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i have alternate reality-the wilderness disk yeah....right.

my ratings: Tempest 2000-best Wolfenstein 3D-good Attack of the Mutant Penguins-don't really know Alien vs Predator-best Checkered Flag-D Dragon: A Bruce Lee Story-D Rayman-pretty good White Men Cant Jump-Average Evolution: Dino Dudes-Average Val d'Isere Skiing & Snowboarding-not bad if you can afford the cd, it's good. primal rage is ok, battlemorph, myst, and dragons lair make the case for owning the jag cd imho.... get nba jam on the jag....one of the best ports.

i think if the new lynx had the abilty to collect solar energy and have no batteries would be neat....

i'm going to write a review one day about why i think the atari lynx was the best console ever that atari made. are there any others that feel that the lynx is the best system atari put out? why or why not?

Sigurd says, "lol, look at you and your little buddy pattin each other on the back, for a post well trolled. Anywho, to my point, I never defended the gameplay of Ultra Vortek, just spoke about it because of the statement that SF2 and MK2 on the SNES beat it graphically. I own both those games for the SNES, I am also a HUGE MK fan, and altho I myself enjoy the MK series more then anyother fighting game around, Ultra Vortek makes MK2 on the SNES look like crap, aswell as SF2 on the SNES. I find you trying to defend that to be hilarious. Now, why was this whole thread made? to stir the pot and dis Cybermorph? or did you actually want to try your hand at writting reviews and was hoping for some creative critiz'em??" --------------------------------------- how long have you owned the jag? and how many contributing atari articles have made for any atari mag? here are some of mine:(http://www.ataritimes.com/article.php?showarticle=248) (http://www.ataritimes.com/article.php?showarticle=416) you need to be careful before you start callin people trolls. just because my opinion differs, doesn't mean that i'm a troll. and i find it funny how because one has a different opinion, some people start taking things personal and start making personal attacks. if you were a true MK II/Street Fighter II fan back in the day, you'd know and understand that when the snes released street fighter II and MK II, it was ground breaking for a system to bring those games home. those ports (sf2 and MK2) on the snes were pretty close in gameplay and graphics to the arcade. so if Ultra Vortek makes SF2 and MK2 look like "crap," then in essence its making the arcade look like crap too because those (MKII/SF2) ports are so close to the arcade....

Again, the 68k of the Jaguar can do Star Fox and do it better. Why? I dont know..I think the game is lame at best. Cybermorph crushes it in play, graphics, colors levels and class. the jaguar could have done a lot of things...but it didn't. that's the frustrating thing. if you love the game, that's the most important thing. more power to you. i know there's a lot of jag fans on here (me being one myself), but games like cybermorph is what it is. my experience, the ratings, reviews, and forums the past decade conclude that cybermorph was lower than avg at best.

how about the ability to upload and play all atari system games on this lynx?

It would have been great if atari made an atari lynx III....what updates would you have added on this new system?

The levels are itty bitty. The claustrophobia is further confounded by the fact that you're forced to fly through a maze of hills that you cannot fly over. That's really not an excuse. It causes the game to hold up poorly. Not really. I didn't call it that. That's an interesting defense... “pretend.” If you pretend that I haven’t played Cybermorph, a game that I’ve owned for over a decade, does that alone make you right? Pretending? But they were wrong, weren't they? First of all, I didn't review the game in 1993, I did it last night. Second, virtually no other publication ranks it so high. From AtariAge: 6.3 out of 10... that's a score that I can agree with. Such harsh name-calling over a video game review? Jerk, Troll, ignorant, stupid... Did someone once beat you up with a Cybermorph cart or something? A little bit of 'acting like an adult' would not be a bad thing, you know? You're not a fanboy, but you managed to call me three more names and use your ‘pretend’ defense again. Hmm... Ya, I don’t believe you. Or 3DO... Star Wars Arcade is much, much more graphically intensive than Cypermorph. More polygons, no draw distance problems. That argument is not based on fact, but fantasy. Except a number of 32X games (Star Wars Arcade, DarXide, Virtua Racing Deluxe, and so on), are more detailed than Cybermorph. By the way, what does all of this nitpicking have to do with Cybermorph anyways? That’s not a rhetorical question, by the way, I expect an answer. As a game it does not need to be compared to other games that came out many years later on 32X, Playstation, Saturn, or 3DO. It does not need to be compared to games of its own time. It merely needs to stand on its own merit as a game. When it does that, it's roughly a 6 out of 10, even this many years later. That's actually not too bad. None of this nitpicking will also change the fact that unlike Battlemorph, which is an excellent game, Cybermorph suffers from dull and uninspired game play. It plays like a bonus level of a Sonic game (get the blue spheres, get the rings, et cetera). Fetching pods is not compelling game play. The lack of an ability to keep your progress is not immersive. Funny how you employ a fallacy of logic to distract from facts about the game called Cybermorph by attacking a console called 32X that was released three years later. Once certainly has nothing to do with the other. Your non-defense of the game only exemplifies its inherent short comings. owned....defending cybermorph is just hillarious. not to mention even trying to defend ultra vortek (aka ultra boring). avp, tempest 2000, battlemorph yeah, but cybermorph? c'mon....

