Classic Game Room - ATARI JAGUAR console review!
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
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Classic Game Room reviews the ATARI JAGUAR video game console!! The 64-bit Atari Jaguar does what Nintendon't. It plays Kasumi Ninja!! Atari's stylish 64-bit game system had potential but suffered from a poor launch date and awful game library..
![Collecting ATARI JAGUAR with Dad in the '90s - My Retro Life [Extended Cut]](/img/n.gif)
Atari got body slammed by Nintendo, shot in the head by Sega, its corpse defiled by Sony, and finally got cut to pieces by Microsofts Energy Sword. All in all, a pretty bad 30 years for Atari.
Nate Dude it more like highschool like these:
Nintendo: well well well, the most stupid failure company who made console
Sega: lets go
Atari: guys what are you doing
Nintendo: do something
Sega,Nintendo,Sony and Microsoft kick Atari on the ground
Shann Balansag 2sad4me
Nate Dude And then Infogrames broke into their house and stole their stuff.
+Shann Balansag actually The Odyssey made the first console
Nate Dude This is someone from the future and it seems Atari some how is making a new system.
I loved the jag back in 1993 and still play it today its very underrated ❤️
Not that it was bad, but that there were much better choices then.
@@xmaverickhunterkx true but it has a charm i love
@@Retro-Fez Can't go against that
Boy I miss this channel
Atari Jaguar "It actually works"
I had a friend who had one of these.. Remember watching him play Doom on it. Needless to say, it was the only jaguar of the neighbourhood :D
By bad marketing, you mean the "Do The Math!" slogan, right?
You'd have to "Do The Meth" to think it was better than an SNES or a Sega Genesis
@@alicyjinx8923
It was a more powerful console than the SNES or Genesis. The problem it had was no lack of games and it was trying to compete right at the end of the SNES and Genesis cycle.
That’s actually a very good campaign and the Atari hardware was really good. What killed the Jaguar was Sam Tramiels inability to play nice with 3rd party developers. When I visited Atari on several occasions it was obvious that the tools for the Jaguar were lacking and only the internal devs were working on games because Sam was so horrible at courting devs. If you gave the Jaguar to Capcom or Konami the story would have ended differently.
@@Gorilla_Jones Oh, yeah! Convincing potential buyers that you think their stupid is a REAL good marketing campaign.
the nails on the chalkboard sound 😂 why would they do that
its nice to see the old cgr footage. Much more from the archives please!
I would actually like to see a review for the Apple Bandai Pippin.
I remember seeing this console in Woolworth's for £20 when I was 15..you could sell them for £200 each on ebay, mint in box
Also, Woolworth's had the best pick n mix. I miss woolies.
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@Ezequiel Briggs Definitely, I have been using Kaldrostream for since november myself :D
And now 500 usd for the cheapest one 1000plus for full in box
Just bring Dave back for just ONE review. PLEASE it's what we all want!
Loved the Flashback to the Game Room
I have a Jaguar, and I actually kind of like it. In regards to the question, "Was it a bad system?" I think you need to define what makes a good system. As a piece of hardware, I think it was actually quite good. It came out about halfway between SNES and PS1. If you look at games like Alien vs Predator, Battlemorph, and Rayman, I think it looks pretty good for being half way between those system. But then there's the other way to look at a system's value. Was it a good deal for the customers that bought them? I hate to say it, but no. Atari was nearly bankrupt and no one else put much effort into developing for it. So despite having good hardware, the very limited number of games were mostly shoddy uninspired shovel ware. If you liked button mashing arcade games, it did have some decent games in those genres, but there was very little that reflected the direction games were taking on the PS1 or N64.
If it had of had less power and released two years earlier it would have been a raging success but it actually got released right at the end of the Cartridge games cycle.
The N64 was a disaster as it simply got smashed by the playstation and the dreamcast was far too late to the game.
By the time Dreamcast started to get traction the Playstation was selling hundreds of millions of games.
