DracIsBack Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 http://web.archive.org/web/19961029111137/www.atari.com/menu.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superjudge3 Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 Wow that's awesome! It's great to go back in time, I didn't have the internet in 1996 much less a Jaguar, so it's cool to see what the site was like. The writing was on the wall though, only two new games coming out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isgoed Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 (edited) Very nice to read through this site thanks! I was surprised to see this written in the Rayman article "Players explore multi-layered worlds with independently scrolling backdrops" Unfortunately that never happened for the Jaguar Edited January 31, 2011 by Isgoed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jag_Slave Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 Oh man, I remember surfing that site back in the day! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crickster Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 Gotta love that "old internet" look. I sent an email to them asking about Checkered Flag's overly sensitive steering, I'm hoping they'll reply. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 http://web.archive.org/web/19961029111137/www.atari.com/menu.html Wow - been a long time since I saw that. I think back then, Jaguar Interactive was still hosted on Redsun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yuppicide Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 Man do I wish that site showed a lot more pics than it does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaybird3rd Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 Man do I wish that site showed a lot more pics than it does. Unfortunately, that was the way of the World Wide Web "way back" in 1996: web pages were static text and graphics, with as little graphics as possible to accommodate those who were accessing the Internet through 14.4Kbps dial-up modems. (At least, that's the way it was if the web page was well-designed. Some of those old high school kid pages from that era were a different story: gigantic pictures of their kittens in BMP format, sparkling rainbow bars, black starfield background, annoying music, a glut of animated GIFs, and centered blinking text in garish neon colors. Ugh!) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austin Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 Some of those old high school kid pages from that era were a different story: gigantic pictures of their kittens in BMP format, sparkling rainbow bars, black starfield background, annoying music, a glut of animated GIFs, and centered blinking text in garish neon colors. Ugh!) I admit I was guilty of this, haha. Albeit that was my first web site.. I quickly got the point though, as even I had trouble downloading it at a proper speed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goatdan Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 http://web.archive.org/web/19961029111137/www.atari.com/menu.html Man, I LOVED visiting that site back in the day when I was just getting into the Jaguar. I actually archived it myself somewhere on an old computer's hard drive when I heard they would be closing down. Compared to a lot of what was online at the time, the Jaguar site was extremely classy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynxpro Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 (At least, that's the way it was if the web page was well-designed. Some of those old high school kid pages from that era were a different story: gigantic pictures of their kittens in BMP format, sparkling rainbow bars, black starfield background, annoying music, a glut of animated GIFs, and centered blinking text in garish neon colors. Ugh!) You just described MySpace circa 2009. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paolo Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 Ah, the entropy! After all, nowadays it's everything like that: got more memory? let's fill it up with $useless_data ! got more processing power? let's write unoptimized code! got more bandwidth? flash ads all the way! By the way, back then 14.4 was a great speed for those who could afford such a modem and a capable POTS line. I remember falling back to 9600 most of the times (can't remember the exact year, though...) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nathanallan Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 (At least, that's the way it was if the web page was well-designed. Some of those old high school kid pages from that era were a different story: gigantic pictures of their kittens in BMP format, sparkling rainbow bars, black starfield background, annoying music, a glut of animated GIFs, and centered blinking text in garish neon colors. Ugh!) Look at some myspace pages, they are still like that. That Atari page was the bomb, love it then and now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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