The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino & Hoppy

The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino & Hoppy is a platform video game based on The Flintstones animated series, developed and published by Taito for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1991.

Play as Fred who must retrieve all of the pieces of Gazoo's time machine in order to save Dino and Hoppy from a mad scientist, who wants to put them in his zoo in the 30th century.

Characters

 * style="background-color:#clear"| Wilma Flintstone
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 * style="background-color:#clear"| Barney Rubble
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 * style="background-color:#clear"| Betty Rubble
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 * style="background-color:#clear"| Great Gazoo
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 * style="background-color:#clear"| Dino
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Inaudible
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Fred Flintstone
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Hoppy
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Doctor Butler
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Text
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Enemy
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 * style="background-color:#clear"| Count Rockula
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#clear"| George Jetson
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 * style="background-color:#clear"| Bamm-Bamm Rubble
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Pebbles Flintstone
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Text
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Count Rockula
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#clear"| George Jetson
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Text
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Bamm-Bamm Rubble
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Pebbles Flintstone
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Pebbles Flintstone
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A

Organizations

 * Spacely Space Sprockets (mentioned)

Locations

 * Earth
 * Bedrock
 * Orbit City
 * Orbit City Zoo (mentioned)
 * Doctor Butler's lab

Vehicles

 * Doctor Butler's time machine
 * Great Gazoo's time machine

Music
The sound composer was Y. Yamada and N. Yagishita.

Crew credits

 * Note: In the international releases, most of the first names in the staff roll are initials, while only their surnames and nicknames are listed in these releases. In the Japanese version, they were referred to by their full names, which were all changed in the other releases.


 * Programmers: Misako Kawamura, Ki-Ichi Saito (Keiichi Saito)
 * Graphic designers: T. Kodama (Toshihiko Kodama), M. Saito (Shin Saitoh), T. Kawaishi (Tohru Kaaishi), I. Matono (George Matono), Nisiyaman (Michael Nishiyama)
 * Planner: Nishiyaman (Michael Nishiyama)
 * Sound composers: Y. Yamada (Yasuo Yamada), N. Yagishita (Naoto Yagishita)
 * Coordinators: H. Kajita (Hideki Kajita), H. Hiraiwa (Hiro Hiraiwa)

Behind the scenes

 * Dino's mouth moved after being saved by Fred, giving the sense that he was yapping, although no sound is heard.
 * In the international releases, special thanks are given to T. Horimoto, K. Bando, Y. Kanno, K. Ito, Y. Koga, Onijust, Y. Nakanishi, S. Yasuda, L. Stalmah, T. Kato, Y. Suzuki, S. Nakata, N. Kuroki, N. Nakaizawa in the credits. The Japanese version lacks these credits.

Errors

 * Wilma and Betty know about Gazoo's existence, instead of just Fred, Barney, the babies, and the pets.
 * Since George supposedly lives in 2062, which is in the 21st century, Doctor Butler claiming he comes from the 30th century is grossly inaccurate. However, the year George lives in has never been addressed on-screen in an episode or movie before.

Everlasting influence

 * In 1992, an unliscenced bootleg known as 7 GRAND DAD was made after the game's release. It is notable for its strange fusion of both The Flintstones and the Mario series. Notable changes include the title screen, which has the bootleg's title along with a bootleg sprite of Mario next to Fred Flintstone on a star; and during gameplay, the replacement of Fred's head with Mario sprites from Super Mario Bros. 3 (though the latter change is not present in cutscenes and the basketball minigame).
 * The bootleg was spread onto the internet with the rise of the retro game emulation community in the late 1990s and early 2000s. While it was relatively unknown outside of the emulation circle, it achieved meme status in 2014, when Twitch streamer and YouTuber Vargskelethor Joel (or Vinesauce Joel) played the rom on his "Insane Mario Bootleg Games" stream. 7 GRAND DAD, along with Joel's bewildered reaction to the title screen, became a running joke among the Vinesauce community, and it eventually spread to other game-related forums and communities across the Internet.
 * Starting in 2016, the parody YouTube channel SiIvaGunner repurposed 7 GRAND DAD (and to a larger extent, the "(Meet) The Flintstones" theme) as a reference in thousands of "high quality rips." It was especially prevalent during the early years of the channel's existence, and is still made reference to every once in a while in its videos since.