WozzyCat Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 What stores in Canada sold the Atari Jaguar (back in the day...as in 1993 to 1995/1996) ? I don't remember the Jaguar getting too much advertising here during that time...or maybe I just didn't take note at the time. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tripled79 Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 In Winnipeg there was a small business that sold Jaguars called MicroPlay. This was back in the mid nineties before EB Games came to Canada. I'm pretty sure most big chain department stores (Zellers, Future Shop, etc.) did not support the Jag. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhd Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 The short answer is that apparently very few places sold the Jaguar in Canada. I certainly never saw one at retail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captainblack Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 I vaguely recall hearing Giant Tiger sold them, and I also remember Microplay though when I started going there is was just a bit too late for anything Jaguar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhd Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 Do you recall when you saw them at Giant Tiger? Were there any games? It presumably would been at the very end of their commercial life when whoever owned the (Canadian) warehouse full of Jaguar hardware was desperately trying to squeeze the last few pennies from it, so around 1997. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Guntz Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 The Jag was well before my retail buying time so I don't know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost Monkey Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 I don't believe there was an official Canadian distributor - several independent game stores had them, but they were importing them as far as I know. When they first were released, I asked a Microplay store to get me one and they said they weren't going to buy anymore until Atari figured out the problem with the cartridge slot. According to this guy, a lot of the first consoles produced were having issues with pins in the cart slot getting bent during normal use. Late 1990's, a Canadian company called Dentec clearanced them online at severely discounted prices with a limited selection of titles. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ComputerSpaceFan Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 My roommate in the early 90's did all of his gaming purchasing at Egghead Software here in Vancouver British Columbia. I didn't have the money myself but I went with him and I saw all of the consoles of the day at that shop. Fairly sure the Jaguar was on the shelves with the Virtual Boy, SNES, Lynx, etc. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captainblack Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 3 hours ago, jhd said: Do you recall when you saw them at Giant Tiger? Were there any games? It presumably would been at the very end of their commercial life when whoever owned the (Canadian) warehouse full of Jaguar hardware was desperately trying to squeeze the last few pennies from it, so around 1997. From what I remember it was indeed when they were clearing them out at the end. If I remember right there was an ad pamphlet listing the Jag for like 80 bucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost Monkey Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 I don't recall any talk of Giant Tiger having them, but there was a Tiger Direct ad from 1997: https://www.vintagecomputing.com/wp-content/images/retroscan/atari_jaguar_tigerdirect_large.jpg This was USA though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+LS650 Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 (edited) I definitely recall seeing both the Jaguar and the Lynx for sale in A&B Sound's electronic department BITD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%26B_Sound Edited May 27, 2021 by ls650 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tripled79 Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 Besides Winnipeg MicroPlay, I recall spending a summer vacation in London, Ontario. Must have been 1995. Went to a flea market one day and saw a Jag with Doom set up on a big CRT. So yeah, very small presence in Canada. For that matter, I don't recall seeing much of the other console either. 3DO, Turbo Grafx, Neo Geo, Cdi, etc. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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