Let’s Play the Adventures of Dino Riki! Man, I forget about it, but this was one of the most ass backwards, difficult, screamingly frustrating let’s plays I’ve ever done outside of a few requests I’ve done over the years. I have a small but strange fascination with this game thanks in equal parts to both my grade school buddy Joe who had and liked this game and an episode of a “Game Player Tapes” I had.
I probably referenced the Game Player tapes several times over the course of my channel when playing some of these older NES games, but these were promotional video tapes given to my brother and I by our next door neighbors who got them free… somehow. Never learned the details, but these were tapes which gave really loose overviews of popular and lesser known NES games of the late 80’s. They presented the tapes as being packed full of secret tips, but really it was like “dodge enemies” and “this is happening next”. They were the quintessential example of corny but it was their campy nature which made them hilariously endearing to us.
Anyway, to wrap up a long tangent, The Adventures of Dino Riki was one of the games covered in these video tapes. This game is pretty damn hard, lots of pits to fall into, and some parts when you get inundated with enemies which is just plain unfair.
Again, I don’t especially like this game, I just have an ever so slight strange fascination with it. Like who comes up with these concepts for these games? A caveman named Dino Riki who can shoot fire and jump on oversized lily pads?
I guess it’s a bit hypocritical that that sounds strange to me and yet a Mario who fights giant reptiles and travels by sewer pipe just makes sense/is a classic.