Why did you love, hate, or never get into Primal Rage? (Also, make sure you check the description!) (Part 2) Primal Rage II: $2,300,000 Conspiracy: ruclips.net/video/14OH3NCUvHY/видео.html
While I’m not the greatest with Primal Rage because of its input layouts. The story always intrigued me when I was younger. Makes me wish I can see this franchise get brought back on modern platforms.
I thought it looked kind of lame back then. It just didn't compare to Mortal Combat, but I never really had much interest in dinosaurs. As an adult I did play Ark Survival Evolved and that was kind of fun for a bit.
@@NEONBattleBitch it was good but I never got into into it. It was the time of so many fighters available. Now with saying that, it did stand out and survived from the ether due to its crazy uniqueness.
13:58 this statement here hit the nail on the head. Emulation is looked at more positively now but I remember the "dirty" stigma it had (and still has with some collectors and elitists). Emulation IS the true preservation of all this. I will always be grateful for it ❤😊 Good video 👍 a slice of the 90s
Very Cool! @NEONBattleBitch - I'm the OG Producer/Lead Programmer of the Coin-Op arcade Primal Rage. I'm the dude with the flowing long hair in that "making-of" video. No longer. :) Thank you for making this very interesting and informative piece. I actually did the security chip programming, and it's somehow rewarding that it took so long to crack. But I'm certainly glad it is fully working now so everyone can enjoy the hard work we put in for 2+ years of development. You should do a piece on Primal Rage 2 - I'm still pissed about that. As you said in the video, we had a piece of the culture at that time and PR2 would have blown the top off it. Thanks to Neil Nicastro and the Midway mafia, they stuck a knife in it so it wouldn't compete with Boone's Mortal Kombat franchise. How screwed up is that?
I'm going to try not to be a weirdo by over-reacting, but this is freaking awesome! Thank you so much for watching the video and leaving this comment! That "long flowing" hair gave you a 90's smooth operator license (epic) 😂 I actually have a piece on Primal Rage 2 in the works, I've been doing research on the baord (ZN-1?) and piecing things together. Have a friend who owns one of the (four?) proto boards. Yea, it really irritated me too that they canned it, and I know many other fans were very disappointed too. And why am I not surprised it was corpo gaming politics that ruined it for fans and devs alike... sigh. This game deserves a lot more credit than it gets! Gruntzilla has been the most instrumental in the community when it comes to making PR2 playable & available for fans, and the game really is amazing. Both PCB's are considered grails. I would absolutely love to get your input / story if you would ever be interested in discussing the subject. Even better, would be to feature a segment in the upcoming PR2 video! If you would be interested, please feel free to reach out to me (my e-mail link is in the "More about this channel" section). Thank you for your work on creating such an amazing (legendary) game, it's brought joy and good memories to so many of us - and still brings me and many others personal enjoyment to this day! -Jayde
Please please please please PLEASE somehow get someone to make a remaster of Primal Rage and have Mick Gordon do the music like he did for Killer Instinct 2013
@@fretless I only ever saw the game once, in an arcade while visiting the beach, and I was stunned. I knew about beat em ups, but this rocked my world! Playing AS the dinosaur??? I had no money on me (just swimming shorts) but I kept watching the screen for over an hour, just loved that intro and the way they Raptor's claws tapped the ground when idle... It felt like the start of something new.... And your story explains why it ended at the start.... Thanks for sharing the story and thanks for making that one hour so epic
Would be cool if the game worked properly in MAME too, instead of a dedicated emulator that unlocks blood. Sadly MAME doesn't allow game hacks. We need a proper security unlock, only you know the code.
Man, nostalgia hits you right in the childhood. Primal Rage and Weaponlord were two of my favourite fighting games. Would be amazing to see both games be brought back to life with high quality remasters.
On one hand, my inner 90's child would absolutely love a modern reboot of _Primal Rage_ that expands on the setting, characters, gameplay, and sheer brutality of its concept. Imagine NetherRealm Studios giving it the same treatment as they did _Mortal Kombat 9 - 11_ but instead of weird, multidimensional, martial arts drama we get dino-gods, giant apes, and other prehistoric monsters battling for control of a post-apocalyptic Earth with their neo-caveman tribes of worshippers. There's a lot of awesome potential for some Conan-esque stories and gameplay mechanics most modern fighting games haven't touched on in a while. Then again, there's also the risk that NRS and their WB-owners would mess it up with their shady business practices. I'm fine with paying for new gameplay and story DLC, but I draw the line at having alternate skins for Sauron or new finishing moves for Chaos be locked behind pay walls.
You know it would happen. As a MK fan boy since the 1st game, the shady practices and the fact I dont have a wallet big enough is why I've stopped buying MK.
All remakes need an immediate halt. Until all this nonsense goes away. People need to stop getting excited over nostalgia. The current state of things won't provide anything good. Once most of it is gone... Then we can get excited about bringing back anything worth bringing back.
I'm really suprised that this 3 decade old game still has a large fanbase after a long time since its original release and no other sequels made except a cancelled primal rage 2.
I am continually shocked how many people still remember the game fondly. I could have sworn I was the only one. Tangentially, we run a booth at the annual Arcade Expo here in Louisville. I always bring my Primal Rage pcb setup, and I get to hear all weekend about how much fun they had with it or recount memories they had playing it. And then the kids walk up, start hitting buttons and a new generation of Ragers is born.
Omg, I have SO many good memories of this game in the early 90s, back when I was a lil kid, at our local Chuck E. Cheese. I was so small, I had to use a step just to get to the buttons. I knew the dinosaurs, but the game seemed so mysterious, so scary. I never understood why people thought it was just so average, when it had so much heart and beauty. Anyways, I’ve maintained my fan status as long as I can; I have the novelization, the first issue of the comic book, and at one point had some of the action figures. I tried writing my own TTRPG and contacted the owner of the DeviantArt fan club to try and unite them to get the book done (big fail there). At one point on my ol’ iPod Nano I made a Primal Rage playlist that included such awesome 90s tribal metal bands as Sepultura and Candiria. Anyways, thanks for this video, I instantly subscribed and liked this video, and thanks to the hard work of the people you talked to. A spot of VERY good news. 😊
The fact that people felt so ripped off three decades ago, harbored their discontent for all this time and were pushed to the point of breaking down and patching this horrible yet quirky old game until it became enjoyable is at once both dumbfounding and extremely heartening.
That's the catch 22. I loved the input system as a kid it was easier to do moves at the arcade then one you know hold any two buttons and and move the joystick randomly. lol 😀 plus it's look and themes where neat and damn the graphics for the arcade look so good to this day.
@@robmadrigal714 i had 2 or 3 years of EGM maybe a couple more, of like 1995-1997ish and my brother made me throw them all away growing up. They were pristine
Primal rage has been one of my favorite arcade games ever. Recently purchased copies for both Genesis and SNES to play with my son who also loves the game. I've been reading about how broken the emulation of the arcade was for a while so finding this video was incredible. Congrats to all involved thank you for keeping this beloved classic alive!!
