{"id":15956,"date":"2017-03-22T16:48:29","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T20:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=15956"},"modified":"2017-04-18T13:47:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T17:47:57","slug":"cybermorph-atari-jaguar-1993","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/03\/22\/cybermorph-atari-jaguar-1993\/","title":{"rendered":"Cybermorph (Atari Jaguar, 1993)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/darth-azrael.tumblr.com\/post\/158485117393\/blowinthecartridge-cybermorph-1993\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/tumblr_ohaf6sWdNg1tc9hojo1_400.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cybermorph (1993)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/darth-azrael.tumblr.com\/post\/158485117393\/blowinthecartridge-cybermorph-1993\">http:\/\/darth-azrael.tumblr.com\/post\/158485117393\/blowinthecartridge-cybermorph-1993<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cybermorph was a 3D shooter for the Atari Jaguar that was originally the pack-in game for that system. It received mixed but generally positive reviews. I&#8217;m not sure the above commercial would have inspired me to buy a Jaguar or play Cybermorph though&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The game reminds me a bit of StarFox on the SNES but more open ended. It was a pretty good game and does a descent job showcasing some of the capabilities of the Jaguar. However, it wasn&#8217;t a system defining game like Super Mario World for the SNES or Sonic for the Genesis. Pack-in games have tended to matter a lot less as time has gone by and when the PlayStation was released, it was released without one. Cybermorph didn&#8217;t hurt Jaguar popularity but it probably didn&#8217;t do a lot to sell the system either.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, there were two versions of this game. The first was the 1993 release and was 2 MB in size. The second was released in 1994 and was 1 MB in size. It cut out some of the animation sequences and voice samples. No doubt this was done as a cost savings measure.<\/p>\n<p>Cybermorph received a sequel called Battlemorph on the Jaguar CD.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src='http:\/\/adn.ebay.com\/files\/js\/min\/jquery-1.6.2-min.js'><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src='http:\/\/adn.ebay.com\/files\/js\/min\/ebay_activeContent-min.js'><\/script><br \/>\n<script charset=\"utf-8\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\ndocument.write('\\x3Cscript type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"http:\/\/adn.ebay.com\/cb?programId=1&campId=5337952703&toolId=10026&keyword=%28Cybermorph%2CAtari+Jaguar%29&width=336&height=280&font=1&textColor=000000&linkColor=0000AA&arrowColor=8BBC01&color1=709AEE&color2=[COLORTWO]&format=ImageLink&contentType=TEXT_AND_IMAGE&enableSearch=y&usePopularSearches=n&freeShipping=n&topRatedSeller=n&itemsWithPayPal=n&descriptionSearch=n&showKwCatLink=n&excludeCatId=&excludeKeyword=&catId=&disWithin=200&ctx=n&autoscroll=n&title=Cybermorph&flashEnabled=' + isFlashEnabled + '&pageTitle=' + _epn__pageTitle + '&cachebuster=' + (Math.floor(Math.random() * 10000000 )) + '\">\\x3C\/script>' );\n<\/script><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybermorph (1993) http:\/\/darth-azrael.tumblr.com\/post\/158485117393\/blowinthecartridge-cybermorph-1993 Cybermorph was a 3D shooter for the Atari Jaguar that was originally the pack-in game for that system. It received mixed but generally positive reviews. I&#8217;m not sure the above commercial would have inspired me to buy a Jaguar or play Cybermorph though&#8230; The game reminds me a bit of StarFox on the SNES but more open ended. It was a pretty good game and does a descent job showcasing some of the capabilities of the Jaguar. However, it wasn&#8217;t a system defining game like Super Mario World for the SNES or Sonic for the Genesis. Pack-in games have tended to matter a lot less as time has gone by and when the PlayStation was released, it was released without one. Cybermorph didn&#8217;t hurt Jaguar popularity but it probably didn&#8217;t do a lot to sell the system either. Interestingly, there were two versions of this game. The first was the 1993 release and was 2 MB in size. The second was released in 1994 and was 1 MB in size. It cut out some of the animation sequences and voice samples. No doubt this was done as a cost savings measure. Cybermorph received a sequel called Battlemorph [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[225,240,2514,936],"class_list":["post-15956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retro-games","tag-atari","tag-atari-jaguar","tag-cybermorph","tag-jaguar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}