Jagvent Calendar - day 18

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Grey Fox

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Published on December 27, 2022 5:43:35 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1041YqTl2s

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Doom (1993)

Duration: 21:22

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Its a bit late - being the 27th now rather than the 18th but better late than never :-)

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 will upload them - just out of sequence - think of it like a "What if Quentin Tarantino or Christopher Nolan made an Advent Calendar" :-) however it will work in future years!

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 18 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:
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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 Iron Soldier by Eclipse Software Design released in 1994. It is a Mech game with 16 fairly freeform missions. It is exclusive to the Jaguar & is one of the better games for the system with plenty of content & impressive, solid 3D for the time. It really does make good use of the hardware - large 3D levels, weapons asigned to the number pad etc Definitely a step up from the many lazy ports from the 16 bit machines and if the Jaguar had more games like this then while it wouldn't have made much difference overall it would have made the Jaguar seem more viable.

It got a sequel on Jaguar - Iron Soldier 2 which interestingly was released on both cartridge & CD. I have the CD version but need to do some maintenance on the laser of my unit. It also got a 3rd game released on VM Lab's NUON system - essentially a gaming chipset included in certain DVD players - a system I wish I had as it also had Tempest 3000 on it. Maybe one day..........if you have this system and are interested in selling then let me know :-) The 3rd game was also released on Sony Playstation.

This is my original PAL copy from back in the day which I got for just £5.99 from Insane Games back in the late 90's/early 2000's when Jaguar software was super cheap. 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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