Jagvent Calendar - Day 13

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Grey Fox

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Published on December 18, 2022 11:28:18 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDQCjmOl0mQ

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Doom (1993)

Duration: 19:18

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I hope you are all happy, safe & healthy whatever challenges you are facing right now.

Apologies for the delay in my Jagvent Calendar uploads - had some stuff going on so couldn't make videos. I'll aim to catch up over the next few days hence multiple uploads here :-)

Fans of my channel may remember I did a GameBoy Advent Countdown last year - a different mystery game each day of December. I thought I'd do something similar this year for the much maligned Atari Jaguar. So this is Day 13 of my Jagvent Calendar :-)

First some credit though - I used a snippet of Kevin Macleod's version of Jingle Bells to set the tone at the start of the video details below:
Music Used: Jingle Bells by Kevin MacLeod | https://incompetech.com/
Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/
Creative Commons CC BY 3.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

The Atari Jaguar gets a lot of stick but I got mine back in the mid 90's purely for Tempest 2000 & the port of Doom & then picked up cheap games after that. To be fair I actually got my Jaguar by trading a few PAL Saturn games I had Japanese versions of (I got my Jag CD as part payment for clearing my bosses spare room - pro rata probably the most I've been paid for a single days work :) - so I didn't pay for either console in real terms

I won't reveal the game in the Title until the next day but in the Description.......well that's a different matter. Does anyone other than me actually read them?

This is BreakOut 2000 on the Atari Jaguar. Following the critical and commercial success of Tempest 2000 it was an obvious move to apply the "2000" makeover formula to other classic arcade titles. This is exactly what BreakOut 2000 is - featuring a pseudo 3D playfield & updated tunes etc

It does also feature a port of classic BreakOut - I play this in the middle of the video to show it off.

There are a couple of bonus stages which I don't show in this video - if you want to see them let me know and I'll make another video when I have some time on my hands.

The game has a novel gimmick for 2 players (or one player vs the computer) which is to have the playfield joined by a half-pipe. Knock your ball into their playfield and get double points for each block. Miss their ball though & suffer a -1000 point deduction. Clear your playfield first & they get penalised for each remaining block.

I've not played it for years but the game really suffers from the digital controls - it really needs a paddle or rotary controller for fine control.

It is a solid enough game but could hardly compete with the big hitter titles on the PlayStation & Saturn or even on the 16-bit machines.

Neo Break-Out on the Atari 50 recent release shows a better way for this to be updated.

This is my original PAL copy from back in the day (one of several boxed games I received as a bonus payment for a days work in the mid 90's) played on my Jaguar console through S-Video (I have the official RGB Scart cable somewhere) through a Retrotink 5X for ease of capture.

I'm slowly digging out my Jaguar carts although there is a box of them somewhere in the loft that I'm yet to find so it may be touch and go if we make it to 24 on the countdown as I think I only have 26 cart games (I have most the CD library but I need to replace the laser on my CD unit as it wasn't functioning when I checked it at the weekend :(

As always if you enjoy this video let me know. As always this is running on original hardware. Also let me know if there are particular games or systems you'd like to see.

As always this is uploaded under the Fair Use Policy - no money is being made from this video.

Stay strong, stay safe and stay healthy - Grey Fox

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