I remember way back, years ago when I rented this game for my Nintendo Entertainment System when I was in elementary school. I though it was great, but hard to control on an NES controller. Then a couple of years later, I got it in a 10 game CD pack from Wal-Mart and played it for hours.
It’s a puzzle game that uses cavemen to solve various problems. Most of the puzzles involve getting all or some of the cave men to the other side of the playing map.
I remember way back, years ago when I rented this game for my Nintendo Entertainment System when I was in elementary school. I though it was great, but hard to control on an NES controller. Then a couple of years later, I got it in a 10 game CD pack from Wal-Mart and played it for hours.
It’s a puzzle game that uses cavemen to solve various problems. Most of the puzzles involve getting all or some of the cave men to the other side of the playing map. You can do this by toggling between cavemen and have them climb up on each other, throw spears, use rope, drop ladders, kill dinosaurs, and other interesting tasks.
The levels slowly increase in difficulty
and really make you think. On the very advanced levels, you have to think for hours before finding out a way to complete the task. Hours of fun, and yet such a simple concept! Because of the simple concept an 8 year old can have as much fun playing with it as an adult. Yet at the same time it always provides a challenge and makes you feel good when figuring each level out.
The graphics are very simple: cute little cave men in animal skins. Brown lines with grey triangles on top for spears, kid drawn looking dinosaurs… but it still looks very decent with the technology available at the time. Each level is hidden away by some sort of funny little sentence that you can enter at the beginning of the game. I don’t remember the exact phrases or sentences, but you can just start typing them in sometimes and get lucky. I remember I typed in “This is it” and it opened up level two hundred something. If you get bored, it’s kind of fun just guessing the names of levels you have not yet made it to on your own.
Overall I think this is an excellent game made for its day. There are so many different ways to complete a level, and yet it will sometimes take a good half hour to figure just one way out. Other times, you will visualize it from the very beginning and finish in just a couple of minutes. This always keeps it interesting and exciting.
