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Not sure to comment as never owned one, but i nearly did in late 93 between this and the CD32, i did actually buy a Jaguar joypad for £9.99 in Rumbelows in anticipation lol sold it years later.

As Shadowrunner said, as with all consoles it had some great games and some crap games, i think it gets debated more and hence maybe more vocally badmouthed more because Atari fans are stance supporters and its well known in other retro gaming circles that Jaguar supporters fight amongst one another.

I do like the Jaguar as a system, but of course Atari didnt have the support or resources to do the system justice (same for the Lynx).

Some bad calls were the Joypad design (just nicking the Falcon pad) and releasing a CD add-on a year later and even advertising before it launched was a bit like, yeah we want CD but we will make you pay extra for it, and then by the time the CD drive came out there was little cart games as it was, so pushing CD only games into the faces of Jag owners who were dying out for new cart games was a move too far imo.

The tech though was awesome for the time, well Flare were an awesome company, prob the last true console with its own custom chips, after that it was stick a very fast cpu and gpu and make money on the software from everybody.

These are all amazing. I wish I got a CD32 when they were cheap.

Thanks! Yes the price of CD32s has gone through the roof, mind you retro gaming and collecting in general has and if any console was sold under 250k the price nowdays is pretty high and rising.

Thats the trouble with more and more manufacturers, they EXPECT us to have the stuff to be able to run what we are buying, same for the NES Mini etc, but at least in that case that came with a hdmi cable.
But come on, them selling thousands it would cost only pennies to add them, sign of things to come? sure, am i bothered? yeah could sway me to not buy one now.

Neo Geo was a sign of luxury, this product has no battery, no cables and no joypad for 2 player, heck you even have to put the decals on yourself, far from the luxery look, even the Neo Geo X looked and was packaged better than this (emulation not withstanding).

Wow cant believe there is no battery inside! As he says, its not usable as a portable now, cant even charge it up, pretty poor decision to make imo.

Looks awful, just get a nVidia Shield TV now without losing $200 on this gamble!

Another PDF of old mag scans and reviews, this time for the old Atari Lynx, enjoy.

https://issuu.com/amigajay/docs/lynx_uk_pdf

Here you go guys.

https://mega.nz/#!ZAVDTKAb!tG1zut6m9BORyaOh3Zo9ZjIr16srvLLMLxZIlw4y-v8

Very cool, thanks! I was trying to download it so I can put it on my tablet but it says downloads are not allowed.

I can always upload the uncompressed version to mega so people can download that, but it wont be today though.

I know lots of Atari Jaguar fans frequent these forums, so I've put together another in my series of free historical magazine adverts and reviews PDF's for the system.

https://issuu.com/amigajay

Its nice, but its pretty expensive at £35 for what is basically 5 pop up pages, i know he will be updating soon, certainly for me needs alot more content to be worth buying.

Some of this does remind me of that Coleco Chameleon or whatever that was with fake video, the way Tempest 4000 was originally shown as running on early Atari VCS dev kits, later they said after people called them out it was just the PC version, and Jeff Minter didnt even know about the VCS let alone start to code anything for it, does make you wonder about anything else todo with the whole project.

I guess because it is the same title, even though it is different.

Well, its Lotus Turbo Challenge, because the sequels had other Lotus models too, so not even the same name lol

Why did they add the Megadrive version when its based on Lotus 2!?

Anyway, no surprise from me in saying the Amiga is best, C64 is the worst!

You are probably right mate, just go to a carboot and buy one of the thousands out there lol.

Well true, but the same could be said about the NES or SNES and the mini versions went on to sell millions of units, plus carboot sales are a dying breed too, none round our area anymore.

Think there is a big market for a PS mini, with 20-25 games, pad for £79 would go down a storm imo