Is Primal Rage [SNES] Worth Playing Today? - SNESdrunk
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Imagine this remade today. The market needs a dinosaur fighting game darn it! 😆
You said that 3 years ago and I’m saying that today!
Well KOF XV at least has a dinosaur character
I had a Sauron and Talon big action figures. They even came with little people to eat.
Lol I had the talon one as well 🤘
Didnt know they had PR action figures.
Stevie Jo yeah lol thb, I was more interested in the action figures than the game. In fact, I didn’t even know that there was a game until later on, but I was like 5 lol
Just was about to say the action figures were so damn cool.
Funny story, I saw the big Talon action figure for sale when I was a kid and thought he was just so cool. So I saved my pennies until I could get back to the store, and lo and behold, when I got there he was gone! You think that would be the end of it? No, mother fuckers, I hunted that thing down for seven years! I checked every thrift store, on-line seller and eBay auction until FINALLY! FINALLY I FOUND HIM ON EBAY! I made sure NO ONE ELSE was going to get that thing but ME! And now, he is mine!
The moral of the story is I am Captain Ahab
I be this game at the arcade in dollar theater when I was 12. One quarter, no losses. I was completely blown away that I was able to do this! Unfortunately I was by myself and I kept looking around to see if anyone else was noticing what was going. I destroyed this game to no applause. Lol
"I have all the fighting games I need, what could be better than that?"
Answer: DINOSAURS!!!
"I already read one book Why would I want to read another?"
@@Kubold Answer: DINOSAURS!!!
Stillcnothing beats bloody roar and killer instinct
Seriously! Primal Rage had my quarters from the first day I saw the arcade machine, and I got it on SNES when it came out too. Normally I don't even like fighting games, but I flat mastered this one. DINOSAURS!
@@joshua7426 agreed though I love Primal Rage more than anything.
I loved this arcade game. They released high quality action figures of the characters & Armadon was awesome! Had a spring loaded tail with different tail tips to load. His back spikes could also pop out.
I had Chaos! He had a hollow rubber torso that you could squeez to suck in water, then squeez again to shoot out his "belch"
I had blizzard and vertigo
Those action figures were awesome! They came with little people approx the size for mighty Max. I had Blizzard and it had actual fuzz for hair on the head.
I especially loved the sabertooth tiger charecer who wasn't even in the game.
There was a cool comic series too.
God I played with the WHOLE SET when I was a kid. I was obsessed with this game... but the gameboy version. It was bad. It was so bad. But I LOVED it.
This was a classic sleepover game rental for me and friends.
this game with modern graphics and some game fixes would be sick as fuck.
One thing I hate about this game are the inputs for super moves. God they are awkward
@@laughingseal2282 ya some of the moves were awkward to pull off. this was still early in the fighting game boom so developers were still trying to figure out what inputs were and weren't going to work for the gamers.
I had this game on SNES as a kid and LOVED it. Back then you didn't have the brain to nitpick the nuances, and just appreciated the fart attacks and blood.
I always liked this game's style and gore more than the actual game itself, but I bet the arcade version is lots more fun to play.
It totally was it looked vastly superior too
It's not... Graphically superior, sure... It sounds better too, but the game is garbage and the controls are major clunky...
@@jonathankulesa I tend to agree with you. I played it quite a bit back when I was young in the arcades, and I remember liking it a lot, but I strongly suspect that was largely because the graphics and presentation were quite stunning at the time, and I was really into dinosaurs as a kid, so there was no other fighting game like it.
The main problem I had with the home conversions was not so much that they were toned down graphically, but that they exposed me to just how clunky the fighting engine is. You can certainly do worse than Primal Rage, but it's nowhere near the polish of something like Mortal Kombat or Killer Instinct, never mind Street Fighter 2. I suspect that if I were to try the arcade game again today, the combat would only feel slightly better just due to the additional frames of animation. Nice to look at, sure, but fun to play? I don't really think so.
It’s a good example of style over substance.
@@jonathankulesa All true, but I still liked playing the arcade sometimes at arcades and pizza places that had the cabinet
That’s it! The worshippers. I played this so many times in a Wal-Mart exit foyer. Love the nostalgia of your channel; happy to have found it.
The DOS/ PC port was really impressive in its time, arguably better than the arcade if you had optimal ram
You missed a huge opportunity to point out your heart explodes when u loose
Imagine PrimalRage redone with a modern engine... "This game can't be sold in a single country"
And also a secret windbreaker character.
@Walter White I assume it was a joke about how gory it would be if it was remade to look as real as possible.
@@tempestfennac9687 You got it.
