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Paleo /retro/ Fellow Time Traveler 09/07/2019 (Sat) 21:15:18 No.13

Is it just me or was anything related to dinosaurs really fucking huge back in the 90's and very early 2000's? You had the original Jurassic Park trilogy, Walking With Dinosaurs, Dino Crisis, Land Before Time, the Dinosaurs TV show, Disney's Dinosaur movie from 2000, even PBS kiddie shit like Barney. Even the shitty 1998 Godzilla movie with Matthew Broderick tried to ape Jurassic Park. Like, this was most obvious with children's media like Land Before Time and Barney, but you even saw it elsewhere in the 90's, like the Toronto Raptors I guess the first Jurassic Park was where it all kicked off, considering how huge that movie was in the early 90's and a lot of the craze fittingly died down with Jurassic Park III, which was the worst of the original films in a lot of people's opinions (including my own)

Edited last time by CaesarDude on 01/05/2020 (Sun) 21:05:43.

Fellow Time Traveler 09/08/2019 (Sun) 03:10:09 No.15

>>13
I loved dinosaurs as a kid, and yeah I'm pretty sure it was Jurassic Park that kickstarted the trend. Here's a few dinosaur-related things I remember from back then:
>Microsoft Dinosaurs - interactive educational software, loved those things as a kid
>Walking With Dinosaurs - BBC documentary from 1999, entirely CGI, was mind blowing back then
>The Lost World on Playstation - first PS1 game I ever owned, never got very far because it was hard as balls, don't think I even got to the next playable dino. Go fuck yourself brachiosaurus stampede section
>Extreme Dinosaurs - I had the t-rex toy and it was badass, there was a cartoon but I don't really remember it, quick internet search tells me it looked a lot worse than the toys did

Fellow Time Traveler 09/08/2019 (Sun) 04:07:12 No.16

>>15 Walking With Dinosaurs was a masterpiece and still is. Saw it when it first premiered in the US on the Discovery Channel back in '99 Dino Crisis was another favorite of mine

Edited last time by CaesarDude on 01/05/2020 (Sun) 21:06:08.

Fellow Time Traveler 09/08/2019 (Sun) 05:09:04 No.18

>>16
>Dino Crisis
I never played much of the first one, but I played the shit out of Dino Crisis 2. Excellent game with a really cool setting, it's a shame they never made another one or so I choose to believe.
https://invidio.us/watch?v=_bQkbGD6RKQ

I also had pic related. It looked like shit and was clunky as fuck, but it had a weird charm to it.

Fellow Time Traveler 09/08/2019 (Sun) 10:18:18 No.19

My favorite toy was the Triceratops that I killed all my plastic army men with. It was actually kind of a dangerous toy for a kid since the horns were sharp enough to poke out an eye with.

Fellow Time Traveler 01/05/2020 (Sun) 16:55:10 No.272

>>15 >Extreme Dinosaur Figures >No Bullzeye What kind of pleb took that picture?

Fellow Time Traveler 01/06/2020 (Mon) 00:08:32 No.275

>>15 I had a similar piece of software called Dinosaur Hunter, although you never hunted any dinosaurs. Instead you just walked around a museum learning about them. You could play a little game where you dug into the earth for dinosaur bones to rebuild their skeletons, and when you finished one the dinosaur would be brought back to life and start roaming the museum. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2grEe_FW24

Fellow Time Traveler 01/06/2020 (Mon) 00:50:34 No.276

I used to have a big toy of the guy on the left. >>15 I definitely remember Extreme Dinosaurs but never had any of the action figures.

Fellow Time Traveler 01/06/2020 (Mon) 00:51:52 No.277

>>276 *the right

Fellow Time Traveler 01/06/2020 (Mon) 02:10:27 No.285

Does anyone else remember 3D Dinosaur Adventure?

Fellow Time Traveler 01/11/2020 (Sat) 12:52:00 No.302

>>285 Don't know that game but I do recall stumbling upon it on the internet archive, might download it and give it a try... I've recently developed a soft spot for vintage CGI and old games / interactive programs with pre-rendered 3D backgrounds, which is what I presume 3DDA to be. You could tell the developers tried their best to make the interfaces as interesting and appealing as possible, always tempting the user to interact and explore, not like today's sterile-looking interfaces that are predicable at best and minimalistic to the point of unusability at worst.

Fellow Time Traveler 01/11/2020 (Sat) 16:02:12 No.304

>>302 You should. I got to experience a bunch of old DOS games in the same manner as you described. I just wish I still had my 3D glasses from the game they ended up tearing by the end of the '90s. I wore them for various other 3D games I played throughout the decade. lol As I'm sure you're aware it's a bit dated and may come off as cheesy but still enjoyable especially if you're "developing a soft spot" for the genre. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LaJIczoYHE There's a video displaying most if not all of the aspects from it. The music from the game is a treat as well.

Fellow Time Traveler 01/11/2020 (Sat) 18:24:44 No.306

The Lost World was written in 1912, but there was a big resurgence in the 80s. The 90s were definitely the height of it.

Fellow Time Traveler 01/16/2020 (Thu) 19:10:36 No.324

>>304 So I downloaded the anniversary edition and played it a bit. There's not much in the way of 3D renders save for a few animation clips, but the dino illustrations are simply sublime. Pics related are my favorites. There's not much in the way of gameplay either, but it's understandable for a purely educational game.

Fellow Time Traveler 01/17/2020 (Fri) 14:55:08 No.326

>>324 Very nice, I'm glad that you got the chance to experience it. Yeah, it's more of just educational software in the end with a small bit of 3D being a part of it for an attempt to draw kids in and make it "cool". Still nonetheless an interesting piece of DOS history. I had all of the Knowledge Adventure DOS "games".