Blast from the past: Tomy Caveman

Here’s another gem of a game that’s halfway between simply being electro-mechanical to becoming video. The game is pretty simple: you control a caveman with the use of a lever found on the lower left part of the gaming box.

You can move him left and right, and make him shoot stone axes, primarily at a large fire-breathing dinosaur, the game’s main nemesis.

Unfortunately, there are nasty elements, aside from the aforementioned fire-breathing dinosaur, in Tomy Caveman that your brute either must dodge or deal with.

There’s a large volcano that spews rocks, dubbed in the game as volcanic bombs. Of course, your little caveman will die if he is hit by these so-called volcanic bombs. He also gets blown to bits if the dinosaur decides to char him for hurling stone axes.

When this happens, the screen first indicates the score up to that point and the number of cavemen (you have four at the start of the game) left, and then the game resumes.

Oh, let me just shut up and show you a video of Tomy Caveman in action: