The Flintstones: Big Trouble in Bedrock
Fred Flintstone searches for Barney Rubble across twelve platforming levels.
The Flintstones: Big Trouble in Bedrock is a 2001 platform video game for the Game Boy Advance developed by H2O Entertainment. It is the first and only GBA game based on The Flintstones. Publisher Conspiracy Entertainment announced the game in 2000 ahead of the release of the Game Boy Advance.
Quick Facts
- Genre
- Platformer
- Platform
- Game Boy Advance
- Publisher
- Swing! Entertainment (EU); Conspiracy Entertainment (NA)
- Developer
- H2O Entertainment
- Released
- 30 December 2001
- Modes
- Single-player
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Gameplay
In this platformer, Fred Flintstone jumps across twelve levels split into four areas: Bedrock, the Wild West, a Haunted House, and Dr. Sinister's Island. Players avoid spike pits, boulders, and enemies while using temporary weapons like bowling balls, clubs, and bones. The Great Gazoo appears several times per level to grant power-ups such as a double jump, dash, invulnerability, judo chop, or full health restore. Collecting 50 clams earns a Cactus Coolah for a speed boost or a Bronto Rib for a hit point. Three difficulty modes are available, but there is no save feature.
Reception
Big Trouble in Bedrock received negative reviews. Jason White of Allgame critiqued the gameplay as straightforward with confusing level design and frustrating platforming, noting a lack of extras. IGN found the controls decent but the platforming unenjoyable due to cheap hits, blind jumps, and floating platforms, and criticized an identity crisis in level themes. Nintendo Official Magazine called it a painful excuse for a platformer lacking originality. JeuxVideo dismissed it as absolutely lamentable, citing rotten quality, insulting graphics, bland gameplay, questionable handling, and imprecise collision.
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