The Top 10 BEST Games on the Atari Jaguar and Jaguar CD (According to me) 

*THANK YOU for watching!* I’ve been wanting to make a video like this for years! And this is probably the closest I can get to it. I love this console and I hope you enjoyed my video about it and some of the best games! What are your favorites?

Doom does have music, not just in end scenes, but technically in game too. The music was disabled as the DSP is being used mostly for decompression, and the Music slows down the game. However a simple hack can reenable the in-game music., thus at a slower frame rate.

Wow, that's an eclectic top 10. This would be my top 10 and I was an original Jaguar console owner: Doom (Carmack programmed it himself and loved the Jag version), NBA Jam: Tournament Edition (the best TE version of all the older consoles), Tempest 2000, Rayman, Iron Soldier, Iron Soldier 2, Alien vs Predator, Power Drive Rally, Wolfenstein 3D, Cannon Fodder. My honorable mentions would be Super Burnout, Val d'Isère Skiing and Snowboarding, International Sensible Soccer, and Atari Karts.

Dude, the soundtrack to Tempest 2000 on the Jag is so good, it beats the remade audio on the subsequent Tempest releases on CD/Blue-Ray based game consoles. IMO it's also the best gameplay version of Tempest, too. Really glad it was included on Atari 50th Anniversary Collection.

Great video, I have owned a Jaguar since the 90’s have almost a complete collection.. when I pull out the old Jaggy my go to titles are AVP , Tempest, IS2, Powe Drive Rally, Rayman, NBA Jam, Battlesphere and Protector. With a house full of consoles guess I gravitate to exclusive or my favorite ports. Jaguar homebrew scene never ceases to amaze me considering the system was a commercial failure.

This is a great video for historical significance, now we just need a top Neo Geo games video I've always been interested in that consol

Jaguar VR was real - I saw it function and be played at Jagfest 2001

I was only just too young to know about this at the time, but you do a great job fleshing out the history and substance of the Jaguar! Always love to see you hyped about stuff! Thanks for this!

Great video! Sadly I never got a Jaguar until well after it's death. I picked up a complete console at a flea market for $30 way back in 1999. The only game I found for it at the time was the awesome AvP game. And yes, I still think it's pretty good for the time it was released.

Always loved the jaguar logo! So cool that you have the CD accessory as well

This video took me back to my Commodore Amiga days Rob with the CD 32 and Amiga 500. I think this period of gaming history is very interesting and there were some great games around. I used to play Zool, Chaos Engine, Diggers, James Pond, Oscar and Simon the Sorceror on my console.

I'm a fellow Jaguar fan, and this was a great video!

I still have my Jaguar. AvP is still one of my favorite games. I also think that the story in it would make a good movie.

Ah the early to mid-90s, what a wild time. I feel like lots of gamers had at least one weird system that kind of flopped. You had the Atari Jaguar, I had the 3DO. Fun memories!

As a teenager in the 90s, I loved buying video game magazines. I speak French, but English video game magazines didn't bother me. During the summer holidays, my friends and I slept outside at night in the tent in the courtyard of my house. Looking at these magazines, the new games, but especially the next consoles to come with images of the games for these consoles.

Around 2014, I showed my teenage son, Tempest 2000, on the Jaguar. His jaw dropped, as he watched with amazement! And to this day, he comments on how impressive AvP is! Now understand, my son is a pretty serious gamer, so this is quite the compliment!

Fun list. Iron Soldier was a game I think a lot of people don't give enough credit to. One game not on your list but which I really loved was Power Drive Rally. It was just an amazing, beautiful overhead rally game. And Tempest 2K really was the best Jaguar game (Defender 2K was good as well and one of the last Jaguar releases).

I definitely remember this time. Such a great time and the Video game Industry was full of energy. It was great up until mid 2000s. I still have my Jaguar and Virtual Boy.

Great video Rob. And much love to the Atari Jaguar

I also used to enjoy Super Burnout, Pitfall, NBA Jam and Chekered Flag back in the day

Great vid, Rob! Probably never gonna have the hardware myself, but if the console ever comes to something like NSO I'll be sure to reference your list to see what I should check out first ;)

Great top ten video, as a huge Jag fan I really enjoyed this 💪

I would have liked to have seen more arcade and PC ports on Jaguar. Perhaps less clunky polygon games, more games relying on scaling. I don't think that would have saved the Jaguar, but it would have given the system a stronger library.

