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Don't get me wrong, but I like the way Highlander looks. I just don't know if it would have fared better as its previous concept as a beat-'em-up title. It might have done better that way, but there were so many titles like that in the 1990s. There would have been stiff competition, especially with Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter. It just needed more. Atari were just being cheap.

I must say, that is a rare find. Nice haul!

The joystick looks too limited for a modern machine. I think that they are really going to be in trouble here, especially with the stupid Atari Box crowdfunding idea. Why pay twice for an Atari Box? If you crowd-fund it and then buy it that is essentially what you are doing! It's really a dumb ploy. It has "scam" written all over it. Atari will get rich, and we will get an under-powered game system slapped all together with shoddy parts. I wonder if it will make it into the stores at this rate. It's just all wrong. They could have still made a retro joystick, but with more features and still make it similar to an A2600 controller. They made it too simple for our times. Unfortunately…

Yes. They did. Especially for the ColecoVision. I had like three single cartridges for the Coleco from Xonox. I gave up the Coleco collection so I could concentrate on Atari accessories and games. Xonox was a Minnesota-based company. I find that interesting since I am from Minnesota. Small world.

I have four of these games: Crypts of Chaos, Math Gran Prix (Atari label), Dishaster, and Pooyan, a rarity in my collection. I have played all of these games at least once, except for Math Gran Prix, which is for kids and I never bothered to play it yet.

Another A2600 game I have is the European title Pick'n Pile. It is rare in the United States because it was made in the European Union. In fact, it was made in Germany. It was created by UbiSoft, the creators of Rayman and Assassin's Creed. I can barely see it on a flat-screen NTSC TV because it is a PAL game, of course. It is visible on there, but full of static from the signal. However, it is playable and in excellent condition. I got it NIB through mail order. Pretty cool addition to my collection. I have a couple of Xonox Double-Enders as well, which are Chuck Norris Superkicks/Artillery Duel and Artillery Duel/Spike's Peak. I really should be posting pictures of my video game collection, since I have at least 239 A2600 video game titles. It took me thirty-five years to get to this point in my Atari collection (from 1982 to present, at this writing). I remember my first games, which were Pac-Man and Combat (which came with the A2600 VCS my family purchased from my aunt, of course). The A2600 console was only $129.99 in 1982. Now, the same system may be worth more. I still have an A2600 Short Rainbow and an A2600 Jr. Sorry for being long-winded, but I love talking Atari stuff. I will get pictures up soon of my collection, to show and tell. Thanks for letting me share.

This is extraordinary. First-person Pac-Man! Love it. Thanks for showing us, Clint. Do you know when it will be released? Has Sporadic set up a release date, or is it still up in the air?

Excellent graphics, for an A2600 game. I like the premise. Also, you are right, Clint. It is an attractive game.

Yup. That's her. She is a pretty woman, and in her sixties if I might add. I know she has a daughter, too. I read up on it in Wikipedia. Way to go, Cass! I like Elvira in "Pinball Jam," for the Lynx. Fun.

This is true. Atari did hire Philips to create the CD-ROM unit. It will say it was made by Philips on the back label of the unit where the S/N is. It just needed some more stability with its motherboard design, and it would have been a real contender. It can be a little flaky playing some homebrew stuff at times. However, it plays Atari-made CD-based games well, without crashing. It can be finicky with certain CD titles. But, it was made pretty cheaply, unfortunately. That was Jack Tramiel cutting corners to save some cash, when it really wasn't necessary for him to do that. Thanks for letting me share.

Interesting. So, that is who is billed as Andrew Whittaker, from Atari. I never would have guessed. Great game, AVP was, and is. Cool article.

I always thought the JagDuo prototype was complete, with the motherboard already installed and populated with components. Nice find, Clint!

I wonder. What if someone decided to cosmetically restore older video game systems and the accessories for those platforms for profit? To my knowledge, this has never been done on a grand scale before. It might be cost-prohibitive, but maybe not. Some of this stuff is forty years old or more, especially Atari 2600 products produced in 1977 for instance. I would love to do something like that. I am not sure how it would travel, however. I am a purist, per se, when it comes to restoring things to their original condition. I bring it up because this model of the Atari Jaguar VR system is beat up, but giving it some TLC to refurbish it for posterity (and to play it, of course) might be something lucrative. Of course, I could be barking up the wrong tree. I am not sure. But, one can dream. Thanks for letting me share.

