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European Atari Jaguar Festival 2008

The European Atari Jaguar Festival “ejagfest” took place on 15th of  November in Kaarst near Düsseldorf.

Here you find an overview of the highlights of this year.

Highlights:

  • Matthias Domin: Showed his new homebrew Jaguar game “Impulse X” for the first time. Further he showed the most current build of “Clicks” for the Jaguar.
  • Bernd Thomas: Showed his flash card for the Atari Lynx. The flash card’s purpose is to make the development for the Lynx easier.
  • Thorsten Butschke: Presented us again his Tron like game “Grenzüberschritung” for the Atari Falcon, which is playbale with up to 8 players.
  • Retro Gaming Connexion: Our friends from the French RGC distributed some flyers for their event and showed us the prototype of the Jaguar CD game “Black Ice White Noice”.
  • Lars Hannig: Showed us several demos that some already knew from last year on his Alpine Board.
  • Atari Store NL: Sold retro games and goodies for various systems.

Other highlights were Zero 5 (Jaguar), CatBox for the Jaguar, Silver Jag Jag Arcade Stick, a Super Nintendo with Sunsetriders, a PS2 with Guitar Hero and a homemade arcade stick, further Thunder Force VI for the PS2.

Competitions:

  • European Championship, “Worms” (Jaguar)
  • European “Checkered Flag” in the 6 player network (Lynx)
  • European “transgression” (Falcon)

This year was the event‘s 8th anniversary and it took place for the 5th time in Kaarst near Düsseldorf. The ejagfest took place at: Bischofshof, Königsstraße 18-24, 41564 Kaarst – Germany.

You can find pictures of this event in the Gallery and reports and videos in the Press Echo section. We would like to thank our partners and supporters.

Source: ejagfest

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