Thank you for covering the game! To this day, it's still my favorite fighter, and I feel like I've just been shouting into the void that "hey, there's really cool stuff in here ahead of its time!" Also appreciate the line in the script that mentions people who don't like the game usually just don't know how to play it. That's been my experience, too. Players that are used to their particular style of fighting game (Capcom/SNK, Tekken, Netherrealm, etc.) generally don't like having to adapt and stay inside their walled gardens. The 90's were wild that way. With a new fighting game coming out every other month, you had to do something unique to stand out. Many experimented with ideas that were rarely seen again, or went on to inspire future generations of fighting games. Primal Rage was part of that experimental period - who else is doing stop motion in their fighting game? Dino Rex? Pfff. Who else tried level-edge as their main control scheme? Nobody! But it did inspire future games to adopt mechanics we're used to seeing: like jump cancel combos and comeback mechanics (eg. where one player is way behind, they have a chance to catch back up). I think anyone who decides to take a deep dive into the game will be rewarded, and have a great time while they do it.
It was a fun video to make! I was half teasing, but it is 100% true about fighting games, sometimes people are scared to go outside of their box. I've never been great at Primal Rage, but I absolutely love the game! From playing in the arcade to the Jaguar I played it for hours and hours (more at home ultimately). It truly is a unique and incredible game. I'm working on a Primal Rage II video as well :) I agree, that if people who didn't like it at least gave it a shot and got inside the mechanics learning curve that they'd enjoy it! As with all fighting games, nothing will ever compare to to the days of playing them in an arcade standing next to your opponent! xD Very glad you enjoyed and thank you for watching!
@@mysterygamefightclub5835 great comment. This game showed creativity and risk taking in the genre. It's necessary for a genre to evolve. While I'm not into it, I can imagine the hype someone into dinosaur themed media might have felt . It must have felt like a perfect storm for those players.
is it as goat as street fighter 3 third strike tho...?? lol lets not over hype. the controls for the game could have been simple. they didnt have to make it cumbersome. everything else was good. i wish the sequel got released on consoles too. this game could have maybe been up there with og Killer Instinct.
Was never a huge fan of the game but I loved the stop motion animation and how smooth it looked. Even compared to the digitised sprites of Mortal Kombat and the Silicon graphics techniques used in Rare's games it came across as looking more realistic down in part to how detailed the models were that were used and how smoothly that animation came across as a result. Definitely an interesting time where developers were finding different methods of digitising different sources to make games look more advanced on the hardware of the time although I think western developers relied on it too much between 94 and 96 and many of those 2D games aged poorly as a result.
I wanted this game so bad after playing it a few times at a roller rink in the mid 90s, but 1: I didn't have one of the consoles it was released on, and 2: my parents wouldn't have bought it for me anyway. (Too violent and all that.) Years went by and finally a few years ago I decided to look on eBay and found a faulty board set of the arcade game for sale for pretty cheap, but the pictures of the boards looked really good, so I picked it up. I haven't gotten around to trying to fix it yet, but hopefully soon. A few days ago I played the Sega Genesis cart together with my 11yr old and he got a good kick out of it. He wants to see what the arcade version looks like now. It's amazing to see that the game still has the support it does.
I loved this game like others love MvC and KI. Everyone is getting their games remastered or whatever. Me sitting here watching and wondering 🥺 I was a Armadon main but also played Sauron. I wasn't hitting any combos like the ones seen in the bg but I was decent. It was, in fact, the first game in the arcade I was able to complete on one credit. I'm happy that there are those who also care about this game.
I remember when this hit the arcades back in the day , seeing the arcade version in person I was so blown away on the stop motion animation. I loved that stuff like the stop motion X-mas specials , Gumby even the California Raisins commercials. Once I gotten my chance to play it, the game felt ruff & difficult to do special moves. I grew frustrated trying to learn the game & dropped the idea of wanting to get good at it. I knew how much work it took to bring this game to life , the models for the characters , posing them frame by frame but nothing would have me like playing the simply because how the gameplay felt. Bummer for me because it they nailed that aspect of the game , Primal Rage would of been one of the greatest of all time fighting games . How original the idea was , the look ..... but the gameplay .... the F'n gameplay wasn't my cup of tea I never seen or had the chance to play Primal Rage 2 , I knew 1 person that did play it and he was trying to convince me it played waaaaaay better but I thought he was full of it and said that just to be apart of my group of nerdy arcade friends from school. I'll go check out Fightcade2's Primal Rage, I wonder if they have this new "FiXED" version of the game to play 🤔
I've always really liked Primal Rage, still play it pretty regularly on my MAME cabinet. So is this a rom hack that's going to be made available at some point?
Gruntzilla94's training mode arcade romhack is available right now and works on both MAME and real hardware. CodeFrog's Moo Emulator in the video is another story - there's a lot of effort going into trying to sell it to a publisher, but as the video describes, is not going well.
Midway Arcade Treasures 2 also came out on Xbox. I love it, I have it on mat2 on xbox, snes and ps1. I wish to one day play the arcade version to see it at it's absolute best
Its great to see there's been so much progress with emulating the original Primal Rage. I remember when the game first hit arcades back in the mid 90s, people were just fascinated by it. I was blown away when I found out Primal Rage 2 had been emulated, Gruntzilla really delivered! PR2 never really saw the light of day in arcades though, with only a few test units being distributed worldwide, the game was as elusive as they came. While I loved the concept behind the original Primal Rage game, the control scheme was awful, and button sequences would often cancel out before a move could even be completed. PR2 adopted a more conventional control scheme that was more effective and less prone to error. After playing PR2 for the first time, I was totally shocked Atari would've scrapped the game the way they did. Primal Rage 2 is absolutely one of the greatest fighting games of all time in my opinion.
@@rustymixer2886 I just clarified that. I stated quote, "PR2 never really saw the light of day in arcades though, with only a few test units being distributed worldwide." What system? MAME. Yes, Primal Rage 2 runs in a special version of MAME, thanks to the developer known as Gruntzilla.
Imagine having such an over-conplex code that it makes perfect emulation impossible and even the original devs be completely stumped by it years after the fact. This perfect resurrection is a testament of what the Internet is for.
Tbh I was never fond of this game back then whether in the arcade or its home versions. I just wasn't into dinosaur fighting each other at the time so I avoid this then I finally play Primal Rage 2 on emulator and finally went back to it and now I enjoy it.
I had the PC port of Primal Rage, and while I never played the arcade version to compare (never even SAW it in arcades), it played well and seemed like a damn good port. Definitely better than the SNES version.
I also had the PC port, and I did play the arcade, and my friends at the time all thought it was spot on. The only issue was that the game was large, and hard drives at the time were not. The game would lag for the first load of certain moves while it loaded from CD. Once hard drives got larger the issue was gone.