This game was absolutely my jam back in the day. I remember seeing ads pre release and just being all about it, a dinosaur fighting game? Hell yeah. And to top it off with the weird almost claymation like art style and pretty aggro moves, this is one that really sticks out from that time period for me. I'll be totally honest, call me a casual or whatever "gamers" call it these days but this game was right up there beside Street Fighter and MK for me.
A bowling alley near my house as a kid had a nice little selection of arcade games. SF2: Hyper Fighting, MK2, MK3, Ultimate MK3, Samurai Shodown, Primal Rage, KOF '94, Time Killers, that bowling alley got quite a few quarters back in the day.
Gief Grief i used to play mortal kombat at my local 7/11 before taking a few loads in their mens bathroom stal
@@fentanelfloyd8383 what? You were eating dudes loads in the 7/11 bathroom?!?😢🤢
Who else had the Toys of these things. Still got the Red Diablo T Rex, great memories of playing with them in the rain gutter and tall grass that hadnt been mowed yet.
I had Diablo , he was cool
I had the vertigo & blizzard figures.
The best thing about them was that they came with the worshippers that the monsters could eat and essentially poop out!
I had them all besides blizzard! My brother and I had a lot of good times playing with these toys as kids, my favorite was vertigo and talon and he liked always liked the armadon. I actually had no idea what they were called until watching this video and recognizing the T Rex characters specifically.
my first band in high school was named after this game 😂
That's awesome
This game was so hard to play, but it was just so cool when I was a kid
Plus, it was a game my parents wouldn't like me playing - and that raised the coolness even more 😂
I can't believe you didn't mention the bowling or volley ball mini games you could do in the matches. That was one of the best parts of the game.
I own this on SNES. I don’t think Ive played it since at least 04 and even then it was out of nostalgia. Takes me back to my childhood.
I used to love this game in the arcades, I remember playing it on my SNES too but I've long forgotten who I borrowed it from. Talon was my dude! Tried playing it again a few years ago, but the magic wasn't there anymore.
The "brain bar" underneath your health bar is very much like the dizzy mechanic in Street Fighter games, SFV has it visible on the screen too.
Note: this fighting games controls differ from others. All of the special moves require you to hold the respective buttons while doing the directional motions. This was a lot easier in the arcade rather than an SNES controller
The end game gauntlet could be made easier as the game gave you a special stage to eat worshippers. If you did it right, you could basically give yourself an entire extra health bar which made the gauntlet much easier. Also there was a kind of enforced cooldown between special moves, you couldn't spam them out as quickly as you could with other games, which might explain why it seemed like they weren't working sometimes for you.
The remake I dream about could you imagine
I love your videos bro. You're the only channel that presents an informative, interesting, and objective look at SNES titles and other retro games. Plus your production quality is actually good. Other channels frequently skimp on production, which makes them just awful to watch. I hope you keep making videos for a long time!
Thank you for watching, lots more to come
I absolutely loved Primal Rage. Used to play it with my Dad all the time when I was young.
I absolutely loved the “no cheese” icon that flashed when you did cheesy stuff or spammed
I had this for Genesis as a kid loved it! Talon was my favorite
I want to see this game made with today's graphics. It would be incredible!
I love your videos. This is a game my friend had and we would play it every once in a while. I also always appreciate the "Have a great rest of your day." at the end of every video.
Have not seen this game is a very long time. Love the content on this channel...keep doing your thing.
I am so glad you reviewed this one! For me, as a kid, i thought these guys were the coolest new thing like godzilla & king kong meets mortal kombat. I believe action figures were going around too but i was so young. I gotta play the arcade version. It looks so much better!
This game was so much fun. I wish I could play it again. Thank you for this video
I'm amazed by how much gore they kept in the SNES version. This was a beautiful game to look at in arcades, and decently fun to boot.
I am sorry I have fallen behind on your wonderful videos and I will remedy that this week! Great job as always, Drunk!
I had this game with my brother, we loved playing the original game at the arcade in the second town over where our dad lived. We wanted the game in part for the cool cinematic intro that played at the start so we could show it to our local friends, but the snes port obviously didn't include it. Good times :D
Sadly we will never play a proper version of the arcade Primal Rage, as it used a special copy protection and non of the devs want to assist in cracking it. Even the Midway arcade version is extremely flawed
Joey JoJo you don’t have an arcade nearby?
I'm curious, what are some of the Midway Arcade Treasures version of Primal Rage in comparison too the original arcade version?
@@shogunfox7141 Mortal Kombat 1, 2, 3 and Ultimate emulation has been working perfectly since the late 90's. They all play perfectly.