I really wanted a Jag back in 93ish, im so glad i went with the Amiga 1200 instead. Theres some great games on the jag - especislly Zool2 (The only version you can turm off inertia), makes the game more playable. Glad to have found you here on youtube. Ill look at more of your vids and decide if to subscribe. Thanks.

"You cannot deny how kick butt the opening theme song is.." ~ no, you can, actually. You can.

I really want a Jaguar… :( Such an unusual system.

Really good video dude. I never knew much about the Jaguar. Weird that there seems to be a few games without music...

I have never owned a jaguar. But being a teenager in the 90s I was really impressed by the alien VS predator box and screenshots on the box. I knew if I was ever to get a Jaguar I ve got to get this game.

No mention of my favorite, Super Burnout... :( A great racing game.

Thank you for this Exident episode

I got to demo the Jaguar VR at a game convention back then.

1. Alien vs predator 2. Wolfenstein 3D 3. Tempest 2000 4. Super Burnout 5. Power Drive 6. Rayman 7. Nba Jam 8. Pitfall 9. Raiden 10. Iron Soldier

I remember when Jaguar was coming out. It was enticing. Extremely powerful for that time and a cool looking controller but just didn't have the support, or a company behind it with enough credibility left, to go head-to-head with Genesis and SNES.

I found an atari jaguar and the cd attachment with 2 or 3 controllers a few cart games a few disc games at a pawnshop ive gone to for years all for the low low ridiculously low price of 500$ i have high hopes the cd attachment works but very expectations on it actually working but holly cow dude congrats on having a working one

Great vid! Subscribbled to the max, bell too!

Im in the uk got a jag back when it launched and loved it was a truly great console which sadly never got the chance it deserved, and i still play jag games today i do wish it’d been a cd console to begin with

A working Jag CD is rare, but a copy of Primal Rage for Jaguar CD is even rarer! Bravo!

Great video! Personally I would include Raiden and Super Burnout in my top 10 Jag games. And Protector, of course. 😄

I still have the Jaguar I bought right when it first came out. My brothers and I played _AvP, Iron Soldier,_ and _Tempest 2000_ a lot, as well as a number of other games, including _Evolution: Dino Dudes_ and even _Cybermorph._ I never felt that _Cybermorph_ was a _Starfox_ clone at all. _Starfox_ was a rails shooter, while _Cybermorph_ was a mission based free roaming flying game. The graphics may have been superficially similar, but the atmosphere and feel were entirely different. There were a lot of missions in _Cybermorph,_ and I beat it more than once back in the day. The bus of the Jaguar was 64 bits, and that was what they used to proclaim it a 64 bit system. Of course neither Tom nor Jerry was a fully 64 bit processor (though there were 64 bit parts of Tom), and you had to use both chips to fully load the bus. It wasn't an easy system to take full advantage of. A number of third party developers took the shortcut of programming their games almost entirely using the M68000 16-bit processor and didn't use any of the extra power at all. The Turbografx 16 / PC Engine somewhat similarly had two 8 bit CPUs on a 16 bit bus.

Great video

Great video. Never played a Jag but have considered it although prices are so high at the moment. Would love to play Skyhammer, wolfenstien, AvP and Iron Soldier. I also like the look of hover strike. Is it my imagination or are the textured pollygons smoother on the jag than the N64?

Man, here is the thing about making games for a console. If you are a video game company and you plan to release a console, you have to have several dedicated teams making games for that console all the time. The games may take a year or two an order to even make, so you have to consider that too. You can't just release a console without tons of great games for it.

I never got to play Iron Soldier 2, but 1st and the 3rd on the PS1 (also on Nuon😁) are really fun action games.

