Phew! They’re all selectable in a vertical carousel, with the game’s logo taking up the right half of the screen and artwork on the left, which will turn into a video preview if you leave it a few seconds. We’ll come back to Prehistoric Isle in a minute, but this is such a compilation done right that I’ve never reviewed before so I want to have a quick look at the package then devote a quick sentence or two to each of the 23 other games included off the bat or as free DLC, and their arcade or console ports as applicable, as well as their regional variants. That’s not to say I’m not familiar with its predecessor, Prehistoric Isle, though, or at least the bits I can actually see because it’s not exactly colourblind-friendly at times! So while it promised arcade operators “brontosaurus-sized earnings with a price from the past” when it launched back in 1989, those earnings from me would have been more microraptor than brontosaurus! Not that I ever laid my dodgy eyes on it at the time, and my first time playing it was much later, when it was released as part of the SNK 40 thAnniversary Collection on Nintendo Switch, conveniently a week before my slightly more than 40th birthday back in 2018. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.I love it when I’m writing about something totally unplanned and off the cuff and not on any of the various lists I usually pull these things out of because it generally means something I’d never heard of before has come out of nowhere and made an instant big impact! And while it doesn’t happen often, it did also happen with Toaplan’s top-down arcade racer Rally Bike pretty recently as I write, and now here we are again with SNK’s Prehistoric Isle 2! ![]() Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. ![]() If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior.
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