A Game Boy version, released in North America and the United Kingdom in April 1993, was developed by Motivetime and was also published by Data East. It was developed by Elite Systems and published by Data East. In December 1992, a version for the NES was released. The game has been ported to various systems, some of which drop the name Caveman Ninja, referring to the game simply as Joe & Mac.Ī Super NES version was developed and published in 1991 by Data East. Also, after defeating the final boss, the players can choose between three exits – each one leading to a slightly different ending sequence.

The original arcade version and Amiga, Mega Drive/Genesis, MS-DOS and Zeebo ports have the distinction of allowing the player to select between different routes at the end of boss battles.

A two-player mode is available, and in some versions both characters are capable of damaging each other. The game features a health system by which the player loses health over a period of time, apart from during boss battles. The objective of the game is to rescue a group of women who were kidnapped by a rival tribe of cavemen. The game stars the green-haired Joe and the blue-haired Mac, cavemen who battle through numerous prehistoric levels using weapons such as boomerangs, bones, fire, flints, electricity, stone wheels, and clubs. It was later adapted for the Super NES, Mega Drive/Genesis, Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy, Amiga, Zeebo, Nintendo Switch, and PC. Joe & Mac, also known as Caveman Ninja and Caveman Ninja: Joe & Mac, is a 1991 platform game released for arcades by Data East. Hiroaki Yoshida, Seiichi Hamada, Takafumi Miura. Makoto Kikuchi, Mitsutoshi Sato, Makoto Kawamura. This game can be played also in a versions for NES, Game Boy, SNES and DOS. The following emulators are available for this game:

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