Cute game but it's a typical late NES platformer where they dialed the difficulty way down to be accessible to little kids. You can beat it in like 30 minutes. There was also the sequel nobody played because it came out in 1993 or something.
Little kids don't know any better when it comes to wanting the latest stuff til they get a little older and more exposed to it. So parents would leave them with the last gen a little longer. Did your parents always just buy you the newest consoles on release as a young child?
In the 80s they were aiming for 10-14 year olds while many of these late games like Flintstones, Little Mermaid, Wacky Races, and Panic Restaurant were made for 6-8 year olds as Nintendo had shifted to marketing the NES as a budget/hand me down console for younger kids.
They say Rescue Rangers is so easy and part of this group of games but it sure as hell had me sweating in front of a TV for weeks so I get PTSD from hearing the game music now.
Kek, don't be ashamed anon. Rescue Rangers is easy, but for a kid... man, me and my friend had a tough time at certain parts of both games.
Electric fish, caterpillar, card throwing cat and his mine cart driving level...
That's why saying games like Flinstones are easy is moronic. Sure they would be easy when you are a grown up with a hours of experience behind you. To a kid, it's a completely different level of challenge. Dino and Hoppy took at least three months for me to finish when I was 10.
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Ha ha no, I'm 34. I played RR in 2022. It was in May-June and that game flustered me for the better part of six weeks. You think because The Mexican Runner cleared it in 15 minutes that you can do the same. Think again. And I skipped all the optional stages.
It seemed that way with Japanese games but a lot of the late Western licensed shovelware was absolutely not easy or accessible to 8 year olds, most of it was the usual brutal NES jank.
>There was also the sequel nobody played because it came out in 1993 or something
Isn't it like the most expensive NES game nowadays?
As an ex-commieblock dwelling subhuman, I played it as a kid in 1999 on some Pistachio-green chink multicart along with 7GrandDad itself and that one Wacky Races videogame from Atlus amongst other things.
>There was also the sequel nobody played because it came out in 1993 or something
Isn't it like the most expensive NES game nowadays?
As an ex-commieblock dwelling subhuman, I played it as a kid in 1999 on some Pistachio-green chink multicart along with 7GrandDad itself and that one Wacky Races videogame from Atlus amongst other things.
>The Flintstones: The Surprise at Dinosaur Peak is believed to have been released in North America exclusively to Blockbuster Video as a rental title.[2][3] Though despite constantly being cited as such in modern online reviews and websites, no evidence has been found.[4] Some have even refuted the claim by saying that the game was sold in regular stores.[5][6] Despite this, it remains one of the rarest games for the NES due to its late release during the console's production cycle and a low number of copies produced.[6][7] As of 2017 copies of the game available on eBay and other similar sites usually sell for over $800 USD[8] to as high as $1,500 as of 2016. In Europe, the game is slightly more common and cheaper but still typically sells for over US$1,000.[2][6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flintstones:_The_Surprise_at_Dinosaur_Peak
Interesting, I assumed the "Blockbuster Video rental only" story was real but Wikipedia says it isn't confirmed. Does anyone know?
https://www.reddit.com/r/nes/comments/n8gup0/was_the_flintstones_surprise_at_dinosaur_peak/ >It's not. My copy has a mom and pop rental sticker on it. This is bullshit that has been passed around like an urban legend for 2 decades.
If this guy is telling the truth, then it was at least "Rentals only" and not just Blockbuster. I'm sure even if only rental places got it, some of them including Blockbusters would quickly lose or sell copies that would get resold in regular stores. But, whether it's true or not, it's interesting that the rentals only explanation isn't easily confirmable.
https://archive.org/details/ElectronicGamingMonthly_201902/Electronic%20Gaming%20Monthly%20Issue%20055%20%28February%201994%29/page/n213/mode/2up
Something to start with, Funcoland had it listed here as Flintstones 2 in February 1994, the month it was apparently released. This is their prices for buying back used games. It has an asterisk saying it might not be released yet.
Odd, the asterisk saying "may not be out yet" is still there as far as the April 1994 issue. But then "Flintstones 2" is removed from their list entirely in the May 1994 issue.
https://archive.org/details/ElectronicGamingMonthly_201902/Electronic%20Gaming%20Monthly%20Issue%20058%20%28May%201994%29/page/n187/mode/2up
the Mexican Runner beat this game in I think 51 minutes. it's not a hard game at all but it's also not as pathetically easy as Wacky Races or The Little Mermaid.
Kirby's Adventure often gets lumped into that group of overly easy late NES platformers but it does get pretty tough in the later part of the game, starting with World 6 especially.
For me, it was Rescue Rangers, Duck Tales 2, Astérix, The Smurfs and Tiny Toons Adventure. TTA I only beat in my 20s, the last level was hell.
I tried the Flintstones games a couple times but I could never get into them, but I'll try again one day. I've beaten countless "short, easy but fun action platformers" since then especially famicom ones.
