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| From: Aspyr Media
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $1.91
You Save: $18.08 (90%)
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 11069
Format: Cd
Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows Xp
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0 x 0.1
MPN: 11681
Model: 11681
UPC: 618870116815
EAN: 0618870116815
ASIN: B000UVA9LE
Release Date: September 4, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Brand new and factory sealed. In stock and ships today!
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| • | Save the Dinos is a zany game for all ages and gaming abilities. Players must use skill and knowledge to save the dinos, who, of course, need their skeletons! In return, players fire beach balls, bowling balls, anti-graveity capsules and freezing cubes to bonk the monekys useless. Dino knowledge, which is quickly learned in the game, helps players earn powers that can save the dinosaurs from extin |
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Product Description
Save the Dinos is a zany game for all ages and gaming abilities. Players must use skill and knowledge to save the dinos who of course need their skeletons! In return players fire beach balls bowling balls anti-graveity capsules and freezing cubes to bonk the monekys useless. Dino knowledge which is quickly learned in the game helps players earn powers that can save the dinosaurs from extinction. Explore the humorous matches of digitally accurate dinosaurs against monkeys who are ready with mallets snowballs mud and other devices to steal the bones of unsuspecting dinosaurs. Format: WIN 2000XP Genre: ENTERTAINMENT UPC: 618870116815 Manufacturer No: 11681
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 Save the Dinos March 7, 2008
Loveguitar (Georgia, USA)
This computer game is interesting, but my 6 year old daughter rarely asks for it to be put in the computer. She prefers her other games over this one. To tell you the truth, the monkeys get on my nerves after a while. The dinosaur information is good, but even I can't retain squat past brontosaurus or whatever it is....
Maybe we just haven't given it enough time. It loads very easily into Windows XP, no problems with that or with running it. I guess I thought it was going to be more fun. I may update this review later.
 Didn't realize how much a kid can learn from a game! November 19, 2007
LJC (Phoenix, AZ USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My son is 5 and all I know is that he is spouting off knowledge about dinosaurs ever since he's received this game. He loves the game, but thankfully not an addict, and I'm extremely pleased at how it actually teaches facts about dinosaurs...most of which are quite interesting and fun to know. It's challenging, yet not defeating to a kid. My 2 year old likes to play too...which is hilarious to me, but hey, whatever makes them happy!
This game is "arcade like" enough to be played over and over again....and "educational enough" to make it pleasing to me, the parent =0)
Thank you "Save the Dinos" Makers!
A big TWO THUMBS UP from me!
Finally a dinosaur game for children!!!! November 9, 2007
Brian Curtice (Mesa, AZ USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
As a lifelong fan of dinosaurs I have sought a video game that my kindergarten and younger aged children could enjoy. Typically dinosaur games were all about violence and gore (Turok anyone?), or cutesy a la Bubble Bobble. No longer is this true! Save the Dinos is a first rate dinosaur game. The gameplay itself is fun, easy and makes you want to come back for more. The dinosaurs are fantastically rendered as skeletons, better than anything outside of visiting a museum yourself! But what keeps my sons coming back for more is the dinosaur information. While playing the game items appear that trigger a quiz. The great thing is the quiz is spoken as well as written and hovering the mouse over a possible answer causes it to be spoken, thereby allowing my son that is too young to read to play the game! The questions were absolutely loved by the boys (and brought a few grins and chuckles from me as well!). They contain cutting edge, scientifically accurate (!) information. Obviously great care went into their assembly. The oldest couldn't wait for his grandparents to visit so he could share his newfound dinosaur knowledge.
If you know children interested in dinosaurs (or are a fan yourself!) I strongly recommend this game. And at this price you can't go wrong! I can't wait to see what they come out with next.
GamerDad.com Review November 7, 2007
D. Mayhew
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The following review is from www.gamerdad.com
Save the Dinos
by Michael Anderson
September 06, 2007
Save the dinosaurs ... save the world!
Reviewed for PC.
Edutainment - this label is either a blessing or a curse depending on who you ask. But don't ask your kids, just let them play! True edutainment should be both entertaining and educational, but the more a game can teach you stuff while you are just chomping at the bit to keep going, going, going ... the better the game. Save the Dinos is a great example of Edutainment Done Right!
The game is based around the premise of 'Bone Monkeys' who like to run around and steal dinosaur bones, with you given a beach-ball firing cannon and tasked with protecting the dinosaur skeletons. Sounds like a completely toss-away casual game that could be played in a couple of minutes and never touched again - but because of the integration of an awesome model system, great quizzes and tons of bonuses it is terrifically addictive and fun for the whole family. The game features a tremendous 3D modeling of dinosaur skeletons called DinoMorph. This has been used in museum exhibits as well as on shows on the National Geographic and Science Channel networks, and provides stunning realism in the depiction and movement of all of the skeletal elements. And it does this while being able to run on most any decent household computer. The battles are pretty straightforward - you move around the circular dinosaur viewing area using the mouse and fire beach balls to scare away all of the bone monkeys. If you don't scare them off they will hop onto the dino and start hammering away trying to loosen up a bone to steal. And that is the game - three difficulties, ten dinosaurs per difficulty level. Yet there really is so much more. The game has real difficulty levels that will allow young or casual gamers to succeed as well as more experienced action game fans.
The Dino Quiz is really critical to why you will love this game - you will learn things you don't know about dinosaurs and will have loads of laughs the whole time. Once you shoot one of the Dino Quiz targets you are launched into a quiz and told what cool thing you will unlock if you get the correct answer. These are things like bowling balls for the cannons, mega-healing stars, and even a boombox that causes everything to dance around - allowing you to bop all of the bone monkeys while they're grooving to the tunes. The quiz poses a question and has the answers floating down from the sky - it is a wacky sort of timed multiple choice quiz! The questions are not terribly hard, but there are likely to be ones you don't know or aren't sure of, and there are always at least two plausible answers to choose from. The other two range from unlikely to downright hilarious - this was one of those game moments where everyone wants to see what is happening and share the laughs. One example would be giving the current name of the dino formerly known as the Brontosaurus - there is the correct Apatosaurus there, but there is also a choice for 'the Dancing Dino'.
The worst thing is that the game is short, but don't let that distract you from the main message - Save the Dinos is the perfect blend of fun and learning that your kids and the rest of your family WILL enjoy! If your computer can run any recent kids games you will be able to play this, and it has multiple dimensions of interaction and play to keep you busy. It offers plenty of fun whether or not your kids are old enough to read without ever feeling too young for adults to enjoy. It is a rare title because it takes a very popular subject and presents it in a way that truly does offer something for folks of all ages!
There is a fine line that developers of true 'edutainment need to walk - too little entertainment and kids won't want to play and too little education and parents won't want to buy it. The best possibility is something that is fun for the whole family. That is exactly what Save the Dinos delivers - family friendly edutainment that is great for anyone in the house!
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