Dactyl Joust

Dactyl Joust is an action-platform game similar to the original Joust and Joust 2: Survival of the Fittest, where players take control of a knight riding a pterodactyl from a first-person perspective in a 3D environment battling and defeating groups of enemy knights riding dactyls, instead of a flying ostrich like its predecessors.

In early 1994, a port of the original Joust for the Atari Jaguar was showcased on few print publications such as Electronic Gaming Monthly and it was intended to be a hidden easter egg on an upcoming title for the console. On September of the same year, both Atari Corporation and Williams Entertainment announced their partnership that included plans to update and release some of the latter's early arcade games for the Jaguar such as Defender, Joust and Robotron, while Atari Corp. handled the publishing of these titles respectively. Later on during the same time period, it was planned for a Q2 1995 release, now under its finalized name.

Six months later, the game alongside Mortal Kombat III was announced for Jaguar as a result of their partnership. The game was said to be still under development, with ex-Atari Corporation vice-president in third-party development Bill Rehbock stating several of its planned features such as being played from a first-person perspective in a 3D environment. During this period, only a few in-game screenshots of the project were showcased on magazines such as Ultimate Future Games and Edge respectively (which also mentioned it as an Atari Jaguar CD title), while it was still listed for a Q2 1995 release.