Atari Jaguar Story | Nostalgia Nerd

The Atari Jaguar. The world’s first 64 bit games console. Do the Math. This is how the Atari Jaguar was sold, and I for one, loved it. Launched initially in 1993 in North America, and then the rest of the world in 1994, the Jaguar was a machine which seemed to skip an entire generation of games consoles. Whilst everyone else was playing around with their 16 bits or even 32 bits, Atari smashed it out of the park with 64. Many claimed that it wasn’t a true 64 bit console, but with a 64 bit data bus, it really does slot into the common definition of 64 bit, it’s just a shame that bits aren’t the only gauge of a machine’s abilities, and not long after, the Playstation and Saturn would wash away Atari’s final hopes and dreams. Still, it’s a drastically under-rated console, which could have performed so much more than developers had the time or inclination for. Thankfully a few games, such as Alien vs. Predator and Tempest 2000 show us it’s true abilities and are as much fun to play