BC Kid is a genius rebranding by the way. The Super Nintendo game is also called Super BC Kid in Europe.
This title works on many levels because Sodipeng, the video game distributor created by the Guillemot brothers who also founded Ubisoft, imported the PC Engine in Continental Europe without changing the packaging of games, and they often made up names for Europe on the hastily printed two-sheet translated manuals they would include into the original PC Engine cases.
Since there was a huge PC原人 written on the cover of the game, they kept the “PC” part and decided to call it PC Kid. This is how the character is known and called even today by most French gamers. I would expect the same in Italy and possibly Germany, although German exposure to PC Engine was much smaller as Sodipeng / Guillemot was not as strong in this market.
However, since “PC Kid” and “PC Kid 2” sold and reviewed pretty well, Guillemot/Ubisoft decided to bring the character to the European PC market and Super Nintendo, for which they had recently acquired software licensing rights following the set up of Nintendo of Europe in Germany (1992).
So BC Kid both refers to this vernacular but fake European title invented by Sodipeng, and also makes sense thematically. It’s brilliant.
I vaguely remembered reading about one for the NES though it took me a while to remember the name of it, Adventures of Dino Riki. It's a strange one.
I don't think it really counts but as a kid I'd always associated Jill of the Jungle with being a caveman game. If memory serves me correctly there are dinosaur enemies in that game?
Here are the first two screenshots (mockups ?) for the Joe & Mac remake, by the same French team which perpetrated the Toki remake. It’s supposed to come out on Steam and Switch next year, but keep in mind they first acquired the rights and prematurely announced this remake in 2009, back when people like @ana and @Jax were about three years old, so you should not give insert too much credit to their release estimates.
In all fairness, the 2009 version went nowhere due to their notoriously inept publisher (essentially one guy, whose tendency for talking out his ass killed multiple projects) and the actual developers were able to make smooth progress after prying the game from the wreckage of that company, so I expect this remake will follow suit (and that it's probably already fairly close to completion.
I don’t mean to spoil another quite astonishing batch of weird eShop releases next week but the Brazilians of QUByte have secured the rights to Imagitec’s The Humans for a remaster releasing on every notable platform. Character swapping cooperation à la Trine or The Three Vikings, with cavemen.
The rental store I went to as a kid would put their old gen games up for sale way past the system’s prime. They put their NES games on the sale rack towards the front of the store one week. For whatever reason this was the solitary NES game that no one wanted and it just sat on the sale shelf, by itself, forever. I remember this game staring at me, with a $10 tag on the box, most every weekend in like '96 or '97 and always thinking to myself, “I have to be the only kid who comes here who would even want that and I don’t really want that.” It’s now a stupidly expensive game and from the little bit I’ve seen on it, it actually looks like a pretty solid game.
I pride myself on having an encyclopedic knowledge of bad 90’s fighting games and I completely forgot about this guy from Ballz. Props lol. Now I’m worried I’ve forgotten other cavemen!
Just going to point out that Primal Rage II (unreleased), despite still being majority dinosaurs, and for some reason having a bunch of giant dinosaur sized humans in it, has no cavepersons.
