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732: Meet the Flintstones

Retronauts · November 30, 2025

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... Yeah, you just collect him what you do in this game is you can get a riding dinosaurs and these are pretty cool. Which by the way, suggests that the game boy wasn't too far behind Super NES. You know, you had Yoshi and Super Mario World, but if you're playing Flintstones, you also got the Yoshi equivalent, I guess Dino. Also like adventure Island on Gameboy. Yes, exactly. And I have to say these things are strong when you get one of these, you're really fine for that level because they jump very high, you get…

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... I think. Yeah, it's very Alex kid like it has very similar play control. You're quite right about that. Yeah. But I think to it, you got something mixed up right here because you can call the zoo in the NES games for the jump and stuff like that. Oh, that's what I missed that you're right. I'm getting mixed up. I do apologize. You collect there are gazoo tokens in this though. Yeah, you just collect him what you do in this game is you can get a riding dinosaurs and these are pretty cool. Which by the way, suggests that the game boy wasn't too far behind Super NES. You know, you had Yoshi and Super Mario World, but if you're playing Flintstones, you also got the Yoshi equivalent, I guess Dino. Also like adventure Island on Gameboy. Yes, exactly. And I have to say these things are strong when you get one of these, you're really fine for that level because they jump very high, you get now a straight shot ahead. Yeah. So the first boss if you have dinosaur, no problem at all. You're just breeze by. It's trivial. Yeah. Yeah. So the thing about I have to comment on the visual side again, because I think this is this is such an expertly done game for the Gameboy hardware. First of all, the sprites. So obviously, there's always this argument back and forth between Gameboy and sprite size. Some games go for small sprites, but a large ...

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