The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino & Hoppy
released on Dec 01, 1991
It's prehistoric pandemonium as your favorite cave family, the Flintstones, get a visit from the 30th century. The clever scientist, Dr. Butler, needs some dinosaurs for the Orbit City Zoo, and he's invented a time machine to capture Dino and Hoppy. Can Fred find all the pieces that the Great Gazoo needs to build a time machine of his own? Can he make a jump into the future with the help of Wilma, Barney and Betty and rescue his prehistoric pals? Who says history has to be boring?
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[Played on the Retron 5 with the original cartridge]
I remembered this game being a perfectly passable platformer when I first played it. I never played it very far or for very long so I just thought it was fun for what I saw. I think now that I've seen the whole thing I can say that it's kind of boring.
I don't really have any in-depth reasoning for this opinion. I just played it and thought it wasn't very entertaining. I think a major part of this was figuring out how to beat all the bosses. I found most of them to be really frustrating without the egg bombs. Additionally, the levels themselves were littered with rather frustrating setpieces, like the lava climb in the castle level or the way the slippery ice worked in the snow level. The game functions well but everything around that solid ground is really flimsy and annoying to work through.
About the only thing I can enjoy about this game is the Grand Dad bootleg and how strange it is.
6/10
I remembered this game being a perfectly passable platformer when I first played it. I never played it very far or for very long so I just thought it was fun for what I saw. I think now that I've seen the whole thing I can say that it's kind of boring.
I don't really have any in-depth reasoning for this opinion. I just played it and thought it wasn't very entertaining. I think a major part of this was figuring out how to beat all the bosses. I found most of them to be really frustrating without the egg bombs. Additionally, the levels themselves were littered with rather frustrating setpieces, like the lava climb in the castle level or the way the slippery ice worked in the snow level. The game functions well but everything around that solid ground is really flimsy and annoying to work through.
About the only thing I can enjoy about this game is the Grand Dad bootleg and how strange it is.
6/10