I have always had a soft spot for the Sega CD and the fact that Cadillacs and Dinosaurs only got one console game and it was on Sega CD is kind of cool and sad at the same time. I loved this show as a kid and what I loved, even more, was the Capcom arcade machine that was based on it. Unfortunately, this Sega CD game is not based on that game. This is a game that was made by Sega and it is nothing like the arcade game.
So Real It Is Like The Real Thing
The best thing about this game is the story that it tells. I say that because the story is made up of FMV from the show. We all know that when it comes to FMV, the Sega CD is not the best. However, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs I feel has some of the best FMV on the system. Especially when it comes to games that use an animated art style.
Are The Dinosaurs Extinct?
Cadillacs & Dinosaurs (930201 etc) 98 299 66. Embed Code Add to Favorite. You may be interested in: Start Game. 1000 Miglia: Great 1000 Miles. Cadillacs and Dinosaurs is a beat-em-up game, like Streets of Rage and Final Fight, that was released by Capcom. The gameplay is more similar to Streets of Rage since it also has some special moves, rather than just punching and jump kicking. This is quite a unique beat-em-up in a way that it has guns. In a world where Dinosaurs and Men live together, poachers are hunting the slaughtering innocent dinosaurs, stop this madness in Cadillacs and Dinosaurs. You might have to beat up some dinosaurs on the way too as collation damage. It is based on the animated serie of the same name back in the 1990s. There is also a book series based on it.
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs is an arcade beat-em-up developed and released by Capcom for arcades (with enhanced CPS-1 hardware) on February 1, 1992. It's based on the Xenozoic Tales comic book series and is a video game tie-in to the Cadillacs and Dinosaurs animated television series (released later that year).
I really should not compare this to the Capcom game of the same name as it is kind of unfair. However, at least that game had some actual dinosaurs in it. I feel like Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park, “you do actually have dinosaurs, in your dinosaur video game, don’t you?” is what he would say. I say this because there is a severe lack of dinosaurs in this game, the biggest enemies are things like trees and rocks. There is the odd dinosaur here and there, but you really do not see much.
Cadillacs And Dinosaurs Play Online
The visuals in the actual game are decent enough, they have a cell-shaded style to them and even with the rather modest color pallet of the Sega CD/Genesis the game is fairly easy on the eyes.
Getting Behind The Wheel
Ok, so once again Cadillacs and Dinosaurs is not based on the arcade game, but I was pretty shocked at the angle Sega took with this. What we have here can be best described as an on-rails shooter! You have a very small number of levels and each one has you either driving the car or a minecart! That is right for numerous levels you do not even drive the Cadillac!
You need to move the vehicle left and right to avoid obstacles and also move a crosshair to shoot stuff. It is very basic stuff, thankfully the levels take no time at all, but that means you can blow through this game in no time at all. Well, in theory, you can. I say that because this game is hard as hell thanks to the dodgy collision detection and the fact everything wants to hit you.
Why on Earth did Sega not go to Capcom and ask if they could have just ported the Cadillacs and Dinosaurs arcade game? That would have been awesome and in all honesty one of the best games on the system. I am more than confident the Sega CD could have handled it. Instead what we got is average at best. It is worth playing if you enjoyed the TV show as a kid, apart from that I do not see anything that is going to win you over here.
Final Score
Pros:
- The FMV quality is not that bad
- The actual game looks fairly decent
- The voice acting is good
- The game is very easy to beat
- The box art is cool
Cons:
- There are not enough dinosaurs
- The whole game is very meh in every regard
| Cadillacs and Dinosaurs | |
|---|---|
Arcade flyer featuring (left to right): Mustapha Cairo, Jack Tenrec, Hannah Dundee and Mess O'Bradovich | |
| Developer(s) | Capcom |
| Publisher(s) | Capcom |
| Composer(s) | Isao Abe Syun Nishigaki |
| Platform(s) | Arcade |
| Release | 1993[1] |
| Genre(s) | Beat 'em up |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
| Arcade system | CP System Dash |
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, released in Japan as Cadillacs Kyouryuu Shinseiki (キャディラックス 恐竜新世紀, Kyadirakkusu Kyōryū Shinseiki), is a 1993 arcade game by Capcom. It is a side-scrollingbeat 'em up based on the comic book series Xenozoic Tales. The game was produced as a tie-in to the short-lived Cadillacs and Dinosaurs animated series which was aired during the same year the game was released. A version for the Capcom Power System Changer was planned and previewed but never released.[2]
Gameplay[edit]
Up to three players can play at once, guiding their selected characters through eight stages, battling various enemies and bosses.[3] There are four playable characters, each with their own strengths and weaknesses: Jack (balanced type), Hannah (skill type), Mustapha (speed type), and Mess (power type). The game's titular dinosaurs make appearances as neutral characters that may attack both player characters and enemies.
The players have access to several attacks. Each character has two special moves including one that depletes a character's health upon contact with an enemy and when two or more players play together, they can trigger a team-attack. Players can also find and use various firearms, throwing weapons such as rocks and explosives, and melee weapons such as clubs.
When the player loses along the way, one of the big baddies holds a gun point-blank to the losing player's face in a first-person view, taunting the player with sayings such as 'Eat lead, baby!'. Unless the game is continued within a countdown of 20 seconds, the baddie fires his gun, leading to a game over.
Plot[edit]
The story begins in the 26th century, when an ensemble gang called the Black Marketeers begin hunting the dinosaurs to serve their unknown purpose. The continuous hunting process has made the dinosaurs violent and now they have started attacking villages and people. Four heroes: mechanic and shaman Jack Tenrec, diplomat and explorer by profession Hannah Dundee, friend and engineer Mustapha Cairo, and mysterious Mess O'Bradovich, have decided to team up against the Black Marketeers.
