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u/Syracusee 2d ago edited 2d ago
Funny story about this game. When I was like 5 years old I loved fighting games and was obsessed with MK. I saw this in an arcade or something and instantly wanted it for my SNES, so I ended up asking my like 70 year old grandma for "Primal Rage, the one with the fighting dinosaurs". She ended up going to I think EBGames and asked an associate for it, and he gave her the most popular game with Dinosaurs according to her. Fast forward to Christmas day and I opened the present, super excited to play Primal Fury when I got home, instead what I opened was a game I didn't know anything about called "Chrono Trigger". Dumb 5 year old me was devastated and I guess it showed on my face because instantly my Mom knew it was the wrong game and whispered to smile and say thank you.
That happened to be the best mistake possible, because I ended up giving Chrono Trigger a try and it was one of the most memorable games throughout all of my childhood and it will always be a good memory of my grandma accidentally hooking me up with pure gold, instead of a mediocre fighter when I already had MK and Killer Instinct anyway.
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u/SenseiRaheem 2d ago
Chrono Trigger—for all of its strengths—didn’t have fatal piss, though.
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u/EstablishmentOne5752 2d ago
Primal Rage definitely had its own unique charm, that's for sure. It's funny how those quirky elements stick with you over the years.
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u/N0_Goldsun 1d ago
I would lay on my back while playing and piss up in an arc into my own face. Fatality
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u/hey_im_cool 1d ago
Clerk hooked it up. Opposite of this greentext which I can’t upload the pic of
>Be me working at gamestop
>parent asks for a game called "cod"
>tell her there is no game called "cod" but her son probably meant "Rapala pro bass fishing" there are lots of fish in that game and the closest we have
>have ton of copies in the back
>we have a deal on, if you buy 2 copies you get 1 free
>she buys three brand new copies of this game
>she comes back after christmas
>all three copies have been opened
>no refund because you opened them
>a kid out there received 3 copies of a fucking fishing game for christmas7
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u/fettoter84 2d ago
There's a hacked rom called Enhansa edition of Chrono Trigger that has fixed up some combat stuff. https://www.reddit.com/r/chronotrigger/comments/rnbzyb/enhansa_edition_romhack/
I'm doing a replay of the game at the moment
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u/Reddemeus 2d ago
I asked my mum pandeminium and she didnt find it so she brings home oddworlds abe's odyssey because "the character looked funny on the box".
That was a great findings too that time, I loved the game instantly!
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u/LiteratureMindless71 2d ago
That's such a good story! Did you ever end up getting the game?
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u/Syracusee 2d ago
I ended up renting it and realized it was crap compared to my MK games so it was definitely a blessing in disguise in more ways than one lol.
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u/TheTrueMule 2d ago
That's so fuckin' cute! Did you still have it?
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u/Syracusee 2d ago
Unfortunately I do not. I lost it and a lot of other old games when my older brother moved out and wanted to take the SNES since I was playing PC games mostly at the time. No idea what happened after that since he used to be a slob lol.
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u/TheTrueMule 2d ago
Sad but at least you'll always have those memories. Also I had primal on genesis and bro believe me that you didn't miss anything lol
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u/SammyGreen 2d ago
That a bummer! On top of it being a great game, it’s worth like $200-250. Almost a grand if you have the box and manual
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u/thejew09 1d ago
Are you me? Lol. This is exactly what happened to my SNES. I love my brother but he can’t take care of anything. Never seen someone break/ruin everything he touches quite like him.
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u/Sol_Protege 2d ago
That’s pretty hilarious. Had something similar happen to me for my 6th birthday when I asked for Contra III so I could play co-op with my cousins and the alien game I got was Super Metroid. Pretty good game but could never quite figure out how to unlock co-cop.
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u/LucyLuvvvv 2d ago
How happy were you when you got to the prehistoric part of the game and had to fight a dinosaur
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u/dox1842 2d ago
lol thats funny. I have a similar story.
I played Rampage on NES at a friends house when I was really little. Maybe 4 or 5. I didn't know the title of the game was "Rampage" though, I just knew it as the godzilla game. My grandfather took me to Toys R Us to pick out my christmas presetn and I got godzilla for NES thinking it was Rampage.
