Comment on Is the Atari Jaguar worth playing in 2025 !?
Denjin@feddit.uk 6 days ago
Tl, dw: If you really want to spend a lot of time and money to play a handful of bad games, then sure.
Comment on Is the Atari Jaguar worth playing in 2025 !?
Denjin@feddit.uk 6 days ago
Tl, dw: If you really want to spend a lot of time and money to play a handful of bad games, then sure.
rozodru@pie.andmc.ca 6 days ago
about 20+ years ago I decided to start collecting videogames. In hindsight it was a good time to start as the prices for the retro stuff was still dirt cheap. I had all the consoles. mastersystem, nes, snes, genesis, 3DO, NeoGeo, etc. A few japanese only stuff like the Wonderswan and what have you. Again via ebay and thriftstores it was all cheap.
The Jaguar for whatever reason took awhile to find at a decent price but I finally found one at a electronics thriftstore in the city. bought a few games for it also. some even still had the overlay for the controller.
all the games were bad. all of them. I bought like 10 games or so and they all sucked. My collection initially focused on collecting consoles and the “best” games for each which would progress to just trying to get as close to complete collections as possible. With the Jaguar I didn’t even bother after those 10 games. I had more games for the 3DO and PC-i compared to the Jaguar. Plus Jaguar stuff was just hard to find and I kinda figured that people didn’t bother trading them in or trying to resell them but because they sucked so much I bet you most people just tossed them.
stsquad@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
Did you ever play with the audio visualiser? I believe it was built in with the CD-ROM drive? What about Tempest 2000?
rozodru@pie.andmc.ca 6 days ago
I haven’t messed around with the Audio Visualizer but I do have Tempest 2000 and honestly it gives me a headache. the UI is absolutely dreadful and it’s constantly in your face with exploding text that takes up the entire screen. Playing the Jaguar for too long is like playing the Virtual Boy for too long. you’ll end up being bored with headache.