The protagonists journey to the 'City in the Sea' where they suspect the whole hunting network being operating from. As they reach the top of a building they fight Vice Terhune. After being beaten, Vice tells them about Butcher, who had been hunting in the northern woods. Following the information, they go through the swamp forest where they find a lot of dead dinosaurs before reaching and defeating the Butcher.
Meanwhile, another big name in the hunting network, Hogg, realizes that Jack is busy in the swamp forest and decides to take over Jack's Garage. Proceeding with the mission, the heroes go through the desert of death, where they use their car to travel safely, but then the car is chased by Hogg on his cruiser motorcycle. After defeating Hogg, Jack realizes that the gangsters have taken over his garage. They go there and clear out the garage from the gangsters, eventually confronting and defeating their leader Slice and regaining control of their garage.
This is when they receive a message from an old villager who tells them about the weird behavior of the dinosaurs and asks for help. In response to the call, the heroes reach the village where they notice dinosaurs violently attacking the people and that the village has been set on fire by someone. Going ahead further, they meet the old villager again as he tells about the whole network and as soon as he is about to reveal the name of the person behind all of it, he is shot dead by Morgan, who attacks the group as well. During the fight, Morgan talks about the powers of 'doctor' transforms himself into a dinosaur-like creature called Morgue. By now, they have come to know that some doctor is trying to create new lifeforms.
Proceeding ahead, the heroes reach the coal mine and another jungle, where they face a dinosaur trying to stomp them. They eventually reach a place where they fight a tentacled creature called Tyrog that attaches itself to the bodies of the gangsters as a monstrous dinosaur-human hybrid. With all the leads and hints, Jack has now realized that Dr. Simon Fessenden is the mastermind behind all that is happening.
The team heads towards his underground hideout, which again is somewhere in the 'City in the Sea'. The heroes head towards the bunker, going through the library and the computer lab, where the doctor appears on the computer screen, calling himself the creator of a new world. Deep down is a bio-lab, and below it is a cave, which finally leads to Fessenden's lab. Seeing the team, he transforms himself into a Morgue-like creature, but is beaten. By now, the transforming serum's effect reaches its peak, and Fessenden transforms into a three-headed creature, but the heroes manage to defeat him.
Cadillacs And Dinosaurs Apk
Crippled by his defeat, Fessenden sets the whole complex to self-destruct. As the laboratory starts exploding, the heroes run for their lives, but Hannah falls down while running and Jack stops to help her. Only Mustapha and Mess are able to make it out of the laboratory as it is destroyed. As they are walking back to their homes, thinking about Jack and Hannah, the latter two come from behind in the car, alive. All four heroes return home.
Reception[edit]
| Publication | Score |
|---|---|
| AllGame | [4] |
| CVG | 89/100[5] |
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs garnered positive reception from reviewers.[6]GamesMaster gave Cadillacs and Dinosaurs a positive outlook.[7] In Japan, Game Machine listed the game on their June 1993 issues as one of the most popular arcade games at the time, outperforming titles such as Warriors of Fate.[8][9]RePlay reported Cadillacs and Dinosaurs to be the ninth most-popular arcade game at the time.[10]
PlayStation Portable magazine Go Play reviewed the game alongside Willow and The Punisher calling them 'some of the best CPS1 games you're unlikely to ever play on a Capcom compilation'.[11]
References[edit]
- ^'Cadillacs and Dinosaurs at Capcom of Japan' (in Japanese). Archived from the original on December 6, 1998.
- ^'カプコン アーケードオリジナルボード CPSシリーズ+CPSチェンジャー 限定販売決定!!'. Club Capcom (in Japanese). No. 2. Capcom. Spring 1994.
- ^Miccoli, Maurizio (May 1993). 'Arcade Action: Cadillacs and Dinosaurs'. Computer+Videogiochi (in Italian). No. 26. Gruppo Editoriale Jackson. pp. 134–137.
- ^Baize, Anthony (1998). 'Cadillacs and Dinosaurs (Arcade) - Review'. AllGame. All Media Network. Archived from the original on 2014-11-16. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
- ^Anglin, Paul (May 1993). 'Arcade Action - Cadillacs and Dinosaurs'. Computer and Video Games. No. 138. EMAP. pp. 116–117.
- ^'Arcade: Cadillacs and Dinosaurs (Editeur - Capcom)'. Consoles + (in French). No. 24. M.E.R.7. October 1993. pp. 170–171.
- ^'Arcadia - Cadillacs and Dinosaurs (Capcom)'. GamesMaster. No. 4. Future Publishing. April 1993. pp. 24–25.
- ^'Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25 - アップライト, コックピット型TVゲーム機 (Upright/Cockpit Videos)'. Game Machine (in Japanese). No. 450. Amusement Press, Inc. 1 June 1993. p. 25.
- ^'Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25 - テーブル型TVゲーム機 (Table Videos)'. Game Machine (in Japanese). No. 451. Amusement Press, Inc. 15 June 1993. p. 29.
- ^'The Player's Choice - Top Games Now in Operation, Based on Earnings-Opinion Poll of Operators: Best Video Software'. RePlay. Vol. 18 no. 9. RePlay Publishing, Inc. June 1993. p. 4.
- ^'Retro Reviews - Classic Capcom Arcade Games'. Go Play. No. 10. United Kingdom: Imagine Publishing. 2006. p. 102.
External links[edit]
- Cadillacs and Dinosaurs at the Killer List of Videogames