One of my favourite scrolling beat 'em ups Cadillacs and Dinosaurs has everything you could want from the genre -lots of moves a wide variety of enemy types fast paced action great graphics and a really good musical score. The player guiding selected characters through eight stages battling various enemies and bosses. There are four playable characters each with their own strengths and weaknesses: Jack (balanced type) Hannah (skill type) Mustapha (speed type) and Mess (power type). The game's titular dinosaurs make appearances as neutral characters that may attack both player characters and enemies.

In Cadillacs and Dinosaurs the player has access to several attacks. Each character has two special moves including one that depletes a character's health upon contact with an enemy and when two or more players play together they can trigger a team-attack. Players can also find and use various firearms throwing weapons such as rocks and explosives and melee weapons such as clubs.