Since we’re on the subject of Jurassic Park, we can’t forget two of the pinball games to be based upon the first two movies. Despite that, this brought dinosaurs into 3D at the arcade and is still held in high regard by players around the world. some ops even removed the back plexi to remove some of that problem. I remember coming across this particular cabinet everywhere in the late 90s, among arcade operators it was often seen as a “den of iniquity” thanks to some of the gross stuff people might – leave behind. Unlike the first effort, this title had proper light-guns to make dino blasting a breeze. In 1997 Sega would follow-up with Jurassic Park: The Lost World and this is the title that became the face of Dinosaur games in the late 90s. Rage did grab more attention than many other games (and the arrival of the Primal Rage II prototype board caused quite a stir in the media) although it did not create the legacy that many other fighting games have had over the years. With only two buttons on the panel though, this did limit what the characters could pull off for moves compared to Primal Rage’s six button setup. Dino Rex came two years earlier and operated under a very similar concept although the humans are more cage masters forcing the dinos to duke it out. What most people aren’t familiar with is Dino Rex (Taito, 1992). It made use of some claymation like graphics and it involved humans worshipping the dinosaurs as gods. Most people are familiar with the most famous dino fighting game yet created – Primal Rage (Atari Games, 1994). Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat made the arcade scene of the 90s focus on fighters. Just the name draws attention to this game but it is a lot of fun too. You do get to punch the living daylights out of some various reptiles but all that does is snap them out of their frenzy as you are trying to save them from becoming horrible genetic experiments or poached. It was a Capcom brawler, much like Final Fight. Speaking of popular media, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs (Capcom, 1992), brought the comic-book into arcade life. You have to enjoy the deep game story that launches you off: “Some planes were reported missing in the 1930s near Bermuda, let’s go investigate!” All righty then! Prehistoric Isle in 1930 (SNK, 1989) was one of them but they found a way to stand out – make the game about dinosaurs! Granted, they do explode with a little bit of blood when shot although it is pretty tame by today’s standards. There were a lot of scrolling shooting games to be found at the end of the 80s. While I was writing this, Azrial says that official documentation claims that Bub and Bob are dragons…I have always heard them called dinosaurs but we could make an exception as dragons are close enough.
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Bubble Bobble would spawn sequels and spin-offs, the most popular of those would be the Puzzle Bobble series which would become one of the most notable puzzle game types after Tetris.
It was the cute application of dinosaurs with a focus on co-op play that created a memorable and fun game to play.
The most prominent use of dinosaurs in 80s arcade games (and video games in general at the time) would certainly be Bubble Bobble (Taito,1986). This is an obscure game and aside from the flyer I have not been able to find out much about it. About the same time there was a game with a more obvious tie-in to our subject matter, simply called Dinosaurs by Eastern Micro Electronics (1983).
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