Retro Video Gamer

Always wondered what happened to Primal Rage. So I thought I would share this old magazine article.

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Now there's a flashback! I had this issue and remember reading that article 

Same as. Loved finding stuff about this game back in the day. Shame it never got an official release.

Primal Rage was released though, seems like some idiot was just trying to get it pulled from release

There was something I wanted to post here, but I can't remember what it was.

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Nice idea for a thread!  I was not aware of the mess with Primal Rage.  I wonder what that woman (if still alive) thinks of some of the current games! 

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Lol Jag games on 'Megacarts'! And I don't think any release hit the £20 mark! Maybe in the Rumbelows closing down sale!

Dogfight looks pretty good. I agree TrekMD. When I first read the article, I had to check the date to make sure it was not some April 1st prank. So now we know why Primal Rage II did not come out.

One I never knew about. More of an ad really.

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Gotta love the eyeball CD's. 

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Some Cool 3DO info


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Game Informer - Forgotten Interview


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Jaguar CD and Jaguar DUO announced!!!!

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The JaguarDuo looked cool!  Too bad it was never released.

News about the 3DO M2:

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Reading that is just depressing! All that potential and all that money spent and the technology ended up in car showroom kiosks and vending machines. 

The Lynx, Game Gear and Game Boy top 10 sales charts from Issue 53 of Game Zone:

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A very early Atari Lynx/Epyx Handy announcement!

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Great scans with some very interesting information.

Gotta love the headline - "yet another console."  Must have been though of as a bad thing!

Quote from: "TrekMD"Gotta love the headline - "yet another console."  Must have been though of as a bad thing!

I think it's because it was announced at the start of the new console boom where every man and his dog was announcing a new console.

Quote from: "The Laird"

Quote from: "TrekMD"Gotta love the headline - "yet another console."  Must have been though of as a bad thing!

I think it's because it was announced at the start of the new console boom where every man and his dog was announcing a new console.

 

More classic new from The Games Machine:

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Why carts were so expensive or what they want you to think.
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So, was that console design on the picture just some dummy they had or might that have been what Nintento originally intended the console to look like?

Quote from: "TrekMD"So, was that console design on the picture just some dummy they had or might that have been what Nintento originally intended the console to look like?

It's just a mock-up that never came to anything.

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Next Gen 32-bit buyers guide.
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Still working your way through last lot of loans eh Laird?

Hope to see the AVP issue of C+VG stuff up here at some point.

WOW!!!!! I love horse racing games. I do not remember Winning Post ever be released. Anyone know if a demo is out there?

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Interesting to learn that the NEC PC-FX was, if the source is to be believed, to be called FX-32.

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That looks like it was around the time the NES 101 was introduced, no?

Great article scanned there re: the NES.

Yet more evidence from the time showing how very badly the console was tanking not solely in the UK but throughout the remainder of Europe too.

Thanks RT & TL.

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Looking at it with hindsight, C+VG really should have had under that headline:

The Future Of The NES:UK magazines will continue to re--write it's past! (to suit marketing plans for US).

Yeah, i so went there.

:-)

@DC:Your welcome, Lairds got my rarest stuff to go through and post up yet, some cracking stuff for the community.

Quote from: "Rogue Trooper"...Lairds got my rarest stuff to go through and post up yet, some cracking stuff for the community.

There be gold in them there magazine clippings! 

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Quote from: "Rogue Trooper"...Lairds got my rarest stuff to go through and post up yet, some cracking stuff for the community.

There be gold in them there magazine clippings! 

In last parcel i sent were the actual bloody mags.

C+VG with Jaguar AVP on cover (which looks sweet!) and my entire GO! collection (sadly not complete) among the other goodies.

Only because i love the community here.

:-)

Quote from: "Rogue Trooper"Lairds got my rarest stuff to go through and post up yet, some cracking stuff for the community.

One word:  AWESOME! 

Seems as though RT is helping keep Royal Mail and TL's scanner gainfully employed! Great stuff, guys. 

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Quote from: "Rogue Trooper"Lairds got my rarest stuff to go through and post up yet, some cracking stuff for the community.

One word:  AWESOME! 

Hope your enjoying the Lynx+Game Gear scans Laird has put up from my Go! collection.

I was very hesitant to lend them out, after Royal Mail has lost so much stuff of mine over the years, but thought it was worth the risk, so everyone on here could see them.

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Cool to see news about the Neptune, I remember seeing a mock-up of the console in a magazine and liked the look of it.

More old news.

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Disney Animation Studio...did anyone here ever try that out?

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Great to see that magazine acknowledged the mighty Kick Off 2 as the best footy game ever. 

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Quote from: "DreamcastRIP"Great to see that magazine acknowledged the mighty Kick Off 2 as the best footy game ever.  :45:

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Quote from: "DreamcastRIP"Great to see that magazine acknowledged the mighty Kick Off 2 as the best footy game ever.  :45:

Funny you should say that as you've had me recalling the memory of a computer club I used to attend back in the early '90s. It was an Atari computer club mostly for ST owners although a few A8 owners attended too... and they even let in Amiga owners too! Aaaaayway, point being that I recall Kick Off 2 being often played on the STs and Amigas folk brought along but I have no memory of Sensible Soccer being played anywhere near as frequently.

