The Jag is the perfect console since it already looks like a toilet
It's amazing, growing up Atari seemed like this big entity who knew what they were doing. Years later, it's clear with the Jaguar and known financials, how small of a fish they had become. Nowhere close to the level of Sega or Nintendo in terms of spending, advertising, console production. So out of touch with third party contracts, fees and expectations. They were a shadow of their former selves. I might even argue the early Atari was extremely lucky to be the only majpr player. When Intelivision and Colecao entered the game, the cracks started to appear, then the crash.
Thank god for the Atari ST and seperate alternate Jaguar was still living in the early 80's with that keypad controller too. The whole thing came off as a micky mouse run orginization.
To be fair a few decent titles and extremely loyal fanbase years later, especially after market titles.
everything involving atari after tremial's take over is absolutely bananas, the amiga vs st is a special type of nuts, jay miner left atari to make his own hardware company, but atari agreed to finance the development, after the tremiel take over they wanted a better partner so tremiel's old company commodore bought the rights out, but tremiel brought Shijva shiraz (I think that's his name) the designer of the c64 from commodore and he designed the st, while miner made the amiga for commodore, so atari got the commodore 64's follow up and commodore ended up with the atari 8 bit's follow up,
then the quality control at atari in the 80s was something else
to maintain compatibility they just snipped wires in the control pads, games would be shipped in the wrong boxes with the wrong labels, games would have moisture on them when packaged, cartridges would be missing pcbs, huge numbers were shipped to Venezuela for some reason, us machines were shipped in pal boxes and vice versa
but in defense of the jaguar it has about a dozen neat exclusive plus the experience known as club drive and boy is that an experience,
plus how many other consoles have a game in which a scotsman shoots a fireball by lifting his kilt?
