Primal Rage

[power_strenght_man]

I remember this. It might not have been your Garou or 3ds but goddamnit, if you dont like MUTATED DINOSAURS TEARING SHIT TO PEICES there is something wrong with you.

[Overlord_Chan]

I loved this game back in the day, this was very popular where I lived.

[goblinmarine]

I used to love this game. Used to rent it for the SNES or SEGA back in the day (can’t remember which). My bro never wanted to play with me because the hearts exploded at the end of the round. Freaked him out.

[pootnannies]

The only concept art I’ve found for PR are these:

Sauron - http://www.atarigames.com/ataritrip/pages/ataritrip29.jpeg.html

Talon - http://www.atarigames.com/ataritrip/pages/ataritrip31.jpeg.html

Not much really… :sad:

I did buy a couple of old Gamepro magazines on eBay (a few hours ago) with Primal Rage in them, so maybe they’ll have some pics in the article/s?..

these links don’t work. i really wanted to see these

[Endless]

This guy made a pretty awesome Blizzard vs Sauron sculpture

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His other sculptures are amazing as well, especially his Venom vs Carnage

[Gorehound]

I think Atari did an amazing job with the encryption!

To this day, PR2 still has not been successfully emulated!

Drools
http://www.safestuff.com/ragepage.htm

[Newtype_Andy]

This guy made a pretty awesome Blizzard vs Sauron sculpture

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His other sculptures are amazing as well, especially his Venom vs Carnage

Those are amazing!

[MKKhanzo]

Those are amazing!

thats right. On other topic, thats why I thought would happen in a giant ape vs t rex fight. Monkey can rip his arms all he wants but in the end it will be like fighting a Croc. You just cant hold it.

Primal rage rules BTW =D

[Toxikbones]

Does anyone know anything about updating primal rage version 1.7 to 2.3? Does it have to be a board swap?

[MKKhanzo]

Wow, that necro.

I actually cant help you there, but I think it should be a board swap. Let me ask at some frends at GGA to see.

[BrianCrowMn]

I remember having an action figure of one of the Primal Rage apes, as a kid. I don’t even remember playing it ever but, I definitely knew of it. Played it for the first time last year when it was randomly in rotation at my local movie theater arcade. It was dumb. It was fun.

[FlashCarnage21]

Oh I love this game! It was one of the best I ever played back in the day at the arcade it was the fighter that made me hooked next to MK.

Diablo / Talon were the ones I used most

[FlashCarnage21]

Way back in 1994, a weird dinosaur fighting game wrecked havoc (duh) on arcades on USA and outside it, It was Primal Rage, developed by Atari and Time Warner, perhaps one of the most underrated games of its time due to the unortodox control method, characters and theme (also MK2 was still new and Killer Instinct was coming the same year). It was for me tough , one of the most awe inspiring game in my life.

PR was innovative in may ways that ppl think.

It was the first game to incorporate a damage % in the combo meter

It incorporated damage protection in combos after certain attacks

It had a “NO CHEESE” meter that prevented you from doing certain stuff that the programers considered cheap (and this eads me to think, those programers/testers were very VERY well informed/versed becauese PR has has NO KNOW INFINITES to date!)

It was the first to have universal OverHeads (UOH) for all characters to prevent them from turtling(Sure SSF2T had Ryus f+Mp and Fei Long f+Mk but those were the 2 only Over Heads it had)

All characters had command throws instead of regular throws

All characters could interact with their enviroments by eating the humans worshipping them during the fight

It incorporated different types of jumps heights, it had one of the first reversal/counter system (lots of ppl arent aware of this until explained)

An advanced combo system lets you Juggle, Chain, Link, Cancel normal attacks/specials into one massive combo (button mashing had no room hre)

New (but weird) control type to exeute special moves by holding first the buttons then doing the taps with the stick (In ver. 2.3 you could execute them as any other fighting game)

Dinos enter in Berserk mode when you got badly injured (Ok samsho was first with his Rage gauge)

It had air chains although Darkstalkers was first in that

Also it boasted the almost “usual” stuff that fighting games used to have: 2 fatalityes per character, Easter eggs (or hidden features) and other things you coukld find.

I will go into deeper info later, like fighting system, combo system explained, tier listing, special moves anda few combos if anyone is interested.

As a teaser, here is the link to the vid we at MKK did as tribute:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=mCbUhofJk-M

Thx to tobemorecrazy for uploading it in his account!

If anyone played it liked or notplease feel free to leave your comments.

EDIT: I recently made contact with Steve Riesenberger who worked in the game. I will ask him if he can/want to give us some insight on the game and developer stuff they only know

I remember that Game it was awesome… not many people know this, but there was a sequel. but sadly they killed it before ever releasing it…

There’s actually a petition on the web to get “Primal Rage 2” released, or (What I’m hoping for) they will see That there’s enough people out here that Still love Primal Rage, so they’ll do the smart thing and make a fancy new Next-gen remake of the first game.

If you are a Primal Rage fan then go here and sign it. its free, and will take less then 5 minutes.

CLICK ME!!
http://www.petitiononline.com/prfans/petition.html

There Is 1 PR2 that’s playable it’s in a Chicago Arcade it the only one in existence.

[wikidone0321]

I miss this game so much. Maybe one day Nether Realms studios will take this under their wing and reboot it. Midway bought the IP from Atari and I’m not sure if it went with NRS when Midway went under.

[MKKhanzo]

I was just talking to one of the original programmers. Warners own the IP, as it was included when they bought Midway back then.

[wikidone0321]

Yeah, so technically Neather Realms could make it.

[Evolution169]

Yeah, so technically Neather Realms could make it.

No thanks.

[wikidone0321]

I think it would be kinda cool seeing what a MK clone would look like being done by the people who make MK

[Evolution169]

Primal Rage is an MK clone? That’s a stretch.

[wikidone0321]

Don’t know if you are being serious or sarcastic right now.