Zeke and Zack trick Fred and Barney into standing on the wooden observation deck to a local tourist attraction- a waterfall. However, Fred and Barney, desiring more gold, refuse Zeke and Zack's $700 offer to repurchase the claim, and are targeted not just by Zeke and Zack but also by a pair of ruffians named Evil Eye and Snake Legs, for unlawful confiscation of the claim. As predicted by Wilma and Betty, Zeke and Zack want the claim back, now that they believe there is truly gold on the site. As Wilma and Betty have hoped, Fred and Barney "strike gold", jump for joy, and carry their presumed yield to Zeke for weighing and appraising. So, using their own Rock Vegas winnings, they buy some gold nuggets and place the nuggets in the river being panned for gold by their spouses. Wilma and Betty are not convinced that there is any gold to be found at Hangman's Gulch and are certain that Fred and Barney have been duped yet again by unsavory characters. Returning to home after a vacation in Rock Vegas, Fred, Wilma, Barney, and Betty lose intended direction and stop at Goldrock City on the Western frontier, where a general store owner named Zeke conspires with an elderly prospector named Zack to swindle Flintstone and Rubble into purchasing a claim to a bogus gold field (Hangman's Gulch) with the $300 that they won in Rock Vegas. This message was shown in the unreleased Japanese version's title screen before an alternative Taito copyright appears, as shown below.Traveling through the desert on their way to Rock Vegas, Fred and Barney fall prey to con men who have seeded the river with phony gold. The Japanese version of the game was unreleased and was rediscovered as part of the September 2020 lotcheck leak. It's also likely that it would've been used on a Japanese release, as other Flintstones games from Taito released there had that line about Nippon Columbia on their copyright notices.
It may have been intended for a scrolling effect on the title screen. There is also another license message written to the window, but it never appears on the title screen. Game Genie code 28C-AD8-6EA will display an alternate Taito copyright on the title screen. There are no references to this tileset in the ROM, even though it uses a considerable amount of space and there is virtually no free space elsewhere in the ROM. Icons for various items such as hearts and pickups (Dino, Gazoo) exist as selected and unselected as well. This looks to be a remnant of a map viewer, if not editor. Present at 0xF8BC in the US v1.0 ROM is a peculiar tileset depicting various arrows, slopes, cursors, icons, flagpoles, etc.
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