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Googootrops

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Googootrops, a possible play on the Paranthropus genus, is conceptually similar to Artdink’s Tail of the Sun. Like that game, Googootrops has you hunting mammoths, but in this case, you’re looking for a particularly special one called the “Boss Boss Mammoth”, which has the best tasting meat in the world. Instead of toughing it out on your own, you get to build a team of up to six cavepeople and micromanage them to success. It’s an ambitious, truly unusual game, but it requires extreme patience to deal with its many quirks.

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Googootrops (Produce/Enix - PSX - 2001)

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