Atari Panther Prototype Explored

Thanks to Atari Explorer for their updated article revealing concept pictures of the Atari Panther, the 1991-era machine which "was going to be the first new Atari console since the launch of the 7800 by Atari Inc. in 1984", before the console "was shelved at the last minute as a parallel project within Atari showed much more promise and much more power - that project gave birth to the Atari Jaguar nearly 2 years later." The new pictures reveal that "The unit is much smaller than a stock Jaguar... [and] the cartridges would be inserted flat into the front of the Panther like a front-load VHS tape recorder."

Comments

What a painful analogy.

[Inoshiro]

"The unit is much smaller than a stock Jaguar... [and] the cartridges would be inserted flat into the front of the Panther like a front-load VHS tape recorder."

Don't you mean like a Nintendo Entertainment System? Come on, it's a video game system, this is a video game system.. it should be obvious! :p

Re:Panther, Jaguar

[Meowing]

Is it coincidence that Apple named the last two OS X releases Jaguar and Panther, or is Steve an old Atari fan?

Steve was an old Atari employee. The kitties were likely just coincidence, all the OS X releases have been getting names like that.