Dino Eggs is a game which has a very original game plot. Forget everything about blasting away millions of enemies - here your task is to save the dinosaurs and everything detail of the game has been designed very carefully.
The title screen
The story
This is an extract from the intro of the game:
Exploring the prehistoric past via time-warp… You infect the dinosaurs with common measles -- accidentally condemning them to extinction!
Overcome with remorse, you devote yourself to rescuing the entire dinosaur population!
You can do it! For you are Time Master Tim! Using the time warp, you can find and carry the dino eggs and dino babies safely into the 21st century.
The dinosaurs live again -- in our future. Thanks to you -- Time Master Tim!
After a beautiful time-warping animation, the game-screen appears. You (Tim) appear in a teleporter at a random place of the screen. In the teleporter you are safe from any danger and you recharge your energy.
Warping in at level 1
On the screen there are platforms and ladders and a lot of fixed or moving objects (see table below). The boulders may hide other objects underneath. Picking up the star will enable you to carry up to 9 eggs instead of 3.
Objects
Tim
Boulder
Teleport
Snake
Spider
Firefly
Eggs
Dino
Encaged dino
Wood
Fire
Star
Gameplay
First up you'll warp out of 2XXX into 66 B.C. on a random location.
Beware of the spiders
You have to look out because the dino mom is never far away and sometime arrives and try to squash Tim with her huge foot. Starting a fire by picking up wood and dropping it into another will keep her away until the fire goes out.
Dino mom coming
You have to pick up the dino eggs and take them back to your teleporter. When you warp out you get points for the eggs saved.
One dino encaged
The dino eggs hatch and out come cute little dinosaurs. You can save them by jumping over them, which will encage them in a protective shield and they'll be brought into the future the next time Tim warps out. Look out so that the dinos don't fall prey to spiders.
If you have saved all eggs and dinosaurs, you can warp to the next one by warping out while not carrying any items. You can also choose to abandon a level, but your score will be reduced for any eggs and dinos which have not been saved.
Burnt to death
Scoring
Bringing an egg into 1982
+2
Having an egg infected
-1
Saving a dino baby
+10
Killing a dino baby
-10
Killing a hostile creature
+1
Abandoning an egg
-1
Abandoning a dino
-10
Clearing a level
+10
Overall impression
A true classic - this games has everything! So download it and get started… If you succeed in getting more than 300 points you really have done well.
Rating
This is my personal rating of this game. If you like, you can make your own general rating using the voting function to the right.
Graphics
73%
Music
n/a
Sound fx
69%
Playability
93%
Lastability
95%
Overall
91%
Game tips
When your are close to teleporter, take the time to touch all creatures in the immediate vicinity to kill them off, then return to recharge.
Before attempting anything risky, like caging a dino, drop your eggs close by.
On the early stages, you can leave single eggs lying and wait under your teleporter until they hatch and you can then collect some extra points by jumping them.
Creatures can be killed by dropping a boulder onto their head.
