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It appears that a sequel, Primal Rage II was underway and intended for release in arcades in late 1996. However, due to Atari's arcade division being consumed by Midway, Primal Rage II was quietly cancelled and the game was largely forgotten.
According to one of Primal Rage's lead developers Chris Tang, this was due to Midway seeing Primal Rage II as a direct competitor to its own Mortal Kombat games, and the plug was pulled - so to speak.
Indeed, Primal Rage II did remain little more than a footnote in the history of cancelled arcade games until some time after 2010, when a ROM of the unfinished game was dumped online. Unfortunately, as described above the game could not be played as the software apparently required a bespoke piece of arcade hardware to run.
All of this recently changed though, with the development of a specialized build of MAME called MAME4RAGE2 being released. MAME4RAGE2 has been specifically created to run Primal Rage II, and as you can see from the video below (from YouTuber Owlnonymous, complete with insightful commentary), the game does indeed look like an interesting prospect.
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Primal Rage II Assembler Thread
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According to one of Primal Rage's lead developers Chris Tang, this was due to Midway seeing Primal Rage II as a direct competitor to its own Mortal Kombat games, and the plug was pulled - so to speak.
Indeed, Primal Rage II did remain little more than a footnote in the history of cancelled arcade games until some time after 2010, when a ROM of the unfinished game was dumped online. Unfortunately, as described above the game could not be played as the software apparently required a bespoke piece of arcade hardware to run.
All of this recently changed though, with the development of a specialized build of MAME called MAME4RAGE2 being released. MAME4RAGE2 has been specifically created to run Primal Rage II, and as you can see from the video below (from YouTuber Owlnonymous, complete with insightful commentary), the game does indeed look like an interesting prospect.
MAME4RAGE2 Reddit Thread
Primal Rage II Assembler Thread
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