Atari Panther Prototype Dev Board! The Otis Sound Board for Atari's Cancelled Jaguar Prequel Console
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It's not every day I get to show you a piece of video game development hardware history...and its even less often I get so show a piece of a video game console that was cancelled and never released to the retro gaming public...but today you get both...and its NOT 3DO M2 related! Nope...its Atari Panther time!
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Pretty much everyone knows about the Atari Jaguar; Atari's "64 bit" (liars!) 3D system that was meant to take on the 3DO, PS1, Sega Saturn and Nintendo 64...but not everyone knows that while the Jaguar was in development...so was a 16-bit console meant to take on the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis...and it was called the Atari Panther.
What remains of the Panther? apparently two full dev kits...and a couple Otis Sound boards that sport an Ensonic sound chip. So it's a piece of Atari video game history and preservation...and one very odd board! But we can take a listen to what the sound chip could do...as Taito used it on some arcade boards!
Panther is 3DO M2 / SNES CD / Sony Nintendo Playstation levels of rare and cancelled!
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