Designasaurus
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Player's Review
Actually not a bad educational game, with good rating too, and from what I read online; some Amiga fans even today let their kids play it and they said the kids like it. It has a bunch of information about dinosaurs, and you can play as different ones and thus notice where in the food chain you are. You can also build your own dinosaur, name it, print it and other things.
I was surprised the flying dinosaur-thingy wasn't anything else but a background occurrence every now and then, as I couldn't attack it with any of the three dinosaurs, and it couldn't attack them. I couldn't find a manual though, so maybe there's more to it and I didn't figure it out.
I got stuck for a bit when I tried playing as the Tyrannosaurus Rex, because now I have to eat the other dinosaurs, but they would sometimes not come out in time, or they would run away and I would die from starvation. But I luckily noticed that if I don't move, my health doesn't go down as fast and I can just wait for a dinosaur to appear. Another thing I noticed is the enemy comes from the opposite side... for example, once you cross half the screen, they appear from the half you came from, which you can use to your tactical advantage with all three. Which is why I hurry to the other half of the screen with the Stegosaurus (didn't with the Bronto as I wanted to show off the struggle) in case a T-Rex comes after me, which would be from the side I came from, so I can eat as much as possible and continue to the right. Otherwise I would have to run back to the previous screen to the left if I didn't make it far enough, as the T-Rex would come from the right, and the game doesn't allow for any dinosaur to run past each other above or below.
I didn't try to make a "proper" dinosaur in the end as I just wanted to make a weird looking one, and also show that some parts will end up outside the white area. There were even pieces where all three parts would end up outside the area on the top. Weird they didn't center the design, starting with the head in the middle to the left of the white area, instead of top left.
I was surprised the flying dinosaur-thingy wasn't anything else but a background occurrence every now and then, as I couldn't attack it with any of the three dinosaurs, and it couldn't attack them. I couldn't find a manual though, so maybe there's more to it and I didn't figure it out.
I got stuck for a bit when I tried playing as the Tyrannosaurus Rex, because now I have to eat the other dinosaurs, but they would sometimes not come out in time, or they would run away and I would die from starvation. But I luckily noticed that if I don't move, my health doesn't go down as fast and I can just wait for a dinosaur to appear. Another thing I noticed is the enemy comes from the opposite side... for example, once you cross half the screen, they appear from the half you came from, which you can use to your tactical advantage with all three. Which is why I hurry to the other half of the screen with the Stegosaurus (didn't with the Bronto as I wanted to show off the struggle) in case a T-Rex comes after me, which would be from the side I came from, so I can eat as much as possible and continue to the right. Otherwise I would have to run back to the previous screen to the left if I didn't make it far enough, as the T-Rex would come from the right, and the game doesn't allow for any dinosaur to run past each other above or below.
I didn't try to make a "proper" dinosaur in the end as I just wanted to make a weird looking one, and also show that some parts will end up outside the white area. There were even pieces where all three parts would end up outside the area on the top. Weird they didn't center the design, starting with the head in the middle to the left of the white area, instead of top left.
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