

Company in Taiwan, the game featured Fred Flintstone's head being swapped with Mario's head from Super Mario Bros. The video game is infamous for a ROM hack of the game titled 7 GRAND DAD ( Chinese: 原始瑪莉VII pinyin: Yuánshǐ Mǎlì VII lit. AllGame gave a review score of 4 out of 5 stars praising the game as a first rate platform with bright colorful graphics that mimic the cartoon series stating “Fred is easy to control, and his ability to club enemies and climb ledges goes a long way towards making the gameplay feel different from other titles in the genre.” Legacy GamePro praised the graphics, gameplay, and the abundance of levels, but criticized the music. At the end of the map, he gets the last piece and travels to the future, where he has to defeat Dr. Throughout the stages, Fred runs into Wilma, Barney, Betty, as well as George Jetson in the future stage. With each stage Fred completes, he earns back another piece of the time machine, and Gazoo welds together the pieces progressively. Gazoo is visible only to Fred and to nobody else (a slight change from the series where Barney, Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm could also see him). Fred's alien friend, Gazoo, lost parts of his time machine due to Dr.

Butler kidnaps Fred's pet Dino and Barney's pet Hoppy. That's when a man from the 30th century named Dr. The gameplay is preceded by a short cutscene which sets the stage, where the Flintstones and the Rubbles are enjoying their lives in Bedrock.

Taito would later release another Flintstones game for the NES titled The Flintstones: Surprise at Dinosaur Peak in 1994. In Europe, the game is slightly more common and cheaper but still typically sell for over US$1,000.The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino & Hoppy is a 1991 platform video game by Taito for the Nintendo Entertainment System and based on the animated series The Flintstones.

As of 2017 copies of the game available on eBay and other similar sites usually sell for over $800 USD to as high as $1,500 as of 2016. Though despite constantly being cited as such in modern online reviews and websites, no evidence has been found and some have even refuted the claim by saying that the game was sold in regular stores.ĭespite this, it remains one of the rarest games for the NES due to its late release during the console's lifespan and a low number of copies produced. The Flintstones: The Surprise at Dinosaur Peak is believed to have been released in North America exclusively to Blockbuster Video as a rental title.
