Forgotten Gaming News

[Rogue Trooper]

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Jaguar Feature:The Future-Now!:Atari's $200 World Beater-has it along with caption 'the 64-bit Jaguar makes 32-bit out-of-date already!'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