In this series of articles I'll spotlight an older or rare game. Sometimes it will be worth playing. Other times the game will be cringe inducing. Would you like to know more?
A snes/genesis era fighting game with dinosaurs. I've just described Primal Rage for anyone that's never played it, and that explains it completely. A fighting game with dinosaurs and giant monkeys is this full explanation. They did the Mortal Kombat thing except instead of actors being digitized, it was models of dinosaurs. They even palette swapped a few characters. You get two T-Rex and two monkey variants. The cart is a nice afternoons worth of fun. I don't know the combos or anything, but gamefaqs has you covered if you want to know that sort of stuff.
I won't tell you the crazy story because I managed to find an intro movie from the playstation version of the game! Look how menacing that T-Rex is with that taxi cab. How can anyone not love this game?
Mash some buttons to make your guy slash and chomp the other character. I always thought the more bloody and over the top a fighter is, the better. And that is something Primal Rage has perfectly utilized. For one minor example: The game features bodily functions as special moves. Not much depth or a ton of playable characters though. The stages are varied and take you to places big cities and stone henge. Most have little people in the background you can interact with. Not a bad selection of music and sound effects either. Overall nothing seemed too out of place. Just an over the top, old school fighter.
HIGHLIGHT POINTS:
*A fighting game with dinosaurs.
*One of the monkeys has a fart projectile move.
*Its full of splotchy blood effects!
*You can eat little humans from the background of stages.
*One of the fatalities has your monkey urinate on the other fighter.
Primal Rage was ported to the playstation, saturn, 32x, had an Arcade cabinet, and probably other systems I don't know about. Chances are you can find a copy on something somewhere. I've played about four versions of the game and I mashed buttons on all of them. Its fun for about as long as dinosaurs fighting can be. In this writers opinion, Primal Rage earned its footnote in gaming history. Why don't more games have dinosaurs?
Just as a goof, I typed into google: "A fighting game with dinosaurs."
Quick question - Bullet points a good idea or a bad idea? I know when I read blogs I skim around, bullet points and pictures help me pay attention. Do you guys feel the same way?
Primal Rage was the shit in the arcades even though I didn't know a single combo. After SF2 and MK, there was a crazy amount of fighting games. Primal Rage, Killer Instinct, and all the SNK stuff were all during the same time. It was a great era in arcade fighting genre gaming.
Good article. Its been a while since I've seen this game in action.
I remember the handstand farting monkey too. I always jumped over it instead of blocking, because I didn't want fart touching me. I mean, how do you block air?
And as for bullet points, the ones you used (on HIGHLIGHT POINTS) don't really stand out much. Maybe putting the important points you're trying to make in bold, and leave them within the paragraphs? So when people skim, the bold ones grab them along the way. I dunno
I never would have known what the phrase "golden shower" meant if not for Primal Rage's Chaos.
lol @ the menacing t-rex standing over the taxi. I'm somehow missing the connection in the video between asteroids crashing and dinosaurs coming back to life and battling each other.
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Primal Rage was the shit in the arcades even though I didn't know a single combo. After SF2 and MK, there was a crazy amount of fighting games. Primal Rage, Killer Instinct, and all the SNK stuff were all during the same time. It was a great era in arcade fighting genre gaming.
Good article. Its been a while since I've seen this game in action.
I remember the handstand farting monkey too. I always jumped over it instead of blocking, because I didn't want fart touching me. I mean, how do you block air?
And as for bullet points, the ones you used (on HIGHLIGHT POINTS) don't really stand out much. Maybe putting the important points you're trying to make in bold, and leave them within the paragraphs? So when people skim, the bold ones grab them along the way. I dunno
I tried to make them all bold, but when I hit preview it didn't work. Next time I'll try harder.
Console versions blew, sorry. Poor graphics about 1/3 of the moves, tamed down finishers.
Not that the arcade version was a masterpiece but man....
I never would have known what the phrase "golden shower" meant if not for Primal Rage's Chaos.
lol @ the menacing t-rex standing over the taxi. I'm somehow missing the connection in the video between asteroids crashing and dinosaurs coming back to life and battling each other.