Cadillacs and Dinosaurs: The Arcade Game (キャディラックス 恐竜新世紀, Cadillacs Kyōryū Shin Seiki?) is a 1993 arcade game released by Capcom. It is a side-scrolling beat 'em up based on the comic book series Xenozoic Tales and a lot of fantasy. The game was produced as a tie-in to the Cadillacs and Dinosaurs animated series which was aired during the same year the game was released.
Growing up as a kid, I was a fan of the comics and the animated series. I would love to find the show on DVD or on line somewhere even without the conclusion of the final episode. I would like to clear something up, though. Contrary to popular belief, Mark Schultz has not vanished from the face of the earth. He is the current writer of the famed Prince Valiant comic strip series. Hopefully someday he will regain the motivation to revive the Cadillacs and Dinosaurs Series. Ix'm more than sure that the dedicated followers of his work can help re-inspire him. I would also like to believe the Zenozoic Tales are worthy of a big budget, Hollywood movie. With the current trend of Comic Book movies, one may never know what could happen with enough support. Jason Z. Hunt
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs; The Arcade Game (known in Japan as Cadillacs Kyouryuu Shin Seiki) is a 1992 arcade game released by Capcom. It is a beat t‘em up based upon the comic Xenozoic Tales which was created by Mark Schultz in the late eighties. The game-play is like that of many other side-scrolling beatt’em up games of the time, such as Streets of Rage or Final Fight. A distinctive feature of this game is the frequent use of firearms, rarely seen on other games of its kind, which normally favored weapons such as bottles and knives. There is also a sequence in which the player can get control of the titular vehicle by radioing for it. It is difficult to keep the car intact for long, because the boss at the end of the sequence (Hogg) is armed with grenades.
Mark hasn't given up on Xenozoic Tales (the original name for Cadillacs and Dinosaurs) but is waiting for the right time to return to the characters. This animated series was a fun realization of the black and white comics, now available from Dark Horse Comics as reprints, and features the world's most influential creatures, dinosaurs. Beneath it's action-adventure surface lies a message about the cataclysmic effects humans have on the Earth's environment and how future generations reform societies in the wake of the disaster. Strange and unique sci-fi if I say so myself. Unlike the Dinosaurs, Mark Schultz and Xenozoic Tales aren't extinct.