I like the colors on the Jaguar seen here. The red and black compliment each other nicely. I would probably not do it myself to either of my Jaguars (I have two Jaguar base units and two CD-ROM units each). It looks cool, do not get me wrong. I am personally afraid of taking away from their aesthetic collection value. I do not know if it would be like that. But, I shoot for posterity myself. Don't worry, I am not disrespecting the nifty paint job done on it, Bakerman. It's talented detailing. Great job.

I liked the PS2 because I liked to play "Capcom Classics Collection" on it. It had the entire "Ghost 'N Goblins" series, including the SNES game "Super Ghouls 'N Ghosts," a home video game sequel to the classic "Ghouls 'N Ghosts." I thought that "Forgotten Worlds" was the best game, including its Japanese counterpart "Lost Worlds" (basically the same arcade game, but in Japanese). Sure, it was emulated, but it played well. I also liked "Final Fight" on there. I think it also had "Street Fighter II" in there (the Championship Edition, I believe). There were eighteen games on that disc. It had game trivia and original artwork concerning those arcade games. Great series, for sure. I gave the disc to a friend of mine, and I believe that he still has it somewhere. He still has his PS2, by the way. I long to play it again. Oh, the memories… Thanks for letting me share.

I just learned more about the Ataribox. It will run Linux, and has an AMD processor with Radeon graphics. It will be a PC experience, linking music, social media, et cetera, while playing games. That makes things a little better to me concerning the fact that it runs Linux. But, I am still not so sure. Could be promising, like TeddyGermany said. IMHO, and I know it may go down lumpy with some of you, I was wishing it would run RISC-based technology like the Jaguar. That would make it somewhat unique, to me anyway.

You see, I was asking because I want to learn about making a game like this. I won't go into detail, because I cannot, but I am thinking of a homebrew game. It would incorporate FMV intermissions along with the sprite-based game. It is a throwback to the 1990s, I know. But, retro is the thing nowadays. I think it would be a killer game, so maybe someone has an idea on how to compile this type of game. Please feel free to submit a reply anytime. Thank you for your tips and tricks.

Oh, of course not. I would never try it, that's for sure. I have no soldering knowledge anyway. But, it makes for interesting reading.

You can also, if you are technically inclined enough and good with a soldering iron, modify the Jaguar CD drive into a developer's drive. This can be done with off-the-shelf parts and a cracked developer's Jag CD BIOS. Robert Demming shows how to perform it on his site. This way, you would not need a bypass to read unencrypted CDs if you want to play them. He has some other really technical hacks that he has performed listed on his site. Here is the URL: https://rdemming.home.xs4all.nl/Atari/index.htm Interesting stuff. Thanks.

I have heard that Rise of the Robots was supposed to be released for the Jag. Yeah. It was also not really too much more expensive to up the RAM on the Jag. Atari were just cutting corners, that's all, without thinking that the Jag was being undermined as a result.

Hello there! Well, it's been a while since I started a post of my own, but here I go. I was curious about how Atari game engineers and programmers incorporated full-motion video sequences in sprite-based games for the Atari Jaguar CD. How could FMV sequences be incorporated into a sprite-based game? I am sure that it would take some know-how in assembly language for the Jaguar CPU, DSP, and GPU to do it. But, as of now, I have no such knowledge of Atari Jaguar assembly code programming. Does anybody have some idea as to how the sequences are coded in there, and how they can be done seamlessly with non-FMV sprites, to make a solid retro FMV video game? I am not talking about a slide show, and nothing like Vid Grid. I am talking about games like Blue Lightning, Battlemorph, Myst, and Black ICE/White Noise, to name four examples. I know that it would take a lot of time to do it, perhaps years, but I was wondering about the procedure anyway. Does anyone on here know how it can be done for the Jag CD? Thanks for any and all information that is provided, as it is duly appreciated.

I would definitely want it. Way to go, V61! I am sold, too.

It does certainly look like a prototype 7800 controller. It is similar in design.

Yeah, I have both "Miner 2049er" (NIB) and "Miner 2049er: Volume II" (loose cart without manual). They are two of some of the most valuable cartridges in my collection. I cherish them completely. Nice find, Pizzabear.

You know, that does look like like a 7800 cartridge ROM board. Maybe, it is a Super Game Cartridge, but I am not so sure. I have seen something like it, but I don't know if it is similar. Maybe…