Armadillo (play emulated with overclocking)
Bonk's Adventure
Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa
Choujin Sentai Jetman
Don Doko Don 2
Felix The Cat
both G.I Joe games
Konami Wai Wai World 1 and 2 (2 is easier)
Kyatto Ninden Teyandee (Samurai Pizza Cats)
Moon Crystal
Panic Restaurant
Pizza Pop!
Rockin' Kats
Splatterhouse: Wanpaku Graffiti
The Goonies
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
Time Zone
Toki
Wacky Races
Wrath of the Black Manta (ninja cop saizou)
Xexyz
Yume Penguin Monogatari
a few of those are more action oriented rather than strict simple platformers, but if that's what you're looking for my favourite is Mitsume Ga Tooru
and then there is the whole Wagyan Land and Kero Keroppi series and their clones like Asmik-kun Land that was really geared at kids younger than 10
anyway you could easily beat half a dozen of those games in a single day and have a great sunday
GI Joe The Atlantis Factor felt hard as a young kid, especially the bosses. I never finished it back then at least. Came back to it and beat the game without much trouble in college though.
>Toki
its crazy how easy this is compared to every other version but its still a great port despite the nes's limitations, and the level design is still brilliant
Good info. My assumption right now is just that it had a minimum or very low release, and a good chunk of those copies went to rental places. I'd imagine low release games in general were also more likely to be seen as rentals, since they stay on the shelves at those places longer.
I got badly beaten in Baltimore buying this game when it released. 3 guys followed me from the mall to my car and beat me for over 15 minutes. It was in the local papers, I had to go to the hospital. I got out and this game sucked an fat dick
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Grand Dad?!
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Good game
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Cute game but it's a typical late NES platformer where they dialed the difficulty way down to be accessible to little kids. You can beat it in like 30 minutes. There was also the sequel nobody played because it came out in 1993 or something.
>to be accessible to little kids
Did little kids not exist in the 1980s?
Little kids don't know any better when it comes to wanting the latest stuff til they get a little older and more exposed to it. So parents would leave them with the last gen a little longer. Did your parents always just buy you the newest consoles on release as a young child?
In the 80s they were aiming for 10-14 year olds while many of these late games like Flintstones, Little Mermaid, Wacky Races, and Panic Restaurant were made for 6-8 year olds as Nintendo had shifted to marketing the NES as a budget/hand me down console for younger kids.
>Flintstones, Little Mermaid, Wacky Races, and Panic Restaurant
And these are all late NES classics.
Games made to have good simple fun instead of sweating in front of TV for weeks.
They say Rescue Rangers is so easy and part of this group of games but it sure as hell had me sweating in front of a TV for weeks so I get PTSD from hearing the game music now.
Kek, don't be ashamed anon. Rescue Rangers is easy, but for a kid... man, me and my friend had a tough time at certain parts of both games.
Electric fish, caterpillar, card throwing cat and his mine cart driving level...
That's why saying games like Flinstones are easy is moronic. Sure they would be easy when you are a grown up with a hours of experience behind you. To a kid, it's a completely different level of challenge. Dino and Hoppy took at least three months for me to finish when I was 10.
Ha ha no, I'm 34. I played RR in 2022. It was in May-June and that game flustered me for the better part of six weeks. You think because The Mexican Runner cleared it in 15 minutes that you can do the same. Think again. And I skipped all the optional stages.
It seemed that way with Japanese games but a lot of the late Western licensed shovelware was absolutely not easy or accessible to 8 year olds, most of it was the usual brutal NES jank.
Westerners hate easy games.
> a game based on a family franchise
> dialed the difficulty way down to be accessible to little kids
Gee I wonder why. By the way, you're absolutely can't beat in 30 mins. Not in the first attempt, at least.
>There was also the sequel nobody played because it came out in 1993 or something
Isn't it like the most expensive NES game nowadays?
As an ex-commieblock dwelling subhuman, I played it as a kid in 1999 on some Pistachio-green chink multicart along with 7GrandDad itself and that one Wacky Races videogame from Atlus amongst other things.
Post your 30 min clear.
Took me about 2-3 hours and I replay it from time to time, game is very fun.
>The Flintstones: The Surprise at Dinosaur Peak is believed to have been released in North America exclusively to Blockbuster Video as a rental title.[2][3] Though despite constantly being cited as such in modern online reviews and websites, no evidence has been found.[4] Some have even refuted the claim by saying that the game was sold in regular stores.[5][6] Despite this, it remains one of the rarest games for the NES due to its late release during the console's production cycle and a low number of copies produced.[6][7] As of 2017 copies of the game available on eBay and other similar sites usually sell for over $800 USD[8] to as high as $1,500 as of 2016. In Europe, the game is slightly more common and cheaper but still typically sells for over US$1,000.[2][6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flintstones:_The_Surprise_at_Dinosaur_Peak
Interesting, I assumed the "Blockbuster Video rental only" story was real but Wikipedia says it isn't confirmed. Does anyone know?
https://www.reddit.com/r/nes/comments/n8gup0/was_the_flintstones_surprise_at_dinosaur_peak/
>It's not. My copy has a mom and pop rental sticker on it. This is bullshit that has been passed around like an urban legend for 2 decades.
