The Flintstones: Surprise at Dinosaur Peak
Encyclopedia
The Flintstones: Surprise at Dinosaur Peak is a platform
video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System
created and published by Taito Corporation
in 1994.
television series (the first being The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino & Hoppy
). This game was never released in Japan unlike its prequel. It was released only to Blockbuster Video in August 1994. In this game, the player can switch playable characters between both Fred
and Barney
, and they both have different attacks and abilities; in the original, the only playable character is Fred. It is known to be the second rarest commercially-released licensed title for the NES (behind Stadium Events
) due to being a Blockbuster-rental only game and copies on eBay
rarely go below $200 USD.
Platform game
A platform game is a video game characterized by requiring the player to jump to and from suspended platforms or over obstacles . It must be possible to control these jumps and to fall from platforms or miss jumps...
video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System
Nintendo Entertainment System
The Nintendo Entertainment System is an 8-bit video game console that was released by Nintendo in North America during 1985, in Europe during 1986 and Australia in 1987...
created and published by Taito Corporation
Taito Corporation
The is a Japanese publisher of video game software and arcade hardware wholly owned by publisher Square Enix. Taito has their headquarters in the Shinjuku Bunka Quint Building in Yoyogi, Shibuya, Tokyo, sharing the facility with its parent company....
in 1994.
Summary
It is the second licensed game based on the 1960s FlintstonesThe Flintstones
The Flintstones is an animated, prime-time American television sitcom that screened from September 30, 1960 to April 1, 1966, on ABC. Produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, The Flintstones was about a working class Stone Age man's life with his family and his next-door neighbor and best friend. It...
television series (the first being The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino & Hoppy
The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino & Hoppy
The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino & Hoppy is a 1991 Platform video game developed by Taito for the Nintendo Entertainment System based on The Flintstones TV series...
). This game was never released in Japan unlike its prequel. It was released only to Blockbuster Video in August 1994. In this game, the player can switch playable characters between both Fred
Fred Flintstone
Frederick Joseph “Fred” Flintstone, also known as Fred W. Flintstone or Frederick J. Flintstone, is the protagonist of the animated sitcom The Flintstones, which aired during prime-time on ABC during the original series' run from 1960-66. He is the husband of Wilma Flintstone and father of Pebbles...
and Barney
Barney Rubble
Bernard "Barney" Rubble is the deuteragonist of the television animated series The Flintstones. He is the diminutive blonde-haired caveman husband of Betty Rubble and father of Bamm-Bamm Rubble...
, and they both have different attacks and abilities; in the original, the only playable character is Fred. It is known to be the second rarest commercially-released licensed title for the NES (behind Stadium Events
Stadium Events
Stadium Events is the English title of the Japanese Family Computer video game by Bandai. The game was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in Japan in 1986, in the United States in 1987 and in West Germany and Sweden in 1988...
) due to being a Blockbuster-rental only game and copies on eBay
EBay
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rarely go below $200 USD.