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Why Sega Ended Up Keeping the Atari Jaguar Alive

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The Atari Jaguar turned a profit once, in 1994, and the money came from Sega, the rival it was built to beat.

How Atari's 'Do the Math' console was carried by Sega's money, and where that money went.

Subject
The Atari Jaguar, 1993
Chapters
8
Sources
8
Credits
36
Corrections
0

Sources

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  • Interview7
  • Article1

The sources the story leans on most, primary sources first. Read dates are when the page was consulted; the live page may have changed since.

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Image & music credits

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  • License unknown29
  • CC BY-SA 4.04
  • CC BY 3.01
  • CC BY-SA 3.01

35 photos, from the hosts linked below. Each file name links to the file's page, which carries the full license terms.

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1 Photo https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Atari-Jaguar-Console-Set.jpg Atari-Jaguar-Console-Set.jpg, Evan-Amos, Wikimedia Commons License unknown
2 Photo https://archive.org/details/Electronic-Games-1993-11/page/n43 archive.org License unknown
3 Photo https://archive.org/details/GamePro Issue 061 August 1994/page/n68 archive.org License unknown
4 Photo https://archive.org/details/jag v8/page/n0 archive.org License unknown
5 Photo https://archive.org/details/AtariCorporationAnnualReport1991/page/n1 archive.org License unknown
6 Photo 1987 Panther Kallista.jpg Calreyn88 CC BY-SA 4.0
7 Photo 1993 Jaguar XJS Convertible Auto.jpg Calreyn88 CC BY-SA 4.0
8 Photo https://archive.org/details/AtariCorporationAnnualReport1991/page/n42 archive.org License unknown
9 Photo Motorola 68020 die.JPG Pauli Rautakorpi CC BY 3.0
10 Photo https://archive.org/details/jag v8/page/n3 archive.org License unknown
11 Photo https://archive.org/details/jag v8/page/n31 archive.org License unknown
12 Photo https://archive.org/details/jaguar-pr/page/n16 archive.org License unknown
13 Photo https://archive.org/details/jag v8/page/n132 archive.org License unknown
14 Photo https://archive.org/details/jag v8/page/n136 archive.org License unknown
15 Photo https://archive.org/details/video-games-october-1993/page/n14 archive.org License unknown
16 Photo https://archive.org/details/cat-rap-02-1994-01/page/n5 archive.org License unknown
17 Photo Atari Jaguar (1993) 2.jpg Jzh2074 CC BY-SA 4.0
18 Photo https://archive.org/details/edge-004-january-1994/page/n8 archive.org License unknown
19 Photo https://archive.org/details/next-generation-1996-12/page/n98 archive.org License unknown
20 Photo https://archive.org/details/edge-003-december-1993/page/n12 archive.org License unknown
21 Photo https://archive.org/details/edge-016-january-1995/page/n77 archive.org License unknown
22 Photo Atari Jaguar (1993) 1.jpg Jzh2074 CC BY-SA 4.0
23 Photo https://archive.org/details/electronic-games-1994-12/page/n18 archive.org License unknown
24 Photo https://archive.org/details/nextgen-issue-007/page/n12 archive.org License unknown
25 Photo https://archive.org/details/HotRodDSFinal/page/n0 archive.org License unknown
26 Photo https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/The boxed Atari Jaguar.jpg The boxed Atari Jaguar.jpg, Wikimedia Commons License unknown
27 Photo https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Atari-Jaguar-Tom-and-Jerry.jpg Atari-Jaguar-Tom-and-Jerry.jpg, Evan-Amos, Wikimedia Commons License unknown
28 Photo Atari-Jaguar-Console-Set.png Evan-Amos CC BY-SA 3.0
29 Photo https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Atari-Jaguar-Motherboard DSP (cropped).jpg Atari-Jaguar-Motherboard DSP (cropped).jpg, Evan-Amos, Wikimedia Commons License unknown
30 Photo https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Phillip Burton Federal Building.jpg commons.wikimedia.org License unknown
31 Photo https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sega-Genesis-Mod1-Set.jpg Sega-Genesis-Mod1-Set.jpg, Evan-Amos, Wikimedia Commons License unknown
32 Photo https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/StanfordUniversityMedicalCenter.JPG commons.wikimedia.org License unknown
33 Photo https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Sega dark blue.svg/3840px-Sega dark blue.svg.png Sega dark blue.svg, Wikimedia Commons License unknown
34 Photo https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Atari-Jaguar-Motherboard-Flat.jpg Atari-Jaguar-Motherboard-Flat.jpg, Evan-Amos, Wikimedia Commons License unknown
35 Photo https://archive.org/details/edge-010-july-1994/page/n4 archive.org License unknown

Music: Tempest 2000 (Llamasoft and Atari, 1994), music by Imagitec Design; rendered from the Atari Jaguar cartridge's own ProTracker modules with libopenmpt 0.8.9

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