Whats stopping some dedicated nerds from making it work? Do you need some kind of special dev knowledge to crack it? Or is it just that no one really cares about Primal Rage these days?
On the MAME Reddit they said they were in the process of cracking the encryption though it would be time consuming. They already cracked the encryption on several other games that used the same encryption method. So it can be done, it just may take a long time.
The McDonald's I went to as a kid had the this arcade in the play area. It was so awesome!
My friends and I used to hit the local arcade once and awhile after school to play a variety of games including Primal Rage. I never thought it was great, but I liked it's uniqueness.
Now I want a fighting game with the characters from the Dinosaurs TV show.
Not the Mama! Not the Mama!
Mr Sinclair *shudders*
I remember playing a small bit of this game in the arcade, and I was fucking hyped when it was finally coming to home consoles, with the SNES being my main system of choice (though we did rent the Genesis version prior....... and it was back when I still only had the 3-button controller, so needless to say, it wasn't very pleasant). It's been forever since I played any version of this game, but from looking at various CZcams videos, I could definitely see the superiority of the arcade original. However, there is one thing that the SNES version has which I kinda liked: that fatality jingle.
I mained Vertigo, BTW.
Oh the memory's my child hood all over again. Thanks for this video!!!
One of my favorite to play in the arcades. I even got like insane combo more than once, similar to what you were able to do with Killer Instinct.
Great review. I do recall the arcade version and now I want to track that down
I loved playing the arcade version of this at the town skating rink.
I am up way to early. Thanks for the episode. oh that song from 1971 is familiar indeed...
Thanks for always keepin ma spirit is up mate
As is typically the case with SNES games, there are certain moves/fatalities that are censored. Chaos, I believe, has a finisher where he urinates on the enemy and melts the body. If you do that on the SNES, you get a censor sign and nothing actually happens.
I could watch you playing the game the whole day!
I’m pretty sure those aren’t pre-rendered CGI; those look like highly detailed, hand-made, Harryhausen-esque stop motion models! That’s sick!
I actually have the entire cast of primal rage as badass 6 in tall action figures I got back when I was a kid lol. Thanks for the nostalgia trip, cannot stop grinning.
Wow, the day I decide to look up old gameplay of primal rage. Glad to see it still has its popularity (somewhat)
Oh and I managed to rip a glitched victory track where it sounds like the second part of the track for victory is playing at the start of the first section. If you want this to play you need to do a long combo as you're just finishing off an enemy. My favorite track of all!
Sure, the Genesis version might not look at good (but it's close IMO), but it has a higher frame rate which helps a lot for gameplay's sake.
Yeah the moves are much easier to execute in the Genesis port, and obviously the 32x port that built on it.
Wow, it's cool to see the other versions of this game. I had the SNES version and I loved it but It's cool to see the nicer visuals of the others.
Man, i remember this game I only beat it once with Vertigo. Plus.. I found out due to this video there were toys for this game just now.. like 20 years later.
The SNES version is the first port of the game i played in the 90s. I now own the PS version and Midway collection on PS2. Hoping a better arcade port is made for modern games consoles soon.
This game immediately caught my eye in the arcade, I loved it as a kid
Many fond memories of playing this in at gumball alley.
I wanted this game so much as a kid.
I remember being in one of the Vegas arcades and I seen one of the dinosaurs pick up a human and eat him and I couldn't believe what I had witnessed, not mention terrified.
I miss those days.
I used to play this all the time at the dollar theater arcade waiting for my movie to start. Was sad when they took it away and forgot the name until now. Thanks.
I remember there being some playground myth and legend surrounding this game, particularly the Choas character. One of his finishers is censored in the SNES version. You can't see what is happening as it is blacked out. A friend told me he pissed on opponents in the arcade version. There was a sheet of paper being passed around which supposedly showed how to do uncensored moves. I got ahold of the paper and tried some of them. None of them worked. My friend said," You're just not doing them right". LOL
One reason for the arcade being so much better is the controls. I had the same experience, painfully curling fingers around the pad to hold buttons down for the moves. On the arcade, it was no problem with the joystick and widely spread button layout. It just didn't translate to a controller, and they didn't account for that in the home port.
The primal rage toys were so fucking awesome. They came with followers you could eat and like removable skin pieces to show battle damage. I never had one, but this kid that lives next to my grandma had the whole set and we would play with those things for hours!
I remember this game, and too bad this version was censored because one of Chaos' fatalities removed. By the way, this game was going to have a sequel (PRIMAL RAGE 2) but it wasn't released because of the lack of the dinosaur characters with a new cast (even two of the new characters were made into action figures) so the story of the unreleased sequel ended up in the novel Primal Rage: The Avatars.