Atari Jaguar was awesome , Atari is back with the new Atari VCS
I had my Jag since launch. I was a huge Atari fanboy and defended the system as much as I could. I eventually got the ps1 in 96 and n64 in 97.
There is a cd addon. It's called the Atari jaguar cdi I believe. They're rare and hard to find in working condition. But if you can get your hands on a working one you should review it.
Just Jaguar CD... Phillips CDi was a seperate system.
+ronjon83 haha. ATARI JAGUAR CDi
Worst system ever.
+Alec Roberts NO worst system is sega halcyon color XD
OMG! I can't believe I forgot about the old game room episodes!
We got the Jaguar packaged with CyberMorph.
I knew original Game Room would come up at some point :). Good times.
You did? I don't think anyone anticipated footage of the old Game Room show.
At best, I hoped some footage would show.
I did.
I remember seeing adverts for the Jaguar in Hyper game magazine when it was released but I never saw any in the shops etc. Come to think of it I have never seen one at all to date.
That's some truly classic Classic Game Room.
How did you get the Jag back, I thought you sold it for a blender
Guess someone should have watched the video.
I should, but it still funny that Mark sold his Jag for a $10 blender
Glad i'm not the only one that recalls this paha
OMG GAMEROOM 2000 I WISH YOU WOULD GO BACK TO THAT SETUP. IT WAS SO FUNNY WIT THE OTHER DUDE AND YOU AND GAMES LIKE SEAMAN. TOO BAD THAT HE PROBABLY LIVES FAR AWAY BUT YEAH A SIDEKICK TYPE THING IS DEFINETLY FUNNY.
I prefer Mark alone. Reviews with Derek work as well.
Amazing to think that, despite the Jaguar being massively underappreciated, it was partly responsible for the SEGA Saturn's initial hardware designs. SEGA took notice of the Jaguar when the system was revealed and started development on what would become the Saturn in an attempt to compete with it.
I will give it this. It's port of Wolfenstein 3D is pretty damn sick!
It’s Doom port is also very decent
I had a Jaguar with nearly a complete library of games. Someone seemed to need worse than I and stole it. I myself liked the system. It had a lot of potential but, never had a developer who tried to push its capabilities. Atari didn't seem to support it either. With just a handful of good games the Jaguar could have been a major contender in the console wars if developers would have done their job rather than go after low hanging fruit such as Nintendo and Sega.
NBA JAM TE and Rayman seem just as good as PS1. Its Doom port was better than Saturn, much better framerate. So yea it had the power for that Generation. Just didn't last.
@@Lightblue2222 Actually the Saturn version was gimped because Carmack insisted that they did everything with the CPU, where as the Jaguar version has to cut the music for it to run properly.
the more i see Dave, the more i want him back.
Happy Wong
too bad Dave wasn't around in the first place.
Happy Wong he left after The Game Room was cancelled, and moved back to New Jersey.
Happy Wong
yeah Dave just went his own way.
Dave's not here, man.
Zachary Amaranth no man I'M Dave.
We love you Mark, just thought of telling you.
I bought a Jaguar because I could play Doom and Wolfenstein 3D for under £300 when a pentium 1 PC cost over £1000. I was very smart though and mailed it to my younger brother when I bought a SEGA 32X.
I restored one in April. Doom, Rayman and Theme Park play well on it. Rayman doesn't have load times and the Doom port is the best console one I have played (haven't played even half of them).
I actualy love the Atari jaguar it may have crapped out by late 1995 however it had a strong start of great games in 1993 and 1994 like cybermorph trevor mcfur in the crescent galaxy alien vs predator doom zool 2 and even a few not many however a few great games in 1995 and 1996 like rayman and fight for life. so overall the Atari jaguar is very underated game system that deserves some respek on its name #atarijaguarforthewin ps and although the original Atari jaguar controller sucks the Atari jaguar pro controller released in 1994 is awesome #atarijaguarftw
Holy crap! Someone else that likes Trevor McFur and Fight for Life! McFur got trashed by the critics, and while it did have it's short comings, in some ways I think it was far better than many of the side-scrolling-shooters of the day. And Fight for Life was slow, but it required careful timing and you absolutely needed to memorize the special moves. It was no Tekken, but if you spent some time with it, it was actually a decent game.
