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September 17th, 2017 
Carl Williams 
The Atari Jaguar is one of those consoles that just won’t die as every decade or so, it is revived in one form or another. We have seen Atari’s attempt at launching the Jaguar and it failed. Then we saw the shell used as some form of dental equipment, and more recently we reported on the scam that was the RETRO Video Game System/Coleco Chameleon console. Maybe here on out the only Atari Jaguar news we will have is stuff like this, an unreleased Atari Jaguar game has surfaced, well, at least in video form. This is Conan by Arcade Zone for those wondering.
At the 1995 Winter Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas attendees were treated to a game by Arcade Zone called Conan. This is probably the only footage we are likely to see of this game in action. As of this writing, there are no ROM images available on the Internet and no one has come forward with mention of owning a prototype. Please, if you can, prove me wrong here as fans of the Jaguar love the console.
We do get a bit of information on what would have been had Conan been released. I remember seeing pics of Conan in magazines like Gamefan and Electronic Gaming Monthly back in the day but pics don’t do it justice. From the looks of Conan in the footage, this was not a typical brawler in the style of Final Fight or Streets of Rage.
While the basics appear to be there, there are also hints to things not in the classics. For one thing, huge pieces of scenery pan across in front of the camera (trees for instance). There appears to be more animation in the characters than in the 16-Bit brawlers also. Then there are the levels themselves. Pieces fall off and are flooded, maybe it was detrimental to your battle to be on one of those sections when it falls?
Conan looks to be an interesting brawler; too bad it was never released. Maybe our friends over at Piko Interactive can search this one out and get it finished and release it?
It has been brought to my attention that Piko Interactive have indeed done just what I proposed in the last sentence there. Check out Legend on Super Nintendo here. Still no word on release of the Jaguar version.
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Regarding Lost Jaguar game, Conan:
Here is the transcript between Carlo Perconti and myself:
CARLO :“Oh, I can reply to that: We got involved developing on the jaguar after we met some key people at one of the CES show in Las Vegas (I do not recall who exactly). Lyes and I we were impressed by the concept of the GPU Jaguar, an unique list processor which could allow huge sprites to be drawn on screen and which broke the limitation of number of hardware sprites on 1 video line like We used to have back then on the SNES. So at first We decided to develop a new graphic engine based on multiple layer of sprites on PC, then through Arcade Zone We got access to one of the Jaguar Hardware and then We started to port the beginning of a “first possible” level of what We wanted to demonstrate based on a CONAN character (but really it was only to show up the engine, no license was signed yet at that time). For sure, back to that period, We got many inspiration from the Big Coin-Up Arcade titles like Golden Axe and alike and so the main idea was to develop this type of beat-them-all games on Console while trying to take advantage of the processor list of the Jaguar. In our demo, everything was… a sprite, there were not background per say, everything was scrolling at a different speed based on the z depth position. So it was real, our demo was real however We could not make it to a real game because Arcade Zone lost some important financial deal when SONY suddenly stopped to distribute SNES game in EUROPE (yes it was a time where SONY EUROPE was a major distributor of Nintendo game) and so the project got canceled because of lack of funding, unfortunately KickStarter did not exist yet ^^ Voila, this is the little story of a demo that could have been a game but stayed only a demo because of a bad timing.”
MYSELF: can I assume then that all the source code has been lost? And it never got beyond a demo?
Sources claimed anything from 1-2 levels actually finished, but that wasn’t the case by what your telling me?
CARLO:“You are assuming right… source code lost in some 40MB HDD crash (or maybe it was floppy disk LOL hard to remember because we were moving back in forth between PC and Amiga DPaint). It was not even a full 1 level finished, just the beginning like… Conan leaving the house and going into the forest and fighting some enemy waves there…. no big boss implemented, so really only a demo.”