The game stars the green-haired Joe and the blue-haired Mac, cavemen who battle through numerous prehistoric levels using weapons such as boomerangs, bones, fire, flints, electricity, stone wheels, and clubs. The objective of the game is to rescue a group of women who were kidnapped by a rival tribe of cavemen. The game features a health system by which the player loses health over a period of time, apart from during boss battles. [3] A two-player mode is available, and in some versions both characters are capable of damaging each other.

A Super NES version was developed and published in 1991 by Data East. [4] In December 1992, a version for the NES was released. It was developed by Elite Systems and published by Data East. [5] A Game Boy version, released in North America and the United Kingdom in April 1993, [6] [7] was developed by Motivetime and was also published by Data East. [8] Finally, in late 1993, another version was developed by Eden Entertainment Software and published by Takara for the Sega Genesis and TecToy for the Brazilian Mega Drive in early 1994. [9]In 2006 we managed to obtain a copy of the (unreleased) Dinobasher for the Master System and released it here.. Frak! encodes high scores as nonsensical secret messages, such as Hairy gonks kiss green Buddhas slowly. Thanks to Fabrizio Bartoloni, the game was found to have been reviewed and listed as available for both Atari 800 and C64 in MC Microcomputer (See scans – interestingly showing Galivan as a screenshot and also Mumbles Superspy), which Fabrizio reports was a usually reliable magazine. The magazine suggests it was good graphically and played well. From the publishers of Polar Pierre was to be a new title called Adam Caveman, another platform game with cute large characters. Bizarrely this title never had a release, and still remains at large today. What happened? If you’re short on money and want to get Caveman The Game for free, there are a couple of ways for you to try:

a b c Dillon, Tony (December 1992). "Joe & Mac Caveman Ninja". CU Amiga. EMAP. p.56 . Retrieved May 19, 2016. Intellivision® Reveals Initial Details For The Upcoming Amico™ Home Video Game Console!". PR Newswire (Press release). Archived from the original on 2021-04-17 . Retrieved 2020-10-13. Each level also has a time-limit, which can be topped up by the occasionally found light bulbs. However, if the time runs out, the level does not end - instead, the game continues in the dark. [2] After this point, the yo-yo can still be used to remove the static enemies from the level but will not affect balloons and daggers. It’s time for our cavemen to go head to head against dangerous dinosaurs and other carnivorous plants to free their beloved wives! Don’t be fooled by these entirely reworked graphics, New Joe & Mac promises to be brutal and completely crazy!

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With that in mind, here are a handful of games that are set in prehistory, or some version of it. Maybe by taking a look at what’s come before, we can attempt to glean some notion of what to expect from Ubisoft’s new Cro Magnon epic. Command an army of T-Rex, Triceratops, and other savage dinosaurs to protect your precious egg from the hungry, hungry cavemen in an epic ancient warfare spectacle. The assumption that the developers of “Polar Pierre” had anything to do with “Adam Caveman” seems completely unfounded. Databyte were a UK distributor that licenced games from a few companies (Datamost, First Star Software) and individuals (Robert Jaeger’s “Montezuma’s Revenge”), and even had an original release on the Atari 8-bits, a utility called “Graphic Arts Department”. The fact that that they have placed “Adam Caveman” and “Polar Pierre” in the same ad means nothing –“Adam Caveman” might have been in development by a completely separate group. Strauss, Bob (April 10, 1992). "Japanese video games get tailored for the States". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on September 7, 2018 . Retrieved December 18, 2019. The game itself seems like a BC’s Quest for Tires style of game, mixed with a bit of Frak for good measure. Maybe Databyte went under just before this one could get a release? (This and Mumbles Super Spy didn’t quite make it.. and only Polar Pierre did).

In October 2020 a version for Microsoft Windows was released on Steam. This version stays close to the graphics and sound of the original BBC Micro version, but adds extra levels and gameplay features. For many years, we desperately tried to find out more about this title. The first early assumption was that the game was by the same developers as Polar Pierre. However, when we spoke to Art Huff in 2013, he suggested that he had nothing to do with the game and didn’t belief Ron Rosen was either. So the search went on.Knight, Rich (April 30, 2018). "The Best Super Nintendo Games of All Time". Complex. Archived from the original on 2018-01-16 . Retrieved 2022-01-29. Gameplay [ edit ] First level on the BBC micro First level on the Acorn Electron First level on the Commodore 64

The game has been ported to various systems, some of which drop the name Caveman Ninja, referring to the game simply as Joe & Mac. a b "Joe & Mac". Nintendo Power. Nintendo of America. April 1993. pp.64–67, 106 . Retrieved September 3, 2017.British television program Bad Influence! gave the SNES version 4 out of 5. [17] Tony Dillon of CU Amiga wrote that the game "is a lot of fun to play. Not as complete or polished as Zool, but still a great platform game. Controls are responsive, the graphics are good and the sampled sound is excellent, but I couldn't help feeling that in these times of epic Amiga games, this one is just a little too limited". [17]