By Kieron Gillen on April 15th, 2009 at 10:16 am.
Let’s start the day with a little webgame shootage, eh? The Mysterious Mr Macgregor pointed me in the direction of – deep breath - Robot Dinosaurs That Shoot Beams When They Roar. In it, you play a robot dinosaur who shoots a beam when they roar. Roar longer, beam gets weaker. Roar in short bursts, sounds very silly. Either way, it enlivens a basic yet charming left-right scrolling shooter. Also, a choice of two dinosaurs: Tyrannosaurus X or Dinomite. They shoot beams when they roar.
I love this kind of energy management system.
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ROAAARRR!
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Rule #234 is the best of the rules.
A pity it’s so easy, mind.
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No exceptions.
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I played it before, it’s not a very good shooter. It just has a very good name and background. Man, cyber’d up dinosaurs, that takes me back to early 90s TV comic series goodness.
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“…it’s not a very good shooter”
But…but…ROOOAARRR!
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@ Jochen Scheisse: I think you forgot how they shoot beams when they roar!
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Jochen! They shoot beams! When they ROAR! :D
All they need now is a grappling hook and a rope.
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Me Grimlock, Badass!
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It doesn’t need to be difficult. It needs to be awesome, and that it is, my dear lad.
ROOOOAAAAOooooAAR!
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Yay! That was cool.
Not because it was a good game, in fact is quite mediocre, but the Saturday morning cartoon theme is so wonderfully realised it’s a complete win.
MWRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAGH!
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MWROOOOOOAAAAaaAAaAAARGH!
Yeah, definitely 10 minutes of fun, was laughing through the whole thing :)
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So it’s basically R-Type with robosaurs? That game pioneered efficient energy management in a time when jumping on the heads of walking mushrooms was deemed the epitomy of computer gaming.
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RRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRB
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Game of the Year.
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Is this the new “You have to burn the rope”? It’s certainly from the same school of ultra-descriptive naming convention…
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Podcastle/NegGamer’s Wardrox referenced this so I can feel cool and ahead of the times for once…. ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR!
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We humans really must be DINO-TASTIC! if one of us could make something this awesome.
ROOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAR
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Played this a bit back, I think on reccomendation from Tom Francis.
It is truly a work of art.
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HAHAHAHAHA! THis game is fantastic! I laughed till the end!
anyway ….
ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!
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I destroyed the template :o
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Hey – this game is very short but also quite fun – I wouldn’t have thought.
And you know the central gameplay mechanic that robot dinosaurs shoot beams when they roar took me completely by surprise! ;-)
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This game is so awesome, I think it made me shit my pants.
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Make sure you let it sit and run for a bit after you beat it. The audio is awesome.
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I think thats the only Shmup I’ve ever finished!
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