Disney's Dinosaur is a 2000 video game based released as a tie-in to the Disney film of the same name

Dinosaur (film)

Dinosaur is a 2000 American computer-animated film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures on May 19, 2000, and is the 39th animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series...

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Story

The game loosely follows the story of the film, starting with Aladar, Zini and Flia on the Lemur Island. The island is destroyed in a meteor

METEOR

METEOR is a metric for the evaluation of machine translation output. The metric is based on the harmonic mean of unigram precision and recall, with recall weighted higher than precision...

 shower, forcing Aladar and his friends to flee to the mainland, where they encounter a herd of 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 led by the ruthless Kron. Most of the game consists of puzzles and fighting off predators.

Controls

The player navigates the main characters with the arrow keys, a player may move a character diagonally by pressing two keys simoltaneousley, the players attacks are activated by pressing the spacebar or V key, a player may use the special attack when there is a power stone in their inventory by pressing the two attack keys simoltaneousley

Playable characters

• Aladar, an Iguanodon
  Iguanodon
  Iguanodon is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur that lived roughly halfway between the first of the swift bipedal hypsilophodontids and the ornithopods' culmination in the duck-billed dinosaurs...
  
  . The strongest of the three playable characters, Aladar can destroy blockades and fight off predators of all sizes. His main attacks include head-butting, and tail swings, his special attack is a massive stomp, he is the only player that can swim.
• Zini, a lemur
  Lemur
  Lemurs are a clade of strepsirrhine primates endemic to the island of Madagascar. They are named after the lemures of Roman mythology due to the ghostly vocalizations, reflective eyes, and the nocturnal habits of some species...
  
  . The smallest member of the group, Zini can reach small spaces that Aladar and Flia don't fit into, making him useful for solving puzzles and accessing hidden areas. Zini can throw rocks at predators and headbutt them if he is very close (both attacks use the spacebar). He can also distract certain enemies, causing them to follow him and lose interest in his comrades (by pressing the V key). Zini is very fast and agile, and is capable of jumping over ledges too wide for Aladar. He can also climb up vine-covered walls, but has no special attack.
• Flia, a Pteranodon
  Pteranodon
  Pteranodon , from the Late Cretaceous geological period of North America in present day Kansas, Alabama, Nebraska, Wyoming, and South Dakota, was one of the largest pterosaur genera and had a maximum wingspan of over...
  
  . Flia is the flyer of the group, and can therefore avoid most predators (except flying ones, and defence-based Albertosaurs, which can jump and bite at her). She is useful for scouting as well as reaching places that Aladar and Zini can't get to. Various missions in the game feature Flia carrying burning sticks to light fire
  Fire
  Fire is the rapid oxidation of a material in the chemical process of combustion, releasing heat, light, and various reaction products. Slower oxidative processes like rusting or digestion are not included by this definition....
  
  s to guide the other characters. Flia can dive-bomb at enemies, doing a barrel roll
  Barrel roll
  A barrel roll is an aerial maneuver in which an airplane makes a complete rotation on its longitudinal axis while following a helical path, approximately maintaining its original direction. It is sometimes described as "a combination of a loop and a roll"...
  
   of sorts to hit them with her wings, her special attack is a sonic blast. Flia only appears in the film as the Pteranodon that drops Aladar's egg at Lemur Island.

The player can control Aladar, Flia and Zini separately. It is also possible to control both Aladar and Flia simultaneously (the player controls Aladar and Flia follows him), or Aladar and Zini (the player controls Aladar and Zini jumps on his back). It is also possible to control all three characters - the player controls Aladar, with Zini riding on his back and Flia following.

Non-playable characters

• Kron, a ruthless Iguanodon who leads the herd that Aladar, Zini and Flia encounter.
• Neera, Kron's more caring sister.
• Baylene, an old Brachiosaurus
  Brachiosaurus
  Brachiosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Jurassic Morrison Formation of North America. It was first described by Elmer S. Riggs in 1903 from fossils found in the Grand River Canyon of western Colorado, in the United States. Riggs named the dinosaur Brachiosaurus altithorax,...
  
