The Atari Jaguar, lambasted here by several people, was the most advanced game system when it was released in November of 1993. It is a genuinely 64-bit system, not 32, 24, or 16, like some people here say. It has five processors: 2 are entirely 64 bit, one is a dual 32/64 processor, the sound processor is 32 bit and the secondary processor, which was meant to do things like read joystick commands, is 16. It has nothing to do with adding up all the processors together. The processors that are responsible for the graphics and the speed of the data processed are 64 bit.
Why, then, do a number of games look 16 bit? That's because some lazy developers had no patience to utilize the advanced (and complex) hardware and instead ported over 16 bit titles that solely utilized the 16-bit Motorolla 68000, which was never meant for graphics. When games were developed right, they looked like ALIEN VS. PREDATOR, which looks like a movie, and rivals anything on the Saturn, Playstation, or Nintendo 64, despite coming out well before those systems. The Jaguar DOOM was the best of its time, as were RAYMAN, TEMPEST 2000, WOLFENSTEIN 3D, IRON SOLDIER, MISSILE COMMAND 3D, ULTRA VORTEK, and many more. No one in their right mind would say that AVP looks 16 bit! So stop attacking this system. If you're interested, buy it as well as the games mentioned above (plus more recent games like SKYHAMMER, which like AVP, looks like a movie, BATTLESPHERE, and ZERO 5) and then you'll be quite sure what the world's first 64-bit video game system could do.

sorry if i offend anyone but the atari jaguar was the worst console ive ever owned and ive had nearly every 1 saying it was 64 bit was laughable because the graphics are 24 bit at best like the 3do it was hard to program for because it used several chips to do the samething 1 chip could in playstation it had no ads by atari on tv or in print if they did i never saw them i bought my jaguar new and after 3 months still only about 5 crappy games loomed on shelves and the controller might aswell been a barbell with 90 buttons 88 that u dont even use to me the atari jaguar is basically a sega 32 x called 64 x its about as 64 bit as the 32 x was 32bit lol the only game i liked on this system was doom but woope it was easily available on rival systems later on atari released a cd rom but by then it was popular as playing bridge at a rave party in a side note atari i the last few years have started making games again many actually are good so u atari fans atleast have them still making games
the neogeo sprite freak

yeah, your right, it was pretty horrible. BUT there were a few good games for it, and yes there were advertisements. I remember commercials, and I own magazines that have jaguar ads in them. The controller was ridiculous, for mentioned reasons. The best game was Aliens VS Predator. The Jaguar CD came too late in the systems lifespan, and it had little third party support thats what killed the system. Tempest 3000 was pretty cool also

This thing is awful. I think atari should never show their faces in the video game public ever again for making this crappy system.

You guys are all morons firstoff nobody cares about atari theyve never had good games second the jaguar isnt 64bits or even 32bit its a cartridge based system with 24bit graphics processor wich called itself 64bit then later had to admit it wasnt its graphics resemble early playstation 1 games and the sound wont win any oscars either sega saturn had several 32bit processors and sony had 1 and sony had the superior 3d graphics why? cause u cant simply add processor bits and make a magic number NEOGEO WASCALLED 24BIT BUT IT USES 68000 CORE 16 BIT AND A Z80 8 BIT BUT UNLIKE ATARI SNK WAS SMART AND GAVE THE CARTS MASSIVE RAM POTENTAL THATS WHY EVEN TODAY NEOGEO HAS NEW ARCADE PERFECT GAMES COMING OUT FOR IT ON 900 MEG CARTS JAGUAR BIGGEST CART WA 256MEGS NEOGEO IS EXPENSIVE BUT IS SIMPLY BEST 2D HANDRAWN ARCADE PERFECT GRAPHICS U CAN BUY WWW.NEOGEOFREAK.COM SELL ALL NEW NEO COMING SOON METAL SLUG 4!!! SNK
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