Atari Jaguar -- Showing off my video game collection

I'm starting a new series showing off my favorite classic video game systems from my collection. My girlfriend and I make a point of going garage sale-ing each weekend and frequently come home with a bunch of cool video games and classic systems. We run an Ebay store and sell most of the games, but I like to keep some for my collection. Some of the systems are ones I have collected over the years. I am a child of the 80's and I played with my Nintendo Entertainment System after school everyday! That system made me admire video games and from there my collection has grown.

Today I am showing off my Atari Jaguar system. I only have 2 games for it, and I will show them off in the pictures below. I eventually want to get a copy of Aliens VS Predator. That's supposed to be one of the better games for the system. The Atari Jaguar was marketed as the first 64 bit system in the US and it was released in 1993 when the 16 bit consoles Sega genesis and the Super Nintendo were the hot systems. While it was a technically superior system, it had several flaws and was very difficult to program for. The console did have a pair of powerful processors code-named Tom and Jerry, but Atari provided a difficult assembly language so not many programmers could make full use of it. Instead many of the game developers opted to program games using the consoles manager chip which was a 16 bit Motorola 68000 because of their familiarity with the processor.

The hardware

The strange controller

Here are the two games I have for the system.

--Cybermorph-- The pack-in game.

This is a basic 3d shooting game. I am not very impressed with it. I feel like the Jaguar was capable of a lot more, and this really doesn't show off the systems capabilities. Your vehicle does not have a very long range of vision and you frequently run into objects where an annoying computer voice repeatedly makes the comment "Where did you learn to drive?"

I'm giving you the middle finger dumb ass computer, you don't even have thumbs

--Kasumi Ninja--

This is a Mortal combat clone and a pretty decent one. The Jaguar controller has sort of a slow response rate, so it makes the game more difficult than it needs to be, but otherwise a fun game.

This is just the start of my collection, but I hope that you will stick around and continue to read my posts as I progress through all my systems. Let me know what your favorite classic system is.