If you don’t end the fight there, you’re left on your feet while Hogg flies across the screen in different directions, and grunts move in from all sides. Stage three shakes things up, as you jump behind the wheel of a Cadillac down Hell Road, an auto-scrolling section where you mow down gang members, crash into barrels Starsky and Hutch-style, and try and rear end Hogg, a biker astride a colorful Harley, while he lobs grenades at you. From there, it’s a trip to the Swamp Forest, battling poachers while waist deep in water, and taking on The Butcher, a brute with a skull necklace and two machetes. You battle the Black Marketeers over eight stages, beginning at the top of the City in the Sea, beating up grunts before facing down Vice Terhune after he turns an enraged dinosaur on you. One can only wonder if some concept art got reused, somewhere along the line. On an interesting note, two enemy types distinctly resemble not only Street Fighter II’s Blanka, but Street Fighter Alpha’s Charlie, as well. Interestingly, enemies will try and attack the dinosaurs to send them into a frenzy, but if you’re quick enough you can stop them and avoid having a raging beast on the rampage. These raging dinos can be beaten down like any enemy, but if you leave them alone, they’ll eventually wander off. Many are either docile, or sleeping, but if they get smacked by a human, they’ll turn enraged and attack who gets too close. Velociraptors, triceratopses, pteranodons, and Tyrannosaurus rexs all make appearances.
There’s also an interesting gimmick where you’ll find dinosaurs among the human enemies. The gang all have a Max Max vibe to them, and each enemy has enough different variations that they don’t become boring. The Black Marketeers come in all shapes and sizes, from the Bikers to the Midgets, the Knife Men to the Fat Guys, and the Hunters to the deadly Walther. In a surprisingly violent touch, killing an enemy with an explosive will make them bloodily splatter, complete with a flying pair of eyeballs. These aren’t entirely common, but it’s a lot of fun to tear through mooks with one of these once you do. (Mess’s has him attempt some sort of front flip before falling right onto his back, which looks… ineffective, to say the least.) One particularly nice addition are firearms that you’ll find along the usual knives, like pistols, shotguns, machine guns, bazookas, and grenades. They’re powerful, although you’re left vulnerable on your way down. New to this game are rising attacks, executed by pressing down, then up and attack, which can be performed without draining health. The general moveset holds no surprises from what you’d expect from a Capcom brawler, offering crowd clearing but health draining attacks, as well as dash moves. The powerhouse of the quartet, O’Bradovich is a gentle giant until you make him angry.įollowing the standard archetypes, Jack and Mustapha serve as the averages of the group, with Hannah being fast and Mess being slower, but good at grappling. The joker of the pack, Mustapha is a skilled engineer. CharactersĪ hot-blooded mechanic who loves his Cadillacs, Jack is the lead protagonist of the series.Ī cool-headed genius scientist who is Jack’s love interest. The plot is simple, fun and pulpy, and fits the Saturday morning cartoon setting well.
Behind the gang, however, lies a hidden plot to take over the new world. Joined by the ambassador and romantic interest Hannah Dundee and their friends Mustapha Cairo and Mess O’Bradovich, the four begin a quest to beat down a gang of poachers known as the Black Markeeters. Mechanic Jack Tenrec seeks to preserve nature and protect the new wildlife. Centuries later, the survivors head back to the surface, finding a greatly changed world in which the dinosaurs have returned. Sometime in the distant future of 2020, a great disaster struck the earth. It is, however, leagues better than the Sega CD FMV-based action game. Almost all of those ideas would be refined with later efforts in the genre, however, meaning that it’ll likely never exactly be anyone’s favorite. While it’s far from their best work in the genre, it’s a solid game with some interesting ideas. Despite a comic run, an animated series, and an entirely different game for the Sega CD, it’s quite likely that most will be aware of the franchise from Capcom’s brawler.
CADILLACS AND DINOSAURS GAME OVER SCREEN LICENSE
Starting life as an independent comic by the name of Xenozoic Tales, Cadillacs & Dinosaurs was a rather obscure choice for a license to make a beat-em-up out of.
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