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The [[Video Game Settings|video game version]] of the stone age, where cavemen and [[Nubile Savage|women]] and dinosaurs live side by side. Most of the time, the [[Dinosaurs Are Dragons|dinosaurs will live in volcanoes and/or breathe fire]]. Expect a blend of [[Jungle Japes]] and [[Lethal Lava Land]]. Typically features [[Anachronism Stew|mix of different prehistoric creatures]] -- like mastodons and triceratops living side by side and [[Everything Is Trying to Kill You]]. Expect to kill a lot of [[Stock Dinosaurs]] and/or cavemen. Please ignore the [[Somewhere a Paleontologist Is Crying|Palaeontologist sobbing softly in the corner]].

Named after the cave area of ''[[Secret of Evermore]]''.

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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* The [[GURPS]] RPG supplement ''Lands Out Of Time'' introduces the "World of Banded Night" - which is this trope. It includes dinosaurs, cavemen, ape-men, even ''lizard-men'' and the ruins of an ultra-tech civilization.

* The world of Jund in the ''Shards of Alara'' expansion for ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' is pretty clearly based on this trope, though they get away with it by being pure fantasy. Actual dragons replace the dinosaurs, brutal reptilian humanoids lord it over tribes of primitive humans and [[Our Goblins Are ~~Different~~|goblins]], and the land itself is scarred by volcanic rifts where it isn't covered in chokingly dense jungle or festering tar pits.

* The world of Jund in the ''Shards of Alara'' expansion for ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' is pretty clearly based on this trope, though they get away with it by being pure fantasy. Actual dragons replace the dinosaurs, brutal reptilian humanoids lord it over tribes of primitive humans and [[Our Goblins Are Wickeder|goblins]], and the land itself is scarred by volcanic rifts where it isn't covered in chokingly dense jungle or festering tar pits.

== [[Video Games]] ==

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** ''Dino City''

** ''Congo's Caper''

** ''Worlds of [[Ultima]]: Savage Empire''

** ''[[Carnivores]]'' [[Hand Wave|hand waves]] it, since it's set on a different world that happens to have convergent evolution. Past this weak justification, it's basically the trope, although it at least separates the dinosaurs and ice age mammals (the mammals going in the more polar regions, the dinosaurs in the more temperate, equatorial islands).

** ''Roc'n Rope''

** ''[[Adventures of Dino Riki]]''

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* 65,000,000 B.C. in ''[[Chrono Trigger]]'', with the added touch of humanity fighting against [[Lizard Folk|reptilian humanoids]] called Reptites -- essentially dinosaurs with human forms and intelligence. On the party's second visit, they witness Lavos crashing into the earth, [[Phlebotinum Killed the Dinosaurs|causing the mass extinction of dinosaurs and Reptiles alike]].

* Many, many Amiga games. The ''Chuck Rock'' series. The ''Prehistorik'' series. ''Bignose the Caveman''. ''Ugh!''. And the list goes on.

* The Prehistoric Turtlesaurus level from ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Turtles in Time]]''.

* The premise of the game ''[[EVO Search for Eden]]'' is to evolve your character from tiny fish to mighty land mammal. Needless to say, the whole game is set in a relatively scientifically accurate version of this (except for the [[Ancient Astronauts|aliens meddling with evolution]] and the [[Lost World|dinosaurs living in secluded areas]]).

** You only become a mammal if you want to. You can also finish the game as a reptile or a bird.

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* The Lost Underworld segment of ''[[Earthbound]]''. The place (and the monsters in it) are so ''huge'' that your party is only a few pixels high by comparison.

* Tyrannia in the virtual pets game ''[[Neopets]]''.

* One of the video game levels in which the [[Scooby-Doo]] gang are trapped in the animated movie, "Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase". And it does have a T-rex and Woolly Mammoths co-existing.

** And the characters lampshade the hell out of it.

* The first world of the first ''[[The Lost Vikings|Lost Vikings]]'' game. Its only pretense at actually ''being'' a prehistoric world was its dinosaur and human enemies, however, as the stages featured the usual assortment of keys, bombs, and drawbridges found in the other levels. It is literally called "Prehistoria".