16-Bit Fleentstones.
A Licensed Game based on The Flintstones, released by Taito in 1993 for the Sega Genesis.
Fred Flintstone goes on a side-scrolling adventure through six different levels to help his friends and family find their missing things.
You play as Fred, who attacks with his club. Holding down the attack button charges the club, and releasing it gives Fred a more powerful attack. Fred can also find dragon eggs, and if he hatches them, he can ride the dragon for a short time.
This game provides examples of:
- Bat Out of Hell: Bats serve as enemies in Hard Rock. They fly in place, but charge at Fred if he gets close to them.
- Bee Afraid: Giant bees serve as enemies in Dino Express.
- Bonus Stage: When Fred finds the Great Gazoo, Gazoo will take him to a bonus stage, where he can earn extra lives, continues, and/or health.
- Breath Weapon: Every dragon in the game, good and bad, attacks by breathing fire.
- Charged Attack: Fred can charge up his club swing to do more damage. Getting hit causes you to lose the charge however.
- Death Is a Slap on the Wrist: Played with; When Fred loses a life, he starts over at the last checkpoint, except during the boss battles, where he can just keep fighting the boss at the cost of one less heart. This is averted with the final battle against the Cave Witch; if Fred loses a life to her, he has to start the final battle over again.
- Delightful Dragon: When Fred finds a dragon egg and hatches it, he can ride the dragon for a short amount of time. The dragon can glide and attack enemies by breathing fire. Rescuing his family is the goal of the sixth and final level.
- Hearts Are Health: Fred starts out with three hearts in his life bar. Collecting a heart will add an extra heart to the life bar (Fred can have up to six). If Fred loses a life, he loses one heart until he's back to three.
- Hyperactive Metabolism: Collecting apples restores lost health.
- Indy Escape: At one point in Swimming Pool, Fred must outrun a flow of lava through a narrow tunnel.
- Lethal Lava Land: The fifth level, Fire Rock, takes place in an active volcano. This stage includes One-Hit Kill lava, and a section where Fred has to climb to the top of the volcano as the lava rises. The boss of the stage is a fire dragon that stole Bamm-Bamm's favorite club.
- Locomotive Level: The fourth level, Dino Express, takes place on a train, where Fred searches for Betty's missing ribbon. When Fred reaches the engine, it is revealed to be powered by a running dinosaur.
- Low Clearance: In Dino Express, Fred must be on the lower parts of the train when it goes under signals or through tunnels to avoid getting hit.
- Minecart Madness: One section of Hard Rock has Fred riding mine carts while dodging bats and cavemen who throw rocks at him.
- Never Smile at a Crocodile: Crocodiles serve as enemies in Swimming Pool.
- Palmtree Panic: The first level, Leaf Rock, takes place on a beach. At one point, Fred runs off a cliff and is about to fall in the water, but lands on a shark, who takes him to dry land, which the shark immediately starts ripping apart. The boss of the stage is a dinosaur riding a giant eggbeater, who has stolen Wilma's necklace.
- Prehistoria: Given the source material, every level has at least a little bit of this.
- Rail-Car Separation: Dino Express has the cars breaking away from the train at times. Fred must be on the next available car when the previous one breaks away to avoid being left behind.
- Rise to the Challenge: This game has two examples. The first is in Fire Rock, where Fred has to climb to the top of a volcano as the lava rises. The second takes place in Hard Rock, where Fred has to climb to the top of the stage as the water in it rises.
- Seesaw Catapult: The boss of Dino Express is a giant condor who stole Betty's ribbon and is wearing it as a bow tie. To damage him, Fred must jump on one of two seesaws with boulders on the other end when the condor is flying over it so that he can launch the boulder into the air and hit the condor.
- Shifting Sand Land: The third level, Desert Drive, takes place in the desert. In this level, Fred drives the Flintmobile across the desert in searh of Pebbles, dealing with such hazards as cacti, quicksand, and cow skulls.
- Snakes Are Sinister: Giant snakes serve as enemies in Leaf Rock. Fred can temporarily knock them out with his club, at which point he can jump on their heads to use as platforms.
- Straying Baby: In Desert Drive, Pebbles crawls away, and Fred chases after her, hoping to catch her before she gets hurt.
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Spiritual Successor: To The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino & Hoppy for the NES, having similar gameplay elements, such as Fred attacking with his club, and holding it down to charge for a more powerful attack, as well as being able to hold on to ledges. - Stock Ness Monster: The Loch Ness Monster serves as the boss of Swimming Pool.
- Super Drowning Skills: Fred loses a life if he falls into the water in Leaf Rock or Hard Rock.
- Super Not-Drowning Skills: Fred spends all of the second level, Swimming Pool, underwater, and never has to stop to breathe in air bubbles.
- Taken for Granite: The Cave Witch has captured the Dragon's family and has turned them into stone statues, which attack Fred during the final battle by breathing fire at him. Once you defeat the Cave Witch, collect her hat to break the spell and rescue the Dragon's family.
- Tennis Boss: The boss of Swimming Pool brings down clams to attack Fred with. Fred must hit the clams so they will fly into the boss and hit him.
- Threatening Shark: In Leaf Rock, after a shark takes Fred to dry land, he immediately starts tearing it apart.
- Under the Sea: In the second level, Swimming Pool, Fred goes underwater to search for Barney's lucky fishing hook. Sea creatures serve as enemies, and the Loch Ness Monster serves as the boss.
- Underground Level: The sixth and final level, Hard Rock, takes place in a cave, where the Cave Witch serves as the Final Boss.
- Wicked Witch: The Cave Witch is the game's Final Boss. She has captured the Dragon's family and has turned them into stone statues.