"nobody could afford a cdi, 3do or neo geo" makes me laugh every time
I remember Atari Jaguar from commercials from 1994? I never had Atari Jaguar, only Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis in that time. I wanted to get Sega Saturn, Playstation 1, and Atari Jaguar since 1997, 1998, 1999, even 2001. I did got PSone Slim since 2000.
This (along with every other 5th gen console) wasted the opportunity to be an outstanding 2D console, and instead wasted resources in 3d, to fail miserably.
+SalveMonesvol True
***** I don't get your point. The gamecube came 5 years later.
Well said. Well said. *claps*
+SalveMonesvol The ps1 and saturn had several 2D games, but i get your point, they should had a LOT more
Battlefield 1942 Argentina Yes, like megaman X5 which was incredible, but they wasted budget on 3d accelerator chips.
the jaguar had the best console version of NBA jam
mike10dude Doom, too.
Doom 2?
Mark, are you going to review the CD attachment games too?
lol if he can find one that works
Solkia2010 It doesn't break easily. AVGN just keeps finding faulty ones.
The nerd actually did find one. He played it with mike.
***** lel
trabuco9 who me?
Tempest 2000 FTW!
I don't know Mark...I disagree with this review. The Jaguar was cutting edge in 1993/1994. For the time it had the very best version of both Wolfenstein 3d and Doom you could get on consoles. Alien vs. Predator was unlike anything we had ever witnessed on consoles before. It also had a near perfect version of NBA Jams that was a real showstopper. I don't understand why you think the tech behind the Jaguar was outdated in 1993/1994. I mean, hardware wise it murders the Sega Genesis/Sega CD and the Snes quite soundly. None of those consoles or add-on could run AVP for example. Further, it was capable of throwing insane amounts of sprites on screen and did Super Scaler games like nobodies business. This was a very rare miss for CGR....damn and I wanted to trademark Melt-O-Vision for myself.
Yay! A review of the Jaguar in which the reviewer pronounced "Jaguar" correctly!
Also, a rare negative review by Mark... still just as funny as ever, though!
I know your comment is ancient...but Jaguar is actually pronounced Jag-you-are
Hmm, I just looked it up on dictionary.com... apparently both pronunciations are correct? But not jagwire, though!
An excellent system that was ahead of its time, similar to the 3DO from the same era. Both were cutting edge for consoles at the time and failed for various reasons. The Jaguar failed due to the sheer amount of 16-bit titles that were released. Quick, dirty SNES ports, although most improved on the SNES counterparts. Anyone who was involved in the gaming scene back then will remember the dirty word that was 2D and/or sprites. This is were Mark gets it fundamentally wrong. Nobody got a SNES or Genesis instead of a Jaguar, they just didn't purchase anything as they were waiting for PSX/Saturn. There was a massive video game slump in 1994. It was 3D or bust and even though the Jaguar had some impressive titles such as Alien v Predator, Iron Soldier and Tempest 2K, it had a ton of SNES type games. The singular reason why the Jaguar failed was its release date. It released within months of the Sony Playstation. In Japan there was literally only a few days between release dates. Everyone had already seen the 3D goodness of the PSX. A revolution in gaming. A console characterised by Bubsy, Rayman and other 2D games never stood a chance. As a niche, collectors console now it is worth owning and the prices reflect that. Maybe if the Jaguar released two years earlier it may have had some success.
that and the jag games were horrible....with no endings....the endings to the games mostly just stopped after last level...it was weird...no cutscenes or explanations lol
I was given a boxed Jaguar. It has been opened, but never played.
