CADILLACS AND DINOSAURS MAME ROM SERIES

Sounds and visuals are pretty ok for a 1993 game, though it wouldn’t hurt if the sprites were a bit sharper, I guess, but hey-if the scenes look real enough and do not make you want to puke and scratch your eyes out of your head, what’s there more to ask for?Ĭontrols? Well.

And anything not featuring enough dinosaurs was inevitably out. And after the first Spielberg’s take on Jurassic Park appeared on the silver screen, they were a thing even more. And being a millennial kid, I can tell you that dinosaurs were a thing back then. But the unique combination of Fallout Style retro-future apocalypse combined with the Arthur Conan Doyle’s Lost World elements were definitely something new. Like, we’ve seen games based on a comic book a million times before. And since I’ve got to read some of the comic stories only after I’ve first played the game itself, I can only imagine what it must have been like for the comic fans when they first popped that coin into the cabinet. But what makes Cadillacs and Dinosaur so fun is its settings and atmosphere.

I mean, it’s a perfectly good and fun brawler on its own.

And, well, that’s not where it exactly excels. Now, gameplay-wise, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs are pretty much your average Capcom-style brawler: isometric view and movement, four characters to choose from (up to three players can play simultaneously), destructible surroundings (which usually yields you some kind of reward like bonus score points or HPs), weapon pick-ups-you get the idea. There the protagonists, the eponymous Cadillacs, named after their ‘sort of leader’ Jack “Cadillac” Tenrec, find themselves fighting a group of poachers called Black Marketeers, who (for unknown reasons) hunt and capture wild dinosaurs, which makes the animals afraid of-and thus hostile towards-humans, breaking the fragile equilibrum between the surviving humanity and the new thriving ecosystem.

CADILLACS AND DINOSAURS MAME ROM SERIES

Half naked chicks, dinosaurs, vintage rides and guns in a single package, you say? Well, count me in!īased on the popular 1990’s comic book series titled Xenozoic Tales (or C&D), Cadillacs and Dinosaurs follow the same group of characters (from the comic) living in a post-apocalyptic 26th century, in which the Earth (after the humanity took refuge in underground shelters for circa six hundred years) has been repopulated by previously extinct species, namely dinosaurs and prehistoric creatures. Speaking of the “Mad Max style post-apocalypse wasteland but with dinosaurs” setting, this does lead to some classic clichés being missing from the game.Description of Cadillacs and Dinosaurs ROM - MAME So basically it’s another really solid CAPCOM scrolling beat ‘em up with a really unique and fun setting. There are also the health and weapon pick-ups (often from barrels!), and the weapons can include the usual melee weapons but can also include guns and explosives, which at the time was unique in my eyes (turns out it had already been done, but I wasn’t to know at the time!)

The only other thing unique about the game is the fact that as well as the “Black Marketeers” gang you fight there are also titular dinosaurs that roam around the levels and will attack both you and your enemies indiscriminately, which is fun. Up to three players can play simultaneously and if more than one player does a special near another you can do a “Team Special”. You have your attack, your jump, your grapple (where you can attack and throw) and a health-draining special move, though this time you also have a special move that doesn’t deplete health, sort of like Streets of Rage II and onwards. Like a lot of these licensed games the actual core gameplay hasn’t been changed much, the characters and locales doing all the work in making it feel different compared to what came before it. Ah-ha! There’s a Cadillac! … Admittedly blurry, but as you can see by the normal health bar, that’s just the screen effect when you’re driving…

Cadillacs and dinosaurs mame rom