The Forgotten (And Funniest) Dinosaur Arcade Game

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Күн бұрын

Fighting games were all the rage back in the 80s and 90s and when there's a popular trend, even niche media genres are thrown into the mix. Dinosaurs are no exception. One of the strangest (but funniest) dinosaur-fighting arcade game was made during this point in time and it was... not that good.
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0:00 Introduction
3:03 The Backstory
6:08 Problems With the Game
15:56 The Story of Dino Rex
25:03 Brief Thoughts & Conclusion
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@DinoDiego16 Жыл бұрын

Pixelated obese Barney can't hurt you in the comment section

@godzillapl8106 Жыл бұрын

Thank that you admit Barney's cameo

@_TheeZarcosuchus Жыл бұрын

@@PoochieWooch would love to see you do better

@_TheeZarcosuchus Жыл бұрын

@@PoochieWooch no my guy it’s a joking way, sorry now that I reread it. It sounds like an attack. Sorry again

@dondigao1057 Жыл бұрын

Ooop. Video idea: Talk about Primal rages story

@meg2249 Жыл бұрын

Good to know that I wasn’t the only one who thought ‘Is…is that Barney the purple dinosaur in a fighting game?’

@primrosevale1995 Жыл бұрын

Ngl I would love to see a modern dinosaur fighter that parodies old dinosaur depictions and movies, with today’s tech you could probably make it actually look like a stop-motion film. And of course add Spinofaarus as a secret unlockable fighter.

@williansnobre Жыл бұрын

Dude, I would love a game like this, I would put modern dinosaurs too, with feathers and stuff, like a different faction, and old movie looking dinosaurs against the modern looking dinosaurs. I would call the game "Dinos vs Saurus"

@LilPeeWee41291 Жыл бұрын

I would buy that day one!

@ironhell813 Жыл бұрын

Probably already exists somewhere....

@gregpothier2145 Жыл бұрын

The clip from Primal Rage just triggered an instantaneous flash of a thousand memories in my brain of being a kid in the early-mid ninties.

@stripedlisarrd25yt Жыл бұрын

cool

@alchemicmercury Жыл бұрын

Diablo, Talon, Vertigo ftw

@ironhell813 Жыл бұрын

Where in the movie is it?

@baiwatch1 Жыл бұрын

My only exposure to Primal Rage as a kid was from my dentist office. They had a couple of arcades for the kids to play, and I always hated getting pulled away to get my braces rewired.

@ericf112 Жыл бұрын

The 90's were the best time to be a kid. Everything was awesome and we had unprecedented freedom. I can't imagine what it's like to be growing up now with cell phones and constantly being intimidated by what's on the news...

@pand3mic942 Жыл бұрын

The goofy running animation on the triceratops is supposed to be Sumo. They're alternating between their left and right front legs to push forward. It's just a really fast animation, so it looks like wild flailing without context lol

@PenguinDT Жыл бұрын

The walk cycle of the purple T-Rex is so jolly! Someone needs to do an edit of that with some jolly tunes and sunshine.

@aquarionyx6288 Жыл бұрын

*hits blunt* What if we made Street Fighter, with Barney?

@connor6586 Жыл бұрын

That's the best idea ever

@tf2godz Жыл бұрын

Everyone's talking about fat hyper-realistic Barney, but no-one's commenting on the upright running ceratopsian, that shit is goofy as fuck. Also, I remember a while back when monster Island buddies covered this game. Weird experience the first time seeing this, and with your video I can experience it again.

@_TheeZarcosuchus Жыл бұрын

You should do a video on those weird ass dinosaur romance novels. That would be funny. Like “Taken by a T.Rex”.

@gemwolfz2860 Жыл бұрын

do you have any idea how many of chuck tingle's works involve dinosaurs? a lot. it would be a gold mine

@_TheeZarcosuchus Жыл бұрын

@@gemwolfz2860 exactly! My guy, also it would just be funny hearing his reaction 😂

@dddoriannn1473 Жыл бұрын

Let's not forget about Jurassic Boner

@_TheeZarcosuchus Жыл бұрын

@@dddoriannn1473 you said what now?

@dddoriannn1473 Жыл бұрын

@@_TheeZarcosuchus I was making a reference to this video at 5:48 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/l7OnhcSB35q1oZs.html&ab_channel=VargskelethorUncut%3AFullJoelStreams

@chloesibilla8199 Жыл бұрын

I love the claymation dinos just superimposed over the pixelated background. It's so unique and interesting!

@giulyanoviniciussanssilva2947 Жыл бұрын

They could take advantage of Tartakovsky's universe and make a Primal game.

@DinoDiego16 Жыл бұрын

That would be awesome. I'd totally play that game

@giulyanoviniciussanssilva2947 Жыл бұрын

@@DinoDiego16 famous "Shut up and take my money".

@devilman4018 Жыл бұрын

Wish they did. It would make for a great 2d beat' em up type of game.

