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Publisher(s) | Taito |
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Platform(s) | Nintendo Entertainment System |
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Genre(s) | Action platformer |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino & Hoppy is a 1991 platform video game by Taito for the Nintendo Entertainment System and based on the animated series The Flintstones. Taito would later release another Flintstones game for the NES titled The Flintstones: Surprise at Dinosaur Peak in 1994.
Gameplay[]
The gameplay is preceded by a short cutscene which sets the stage, where the Flintstones and the Rubbles are enjoying their lives in Bedrock. That's when a man from the 30th century named Dr. Butler kidnaps Fred's pet Dino and Barney's pet Hoppy. Fred's alien friend, Gazoo, lost parts of his time machine due to Dr. Butler. Gazoo is visible only to Fred and to nobody else (a slight change from the series where Barney, Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm could also see him).
With each stage Fred completes, he earns back another piece of the time machine, and Gazoo welds together the pieces progressively. Throughout the stages, Fred runs into Wilma, Barney, Betty, as well as George Jetson in the future stage. Fred has to defeat a boss at each stage. At the end of the map, he gets the last piece and travels to the future, where he has to defeat Dr. Butler.[2]
Reception[]
GamePro praised the graphics, gameplay, and the abundance of levels, but criticized the music.[3] AllGame gave a review score of 4 out of 5 stars praising the game as a first rate platform with bright colorful graphics that mimic the cartoon series stating “Fred is easy to control, and his ability to club enemies and climb ledges goes a long way towards making the gameplay feel different from other titles in the genre.”[4]
Legacy[]
The video game is infamous for a ROM hack of the game titled 7 GRAND DAD (Chinese: 原始瑪莉VII; Chinese: Primitive Mario 7; pinyin: Yuánshǐ Mǎlì VII). Released in 1992 and published by J.Y. Company in Taiwan, the game featured Fred Flintstone's head being swapped with Mario's head from Super Mario Bros. 3, and an altered title screen featuring a sprite of Mario originating from a bootleg Taiwanese gambling video game called Dian Shi Ma Li alongside a sprite of Fred Flintstone in a star originating from the unhacked game's title screen.[5] This would eventually become an Internet meme, becoming famous after a live stream by Twitch streamer and YouTuber Vargskelethor Joel of the streaming group Vinesauce,[6][7] as well as becoming a running joke on the parody music YouTube channel SiIvaGunner.
References[]
- ↑ "Release information". GameFAQs. Retrieved 2010-07-13.
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: - ↑ "Basic game overview". MobyGames. Retrieved 2011-06-27.
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: - ↑ "Nintendo Pro Review". GamePro: 30–31. January 1992. https://archive.org/stream/GamePro_Issue_030_January_1992#page/n33/mode/2up. Retrieved September 3, 2017.
- ↑ Miller, Skyler. "The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino and Hoppy Review". Allgame. Archived from the original on November 16, 2014. Retrieved December 22, 2020.
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: - ↑ Longobardi, Michele (17 May 2019). "Sette cloni spudorati di Super Mario Bros". Player.it . Retrieved 3 January 2020.
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: - ↑ Vargskelethor, Joel. "[Vinesauce] Joel - Insane Mario Bootleg Games (Grand Dad)". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21.
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: - ↑ "7 Grand Dad". Know Your Meme. Retrieved 2021-09-09.
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The Flintstones | ||
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Characters | The Flintstones | Fred Flintstone • Wilma Flintstone • Pebbles Flintstone • Dino |
The Rubbles | Barney Rubble • Betty Rubble • Bamm-Bamm Rubble • Hoppy | |
Other characters | Pearl Slaghoople • Captain Caveman • The Frankenstones • The Great Gazoo • The Gruesomes • The Shmoo | |
Locations | Bedrock | |
Television series |
The Flintstones (1960–1966) • The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show (1971–1972) • The Flintstone Comedy Hour / The Flintstone Comedy Show (1972–1974) • Fred Flintstone and Friends (1977–1978) • The New Fred and Barney Show (1979) • Fred and Barney Meet the Thing (1979) • Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo (1979–1980) • The Flintstone Comedy Show (1980–1982) • The Flintstone Funnies (1982–1984) • The Flintstone Kids (1986–1988) • Dino: Stay Out! (1995, part of The What a Cartoon! Show) • Cave Kids (1996) • Dino: The Great Egg-Scape (1997, part of The What a Cartoon! Show) • Yabba-Dabba Dinosaurs! (2019) | |
Television specials and films |
Alice in Wonderland or What's a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This? (1966) • The Flintstones on Ice (1973) • Energy: A National Issue (1977) • A Flintstone Christmas (1977) • Hanna-Barbera's All-Star Comedy Ice Revue (1978) • The Flintstones: Little Big League (1978) • The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone (1980) • The Flintstone Primetime Specials (The Flintstones' New Neighbors (1980) • Fred's Final Fling (1980) • Wind-Up Wilma (1981) • Jogging Fever (1981)) • Yogi's First Christmas (1980) • Yogi Bear's All Star Comedy Christmas Caper (1982) • The Flintstones' 25th Anniversary Celebration (1986) • The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones (1987) • The Flintstone Kids' "Just Say No" Special (1988) • Hanna-Barbera's 50th: A Yabba Dabba Doo Celebration (1989) • I Yabba-Dabba Do! (1993) • Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby (1993) • A Flintstone Family Christmas (1993) • A Flintstones Christmas Carol (1994) • The Flintstones: On the Rocks (2001) | |
Theatrical films | Animated | The Man Called Flintstone (1966) |
Live-action | The Flintstones (1994) • The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000) | |
Direct-to-video films | The Flintstones & WWE: Stone Age SmackDown! (2015) | |
Video games | Yabba Dabba Doo! (1986) • The Flintstones (1988) • The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino & Hoppy (1991) • The Flintstones (1993) • The Flintstones: Surprise at Dinosaur Peak (1993) • The Flintstones: The Treasure of Sierra Madrock (1994) • The Flintstones (1994/1995) • The Flintstones: Bedrock Bowling (2000) | |
Comics | The Flintstones (2016) | |
Other media | Meet the Flintstones • Pinball • Pebbles cereal • Flintstones Chewable Vitamins • The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera (1990) | |
See also | The Jetsons |
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