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• Eema, an old Styracosaurus
  Styracosaurus
  Styracosaurus was a genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur from the Cretaceous Period , about 76.5 to 75.0 million years ago...
  
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• Url, a dog-like Ankylosaurus
  Ankylosaurus
  Ankylosaurus is a genus of ankylosaurid dinosaur, containing one species, A. magniventris...
  
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Plio, Yar, Suri, and Bruton don't appear in the game itself, but are featured in cut-scenes throughout the game, which are actually scenes taken directly from the film.

Enemies

• Giant lizard
  Lizard
  Lizards are a widespread group of squamate reptiles, with nearly 3800 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica as well as most oceanic island chains...
  
  s, the first enemy encountered by the player. They are slow and not very strong.
• Champsosaurus
  Champsosaurus
  Champsosaurus is an extinct genus of diapsid reptile belonging to the order Choristodera. It grew to about 1.50 m long....
  
  , essentially a faster version of the lizard. In reality it was an aquatic creature more closely resembling a crocodile
  Crocodile
  A crocodile is any species belonging to the family Crocodylidae . The term can also be used more loosely to include all extant members of the order Crocodilia: i.e...
  
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• Dryptosaurus
  Dryptosaurus
  Dryptosaurus was a genus of primitive tyrannosaur that lived in Eastern North America during the middle Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous period. Although largely unknown now outside of academic circles, a famous painting of the genus by Charles R...
  
  , a big carnivore, depicted with spines on its back, in reality,it had no spines.
• Icaronycteris
  Icaronycteris
  Icaronycteris is an extinct genus of microchiropteran bat that lived in the early Eocene, approximately 52.2 million years ago. Four exceptionally preserved specimens are known from the Green River Formation of North America. There is only one thoroughly described species of bat in the genus, I...
  
  , a predatory bat
  Bat
  Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera "hand" and pteron "wing") whose forelimbs form webbed wings, making them the only mammals naturally capable of true and sustained flight. By contrast, other mammals said to fly, such as flying squirrels, gliding possums, and colugos, glide rather than fly,...
  
  . It is always encountered in swarms, although these are represented as a single entity with one HP bar which scatters when defeated. The real creature probably fed on insect
  Insect
  Insects are a class of living creatures within the arthropods that have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body , three pairs of jointed legs, compound eyes, and two antennae...
  
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• Velociraptor
  Velociraptor
  Velociraptor is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur that existed approximately 75 to 71 million years ago during the later part of the Cretaceous Period. Two species are currently recognized, although others have been assigned in the past. The type species is V. mongoliensis; fossils...
  
  , a small predatory dinosaur. It is fast and often attacks in groups.
• Oviraptor
  Oviraptor
  Oviraptor is a genus of small Mongolian theropod dinosaur, first discovered by the paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews, and first described by Henry Fairfield Osborn, in 1924...
  
  , another small dinosaur. It poses a threat similar to Velociraptor, but it can steal items from you.
• Quetzalcoatlus
  Quetzalcoatlus
  Quetzalcoatlus was a pterodactyloid pterosaur known from the Late Cretaceous of North America , and one of the largest known flying animals of all time. It was a member of the Azhdarchidae, a family of advanced toothless pterosaurs with unusually long, stiffened necks...
  
  , a large, aggressive pterosaur
  Pterosaur
  Pterosaurs were flying reptiles of the clade or order Pterosauria. They existed from the late Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous Period . Pterosaurs are the earliest vertebrates known to have evolved powered flight...
  
  . Because it flies, the only team members who can fight it are Flia and Zini.
• Carnotaurus
  Carnotaurus
  Carnotaurus was a large predatory dinosaur. Only one species, Carnotaurus sastrei has been described so far.Carnotaurus lived in Patagonia, Argentina during the Campanian or Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous...
  