@ironhell813 Жыл бұрын

Took the thought right out of this game devs head.... Did you know. Primal Rage is a plagiarism of this game. Not all of us forgot.... And it's not the only Japanese game the "Chicago outfit" (bally/Williams entertainment & subsidiaries) plagiarized. They would prevent any dinosaur game with that word in it. I already checked it. The average time for games on the 90s is the same as now, six months to a year. And it's pronounced "thai-to" not "tay-to".

@colehamrick6252 Ай бұрын

It would be awesome to have a crossover of Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal and Primal Rage

@toalutoriangaming Жыл бұрын

The last thing I expected you to say about his career was that he worked on char’s counter attack lmao, practically jumpscared me.

@williamreed3739 Жыл бұрын

I’ve always wondered if this game ever even got an official arcade release. I’ve tried so hard but I’ve never been able to find a photo of the actual arcade cabinet. Either way I think this game has a lot of charm. Neat retrosaurs and cool pixel art backgrounds. With more development time it could’ve been a cult classic just like Primal Rage

@DinoDiego16 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I was struggling with that as well. Considering that's the only platform it was released on until 2007, you'd think you'd be able to find the cabinet somewhere online.

@crossmirage Жыл бұрын

@@DinoDiego16 I've seen a couple cab photos and it seems like DR didn't have its own unique cab, just stuck on general purpose ones like the Egret II.

@LeeONardo 7 ай бұрын

This game was released. Years ago as a young lad I saw it in an arcade at "The American Adventure" theme park in England. I always remembered the loud sounds and the crazy coloured dinos. I never saw it again anywhere and wondered what it was called, then MAME happened.

@toastgoats7545 2 күн бұрын

Iirc a lot of arcades in Japan use universal cabinets so they can just swap out the boards, so maybe it just never got a unique cabinet? No idea if the whole hotswapping thing was around back then so take that with a grain of salt

@LBTElectricDinoOnline Жыл бұрын

Man, this looks very bonkers and Nostalgic in my opinion. Great work and Happy Easter by the way.

@ShadeMeadows Жыл бұрын

I'm ashamed of myself I didn't know 'bout somethin' this crazy... ...but I would love a Remake please. 👀

@Puerco-Potter Жыл бұрын

This and tail of the sun

@LaBibliotecaEterna Жыл бұрын

That trex body slam make me laugh so hard. And I agree with you, this Game should be turned into a meme.

@Painocus Жыл бұрын

I have a pretty strong guess for why the T-Rex is purple. The alt pallate for when you fight the same dino as you is often similarly garish. I'm guessing it was done because they were still worried about players mixing up their characters. The T-Rex was probably made to be the final boss (that is the DinoRex's big, fat, golden T-Rex) and to keep it that way they gave the player the alt pallate instead.

@t.rexking441 Жыл бұрын

“Mom, can we play Primal Rage?” “We have Primal Rage at home” Primal Rage at home:

@crossmirage Жыл бұрын

This game predates Primal Rage funnily enough

@ironhell813 Жыл бұрын

@@crossmirage no it's not a coincidence, the Chicago outfit stole the idea from taito.

@BATCHARRO Жыл бұрын

The Fighting Game Community has developed an ironic-but-then-not-so-ironic appreciation for this game in the last like year and a half. Now, they recognize all the flaws it has gameplay wise...I believe the term is "jank". But they'll tell you themselves, they'll play each other on anything. Anything. So I think what I'm saying is there's tournaments for Dino Rex now. There's people playing this game for prize money.

@velociraptor4you3291 Жыл бұрын

Angry Video Game Nerd (a.k.a. James Rolfe) did an episode all about Taito games...he *missed* this one. No harm, no foul on his part, though (😉). Thank you for showcasing to us all this 'gem (😁).'

@chancegivens9390 Жыл бұрын

I like his "you know what's bullshit!" Series.

@StickySauce101 Жыл бұрын

considering James is a massive fan of old B-Movies he probably couldn't bring himself to slamming on this game despite its flaws, he would see the stop-motion dino-monsters and feel bad about making fun of it.

@velociraptor4you3291 Жыл бұрын

@@chancegivens9390 So do I (😊).

@velociraptor4you3291 Жыл бұрын

@@StickySauce101 That's possible; I do know he's a big B-movie enthusiast. Though he did kinda slam the Sega 32X port of "Primal Rage" in his 2-part Sega Genesis/CD episode.

@solidified-spinosaurus Жыл бұрын

That thing in the thumbnail looks like something out of the Godzilla NES creepypasta 💀

@goldyshadow Жыл бұрын

yeah

@christopherwall2121 Жыл бұрын

I was already somewhat familiar with the behind the scenes story of Dino Rex thanks to Monster Island Buddies, but did not expect Gundam to come into this story.

@overforkover2140 Жыл бұрын

About to roll up to Evo for the Dino-Rex tournament.

@Roman5ive5ive 9 ай бұрын

I'm surprised it took me this long to see this video and comment on it. A year or two ago I participated as an moderator and commentator in a streamed online tournament for this game where we managed to raise around a thousand dollars (maybe more it's been a while) for charity. It's become a running gag in the streaming group I'm a part of (along with watching the Carnosaur films) but it's a game we realize the charms of along with it's short comings.

@DarkArtistKaiser Жыл бұрын

It often surprises me how many of these old games will often have a story around them, if not about the game itself, than those who worked on it.