@@thatsnotoneofmeatsmanyuses1970 Ohh, I forgot about that issue. It didn't take long to mitigate, but it was a thing for a while. I also could be wrong about this, but the PC port may have had slightly fewer animation frames than the arcade. Whenever I see arcade footage, I don't recall the PC version being *quite* that smooth.
Oh my god, so many memories. It dropped in my freshman year of college, and I was feeding it quarters every time I went to the good arcade off campus. (The coin-op machines on campus were a Neo-Geo with Samurai Shodown and Metal Slug.) I played around a lot with MAME back in the early aughts but lately I've been thinking about setting it up again once I build my next machine.
I love Primal Rage I have 2 of the toys, the game on SNES and the Arcade board. I love it. It hit a certain level a a child that was sleek this is so Fing cool, and still Fing cool.
@@kidgruesome407 I mean... once we found out it was gonna make the badass dinosaurs we loved into second fiddles in place of *realllly* janky and ugly humanoids, I think it lost a lot of interest.
Ohhhhhh I thought the PS1 & Saturn versions was the arcade ones with extras. I played the SNES version the most. I remembered back in the day; most people thought it was too hard. My friend would always pick fatal fury, street fighter mortal Kombat, & killer instinct over primal fury.
In the 90s, we used to rent videogames at the videostore. We didn't really have arcades in the Netherlands, like they did in the States. I mean, they existed, but they usually had a space within a casino or something like that, so young children wouldn't typically go there. We used to rent SNES games all the time, though, and I remember playing Primal Rage quite a lot back then, although I didn't own a copy of the game myself. I loved it. Loved how it looked, loved the sound effects, the secret finishers, and even the backstory. Having said that; the gameplay really wasn't ideal. It felt weird to play the game, often time unresponsive or counter intuitive. And I used to be great at videogames; especially fighting games. But Primal Rage's fighting mechanics always felt off to me. Maybe it had a distinct learning curve, I'm not sure, I remember resorting to button mashing, which I didn't particularly enjoy. Years later, I got a job at a thrift store, and found a copy of the game on the SNES. At that point, however, my SNES controllers were so worn out that you couldn't really play the game anymore, because the directional and shoulder buttons tended to jam. It was also extremely difficult to even find SNES hardware that still functioned the way it should. So even though I finally owned the game, I still couldn't really play it properly. More recently, I dusted off the old SNES and figured I'd play some retro games, but the thing refused to power up. So that sucked, but it is what it is. I used to watch Primal Rage 2 playthroughs on YT, and I would absolutely love to play that game. Some people don't like the fact that human fighters were included, but it doesn't bother me. You still have the option to use the animals, and I think the visual style is incredibly unique. To me, Primal Rage is somewhat enigmatic, but PR2 is like a unicorn amongst fighting games. If any fighting game franchise deserves a revival, I think it's Primal Rage. Killer Instinct had its remake, and while I'm still hoping to see a sequel to KI (on Xbox), Primal Rage would be at the top of my list. But they'd have to replicate the puppet stop motion aesthetic, and capture that strange, eerie atmosphere of a distant future's apocalyptic world. I also think the human characters ought to be included, because why not? In terms of lore and story telling, PR would have a lot of potential. Great analysis, by the way! Good to see this game still being relevant (to some, to some extend at least).
Man it's great that all these years this game is Still being talked about! I remember as a kid my Dad rented Primal Rage on the SNES and that's how I got to play it. Back then having played Primal Rage, Street Fighter 2 Turbo, Mortal Kombat 2, Samurai Showdown, and Killer Instinct, all on SNES, pretty much made up my Fighting Game childhood right here. I'd then later on get the Midway arcade Treasures Vol.2 on PS2 and got o play the Arcade version of Primal Rage. It would be nice to see Primal Rage return in some compacity but I guess that would be dependent on WB ever wanting to do anything with the IP.
I loved primal rage back in the day, and I always wondered why it never got a release outside of Midway arcade treasures 2. Just subbed too. Peace from one retro youtuber to another.
Primal Rage excellent game. Good to see a channel covering it. Definitely hope a remaster might be in the works with both the original levels and characters rosters but also new ones added and new abilities for any new ones . Thanks to you both for covering it in your channels topic 😊
I still play Primal Rage, it was my gateway into fighting games and years later, today, i still play it everywhere i have the MAT version with me on my phone the Saturn version and PC mat version on PC
Thanks for this! I didn't know they finally fixed the annoying DRM issues, and other inaccuracies! I just played a little of the improved version and it's great so far!
The video production value gets a sub on it's own. Anyways I hope these guys find a way to transition their work into some kind of official release. Sell the code to Hamster, or Night Dive or Digital Eclipse or someone who specializes in bringing back old dead games. Get that bag and bring Primal Rage to the masses. I know some folk love emulation but I'm just not about that life. I just want to hit start and play the game, no homework required, no extra time sink, no PC needed. This is a huge step in that direction, so good work to them. Now there's the value in emulation.
So many memories! One of my friends worked at an arcade and this game just hit right after I just graduated from high school. He always informed us what was out and our group would go and play the latest games available. He described it as Mortal Kombat with dinosaurs. While it didn't have digitalized graphics of human characters they definitely tried to make the dinos as realistic as possible. That same year I was working in the electronics department at Fred Meyer. Rise of the Robots hype was through the roof despite Donkey Kong Country was a million times bigger. Donkey Kong Country lived up to the hype while what was supposed to be the greatest fighting game ever created Rise of the Robots was one of the greatest busts in gaming history. Especially disappointing when signs, displays, and copies of the game were stocked out on the shelves. Months later Primal Rage came home to consoles and even the PC. Wasn't too disappointed with the Genesis or even the PC versions because it was really good like the Mortal Kombat port. But the SNES version was terrible. A few years ago I bought a Midway collection for my custom built 1981 Donkey Kong arcade bartop cabinet which was unfinished and bare bones at the time which changed recently. Now it's awesome! Of course it had the classics we played through my arcade childhood through teen years. Primal Rage being on the list. Definitely not as complex as Mortal Kombat. I wasn't completely disappointed but expected more buttons and moves. Still a decent fighting game. Years of going back to Street Fighter, Fatal Fury, Mortal Kombat, King of Fighters, etc, doesn't quite live up to any of those games. It's much more basic. Great introduction game for someone new to fighters. But it doesn't stand the test of time. It was a cool idea at the time. It's nostalgic and fun. There's a reason it's not up there and doesn't have a spawn of sequels or maybe even a sequel. It's memorable and unique nevertheless. Worth having in my collection of around 1000 classic and console games from the late 70's to late 90's. It still stands tall enough to go back and play it once in a while.
I loved playing Primal Rage when I was a kid especially getting it for my birthday on PS1. I had the toys too. Truly a lost gem & NRS (formally known as Midway) should honestly remake this game or port it to modern consoles honestly.
