It's strange that so many people are able to trash the Jaguar, considering so few had one.
There were a lot of problems, it was terribly marketed, it had a small library and was expensive next to it's peers. It's was optimised for sprite manipulation just as 3D games came big, but....
It was actually a decent machine. The controllers looked cumbersome but were remarkably comfortable for long periods of gaming. AvP was very, very cool and the Jag version of Doom was pretty much the fastest and smoothest I had played at the time.
Yes it failed, and yes it failed against what turned out to be truly superior competition, but that doesn't mean it was intrinsically a bad system.
I bought mine, I think, in '94 - it sat in the living room of my student house for two years where AvP, Raiden and Brutal Sports Football all got regular play from the various housemates. It was, sadly, stolen by morons in 1998 who very kindly unplugged and left behind the second controller whilst mainly taking the two player games.
The whole line-up consists of the $60 Amps in-ears and $100 Tracks on-ear headphones, which both also come in slightly souped-up and pricier HD variations at $100 and $130, respectively.
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It's strange that so many people are able to trash the Jaguar, considering so few had one.
There were a lot of problems, it was terribly marketed, it had a small library and was expensive next to it's peers. It's was optimised for sprite manipulation just as 3D games came big, but....
It was actually a decent machine. The controllers looked cumbersome but were remarkably comfortable for long periods of gaming. AvP was very, very cool and the Jag version of Doom was pretty much the fastest and smoothest I had played at the time.
Yes it failed, and yes it failed against what turned out to be truly superior competition, but that doesn't mean it was intrinsically a bad system.
I bought mine, I think, in '94 - it sat in the living room of my student house for two years where AvP, Raiden and Brutal Sports Football all got regular play from the various housemates. It was, sadly, stolen by morons in 1998 who very kindly unplugged and left behind the second controller whilst mainly taking the two player games.