Atari Jaguar Anyone??????????

[jgray3493]

Ok that's nice that some of you detest the Jaguar. I can actually agree for some part as far as the graphics on certain games. They are in fact pretty terrible, but there's something about this console that just won't die.

Anyways I have a few questions that I'm sure someone on this site can answer. As we know there are a handful of games for the Jaguar that are pretty damn rare. And I've been keeping up with a couple of companies that have reproduced about 10 or 20 copies of these rare games. Well the original games go for anywhere between $1-$200 or more and the reproductions are just a little under that. My question is, are the reproductions worth almost as much as the originals? Does this significantly change the cost and rarity of these games. Yes I know a game is a game but is there really a big difference between the originals and the reproductions?????

[Bojay1997]

Ok that's nice that some of you detest the Jaguar. I can actually agree for some part as far as the graphics on certain games. They are in fact pretty terrible, but there's something about this console that just won't die.

Anyways I have a few questions that I'm sure someone on this site can answer. As we know there are a handful of games for the Jaguar that are pretty damn rare. And I've been keeping up with a couple of companies that have reproduced about 10 or 20 copies of these rare games. Well the original games go for anywhere between $1-$200 or more and the reproductions are just a little under that. My question is, are the reproductions worth almost as much as the originals? Does this significantly change the cost and rarity of these games. Yes I know a game is a game but is there really a big difference between the originals and the reproductions?????

What specific games are you talking about? Are you talking about homebrews that got a second run or reproductions of games released at retail? If it's the latter, the reproductions are worth significantly less than the original.

[jgray3493]

What specific games are you talking about? Are you talking about homebrews that got a second run or reproductions of games released at retail? If it's the latter, the reproductions are worth significantly less than the original.

Here's a few.....Worms, Total Carnage, Towers II, Iron Soldier II, Breakout 2000, Skyhammer, Protector SE, HyperForce, and Soccer Kid are some that just got put on eBay. The seller is a company that specializes in atari. The eBay ID is "myatari". Anyways check it out.

[Leo_A]

None of those are reproductions. The Songbird games have never ceased being available from Songbird except the original Protector that was superceded by the special edition and the Telegames releases that are produced today are as official as they always were and are just new production runs from Telegames. Several vendors get new stock of the Telegames releases in from time to time from them like My Atari and Songbird.

As far as I'm aware, other than perhaps a prototype or two that has been manufactured and released without official permission like I imagine has been the case for Phaze Zero to name one release, nothing out there for the Jaguar qualifys as a reproduction.

[Bojay1997]

Here's a few.....Worms, Total Carnage, Towers II, Iron Soldier II, Breakout 2000, Skyhammer, Protector SE, HyperForce, and Soccer Kid are some that just got put on eBay. The seller is a company that specializes in atari. The eBay ID is "myatari". Anyways check it out.

Those are not technically reproductions, they are simply additional print runs by the original publisher. Having said that, I have heard that the more recent print runs of the Telegames carts are of poorer quality than the originals as far as box, sticker and manual quality and in the case of their Lynx games, even the physical cartridge. As such, I have seen people pay more for the earlier runs of Telegames Lynx and Jaguar games because they don't like the newer editions.