NONE of my arcades had a Primal Rage cabinet. I didn't get to actually play it until the console ports and I was extremely underwhelmed. After seeing the original arcade gameplay, its completely unrecognizable. Wish I could have played this in '94.
In my personal opinion, a perfect port would involve graphics at least as good as they were depicted on the arcade game, adjustable difficulty since you're not trying to drain someone's quarters anymore, and an option to simplify special moves to make them more consistent sort of like super smash Brothers, or at least Make the inputs for special moves the same commands even if they do different things per character.
I was big into dinos, big into Godzilla and kaiju, and big into fighting games when Primal Rage came out. It was like the trifecta. I dropped a lot of quarters on this, Killer Instinct, and Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom at this one particular pool hall I used to hang out at back in the day. Talon was my guy.
One of my favorite fighting games back in the day. It's fighting mechanics were way ahead of their time. Having a 2nd bar to have to watch (the brain stem one), took a lot of getting use to for sure. Same with pulling off combos. If the game ran on the SNES, like how it does on the emulations nowadays, I am sure it would have been a bigger hit for sure. But yeah, Blizzard and Sauron all the way!!! Most fun characters in the game to me.
I got to play it a couple times in the arcade as a teenager, but immediately recognized its difficulty ramp up, and never got skilled at it as I'd still play MK2 instead. We finally got a decked-out Pentium-166 MHz Gateway in 1996 and Primal Rage for PC-CD ROM was one of the included pack-in titles. It was ok to tinker with
The copy protection's been defeated? That's the impression you're giving. If that's true, we're a step away from a definitive port to consoles, assuming Digital Eclipse plans to sneak it into Atari 50, or some other arcade collection. Perhaps another step is finding the original photos used in the promotional materials to make it HD.
This Arcade game needs to be ported to all modern consoles in HD with online cross-platform multiplayer with maybe something new added like some new stages & Fighters like Godzilla or Unicorns and maybe a tarpit stage.
Primal Rage always stood out to me because it was the only other digitized sprite fighting game besides the MK series that looked put-together and played well. Everything else looked like hot garage and played even worse.
I remember the huge cabinet with the loud bass. Great times! I had the Megadrive port, altrough it was an uncomparable inferior version compared to the original, it was a funny game.
Didnt care much for the game, but as a dinosaur lover with a Genesis and affinity for Mortal Kombat, I constantly rented it anyway. I never played the arcade cab...not sure I have even seen one in persom.
Absolutely loved this game. Mainly the idea of using dinosaurs and making me think of godzilla. All time favorite game. Still hoping that it may get a remaster of some sort kind of like Killer instinct. Comics weren't bad for it either
Loved Primal Rage. There was another stop motion fighting franchise though, Clay Fighters. I'm not 100% that it was actual stop motion, but it definitely gave tgat impression.
is this on fightcade? i'd love to have someone to play it with and learn the game. i remember the marketing but never saw an arcade cabinet. always wanted to play it tho.
I was/am a devout Talon Worshipper. My initials stayed at the top of the high score screen for a full summer at the Tilt Arcade at the mall that year. Virtua Fighter 2 was absolute garbage (except for the soundtrack which rocked), Tekken was lame, Super SFII kicked ass but it was Primal Rage that absolutely captivated me. Maybe now we can finally get a clean soundtrack playlist.
How good is the midway arcade treasures 2 port on GameCube? That is the version I own but never really got into it much but I do remember the console ports for snes/genesis.
I worked in an arcade around that time. Primal Rage was great, even though I wasn't this best at it. However, they then released an updated arcade version (it was version .2 or something) that ruined the game.
Never knew this game was that big. Got the game on a disc for PC many years back. It was a very bizzare game. Human volleyball was the best mid fight XD. I preferred One Must Fall: 2097
No one talked about Why everyone sucked at Primal Rage. Because most arcade games at the times made you move the joystick then push a button to do a move. This game was reversed. In Primal Rage to do a special move you had to hold down the button or multiple buttons then move the joystick around. The people that knew this were awesome at it because most people did not so they just wiped the floor with them.
Why did you love, hate, or never get into Primal Rage? (Also, make sure you check the description!)
(Part 2) Primal Rage II: $2,300,000 Conspiracy: ruclips.net/video/14OH3NCUvHY/видео.html
While I’m not the greatest with Primal Rage because of its input layouts.
The story always intrigued me when I was younger.
Makes me wish I can see this franchise get brought back on modern platforms.
I feel I missed out on this one as a kid, I tried playing it on an emulator in the early 2000's but I couldn't get into it
I thought it looked kind of lame back then. It just didn't compare to Mortal Combat, but I never really had much interest in dinosaurs. As an adult I did play Ark Survival Evolved and that was kind of fun for a bit.
@@NEONBattleBitch it was good but I never got into into it. It was the time of so many fighters available. Now with saying that, it did stand out and survived from the ether due to its crazy uniqueness.
Loved this game! I learned the special moves and combos easier than SF or MK
You can’t call yourself a 90’s kid if you weren’t hype for Primal Rage. So cool to see the love go into to getting the arcade right
@@Drinkabeerandplayagameofficial every new fighter in the 90's was going to be the next street fighter every one was hyped and most disappointed
Bloody Roar.
@@Drinkabeerandplayagameofficial wasn't my cup of tea
@@Drinkabeerandplayagameofficial I liked it at the time but now I can see all its flaws.
@@Drinkabeerandplayagameofficial True 90’s kids knew it was junk 🤷♂️
Primal rage is such an underrated game. I love this game, so much so I have the arcade cabinet.
Used to play it all the time as a kid!
Lucky! I was hoping for an arcade 1up version but sadly it didn't happen.
This reworked seems a little too fast. Am I tripping or is the original game not as fast?
I don't even like video games anymore And I want one. I just gave my kids my primal rage toys the other day.
@@ArcadeFreak-gw5rp That's so awesome! Love this game too man!
13:58 this statement here hit the nail on the head. Emulation is looked at more positively now but I remember the "dirty" stigma it had (and still has with some collectors and elitists).
Emulation IS the true preservation of all this.
I will always be grateful for it ❤😊
Good video 👍 a slice of the 90s
Very Cool! @NEONBattleBitch - I'm the OG Producer/Lead Programmer of the Coin-Op arcade Primal Rage. I'm the dude with the flowing long hair in that "making-of" video. No longer. :) Thank you for making this very interesting and informative piece. I actually did the security chip programming, and it's somehow rewarding that it took so long to crack. But I'm certainly glad it is fully working now so everyone can enjoy the hard work we put in for 2+ years of development.
You should do a piece on Primal Rage 2 - I'm still pissed about that. As you said in the video, we had a piece of the culture at that time and PR2 would have blown the top off it. Thanks to Neil Nicastro and the Midway mafia, they stuck a knife in it so it wouldn't compete with Boone's Mortal Kombat franchise. How screwed up is that?
I'm going to try not to be a weirdo by over-reacting, but this is freaking awesome! Thank you so much for watching the video and leaving this comment!
