Big Nose the Caveman is a side-scrolling platform game developed by Optimus Software and released in 1991 by Camerica for the Nintendo Entertainment System and by Codemasters for the Amiga and the Atari ST.[1] A Master System and Game Gear version called Dinobasher was completed, but never published.

Big Nose runs through many islands to find his dinner, because he is very hungry.

This game is difficult due to the inability to restart from the last checkpoint once all lives are gone.

Big Nose the Caveman dies in a single hit unless he has stones.

Allgame gave a rating of 2.5 out of 5 stars, noting the major difference between this game and other platformers is that the player has to club the game's enemies instead of jumping on them to progress through the game, concluding: "Other than that, Big Nose is merely an adequate genre effort with large characters, flat backgrounds and uninteresting environments".