I've played it now though and I kinda like it.
I never saw a Jaguar on sale during their lifetime. But around 10-12 years ago, some of the used game stores around me had several in stock.
i got to play this when i was little at my friends house,when i got home i told my parents"i love you and thanks for buying me a super nintendo"
Very good review and nice summary of the videogame world in the 90's. I always wanted a turbo grafix, 3DO, and Neo-Geo. There were so many cool options at that time, that some nice consoles got left in the dust. So, you're right, the poor Jaguar never had a chance. Cool flashback. I liked your friends contribution to the review.
It was the best hardware at the time but too bugy for devs to make the most of it. I remember reading about the 3DO,and rumors about SEGA and PS1at the time so ignored it.
Bugs were not the problem. It was a console that was too late. It was pushing cartridges in an era of CD gaming consoles. Even the N64 was a flop.
it also has a great doom port
Loved the "Game Room" bit at the end.
I miss tbis channel
The games just look painfully clunky. I am spoiled by my massive Dreamcast collection! All the Dreamcast games are so liquid smooth and playable, these look like failed abortions.
Is the Dreamcast loud?
I got an atari jaguar when I was a kid back in the early 90s and it was broken out of the box. That was the end of my atari journey. Got an n64 not too long afterwards.
Hey Mark got another Jag!!! I know he traded his original one for a blender and the only good thing about the system then was the Melt-O-Vision in Tempest 2000. This should be fun just like how his Phillips Cdi review was. I dunno but I couldn't stop laughing during that Tina Turner video.
Am I the only one who googled "vectrex turbo panther"?
(edit: mispelled turbo)
"Where did you learn to fly?"
Well i like the atari jaguar
Vectrex Turbo panther? What a name for a system. It sounds awesome doh.
just got mine today I got a jaguar cd a Sega cd and a nes for 100. winning!
Feeding the trolls Did you get the Kasumi Ninja Bandana?
If not my friend then bummer
15 Dupuis K offerup! the app. I bought a couple of games that a guy had for sale when they cleaned out his grandmother's house he found more and more. I kept buying he kept sealing me stuff .u would be amazed if u Seen what I have got .relationship with people is what it all about.
GoodAdvicesForFranco no I got ultra vortek
The poor old Jaguar never really caught on here in Australia, only way you could get one was in the mail order but there were some cool games for it that intrigued me back at the time like Doom and Alien vs Predator and um......thats all i can think of at the moment
I have a Jaguar and a Jaguar CD. My Jaguar died, but the CD still works!!!
I'm not the only one who likes this console, right?
+the hector nope. I think it's cool to. and Lord karnage doesn't think it's too bad either
+the hecter Nah man, i would love to own one one day.
marlb0r015 Me too
+AlexfromNorway It's not 64 bit. It has a dual core 32 bit processor. I also hate when people say bits=graphics and power. It actually depends on the power of the processor, not how many bits it has. I mean most modern computer processors are 64 bit, and they are light years more powerful than the N64's CPU.
+Chris B 64-bit bus. Yeah it was indeed a 64-bit system - but then, the Intellivision was a 16-bit system, and it certainly doesn't compare to other 16-bit systems that came later.
Where did YOU learn to fly?
Too bad the gaming system that had John Carmack of doom fame's support really didn't get many other developers excited.
It was a console that was too late, used cartridges and then got smashed by CD based 3d system.
From Mark's revew of the PSP Go;
PSP Gooo. Where is it going. Why couldn't they call it after some bad ass animals like the thunderbird. How about we call it the PSP Beaver
"Stop playing with your beaver in class!"
I'm a video game vet and I never knew this existed 😓🤔😮😮😮
Bring back Dave. Or rea post some old ones for throw back Thursdays.
