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Atari Jaguar
Current/Future Development
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Some people say that the Atari Jaguar is a dead system. Well, just because Atari is dead, that does not mean that the system is. Development is still going on, and we should see many new titles in 1999. Here is a look at a few of them.....
Screen captures courtesy of Carl Forhan
Protector - Protector is a game that has been revived from certain death and now has the opportunity to be completed and published on the Atari Jaguar. The game was rumored to have been produced by Bethesda Softworks, and has been revived by Carl Forhan.
So, what is Protector? In a nutshell, it is a clone of the classic arcade game Defender. Protector should appeal to anyone looking for the classic gameplay associated with the original Defender. The game features enhanced graphics, sounds, and new enemies to battle. If you enjoy Defender and want a game loaded with nonstop action and massive doses of replayability, Protector is for you.
Carl estimates that the game is 80% finished, and is currently in a fully-playable state. He has been improving some areas of the game such as adding ProController support and additional animation for the humanoids.
http://homepage2.rconnect.com/forhan/jaguar.html
The Assassin - The year is 2147, the place--
Austin, Texas. You take on the role of Michael Steele a Chicago detective who is put
on trial for the murder of a number of not-too respectable people who murdered his brother
Kavanaugh. After some serious investigating, he finds that not everything is what it
seems and instead of avenging his brother's murder he gets caught in a web of deceit and
betrayal as he delves deeper into the underworld looking for answers to questions he
doesn't even know exist. The Assassin is a prequel to Orb Of Bengazi and
because it's a prequel, those who play the first game will have more of a grasp of what's
going on in the second. Of course, that may be half the fun.
The world of 2147 is based on an RPG system that the author, James Garvin, has been
working on for a number of years called "Blood City". There's a dark,
almost oppressive gloom which follows the Cyberpunk genre in general, and this world is
basically the same, except sometimes the gloom isn't necessarily visible. Orcs,
goblins, trolls, humans, elves, gnomes, dwarves, pixies, etc. all coexist and make up a
world that is not much different than the world we live in today. Just picture your
best friend as an elf, or ogre instead of human.
Screen captures courtesy of the BattleSphere Homepage
BattleSphere - This game has been in development for four years, and is one of the most anticipated Jaguar titles ever. It is a spectacular space-fighter game. Think of it as Star Raiders 2000.
The game takes place 800 years in the future. The galaxy is in turmoil. Each of the seven known races has exploited and polluted its own homeworld until the colonization of new planets has become a necessity rather than a choice. Where borders meet, conflict erupts. No race is completely blameless as the warring escalates to culminate in the destruction of a million worlds and the slaughter of a billion sentient beings. Habitable planets are rare, however, and the leaders of the races realize that if hostilities continue, it will be impossible to survive on any world.
Sheer panic motivates a quick solution: No longer will the seven races wreak unbridled destruction throughout the galaxy. Instead, all hostilities will be confined to the Battle Sphere, a small, closed region of space to which each race will send its finest warriors. The triumphant race will be allowed to colonize freely; each of the remaining races will be confined to its original, dying homeworld forevermore...
Screen captures courtesy of the BattleSphere Homepage
The game itself has been completed for since October 1998. The publishers are waiting for Hasbro to provide the Jaguar encryption key. Once that has been done, the cartridges can be manufactured.
http://www.best.com/~sebab/dvidgames/dsphere/sphere.shtml
Screen captures of Gorf 2000 are courtesy of Jagu-Dome
Gorf 2000 - This game is under development by Steve Scavone and Terrance Williams of Krunch Korporation. Gorf is a Bally-Midway arcade game from the early 1980's. The original programmer was Jay Fenton. Gorf 2000 will consist of three games: