The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino & Hoppy

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The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino & Hoppy
Rescue of Dino & Hoppy cover.png
Cover.
Publisher Taito
AU: Mattel
Developer Taito
Console Nintendo Entertainment System
Genre Platformer
Release date NA: December 1991[1]
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.

Summary

Memorable quotes

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

Locations

Objects

Vehicles

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

Development

Trade ad.

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 listed by their 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 other releases.

Behind the scenes

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

Title screen of 7 GRAND DAD.
  • In 1992, a Taiwanese bootleg ROM hack known as 7 GRAND DAD (Chinese: 原始瑪莉VII; pinyin: Yuánshǐ Mǎlì VII) was made and published by J.Y. Company. It is made infamous for its altered title screen, which featured a bootleg sprite of Mario next to Fred Flintstone in a star (with the former derived from another bootleg, Dian Shi Ma Li); and the replacement of Fred's head with Mario's sprites from Super Mario Bros. 3 through most of the gameplay.[2]
    • 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 (better known as Joel from Vinesauce) played the ROM in one of his streams.[3] 7 GRAND DAD, along with Joel's bewildered reaction to it, 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 (as well as the "(Meet) The Flintstones" theme) as a reference in thousands of "high quality rips."[2] It was especially prevalent during the early years of the channel's existence, and is still made reference in its videos since.

References

  1. ^ "Release information". GameFAQs. Retrieved on November 29, 2022.
  2. ^ a b "7 Grand Dad". Know Your Meme. Retrieved December 10, 2022.
  3. ^ "[Vinesauce] Joel - Insane Mario Bootleg Games ( Part 1 )". YouTube. Retrieved December 9, 2022.
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