That "long flowing" hair gave you a 90's smooth operator license (epic) 😂
I actually have a piece on Primal Rage 2 in the works, I've been doing research on the baord (ZN-1?) and piecing things together. Have a friend who owns one of the (four?) proto boards. Yea, it really irritated me too that they canned it, and I know many other fans were very disappointed too. And why am I not surprised it was corpo gaming politics that ruined it for fans and devs alike... sigh. This game deserves a lot more credit than it gets!
Gruntzilla has been the most instrumental in the community when it comes to making PR2 playable & available for fans, and the game really is amazing. Both PCB's are considered grails.
I would absolutely love to get your input / story if you would ever be interested in discussing the subject. Even better, would be to feature a segment in the upcoming PR2 video! If you would be interested, please feel free to reach out to me (my e-mail link is in the "More about this channel" section).
Thank you for your work on creating such an amazing (legendary) game, it's brought joy and good memories to so many of us - and still brings me and many others personal enjoyment to this day!
-Jayde
@@NEONBattleBitch I'd love to help with the PR2 piece... if my brain cells can cooperate. I'll email you my contact info.
Please please please please PLEASE somehow get someone to make a remaster of Primal Rage and have Mick Gordon do the music like he did for Killer Instinct 2013
@@fretless I only ever saw the game once, in an arcade while visiting the beach, and I was stunned. I knew about beat em ups, but this rocked my world! Playing AS the dinosaur???
I had no money on me (just swimming shorts) but I kept watching the screen for over an hour, just loved that intro and the way they Raptor's claws tapped the ground when idle... It felt like the start of something new....
And your story explains why it ended at the start....
Thanks for sharing the story and thanks for making that one hour so epic
Would be cool if the game worked properly in MAME too, instead of a dedicated emulator that unlocks blood. Sadly MAME doesn't allow game hacks. We need a proper security unlock, only you know the code.
Man, nostalgia hits you right in the childhood. Primal Rage and Weaponlord were two of my favourite fighting games. Would be amazing to see both games be brought back to life with high quality remasters.
On one hand, my inner 90's child would absolutely love a modern reboot of _Primal Rage_ that expands on the setting, characters, gameplay, and sheer brutality of its concept. Imagine NetherRealm Studios giving it the same treatment as they did _Mortal Kombat 9 - 11_ but instead of weird, multidimensional, martial arts drama we get dino-gods, giant apes, and other prehistoric monsters battling for control of a post-apocalyptic Earth with their neo-caveman tribes of worshippers. There's a lot of awesome potential for some Conan-esque stories and gameplay mechanics most modern fighting games haven't touched on in a while.
Then again, there's also the risk that NRS and their WB-owners would mess it up with their shady business practices. I'm fine with paying for new gameplay and story DLC, but I draw the line at having alternate skins for Sauron or new finishing moves for Chaos be locked behind pay walls.
You know it would happen. As a MK fan boy since the 1st game, the shady practices and the fact I dont have a wallet big enough is why I've stopped buying MK.
All remakes need an immediate halt. Until all this nonsense goes away.
People need to stop getting excited over nostalgia.
The current state of things won't provide anything good.
Once most of it is gone... Then we can get excited about bringing back anything worth bringing back.
This game looked soo good for its time. I own the arcade, and thought the game plays a bit wonky, I still love it.
I'm really suprised that this 3 decade old game still has a large fanbase after a long time since its original release and no other sequels made except a cancelled primal rage 2.
I am continually shocked how many people still remember the game fondly. I could have sworn I was the only one.
Tangentially, we run a booth at the annual Arcade Expo here in Louisville. I always bring my Primal Rage pcb setup, and I get to hear all weekend about how much fun they had with it or recount memories they had playing it. And then the kids walk up, start hitting buttons and a new generation of Ragers is born.
Omg, I have SO many good memories of this game in the early 90s, back when I was a lil kid, at our local Chuck E. Cheese. I was so small, I had to use a step just to get to the buttons. I knew the dinosaurs, but the game seemed so mysterious, so scary. I never understood why people thought it was just so average, when it had so much heart and beauty. Anyways, I’ve maintained my fan status as long as I can; I have the novelization, the first issue of the comic book, and at one point had some of the action figures. I tried writing my own TTRPG and contacted the owner of the DeviantArt fan club to try and unite them to get the book done (big fail there). At one point on my ol’ iPod Nano I made a Primal Rage playlist that included such awesome 90s tribal metal bands as Sepultura and Candiria. Anyways, thanks for this video, I instantly subscribed and liked this video, and thanks to the hard work of the people you talked to. A spot of VERY good news. 😊
The fact that people felt so ripped off three decades ago, harbored their discontent for all this time and were pushed to the point of breaking down and patching this horrible yet quirky old game until it became enjoyable is at once both dumbfounding and extremely heartening.
@@Luke_Stoltenberg this game is far from horrible. Stupid, yes. Bad, nah?
That's the catch 22. I loved the input system as a kid it was easier to do moves at the arcade then one you know hold any two buttons and and move the joystick randomly. lol 😀 plus it's look and themes where neat and damn the graphics for the arcade look so good to this day.
It only took 30 years.
I miss my gamepro magazines 😢
@@robmadrigal714 i had 2 or 3 years of EGM maybe a couple more, of like 1995-1997ish and my brother made me throw them all away growing up. They were pristine
@Macksbet dang! Why he made u throw them away?
@@robmadrigal714 hes a dick
Primal rage has been one of my favorite arcade games ever. Recently purchased copies for both Genesis and SNES to play with my son who also loves the game. I've been reading about how broken the emulation of the arcade was for a while so finding this video was incredible. Congrats to all involved thank you for keeping this beloved classic alive!!
I loved that game. Played it in the arcade constantly.
Thank you for covering the game! To this day, it's still my favorite fighter, and I feel like I've just been shouting into the void that "hey, there's really cool stuff in here ahead of its time!"
Also appreciate the line in the script that mentions people who don't like the game usually just don't know how to play it. That's been my experience, too. Players that are used to their particular style of fighting game (Capcom/SNK, Tekken, Netherrealm, etc.) generally don't like having to adapt and stay inside their walled gardens.
The 90's were wild that way. With a new fighting game coming out every other month, you had to do something unique to stand out. Many experimented with ideas that were rarely seen again, or went on to inspire future generations of fighting games. Primal Rage was part of that experimental period - who else is doing stop motion in their fighting game? Dino Rex? Pfff. Who else tried level-edge as their main control scheme? Nobody! But it did inspire future games to adopt mechanics we're used to seeing: like jump cancel combos and comeback mechanics (eg. where one player is way behind, they have a chance to catch back up). I think anyone who decides to take a deep dive into the game will be rewarded, and have a great time while they do it.
