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.
15/04/2009 at 10:21 Lorc says:
I love this kind of energy management system.
15/04/2009 at 10:21 Jody Macgregor says:
ROAAARRR!
15/04/2009 at 10:23 Ian says:
Rule #234 is the best of the rules.
A pity it’s so easy, mind.
15/04/2009 at 10:47 DigitalSignalX says:
No exceptions.
15/04/2009 at 11:02 Jochen Scheisse says:
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.
15/04/2009 at 11:21 FunkyB says:
“…it’s not a very good shooter”
But…but…ROOOAARRR!
15/04/2009 at 11:22 Ian says:
@ Jochen Scheisse: I think you forgot how they shoot beams when they roar!
15/04/2009 at 11:25 espy says:
Jochen! They shoot beams! When they ROAR! :D
All they need now is a grappling hook and a rope.
15/04/2009 at 11:29 Fringe says:
Me Grimlock, Badass!
15/04/2009 at 11:32 Idle Threats & Bad Poetry says:
It doesn’t need to be difficult. It needs to be awesome, and that it is, my dear lad.
ROOOOAAAAOooooAAR!
15/04/2009 at 11:33 DarthInsinuate says:
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!
15/04/2009 at 12:18 skalpadda says:
MWROOOOOOAAAAaaAAaAAARGH!
Yeah, definitely 10 minutes of fun, was laughing through the whole thing :)
15/04/2009 at 12:37 Optimaximal says:
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.
15/04/2009 at 13:10 Psychopomp says:
RRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRB
15/04/2009 at 13:17 MeestaNob! says:
Game of the Year.
15/04/2009 at 13:43 Ben Abraham says:
Is this the new “You have to burn the rope”? It’s certainly from the same school of ultra-descriptive naming convention…
15/04/2009 at 13:51 Zanthox says:
Podcastle/NegGamer’s Wardrox referenced this so I can feel cool and ahead of the times for once…. ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR!
15/04/2009 at 18:01 Lambo says:
We humans really must be DINO-TASTIC! if one of us could make something this awesome.
ROOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAR
15/04/2009 at 18:18 Bret says:
Played this a bit back, I think on reccomendation from Tom Francis.
It is truly a work of art.
15/04/2009 at 20:02 Dzamir says:
HAHAHAHAHA! THis game is fantastic! I laughed till the end!
anyway ….
ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!
15/04/2009 at 20:02 Dzamir says:
I destroyed the template :o
15/04/2009 at 22:37 Lim-Dul says:
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! ;-)
16/04/2009 at 00:23 Rei Onryou says:
This game is so awesome, I think it made me shit my pants.
17/04/2009 at 03:37 Z says:
Make sure you let it sit and run for a bit after you beat it. The audio is awesome.
16/07/2009 at 20:08 Tomski says:
I think thats the only Shmup I’ve ever finished!