Music for the beast...the Jaguar CD

In September, 1995, Atari released the Atari Jaguar CD for about $150. The JagCD was planned years before, but was getting more and more important, since Sony anounced the Playstation with a built-in CD-ROM.
The Sony Playstation, just like the JagCD, hit the market in September.
The JagCD had to offer a very nice "gimmick": the V.L.M., the "Virtual Light Machine". (See the appropriate section for more info).
An optional MPEG-cartridge (for watching Video CDs and CD-i's) was taken into consideration as well, but it never saw the light of day.
With the JagCD you were able to play your audio-CDs on your Jaguar and "finish" it with the V.L.M.
Some games were equipped with additional levels and fmv-cut-scenes. Very remarkable were the ports of Cinematronics-titles like "Dragon's Lair" and the PC-title "Myst" with excellent graphics.
The JagCD was connected to the Jaguar via the cartridge-port, which was passed-through to have the "Memory Track" inserted while playing CD-based-games. The "Memory Track" was an optional high-score cartridge.
Though offering nicer presentation of games, the JagCD couldn't compete with the Sony Playststion, because the Jaguar itself was supposed to be a mostly cartridge-based system and couldn't offer the CPU-power of the PlayStation. So the JagCD was NO must-have-peripheral for the Jaguar, but just nice to have!
Atari planned to release a "Jaguar Combo" which combined the Jaguar and the JagCD in one single unit. It was never released...