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(Babes and dinos, how could they go wrong?)
Dino Rex
One
of those games that I really liked at the arcade was Primal
Rage. Stop motion dinos fighting was too cool! Being a big fan
of the Ray Harryhausen, it really captured my attention. Little
did I know there was a clone out there. Leave it to MAME to
expose it to the masses. If you are anything like me, you never
heard of Dino Rex.
(A T-Rex
versus a Triceratops!
All we need is Raquel Welch and we can remake 10 Million BC!)
The first thing
you will notice with the game is it uses the same kind of stop
motion look that made Primal Rage popular. There are many other
similarities, so many that I would not be surprised if there
wasn't a lawsuit involved. Both have humans in the game, both
are one dino versus another. The similarities are very close.
But this game does offer something that even Primal Rage
doesn't, a chance to fight with Barney! Allright, it really
isn't Barney, but it is a fat, purple dinosaur and who else
comes to mind?
(Barney and the
other dinosaur are breaking into song!)
The gameplay
itself is decent. For a fighting game, it really isn't great,
but it is allright. There are little things that make the game
fun, like how a pterodactyl comes and eats your human when you
lose two out of three matches. You also get the cavemen in the
crowd cheering and little dinos that pop up here and there. But
there aren't enough variety of creatures and soon you tire of
it. Plus, too many of the dinos are the same and the amount of
moves is quite small. I can see why I never heard of this, it
wasn't very good. Oh well, it is worth a download and a few
games. It will not make your top ten games of all-time, but it
is a good time killer and against another opponent, it can be
fun.
This is just a review of the arcade machine.
If you are looking for the actual arcade machine, you may want
to check out ebay. Click below to see if you can find this
game.
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