  , a large and powerful predatory dinosaur, it cannot be killed directly, it must led into a trap.
• Albertosaurus
  Albertosaurus
  Albertosaurus is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived in western North America during the Late Cretaceous Period, more than 70 million years ago. The type species, A. sarcophagus, was apparently restricted in range to the modern-day Canadian province of Alberta, after which...
  
  , a vicious dinosaur that comes in two kinds: a powerful offensive one and a leaping defensive one.
• Spinosaurus
  Spinosaurus
  Spinosaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur which lived in what is now North Africa, from the lower Albian to lower Cenomanian stages of the Cretaceous period, about 112 to 97 million years ago. This genus was first known from Egyptian remains discovered in 1912 and described by German...
  
  , the largest carnivorous dinosaur, depicted in this game as the size of an Iguanodon.

Other dangers include tornado

Tornado

A tornado is a violent, dangerous, rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. They are often referred to as a twister or a cyclone, although the word cyclone is used in meteorology in a wider...

s, meteors, sandstorms, quicksand

Quicksand

Quicksand is a colloid hydrogel consisting of fine granular matter , clay, and water.Water circulation underground can focus in an area with the optimal mixture of fine sands and other materials such as clay. The water moves up and then down slowly in a convection-like manner throughout a column...

 and lava

Lava

Lava refers both to molten rock expelled by a volcano during an eruption and the resulting rock after solidification and cooling. This molten rock is formed in the interior of some planets, including Earth, and some of their satellites. When first erupted from a volcanic vent, lava is a liquid at...

 streams.

Friendly NPC's

• Lemur (seen in the opening level as non-moving characters)
• Styracosaurus (Eema & one other)
• Iguanodon (Neera & others)

The cutscenes taken from the film also show Parasaurolophus

Parasaurolophus

Parasaurolophus is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur that lived in what is now North America during the Late Cretaceous Period, about 76.5–73 million years ago. It was an herbivore that walked both as a biped and a quadruped. Three species are recognized: P. walkeri , P. tubicen, and the...

, Microceratus, Pachyrhinosaurus

Pachyrhinosaurus

Pachyrhinosaurus is a genus of ceratopsid dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous period of North America. The first examples were discovered by Charles M. Sternberg in Alberta, Canada, in 1946, and named in 1950. Over a dozen partial skulls and a large assortment of other fossils from various species...

, Ichthyornis

Ichthyornis

Ichthyornis is a genus of toothed seabirds from the Late Cretaceous of North America. Its fossil remains are known from the chalks of Alberta, Alabama, Kansas, New Mexico, Saskatchewan, and Texas, in strata that were laid down in the Western Interior Seaway during the Turonian-Campanian ages,...

, Stygimoloch

Stygimoloch

Stygimoloch is a putative genus of pachycephalosaurid dinosaur from the end of the Cretaceous period, roughly 65 million years ago...

and Struthiomimus

Struthiomimus

Struthiomimus is a genus of ornithomimid dinosaur from the late Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada. It was a long-legged, ostrich-like dinosaur.The bipedal Struthiomimus stood about long and tall at the hips and weighed around...

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Items

• Rocks are used by Zini to be thrown at enemies. Before being usable, they appear as black, square-shaped rocks which can be broken by Aladar.
• Life crystals give the player an extra life.
• Yellow and red fruit restore health points, yellow fruit restore 10 health points, while red fruit restore 50 health points.
• KO asteroids, unlike other asteroids in-game, are capable of stunning enemies for short amounts of time.
• Fire asteroids can light fires and make enemies lose 240 health points.
• Luminous stones are used to light up dark areas.
• Power stones are used to activate the player's special attacks.
• Regenerative plants can heal all damage, but cannot be stored in your inventory.
• Obelisks are marked as green dots on the mini-map. When a player is defeated by an enemy and loses a life, they will return to the last obelisk they passed by. Note that different characters may be resurrected at different obelisks.