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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]]
Named after the cave area of ''[[Secret of Evermore]]''.
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Compare [[Lost World]], [[One Million BC]].
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* In ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', while there are dinosaurs throughout Azeroth (raptors, thunder lizards [aka kodos], and plesiosaurs, and the first two are even bred as mounts), it's the Un'Goro Crater where you can also find tyrannosaurs, ''Dimetrodons'', and pterosaurs, which are nowhere else in the world. The Crater, with its dinosaur population, offbeat quests, and pop culture references, is popular for questing in the 40-50 range as well as the easiest place for Beast Master-specced Hunters to tame tyrannosaurs as pets. As for humanoids, Un'Goro is actually the only zone in the game without a permanent settlement, just a small camp to the north composed of a politically neutral mishmash of races.
** The entire area is a [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[Land of the Lost (TV series)|Land of the Lost]]'', including the names of the characters and the camp itself ("Marshall's Refuge"), as well as pylons that one can use power crystals of various colors in.
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* Dinosaur Jungle in ''[[Sonic and The Secret Rings]]''. The game is based on the ''[[Arabian Nights]]'', which made a lot of people wonder why there were dinosaurs... it's actually a reference to the story of Sinbad, although very exaggerated.
* Much of Dinosaur Land in ''[[Super Mario World (video game)|Super Mario World]]''. Cavepeople were added in the [[Super Mario World (animation)|cartoon]].
* 65,000,000 B.C. in ''[[Chrono Trigger]]'', with the added touch of humanity fighting against [[Lizard Folk|reptilian humanoids]] called
* 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]]''.
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