The more i read about the technical shit of this console the more i come to the conclusion that this is basically the...

The more i read about the technical shit of this console the more i come to the conclusion that this is basically the homer simpson car.
It's PACKED with features such as being able to choose any resolution between 1x192 to 1600x480 and bilinear filtered blitting, all sorts of drawing modes..
They wasted a shitton of silicon by slapping a lot of slow features instead of just focusing into a machine that does something specific very well, so the jaguar can do a lot, but nothing well at all, and is full of bugs.

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I don't even know what half of those words mean

what the fuck was ataris obsession with making all controllers look like telephones?

Imagine a bunch of nerds with a shitton of ideas and all wanting to shove it all at once instead of you know, having a solid plan, and they all try to do it with a modest budget and haste.
Kinda like if Yas Forums tried to develop a video game.

Mostly to sell you the overlays

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I picked on up for £40 new back in 1996. Came with 4 games, including Doom. Doom worked quite well, but I remember it missing something... maybe it was the levels. But it looked good. The other games were fucking awful. I'm not sure where I'm going with this, but yeah, it was the worst console I've ever bought.

They wanted to shove as much shit as they could to fuck everyone up with their supposed 64 bits, and got shat on for just being bad.

Had no music iirc.

That was it. I can't believe I bought a Jaguar instead of Yoshi's Island... biggest regret of my life.

Ah, I'll get started on the logo.

The 64bit was more of a necessity given how many shit fought for the memory access.
No caches, not smart, just a shitton of components internal and external fighting for access to the memory.
It had even a priority scheme to make sure the most important components get it first or you would end up with shit like black lines across the screen. (which could still happen if you hit the bus too hard)

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Based. This thread could actually go somewhere...

I will get the ukele music for the the kickstarter page

b-but my 64 bits

Made for big dumb American hands

thats actually kinda neat

It didn't have games bc it was a western console.
That's why it was shit.

This is indeed a good point.
Jap people would just mostly use the decent 2D from the system.

Based? Based on what?

PLAY SOME JAAAAAAG

Yoshi's Island is fucking DOGSHIT. You did the right thing.

As someone who owned one of these things (my mom let me pick one console and I chose this piece of shit because I was an idiot kid who was wowed by the overhyped TRUE 64 BIT GAMING ON THE MOST POWERFUL HOME CONSOLE EVER bullshit, the worst thing wasn't how it underperformed so badly, it's that nobody was making games for it. It has a ridiculously small library for what was meant to be a flagship console, and most of what it does have are just inferior ports from other systems.

I still had fun with shit like DOOM, Cybermorph, Theme Park, and some Mortal Kombat ripoff I forgot the name off, but if I could go back I'd slap my younger self upside the head for buying into the bullshit advertising.

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No it's not.
It even got great music unlike certain other games.

this honestly wasn't a bad idea. it was just attached to a terrible console.

Are you sure you're not thinking of Yoshi's Story? That really was dogshit.

Yes, yes it very much is a terrible fucking idea. When do you even look at your controller while playing games?

so non americans have small bitch hands got it

Unfunny joke

"hey! we can do mario kart with more colors and a lot less soul!"

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I kinda want that Doom overlay.

It is pretty cool but a bit spoilery.

Why would they base it on an unfunny joke?

No it sucked. It was already a bad idea on Intellevision. They just copied it for some retarded reason. It's cumbersome and awkward using a telephone pad for games.

>a bit spoilery
it doesn't show anything but the weapons though? and it doesn't even show what they do just a side profile. Nevermind the fact that you'll have seen all of them except the BFG within like half an hour of playing.

Yep

Remember me?

The Jaguar CD was even worse

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Weird, I remember the Doom overlay in the same colors but with more design, kinda like the Alien vs Predator one. It was 25 years ago though.
I can still see myself sitting in my parents bedroom, playing Doom on my dads Atari Jaguar while listening to the radio.

They were included with the games, though. At least the ones for AvP.

This console:
>was a technical mess
>sunk Atari
>sunk JTS, who bought Atari after it sunk
>made Sega panic to launch the 32X, which ultimately helped them sink too
>gave Sam Tramiel, then CEO, a heart attack in 1995
>had its molds used for dental services and the Coleco Chameleon scam
Is there a more cursed console?

150 bucks for 11 games most of which sucked

>.

Was this in a time period when CPU-GPU-RAM was never fully set as the default setup for a system? Saturn has some weird 8 chip setup too.

saturn's a mess because it was designed as a 2D powerhouse just in time for 3D to take over the industry and they had to make something that could make 3D work with what may as well have been duct tape and prayers.

Consoles usually had specialized graphics chips of hardware accelerated features. PS1 had GTE, Saturn had both its VDPs, SNES had the PPU, etc.

You could get a bit more by having more chips.
even the snes had two video chips, But saturn and jaguar were a mess even for the time.
Saturn is not AS BAD as the jaguar as it don't have a massive feature creep, and most things it does it do pretty well.

and to think people will pay out the ass for this today on their shitty gaming keyboard

>11 games most of which sucked
Hey, it had...uhhhh the audio visualizer was pretty cool?

I own one, it's a pretty awful console but it has some interesting aspects and was the last console to be designed and manufactured in the United States. I have some boxed games for it.
Yeah, the level music ironically is in the game but only plays once you're on the stats screen after finishing a level.
I've never bought one because they're supposed to be extremely unreliable and the price is simply not worth it even as a collector if it's got a 50/50 chance of not working.

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It's got a cool name and look, but that's all it had

Do you have Tempest 2000?

I own a jaguar still and every overlay came with the game in the box. I never saw them anywhere for sale in the 90s

Indeed, indeed.

I think the doom one looks different than the picture. I don't remember it being black but the button art looks correct

I see some are gray instead of black.

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that's the one I'm used to. I miss that one. Ill probably never find it in my house again

>and most things it does it do pretty well.
the SCU DSP is objectively worse designed than the PS1 GTE for T&L and the VDP1 is also pretty cheap and shitty for what it's meant to do.

Didn't this thing have tempest built inro it or was that the cd

One day, when you least expect it.

I do but it's a loose copy.

It can deliver a decent number of polygons if compared to the 3D stuff in the jaguar, even if it's not on par with the PS1, and it's an absolute mess to code for.

>made Sega panic to launch the 32X, which ultimately helped sink them too
Being a kid around that time, it's hard to believe this. There was zero hype for the Jaguar. I have no idea how it looked from corporate's end, though.

Xbone's launch?