The Atari Jaguar launched in November 1993 and was an attempt by the North American manufacturer Atari to re-enter the home video game market, following the abortive work on the Atari Panther, that had been taken over by the Japanese firms Nintendo and Sega. In order to focus on this, it cancelled production of the Atari ST home computer. In the end, the Jaguar proved largely unsuccessful, being liquidated in 1996, comparable to the 3DO. Following the acquisition of Atari by Hasbro Interactive, the Jaguar patents were released into the public domain in 1999, rendering it an open platform popular with homebrew enthusiasts.
Games[]
Best First Person Shooting Game for the Atari Jaguar by Second Opinion Games
- Alien vs Predator
- Doom
- Hover Strike
- Iron Soldier
- I-War
- Skyhammer
- Wolfenstein 3D
- Varuna's Forces (cancelled)
Along with Escape from Monster Manor on the 3DO in 1993 and Zero Tolerance on the Sega Genesis in 1994, the game Alien versus Predator also from 1994 was among the first original first-person shooters for consoles, as opposed to ports from other platforms. Curiously, a version of Quake was once described as 30% complete.
Ports of American Laser Games releases such as Mad Dog McCree and Crime Patrol were considered for the system, but never released, and the system never received a light gun.
A port of the six-degrees-of-freedom Magic Carpet, third-person Virtuoso and Vortex, and simulator Deus was also cancelled. The multiplatform Varuna's Forces never saw release on any system, as did the exclusive Phase Zero.
The version of the engine used for Doom on this system proved influential, forming the basis of numerous other ports, such as the 32X, 3DO, PlayStation, and Game Boy Advance versions, as well as new titles such as the PC version of Killing Time and the GBA game Dark Arena.