Primal Rage 2 PCB?

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Okay I know I know the game was never released...but a prototype was brought to I believe some event in California and Chicago.

So here is the story. I found a board for sale, it might be a Primal rage 2 board.. On the ROMS are printed stickers that say "Primal Rage 2". I will have pics in the next couple of days. I am thinking of buying it just on the chance...

The seller is unaware of the game, its history (or lack there of) and well it isn't too expensive...yet. And they have no way of testing it.

Anyone have any thoughts, am I buying a Brooklyn bridge here? is it worth a stab, or is it some completely different board and I just got my hopes up for nothing.
 
I love the first PR, I bet the 2nd one would have been even better. It's the only game from the 'modern era' (1991+) that I still have in my gameroom.
 
Really, it was bad? Did you get to play it? What makes it bad?

They totally changed the game. You were a human and not a dinosaur. You only became a dinosaur during super moves. Horribly clunky gameplay too. I liked the original as did a lot of people. When the game went out on test it tanked horribly and was quickly cancelled.
 
'Emulated' would not be the word I would use. 'Unplayable' would be a better word choice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FdfAF4fov0

Yea I figured since many popular games arent emulated correctly what are the chances a prototype game would even be playable.

But I did enjoy the first one, so Im sure I would have enjoyed the second one too.
 
Yea I figured since many popular games arent emulated correctly what are the chances a prototype game would even be playable.

But I did enjoy the first one, so Im sure I would have enjoyed the second one too.

I'm not sure which popular games aren't emulated correctly, because I've never heard of any. The problem is that the later Midway games that have been added to MAME in recent years, NFL Blitz, Gauntlet Legends, MK4, etc. require much more powerful processers and memory then what 99% of us have on our current PCs, so they simply won't play correctly. If you have the right equipment they play find, but even today you need a really top of the line machine to get them to play right. From the looks of the video, Primal Rage 2 suffers from the same problem.
 
I'm not sure which popular games aren't emulated correctly, because I've never heard of any. The problem is that the later Midway games that have been added to MAME in recent years, NFL Blitz, Gauntlet Legends, MK4, etc. require much more powerful processers and memory then what 99% of us have on our current PCs, so they simply won't play correctly. If you have the right equipment they play find, but even today you need a really top of the line machine to get them to play right. From the looks of the video, Primal Rage 2 suffers from the same problem.

Super Punch Out isnt emulated correctly. It plays fine and if you never played the real game it seems fine, but its not the same. A lot of games have small problems like that, nowhere near Primal Rage 2 problems, but many games arent emulated 100%.
 
Primal Rage II was on test when I lived in Chicago at Gala North Lanes...It was a 6 button layout but no one played the thing. This was around the time Street FIghter III and Mortal Kombat 4 were the hot thing up there.
 
Well no luck at all. The descriptionj and the actual board were let's just say generously different.

What I got for 4 bucks was some random ass board, sound board by the looks of it. It doesn't say Primal Rage 2 it says "Rage 2 sound" on the chips. In the guys defense he knows jack about arcades just happened across this board saw my primal rage and said "Ive got a Primal Rage 2 board laying around if you want it, you can have it cheap".

Oh well got me excited for a few days.
 
So you guys that got to play it what did you think?

It was horrible and it was no surprise when it didn't earn and was cancelled. They took out anything that was cool about the first game and instead made a really bad, choppy, poor playing fighting game.
 
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