So much power now available on the switch! Happy birthday Atari 50. ❤

A few of them in this video I did not like but most I did. I was only able to rent or buy what was available at stores near me. Raiden, blue Lightning, Theme Park, Kasumi ninja are a few others I found fun to play when I was bored

The fight for life footage is so funny 😂 reminds me of when i found a way to cheese darkstalkers revenge by forward strong kicking all the way up the ladder beating everybody along the way

Pretty strong list! I have all but Fight for Life and Attack of the Mutant Killer Penguins on this list, and enjoyed them all. I'm not as much of an Iron Soldier fan. I think I played it too close to Cybermorph that the gameplay felt pretty same-y, and also tok much like Metalhead on 32X for me. I'm a bigger fan of Tempest 2000, NBA Jam Tournament Edition (I was a big fan of NBA Jam in the '90s, and it's still fun!), Wolfenstein 3D, Cannon Fodder, Evolution Dino Dudes, and Brutal Sports Football. If it weren't for the other versions (especially the PS1) being better, I'd say Braindead 13 as well. As FMV games go, it's hard, but gives you a lot of freedom and feels more like an actual video game than most. That game is slept on pretty big in my opinion.

It had a 64 bit data bus apparently.

Completely agree with you hands down best game on the Jaguar was Aliens Vs Predator. But did also like Iron Soldier. Doom and Wolfenstien was also great. Never like Tempest and Rayman. Still have my Jaguar and Jaguar CD. One game you missed that I really like Cannon Fodder.

Completely agree on Alien vs. Predator, Rayman, Doom, Iron Soldier, Iron Soldier 2, Wolfenstein 3D, and Atari Karts. I would probably include Power Drive Rally, Baldies, Evolution: Dino Dudes, Towers II: Plight of the Stargazer, and Super Burnout. Maybe Cybermorph and Cannon Fodder too.

Howdy. I own one of the few working jaguar CD systems. I remember hover strike being a good game for me and a friend in 2 player coop as one would gun and the other move. I don't think we managed to finish the cd version.

oh yeah, i can see it, jaguar vr vs virtual boy, that will be epic

Nice list. One thing I’m going to have to disagree with you on though is Rayman’s music. I actually love the Jaguars version of the music more.. it just had a really unique sound to it.

I’m glad to see doom I never could have guessed that it was this popular weirdly. I recently played doom 1993 on switch and god I don’t regret it. I’ve played doom 2016 a little and doom eternal (up until the gore nest haha) a lot and I genuinely liked doom 1993 more than those seriously the less contextualized design just gives so much creative and fun challenging levels I love seeing it here honestly. I gotta get doom 2 I hear they contextualize the levels better apparently so idk if I’ll like it more but I’m excited to give a sequel to a classic amazing game a try

Pretty cool video, I see the jaguar cd and I can only think about the avgn comparing it to a toilet xD. I would love to see a list of nintendo 64 games since you said it is your favorite console, but with a twist, no nintendo games allowed, maybe rare is allowed, but no nintendo games, there are a lot of obscure games that are pretty good, I'm recently been playing hybrid heaven, and I don't care what anyone says but castlevania 64 is my guilty pleasure xD

You're brave putting Fight for Life in your top 10. It seems that's a game everyone is expected to hate. I actually do like it, although it wouldn't be in my top 10. Two games I'd argue on behalf of are Missile Command 3D, simple but so much fun, and Zero 5... Maybe. I loved Zero 5 but it became insanely, unreasonably hard half way through.

That penguin game kind of seems like it was inspired by the original toejam & Earl a little bit

I love the jaguar I'm trying to go for a complete game collection, total carnage is also a good game

How is Jaguar emulation? Its a console i havent messed with much but ive been getting more curious about it lately. Always found it kinda funny one of the 32 bit processors (lovingly known as 'Jerry') was for audio, yet a bunch of the games have no music 😂. Such a weird console.

This guy is nothing but love, I wanna play this games just because they look so janked

MY PARENTS BOUGHT ME JAGUAR ON MY B DAY. I HAD ULTRA VORTEX, CYBER MORPH, KASUMI NINJA, TEMPEST, AND A FEW OTHER GAMES

I always wonder how good the games could have been if more developers would have been on board. And really push the system to it's absolute limit.

