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Atari Jaguar Games


Overview

Date Range: 1994 - 1996

Atari released the first ever 64-bit game console and it was a technological success, but it was too late for Atari. Most of the games developed for the console were merely ports of existing 16-bit games.

Atari no longer had restrictive licensing agreements to maintain market share and had been absent from the market for a few years. On top of that, Atari had few game companies developing for it.

With limited success, Atari pulled the machine in 1996 and left the gaming industry forever. It is ironic that Atari captured the market with inferior consoles in the past, but with superior technology, they could not succeed.


Game Title: Ultra Vortek
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 5

Game Description: Civilisation has fallen into a deep decline where gangs and warlords control the power and influence the world. Then, a powerful being known as the Guardian appears with a challenge.

Unless a warrior meets his challenge, he will destroy the Earth. As a result, seven warriors from around the world fight to re-open the Ultra Vortek and return Earth to its glory.

Ultra Vortek is a one on one fighting game similar to Mortal Kombat where the fighters are digitised actors. Use an array of punches and kicks mixed in with a large number of special moves.


Game Title: Val d'Is?re Skiing and Snowboarding
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 5

Game Description: This is and skiing a snowboarding game set at the French Val d'Is?re resort.

There are three events:

1) Downhill
2) Slalom
3) Giant slalom

There are also three game modes:

1) Free ride
2) Training
3) Competition: Competition mode provides a series of timed events where


Game Title: White Men Can't Jump
Game Type: Sports
Game Generation: 5

Game Description: Play basketball the way most people learn to play in the city streets with loose rules in various suburban locations where anything goes. You can also make money by wagering in the high stakes street basketball gambling.

Game play is seen from the half court line, with a screen view that pans and zooms to follow the action. Try stealing the ball by shoving an opponent and making a grab for the ball.

Your goal is to make it to the tournament and when you make $5000, you instantly get entered into the tournament.


Game Title: Wolfenstein 3D
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 5

Game Description: This game marked a turning point, or revolution, in game design offering a first person perspective through the eyes of the main character. The game also helped propel the need for faster computers and graphics cards.

You are B.J., the Allies' bad boy of espionage and a terminal action seeker. Your mission is to infiltrate the Nazi fortress Castle Hollehammer and find the plans for Operation Eisenfaust, the Nazi's blueprint for building the perfect army.

Rumours are that deep within the castle the diabolical Dr. Schabbs has perfected a technique for building a fierce army from the bodies of the dead.

As an escaped prisoner in a Nazi war prison, you must take out all enemy forces and escape from the castle.


Game Title: World Tour Racing
Game Type: Racing
Game Generation: 5

Game Description: World Tour Racing is an F1-style racing game where you race your car on road courses representing several cities around the world.

The graphics in World Tour Racing feature fully 3D environments constructed with texture-mapped polygons.

The various game modes include:
1) Championship: Championship mode consists of a 16 race season
2) Single race: Single race is just one race with no ability to qualify for the championship
3) Arcade mode: Arcade mode is similar to championship mode where entry is based whether or not you finish high enough in each race


Game Title: Worms
Game Type: Strategy
Game Generation: 5

Game Description: Worms features four teams of four worms where you must destroy the others on a generated terrain.

You are armed with a wide range of weapons:

1) Bazookas
2) Grenades
3) Fire Punch
4) Dynamite
5) Air strikes
Shots leave craters in the ground where and complex tunnels can be formed. Be sure to make your move before time runs out.


Game Title: Zero 5
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 5

Game Description: Zero 5 is a wild space-shooter where you are in control of a small and manuverable fighter craft or a powerful warship.

Your mission is to defend the earth from alien attack over dozens of missions where you travel through deep space to meet enemy convoys head on and shoot across asteroid and planet surfaces taking out installations.

The game includes three play modes:

1) HIT-PAK Mode is like a variation on the Missile Command 3D VR mode where you are in a turret with four guns to blast everything in sight such as asteroids. There are no power-ups in this mode.

2) BAMBAM Mode consists of piloting around in your fighter shooting every object that moves in 360 degrees. Power-ups are available in this mode.

3) TRENCH Mode is a Star Wars style shooting where you fly your fighter through a trench. Power-ups are available in this mode.


Game Title: Zool 2
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 5

Game Description: The sequel to Zool sees him take on Mental Block and Krool across 15 levels.

While game play is similar to the original, you can now scale walls and have a few more attack moves.


Game Title: Zoop
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 5

Game Description: Your goal is to eliminate coloured shapes as they approach another coloured shape and eventually reach the top, ending your game. In order to eliminate the other shapes, point your piece at it and fire.

If the shape is the same colour as your piece, it is eliminated along with the other shapes of the same colour behind it. This will happen until your piece hits a piece of a different colour.

But be careful when planning your moves as a shape of a different colour causes your piece to exchange colours with the shape.


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