Color a Dinosaur is an electronic coloring book

Coloring book

A coloring book is a type of book containing line art for a reader to add color using crayons, colored pencils, marker pens, paint or other artistic media...

 video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System

Nintendo Entertainment System

The Nintendo Entertainment System is an 8-bit video game console that was released by Nintendo in North America during 1985, in Europe during 1986 and Australia in 1987...

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Summary

In the game itself, the player colors various non-threatening dinosaur

Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade and superorder Dinosauria. They were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic period until the end of the Cretaceous , when the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of...

s by using the provided dinosaur images and palettes. Players can either color using the free form mode or in the automatic mode where they only have to choose a color. The basic colors are either brightly-colored patterns or limited variations on pink

Pink

Pink is a mixture of red and white. Commonly used for Valentine's Day and Easter, pink is sometimes referred to as "the color of love." The use of the word for the color known today as pink was first recorded in the late 17th century....

 or red

Red

Red is any of a number of similar colors evoked by light consisting predominantly of the longest wavelengths of light discernible by the human eye, in the wavelength range of roughly 630–740 nm. Longer wavelengths than this are called infrared , and cannot be seen by the naked eye...

; giving the game a childish feel to it. However, an extra set of patterns can be reached by pressing the Select button.

This game is intended for younger audiences as no sophisticated features are offered in this game (animation

Animation

Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...

, minigame

Minigame

A minigame is a short video game often contained within another video game. A minigame is always smaller or more simplistic than the game in which it is contained. Minigames are sometimes also offered separately for free to promote the main game...

s, etc.) The game's overly simplistic nature, lack of a save feature and bad visuals have made the game a frequent subject of criticism among the gaming community. Tommy Tallarico

Tommy Tallarico

Tommy Tallarico is an American video game music composer and musician. He is best known as the co-creator of the concert series Video Games Live...

 did the music for this game; which is rather repetitive compared to his later works like Earthworm Jim

Earthworm Jim

Earthworm Jim is a run and gun platform video game starring an earthworm named Jim in a robotic suit who battles evil. Created by Doug TenNapel and designed by David Perry, the game was developed by Shiny Entertainment and Playmates Interactive Entertainment, released by Sega for the Mega...

, although this is largely due to limitations with the NES sound drivers. Dr. Stephen Clarke-Willson

Stephen Clarke-Willson

Dr. Stephen Clarke-Willson, PhD. was a video game producer and executive producer in the early 1990s who produced a number of hit games.-Summary:...

 was the producer and the educational consultant for this video game; making it one of the few video games produced by a person with a doctorate

Doctorate

A doctorate is an academic degree or professional degree that in most countries refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder to teach in a specific field, A doctorate is an academic degree or professional degree that in most countries refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder...

(from 12 or more years in university).

External links

• Color a Dinosaur @ Gaming Wiki
• Dinosaur Coloring Book @ Dinofun