The European Atari Jaguar Festival, “ejagfest” in short, took place on November 2nd and 3rd 2019 in Korschenbroich (between Düsseldorf and Mönchengladbach), Germany. We celebrated the 30th anniversary of the Atari Lynx this year which has been released in 1989 in the USA. Continue reading
The European Atari Jaguar Festival, “ejagfest” in short, took place on November 4th and 5th of this year in Kleinenbroich (between Düsseldorf and Mönchengladbach), Germany. We celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Atari 2600 this year which has been released in 1977 in the USA.
The European Atari Jaguar Festival, “ejagfest” in short, took place on November 5th and 6th of this year in Kleinenbroich (between Düsseldorf and Mönchengladbach), Germany. We celebrated the 30th anniversary of the Atari 7800 this year which has been released nation wide, 30 years ago in 1986 in the USA.
Here you can find an overview of the highlights of this year.
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Due to the lack of vital third-party support for the Jaguar in the mid-nineties, Atari Corparation was forced to buy licenses of popular games to port them to the Jaguar. So Atari had licenses for famously games like Mortal Kombat 3, Batman Forever, Demolition Man, Brett Hull Hockey and some more. Unfortunately, the mentioned titles have not been officially released before the end of the Jaguar. Continue reading
At Oktober the 10th, the “Amiga 30th anniversary celebration party” took place at the “Rheinischen Landestheater” in Neuss (germany). Continue reading
The “Commodore Amiga: A visual Commpendium” is the second book of the bitmap Books publishing house. Continue reading
At Gamescom we find every year the latest and the greatest console an PC games. Not in the retro section which is an integral part of the exhibition for several years. Here was all attention focused on the classics.
August is Gamescom time. In 2015 Europes largest games fair took again place in Cologne. The ejagfest.de team was at each of the five days on site.
As an exhibitor in retro area we represented the ejagfest. The Jaguar could be tried out at several displays and we spoke to many interested visitors to introduce them to Ataris last gaming console. For our ejagfest blog we took some photos of the show and visited some press events.
Winnie Forster’s book “The Encyclopedia of Game Machines: Consoles, Handhelds and Home Computers 1972-2012″(2nd edition) is available since 2011. The german version of the Book was just released in a new edition (including the years 2013-2015), but the existing english version is still worth a closer look. Continue reading
The annual gamer meeting the “Play” took place from May 25th to May 29th 2015, near Soest. Continue reading