Downtown Dash: a free Crazy Taxi-style racing game for the Atari Jaguar

The Atari Jaguar gets a new game in 2026. Developer Dr Ludos has just launched Downtown Dash, billed as a mix of Crazy Taxi and GTA, an arcade racing game built for JagJam 2026, the game creation competition for the console.

The game is free: you can download it from the developer's itch.io page, drludos.itch.io/downtown-dash. The source article does not detail the exact file format, so the game page is where to check how to run it on a real Jaguar or with an emulator.

Open, commented source code

Dr Ludos also publishes the source code, fully commented and under the MIT license. That is good news for anyone curious about programming the Jaguar, a machine known to be difficult, who can use it as a learning resource through the project page: game and source code page.

Image: Evan-Amos, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (modified).

Source: Time Extension