Atari Jaguar

For the first time in history, there will be an Atari Jaguar Tournament on the Sensible Days. There was one on the first Sensible Holland tournament in 2006, but since then the big cat has remained silent.

What made the Jaguar so special? Well first the machine itself. It was one of the 64-bit generation in the mid-90s. Before the Play Station, the competition was trying to find a successor to the great(est) 16-bit generation. Sega tried it with the 32x and the Mega-cd. The 3DO came tried a different model, a bit like Xbox is doing today, with different machines playing 3do games.

And then there was Atari. After they had failed with the Lynx (designed by Amiga people) and the Atari ST had died they were sort of desperate. It was a weird machine, with an even weirder joypad/keypad.

The Best game (next to Sensi) was Tempest 2000. A completely Trippy take on the Arcade classic Tempest by Hippy Superstar annex Goat-Lover Jeff Minter. Jeff Minter recently got his own retrospective by Digital Eclipse.

And then Sensible Soccer. It was the international edition, published for USA’94 by Telegames. If you look at the video above, you can see it tries some ‘effects’ to make it feel 64-bitty, and the menu have new glossy look.

But more importantly: years before SWOS 2020, this actually saw an increased resolution, more of the pitch is visible. It might give some interesting twists to our beloved game.

By the way some people had hoped for a Fifa, but U guess you can please everybody