YMMV / Cadillacs and Dinosaurs

• Adaptation Displacement: Most people think of the arcade game when they hear the title Cadillacs and Dinosaurs.
• Awesome Music: The game's soundtrack is full of incredibly catchy rock tunes, particularly the theme that plays in the very beginning of the game, with soaring guitar leads and pounding drums that immediately set you in the mood for some Good Old Fisticuffs.
  • The theme from the elevator section of the 7th stage, "Like a Squall", an adrenaline-pumping, kick-ass tune that's ideal to beat the groups of enemies coming your way as you descend closer to the toughest boss battle in the game.
• Fan Nickname: The game is better known as "the Mustafa game" or simply "Mustafa" in many countries of Europe, Northern Africa, the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, or in South Africa, presumably thanks to the Breakout Character Mustapha Cairo's Lightning Bruiser status, and the fact that he might be one of the very few video game main characters with a possible Arabic background.
• Game-Breaker: Mustapha in the arcade game, because you can combo off his throw into his special flip-kick move for massive damage, along with the fact that the said kick has handy invincibility frames. His long reach with his kicks otherwise was already good enough for him.
  • There's also his dash attack (a running dropkick), which has excellent speed, range and damage, insane priority, and can hit multiple enemies more than once. In fact, you can plow through most stages and boss battles by simply spamming this move left and right.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: This is a game that is popular in China trough piracy and unlicensed emulator consoles.
• Memetic Mutation: Mustapha in the arcade game has one rather memorable quip.
  "I'm a bad Mamba Jamma!"
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • Very few games have you being outright murdered on the Game Over screen.
  • The Animalistic Abomination enemies that you have to face throughout the game, courtesy of Dr. Fessenden. The idea that someone would willingly subject themselves to being mutilated into a reptilian monstrosity is particularly unsettling. Especially since Fessenden himself keeps mutating during the final battle, and what helps do him in is a failed attempt at a third transformation.
  • Tyrog: it starts as a Puppeteer Parasite that latches onto the closest person it can find, not unlike the facehuggers from Alien, and turns you into a hulking monster with a face only a mother could love and nigh supernatural power. The most gruesome thing about them is that they can emit spikes from their chest, with an incredibly gory sound to top it all off. Yikes! Worse still, while Tyrog's first host seems to give himself willingly to the parasite, the second and third ones are just barely able to yell for help in-between Tyrog latching onto them and transforming them.
• No Problem with Licensed Games: The beat-em-up arcade game is considered to be one of the classics of the genre, thanks to it being developed by Capcom.
• That One Boss: The arcade game is ruthless but Tyrog is one of the toughest bosses in the game aside from the Final Boss himself. You have to fight Tyrog three times, each stronger than the last with little health recovery if you're lucky and kill the minions that will keep distracting you.
  • Slice is also a nightmare to fight, he moves very fast, has a ridiculously long reaching melee attack that hurts a lot and comes with no warning, and he can throw a handful of boomerangs at any given time. Slisaur is even worse as he's a Dual Boss version of Slice in single player, in multiplayer you fight three of them, all of them have the same moves and are as dangerous as Slice when he was alone. If you had a hard time fighting Slice by himself, good luck fighting more of them.