The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino & Hoppy

The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino & Hoppy
Publisher	Taito AU: Mattel
Developer	Taito
Console	Nintendo Entertainment System
Genre	Platformer
Release date	NA: December 1991 EU: April 30, 1992 JP: August 7, 1992 AU: 1992

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

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Wilma Flintstone	Text
Barney Rubble	Text
Betty Rubble	Text
Great Gazoo	Text
Dino	Inaudible
Fred Flintstone	N/A
Hoppy	N/A
Doctor Butler	Text
Enemy	Text
Count Rockula	N/A
George Jetson	Text
Bamm-Bamm Rubble	N/A
Pebbles Flintstone	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

Development

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

• The video game achieved meme status in 2017, when streamer Vargskeletor Joel played a Mario-themed bootleg called 7 Grand Dad.