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I’m kinda partial to Neo Geo and it’s always going to be one of my fave consoles of all time, especially the EPIC Metal Slug series.

I recently got into TurboGrafx-16 (I also never owned it as a kid like I did with Neo Geo CD, so picked one up not too long and while it’s no Neo Geo (and slightly older as well), it’s definitely got some great titles and this is one of them. Anyone else dig this game?

This game is a blast! (no pun intended). There’s not much to it really as far as the story, but it’s obviously just meant to be a modernized version of the original and nothing else. It definitely succeeds in that area!

Defender 2000 is a good pick-up-and-play option when I don’t feel like playing some dialogue-heavy modern game (like Yakuza and similar games), or even a retro game like that (like PoliceNauts, for example, which I was just playing on Saturn with the help of subtitles -awesome game btw) lol I went off topic but this game is fun if you own a Jag, check it out! This might make it to my top 15 fave Jag games actually!

… I wouldn’t have to play it using a bootleg disc if the game wasn’t selling for nearly $200! Saturn prices have gone absolutely insane. (But most of my collection is genuine; I only buy bootlegs if the game is well over $100)

Though I don’t think Kasumi Ninja deserves all the hate that it gets. It’s not even close to being one of the worst Jag games at all, IMO.

There are several fighters that are worse than KN on the Jaguar that I can think of. One of them is Fight for Life, which might be the worst (or at least close to the worst) Jaguar game ever made. That said, KN is definitely inferior to UV, that’s for sure.

…the difficulty is the main thing that keeps me from coming back to play again and again, otherwise it would probably be a game I would return to often.

I need to find a cheat code for more lives or something, then it wouldn’t be such a pain in the ass.

What’s the general consensus on this one? I know it was one of the later Jag releases and iirc, it was an Amiga or C64 port, something like that.

The Jag sure does get a lot of Amiga ports,even nowadays it’s still getting them for some reason.

Of course it’ll never take the place of the GOAT: Mario Bros. 3 on the NES… but this game has held my attention longer than Odyssey has so far and any of the other 3D ones tbh, including 3D World.

The increased difficulty in the Luigi expansion is a welcome change, but I like both versions and I’m glad I finally bought this game after years of interest but never pulling the trigger since I had played all the other New Super Mario bros games (except NSMB2 since I’ve never owned a 3DS) and assumed this one was going to just be like all the others.

Idk what it is, but I find this game incredibly addicting and for the first time in a while, it has me coming back again and again to play my Wii U lately (which rarely gets played these days in favor of my OLED Switch).

I know there is a “Deluxe” version for the Switch, similar to what Nintendo did with Super Mario Kart 8 on the Switch also, but the Wii U originals tend to be cheaper than their Switch counterparts.

FYI: unfortunately I no longer own a Jaguar CD… I sold it 25 years ago like a dummy for peanuts when I lost interest in gaming briefly in my teenage years.

For some reason, I guess I forgot to include the pack-in game VidGrid with it when I sold my Jag CD (mint in box! 😢) . It’s unfortunately one of the least valuable Jag CD games along with Myst so I haven’t bothered selling it over the years and just use it as a display piece in my game room.

Btw, imo VidGrid is one of the very few worthy Jag CD games ever released, along with Iron Soldier 2, Battlemorph, Myst (slow game in general but not a bad version of it) and the excellent Primal Rage port which might be the best port of the game outside the arcade after the 3DO version.

I also don’t own and haven’t tried any of the newer DiRT games like 4 & 5, as well as Rally 2.0… how do you guys rank the games in the series (including spinoffs)?

Iirc, I think this one is a Saturn exclusive; correct me if I’m wrong. It also costs an arm and a leg! especially the NA version. Such a great game but I wish continues were unlimited; maybe there’s a code for that… anyone know?

As I mentioned, Dirt 2 was my intro to the series, though I think I may have played it back when it was Collin McRae Rally racing, but anyway, this series has gotten me to become a die-hard racing fan and I’ve branched out to other series (I’m particularly fond of the RIDE series, if anyone has any other good motorcycle or rallycar games, I’d love some info! Thanks in advance.

This was a game I avoided as a kid after being burned by Club Drive (the box fooled me), so I stayed away from this one after that bc of the reviews.

However now, as an adult, I grabbed a GameDrive and am able to finally play it on original hardware (the way I like to play retro games, emulated on a flash card or not).

I find that while it’s not the greatest title in the Jag library, and it’s definitely not in the top 10-15 games, but it’s definitely not near the bottom either.

By bottom-of-the -barrel Jaguar games, I mean titles like the aforementioned Club Drive, and Fight for Life, plus several others that are either awful, unplayable or a combination of both.

With Trevor McFur, maybe the hate it gets can be explained by its pace being a bit slower in pace than most shmups and there’s not a ton of enemy variety.

The graphics are also not half-bad and it’s so satisfying to shoot those asteroids (which have an almost 2.5D feel, as well as the enemy spaceships which look great as well).

