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Chuck Rock on the Game Boy came out in 1992, developed by Core Design and published by Virgin Games. It was one of those side-scrolling platformers that felt right at home on the handheld, a familiar genre you could pick up and play in short bursts, though it demanded a fair bit of patience. The screen was small and the sprites were chunky, but it had a certain charm that fit the system's limitations.

You control Chuck, a determined caveman, on a quest to save his wife from the clutches of the villainous Gary Gritter. Your main objective is to navigate through a series of prehistoric levels, from dense jungles to icy caverns. Your primary actions involve a distinctive belly flop attack to stun smaller enemies and the core mechanic of picking up and throwing rocks; you use them as weapons against dinosaurs and, crucially, to break certain walls or create temporary platforms to reach higher areas. The pacing is methodical, requiring you to think about each rock throw, and the difficulty can be punishing with precise jumps over bottomless pits. It feels like a deliberate, sometimes clumsy scramble through a dangerous world where every action has weight.