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Damn... that's a lot of money for a 2600 game...

Is this guy for real? https://www.ebay.com/i/253424148619 "NEVER USED - STILL HAS BUBBLE WRAP ON ALL HARDWARE!" Seriously, who does he think he's fooling? He wrapped a bag around a WYSE monitor, which doesn't even belong to it. The computer clearly has fading and there's stains on it, and it's been modified. He's asking $1,000... does he think we're dumb, or is he dumb?

Oh dude... I can't even IMAGINE playing that game without a mouse. It's like trying to play Syndicate on the Jaguar. You really have to be invested in it... just not worth it. Yeah... oh... forgot one cool little fact. If you had the original "1st release" floppy disc" version of the game, there were some features that it came with that subsequent releases of the game didn't come with. It wasn't much, but if on some missions... where it was a much more "open" landscape, you'd occasionally find a large crashed / submerged airplane. Apparently around the time the game was released, there had been a major airliner crash, and it was deemed "unsympathetic" to release a game that had that in it. In the more formal release of the game (which came on a CD-ROM), the vast majority (if not all) of the submerged airliner landscapes had been eliminated.

YES!!! I LOVED this game... I played it for hours and hours. Used to play it with my cousin all the time too... oh man, LOVED that game. I used to make my own tracks and everything too.... Yes, Terror from the Deep was MOST DEFINITELY a re-skin. But I kind of like that about it. I also wondered why they didn't make #2 have both underwater and above water... since it would make sense, but yeah, loved TFTD. Mostly because it was exactly like the previous game. It was so similar that they even had a conversion program that you could download that would let you transfer your characters from one to the next.

Ah ok... I have this one on CD-ROM. Yeah... don't mean to offend, but I spent... maybe 30 minutes playing it, and was totally turned off. It felt more like I was playing Sim City, and the color pallet was so "washed out" that it lost all the aura and mystique that the original two had.

What was XCOM 3? I have all the XCOM games, but don't really know which one you're talking about. The newer XCOM games I thought were excellent. The "depth" of the story-line was far deeper than the originals, but there was less overall fighting it seems. In X-COM 1 and X-COM 2 TFTD... there were endless missions... which I wasn't opposed to... but the new ones were more engaged in the story.

You're like the George Soros and Koch brothers of the Atari Jaguar! hahahah... somehow, you're involved in every single project.

Can't express enough, I would be incredibly interested in this. If this becomes available, please add me to the waiting list... and I'm serious this time! Haha... I literally buy every serious game that gets released for the Jaguar, and would love to have a system that I could pull the roms down so I could load them on SD. Thanks!

There are about 100+ animals and insects that can kill you, within a single acre of land in Australia, and almost as many in South Africa. I say we give them an early reveal, just in case... you never know what could happen.

Hi, just wanted to answer this question. I've literally never heard of HalMock Furball. I just did a search on YouTube for a video of it, and even in quotes, I couldn't find anything. The best I could find were cat videos, and there was one video from RetroGames, but it looked like it was a review of a ton of stuff, and that just happened to be in it. I've been on AtariAge since 2004... and just never seen it. So promotion might be a big deal. Also, I rarely download games, even though I have the cart that allows me to flash games onto it. It's just kind of a pain in the butt, so I don't bother. I'm sorry. But if the game was good, and you guys did a good release, I'd play it. I've bought every serious attempt at a home brew on the Jaguar. Both CD and cartridge. I'd really appreciate someone posting or uploading a video though... EDIT: I do have BombSquad. If I'm not mistaken, that's on CD right? I rarely play my CD games... but I do buy them all.

I thought the article in the green bubble in the lower right-hand corner was particularly interesting. They basically more or less say that 3 years is the lifespan of a video game system. I stopped following game systems after I graduated high school, though I bought a few systems here and there afterwards. So... I don't know if 3 years seems to line up with the age of all the other systems, but I thought that was interesting never the less...

No problem.

I have it for the 8-Bit NES, but don't remember being that enthralled with it. I got it much later, after the fact... but with the improved Jaguar graphics and sound over the NES... it's something I'll definitely play!

Looks like "AtariMuseum" is selling off their stuff. I can't imagine there's too many of those out there.

My guess is that the responsibilities were broken up to various programmers. I think you'll probably find the guy who embedded the text was probably fairly new to game programming, as well as to software development. He probably tried, but then ran into situations where text wouldn't display properly (going over the necessary field), etc... I can only assume that where text went wasn't static all the time... but it's been a while since I've read it. Obviously, a function, at least if they're looking at screens that will always be the same size / etc... should have gone through a function. If not for any other reason than simply because it would have been easier... but also because you could port the game in a number of languages with far less effort. Oh well... they were probably rushed, and that got the job done for the guy...

