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'Trevor McFur in the Crescent Galaxy' was supposedly a game that Atari developed for their Panther system, which never completed since focus shifted to the Jaguar with 64-bit and all. You control Trevor McFur, an anthropomorphic jaguar enlisted in the Circle Reserves, an interspace combat force. An odd entity, with a fitting codename 'Odd-it' invades the Crescent Galaxy and General Patent (lion) sends Trevor on a seek-and-destroy mission along with sidekick Cutter (a lynx). Trevor was, likely, to be Atari's new mascot and conquer the gaming world. Compared to Mario and Sonic, however, he has not much to offer in this appearence. From there on, its side-scrolling shoot 'em up versus tons of space debris, odd enemies ranging from spiders to ice cubes, flying discs and gargoyles to bosses taking up half the screen. There's plenty of weapons and lots of them are useful and fun. It's here, however, that the game starts showing off it's weaknesses: you will find that you need to fire almost constantly to destroy the vast number of foes that are set to take you out, because they do you in with one hit. You got 3 lives and 3 continue credits, but they are quick to use up if you're not catching on quickly. Some enemies are darn awkward, can attack from behind where you have no possibility to aim, geysers can fire totaly random and it's easy to get caught in a corner while fighting bosses. The story is futile at best, but that makes no exception to many similar games. However, something dull is the abscence of music with only the title and select screen who is granted with some upbeat tunes. The game features many nice graphics, with smooth backgrounds and colorful sprites, but you get the impression that Atari rushed the game with no spoken dialogue or similar to boost the system's abilities. People appearently love to trash the game, but 'Trevor McFur' is still appealing to me. I love cats, old console games and side-scrolling space shoot 'em ups, so it wins me over for a while.Read full review
Only buy this game if your looking to expand your Jaguar library. Theres no stage music and the graphics are sub par at best, even considering when this game came out. Some of the sprites seem to use acm(advanced computer modeling) which was all the rage at the time, while other sprites are drawn in the tradional way. This gives the game a very hodge podge look. For a shooter, the ship controls well enough. Its very snappy and not sluggish. Firing is also satisfactory. However, the power ups are all nearly useless except one, and generally look a but silly to boot. This seems to come from very generic and different style choices thrown into the game. As a whole, there it very little reason to actually play the game after you do purchase it, other than to make sure it works. If you need to play a shooter on the Jaguar, just buy Raiden.Read full review
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
For being on jaguar in it's launch of course it's not perfect but too many who never owned a jaguar slam this game they never even played. I like game alot it's worth the cost. Far too long bozos just yap and join in hateing a item they never even played.
Verified purchase: No
Trevor McFur is an awesome side scrolling shooter for teh Jaguar console. It has amazing 64-bit grafx and some sweet sound fx. I would recommend this game to any shmup lover out there.
What can I say. Its like most of the other games made for the Jaguar. Rushed out the door. They didn't even have the decency to give it good music. They didn't give it any music. But at least its better then Club Drive.
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