Is Primal Rage [SNES] Worth Playing Today? - SNESdrunk 

You said that 3 years ago and I’m saying that today!

Well KOF XV at least has a dinosaur character

Lol I had the talon one as well 🤘

Didnt know they had PR action figures.

Stevie Jo yeah lol thb, I was more interested in the action figures than the game. In fact, I didn’t even know that there was a game until later on, but I was like 5 lol

Just was about to say the action figures were so damn cool.

Funny story, I saw the big Talon action figure for sale when I was a kid and thought he was just so cool. So I saved my pennies until I could get back to the store, and lo and behold, when I got there he was gone! You think that would be the end of it? No, mother fuckers, I hunted that thing down for seven years! I checked every thrift store, on-line seller and eBay auction until FINALLY! FINALLY I FOUND HIM ON EBAY! I made sure NO ONE ELSE was going to get that thing but ME! And now, he is mine! The moral of the story is I am Captain Ahab

I had Chaos! He had a hollow rubber torso that you could squeez to suck in water, then squeez again to shoot out his "belch"

I had blizzard and vertigo

Those action figures were awesome! They came with little people approx the size for mighty Max. I had Blizzard and it had actual fuzz for hair on the head.

I especially loved the sabertooth tiger charecer who wasn't even in the game. There was a cool comic series too.

God I played with the WHOLE SET when I was a kid. I was obsessed with this game... but the gameboy version. It was bad. It was so bad. But I LOVED it.

"I already read one book Why would I want to read another?"

@@Kubold Answer: DINOSAURS!!!

Stillcnothing beats bloody roar and killer instinct

Seriously! Primal Rage had my quarters from the first day I saw the arcade machine, and I got it on SNES when it came out too. Normally I don't even like fighting games, but I flat mastered this one. DINOSAURS!

@@joshua7426 agreed though I love Primal Rage more than anything.

It totally was it looked vastly superior too

It's not... Graphically superior, sure... It sounds better too, but the game is garbage and the controls are major clunky...

@@jonathankulesa I tend to agree with you. I played it quite a bit back when I was young in the arcades, and I remember liking it a lot, but I strongly suspect that was largely because the graphics and presentation were quite stunning at the time, and I was really into dinosaurs as a kid, so there was no other fighting game like it. The main problem I had with the home conversions was not so much that they were toned down graphically, but that they exposed me to just how clunky the fighting engine is. You can certainly do worse than Primal Rage, but it's nowhere near the polish of something like Mortal Kombat or Killer Instinct, never mind Street Fighter 2. I suspect that if I were to try the arcade game again today, the combat would only feel slightly better just due to the additional frames of animation. Nice to look at, sure, but fun to play? I don't really think so.

It’s a good example of style over substance.

@@jonathankulesa All true, but I still liked playing the arcade sometimes at arcades and pizza places that had the cabinet

Gief Grief i used to play mortal kombat at my local 7/11 before taking a few loads in their mens bathroom stal

@@fentanelfloyd8383 what? You were eating dudes loads in the 7/11 bathroom?!?😢🤢

I had Diablo , he was cool

I had the vertigo & blizzard figures.

The best thing about them was that they came with the worshippers that the monsters could eat and essentially poop out!

I had them all besides blizzard! My brother and I had a lot of good times playing with these toys as kids, my favorite was vertigo and talon and he liked always liked the armadon. I actually had no idea what they were called until watching this video and recognizing the T Rex characters specifically.

One thing I hate about this game are the inputs for super moves. God they are awkward

@@laughingseal2282 ya some of the moves were awkward to pull off. this was still early in the fighting game boom so developers were still trying to figure out what inputs were and weren't going to work for the gamers.

That's awesome

And also a secret windbreaker character.

@Walter White I assume it was a joke about how gory it would be if it was remade to look as real as possible.

@@tempestfennac9687 You got it.

Thank you for watching, lots more to come

Joey JoJo you don’t have an arcade nearby?

I'm curious, what are some of the Midway Arcade Treasures version of Primal Rage in comparison too the original arcade version?

@@shogunfox7141 Mortal Kombat 1, 2, 3 and Ultimate emulation has been working perfectly since the late 90's. They all play perfectly.

Whats stopping some dedicated nerds from making it work? Do you need some kind of special dev knowledge to crack it? Or is it just that no one really cares about Primal Rage these days?

On the MAME Reddit they said they were in the process of cracking the encryption though it would be time consuming. They already cracked the encryption on several other games that used the same encryption method. So it can be done, it just may take a long time.

Yeah the moves are much easier to execute in the Genesis port, and obviously the 32x port that built on it.

Not the Mama! Not the Mama!

Mr Sinclair *shudders*

The new characters were reincarnations of the old characters and could transform into their dinosaur forms. I think that they didn't release it because they doubted it could compete with the 3D fighting games of that time.

@@Hektols same feeling. oddly enough, many (most?) 3d games from that era are nothing but a hangover nowadays

Also the surviving cabinet of PR2 is found in Galloping Ghost arcade in Illinois.

The switch to human Avatars was an intentional decision to *improve* profits. Finding the two most played Primal Rage characters to be the humanoid apes Blizzard and Chaos, combined with Primal Rage making much less money than SF and MK, they came to the conclusion that fighting game fans preferred human-like characters. So they introduced the idea of human avatars that could transform into their dinosaur forms mid-match. And the full dinosaur characters were still playable in PR2.

@@Hektols The death knell was that Atari was bought by WMS/Midway, which already had the more successful Mortal Kombat. In a GDC presentation, one of the PR2 devs went as far as to say that he felt that the entire purchase was done to gut and eliminate Atari, and that Primal Rage 2 never had a chance under the new management. WMS broke up Atari teams with restructuring, wasn't willing to support PR2 development, and sent notice that the game was cancelled the same day they'd sent out the field test cabinets (which meant the decision to cancel the game had already been made well in advance of that point.) Though the dev does acknowledge that there were other issues. They were overly ambitious on the level of animation that they were aiming for, to the point that they had to use streaming techniques that largely ruled out decent home conversions. The animation complexity, along with originally being saddled with underpowered hardware, also helped cause the game to miss its original planned release date, which could have seen the game out the door before the WMS/Midway purchase.

Did you ever do his infamous fatality where he pisses on his opponent?

@@Ernesto87 Yeah, though I was only able to pull that off on console even then the fatalities were pretty hard to do.