDragon]

I love the Jag, as some know.  Probably more then the 3DO ultimately(though there are great games to be had on 3DO).  But yeah, alot of the great games....are the expensive one's, some of which are the later/homebrew releases.

[ProfessorProfessorson]

I actually wouldn't mind getting a Jaguar again. I've been considering liquidating some of my Nes stuff in fact so I can have some space freed up for one. It's probably been 10 years since I last had one I think.

[RegalSin]

The Jag just proves how weak a game developement, was in the west.
Amiga had some love, for awhile, but the SNES over took the Amiga.
Then the opposition had the Genesis ( Why say Genesis, when we all know they probably stole the name from the StarTreck name ). If you were not playing a game console, you was playing the IBM, or Mac.
Don't copy that floppy.......yeehhh right. Sega even counted the Jag
with it's 32X and CD add-on.

The Jag was too late by five years. If there was at least one Japanese developer, we would have seen something that was visable. It would have probably been just like the Atari.

[khog143]

Just as an update, I am seriously considering trading my Jaguar, as it is just going to collect dust up on my shelf.  I will post something in the other Buy/Sell forum if I do decide, but I am currently trying to narrow my collecting to TG16/PCE, NES, SNES, and Genesis, so it will more than likely happen whenever I get a chance to take/upload pics this weekend.

[Dyna138]

No love for the Jaguar here I see, it's a shame because it is an excellent system if given the chance. Alien vs Predator and Tempest 2000 are awesome games and worth picking up a Jaguar for alone and then you have many other games like Rayman, a very unique and cool version of Wolfenstein 3D, Iron Soldier I & II and many others quality titles.

It didn't last long on the market and the library is small, but there are plenty of great games on the system and a pretty active homebrew community. There are also companies out there like Songbird releasing some lost quality Jaguar games like Skyhammer and Protector. I'd advise you to do some research and formulate your own opinion of the system.

At any rate you got a good deal even if most of the games are common.  

[SignOfZeta]

If the Jag is an "excellent system" then I'd hate to see what a mediocre or bad system is. What's worse than a Jag? I mean, I know the 3DO is bad, but even the 3DO is probably better than the Jag so the only things worse than a Jag would be those systems that barely qualify as systems like the Pippin and CDi.

Is the Game.com worse than a Jag? Maybe...maybe not. Lights Out on Game.com was kind of fun.

I mean, if Jag is an A, then the 3DO would be a A+, the 32X an A++, the PC-FX would be...at least an A+++. The N64 would be an S, with the PCE, Neo, and SFC being like SSS+++ ∞ or some shit.

[Dyna138]

If the Jag is an "excellent system" then I'd hate to see what a mediocre or bad system is. What's worse than a Jag? I mean, I know the 3DO is bad, but even the 3DO is probably better than the Jag so the only things worse than a Jag would be those systems that barely qualify as systems like the Pippin and CDi.

Is the Game.com worse than a Jag? Maybe...maybe not. Lights Out on Game.com was kind of fun.

I mean, if Jag is an A, then the 3DO would be a A+, the 32X an A++, the PC-FX would be...at least an A+++. The N64 would be an S, with the PCE, Neo, and SFC being like SSS+++ ∞ or some shit.

Opinions are great, thanks for yours.

I'm glad I at least own a Jaguar and have played a lot of games before formulating my own opinion of the system.

[SignOfZeta]

So if the Jag is "excellent" then there must be like...four or five other systems that are shittier than the Jag, at least, right? What are four systems shittier than the Jag?

This question is open to everyone, btw, and please no hyperbolic partisan bullshit answers like "PS3" or "Gameboy".

I mean, you said this. You said it was excellent. You claim that you have the Jag experience to back up your definition of "excellent", unlike me who has clearly never even set eyes on a Jag (so you think), so what is your more educated and valuable opinion on this matter?

[Keranu]

I mean, you said this. You said it was excellent. You claim that you have the Jag experience to back up your definition of "excellent", unlike me who has clearly never even set eyes on a Jag (so you think), so what is your more educated and valuable opinion on this matter?

Doesn't take much education to understand people like things you don't.

[SuperPlay]

I had used to love playing Tempest 2000 on My Jag. 

Just playing the OST now!

[khog143]

So if the Jag is "excellent" then there must be like...four or five other systems that are shittier than the Jag, at least, right? What are four systems shittier than the Jag?

This question is open to everyone, btw, and please no hyperbolic partisan bullshit answers like "PS3" or "Gameboy".

I mean, you said this. You said it was excellent. You claim that you have the Jag experience to back up your definition of "excellent", unlike me who has clearly never even set eyes on a Jag (so you think), so what is your more educated and valuable opinion on this matter?

First, let me answer by saying Pippin, CD-i, Virtual Boy, Atari 5200, Game.com, N-Gage, R-Zone, and the Gizmondo.  Secondly, while there are some awful duds on the Jaguar (Evolution Dino Dudes, Most of the sports games, Cybermorph), but, as is the case with most systems, there are good games (I enjoyed Tempest 2000, Attack of the Mutant Penguins, Raiden, Doom, AvP, Syndicate).

[esteban]

I had used to love playing Tempest 2000 on My Jag. 

Just playing the OST now!

Do you have the CD + packaging? I'll take it off your hands...

 

[Dyna138]

I mean, you said this. You said it was excellent. You claim that you have the Jag experience to back up your definition of "excellent", unlike me who has clearly never even set eyes on a Jag (so you think), so what is your more educated and valuable opinion on this matter?

Doesn't take much education to understand people like things you don't.

Well put.

If your a gamer you'd prefer to appreciate a console for its strengths and good games and not be a hater.

I've already given my "educated" opinion of the console. There are great games out there for the Jaguar and that's evident if you spend some time with its library. I'll run through some of my favorites:

Tempest 2000 & AvP: These as I already stated are 2 awesome games worth picking up the system for. Both critically acclaimed when they were released.

Wolfenstein 3D: John Carmack recently stated this was his favorite version of Wolf3D and it's easy to see why. It's a lot of fun to play and has a lot things that make the Jag version unique.

Doom: One of the best console ports of Doom back in the day. Easily beats the 3DO and 32X and of course SNES versions, it must have been impressive to see such an accurate port of the PC game back then. Does the Jag having a better version of Doom than the 3DO and 32X say anything about which console was technically superior? Maybe maybe not, but I'm not interested in a console war debate.

Rayman: Originally designed for the Jaguar this is a classic platformer. Fun and inventive with beautiful graphics and animation to back it up.

Iron Soldier I & II: A pair of great games. Smooth playing and mission based both can be a lot of fun to play even if the polygon graphics are a bit primitive. Although ISII graphics were an improvement over the original.

I could go on forever detailing some of these but here's a list of other games I think are solid titles:

Super Burnout
Protector SE
Skyhammer
Theme Park
Cannon Fodder
Missile Command 3D
Raiden
FlashBack
Battlemorph
Ultra Vortek

Admittedly there are some games I haven't been able to play cause they are Magical Chase level priced like Battlesphere Gold and the less pricer, but still rare Gorf, both of which are considered 2 of the best games for the Jag. There are also many games I haven't played yet for the console that are considered good, but can't comment on. Anyway if you're asking me to defend my opinion that the Jaguar is an excellent system then all I have to say is there are plenty of great games that make it excellent.

If you don't like my opinion well...who cares?  The end.