Description of Cadillacs and Dinosaurs ROM - MAME

Half naked chicks, dinosaurs, vintage rides and guns in a single package, you say? Well, count me in! Based on the popular 1990’s comic book series titled Xenozoic Tales (or C&D), Cadillacs and Dinosaurs follow the same group of characters (from the comic) living in a post-apocalyptic 26th century, in which the Earth (after the humanity took refuge in underground shelters for circa six hundred years) has been repopulated by previously extinct species, namely dinosaurs and prehistoric creatures. There the protagonists, the eponymous Cadillacs, named after their ‘sort of leader’ Jack “Cadillac” Tenrec, find themselves fighting a group of poachers called Black Marketeers, who (for unknown reasons) hunt and capture wild dinosaurs, which makes the animals afraid of—and thus hostile towards—humans, breaking the fragile equilibrum between the surviving humanity and the new thriving ecosystem. Now, gameplay-wise, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs are pretty much your average Capcom-style brawler: isometric view and movement, four characters to choose from (up to three players can play simultaneously), destructible surroundings (which usually yields you some kind of reward like bonus score points or HPs), weapon pick-ups—you get the idea. And, well, that’s not where it exactly excels. I mean, it’s a perfectly good and fun brawler on its own. But what makes Cadillacs and Dinosaur so fun is its settings and atmosphere. And since I’ve got to read some of the comic stories only after I’ve first played the game itself, I can only imagine what it must have been like for the comic fans when they first popped that coin into the cabinet. Like, we’ve seen games based on a comic book a million times before. But the unique combination of Fallout Style retro-future apocalypse combined with the Arthur Conan Doyle’s Lost World elements were definitely something new. And being a millennial kid, I can tell you that dinosaurs were a thing back then. And after the first Spielberg’s take on Jurassic Park appeared on the silver screen, they were a thing even more. And anything not featuring enough dinosaurs was inevitably out. Sounds and visuals are pretty ok for a 1993 game, though it wouldn’t hurt if the sprites were a bit sharper, I guess, but hey—if the scenes look real enough and do not make you want to puke and scratch your eyes out of your head, what’s there more to ask for? Controls? Well. Capcom + brawler. What do you guess? Now, yes! An eight-way joystick and two buttons (though for some strange reason, MAME lists three buttons in the settings tab), button one for attack and pick-up and button two for jump. See the cabinet art and move-list here (note: external links might be shut down and there’s nothing we could possibly do about it, sorry for the inconvenience if this is the case). Hit the download button and have fun, folks!