Turbo GrafX-16?!? That was Dead in North America before the Jaguar Launched! However wildly popular in Japan as the PC Engine even in 93/94! 🙄Still almost an all time underrated console with a pretty decent library of almost 100 Hu-card games to play! 😎
I know a good game for the Atari jaguar, Rayman! Alien vs predator isn't to bad either.
altari carts I heard was also good (it's altari + super mario kart)
+Omar Mohammed WOW couldnt have not notice that
I remember playing one of these things when I was in hospital as a teenager and I'm sure it slowed my recovery haha
Wow. Mark sounded really different back then.
We bought a Jaguar because it was cheap and 64 bits...We also bought a Sega CD. Yea we took a couple L'S in the early 90's. Although Sega CD was alot better than the Jaguar IMO lol
I would agree Sega cd had Sonic cd, lunar 1 & 2, Shinning force and Snatcher to name a few which were better than anything on the jag
the jaguar isnt that bad it is a decent system at the time atari was nearly bankrupt
Atari was just a name bought and sold by different people after Warner bros sold the company In 1984 it was never the same company again.
The technical specs for the time were actually quite advanced as it was a little bit more powerfull graphicaly and in speed than the 3do at a lower price initially
The cartridge slot looks like a PCIE port
This console was an extremely expensive device back in the day, especially in easter Europe. With the same money you could buy a Gameboy, Gamegear, SNES and Genesis!
Did you know that the atari jaguar can run S-video and a cable for it?
I got the Atar Jaguar CD since 1995 before the N64
I still have my Jaguar that I got when I was about 14 years old during a so-called "fire sale" at a local toy store. I have to agree with what he said. The system itself is great it's just that there aren't any game for it worth playing. Syndicate was pretty good but that's the only one I can think of. Also, you could totally use Sega Genesis controllers on your Jaguar. The console was even designed around that same input scheme.
No, as there are three rows of pins on the Jaguar joystick connector. Same as Atari STe computer, possibly more rare than the Jag!
@@andycraig7734 I can literally do it right now. You can even use old Atari controllers although, you wouldn't want to. It's also the same controller port used by the C64. I'll make a video about it once I finally dust off my Commodore. :)
Was nice to see a bit of Game Room at the end there :3 I know the answer id probably no (or I won't get one at all lol), but I don't suppose theres a chance of you bringing back some of the ones you missed when you did the dvd? Would be kinda cool, s'all i'm saying :D
I just wish Atari would have tried to get ports of popular Arcade games of the mid 90's like Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter 2 for the Jag. That way the library would have been fleshed out better.
Mortal kombat 3 was being developed for the system but was cancelled do to the poor sales of the jag.
Why did you take down the Jungle Hunt review?
Somebody found out he made a commentary mistake about two minutes in when he said "This is the boulder stage of Pitfall."
There was a CD add-on for the Jaguar too, which slotted into the cartridge port
Don't know how many games it had though.
+ShadeUsher The add-on also made the console look like a toilet.
Man was that a blast from the past. I love it 😀
Super Burnout needed some love from CGR! LOL I remember that old T2K review.... good times.
I had one...and a lynx handheld still have a couple of the lynx games
At least you can say 'I'm taking the jag for a spin'
Lol, nice TMNT tie-in at the beginning!
Yep, I remember when they tried to liquidate them for only $20 and still nobody bought then. Poor Atari.
I had one of these and a few games for it. I think they were Cybermorph, Kasumi Ninja, and AvP. AvP was actually kinda decent, but the other two... man. Just. Man.
do more console reviews its cool like a jaguar.
didn't you sell your jaguar for a blender and had to pay them about $10. I saw that on the classic game room DVD -The rise and fall of the internets greatest video game review show. Get that DVD, it's AWESOME!
