캐딜락 & 다이노소어 한글판 (무스타파) / Cadillacs and Dinosaurs (Mustapha) / キャディラックス 恐竜新世紀 (ムスタファ) / 고전게임 / 켠왕
3캐딜락 & 다이노소어
한때 오락실을 풍미했던 캡콤의 아케이드 게임으로, 제목의 캐딜락은 원작에서 주인공 잭이 몰고 다니는 캐딜락 자동차(1952 Cadillac Series 62)를 뜻하며, 다이노소어는 말 그대로 공룡. 즉 현대 문명의 이기인 자동차와 중생대의 지배 동물인 공룡을 붙여서 제목으로 사용한 것이다.
참고로 오카모토 요시키가 '게임 비평'의 칼럼에서 "원작의 반짝 인기처럼 애니메이션도 반짝 인기 후 본국에서 조기 종영 되었던 것처럼, 게임 버전도 사업적인 면에서(게임성이 아니라) 말아 먹었다."는 식의 술회를 한 적이 있다. 하지만 이건 미국 및 일본에서의 얘기이고, 한국에서는 야구격투 리그맨 등과 함께 오락실 전성기 시절을 풍미한 게임으로 매우 잘 알려져 있다.
'공룡 나오고 총 줍고 뚜드려 패는 게임'이라 하면 '아~'하고 다들 기억할 정도로 인기가 높았으니 말이다. 물론 사업적으로나 실패했을 뿐이지, 게임 자체는 수작 수준으로 잘 만들어졌으며, 캐릭터들의 움직임도 시원시원하고 아이템도 다양하다.
공룡과 인간이 서로를 해치지 않고 평화롭게 살아가던 시대. 그런데 어느 순간 공룡들이 인간을 공격하기 시작했다. 지금까지 이런 경우는 극히 드물었기 때문에 다들 있을 수 없는 일이라고 경악하고 만다.
그 이유는 바로 '블랙 마켓'이라는 암흑 조직의 악당들이 자연 속에서 살아가는 공룡을 마구잡이로 사냥했던 것에 있다. 그들은 이렇게 포획한 공룡을 상업적으로 이용할 뿐 아니라, 세계 정복에 이용하기 위해 유전자 개조를 행하기까지 했다. 이에 4인의 정의의 용사들이 악의 무리들을 소탕하기 위해 나서게 되었다.
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, released in Japan as Cadillacs Kyouryuu Shinseiki (キャディラックス 恐竜新世紀, Kyadirakkusu Kyōryū Shinseiki), is a 1993 arcade game by Capcom. It is a side-scrolling beat 'em up based on the comic book series Xenozoic Tales. The game was produced as a tie-in to the short-lived Cadillacs and Dinosaurs animated series which was aired during the same year the game was released. A version for the Capcom Power System Changer was planned and previewed but never released
Gameplay
Up to three players can play at once, guiding their selected characters through eight stages, battling various enemies and bosses. There are four playable characters, each with their own strengths and weaknesses: Jack (balanced type), Hannah (skill type), Mustapha (speed type), and Mess (power type). The game's titular dinosaurs make appearances as neutral characters that may attack both player characters and enemies.
The players have access to several attacks. Each character has two special moves including one that depletes a character's health upon contact with an enemy and when two or more players play together, they can trigger a team-attack. Players can also find and use various firearms, throwing weapons such as rocks and explosives, and melee weapons such as clubs.
When the player loses along the way, one of the big baddies holds a gun point-blank to the losing player's face in a first-person view, taunting the player with sayings such as "Eat lead, baby!".
Plot
The story begins in the 26th century, when an ensemble gang called the Black Marketeers begin hunting the dinosaurs to serve their unknown purpose. The continuous hunting process has made the dinosaurs violent and now they have started attacking villages and people. Four heroes: mechanic and shaman Jack Tenrec, diplomat and explorer by profession Hannah Dundee, friend and engineer Mustapha Cairo, and mysterious Mess O'Bradovich, have decided to team up against the Black Marketeers.
The protagonists journey to the "City in the Sea" where they suspect the whole hunting network being operating from. As they reach the top of a building they fight Vice Terhune. After being beaten, Vice tells them about Butcher, who had been hunting in the northern woods. Following the information, they go through the swamp forest where they find a lot of dead dinosaurs before reaching and defeating the Butcher.
Meanwhile, another big name in the hunting network, Hogg, realizes that Jack is busy in the swamp forest and decides to take over Jack's Garage. Proceeding with the mission, the heroes go through the desert of death, where they use their car to travel safely, but then the car is chased by Hogg on his cruiser motorcycle. After defeating Hogg, Jack realizes that the gangsters have taken over his garage. They go there and clear out the garage from the gangsters, eventually confronting and defeating their leader Slice and regaining control of their garage.
This is when they receive a message from an old villager who tells them about the weird behavior of the dinosaurs and asks for help. In response to the call, the heroes reach the village where they notice dinosaurs violently attacking the people and that the village has been set on fire by someone. Going ahead further, they meet the old villager again as he tells about the whole network and as soon as he is about to reveal the name of the person behind all of it, he is shot dead by Morgan, who attacks the group as well. During the fight, Morgan talks about the powers of "doctor" transforms himself into a dinosaur-like creature called Morgue. By now, they have come to know that some doctor is trying to create new lifeforms.
Proceeding ahead, the heroes reach the coal mine and another jungle, where they face a dinosaur trying to stomp them. They eventually reach a place where they fight a tentacled creature called Tyrog that attaches itself to the bodies of the gangsters as a monstrous dinosaur-human hybrid. With all the leads and hints, Jack has now realized that Dr. Simon Fessenden is the mastermind behind all that is happening.