History Main / Prehistoria

** ''Saurusland'', a primitive game that was one of the first releases for the {{UsefulNotes/MSX}} and Tomy Pyuuta.

->''"Oh no! What is the world coming to...when a squirrel can’t even go to a dinosaur-themed world without getting mugged by a bunch of prehistoric brats!"''

A rarer variant may mix in SlippySlideyIceWorld for an Ice Age setting - replacing the dinosaurs with prehistoric mammals like mammoths and saber-toothed tigers.

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** ''[[VideoGame/SonicRushSeries Sonic Rush Adventure]]'' has Plant Kingdom. While it's not set in prehistoric times, it does have the feel of its setting with giant plant life and the enemies being prehistoric beings such as dinosaurs, including the stage's boss.

* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', while there are dinosaurs throughout Azeroth (raptors, stegosaurus-like thunder lizards, and plesiosaurs), it's in Un'Goro Crater that you can also find tyrannosaurs, dimetrodons and pterosaurs, which are found nowhere else in the world. The Crater was a popular questing area as well as a place to tame unusual animals as pets. Its "lost world" feel was reinforced by being the only zone in classic game with no proper town, only a small camp. The entire area is a ShoutOut to ''Series/LandOfTheLost'', including the names of the characters and the camp itself ("Marshall's Refuge"). Cataclysm revamped the zone, but made it barely more settled, and explained why it so wild and unsettled: [[spoiler:the Titans isolated the area from the world to experiment with lifeforms as they shaped the world.]]

->''"I recognize that money. Oh no! What is the world coming to...when a squirrel can’t even go to a dinosaur-themed world without getting mugged by a bunch of prehistoric brats!"''

-->-- ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay''

* ''VideoGame/KirbyEpicYarn'' has "Dino Jungle" which is in the name and has a bunch of dinosaurs from pterodactyls to tyrannosaurus.

* The original ''VideoGame/AgeOfEmpires'' game has a downplayed example- the first 2 [[Main/TechnologyLevels Ages]] are Stone and Tool, while the latter 2 are Bronze and Iron (sadly, the Copper Age hasn't been added ingame). Basically for the first half of the game, the player will be playing as a caveman living in a hut decorated with bones and wielding a [[PrimitiveClubs club]] before starting properly a ancient civilization.

* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'':
** Dinosaur Jungle in ''[[VideoGame/SonicStorybookSeries Sonic and the Secret Rings]]''. The game is based on the ''Literature/ArabianNights'', which made a lot of people wonder why there were dinosaurs... it's actually a reference to the story of Sinbad, although very exaggerated.

* ''VideoGame/JoeAndMac'' takes the most cartoonish version and runs (and jumps) with it. Big stone wheels, NubileSavage babes and PteroSoarer rides are all included.

Prehistoria is the trope for VideoGameSettings taking place in the LostWorld or OneMillionBC. [[AllCavemenWereNeanderthals Cavemen]] abound chasing {{Nubile Savage}}s, while [[DinosaursAreDragons dinosaurs will live in volcanoes or breathe fire]] and eat anyone who comes too close. Expect a blend of JungleJapes and LethalLavaLand.

Compare LostWorld and OneMillionBC, the non-video game versions of this trope.

Typically features a [[AnachronismStew mix of different prehistoric creatures]] -- like mastodons and triceratops living side by side and EverythingTryingToKillYou. Expect to kill a lot of StockDinosaurs and/or cavemen. Please ignore the [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology palaeontologists sobbing softly in the corner]].

* The Lost Underworld segment of ''VideoGame/EarthBound''. The place (and the monsters in it) are so ''huge'' that your party is only a few pixels high by comparison.

** The Special/Lightning Cup course Dino Dino Jungle in ''VideoGame/MarioKartDoubleDash'' and ''VideoGame/MarioKart7''.

** ''The [[WesternAnimation/TheItchyAndScratchyShow Itchy and Scratchy]] Game'' has "Juracid Bath", which serves as the first level of the game. The stage features miniature cavemen-like robots of Scratchy as enemies and a [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong sound-alike]] of ''The Flintstones''' theme song as the background music. The boss of the stage is Scratchy, driving a turtle-like car.

** ''VideoGame/{{Carnivores}}'' {{hand wave}}s it, since it's set on a different world that happens to have convergent evolution. Past this weak justification, it's basically the trope, although it at least separates the dinosaurs and ice age mammals (the mammals going in the more polar regions, the dinosaurs in the more temperate, equatorial islands).

* The premise of the game ''VideoGame/EVOSearchForEden'' is to evolve your character from tiny fish to mighty land mammal. Needless to say, the whole game is set in a relatively scientifically accurate version of this (except for the [[AncientAstronauts aliens meddling with evolution]] and the [[LostWorld dinosaurs living in secluded areas]]).

* One of the video game levels in which the ''Scooby-Doo'' gang are trapped in the animated movie, ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheCyberChase''. And it does have a T. rex and woolly mammoths co-existing. And the characters lampshade the hell out of it.
* The first world of the first ''[[VideoGame/TheLostVikings Lost Vikings]]'' game. Its only pretense at actually ''being'' a prehistoric world was its dinosaur and human enemies, however, as the stages featured the usual assortment of keys, bombs, and drawbridges found in the other levels. It is literally called "Prehistoria".

* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' has aspects of this; in many ways a standard fantasy setting with a specifically Scandinavian flavour, but [[MedievalPrehistory nonetheless]] inhabitant by caveman-like [[OurGiantsAreBigger giants]], woolly mammoths, and sabre-toothed cats. And, of course, there are lots of caves, and DinosaursAreDragons.

* ''Cratermaze'' begins its adventure through time in the primitive world. Each time period has two types of enemies; here, of course, it's cavemen and dinosaurs.

* In ''VideoGame/GunmanClive 2'', South America has dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures as both enemies and platforms. Note that the game supposedly takes place in the year "[[YearX 18XX]]".