that's you're opinion on the controllers. i thought the snes controllers were fine. the streetfighter vs mk could go on forever.... part of my resentment with ultra was that it was getting alot of hype and i was finally going to have a "great" fighting game on the jag. when i finally got U.V., i was completely disappointed. keep in mind that this was the time when U.V. just came out. people were saying this was streetfighter MK killer. what a joke. plus, this game was pretty expensive during that time. zero 5 had amazing graphics and the sound was better than cybermorph....but in no way does it even compare to starfox as a complete game. zero 5 is another example of something that looks great on the outside but lacks on the inside.

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all my systems are still in their original packaging and boxes. atari super pong atari 2600 (darth vader) atari 5200 plus dual holder and trackball (own almost everygame on the multicart) atari 7800 atari jaguar and cd atari lynx Flashback 1 and 2 colecovision intellivision sega master sega nomad sega dreamcast Sega GameGear nintendo entertainment system (NES) SNES Gameboy N64 NEC Turbo Grafx PS1 Portable PS2 Slim PSP i love them all....

remember this...i'm an atari fan and a gamer fan too. ive got every atari system (yeah flashback 1 and 2 even.) but the jag is what it is. probably the worst atari console probably tied to the 7800 console yet had the most potential. the lynx is the best atari system if you're counting on great games and actually slaughters the jaguar in every category. matter of fact, if atari would have stuck with working on more lynx stuff, it would have gotten more press, better sales, could have progressed even further. a smaller lighter lynx 3 would have made more sense than the jaguar in my opinion. as far as ultra vortek, that game sucks all the way around. dont take it personal. i hate that game. a poor mans mortal kombat/street fighter. mortal kombat 2 looks better, sounds better, controls better, and is close to the arcade for a 16 bit console. i don't own a 32x so i could care less how it compares to the jag. get with reality....i've owned the jag since early 94 (that's saying a lot compared to most owners on here). yeah, i bought it for around $250 (its been a while)....i'm not saying things for the sake of arguement.

the game (cybermorph) is avg to me even back in the day when i 1st bought it. there isn't any in-game music (title screen is good), graphics are good but still lack detail considering the jags potential (terrain is mostly flat), and i hate it that things appear from nowhere (moutains). many times it's hard to see who your enemies are. the framerate and the smoothness of the game lacks too. battlemorph is an improvement. i still like cybermorph to some degree. as far as snes starfox, starfox has much better depth and gameplay, better music, controls, and better replay. starfox : http://youtube.com/watch?v=PmUAuff6ywI&amp...ted&search= cybermorph: the fact we can even compare starfox on the snes to the jags cybermorph shows how much power the snes was untilized. When you say "back in the day" do you mean PRE PSX and Saturn? If not, then I can't disagree, but if you mean compared to Genesis/32X and SNES titles, then you are delusional. The framerate is superior to Starfox's. you're delusional if you think SF has better control than CM. The fact that no music is a detriment is pure opinion, I personally shut the music off in ALL video games I play if I can, it's an annoyance and a distraction to me. And better gameplay once again is a complete matter of opinion. The fact that we compare Cybermorph to Starfox is ONLY becuase StarFox was a 3D polygon game like Cybermorph and was released at about the same time. That's THE ONLY reason it's compared at all. Starfox is a good game, there's no denying, and being a better game is purely a matter of opinion, but Starfox can't compare at all graphically to Cybermorph, and you talk about Cybermorph being mostly flat (which is obviously totally false anyway)?!? Starfox was COMPLETELY FLAT, IIRC, except for structures! PLEASE! Oh, and by the way, it doesn't show how much the SNES was "utilized" at ALL, Starfox had to have the Super FX chip in the cartridge to even pull it off! The SNES without the super FX chip couldn't begin to do a game like Starfox. Get your "facts" straight! i have both games. and you've got be delisional to say that you can't compare the two graphically even though graphically speaking the jag has the edge. and while the fx chip did give the snes the abilty to handle a game like starfox, it goes to show how nintendo was still able to maximize (even adding the fx chip) their hardware (even if it was less than say the jag). the sad fact is the jag was rarely pushed near its potential... as far as music goes, what would tempest 2000 be without the music? great music in a game does make a huge difference and with a good title screen, i feel it fell short in cyber... its like other snes games including mortal kombat II and street fighter II on the snes will kick any jag fighting game anyday. and graphically speaking too...

