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[BuddyBuddies]

doctorclu, on Tue Sep 16, 2008 7:20 AM, said:

BuddyBuddies, on Wed Sep 10, 2008 1:13 PM, said:

Shawn Sr., on Wed Sep 10, 2008 6:37 AM, said:

I don't care to look it up so I'll just ask, is there any software for the Panther? Controllers even?

to my knowledge ,there is a prototype system and a developement system..... 3-4 games exist that i heard of,all of which are Jaguar titles.

Yep, Cybermorph was a port to the Jaguar from the Panther... and it shows.

If Cybermorph is an example of what the Panther had to offer, I'm glad they chose to go with the Jaguar.

Hey it could have gone like this...

"And then in 1993 Atari was working on two game systems, the 32 bit Panther, and a 64 bit Jaguar. The Panther was slow in development, and the 64 bit Jaguar was actually ahead in progress, but Atari wanted to release a system more in step with the market with cheaper production costs.

The delayed Panther was released into the market with marginal success. It's graphics capibilities were impressive for the time, but not enough to compete with already existing and successful Sega Genesis, and Super Nintendo systems which won over by sheer number of games. Soon the 3D0 came out, leaving Atari's Panther in it's cat tracks.

Sadly, the Atari Jaguar was a promising system, with a unique graphic and sound chip and would have displayed millions of colors, but with the results of the Panther the Jaguar never saw the light of day, caged in an Atari office until Atari was sold to JTS. Only a few Jaguar prototypes have been found since. It's two games, a ported Cybermorph from the Panther system and Trevor McFur show only glimpses of what could have been in this last Atari system."


Yeh, if I was to have a last Atari system, I'll take the Jaguar any day!!!

LOL

[Godzilla]

Id still like to see what the games for the system would have looked like and is that god-awful fax machine what the console proto actually looked like? yeesh.

[BuddyBuddies]

Godzilla, on Wed Sep 17, 2008 7:38 PM, said:

Id still like to see what the games for the system would have looked like and is that god-awful fax machine what the console proto actually looked like? yeesh.

the Panther did not look like that if memory serves...

[BuddyBuddies]

BuddyBuddies, on Thu Sep 18, 2008 12:28 AM, said:

Godzilla, on Wed Sep 17, 2008 7:38 PM, said:

Id still like to see what the games for the system would have looked like and is that god-awful fax machine what the console proto actually looked like? yeesh.

the Panther did not look like that if memory serves...

here is a link showing what the Panther looked like...........


http://www.homecompu...es/panther.html

[moycon]

Very cool link. Thanks!

[BuddyBuddies]

moycon, on Mon Sep 22, 2008 1:29 AM, said:

Very cool link. Thanks!

no problem buddy!

[doctorclu]

BuddyBuddies, on Thu Sep 18, 2008 12:31 AM, said:

BuddyBuddies, on Thu Sep 18, 2008 12:28 AM, said:

Godzilla, on Wed Sep 17, 2008 7:38 PM, said:

Id still like to see what the games for the system would have looked like and is that god-awful fax machine what the console proto actually looked like? yeesh.

the Panther did not look like that if memory serves...

here is a link showing what the Panther looked like...........


http://www.homecompu...es/panther.html

You see, that was a Panther prototype.

Now the reason why the Panther concept looked like a printer was because it was supposed to be the 32-bit add on that plugged into the cartridge port of the Atari 5200.

[Shawn Sr.]

From those pics it looks like it did use the Jaguar Controller style. Neat.

[carmel_andrews]

If i remember rightly tempest 2000 was also ported over from the panther...I remember seeing screenshots in a review in a UK games mag (and it was from the panther, not jaguar)