Caveman Video Games - Bonk, Chuck Rock, Trog, Caveman Games, Primal Rage, Etc.

[Nz17]

What are your favorite video games starring or featuring cave people? Which games are missing from this starter list? Why were there more cavemen video games during the classic era? Do these "primitive" games appeal to our Stone Age brains? Which were the superior neighbors, the Rubbles or the Flintstones? DISCUSS!

[SparTonberry]

Joe & Mac was my childhood caveman game.
(Well, the SNES version which was pretty much a different game than the rest of the consoles it was released on. The others were more of a single-plane beat-em-up but that put an emphasis on the platforming.)

[Niku-Sama]

Chrono Trigger...

i guess thats technically a cave woman though so...

[celerystalker]

My brother really enjoyed Tail of the Sun on Playstation. Such an odd game. As much as I enjoy playing all sorts of games, I struggle to think of a caveman themed game I really dug into aside from Bonk. Caveman games, the Chuck Rock sequel and spin-off BC Racers, the Joe & Macs, Flintstones games... maybe the original Wonder Boy and Adventure Island games a little bit. Oh, Adventures of Dino Riki was kinda fun.

Edit: Humans! I really enjoyed The Humans/Evolution Dino Dudes. That was a fun puzzler. I mostly play the Genesis version, but I have it on Jaguar and DS as well. I know it had a Game Boy port... I'm always surprised at how mamy consoles it was ported to!

[YoshiM]

Big Nose the Caveman was a favorite of both my Mom and myself. It was one of the Camerica carts and its sequel, "Big Nose Freaks Out" was available as both a NES cart and as a cart for the Aladdin Deck Enhancer.

[calthaer]

I'm going to go with Rad Warrior:
https://thekingofgrabs.com/2018/04/2...-commodore-64/
https://c64online.com/c64-games/rad-warrior/

You're a cave man in a post-apocalyptic jungle that starts the game throwing stones at the alien drones...then you find a suit of "ancient" (powered) armor that you use to enter the volcano and eventually defeat the alien overlords. Had it for the Apple ][ and it was during the time when a lot of games didn't have an "end" - this one did; it felt epic to beat it.

[Kid Fenris]

If you liked Ayla's story in Chrono Trigger, definitely check out Live A Live. One of the quests follows a caveman named Pogo, and you can really see how it led to Takashi Tokita and other staffers' work on Chrono Trigger.

Among caveman games Dino-Riki always stands out to me for a) having no ending and b) setting one level in ancient ruins and thus implying that the game isn't as prehistoric as it seems at first.

http://www.kidfenris.com/2016/07/lit...dino-riki.html

[SparTonberry]

I thought I read somewhere that in Japanese, Dino Riki starred a Japanese wrestler. It would be like Hudson Soft to do that.

[Kid Fenris]

Sorta. In the Japanese version a power-up turns Riki into Riki Choshu. It's still in the American version, but the wrestler now looks more like Takahashi Meijin.

https://tcrf.net/Adventures_of_Dino_Riki