the game (cybermorph) is avg to me even back in the day when i 1st bought it. there isn't any in-game music (title screen is good), graphics are good but still lack detail considering the jags potential (terrain is mostly flat), and i hate it that things appear from nowhere (moutains). many times it's hard to see who your enemies are. the framerate and the smoothness of the game lacks too. battlemorph is an improvement. i still like cybermorph to some degree. as far as snes starfox, starfox has much better depth and gameplay, better music, controls, and better replay. starfox : http://youtube.com/watch?v=PmUAuff6ywI&amp...ted&search= cybermorph: the fact we can even compare starfox on the snes to the jags cybermorph shows how much power the snes was untilized. Terrain is mostly flat?!? There isn't a "flat" spot IN the game besides the water! not in the literal sense. you've got the mountains, water, and hills, but on some levels there could be alot more that the jag could have been done to make it feel like you just weren't flying around repeated scenery given that the jag had so much power at the time.

the game (cybermorph) is avg to me even back in the day when i 1st bought it. there isn't any in-game music (title screen is good), graphics are good but still lack detail considering the jags potential (terrain is mostly flat), and i hate it that things appear from nowhere (moutains). many times it's hard to see who your enemies are. the framerate and the smoothness of the game lacks too. battlemorph is an improvement. i still like cybermorph to some degree. as far as snes starfox, starfox has much better depth and gameplay, better music, controls, and better replay. starfox : http://youtube.com/watch?v=PmUAuff6ywI&amp...ted&search= cybermorph: the fact we can even compare starfox on the snes to the jags cybermorph shows how much power the snes was untilized.

SNES STARFOX > Jaguar Cybermorph

the gap is much wider comparing the intellivision to SNES than the jag and n64.

Dreamcast is one of my favorite systems of all time. It's all about programming and the DC could do what most ps2 games can do. Nintendo Wii is another amazing system. If you think about it, both systems were ground breaking in their own right.

...That does not take away from the fact that Jag is indeed the most powerful of all Atari systems probably more so than even the Falcon 030... you cannot really compare the "power" of the jag with other atari systems because each console was made at different times. if you compare the 2600 to intellivision and magnovox, 5200 to colecovision, 7800 to nes, lynx to gamegear and gameboy, and jaguar 64 to n64 and psx (other 64bit systems), the jaguar and 7800 are probably the worst.

I think the Lynx has the BEST good/bad game ratio. The Jaguar probably the worst. There are so many DOA stinkers for it. i love my jag. i really love this system but it was a failure in so many ways. it's the games that make a system and the jag and 7800 are close in the worst good/bad game ratio. other than avp, tempest, battlesphere, and nba jam, there were no great games. the rest were ok and many stunk on the jag..... you look at the lynx and some recent games like cybervirus and alpine games, plus great games like blue lightning, battlewheels, california games, checkered flag, electrocop, klax, shangai, lemmings, roadblasters to name a few, and the lynx kills the jaguar. the 2600 and 5200 had a slew of great titles too in comparison to the jag. the sad part is that the jag had the most potential, most powerful, and was icing on cake for the ill-fated atari corp.

those are awesome. made me feel like a kid again. i used to save those sears catalogs....

atari 2600-frogger atari 5200-zenji/pengo atari 8 bit-alternate reality city/world championship karate atari lynx-shanghi/california games atari 7800-ball blazer c-64 yier of the kung fu atari jaguar-tempest colecovision-smurf intellivision-snafu nes-super mario (no song in any system can touch this regardless if you hate it), punch out (2nd) sega master-alex kid snes-street fighter sega genesis-sonic

Programming wise, sure. But for 90% of the game you're looking at a black background. Hardly a graphics masterpiece. The models are nice with the shading and decalmapping, but there's just not much in the way of graphics to look at. The textures along with the garuad shading and lighting effects are FAR better than anything the PSX can produce, and look even better than N64 filtered textures (becuase they are Hihg-res AND clear).... i completely disagree with you about the psx and n64....games like gran turismo (psx) and rogue squadron (n64), to name a few, leave the jaguar in the dust in terms of graphics and sound. i'm a huge atari fan and i own most of the jag titles (including hoverstrike) but comparing the best titles of both the psx and n64 to the best of the jag is streching big time.... and if we're saying that graphically trevor gets the nod as one of the best graphics on the jag, we're in trouble....avp, tempest, atari kart, rayman, and missle command all have pretty good graphics...

awesome! do you have an estimate date of completion?