I remember one time (about a hundred years ago) I was going to go to Babbages to trade in my Genesis (and my 32X...yes, I had one of those), my SNES, my Atari Lynx (YES, I had one of those, too, and I loved it...certainly more than GameBoy, which...I also...had, and was gonna trade in) for an Atari Jaguar. Why? Because...DOOM! Not just that it had DOOM, but it had a LAN feature so that you could deathmatch with your buddy who might also have happened to have owned a Jaguar (unlike the 32X version which did not....hey, I couldn't afford a PC back then!)....good luck on that, right? Oh, and there was also Aliens Vs Predator, but I don't think it had deathmatch capability. (Good Lord, this is the first time I ever actually got to see that game in action.... or should I say "inaction". What a klunky looking game!) Anyhoo, the rep at Babbages said: "Dude, trust me. Hang on to all that gear, and trade it in on a Sony PlayStation when it comes out. You will not regret it." A truer foresight by a mortal was never spoken...well...other than Orwell's "1984", or the movie "Demolition Man". I traded in for a PlayStation a couple months later, and was overjoyed. Not only did it play a great launch of games, but it had link capability, so that you could deathmatch DOOM (when it released for PS) with a buddy who also had a PlayStation! That wasn't the only game that could do that...and that functionality is the primary reason I bought a PlayStation.
It was a good system worthier of a better fate. The sad thing was they made to powerful of a system before people were ready to program games for it. Only 4 games for it were selling well, and that wasn't enough to keep it alive. "Alien vs Predator," "Dune," "Wolfenstein," and "Tempest 2000."
This thing looks like a old PC with its DE-15 connectors and a PCI slot for cartridges.
The closet Thing to A modern Atari console notice how they did not do arcade ports like previous systems and didn't name it after numbers or non 2D games like the 8bit era or no joysticks.
Doom and Wolfenstein 3D are both great on the Jaguar but most other games are REALLY bad lol.
Wait...the Jaguar was outdated by the time it came out!? What? The Jaguar for its time was an amazing console depending on what you played. Actually had Atari given the Jaguar another 6 months in development (many of tge devs behind it wanted the extra time but the stupid money men said no) it really woukd have been something hardware wise. There was an issue with the memory and had it been fixed it would have easily ran with a PSX and N64. I also think Atari's inclusion of a 68000 processor (16-bit) was a mistake. At the very least they should have locked it out and only allowed its use as a proper co-processor.
At any rate the games one might want to check out for the machine-
Doom
Wolfenstein
AVP
Tempest 2000
Iron Soldier
Raiden
NBA Jam TE
Rayman
Cannon Fodder
Worms
10 games is enough to warrant a purchase in my book. These 10 games were very good and a few were truly special like AVP, Cannon Fodder, and Iron Soldier.
Beautiful console
I knew you would make a video on the jaguar
I bought one! It came with Cybermorph. I kept it for three months and not a single other game was released so I sold it. Cybermorph gets boring after 3 months.
What's crazy I had some thing from Atari it was a blues clues learning program on the window xp I still have the instruction manual
The game at 5:34 is on the Vita now, where it's called TxK :) .
TxK is made by the same developer. that's the Spiritual Successor to Vita
RevolveTechUSA 99 :) .
People call it poo because of the CD ROM add-on which made it look like a toilet.
You already did a review on this. Do a review on the Xbox One instead.
Nobody wants that
***** I do.
Yeah if he destroys the thing xD
Nah just joking it isn't a bad console but just like the Wii U it isn't getting many good games
***** The Wii U has got quite a few good games now, Mario Kart 8, Super Mario Bros U, Super Mario 3D world, Monster Hunter 3, Sonic Lost World, Legend Of Zelda Windwalker and a massive selection of the best Nes/Snes and soon too be added N64.The Xbox One also has a lot of good games considering it is still in its first year of launch, and you don't get many games released in the first year of launch. They have Forza 5, Watch Dogs, Trials Fusion, Dead Rising 3, Thief, Wolfenstein the new order and Titanfall if you like FPS games anymore.
This console is stupid expensive now. Glad I picked one up. Missed opportunity by Atari. Great marketing. “Do the math” “64 bit” wasn’t even a true 64 bit machine. Just 2 32 bit processors.