Dino City for SNES

Dino City for the SNES. I remember playing this game as a kid with my Brother and it really used to make us mad. I don't remember getting very far before turning of the game. Now that I'm older, I can actually get to the last stage before the final boss.

The silly plot of this game is this: Timmy and his friend (or sister, it doesn't really explain who she is or even her name) want to watch a movie on a big TV. So you go down to Timmy's father's lab and try to watch it on a big screen TV, but it ends up sucking you into this land inside the TV. You need to get through all six stages (each stage has 3 levels and a boss stage) to defeat Rockey's gang so that you can get some part to repair the machine to return you back to home.

There are two different dinosaur characters to play as, but I always pick Tops because the other one does this retarded punch, but Tops shoots arrows or spears or whatever it may be. You can also get your little character off the back of the dinosaur to freeze enemies.

You get three hits before you bite the dust. You can collect hearts to fill up your contaners that are pretty easy to come across throughout most of the stages. It is quite easy to earn a lot of lives in this game as well. There are eggs you collect throughout each level and also some bonus stages. After you collect 50 eggs you get an extra life. There are also 1-up's scattered throughout as well. The life counter maxes out a 9 lives, but you can continue to earn them. Your counter will stay at 9 until you actually get less than 9 lives.

In order to get to the bonus stages, you need to go through at least two "orange" doors. When you get to the end of a stage, it will normally lead you to two different doors: a "yellow" door and an "orange" door. The orange door is usually harder to get to, hence why they lead you to the bonus stages.

It also seems easy to "cheat" on the bonus stages. I don't know if it's really cheating or not, but since you can jump off the dinosaur you can cover more ground and get more stuff. It's certainly easier than trying to jump all around.

A lot of the levels repeat in style and most of them are not too hard. There are two different levels that give me trouble. One type of stage is when you're riding on a rollercoaster. Another is when you're riding on this giant wheel. The level of difficulty isn't necessarily why they are hard, but there is serious slowdown in these stages and it makes it hard to control.

Once you complete a stage, you get a silly screen that has your two characters marching along the bottom, along with your score (that you only see on this stage complete screen) and a password. The password is pretty cool. It saves how many lives you have no matter if you turn the system off and enter it later. So I have a password for the start of Stage 5 with 9 lives! (NOTE: That is not what the password below is).

All in all, this game is a lot of fun and not too challenging. Stage 6 gets really hard really fast, but other than that the rest of the game is pretty easy. I was trying to record gameplay for this post, but I didn't have any luck getting a clear recording, so I'll save it for a future post. Be sure to check out this game if you get a chance.