Alien VS Predator. Atari Jaguar Version. Predator. Gameplay Video. Casual Fun.

Today's video is a highly obscure game in a highly obscure console. Atari used to be highly popular in the 1970s, however with the split of it's key personnel and the competition it got in the early 80s, the company went under for a while, coming back in the early 90s, going under again and then becoming a publisher which wasn't all that successful. It was essentially the Sega of the 1970s, complete with a plethora of Arcade titles in its many systems and the occasional exploration/Platformer to save it's day such as games like H.E.R.O or Pitfall. When they released the Atari Jaguar, mostly known in the US due to its vapid marketing campaign, it was well-received at first, but then it quickly stopped selling due to the system specs being debunked. Part of the problem was that the Atari Jaguar was released with a marketing campaign stating it was a 64 bit console; something that was never true, and gaming technicians can validate due to the color palette being off (it's similar to the Sega Genesis on that one) and the interpolation and bi-lineal functions being very difficult to program for or use in game play. And that was the reason why even though it got good games, such as Krazy Penguins, Double Dragon V and this one, it couldn't continue being supported due to the games that could be developed being mostly Arcade ports, and those were very difficult to run in it due to the Jaguar receiving a GPU system, something very uncommon at the time before the Nintendo 64 had done it. Also it did not help that the Jaguar had it's own custom chip that was based on PC architecture at the time, instead of the more popular EMMC chips traditionally used for machines like the Super Nintendo or the Sega Genesis. So RIP Atari, a revolutionary company that paved it's own demise twice. They're missed by the few people who remember what they where in this era, and if you give their systems a try, you will know they have some really good games too.