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  • I like Jaguar but you have to bring a lot of patience since games usually take a lot of time to get into, emulation hasn’t really been perfected, and the unique controller is a barrier to the full experience in some of its better games.

    Tempest 2000 (9/10) remains super fun. But there are also versions to play on other systems that are arguably better.

    Aliens vs. Predator (8/10 but very subjective) is a truly unique and fun game but has a HIGH barrier to entry with pacing and framerate issues. Like the best retro games, they really did plan around the framerate to turn it into an advantage - literally turning around to check if you’re being followed while playing in a dark room is terrifying because of the slideshow reveal - but a gamer in 2025 probably can’t connect with that and will just see “bad framerate.” You need to commit a few hours to get into that zone if you want to try it. The numpad overlays customized to each human/alien/predator style help a lot.

    Super Burnout (6/10) was a fun racer but could have been done on SNES.

    Rayman (9/10) of course is great, if you want to play the first release originally on Jaguar, but naturally the game has been released everywhere.

    Raiden (8/10) is very good, but also not exclusive.

    Fight For Life (1/10) if you want to experience the biggest Jaguar disappointment, after it being hyped up as from a guy who was on the Virtua Fighter team.

    Kasumi Ninja and Ultra Vortek (both 5/10) if you want to see how Atari hoped to stay relevant against Mortal Kombat.

    Cybermorph (6/10) to see what the pack-in game was like. But it’s mostly empty exploration and was more meant to demonstrate Jaguar can do 3D art a time it was trying to hype itself as a “64-bit” system.

    Iron Soldier (7/10) only if you can play with a real controller and have the numpad overlay.