Trog!
It's survival of the fastest in the prehistoric land of Og. That crazy, one-eyed caveman, the Trog, is hungry... and dinos Spike and Bloop know what that means: RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! Here's your chance to change the course of history and save the dinosaurs. Don't become Trog's Stone Age feast! Instead, use your reflexes and wits racing through 50 fun-filled islands, packed with dino-mite action and surprises. You'll witness the greatest inventions of all time: fire, the wheel, the pogo stick (the pogo stick?) - all invented by Trog to catch his dinner - you! Just watch out for the Tar Pits... sticky business. You've got special pick-ups to keep that carnivorous chow hound in check, like pineapples that turn you into a ferocious Trog-munching T-Rex. It's like this: either you save the Dinos... or you're extinct!
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3 stars because watching your character get eaten absolutely made me cry multiple times as a young child.
The game itself is a maze game akin to Pac-Man, but the stage design itself kinda reminds me of Bomberman without the destructible blocks. You gotta collect all the eggs and get to the exit while avoiding the titular Trogs, who won't hesitate to knock you out and eat you alive, pretty nightmarish. Over the course of the game the Trogs get smarter and start inventing new ways to try and catch you, like jumping and throwing wheels at you. You defend yourself via punching in your normal form or collecting powerups like pineapples to temporarily turn into a goddamned t-rex to chomp those fucking Trogs or grabbing a fire stick looking thing to be able to shoot fireballs.
The charm and simplicity of this game only served to make me love the shit out of it more. It even features one of my favorite tropes in video games which is enemies getting hurt by their own moves, Trogs get smarter but are also still dimwitted and get flattened by their own wheels or get roasted from walking into fires another one started.
I really didn't expect this one to get me addicted, I would've absolutely loved the shit out of this game as a kid and with a friend it would've been even more fun.