I couldn't agree with you more, even if I wanted to. Totally agree. I have three cabinets in an otherwise huge living room, and I'm starting to think 3 is just too much, or perhaps the maximum one should have. They look good, add some real interest to the room... a playfulness I suppose. All my game systems are in the cabinet under the TV, and ready to play. I don't have tons of stuff, but then put the other consoles (Saturn, Nintendo, Jaguar) in the guest bedroom.

The Panther was a 16-bit system, right? I suppose I could Bing it... but I forget. Did it not become the basis by which the Lynx was based off of? Seems like it would really just be an SNES / Genesis style system. My opinion, the Jaguar failed because of mismanagement, and a shift in game desireability. I'm not sure really how to phrase this properly, but Atari was not one of the "cool kids" in the early to mid 1990s. In ~1993, when the Jaguar was in full swing, I was in high school, and most of us thought the Jaguar was a joke. I myself, a huge fan of the Jaguar, can even remember making fun of the 1 or 2 kids in our entire class who had an Atari Jaguar. There was one kid with a Jaguar who had DOOM. He was telling us how cool it was, and we all laughed at him because a few of us had it on PC. I even remember asking him if he could save. I mean, it was high school, we didn't really talk about games since we were all more concerned with girls, what college we were looking to get into, whatever... but the Jaguar wasn't popular. There were a few blockbuster games. Games like DOOM was good, so was WolF3D. They had games like Alien vs. Predator and several others... but they didn't have very many "franchise" games. It was hard... and while a good system in my opinion, it was too much, too late, as even though it was great stuff... the technology surpassed it within a year with the Playstation and the Saturn.

This was an awesome interview... just to throw out there. Thank you!

As a *REALLY GOOD* reproduction, $35 without the box. An original BattleSphere (non-Gold), in really good "CIB" condition, I see them going anywhere from $375-500. BattleSphere Gold tends to go for about $75-100 more. They didn't make a lot of them, and because of the big background to the game.. (IE: the effort put into it), it's worth more than other games that have an equally low production rate. As for the game itself... I'd say it's a lot like Wing Commander 2, but without any real plot.

I had one of those monitors back in the day, except the 15" version. It was really something else... totally flat screen, just amazing picture. Yeah, like others said... probably why it's $3.99. If it's not doing it with the LCD monitor, then it's not the computer.

So, serious question... is there a concern that you guys might not make the volume that you're hoping to reach? Because... I am TOTALLY cool with buying extras and selling them after the fact at absurd and insane prices 5-10 years from now. The thing is, I stopped buying two copies of every game because I didn't want to be an ass to others in the "community," so to speak. But if I'm being asked to do that... I will totally do that!

You mean you're not printing them your HP DeskJet 32c with card stock, and assembling them with Elmer's paste sticks?

I ordered 10 extra copies of the boxes. Plan to sell them at $100 each after they do their final run. I'll sell them off slowly one by one in the months following, and it'll cover all my pizza costs for the entire year.

As long as the Fartapitals still win the Stanley Cup... then I'm OK with it.

Hah... here in the US, you get a lot of people who try to pronounce things from different countries... and they try to pronounce it as the country of origin would. But that's technically not how it's supposed to be. British English and American English truly are different... not just in the way words are pronounced, but in the way grammar and punctuation is handled as well. For example, in the UK the use of quotes is handled different than they are in the United States. In the US, if a quote comes at the end of a sentence, the punctuation goes before the quote, without question. This is the same for whether or not the punctuation even has anything to do with what is being quoted. While in the UK, it is very specific on whether or not the punctuation is part of the item being quoted (almost like parenthesis in software code). But also... Aluminum versus Aluminium. It makes it complicated because English is very much the same from the UK, to Australia, to New Zealand, to Canada, to the US. But a more obvious difference is how we in the United States say the country Brazil. In the US, it's pronounced and spelled "Brazil." In Spanish however, it's spelled Brasil and spelled differently. So, a person speaking American English wouldn't call the country Brazil... "Brasil…" because that would just be wrong. So while an American may like to call the Jaguar a "Jaguua," it's really just quite normal for us to say "jag-war." Like Herb, and other words, or anything that starts with a "Z." EDIT: As a fan, and occasional owner of Porsche cars... I will say that I'm guilty of that as well. "Porsh" is how we're supposed to say it... but oh does it irk me. I call it "Porsh-ah" even though I know it's not phonetically correct in American English.