3 May
2010
3 May
'10
8:05 p.m.
On 5/3/2010 4:54 PM, Andrew Burton wrote:
The thing that put people off was (excluding the popularity of the SNES and
Megadrive/Genesis) that it was an unknown product with no big name game -
Right, I had already mentioned the lack of a recognizable license. Even
PS1 had Crash Bandicoot; Saturn had Virtual Fighter; Turbo Grafix had
Bonk; etc. Lynx and Jaguar had... nothing.
Not to mention that damn controller, who needs 30 odd
buttons on a
controller! Todays controllers have about 8 buttons, plus a d-pad and 2
analogue sticks.
Jag controller had a d-pad, three action buttons, and 12 "numeric"
buttons for a total of 16 core elements. PS3 controller has two sticks,
a dpad, four buttons action buttons, four shoulder buttons, a "click"
rocker on each stick, and tilt/orientation sensing for a total of 15
core elements -- seems like the PS3 controller caught up to the jag
controller...
Did you get the CD unit for it? I believe it sat in
the cartridge slot of
the Jaguar, so you could play CD-based games.
I didn't. I was so depressed by the entire affair that I sold
everything Jag-related I had 4 years ago for $40 total at a local
computer game expo.
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