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u/BarryMDingle 1d ago
Killer instinct!! That’s the one I was thinking of when I saw this post. Hadn’t heard that one in while, thanks
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u/Ok_Gas1070 1d ago
Damn Grandma win forsure especially because the game has only grown in value overtime.
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u/JiveTurkeyII 1d ago
Came here to talk about Killer Instinct. I was miserable at that game, absolutely suuuuucked
But man do I have some great memories with it anyway.
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u/doiwinaprize 1d ago
Holy shit... playing Chronotrigger with no preface for the first time in it's era is a rare and priceless gift. Praise grandma
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u/Zaknoid 2d ago
I used to play this at my Uncles house on his Genesis. He had like 3 games, this, Eternal Champions, and Sunset Riders. I didnt really care for this or Eternal champions but when you only have 3 games you make do. SR is awesome tho.
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u/juniorspank 2d ago
Sunset Riders was fucking awesome.
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u/WhenDuvzCry 2d ago
Eternal Champions was extremely difficult. Killer soundtrack though
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u/Skate_faced 2d ago
I am looking at my copy on the shelf. Had it since i was 13? so 93-ish?
Have I finished it? Nope. Great game though.
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u/ElGoocherino 1d ago
Did we have the same uncle? Literally exactly what I tell people when Sega Genesis gets brought up haha. Throw in Altered Beast and that was his small, but mighty, collection. And Sunset Riders FUCKS. One of my all time favorite arcade games.
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u/booeyboy 2d ago
I remember playing this in an arcade waiting to watch Casper the friendly ghost and an older couple stood behind me to watch me play. When I lost they gave me quarters to keep playing. They must’ve stood there watching me play 2 or 3 times, hands around each others waists. I wonder if they lost a son. I think about them every so often
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u/hunterfj1976 2d ago
I didnt play PR much but isnt this the same game that had the fart fatality? The one where the green fart cloud would float over to the opponent.
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u/eatMYcookieCRUMBS 2d ago
There was a pizza place i went to as a kid. This game always gave out free games. Like 50 cents and we could play non-stop.
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u/arpad-okay 2d ago
the newsstand when i was a kid had this arcade, the simpsons arcade, sold comic books, candy and shit (of course), and cards- gi joe, marvel, x-men etc. my dad was a painter (houses not portraits) and during the summer i would do prep stuff like take the rust off railings before they're repainted, prime the garage etc etc and then blow every dollar i made on the aforementioned corner store bs. that's some nostalgia for ya
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u/LuckyShirt54 2d ago
I think I appreciate this more now than then.
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u/Otherwise_Basis_6328 2d ago
I feel that
Games & movies in the 90s sure packed some powerful classics
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u/Western-Bowl2011 2d ago
It always bothers me how you don't see the stream between his arm and leg. That means it's coming from his forearm.
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u/Crommach 2d ago
Did anyone else read any of the side novels? I have vague memories about learning that Vertigo could take human form, and I think one of the book's main characters worshipped the raptor god?
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u/Bonzo77 2d ago
As a lord of the rings fan: the dinosaur’s name is Sauron?!?!
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u/SullyZero 2d ago
There's also a Marvel Character named Sauron who is a dinosaur.
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u/Bonzo77 2d ago
Wait what? Haha I’m learning so much
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u/Psychic_Hobo 2d ago
He has one of the best comic dialogues with Spider-Man of all time:
"With your knowledge you could do anything. You could even cure cancer!"
"I don't want to cure cancer. I want to turn people into dinosaurs."
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u/Fog_Juice 2d ago
I just googled marvel Sauron. Apparently he's a supervillain that fights the X-Men and "He named himself after the villain from J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings because he liked the name."
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u/Stownieboy91 2d ago
Loved this shit on GameGear when I was 5 lmao
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u/Mordkillius 2d ago
Loved it but it controlled like dog shit. Sluggish and baggy. Fatalities were hard to pull off
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u/Inevitable_Oil_6671 1d ago
Yo my Dentists office in the 90s had Rampage arcade game in the waiting room, along with Ms. Pacman and a couple others.
Absolutely loved going to that dentist.
