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Puppy Love64
12 November 2007, 04:33 PM
Well, I was looking around on the internet, and I stumbled across this, The Atari Jaguar. But what I saw in the Atari Jaguar is the size of the controllers. I mean these things are huge, take a look. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/Jaguar_Controller.jpg . Good lord, these things have like a gazillion buttons the them.

Does anyone have one?

Dracophile
12 November 2007, 07:45 PM
The Jaguar was an attempt at a 64 bit system (long before Nintendo came out with the N64), but really it was just too new and cutting edge for its time and nobody really knew what to do with it or how to use it. A lot of the games released for the Jaguar were pretty awful, and I can vouch for that. Here's a list of some of the most notorious bad games:
- Club Drive (a really bad racing game)
- Ultra Vortek (fighting game with like, no control)
- Aircars (horrible car combat game)
- and even Doom, the smash hit game from Williams that was released on every console ever.

The controllers didn't help either, those things were loaded full of buttons. :O

Despite the awful impact of it, the Jaguar is kind of a cult icon, and they actually sell for a nice amount on sites like eBay.

Ironpanther
14 July 2009, 03:57 PM
I do own one, It's my second favorite System.
The Jaguar was Extremely difficult to program for,which was one of the reasons why the Jaguar Flopped.
There was a CD Add-on for the Jaguar, it was a failure obviously.
The Controller is comfortable to hold.
There are still games being relased for the Jaguar.