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[[caption-width-right:256:''[[TitleThemeTune Ra-ra-radical Rex!]]'']]
->''Shred pre-historic pavement.''
-->-- '''[[http://www.mobygames.com/game/radical-rex/cover-art/gameCoverId,33531/ The cover]]'''

''Radical Rex'' is a PlatformGame for Platform/SegaGenesis, Platform/SegaCD and Platform/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem, developed by Beam Software and published by Creator/{{Activision}} in 1994, with a [[Platform/MicrosoftWindows Windows PC]] port of the game released via Platform/{{Steam}} on March 7, 2019. It was known as ''Baby T-Rex'' in the development stages.

The plot is simple: An evil gopher-like creature named Skriitch wants to help the mammals rule the world, so he casts a spell on the dinosaurs that turns them against one another to help him achieve that goal. However, main character Radical Rex, a skateboarding, fire-breathing, "[[TotallyRadical too hip to be extinct]]" T.rex, was unaffected by the spell. So he sets off to rescue the dinosaurs, which include his girlfriend, [[PunnyName Rexanne]]. Strangely, the SNES version features a human wizard named Sethron as the BigBad, rather than Skriitch.
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!!Tropes:
%%* AlliterativeTitle
* AmbidextrousSprite: Yep. Rex will be perfectly mirrored no matter which way he's looking.
* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: It's rather unlikely that real dinosaurs breathed fire. However, RuleOfCool.
* BigBad: Skriitch in the Sega CD version. Sethron in the Super NES version.
* BubblegloopSwamp: The second level.
* ColorCodedMultiplayer: There's Rex, who is a light-brown T-Rex, and a second player controlled character that may or may not be an actual second character or just Rex dyed purple. It's actually Rexanne.
%%* DamselInDistress: Rexanne.
%%* DinosaursAreDragons
%%* EverythingTryingToKillYou
%%* EvilSorcerer: Skriitch and Sethron.
%%* ExcusePlot: Yeah, pretty much.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Getting dissolved by a giant dinosaur's stomach acids, roasted to death in lava, drowning, or getting impaled on spikes, being asphyxiated by tentacles/sea anemones.
* ForegoneConclusion: It's dinosaurs vs. mammals, for crying out loud!
* GustyGlade: The Dino Graveyard has occasional gusts of wind, which can be deadly if you're trying to leap over spikes when they occur.
%%* HitPoints: In the form of a life bar.
* IdleAnimation: Rex will impatiently tap his foot.
* TheManyDeathsOfYou: There must be a thousand and one ways to get yourself killed in this game, and you are likely to hit every single last one of them before you beat the game.
* MascotWithAttitude: This was undoubtedly what the developers were aiming for with ''[[TotallyRadical Radical]] Rex''.
* MiniGame: You can enter these between the core levels of the game by collecting dinosaur eggs. The Mini-Game levels themselves are all the same: Radical Rex riding a pogo stick atop seashell platforms to collect ''more'' dinosaur eggs. Oh, and he has to stay above the rising acid.
* NintendoHard: Not at first, but once you get to level 5, this starts setting in ''hard'', as the enemies get tougher, the element of SuperDrowningSkills is introduced, and each of the levels from this point on have ''bosses''.
%%* PlatformGame
* RibcageRidge: Level 4 is a dinosaur graveyard, where you must climb up giant jumbled dino skeletons.
* SaveTheWorld: An evil wizard is turning all your fellow dinosaurs against each other to induce their extinction and the rise of mammals!
%%* SideView
* SpringySpores: At some points of the game, Rex encounters giant mushrooms that bounce him up when jumped on.
* TitleThemeDrop: Hell, the title ''even drops'' into view when it starts!
* TitleThemeTune: ''Radical Rex'', at least on the Sega CD, had one worthy of an 80s cartoon show.
* TotallyRadical: It's right there in the title. The SNES version has a rather lousy theme song with the lyrics "He's a real cool/real cool/real cool RADICAL REX!", and Rex's soundbites sound like a bad imitation of a stereotypical California surfer dude.
* WombLevel: Level 3 opens with Rex accidentally getting swallowed by a gigantic dinosaur. Three guesses where the level is set — and it's a particularly {{Squick}}y example of this trope.
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