Kind of, I am not familiar with Skylanders so I did not mention it in the article. From what I gather from the press release, yes, the figures will be required to unlock certain moves for various characters. To me, that sounds like forcing fans to hunt down action figures and pay exorbitant eBay scalper fees just to enjoy the game the way it should have been from the getgo.
Back then though, it looked amazing. Till the Playstation demo units hit and Saturn was on shelves then it was "meh" at best. Atari simply could not break the magical sales figures to stay viable against that type of competition.
In some ways the Jaguar controller was ahead of its time, in others, it was behind (no six button layout in the default controller for instance).
Unfortunately, one or two great games don't make a viable console success story. I am including Aliens vs Predator in the list of great Atari Jaguar games.
I regularly cover new Atari games on RGM. I have been fortunate enough to get a few staff members that focus on new games for computers like the Atari 400/800, ST, Amiga, etc. Some great stuff going on with "dead" platforms.
The Super Nintendo version was re-released by Piko Interactive under the name "Legend". No word on them getting the Jaguar game though.
It was not that great of a console but that blame is laid, fairly, at the feet of Atari themselves.
The company has been going to hell for years. lol
Thank you for the heads up. So far, nothing Earth shattering or "no-buy" except for the hardest of the hard graphics snobs.
Minus floors and a ceiling. Still though, it was impressive for the time and still captured the essence of Doom.
I agree, they are idiots. I play games to enjoy them. Not complain if a game drops below 60 FPS when there is a ton of stuff going on on the screen. I am more interested, personally, in what they take out if it effects the game play or level choices (remember Powerslave on the Sega Saturn versus the PlayStation version? Both versions had slightly different level workings than the PC version due to memory limitations. Just wondering if something similar will happen with the Switch version of D...
I am interested in seeing what they take out to make it run on the Switch. Also, what will the frames per second be? I know there are people out there that won't buy it if it is too low of an FPS or certain content is missing.
Oh yeah, I can only imagine how wild this hack makes the game now. I know they didn't do anything to the difficulty but man, even with two more players helping out, I am sure the enemies will still be able to the player's butt.
It is not a pre-order thing. The article has a link to the ROM patch and you have to find the ROM yourself as linking directly to it is illegal. Otherwise, if you have some form of playing NES ROMs on your original NES (or emulator) then you can simply patch the ROM file and play this new version.
I would have no clue what to prize something like that at. I agree, they certainly didn't give h what it was worth.
I agree, the hardware is outdated but that doesn't make this any less interesting.
I am interested in how it got to a pawn shop. Like who pawned it, what was their job? The new owner didn't go into detail about whether there was any identifying information on it (Google account for instance).
Would be interesting to know more though.
@Silly there. Some of us prefer the "original" or a, gasp, "physical" copy of a game rather than paying for bits that we never truly own.
They are offering a digital version of the game, presumably for use with emulators so the developer/publisher is open to modern fans.
There is at least one or two homebrew releases for this thing that require the CD-ROM. Not sure why they bothered as this is technically just an SNES with a CD-ROM attachment, right? Why limit your audience for a bit of publicity?
Yes, there was a WCW Mayhem for the PSOne console and a pay per view of the same name while WCW was in operation. The only thing I can figure is, "Mayhem" in relation to wrestling was owned by WCW, which is now owned by WWE so the title usage can stand as fair use of the trademark owner.