I remember that Aliens vs Predator was the only game that really stood out at the time in magazines but overall I wasn't seeing games that I had much interest in when I already had an SNES and even the Sega CD had more to it that intrerested me. Glad I never got a Jaguar, I would've been bored with it quite quickly. Even the Atari Lynx had a lackluster library that just didn't offer much depth or fun.

I love Tempest 2,000!!!

If these games were available at launch, the Jaguar would have been a success. Fight for Life was unfinished - it would have been way better if Atari did not screw it up.

Cool! Don’t think I wanna play any of these games though. Well not on the Jaguar. Ports are kinda arguable when they don’t offer anything different than the original.

the jaguar would be special if it were released before the 3do but unfortunately it didnt. but for some strange reason this system seemed more desirable at the time. like it was peak 90s premium ware

I see I’m not big enough to do a Jaguar video with. I just reviewed every game for the system. 😮

what is the game at 1:38 i have been trying to find the name of it

The logo of AvP still reads as “Aloen” to me 😅.

Glad to see some Jaguar love again. Did not expect to see Attack of the Mutant Penguins on here. One of the strangest games ever made, for sure. And always remember, Do the Math!

Good vide we should work together on a video. But wolf 3D is the best game for the system.

A top 10 list without playing all the games?

Got my one when really little kid and got AVP doom b4 I had pc I loved it but hard to find good games naw love AVP still

I'm gonna beg to differ with AvP. It's got an awesome premise and is creatively laid out but it's just...boring. What do you do in the game? Move around (and usually get lost in) identical looking hallways and air ducts and shoot the occasional enemy. Is it scary in parts? Sure, but they could've cut those air duct mazes waaaaaaay down. WAY down.

Rayman was not a port! Look it up. That was the original console release

Nice vid. The word is "addictive" not "addicting", though

What a rough console....looks cool though(the system itself)

I hear there's now a decent Jaguar emulator for the cartridge games. Maybe in another decade, we'll have working Jaguar CD emulation...

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Rayman was no port for the Jaguar. It was developed for it. All other versions was ports.

Atari made a bunch of mistakes with Jaguar. Mainly they failed to develop a franchise character like Mario or Sonic. The next serious issue is they never had any display demo consoles set up. You could go into a game store and demo a SNES or SEGA but nothing else. I have a strange love of Pilot Wings and Altered Beast because they were on demo.

No super burnout and brutal sports?

I didn't know anyone who had a Jaguar. It was just too expensive.

Meanwhile Neo Geo AES really blew all these systems out of the water...it was just expensive af.

Yeah, you're definitely in the minority in liking Fight for Life! For me it just proves that the Jag *COULD* have done Virtua Fighter with some competent programming. Same for Checkered Flag...

Go jaguar

And anothe4 world? ;)

Don't agree at all. I have a full set, but my list would be very different. Let's see: NBA Jam, Tempest 2000, Wolfenstein, Rayman, Power Drive Rally, World Tour Racing, Battlemorph, Vidgrid, Highlander, Cannon Fodder.

Wait , you found ten good games on the system ?

So many games didn’t have music. Why is that?

700USD is

We all know drive club is the best jaguar game

The Jaguar had 10 games?

I like all these videos who try their best really, to convince everyone that the Jaguar was a great console. It was a garbage, with NOTHING even close to what the Saturn and the PS1 could propose at the same period, same generation. Even a Dreamcast, still has today strong arguments to defend itself against the OG XBOX.

The Top Ten??? Lmao! There were only 16 Jag CD games made. Might as well do a Top 16....lol Edit - Wait....is this a Jag or Jag CD game ranking?

I didnt know theyre were 10 decent games for Jaguar. Im not being sarcastic. I just remember it bombing big time. But then again the 5th gen to we was the worst. Saturn, ps1, etc...

Alphabetical order? You should always do top 10 in a rate order...

I stopped watching the SECOND you said Cybermorph wasn't so bad. I understand you were a Jaguar fan, but that is just defending the indefensible.

Atari Jaguar wasn't a 64-bit system. Use 2 32-bit chipset, not a 64-bit chipset . That's why games don't look good as N64. playstation games look better than Jaguar, and playstation was 32-bit. And these 2 32-bit chipset from IBM can't talk to each other very Good.