It was a fun video to make! I was half teasing, but it is 100% true about fighting games, sometimes people are scared to go outside of their box. I've never been great at Primal Rage, but I absolutely love the game! From playing in the arcade to the Jaguar I played it for hours and hours (more at home ultimately). It truly is a unique and incredible game. I'm working on a Primal Rage II video as well :)
I agree, that if people who didn't like it at least gave it a shot and got inside the mechanics learning curve that they'd enjoy it! As with all fighting games, nothing will ever compare to to the days of playing them in an arcade standing next to your opponent! xD
Very glad you enjoyed and thank you for watching!
@@mysterygamefightclub5835 great comment. This game showed creativity and risk taking in the genre. It's necessary for a genre to evolve. While I'm not into it, I can imagine the hype someone into dinosaur themed media might have felt . It must have felt like a perfect storm for those players.
is it as goat as street fighter 3 third strike tho...??
lol lets not over hype.
the controls for the game could have been simple. they didnt have to make it cumbersome. everything else was good.
i wish the sequel got released on consoles too. this game could have maybe been up there with og Killer Instinct.
Once I got my hands on this on console, I loved it. The "hold down buttons" specials took some adjusting.
Thanks for the mentions! Loving the video! RAGE!
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Was never a huge fan of the game but I loved the stop motion animation and how smooth it looked. Even compared to the digitised sprites of Mortal Kombat and the Silicon graphics techniques used in Rare's games it came across as looking more realistic down in part to how detailed the models were that were used and how smoothly that animation came across as a result. Definitely an interesting time where developers were finding different methods of digitising different sources to make games look more advanced on the hardware of the time although I think western developers relied on it too much between 94 and 96 and many of those 2D games aged poorly as a result.
I wanted this game so bad after playing it a few times at a roller rink in the mid 90s, but
1: I didn't have one of the consoles it was released on, and
2: my parents wouldn't have bought it for me anyway. (Too violent and all that.)
Years went by and finally a few years ago I decided to look on eBay and found a faulty board set of the arcade game for sale for pretty cheap, but the pictures of the boards looked really good, so I picked it up. I haven't gotten around to trying to fix it yet, but hopefully soon.
A few days ago I played the Sega Genesis cart together with my 11yr old and he got a good kick out of it. He wants to see what the arcade version looks like now.
It's amazing to see that the game still has the support it does.
I loved this game like others love MvC and KI. Everyone is getting their games remastered or whatever. Me sitting here watching and wondering 🥺 I was a Armadon main but also played Sauron. I wasn't hitting any combos like the ones seen in the bg but I was decent. It was, in fact, the first game in the arcade I was able to complete on one credit. I'm happy that there are those who also care about this game.
i love the detail of this thumbnail, cheers!
I remember when this hit the arcades back in the day , seeing the arcade version in person I was so blown away on the stop motion animation. I loved that stuff like the stop motion X-mas specials , Gumby even the California Raisins commercials. Once I gotten my chance to play it, the game felt ruff & difficult to do special moves. I grew frustrated trying to learn the game & dropped the idea of wanting to get good at it. I knew how much work it took to bring this game to life , the models for the characters , posing them frame by frame but nothing would have me like playing the simply because how the gameplay felt. Bummer for me because it they nailed that aspect of the game , Primal Rage would of been one of the greatest of all time fighting games . How original the idea was , the look ..... but the gameplay .... the F'n gameplay wasn't my cup of tea I never seen or had the chance to play Primal Rage 2 , I knew 1 person that did play it and he was trying to convince me it played waaaaaay better but I thought he was full of it and said that just to be apart of my group of nerdy arcade friends from school. I'll go check out Fightcade2's Primal Rage, I wonder if they have this new "FiXED" version of the game to play 🤔
The interview was a great addition! Nice to see people talking about this game!!
I`m 36 yo currently and grew up with PR. It`s crazy how some dedicated coders are able to let me relive this game.
I've always really liked Primal Rage, still play it pretty regularly on my MAME cabinet. So is this a rom hack that's going to be made available at some point?
Gruntzilla94's training mode arcade romhack is available right now and works on both MAME and real hardware.
CodeFrog's Moo Emulator in the video is another story - there's a lot of effort going into trying to sell it to a publisher, but as the video describes, is not going well.
Woah... Blown away by the production quality... Not to mention the beautiful Arcade Lady that presents it all. Subbed!
Midway Arcade Treasures 2 also came out on Xbox. I love it, I have it on mat2 on xbox, snes and ps1. I wish to one day play the arcade version to see it at it's absolute best
I got it recently and it doesn’t play on Series X. Luckily I also have it on ps2.
I never knew this game was broken
I remember it played like a$$ on genesis and snes
It's still my favorite arcade game of all time
Its great to see there's been so much progress with emulating the original Primal Rage. I remember when the game first hit arcades back in the mid 90s, people were just fascinated by it. I was blown away when I found out Primal Rage 2 had been emulated, Gruntzilla really delivered! PR2 never really saw the light of day in arcades though, with only a few test units being distributed worldwide, the game was as elusive as they came. While I loved the concept behind the original Primal Rage game, the control scheme was awful, and button sequences would often cancel out before a move could even be completed. PR2 adopted a more conventional control scheme that was more effective and less prone to error. After playing PR2 for the first time, I was totally shocked Atari would've scrapped the game the way they did. Primal Rage 2 is absolutely one of the greatest fighting games of all time in my opinion.
Pr2 for what system? It never released
@@rustymixer2886 I just clarified that. I stated quote, "PR2 never really saw the light of day in arcades though, with only a few test units being distributed worldwide."
What system? MAME. Yes, Primal Rage 2 runs in a special version of MAME, thanks to the developer known as Gruntzilla.
@@GamersBay awesome
Bro talk about a game franchise that desperately needs a re-release. That and the sequel that was mostly finished but not released
Imagine having such an over-conplex code that it makes perfect emulation impossible and even the original devs be completely stumped by it years after the fact. This perfect resurrection is a testament of what the Internet is for.
Tbh I was never fond of this game back then whether in the arcade or its home versions. I just wasn't into dinosaur fighting each other at the time so I avoid this then I finally play Primal Rage 2 on emulator and finally went back to it and now I enjoy it.
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I had the PC port of Primal Rage, and while I never played the arcade version to compare (never even SAW it in arcades), it played well and seemed like a damn good port. Definitely better than the SNES version.
I also had the PC port, and I did play the arcade, and my friends at the time all thought it was spot on. The only issue was that the game was large, and hard drives at the time were not. The game would lag for the first load of certain moves while it loaded from CD. Once hard drives got larger the issue was gone.
@@thatsnotoneofmeatsmanyuses1970 Ohh, I forgot about that issue. It didn't take long to mitigate, but it was a thing for a while. I also could be wrong about this, but the PC port may have had slightly fewer animation frames than the arcade. Whenever I see arcade footage, I don't recall the PC version being *quite* that smooth.