The new characters were reincarnations of the old characters and could transform into their dinosaur forms. I think that they didn't release it because they doubted it could compete with the 3D fighting games of that time.
@@Hektols same feeling. oddly enough, many (most?) 3d games from that era are nothing but a hangover nowadays
Also the surviving cabinet of PR2 is found in Galloping Ghost arcade in Illinois.
The switch to human Avatars was an intentional decision to *improve* profits. Finding the two most played Primal Rage characters to be the humanoid apes Blizzard and Chaos, combined with Primal Rage making much less money than SF and MK, they came to the conclusion that fighting game fans preferred human-like characters. So they introduced the idea of human avatars that could transform into their dinosaur forms mid-match. And the full dinosaur characters were still playable in PR2.
@@Hektols The death knell was that Atari was bought by WMS/Midway, which already had the more successful Mortal Kombat. In a GDC presentation, one of the PR2 devs went as far as to say that he felt that the entire purchase was done to gut and eliminate Atari, and that Primal Rage 2 never had a chance under the new management. WMS broke up Atari teams with restructuring, wasn't willing to support PR2 development, and sent notice that the game was cancelled the same day they'd sent out the field test cabinets (which meant the decision to cancel the game had already been made well in advance of that point.)
Though the dev does acknowledge that there were other issues. They were overly ambitious on the level of animation that they were aiming for, to the point that they had to use streaming techniques that largely ruled out decent home conversions. The animation complexity, along with originally being saddled with underpowered hardware, also helped cause the game to miss its original planned release date, which could have seen the game out the door before the WMS/Midway purchase.
Wow, i haven’t thought of this game is 20 years, thank you!
I loved playing this at Walmart
I still own a copy of this game! I go back to it every once in a while! It's still loads of fun!
The toys for this game were fricking awesome...💯✔
I had the PC version as a home pc pack-in game (remember when a stack of PC software was provided with a new computer?). I remember it being just ok while using a Gravis pad.
I love this, nice manual and all, i couldnt do the finishers
I still have the primal rage action figures from when I was a kid.
I loved this game, I was young and the fact that it was basically a dinosaur tournament fighter was enough for me
One of my favorite fighting games as a kid
Using the follows as a kick bag. Oh man good times:)
Loved this game as a kid! I had some of the toys too.
I used to rent this game ALLLLL the time from the movie store up the streat for my SNES when I was little
I love the concept and how this game looked. Never got into the game though. I used to blame the graphics for the stuff controls, but street fighter, the movie the game, looks stiff like these type of games, but plays fine and quite close to the cartoony originals.
One of my all time favourite games!
Primal Rage is the only arcade game I ever beat on my first try without continues. It must have been before they implemented the cheese meter because I just did Blizzard's roundhouse punch the whole way through.
Man I love this aesthetic and color palette, as a lame Street Fighter loyalist I missed this one too.
Great video once again.
I had this game on game gear, and enjoyed it a lot.
I remember playing this in the arcade as a kid!
I looooved primal rage as a kid. I sucked at it but i used to do anything I could to play it in the arcade.
I agree the concept and visuals are pretty neat (love the background ideas even with limited resources), but I recall that the controls were not solid at all. You just couldn't pull off specials and finishers at will. It doesn't suck as much as Clay Fighter, but it always sounded to me like a missed opportunity. Anyway, nice video as usual
This was so fun in the arcade when it came out.. right time and place and all.. I was maybe 7 when I first encountered it in the wild and the farting gorilla was hilarious at the time.. simpler times.
It's actually shocking how many Deep Purple and Rainbow songs influenced video game music in the 80s and early 90s.
I've always loved this game. It's also on the Sega 32X!
Love this game so much!! Good memories!!
Was Fun to watch in the arcade Haa the SNES version was a decent fighter imo. Clayfighter was fun though.
I remember playing this at the arcade. Was worth every quarter I could find.
Had a PC port. Was never very good but it stuck with me for the theme if nothing else. Makes me want to see you cover Rampage or even Rampage World tour.
New video , nice im excited!
Huh, it took this long, but I finally realized that dinosaur toy I had as a kid was Diablo from this game series.
Primal Rage on my opinion was my favorite fighting games that my favorite console port was SNES, Game Boy, Saturn, Game Gear and PS1
One of the few fighting games I was able to actually learn special movies or combos for. Super difficult.
I had the Chaos and Blizzard figures as a kid.
When I made bezel art to fill in the black bars on the side, I was surprised by how many comments I got from people who love this game. Guess it's still popular.
Legendary game, still have mine on SNES. The only game no one in my family could beat me in haha