Primal Rage
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| Developer(s) |
Atari Games Probe Software (home consoles) |
| Publisher(s) | Atari Games Time Warner (home consoles) |
| Platform(s) | Arcade, Sega Genesis, Sega Game Gear, 3DO, MS-DOS, Amiga, Game Boy, SNES, Atari Jaguar CD, PlayStation, Sega 32X, Sega Saturn |
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Arcade
3DO & MS-DOS
SNES Atari Jaguar CD
Sega 32X Sega Saturn |
| Genre(s) | Fighting |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
| Cabinet | Upright |
| Arcade system | Atari GT System (Version 2.3) |
| CPU | Motorola 68EC020 (@ 25 MHz) |
| Sound |
TI TMS32031 (@ 33 MHz) (4x) DMA-driven DAC |
| Display | Raster resolution 336x240 (Horizontal) Many Colors |
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The game's title screen
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| Developer(s) | Atari Games |
| Publisher(s) | Atari Games |
| Platform(s) | Arcade |
| Release | Cancelled |
| Genre(s) | Fighting |
| Mode(s) | 2 players, playing simultaneously |
| Cabinet | Upright |
| Arcade system | Atari GT System |
Primal Rage is a versus fighting game developed and released by Atari Games to arcades in 1994. The game takes place in a post-apocalyptic version of Earth called "Urth". Players control one of seven large beasts that battle each other to determine the fate of the planet. Matches feature many of the conventions of fighting games from the era, including special moves and gory finishing maneuvers.
Various ports were released for home consoles and personal computers. Efforts to perfectly emulate the arcade original have been unsuccessful due to an unusual copy protection method that the developers used.
Toys, comics, a novel (Primal Rage: The Avatars by John Vornholt), and other merchandise tie-ins were also produced.
A massive meteor strike has devastated the planet Earth. Human civilization comes to an end in the ensuing cataclysms, and humanity regressed into tribes of Stone Age dwellers. Primordial rainforest cover the land, and the continental landmass has shifted into the shape of a fire-breathing dinosaur skull. The planet is now primitively referred to as "Urth" by the survivors of the cataclysms.
Seven fearsome creatures emerge from their slumber deep within the Urth's crust, and become worshiped as gods by the humans, who form segregated clans beneath the ones they follow. The beasts themselves are divided between those who wish to keep peace on Urth, and those who attempt to plunge the world into further for their own benefit. These creatures have otherworldly or supernatural abilities. The Primal Rage trading cards that were distributed along with the toyline presented each creature as a god of an aspect of nature, as in life and death, fire and ice. There are four of the good Virtuous gods and three evil Destructive gods. The character Sauron, god of Hunger, is marked as a "Virtuous Beast" despite the fact that his in-game ending displays an image of him devouring humans.
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