If this guy is telling the truth, then it was at least "Rentals only" and not just Blockbuster. I'm sure even if only rental places got it, some of them including Blockbusters would quickly lose or sell copies that would get resold in regular stores. But, whether it's true or not, it's interesting that the rentals only explanation isn't easily confirmable.
Does anyone here know more about it?
Blockbuster thing might just be a myth to explain why it's so hard to find, I'm looking into it more.
Could've just had a very low print run.
Try magazines around the time of release
Good idea, I'll start there.
https://archive.org/details/ElectronicGamingMonthly_201902/Electronic%20Gaming%20Monthly%20Issue%20055%20%28February%201994%29/page/n213/mode/2up
Something to start with, Funcoland had it listed here as Flintstones 2 in February 1994, the month it was apparently released. This is their prices for buying back used games. It has an asterisk saying it might not be released yet.
Odd, the asterisk saying "may not be out yet" is still there as far as the April 1994 issue. But then "Flintstones 2" is removed from their list entirely in the May 1994 issue.
https://archive.org/details/ElectronicGamingMonthly_201902/Electronic%20Gaming%20Monthly%20Issue%20058%20%28May%201994%29/page/n187/mode/2up
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the Mexican Runner beat this game in I think 51 minutes. it's not a hard game at all but it's also not as pathetically easy as Wacky Races or The Little Mermaid.
Kirby's Adventure often gets lumped into that group of overly easy late NES platformers but it does get pretty tough in the later part of the game, starting with World 6 especially.
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For me, it was Rescue Rangers, Duck Tales 2, Astérix, The Smurfs and Tiny Toons Adventure. TTA I only beat in my 20s, the last level was hell.
I tried the Flintstones games a couple times but I could never get into them, but I'll try again one day. I've beaten countless "short, easy but fun action platformers" since then especially famicom ones.
Any obscure ones that you'd recommend?
Armadillo (play emulated with overclocking)
Bonk's Adventure
Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa
Choujin Sentai Jetman
Don Doko Don 2
Felix The Cat
both G.I Joe games
Konami Wai Wai World 1 and 2 (2 is easier)
Kyatto Ninden Teyandee (Samurai Pizza Cats)
Moon Crystal
Panic Restaurant
Pizza Pop!
Rockin' Kats
Splatterhouse: Wanpaku Graffiti
The Goonies
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
Time Zone
Toki
Wacky Races
Wrath of the Black Manta (ninja cop saizou)
Xexyz
Yume Penguin Monogatari
a few of those are more action oriented rather than strict simple platformers, but if that's what you're looking for my favourite is Mitsume Ga Tooru
and then there is the whole Wagyan Land and Kero Keroppi series and their clones like Asmik-kun Land that was really geared at kids younger than 10
anyway you could easily beat half a dozen of those games in a single day and have a great sunday
also Hammering Harry is fun but the sequel kinda sucks
>also Hammering Harry is fun but the sequel kinda sucks
Play the Famicom version instead and not that 50Hz Yuropoor localization.
GI Joe The Atlantis Factor felt hard as a young kid, especially the bosses. I never finished it back then at least. Came back to it and beat the game without much trouble in college though.
Both GI Joe games are great, very underrated.
>Toki
its crazy how easy this is compared to every other version but its still a great port despite the nes's limitations, and the level design is still brilliant
Used to work with that dude. he didn't believe in shoes or pants, or cars with engines. Against his religion or something. But he did a fine job.
>tfw getting back into intermittent fasting
What I wouldn’t do for a rack of brontosaurus ribs rn bros…
Frick them for showing Gazoo in the intro, though.
I like this game. The cave man aesthetic is pretty comfy too.
Should have had Anne MagRock in it
K, b ,c
Nintendo always did minimum runs of 20,000 so there had to be at least that many copies of Surprise at Dinosaur Peak.
Good info. My assumption right now is just that it had a minimum or very low release, and a good chunk of those copies went to rental places. I'd imagine low release games in general were also more likely to be seen as rentals, since they stay on the shelves at those places longer.
I got badly beaten in Baltimore buying this game when it released. 3 guys followed me from the mall to my car and beat me for over 15 minutes. It was in the local papers, I had to go to the hospital. I got out and this game sucked an fat dick
pray tell what did these individuals look like
and the headline was
>homosexual gets beaten up for buying a rental only only game
How was it rental only if I bought it? Dude grow up I got my ass kicked for this game
Got limited Augmented Reality version of the game by accident and was beaten by 3 cavemen.
Jokes aside, I hope they've been put behind fricking bars after that. No wonder your impression of the game was completely ruined