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What started out as me buying an Atari Jaguar from Singlebanana turned into buying a lot of Odyssey 2 stuff as well.
I ended up with a Magnavox Odyssey 2 (hardwired controllers), and 21 games in total...
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The games were all boxed, which is awesome, I started falling in love with the O^2 boxes I kept seeing on here and had to get some for myself.
Alien Invaders - Plus!
Alpine Skiing!
Armored Encounter!/Sub Chase!
Baseball!
Blockout!/Breakdown!
Bowling!/Basketball!
Computer Golf!
Conquest of the World! (all the pieces are there, oh baby!)
Cosmic Conflict!
Football!
Freedom Fighters!
K.C. Munchkin!
Las Vegas Blackjack!
Monkeyshines!
Out of this World!/Helicopter Rescue!
P.T. Barnum's Acrobats!
Pachinko!
Pick Axe Pete!
Showdown in 2100 A.D.
Speedway!/Spinout!/Crypto-logic!
U.F.O.!
Magnavox seemed to think they all needed exclamation points to emphasize the awesomeness of the games...
and here we have the Atari Shaguar, in all it's glory!
Picked up the console, two controllers, the hookups, and Cybermorph, Raiden, and Checkered Flag.
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Nice! Some of that O^2 stuff really brings me back (especially the RF module and the cover of Alien Invaders). Awesome on Conquest, too! That's the beauty of the Odyssey^2, that the boxes still manage to look good after all those years.
I've always been mildly curious about the Jag. First time I saw it was in old Apple computer retailer (long since defunct). I'm sorry to say I wrote off the machine as crap during the first twenty minutes during a Cybermorph and Trevor McFur demo. It wasn't until years later that I was exposed to AvP, Doom, and Tempest 2000, and by then the system was long gone. I always thought if I found one loose in the wild I would pick it up, but I've never seen one.
You know, I've never noticed before but the Jag system kind of looks like a less-slick version of the PC Engine Shuttle (without the fins). Weird.
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That's a pretty good O2 lot. Look at that Conquest of the World! How good looking is that? PT Barnum's Acrobats! and Monkeyshines! are good buy too. They are a little more spendy than the rest if you want to buy them by themselves.
The first time I saw a Jaguar was in a game store in a mall. The store was packed with people and there were several game system demo's set up. I wanted to play one but they were all crowded with people, except the Jag. No one seemed to pay it any attention, I played it for a while and failed to draw a crowd like the other systems. I left the store not really knowing what the system was and didn't realize for years it was the Jaguar, I only remembered because it was the system with a phone pad on the controller.
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I wish I had the shelf space to display the Odyssey2 boxes face out. Yes, they look very cool. That's definitely a great starter lot.
Since we are talking about the Jaguar, It was released while I was in high school and only a couple of the local shops had the system or even the games, but the shop owners didn't really promote it or allow for test play. No one else seemed to talk about it. And in my 'small at the time' town, that meant we should just let it go. It's too bad. There really are some fun titles, although I think I would have been disappointed had I bought it when I was younger.
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The only test play places I remember seeing for jaguar was Kay-Bees toys and some toysrus stores....but I do remember sears always having test stations ahh the days while my parents or babysitter shopped I played super mario world and sonic 1.
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@GamerNick: Like I said I never saw another one again. To be truthfull I enjoyed the memory of the store more than the Jag showing. It (the shop) was a strange relic from the old 8-bit days of yore, displaying tons of software and hardware for old micros, though it was more of an old Apple shop. It even had hardware and software in baggies, if I remember correctly. It was a wonder that it managed to last up until 1993 (though it closed not long after).
I practically lived at some of those test stations. I actually beat Super Mario World at a local Target on one of those, even after they turned on the five-minute limit reset switch.
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I remember the kiosk Nick is talking about, we were talking about it last night at work. Big Jaguar logo and eyes at the top and they had black metal cabinets on either side with glass doors with the games and accessories inside. Was placed just inside the door of the place so people walking by would see it. Sort of like this one...
http://www.atarimuseum.de/pics/systeme/lynx_jaguar/jagstation_goodrob13.jpg
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aaaaand it didn\'t link, oh well guess you\'ll have to copy and paste haha
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Glad they are in a good home. I wasn't playing them and for me, they had turned in to merely conversation pieces (i.e. "What the hell is that?) when new people came into my game room. I've decided to "trim the fat" on several things in my collection and put more money into finishing up the ones I care more about.......and of course there's my pinball addiction. Enjoy!
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