Overall, the graphics are actually very good for the Jaguar and for the time it was released (1993) and I think it’s the type of pseudo-2.5D that the Jag does very well, as opposed to 3D…which it only seems to do well when it comes to FPS games, at least in its limited library (which was cut WAYY too short).

But overall, this one is decent. Anyone else think so?

EDIT: Also, the characters are bizarre and don’t make any sense. Like why is Trevor a Space Lion? (or Tiger or whatever he’s supposed to be) lol.

I got lucky and found Complete copies of both The Suffering and its sequel, The Ties that Bind for OG Xbox at Goodwill for under 5 Bucks Each! And they play great on my 360! I’m loving the story so far and the atmosphere is genuinely TERRIFYING! Anyone else familiar with this series? This is Top-notch Survival Horror (even by today’s standards, IMO) if you aren’t familiar with these games.

They both dropped towards the end of the Xbox’s life cycle (2004 & 2005, respectively) and at least the sequel could have technically come out for the 360 since it dropped the same year that the 360 launched, but I don’t think they made a 360 version of either game.

I’ve always loved the Jaguar and I cherish my collection. And it’s not like I had some nostalgia from when I was young with the 2600 to explain why I latched onto Atari. I was too young for the 2600. My first console was the NES; I got it the same year the SNES launched. Anyway, I also had a Jag CD back in the day… and lots more games than I do now.

I wish I hadn’t sold my Jag CD and games decades ago. Back in the day, I was the only kid that had a Jaguar until my friend copied me and bought one too (as an investment), since we figured that due to it’s obscurity (even back then), that it would be worth quite a bit one day, and we were right.

The Jaguar I own now I paid around $400 for but it included a Jaguar GameDrive which has every game ever released for it on a flash cart. For that reason I felt it was worth it. Back in the late 90s I think I spent $30 for a brand new Jaguar and roughly the same amount for a brand new Jag CD console (came bundled with games too).

Nowadays, a used working Jaguar will run you at least $400 to $500 and up. A working CD unit will run you at least a thousand, which is insane considering that there are basically zero games even worth playing on it. Iron Soldier 2 (which also happens to have a cart version on the regular Jag already lol), a decent port of Primal Rage and Battlemorph are about all that it has to offer. Everything else in its dozen game library is pure rubbish.

All that said, I would love to still own a Jag CD console. I would pick up some of the home-brew games that have been made for it over the years. The GameDrive has some Jag CD titles on it, but those particular games don’t work very well, or at all. I’m also super stoked that the Jag still has a thriving home-brew community and new games are still coming out to this day!

Some of the home-brews are supposed to be incredible, like the recently released platformer “Jumping at Shadows” that came out in 2024. I’m going to order it from Songbird. It looks amazing and has great reviews. They make quality games. I recently ordered a copy of Atari Karts from them (one of my favorite Jaguar games) that they remade recently, but it’s considered an official release since Atari authorized it.

Everything about Atari Karts by Songbird looks like the original except they printed the instruction manual in color, rather than the black & white original, so it’s actually better than the original release (and hundreds cheaper). An original copy (which I owned back in the day) of Atari Karts runs for over $500 complete nowadays, as it’s pretty rare. The Songbird Productions version isn’t cheap either, at $90 (plus tax and shipping) but way more reasonable than hunting down an original copy on eBay.

Does anyone else have a thing for the Jag? I bought the new Atari VCS 800 and their new 7800+ and I love em’ both but I always find myself going back to the Jaguar more often than any other Atari console.

I finished Rogue City recently and I hafta say, it’s one of the most original FPS games I’ve ever played. It’s refreshingly AA all the way and not trying to be some bloated AAA blockbuster wanna be. It’s also got the 80s and early 90s vibe/energy of the series down perfectly.

As a MUCH bigger fan of the Terminator series than I’ve ever been of RoboCop, I was super excited to hear that the developer, Teyon, was involved in a terminator game after playing the masterpiece that is Rogue City (and it’s equally impressive Sequel/ Standalone DLC Rogue City Unfinished Business, which I’m playing right now and absolutely loving it!).

I’ve learned to temper my expectations when it comes to the Terminator though; I’ve been let-down CONSTANTLY with sub-par and crappy games that could’ve done so much more with such an awesome franchise. Yes, an open world LA set between the events of T1 & T2 (or during) would be my ultimate Dream game, but I’ve read this game has some areas to explore and some stealth, even if it is linear.

I’m super excited to FINALLY have a REAL Terminator gaming experience!

I had F.E.A.R. 3 also on PS3, but I think my only copy was destroyed in the hurricane a couple yrs back (along with my Backwards Compatible PS3), but I may have another copy on either PS3 or 360 floating around. Is it worth looking through a bunch of boxes to potentially find it, or just order it?

I’ve heard a lot of ppl say not to even bother with the 3rd game, yet I’ve also seen a small minority that put it 1st or 2nd in their ranking.

It’s just one of those series that I’ve owned various copies of over the years, just never bothered to actually play any of them. I keep hearing that it’s one of the best games from the 7th Gen era that hasn’t been remastered or remade yet, even though it’s worthy of a remake from what I’ve read (at least the first game).