Flintstones, The - The Rescue of Dino & Hoppy (Europe)
NES / Famicom
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Reviewed in 1991
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✪ Reviewed on April 17, 2025
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Fred Flintstone in a high-quality NES platformer. Varied levels, polished visuals, solid mechanics. Much better than the average licensed game. Faithfully recreates the show's universe.
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Simulation1 player3+
Description
Action platformer featuring Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm rescuing Dino and Hoppy from Rockula's clutches. Published by Taito, released in Europe in 1991. Two playable characters with distinct attacks, Bedrock and prehistoric levels and varied bosses. NES adaptation of The Flintstones TV series.
Flintstones, The - The Rescue of Dino & Hoppy review
The European PAL NES edition of Taito's Hanna-Barbera platformer, released late in 1991 with a short European distribution. The PAL cart became one of the harder Taito NES PAL titles, and CIB in the original cardboard box with multilingual manual climbs hard. The specificity rests on the small PAL print run more than on the cultural echo of the Flintstones licence, which mattered more in the US.
Is Flintstones, The - The Rescue of Dino & Hoppy still worth playing in 2026?
The Flintstones - The Rescue of Dino & Hoppy puts Fred Flintstone in an excellent NES platformer of high quality. Varied levels around Bedrock, careful graphics faithful to the series, solid mechanics with a throwing weapon and moving platforms. Taito's title sits clearly above the licence-game average of its era and recreates the cartoon world cleanly. A defensible cart to try today, especially for Hanna-Barbera fans.
