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 Prehistoric
Isle in 1930
-SNK
(1989)
 The
Story
The
Bermuda Triangle has been a source of mysterious disappearances and accidents
for decades. There has been an increasing amount of these accidents near
Greenhill Isle (Greenhell – such a peacefully evil name). We shall launch an
investigation crew to discover the cause and report our findings to the good
people of our country.
 My
Thoughts
Dinosaurs! Pissed-off dinosaurs actually. For some reason all the
dinosaurs are evil, even the herbivores that are usually assumed to be
friendly. Not only are the dinos angry, most of them shoot fireballs and they
inexplicably explode when you shoot them. Some of the pterodactyls and some
smaller dinosaurs do burst into a nice blood spatter and, in a later stage, some
of the pterodactyls lose their skin and organs when you shoot them, so their
bones are just flying around. The Neanderthals are somehow as big as the dinosaurs and
there are some freakishly large insects. As you can tell, some things in this
game don’t make much sense, least of which are the bosses.
 In some stages you
will fight two bosses, while others have the usual one. The bosses are mostly
normal looking dinosaurs with a few nifty and/or odd little attacks. The
brachiosaurus likes to extend his neck of unattached floating balls and chomp
down on your plane. There’s a hunched-back Allosaurus that shoots fire-balls, a
rhamphorhynchus, an unknown dinosaur that’s a bloody-vein-popping floating plant
creature, a huge Coleoptera beetle that blows apart into smaller beetles, a
massive boney turtle, an enormous Ammonite snail creature, and a stegosaurus
that can channel electricity though its body and shoots his unlimited supply of spike
plates. The final boss is an over-sized T-Rex with a stiff neck (He obviously
watched too many movies in the front row).
 During the game you’ll be popping
off dinos in your trusty red biplane. Your power-ups give you an extra weapon
that you can position in different places around your plane. Each position
gives the weapon different types of shots and it acts as a shield. In one stage
you pilot a submarine and take on underwater-saurs. I do like the whole idea of
going to the Bermuda triangle and finding an island of dinosaurs, but when you
pretty much just fight pterodactyls all the time it gets boring. The game was
worth playing through though because the ending was surprising and quite
unexpected. After the T-Rex’s flurry of explosions your planes dock back in the
large transport plane. You and your people start working out a report to warn
everyone to stay out of the triangle. Suddenly a flock of pterodactyls attack
the transport plane which quickly explodes. Holy crap, I’m dead! Perhaps
exploding dinosaurs make more sense in death.
 Score:
6.0
-Shawn
   
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