Oh my god, so many memories. It dropped in my freshman year of college, and I was feeding it quarters every time I went to the good arcade off campus. (The coin-op machines on campus were a Neo-Geo with Samurai Shodown and Metal Slug.) I played around a lot with MAME back in the early aughts but lately I've been thinking about setting it up again once I build my next machine.
I love Primal Rage I have 2 of the toys, the game on SNES and the Arcade board. I love it. It hit a certain level a a child that was sleek this is so Fing cool, and still Fing cool.
Curious that Primal Rage 2 was not mentioned here at all.
@@kidgruesome407 I mean... once we found out it was gonna make the badass dinosaurs we loved into second fiddles in place of *realllly* janky and ugly humanoids, I think it lost a lot of interest.
I never knew Primal Rage 2 existed before reading this comment.
Yeah, it only hit a prototype stage from what I recall. There is a rom available for Mame.
It was mentioned. They briefly put an article up about it. Development was started but the game was canceled.
@robreynolds3301 yes but a working and fully playable rom exists with the ability to play thru and beat the boss of the arcade.
Ohhhhhh I thought the PS1 & Saturn versions was the arcade ones with extras. I played the SNES version the most. I remembered back in the day; most people thought it was too hard. My friend would always pick fatal fury, street fighter mortal Kombat, & killer instinct over primal fury.
In the 90s, we used to rent videogames at the videostore. We didn't really have arcades in the Netherlands, like they did in the States. I mean, they existed, but they usually had a space within a casino or something like that, so young children wouldn't typically go there. We used to rent SNES games all the time, though, and I remember playing Primal Rage quite a lot back then, although I didn't own a copy of the game myself. I loved it. Loved how it looked, loved the sound effects, the secret finishers, and even the backstory. Having said that; the gameplay really wasn't ideal. It felt weird to play the game, often time unresponsive or counter intuitive. And I used to be great at videogames; especially fighting games. But Primal Rage's fighting mechanics always felt off to me. Maybe it had a distinct learning curve, I'm not sure, I remember resorting to button mashing, which I didn't particularly enjoy.
Years later, I got a job at a thrift store, and found a copy of the game on the SNES. At that point, however, my SNES controllers were so worn out that you couldn't really play the game anymore, because the directional and shoulder buttons tended to jam. It was also extremely difficult to even find SNES hardware that still functioned the way it should. So even though I finally owned the game, I still couldn't really play it properly. More recently, I dusted off the old SNES and figured I'd play some retro games, but the thing refused to power up. So that sucked, but it is what it is.
I used to watch Primal Rage 2 playthroughs on YT, and I would absolutely love to play that game. Some people don't like the fact that human fighters were included, but it doesn't bother me. You still have the option to use the animals, and I think the visual style is incredibly unique. To me, Primal Rage is somewhat enigmatic, but PR2 is like a unicorn amongst fighting games. If any fighting game franchise deserves a revival, I think it's Primal Rage. Killer Instinct had its remake, and while I'm still hoping to see a sequel to KI (on Xbox), Primal Rage would be at the top of my list. But they'd have to replicate the puppet stop motion aesthetic, and capture that strange, eerie atmosphere of a distant future's apocalyptic world. I also think the human characters ought to be included, because why not? In terms of lore and story telling, PR would have a lot of potential.
Great analysis, by the way! Good to see this game still being relevant (to some, to some extend at least).
Man it's great that all these years this game is Still being talked about! I remember as a kid my Dad rented Primal Rage on the SNES and that's how I got to play it. Back then having played Primal Rage, Street Fighter 2 Turbo, Mortal Kombat 2, Samurai Showdown, and Killer Instinct, all on SNES, pretty much made up my Fighting Game childhood right here. I'd then later on get the Midway arcade Treasures Vol.2 on PS2 and got o play the Arcade version of Primal Rage. It would be nice to see Primal Rage return in some compacity but I guess that would be dependent on WB ever wanting to do anything with the IP.
I loved primal rage back in the day, and I always wondered why it never got a release outside of Midway arcade treasures 2. Just subbed too. Peace from one retro youtuber to another.
“Back in the say”
@Error-Unknown-User I got fat fingers. Sue me.
Primal Rage excellent game. Good to see a channel covering it.
Definitely hope a remaster might be in the works with both the original levels and characters rosters but also new ones added and new abilities for any new ones .
Thanks to you both for covering it in your channels topic 😊
What a cool video. Primal rage will always hold a special place in my heart
I still play Primal Rage, it was my gateway into fighting games and years later, today, i still play it everywhere i have the MAT version with me on my phone the Saturn version and PC mat version on PC
Thanks for this! I didn't know they finally fixed the annoying DRM issues, and other inaccuracies! I just played a little of the improved version and it's great so far!
THANK YOU!! I've been waiting for so long!! Thanks for sharing on the G drive too.
The video production value gets a sub on it's own.
Anyways I hope these guys find a way to transition their work into some kind of official release. Sell the code to Hamster, or Night Dive or Digital Eclipse or someone who specializes in bringing back old dead games. Get that bag and bring Primal Rage to the masses.
I know some folk love emulation but I'm just not about that life. I just want to hit start and play the game, no homework required, no extra time sink, no PC needed. This is a huge step in that direction, so good work to them. Now there's the value in emulation.
Any possibility for putting in the final boss, and getting rid of the refights
The intro to this video might be the best 30 seconds on RUclips.
So many memories! One of my friends worked at an arcade and this game just hit right after I just graduated from high school. He always informed us what was out and our group would go and play the latest games available. He described it as Mortal Kombat with dinosaurs. While it didn't have digitalized graphics of human characters they definitely tried to make the dinos as realistic as possible.
That same year I was working in the electronics department at Fred Meyer. Rise of the Robots hype was through the roof despite Donkey Kong Country was a million times bigger. Donkey Kong Country lived up to the hype while what was supposed to be the greatest fighting game ever created Rise of the Robots was one of the greatest busts in gaming history. Especially disappointing when signs, displays, and copies of the game were stocked out on the shelves.
Months later Primal Rage came home to consoles and even the PC. Wasn't too disappointed with the Genesis or even the PC versions because it was really good like the Mortal Kombat port. But the SNES version was terrible.
A few years ago I bought a Midway collection for my custom built 1981 Donkey Kong arcade bartop cabinet which was unfinished and bare bones at the time which changed recently. Now it's awesome! Of course it had the classics we played through my arcade childhood through teen years. Primal Rage being on the list.
Definitely not as complex as Mortal Kombat. I wasn't completely disappointed but expected more buttons and moves. Still a decent fighting game.
Years of going back to Street Fighter, Fatal Fury, Mortal Kombat, King of Fighters, etc, doesn't quite live up to any of those games. It's much more basic. Great introduction game for someone new to fighters. But it doesn't stand the test of time. It was a cool idea at the time. It's nostalgic and fun. There's a reason it's not up there and doesn't have a spawn of sequels or maybe even a sequel.
It's memorable and unique nevertheless. Worth having in my collection of around 1000 classic and console games from the late 70's to late 90's. It still stands tall enough to go back and play it once in a while.
