Lamest boot screen EVER.

[Hobo Xiphas]

Although it is not a boot screen, the best console CD playing interface is the Saturn because of the awesome spaceship animation. 

[Black Tiger]

Although it is not a boot screen, the best console CD playing interface is the Saturn because of the awesome spaceship animation. 

The Saturn is still my favorite CD player. 

[Necromancer]

The Japanese edition boot screen is AWESOME though.

It's much better than the Sega CD's, but awesome is a bit of a stretch.  Long ass tech demos of scaling and rotation are lame, but flashing 'Press Run Button' screens are AWESOME. 

[Kitsunexus]

DOOM and what else?

I was talking about T2K and AVP. Doom is better on PC.

It's much better than the Sega CD's, but awesome is a bit of a stretch.  Long ass tech demos of scaling and rotation are lame, but flashing 'Press Run Button' screens are AWESOME. 

I like the music better. Yes, I mean that 5 second inspirational piano loop....XD

Although it is not a boot screen, the best console CD playing interface is the Saturn because of the awesome spaceship animation. 

[kenomac78]

lame because you see it in the the eyes of 2007. plus  retconning history and console bashing go hand in hand on message boards no matter where you go.  youll always see the same things said by people probably not even involved n gams back then, whether its jaguar sucks, gamecube was a failure,  e.t. was the worst videogame ever made, final fantasy 7 was the best game ever made, and so on...

but to buy this thing in 1993 like i did, and watch that was entertaining. back then  a boot screen as a novelty and i was surprised it even had one. but it was cool to me then and now

also you can spin and shrink the little cat box as well.

[Kitsunexus]

lame because you see it in the the eyes of 2007.

Jaguar was lame in the eyes of 1993, dude. If some inter-f*cking-dimensional portal up and sucked the Jaguar back in time, it'd be lame in the eyes of 1846.

Jaguar sucks, except for 2 very VERY good games known as Tempest 2000 and Alien Versus Predator.

[Joe Redifer]

I did not like Alien vs Predator.  It was just too damn choppy.  And playing Tempest with a d-pad sucks.  Needs a dial.

[td741]

Jaguar sucks, except for 2 very VERY good games known as Tempest 2000 and Alien Versus Predator.

and Super Burnout, Iron Soldier...  (I know there are others, err, need to fix my JagCD since I haven't played Iron Soldier 2 yet!! ARGH!).

There are some good ports too like Canon Fodder.

Anyway, I will admit that I was really not impressed with the Jag at the beginning.  But there are a few gems in the mix.

[Kitsunexus]

There are some good ports too like Canon Fodder.

There is no such thing as a good Amiga port. Only Amiga can do Amiga.

BTW, someday for curiosity's sake, check out the emulators that run on Amiga at Zophar's Domain. Yes, Amiga running SNES.

[gundarN]

I like the Gamecube boot screen and the sounds it makes when navigating the system menu. Then, of course, you can change the sound effects...

[nat]

BTW, someday for curiosity's sake, check out the emulators that run on Amiga at Zophar's Domain. Yes, Amiga running SNES.

I get the impression you like the Amiga. Amiga rocks.

My grandparents had a couple Amigas back in the 80's. My grandmother, who is a painter, used to do all sorts of kick ass artwork on the Amiga. Whenever I went over there I would play Pipe Dream and some golf game who's name escapes me at the moment. The Amiga made a big impression on me at the time because it was so much cooler than the CP/M-based Kaypro my parents owned. All I could play at home was PacMan and Space Invaders in green-and-black CRT glory. Although I did have a lot of fun with the Colossal Cave Adventure game.

I think the Kaypro had a maximum graphics resolution of like 100x100 with 3 colors (dark green, bright green, and black).

I like the Gamecube boot screen and the sounds it makes when navigating the system menu. Then, of course, you can change the sound effects...

you can change those? Man, I never knew that. I have to go try that right now.

[gundarN]

I like the Gamecube boot screen and the sounds it makes when navigating the system menu. Then, of course, you can change the sound effects...

you can change those? Man, I never knew that. I have to go try that right now.

I think if you hold Z when switching it on, you get Mario sound effects instead.
You can play with the sounds with 4 controllers connected.

I think.

[Bonknuts]

lame because you see it in the the eyes of 2007. plus  retconning history and console bashing go hand in hand on message boards no matter where you go.  youll always see the same things said by people probably not even involved n gams back then, whether its jaguar sucks, gamecube was a failure,  e.t. was the worst videogame ever made, final fantasy 7 was the best game ever made, and so on...

but to buy this thing in 1993 like i did, and watch that was entertaining. back then  a boot screen as a novelty and i was surprised it even had one. but it was cool to me then and now

also you can spin and shrink the little cat box as well.

I was there, man! Back in '93... that thing was a piece of *crap*. I remember one of the games... some sort of craptacular side view shooter...  had no music. One of my friends had one and tried to explain the absence of music as some sort of new realism and I could do was shake my head at him.

If anything, the system's cooler now than it was then.

[MrFulci]

I thought the Jaguar was pretty nice when it first was released. Seeing the controllers for the first time I though back to the Atari 5200 controllers and it's overlays. Though it reminded me of the 5200, and these controllers were better made, I didn't care much for them.

Around the time of 386 computers, and especially when 486/Pentium became available, I got into FPS games.

Seeing Doom and Wolfenstein 3D on a Jaguar looked about as good as the PC. Though, the problem I had with the system involved the controllers. Once you experience FPS games with keyboard and mouse, and a mess of keys and commands you can group together pretty much however you want, any other way of playing FPS games seems inadequate. Still, for folks who didn't have access to those types of computers, the Jaguar ports were probably the best-looking way to play them.

Jaguar had some decent games from the start, I was a bit impressed with DOOM, Wolfenstein 3D, Tempest 2000. If they had kept going with games/ports of that quality, it would have probably stuck around a bit longer.

[td741]

There is no such thing as a good Amiga port. Only Amiga can do Amiga.

BTW, someday for curiosity's sake, check out the emulators that run on Amiga at Zophar's Domain. Yes, Amiga running SNES.

Umm... I'm a long time Amiga user...  No need to sing the Amiga's praises to me.  I've got a A1200 (040) hooked up and (*sacriledge*) two pegasos machines (and an Efika, but since it's not running MOS, I can't count it yet.)  I do have assorted Amiga parts in storage (including PAWS kits).

That said, I would state that I prefer the (US) TG-16 version of Shadow of the Beast over the Amiga Original version, the PC-CD version of Loom over the disappointing Amiga conversion and the Jaguar version of Cannon Fodder is very good (okay, it lacks mouse control but otherwise it's a decent port.)