Nostalgia!

I remember staying up all night playing Primal Rage as a kid, it doesn't look as cool but I kinda wish this was released.

Ha

I used to play Primal Rage at a round table pizza every friday after school when I was a kid. I even had all the action figures, which I wish I held on to for memory's sake.

I remember playing Primal Rage at the local pizza place when I was a kid.  I faintly recall having a port of it on my Game Gear, as well.  Not sure how, but I had figurines of the yeti guy too.

While I did like the original game I can see why this one never made it. It's like they were trying to be Killer Instinct, Clay Fighter, and Weapon Lord all rolled into one. Which were all out at that time.

Haha wow, Primal RAGE... I used to have some of the action figures when I was like 6 or 7.

Wow, never thought I would be saying this, but thank god it never god a sequel!

I can see why it was canned. Someone got the bright idea to remove the 'awesome' factor from it. I can imagine the meeting now, "Hey, lets make another Primal Rage game, but we should remove the one thing that made our fighter fun and stand out amongst the others. Now you will fight with people, just like in every other fighting game!"

"Brilliant sir, brilliant! We swill start right away"

*gets to the point in development that the game is in the video*

"Wait... this was a TERRIBLE idea! Quick, everyone kill yourselves so no one ever finds out!"

I always got the impression that, with Primal Rage, they were attempting to mimic the visual effect of old Ray Harryhausen movies, like Clash of the Titans or Jason and the Argonauts. Despite what some may think (especially if your only exposure to PR is the console ports), the effect was very striking, and when seen on a giant screen in the arcade, it was PHENOMENAL. But yeah, for some weird reason in the sequel they decided to make these human 'avatars' the main characters of the game, though they had the ability to 'morph' into their patron Gods.....said gods being the original Dino characters from the first game. Stupid, STUPID idea.....but it still looks pretty neat. .....Oh, btw, they apparently published a novel some years later that was supposed to convey the story of the unreleased game, called Primal Rage: The Avatars.

Just played a few rounds of the original Primal Rage...yeah still very satisfying, especially farting and snotting on enemies with Chaos. Would love a remake or a new installment with the focus of the actual gods and not the avatars that this "sequel" went with.

So technically this was the first Bloody Roar?

i never understood why there aren't really any good dinosaur themed games

Aw.........

man thats going back in time no pun intended.

Super interesting! I still remember reading a bit about this in Gamepro's old "Fighting Edge" section. About how it was supposed to be fully 3D (instead of using digitized sprites), and how they were - stupidly - going to bring humans into the fray. Well, "Gods", I suppose - but the point is, they were muscling out the dinosaurs; the attraction, the hook. But mostly, that was it. No follow up, no more details, and the game vaporized. So it's cool to see this nowadays :)

Fighting games were more interesting back then. There were so many with so many weird things, desperate to stand out from Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat (yet wanting their audience all the same). It's amazing how many cool ideas are buried in forgotten fighters. Even things like Power Instinct and Plasma Sword.

...? Is his a Robot Chicken skit?

New Primal or Fur Fighters, either one.

I like how they got rid of the only redeeming quality of the game, Dinos fighting; lol.

I always kind of liked Primal Rage for whatever reason. Kind of wish I had gotten to try this out.

What happened to the dinosaurs and apes? I bet that's why this games failed so badly.  I LOVED Primal Rage.