I can't remember how many fist fights I got into with my brothers while playing this game.
I loved playing Primal Rage when I was a kid especially getting it for my birthday on PS1. I had the toys too. Truly a lost gem & NRS (formally known as Midway) should honestly remake this game or port it to modern consoles honestly.
We need this again. Stopmotion animation with Unreal Engine technology. This would be breaking the ground even further.
NONE of my arcades had a Primal Rage cabinet. I didn't get to actually play it until the console ports and I was extremely underwhelmed. After seeing the original arcade gameplay, its completely unrecognizable. Wish I could have played this in '94.
Fantastic history of the game, and it's awesome that in 2024, people are doing passion projects like this.
In my personal opinion, a perfect port would involve graphics at least as good as they were depicted on the arcade game, adjustable difficulty since you're not trying to drain someone's quarters anymore, and an option to simplify special moves to make them more consistent sort of like super smash Brothers, or at least Make the inputs for special moves the same commands even if they do different things per character.
I was big into dinos, big into Godzilla and kaiju, and big into fighting games when Primal Rage came out. It was like the trifecta. I dropped a lot of quarters on this, Killer Instinct, and Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom at this one particular pool hall I used to hang out at back in the day. Talon was my guy.
Awesome. Did they ever get PR2 working well?
Check out MAME4Rage2. Works Really Well: gruntzilla94.neocities.org/UrthRage/mame4rage2
One of my favorite fighting games back in the day. It's fighting mechanics were way ahead of their time. Having a 2nd bar to have to watch (the brain stem one), took a lot of getting use to for sure. Same with pulling off combos. If the game ran on the SNES, like how it does on the emulations nowadays, I am sure it would have been a bigger hit for sure. But yeah, Blizzard and Sauron all the way!!! Most fun characters in the game to me.
I got to play it a couple times in the arcade as a teenager, but immediately recognized its difficulty ramp up, and never got skilled at it as I'd still play MK2 instead. We finally got a decked-out Pentium-166 MHz Gateway in 1996 and Primal Rage for PC-CD ROM was one of the included pack-in titles. It was ok to tinker with
The copy protection's been defeated? That's the impression you're giving.
If that's true, we're a step away from a definitive port to consoles, assuming Digital Eclipse plans to sneak it into Atari 50, or some other arcade collection. Perhaps another step is finding the original photos used in the promotional materials to make it HD.
Well, sort of.... Rather than understanding how the encryption works, CodeFrog (Dan Filner) hacked his way around it to make it work.
@@mysterygamefightclub5835 That makes sense. Thanks for the clarification.
I’m not surprised it’s that man again…
Is this limited to some proprietary emulator? Can this work be brought over to MAME?
This Arcade game needs to be ported to all modern consoles in HD with online cross-platform multiplayer with maybe something new added like some new stages & Fighters like Godzilla or Unicorns and maybe a tarpit stage.
That clip of two game devs with one chair was so funny! Did they rock paper scissors to see who got the chair?
Primal rage had some of the best action figures of the 90s.
Great video! Can’t wait until the next one!
Primal Rage always stood out to me because it was the only other digitized sprite fighting game besides the MK series that looked put-together and played well. Everything else looked like hot garage and played even worse.
I remember the huge cabinet with the loud bass. Great times! I had the Megadrive port, altrough it was an uncomparable inferior version compared to the original, it was a funny game.
oh my god i'm so geeked to find this out. subbed for your public service.
1:27 is that Ron Jeremy? 😮
The Brother😅
i remember hearing the mdos version was the best, but i couldnt get it to work on my pc a few years back.
Wow. What a blast from the past. I haven't thought about this game in decades. I remember it very well.
Great vid very nostalgic. this was my favorite game
That's the only issue of Gamepro I still have. We didn't know how good we had it back then.
Nice touch with the Captain EO queue line ambience at the end.
Didnt care much for the game, but as a dinosaur lover with a Genesis and affinity for Mortal Kombat, I constantly rented it anyway. I never played the arcade cab...not sure I have even seen one in persom.
Absolutely loved this game. Mainly the idea of using dinosaurs and making me think of godzilla. All time favorite game. Still hoping that it may get a remaster of some sort kind of like Killer instinct. Comics weren't bad for it either
I had the Long box PS1 Primal Rage. It was awesome. Love to play it again.
I really enjoyed the game. I had huge success with Blizzard and Chaos but also did very well with Sauron
Loved PR in the arcades back in the day!
Maybe I'm just being dumb (most probably) but does the emulator have an option to fun full screen?
Where can I get the arcade perfect version?
LOVED the hell out of this game. The red TRex was usually my go to XD Had this at a sports bar my parents went to all the time. It was amazing
Loved Primal Rage. There was another stop motion fighting franchise though, Clay Fighters. I'm not 100% that it was actual stop motion, but it definitely gave tgat impression.
is this on fightcade? i'd love to have someone to play it with and learn the game. i remember the marketing but never saw an arcade cabinet. always wanted to play it tho.
I was/am a devout Talon Worshipper. My initials stayed at the top of the high score screen for a full summer at the Tilt Arcade at the mall that year. Virtua Fighter 2 was absolute garbage (except for the soundtrack which rocked), Tekken was lame, Super SFII kicked ass but it was Primal Rage that absolutely captivated me. Maybe now we can finally get a clean soundtrack playlist.
i play it all the time on my pc .. it just takes a way to learn but once you learn this game is gold
How good is the midway arcade treasures 2 port on GameCube? That is the version I own but never really got into it much but I do remember the console ports for snes/genesis.
It plays closer to the arcade version with some minor flaws.
So many fond memories of destroying my opponents with butt fumes.... the memories
I would love to see a moderised version of primal rage.
That game was so fun.
I never knew they used stop motion animation, that is pretty cool
Amazing work! I always hear great things about this series! I’ll have to check it out! ❤❤❤
i remember this and K.I being so loud on the arcade room 😂
I hope one day this gets a proper release to pc and consoles.
I worked in an arcade around that time. Primal Rage was great, even though I wasn't this best at it. However, they then released an updated arcade version (it was version .2 or something) that ruined the game.
Never knew this game was that big. Got the game on a disc for PC many years back. It was a very bizzare game.
Human volleyball was the best mid fight XD.
I preferred One Must Fall: 2097
Holy crap i used to play this in the arcades. Chaos was my guy.
Primal Rage was kinda cool though.
It was a great game to watch and play in the arcade. Loved the art. Where's the sequel?
No one talked about Why everyone sucked at Primal Rage. Because most arcade games at the times made you move the joystick then push a button to do a move. This game was reversed. In Primal Rage to do a special move you had to hold down the button or multiple buttons then move the joystick around. The people that knew this were awesome at it because most people did not so they just wiped the floor with them.
Daaaaamn, I totally forgot about primal rage!!😂😂this game was actually pretty awesome in the arcades