Dino Wars
- Dino Wars (1980 on TRS-80 CoCo)
Description
Dino Wars is a strategic board game with some similarities to chess, with combat decided by action scenes. If you ever played Archon you know the idea behind this game.
On a chess-like board (9x10 pieces in this game) you move different sorts of dinosaurs. If you hit a square on which an opponent dinosaur stands, the game changes to action mode. This is played as a beat-'em-up, in which you must beat the opponent dinosaur to win the square. Each dinosaur has it's own strategies, movement restrictions and different combat skills - which are roughly based on the historical properties of the real dinosaurs. As a result, knowing which dinosaurs are likely to win combat is crucial to the strategy.
The action scenes can be played independently of the main strategic game.
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- DinoWars - Alternate spelling on disks
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Sound effects
Some of the sound effects look like they are inspired or taken from old Ray Harryhausen films. Especially the sound of the dying T-Rex in the movie One Million Years B. C. .
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Game added by formercontrib.
DOS added by 486pc. Amiga added by Martin Smith.
Additional contributors: Master_Sandro.
Game added November 2, 2008. Last modified November 29, 2023.