History VideoGame / PrimalRage

* BreathWeapon: Diablo's [[PlayingWithFire Torch]], Chaos' Power Puke, Sauron's [[MakeMeWannaShout Sonic Roar and Primal Scream]], Blizzard's Freeze Breath, and Vertigo's Voodoo Spit.

* ApocalypseHow: The Gods were freed in a planetary-level apocalypse -- a meteor shower. In the novel, the biggest of the meteors [[spoiler:was Necrosan's egg]].

* DigitizedSprites: Made from {{Claymation}} figures.

* ExcrementStatement: In the form of a golden shower.

* FlawlessVictory: "TOTAL DOMINATION!"
* FragileSpeedster: Talon

* JerkassGods: All of them to some degree.
* {{Kaiju}}: Uhm, the dinosaurs and apes are pretty goddamn big?

* LightningBruiser: Chaos.

* PeopleFarms: Sauron and Talon's goal.
* PlayingWithFire: Most of Diablo's special moves.

* [[PunyEarthlings Puny Humans]]: We have no civilization, no weapons shown, and there's a half dozen [[PhysicalGod gods]] running around.

** Talon occasionally does this to his chosen avatar.

* TokenGoodTeammate: Blizzard is the only one of the gods who can be called an outright good guy, as the other so called "Virtuous Beasts", while not actively malevolent, tend to regard humans as [[PunyEarthlings nuisances]] or [[ToServeMan dinner.]]

* [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman What Measure Is A Human]]: Even Blizzard, the nicest of the Virtuous Beasts, isn't above chowing down on his followers, and Talon, as mentioned, considers humans to be cattle. Even Armadon isn't proven to be a total vegetarian, since he has to eat worshippers and Pteranodons to gain health.
** Inverted in the novelization, oddly. Talon eventually considers a simple human worthy of bearing his gauntlets, and Blizzard is a nice, peaceful ape who'd rather teach his followers the virtues of learning.

* DamnYouMuscleMemory: The special moves are performed by holding down the buttons and then inputting the directions, instead of the other way around like in most other fighters. You can still perform them the normal way in some versions of the game, but seeing that all of them require you to hit at least 2 attack buttons at the same time, it's not really worth the trouble. Try doing this with the fighters in ''{{VideoGame/MUGEN}}'', where you now need to input the commands at the same time, Franchise/StreetFighter-style.

* ObjectShapedLandmass: The same meteor that reawakens the Primal Gods also rearranges the continents into the shape of a giant T. rex skull.

* WhipItGood: Vertigo uses her tail as a whip-like weapon.

* MightyGlacier: Sauron and Armadon. Armadon, at least, can fire projectiles, and Sauron has AOE attacks.

* TheRightOfASuperiorSpecies: Talon is a Virtuous Beast and a loyal defender of raptorkind. ''Humans'' are not his people; even his human followers are nothing more than cattle. ([[DependingOnTheWriter Though sometimes]] he'll spare followers who can bring more humans for him and his kind to eat.)

* BalefulPolymorph: One of Vertigo's three fatalities.
** Also Chaos' fate, as he was trying to turn into Blizzard, but ended up becoming something gross.

* StockDinosaurs: Talon is a ''Deinonychus'' ([[VindicatedByHistory complete with feathers, but on his head]]), Diablo and Sauron are Tyrannosaurs, and Armadon is a [[MixAndMatchCritters mix-and-match dino]] with a Ceratopsian's head, an Ankylosaur's Armor, and a Stegosaur's [[ComicStrip/TheFarSide thagomizer]].

* RecycledInSpace: It's ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' [-WITH [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs DINOSAURS]] AND GIANT GORILLAS!-]

* DamnYouMuscleMemory: The special moves are performed by holding down the buttons and then inputting the directions, instead of the other way around like in most other fighters. You can still perform them the normal way in some versions of the game, but seeing that all of them require you to hit at least 2 attack buttons at the same time, it's not really worth the trouble. Try doing this with the fighters in ''{{VideoGame/MUGEN}}'', where you now need to input the commands at the same time, StreetFighter-style.

* DramaticThunder: Combos that inflict heavy damage are emphasized with this trope and accompanying lightning in the background when finished.

* EverythingsBetterWithCows:
** There is a hidden trick in which raining cows can occur when a match goes into Sudden Death.
** Vertigo's third fatality is called "La Vache Qui Rit" ("The Laughing Cow", like the brand of processed cheese), in which she transforms her opponent into a cow.

* RecycledInSpace: It's ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' [-WITH [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs DINOSAURS]] AND [[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys GIANT GORILLAS!]]-]

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Blizzard and Chaos are both giant apes. (Chaos was supposed to be an even more disgusting thing than a regular ape, but yay, creator laziness.)

Playable characters:

This 1994 FightingGame is a little unusual in that there's no boss character to smack around; instead, there's a pseudo-BossRush at the end where you have to fight all seven characters again, one after the other. There was a planned upgrade that would've given the game a boss to defeat in order to beat the game, but that went unreleased by Atari Games. There was also a planned sequel simply called ''Primal Rage II'' that went unreleased due to there being [[FollowTheLeader too many]] {{Fighting Game}}s at the time. However, a single prototype of it has been obtained by the Galloping Ghost Arcade in Brookfield, Illinois. ''(Sadly, this means that this is the only place in the world where you can actually play the game.)'' [[http://shoryuken.com/2014/06/27/galloping-ghost-arcade-releases-over-five-hours-of-primal-rage-ii-gameplay-footage/ Footage can be found here.]] Eventually, in 2017, a special build of MAME was made just to play this game. It can now be [[https://www.letsplaysega.com/play-primal-rage-online/ played online here,]] or [[https://www.myabandonware.com/game/primal-rage-2vr downloaded here.]]