Primal Rage

"The No. 1 arcade game that ruled the Earth is unleashed! Features the first ever full stop-motion animation, a colossal fighting engine for incredible hit combos and a massive number of normal moves, special moves and spectacular fatalities. One mother hubbard of a game!

This PC conversion of the original Atari arcade game might be one of the better made fighting games for the PC being close to the original in terms of content as well gameplay, even having an annoying four button (Although two can be selected) for pulling off special move combinations .. fun. Don't expect to see any killer combos and move linking, I'm not that good and mostly button mashing my way to victory whilst trying to pull off some known special combinations. Game is being played on a 486/66 16mb with GUS for sound and music

This is another fighting game with digitised characters which shares some similarities to the Mortal Kombat games. You can playthrough as P1 or P2 depending on the side of the screen you want to play and mimics the arcades controls and button combinations. At the end of each match (not round) you get to pull off one of three fatality moves again requiring a specific button and move combination. Try as I might, I just cant chain any moves together in single player as the opponent is constantly blocking and a successful hit pushes you away not to mention 'No Cheese' showing up and stopping you from puling a killer combo.

The longplay first goes through the game on the toughest difficulty mode. The cpu player blocks a lot and can seemingly override your moves. After completing I go through the other characters playing in one round mode at normal difficulty to get through a bit quicker. After single player is done with, I try some two player in an effort to show the bowling and volleyball mini games and sudden death I close the video with the credits which can be show with a button combination (Left on p1 and right on p2 together) or wait for it to appear in attract mode. I start out with Talon which I have the most problems with controlling yet the only character I can make named combo moves show up. I follow with blizzard which is the only fighter I can get enough combo damage to show the background lightening. Chaos too but not as easily.

Overall, this is a good conversion of a not so great arcade game with it's limited content. Most notable difference is the PC game being in low res vga. Content wise the game seems to be all there. Bowling, Volleyball and cows falling during sudden death which was quite tricky to get the timing right. Normally bricks would fall on this stage (Ruins). Meteors on Tomb and ice on the cliff but I can only seem to get cows to show up on ruins stage. I wasn't able to find any known working combinations to activate a cheat menu if one exists in this version so unable to experiment with more options to see if there is more content like with the mega-drive game.

00:00:00 Intro / demo
00:02:22 Talon (God of Survival)
00:21:00 Blizzard (God of Goodness)
00:31:03 Diablo (God of Evil)
00:40:58 Vertigo (Goddess of Insanity)
00:53:44 Armadon (God of Life)
01:04:46 Sauron (God of Hunger)
01:15:23 Chaos (God of Decay)
01:25:23 Bowling
01:28:13 Volleyball
01:29:55 Sudden Death (Beach/Meteors)
01:31:54 Sudden Death (Ruins/Cows)
01:35:22 Credits