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Rayman was the Atari Jaguar's answer to games like the Super Mario Bros. franchise and the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. It was also probably the most successful franchise to start life on the Atari Jaguar, ultimately spawning 44 games across multiple systems. The Atari Jaguar had a short life and the original Rayman was ported to other systems, including the PlayStation, where it was no doubt more successful commercially.
Rayman is a side-scrolling platform game designed with kids in mind much like the Mario and Sonic series. Rayman, the title character, starts the game with only the ability to walk, crawl and make faces. He is able to collect various other powers and abilities throughout the course of the game. Ultimately, the player must guide Rayman through six worlds to free all of the imprisoned Electoons and battle Mr. Dark.
The Jaguar version of Rayman was an excellent game and one of the better games on that system. However, the subsequent PlayStation version was better. The primary differences are that the PlayStation version has better sound and more responsive controls. However, if you are a Jaguar owner, this should be on your list of must have games.
There are quite a few ways to play this game. The original was released on the Jaguar, PlayStation, Saturn, DOS and various portable systems. Rayman also showed up later on the PlayStation Network and on the PlayStation Classic. If you want to play the original Jaguar version then you will need an original system and cartridge or be willing to settle for emulation.
The preview above comes from the October 1994 issue of EDGE magazine.
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the 2 most recent Rayman games are in an elite club of platformers that rank as the best of all time. I would venture to suggest that Rayman Origins might actually be the best platformer ever. The humor and silliness of it all, combined with really great graphics and an epic soundtrack make it heaps better than most other platformers out there. Legends was also pretty good, but Origins was such a polished masterpiece that I don't think they were ever going to be able to top that.
I was super excited about the Jaguar when it came out but what a piece of crap that system was. Plagued by the usual problems that filled the halls of Atari throughout the 80's, the Jaguar was their last attempt to remain relevant and boy did they ever drop that ball. The hardware was far more powerful than their competitors, but it apparently was damn near impossible to program anything for it .
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I don't think that the Jaguar was any harder than other systems of the time to program for. Or the ones that would come shortly after like the Saturn anyway. However, Atari repeated their mistakes with the Atari 7800. The hardware was great but they were too cheap to spend the money that needed to be spent to develop high quality games and they did a poor job of courting third party developers. I'm sure they probably didn't produce developer tools to the level that Sega, Sony an Nintendo did either. The Jaguar had the power, timing and price to be a very successful system. It's amazing how Atari managed to screw that up.
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