Hover Strike: Unconquered Lands
Hover Strike: Unconquered Lands — frequently asked questions
- Is Hover Strike: Unconquered Lands on Steam?
- No. Hover Strike: Unconquered Lands is not distributed on Steam, so there is no Steam Charts or SteamDB player count for it. Its live popularity is tracked here via Twitch viewership instead.
- What platforms is Hover Strike: Unconquered Lands on?
- Hover Strike: Unconquered Lands is available on Atari Jaguar CD.
- When did Hover Strike: Unconquered Lands release?
- Hover Strike: Unconquered Lands was first released on October 23, 1995.
About Hover Strike: Unconquered Lands
Hover Strike is a futuristic 3D action game where you pilot a lone hovercraft in a series of missions against overwhelming enemy forces. You must use your speed, firepower, and displays to outfight and outwit the enemy. The game presents a series of missions which must be completed before you can advance. Goals include destroying a certain number or type of enemy units. The missions take place in a variety of different planetary environments.
Summary via IGDB.
Hover Strike: Unconquered Lands on Wikipedia
Hover Strike: Unconquered Lands is a shooter video game developed and published by Atari Corporation exclusively for the Atari Jaguar CD in North America and Europe on October 23, 1995. A remake of Hover Strike for the Atari Jaguar, it was created by most of the original team who worked on the original game and both titles share the same overall plot, where the Terrakian alien race seized control of a colonized foreign planet and players are tasked with piloting an armed hovercraft vehicle in an attempt of rescuing the captured colonists and destroy the invading forces from the planet's surface before the Federation armada arrives.
Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA 4.0).
Game details
- Themes
- Action, Science fiction
Details via IGDB.
Every version compared
Prices, contemporary reception and the studio credited for each release
| Platform | Year | Loose | Complete | Sealed | Period reviews |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atari JaguarCD | 1995 | $20 | $30 | $65 | 9 reviews |
Also released on: Atari Jaguar CD. We haven’t priced or authenticated that version yet.
Collector value & authenticity
Atari Jaguar · PriceCharting sold data · Verified 2026-07-24
- Region
- NA+EU
- Released
- 1995
- Authenticity
- Low
The cartridge game with textures and CD audio — and the same floaty handling underneath.
The CD follow-up to the Hover Strike cartridge: new terrain, texture-mapped environments, CD soundtrack, unchanged float. Era reviews spread almost as wide as Val d'Isère's — from 8/10 to 39/100 depending on the outlet. Preservation footnote: the game's source code was released publicly in 2008, a rarity for commercial software of this era, and part of why the Jaguar homebrew scene became as technically capable as it did.
How it was made
Atari Corporation developed the Atari Jaguar version. Credited: designed by Cary Gee, Craig Suko, Denis L. Fung; programmed by Eric Smith, Hans-Martin Kröber, Robert Zdybel; art by Ken Saunders, Keoni Los Baños, Jennie Birch; music by Brad Wait, Robert Wait.
What the press said at the time
| AllGame | 2.5/5 | |
| Atari Gaming Headquarters | 8 / 10 | |
| GamePro | #80, March 1996 | 11 / 20 |
| The Electric Playground | January 5, 1996 | 4.5 / 10 |
| Game Zero Magazine | March 1996 | 34.5 / 50 |
| MAN!AC | #31, May 1996 | 54% |
| Mega Fun | #41, February 1996 | 49% |
| ST Magazine | #101, January 1996 | 77% |
| Última Generación | #10, January 1996 | 39 / 100 |
The contemporary press could not agree on this one: comparable scores run from 39% to 80% across 9 publications. Scores are printed in their original scales.
Cartridge & preservation record
Cartridge ROM capacity 16 megabit (2 MB), measured from the preserved cartridge image.
Cartridge data from the No-Intro preservation database (metadata only — names, sizes and checksums, no game data).
Worth knowing
- The same team, remaking their own game a year later. Most of the crew who built the original cartridge Hover Strike also made this Jaguar CD remake, which appeared at E3 1995, was listed for a September release and shipped on 23 October 1995 — six months after the game it revisits. Its source code was published by the Jaguar Sector II community on 24 August 2008 in the Jaguar Source Code Collection, alongside Cybermorph, Trevor McFur and Club Drive.
Before you buy
One of the cheaper discs. Test-played on hardware or discounted — the format's error-correction weakness makes "light scratches, plays fine" a claim, not a fact.
Authenticity & condition — Atari Jaguar
Specific to the format this title shipped in
Buying a Jaguar CD title
Jaguar CDs are the most fragile discs of their generation, and the reason is structural rather than bad luck: Atari built a proprietary format on the audio-CD spec instead of standard CD-ROM. Capacity rose to roughly 790MB, but error correction fell.
- Light scratches that a PlayStation disc shrugs off can make a Jaguar CD unreadable. Treat "light scratches, plays fine" with more scepticism here than on any other platform.
- Only buy discs that have been test-played on real hardware — emulator testing proves nothing about a marginal disc.
- Confirm the Memory Track cartridge is included or already owned: most Jaguar CD titles cannot save without it, and it is routinely missing from used listings.
- Check the jewel case hinges and tray teeth. Replacement cases are common and are not a fault, but a swapped case often travels with swapped inserts.
What a complete copy includes
- Disc, jewel case and back insert
- Manual
- Any pack-in disc the title shipped with — the Tempest 2000 soundtrack CD and the Myst demo disc are the two most often missing from "complete" listings
Hover Strike: Unconquered Lands screenshots
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