Select games from the ill-fated 1993 home console the Atari Jaguar will be included in the upcoming Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration. The collection will mark the first time that Atari is including the Jaguar alongside its more well-known consoles such as the Atari 2600 and Atari 7200. A total of nine Jaguar games will be included among the over 100 different titles that make up Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration.

Atari's consoles in the 70s and 80s were industry-leading devices that sold millions of copies. The Atari 2600 sold over 30 million copies by 1983 which made Atari the biggest name in the nascent gaming industry. 10 years later, Atari released the Jaguar home console which was heavily marketed as the only 64-bit system; however, the processors under the hood of the console were a pair of 32-bit processors. The cartridge-based Jaguar was outclassed two years after launch by both the Sony PlayStation and the Sega Saturn which both utilized CDs. Despite the lack of success and short lifespan, the Atari Jaguar has become a collector's item and recently made news again when a long-lost unreleased Jaguar game was found after 25 years.

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Out of the 50 games that make up the Jaguar's library, nine will be available in Atari 50: The Anniversary Collection. The included games are Atari Karts, Club Drive, Cybermorph, Evolution Dino Dudes, Fight for Life, Missile Command 3D, Ruiner Pinball, Tempest 2000, and Trevor McFur in the Crescent Galaxy. Cybermorph is notable as that was the original launch game with the Jaguar in 1993 and is one of the first polygon-based console games. PC ports made up the bulk of the Jaguar's library with none of those titles, which include Theme Park, Syndicate, Wolfenstein 3D, and Flashback: The Quest for Identity, included in Atari 50: The Anniversary Collection. Atari's most infamous title E.T. the Extraterrestrial, which destroyed Atari's home console business and is directly responsible for the Jaguar being developed, will be included in the upcoming compilation.

Notable by its absence is the most critically-acclaimed title from the Jaguar library: Alien vs. Predator. Released in October 1994, Alien vs. Predator was considered by many to be the Jaguar's "Killer App" and a stand-out example of a console-based first-person shooter. The selected games cover a gamut of genres, from kart racing to fighting games and represent Jaguar-exclusives even if the console's best-selling titles are not included in Atari 50: The Anniversary Collection.

With only 100,000 consoles sold from 1993 through 1995, the Jaguar was another in a long line of disappointments for Atari. Releasing a CD-based add-on failed to entice consumers and the Jaguar was soon forgotten. Today the Jaguar is a sought after collector's item with more fans than at any point during the consoles original lifespan. Atari may be driven primarily by nostalgia releases, but the company is also embracing the future with 50th Anniversary Atari NFTs.

Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration will be released on November 11 for Atari VCS, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.

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