UNRELEASED PROTOTYPE: Slam Racers for the Atari Jaguar - Gameplay / Sample Footage

This game appears to be 100% complete. But it just wasn't very good. Nearly every race, my car gets caught/stuck on the side of the road -- making it impossible to finish the race. The hit/crash detection just doesn't work correctly. The steering controls are very sluggish too, making it impossible to avoid the barriers and obstacles on the track. On top of it, this is another lazy software developer that produced a game that doesn't even look 16-bit.... It looks like an 8 bit Nintendo game, specifically R.C. Pro Am.

The concept of the game is actually clever. You basically have a bulldozer of a car with giant tires -- and you can crush/disable all the other cars racing on the track by running them over. Hence the title, Slam Racers. It just wasn't executed properly.

The Atari Jaguar seemed to be doomed with all this lackluster shovelware.... So I'm not shocked this game never was released. It wouldn't have sold well and it would have once again tarnished the Jaguar's reputation as a 64 bit console. For every Alien Versus Predator or Skyhammer, the Jaguar got 20 games that looked 16 bit or with this example barely 8 bit.