P.S. I rate Kick Off 2 and Sensi both very highly indeed so there's no fanboy bias in what I say!

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Lynx II will be £55? Yeah right, it was more like £90!!! 

That a magazine had something positive to say about the Commodore CDTV probably surprised me more!

Looks like the "cheap Lynx" wasn't as cheap as they made it to be!

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Were those MegaPlay units released for the NES and the Genesis?  I remember seeing stuff like that for the 2600 but for those systems.

Quote from: "TrekMD"Were those MegaPlay units released for the NES and the Genesis?  I remember seeing stuff like that for the 2600 but for those systems.

No idea actually, but they are very cool!

Quote from: "The Laird"

Quote from: "TrekMD"Were those MegaPlay units released for the NES and the Genesis?  I remember seeing stuff like that for the 2600 but for those systems.

No idea actually, but they are very cool!

Yes they are.  I can't recall seeing anything like that at stores, though.  And the article does say they were for the US. 

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What's going on with the size of the 'Jaguar' logo on that Jag? It's a heck of a lot larger than on the Jag Atari released to the public. If the picture wasn't digitally manipulated/Photoshopped then maybe that Jag outer shell casing is an early prototype pictured prior to that of Atari settling on the final design?

Too bad the sales did not keep that pace for the Jaguar!  Given the sales reported are in the US, to compare it the SNES was no small thing. 

I'm intrigued by the logo as well. 

Quote from: "DreamcastRIP"What's going on with the size of the 'Jaguar' logo on that Jag? It's a heck of a lot larger than on the Jag Atari released to the public. If the picture wasn't digitally manipulated/Photoshopped then maybe that Jag outer shell casing is an early prototype pictured prior to that of Atari settling on the final design?

It's from the AVP front cover issue of C+VG i lent Laird, Issue 148 March '94 been meaning to track down other work by cover artist, anywho..

Magazine classes Design as:

Art Editor Julie Heap, Designer Petrea Doyle, Addtitonal layout Alex Patrick and Illustrations Stuart Harrison so one or more of those would be the ones to ask.

Same image used again on P20 Las Vegas report-Jaguar CES , but hardware shots they use for other systems (3DO, GB, G.G, CD-i etc) are all 'real hardware' , but....

MD Virtua Racing screen looks far better than MD version turned out (car too detailed, colours too rich etc), Club Drive on Jaguar, looks very different to released version, again looks lot better, Tiny Toons shot one we're familar with i'm sure etc.


So my guess would be the art/design depart.just used P.R shots supplied to them by Atari, Sega etc.There's no shot of an actual Jaguar console in that issue, that we knew it as.

I'm guessing it's a prototype design Atari's art dept came up with, gave to P.R to get interest in Jaguar really going, but was changed before final production art was decided.

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Quote from: "DreamcastRIP"What's going on with the size of the 'Jaguar' logo on that Jag? It's a heck of a lot larger than on the Jag Atari released to the public. If the picture wasn't digitally manipulated/Photoshopped then maybe that Jag outer shell casing is an early prototype pictured prior to that of Atari settling on the final design?

That over-sized Jaguar logo model shot popps up in all manner of places:

C+VG Jaguar Feature:The Future-Now!:Atari's $200 World Beater-has it along with caption 'the 64-bit Jaguar makes 32-bit out-of-date already!'

But it's the sheer absurdity of the screenshot on the top LHS of the page that cracked me up, a youth 'playing' Cresecent Galaxy (pad in hand) with a Jaguar console in front of a monitor.

Slight problem though, it's just the console+controller, NO:power or monitor leads connected to console for a start, lol.

Pops up in very early preview of the Jaguar in Games Master Magazine along with a very early shot of Kasumi Ninja which looked like a very basic MK clone back then, visually very simple compared to final game.

Feature claimed Virgin were also porting MD Aladdin to Jaguar.Jeff minter got a mention: 'Whatever you do, don't ask Jeff Minter what he thinks of the Jaguar, unless you relish the view of a self proclaimed weirdo hippie dribbling with ecstasy'

Article was quite pro-Jaguar with break down on 'why it's so much better (detailed differences in colours and animation speed between Jag and SNES/MD, said it was technically excellent, far more enticing option to develop for than 3DO, said Jaguar is bloody good, but will it sell?) and gave thanks to Edge for the Cybermorph screen shot.


Also same image (but Jaguar has black cart in machine with Jaguar on in it) in Mega's 'Can Atari's Jaguar Pounce On Sega and Nintendo?' feature in Mega Dec.'93

Article said Neil west talks to Atari....



C+VG  use shot again with (someone clasping the Jaguar controller, no power lead, TV lead or even a monitor or cart in machine this time) 'The Cat Set Free at Last' and again same console in Class Of '94:Atari Jaguar.

So really does lok like it was a PR machine (or set of images) from Atari, rather than magazines altering image.

Also found piece about Sigma Designs planning to produce a Jaguar board for the PC, allowing PC users to play Jaguar CD games, it was expected around same time as Jaguar CD drive, but set to cost more than an actual Jaguar Console.

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