Video: Remembering Trevor McFur, Atari's Not Entirely Convincing Answer To Star Fox

"Did you own a Jaguar? Let us know in the comments!"

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@PeterAndCompany Yes.

I wish.

I owned an Atari Jaguar and never thought about comparing the two. Kind of strange comparison, but think it's more coincidence with the whole animal thing. Even stranger, there was another jaguar game from 1993 that I actually consciously compared to star fox because, well, it's actually comparable to star fox. I didn't watch the video so maybe they mentioned it, but I'm talking about Cybermorph. It came packed in with my Jaguar and instantly reminds you of star fox. Very very similar. They should be comparing Cybermorph not Trevor McFur.

We gonna play some Jaq!

Owned one and at least a couple dozen games for it. Sold the whole lot years later, never looked back. Cybermorph (the pack-in title) was the Starfox ripoff, not Trevor McFur. The Trevor McFur game was just a run of the mill side scrolling shmup.

Still have Atari Jaguar, 'Trevor McFur' was fine but 'Iron Soldier' was the favorite.

@AcclaimDev Cybermorph was only similar to Star Fox in gameplay engine and space theme. The goal of Star Fox was not to solely collect pods.

Trevor McFur (although a side-scrolling shooter) was extremely similar to Star Fox in character, marketing, and storyline. That is what this video aims to discuss.

i wanted a jaguar, but after i saw the games that came out for it, and the egm item about how it was supposedly a 16 bit console in disguise, not so much. i got the 3do instead.

Atari jaguar!? Nope! (Im more of a intellevision person)

Trevor McFurr played nothing like SF
also, the 2600 had a Star Fox title before the NES existed not to mention theSNES
Yeeshh
http://www.mobygames.com/images/covers/l/32102-star-fox-atari-2600-media.jpg

I'd be more interested in knowing if DS9 copied Babylon 5.

I wish my jaguar still worked. The best game from my memory was Rayman.

Jaguar was nowhere near a 64-bit console. Atari lied about it.

@RetroTyGuy in 1993, though, people who owned both were definitely comparing star fox to Cybermorph more so. At the time, it actually made me wonder what star fox would've been like with an all-range mode, like what would appear later in Star Fox 64.

Other than Atari 2600, Atari is a complete joke and had terrible games.

Well that looks terrible.

I never knew anyone with a Jaguar, but I always heard the Alien Vs. Predator game was amazing.

I debated buying a Jag a few years ago with Doom.
But decided against it, as I must of bought Doom 8 times already on different formats.

Ah, the Jaguar. Atari's video game equivalent of the drunk guy who wrecks a party and gets thrown out, just to scramble his way back in through a window and puke in the punch bowl.

@PeterAndCompany I still own an Atari Jaguar....I am not proud about that.

I've never seen the Trevor Mcfur game before and I think only the title is the star fox
Comparison clearly the game wasn't comparable to starfox or does it look like it was pretending to be ! Odd article ! I did own a jaguar twice and it was rubbish wit the exception of tempest 2000!

@PeterAndCompany Yes, I was stupid and traded in my SNES with Super Mario RPG and Secret of Mana (PAL version) for a Jaguar. I quickly realized my biggest mistake and got rid of my Jaguar. I now have a a SNES again, but not those games.

I have to agree with some others that the connection is just a minor marketing ploy where Jaguar did have that Cybermorph game in the same year 1993 that was way more comparable.

raises hand I still have my Jaguar. I actually sold off Trevor McFur earlier this year and others over the past year and a half. I'm currently holding on to Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, Tempest 2000, Iron Soldier, Raiden (though that might be going, too), and Theme Park. The selection is pretty much every game I want from the system. Except for maybe Syndicate, NBA Jam TE, Missile Command 3D, and if I win the lottery: Rayman, Towers II, Iron Soldier 2, and Atari Karts.

Jaguar was cool. Atari just couldn't get it cooking and had a small library. But it had many great ones like Rayman, Tempest 2000,Defender 2000, Raiden, Doom, Wolfenstein, iron soldier, NBA jam, missle command and a few others!

@hYdeks you must have never played an Atari 5200,7800 or some of the many amazing Arcade games they made?!? And NONE of us would be gaming today if it wasn't for Atari! A little respect please!!

@joey302 yea actually I have, I just don't like Atari past the 2600 years, and I started gaming because of the arcade classics by Sega, Nintendo, and Namco etc., so I don't really have any nostalgia feelings about Atari, probably why I have the opinion I have towards Atari

I actually owned two jaguars during the 90s and I had the cd toilet add on too. Wish I had never sold them. Trever McCrap was awful as was club drive and dozens of others. However it had the best version of doom at the time as well as alien v predator. However its crown jewel was tempest 2000 which is still to this day my favourite video game. The cd also had a cracking highlander game and battlemorph which was aces.

I can't believe the best game on the atari Jaguar hasn't been mentioned in the comments. Primal rage! A great port of the arcade version. Almost got a Jaguar for that one.

Trevor McFur sounds like a 70's presenter at the BBC who's now been arrested for er... "reasons"...

I think Jaguar and 3DO games should come to the Wii U Virtual Console.

Tempest2000 is actually the greatest video game ever made (serious!). Jeff Minter is a God. I would never get rid of my Jaguar or my copy of the game.

@Churchy lol like a poor man's Burt Reynolds.

"Hi I'm Trevor McFur and here are the nominees for best cine, cine-ma, ci-ne-matog... (rubs white dust from mustache) Here's the award for the camera guys."

I always just presumed that Atari's decision to publish a launch title with a jaguar for a protaganist was because the console was to be known as Jaguar.

How naive was I.