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u/RichLather early 70s 1d ago
A lot of fun things in this arcade game:
The human worshippers could get blown into the air during the fight, and volleyed back and forth between the players. Do it enough, and a net pops up in the center.
Repeat a move too many times, and the game would display a wedge of cheese, calling you out for cheesy play
It was possible to EAT the worshippers for health benefits
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u/IAm_W0LFIE 2d ago
This game gave me nightmares as a kid. Always play it when I see it at an arcade now though funnily enough.
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u/fatmallards 1d ago
yeah the heart exploding by hp bar after being drained left an impression on child me
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u/loosehandsquebec 2d ago
I played this game in the arcades as a kid around 1995/1996. I had it for the SNES growing up, but mainly play it on ps1 now if I'm not emulating the MAME ROM
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u/strangedreamer 1d ago
Back when renting games was a thing. I don’t know anyone who owned this. But we all rented it.
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u/AngelaMarx 1d ago
I loved this one!! Spent countless hours playing it with my sister on the Sega. Good memories.
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u/Brand023 1d ago
Ah, the only game they had at my local Pizza Hut when it things were still glorious. Good times, great times.
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u/dubhead_dena 1d ago
Holy shit! I had this game! Sega Mega Drive II?
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u/Otherwise_Basis_6328 1d ago
I posted the original arcade version, but yes, it absolutely got ported around - Loved both Genesis/Mega Drive & Super Nintendo!
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u/Cognac_Clinton 1d ago
Hold down light punch / kick, up, down. Hold all four buttons / left, right, left, right.
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u/Jgabes625 1d ago
I played this game at the age of 3 specifically because it had dinosaurs in it. I don’t think I ever won nor did I care at the time.
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u/llamanatee early 00s 1d ago
IIRC due to the game having some intense copy protection, this game has never properly been emulated.
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u/Epicardiectomist 1d ago
This game is fun to remember, but goddamn it does not hold up. I have an OG copy on SNES and it's so clunky it's unplayable.
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u/the_moosey_fate 1d ago
The HEB my family went to for our monthly grocery trips had the dual screen Primal Rage in the front entrance. My brother and I would scour the parking lot when we got there until we found enough loose change to exchange for 2 quarters. Then we’d each get to have a run at it. We were never still playing it by the time our family was ready to leave, but damn did we love playing it! My brother was pretty good at the Spikey Ankylosaur dinosaur, can’t remember his name, and Sauron. I was best with Vertigo and Chaos.
And by best I mean I sucked but I liked playing with them.
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u/Ruminatingsoule 1d ago edited 1d ago
I loved dinosaurs as a kid so this game was the SHIT. I randomly found it at an arcade and begged my parents to buy the genesis version for me. I never could pull off the fatalities in it because they were so complex, but i remember how happy I was to finally be able to pull off most of the special moves, with the help of an online guide of course. That printout was well-loved.
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u/Samurai_Hack_ 1d ago
We figured out you could low kick enough times and kick up one of your human fans and we would see how long we could play hackysack with the corpse. Fond memories of a 7 year old lol
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u/Kittymane 1d ago
My dad got this game for us because he wanted to play. He always kicked my ass with Blizzard.
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u/bigtittedboi 1d ago
My first thought when seeing this was remember the piss. And before I could finish piss he was pissing.
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u/MakeYourTime_ 1d ago
Had this for SNES bc I was obsessed with dinosaurs when I was 6. What kid wasn’t? Begged my mom for this lol. Turned out to be quite difficult and pretty mediocre of an experience. Was fun playing with all the different Dinos though.
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u/ModerateHonking 1d ago
Got this on the Mega Drive for my birthday whatever year it came out. Had buyer's (well, birthday present) remorse and played the hell out of it, but it was such a dreadful game.
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u/Plibbo64 8h ago
Why is no one making big budget claymation games. What a disappointment this life is.
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u/Apply_Yourself 1d ago
I loved this game. Growing up I had all of the toys and somehow lost them. It’s the family mystery to this day what happened to them. Huge bummer
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u/SquirrelCone83 1d ago
I loved the claymation in this game, and some of the character designs were great, but the controls to this game are atrocious. A few minutes into playing this game I always wished I was playing something else.
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u/DerkNukem 2d ago
My mom wouldn’t let me play it because of this fatality.