Regarding claims this was finished/nearly finished, i contacted a lot of sources: From Atari UK: Darryl Still, who told me Atari had wanted it, but could not pin Jez San down to develop it, Atari could not afford to buy rights to have someone else convert it on their behalf either. Mike Fulton:Converted some generic FMV from the game,into a file Jag CD could read, just to test how it handled it. From Argonaut: Alexander Holland rescued a Jag CD dev.kit from a skip, saw a misc CD-R with Creature Shock on it, lying beside it, no idea what was on disc as did not rescue that. Martin Piper+Nic Cusworth confirmed Argonaut had Dev.kits, probably went to various departments, but doubt any real work started as Jez had sense to know which platforms to back, Jaguar was not 1 of those... Jez told Edge in a 1998 (?) interview he never did any Jaguar games as you had to know when to take risks, Jaguar was not a risk to take etc etc.
Latest and snippet from upcoming email exchange with John Edelson(Ex-Argonaut): 'As to your question of the Atari Jaguar, we certainly didn't have any active projects when I was there. There might have been some exploratory work or even active projects prior to my time there, I wouldn't know. It's unlikely Jez would have embraced the Jaguar because he was such a technical visionary, I would have trouble seeing him embrace it. He was always realistic about the 3DO saying that it was a huge step forward in architecture but he thought it had too many tech problems from the start. Plus, he really didn't like the Mac development platform. The Mac development platform was popular really only in the Siilcon Valley area, everyone else and particularly in Europe and Japan thought the Mac was a poor choice for development.'
Thanks for sharing. I remember playing somekind of demo from a magazine CD using DOS as a kid...it was quiete cool to walk through videos and shoot "rendered" monsters.
Yep, it's one of those early PC CD games that was designed to be ported to systems with as little fuss as possible.Nice enough game in it's own right, but nothing that would of reversed Jaguar CD's fortunes.
