Primal Rage II - Legacy

Legacy

Primal Rage is notable for several things:

• The 2.3 revision introduced new moves, combos (by moving the joystick while pressing one of both buttons) and fatalities into the existing game as well as the intro. This made Primal Rage the first arcade game ever to upgrade and add brand new content to its existing ROM many months after its release. This contrasts games such as Mortal Kombat 3, wherein different versions were released as the game was continuously improved to fix many glitches and errors. Mortal Kombat 3 would follow this trend with Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 later.

• Primal Rage was one of the first games in which players could trigger mini-games in the middle of a match such as Volleyball without having to use extra credits or modes.

• A board game marketed towards kids was released called "Primal Rage: Rage on Urth!". It was distributed by toy company Playmates.

• Primal Rage was the first fighting game to show the damage percent after a combo was done (MK3 later incorporated this).