@kingghidorah1212 Жыл бұрын

This is why you are my favorite dino account. You dig deep into dino media. Shit I probably would have never even heard of if you haven't mentioned it. This stuff is interesting.

@yuyaricachimuel555 Жыл бұрын

In terms of dinosaur games I know one obscure series you should review that’s very much similar to this one. No it’s NOT Fossil Fighters, but actually the Battle/Combat of Giants series that Ubisoft made. There were a couple games in this series, dinosaurs, dragons and even mutant insects, although the dinosaurs got more games done for them (one on DS, a DSi expansion of sorts, a Wii game and finally for 3ds).

@josephlytle1436 Жыл бұрын

So about that original concept with the helicopters, there is an arcade game that has a strikingly similar premise to that original idea. It’s called Prehistoric Isle 2. It may be worth doing a video on that game and it’s predecessor.

@dinosauroiddude Жыл бұрын

I remember trying to beat this game in an Emulator, i rage quit

@LophoLeeVT Жыл бұрын

Ah, I remember beating the game! As I haven't really played other fighting games, Dino Rex was just a hard, but weird fun game.

@falsehero2001 Жыл бұрын

It’s pronounced “TIE-TOE”.

@KironVB Жыл бұрын

One video I think should be covered, is the Dinotopia book series. Series of books from the 1990s of honestly, the most stunning Dinosaur art ever produced and one of the best Dinosaur based stories and worlds out there. The books today cost a mint and it's weirdly not really known about anymore, the only big KZfaq video is covering the TV miniseries. Not the book. Hell it's even hard to find good quality scans of the book art online.

@FakeSugarVillain Жыл бұрын

I kinda love the dullap on the Ceratosaurus, it's such a nice exercise on speculative biology

@briancoulombe4517 7 ай бұрын

I do love how they can send them flying and crashing into stuff. Makes them feel big.

@AlecMeyer94 8 ай бұрын

Hello, I just watched your video and it is pretty well done. I personally really love Dino Rex and I do want to share a rather interesting update on this game that it is currently on Hamster Corporation's Arcade Archives series on the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 along with a release on Taito Milestones 2 also on the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. Thankfully on the Arcade Archives version you can actually change the difficulty. I also really recommend checking out Taito's later fighting games Kaiser Knuckle, Psychic Force, and Psychic Force 2012.

@diebesgrab Жыл бұрын

“Tay-to” My sides hurt.

@laurachapple6795 Жыл бұрын

"Makes you wanna punch a bird." I thought that was weirdly specific but then you played the sound, and... yeah. I want to punch a bird.

@thenathanimal2909 Жыл бұрын

Great work! I was obsessed with Primal Rage in the arcades Heads up, "Taito" is pronounce "Tie - Toe."

@scottyrobot Жыл бұрын

no mention of the blood-curdling dinosaur roars?

@dergutehut3961 Жыл бұрын

Every game that ends with a half naked post apocalyptic predator capitalist being killed by Pteranodon egg can't be bad. With a little polish in move set and game mechanics that could be a lot of fun. Train different Dinos or chose different trainers to improve your Dino, and most important..ADD a decent Stegosaurus...with all his weaponry its kind of insane to not have him in a Dinosaur fighting game.

@otaking3582 Жыл бұрын

This game came out the same year as Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger (the show that Season 1 of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers got footage from), so that was likely more than just a coincidence.

@TyrannosaurusRex.. Жыл бұрын

Great live stream yesterday bro! Hope you joined our religon.

@nono9543 Жыл бұрын

I have nostalgia for a chunky upright purple T.Rex

@LePetitArtiste09 Жыл бұрын

“Obese Barney” You didn’t have to do my man like that 😂

@restionSerpentine Жыл бұрын

You want a rare Dino Game? Savage quest, I played this once 20 years ago, and took me forever to find any information on it... a warlock steals an allosauruses eggs, for a ritual, and you play the allosaurus to get them back

@LoxeAeon Жыл бұрын

That purple dinosaur has type 2 diabetes

@seatspud Жыл бұрын

Yakety Sax definitely needs to be dubbed over those end credits. And "Fat Fuckin' T.Rex" needs to be on a t-shirt.

@Hack_Man_VII 9 ай бұрын

Dino Rex should be a contender on Matt McMuscles "The Worst Fighting Game" series. Maybe it can be the game that overthrows Expect No Mercy.

@neonkenomi320 Жыл бұрын

It was only a matter of time before you made a video on this, lol. I find it crazy Tatio never tried to sue Midway over some of the similarities between Dino Rex and Primal Rage. Well at least any record I can find of it.

@InternetHydra 9 ай бұрын

As wonky as it plays and looks, the aesthetic is genuinely awesome and I would love a modern games mimicking such a look. Even moreso then Primal Rage.

@manlaw77 Жыл бұрын

Monster island buddies did an excellent review of this game everyone should see!

@Andrecio64 10 ай бұрын

The body slam made me burst in tears

@TheOdsd1977 Ай бұрын

You know you're old when they consider a VERY common arcade video game from the 90s as "forgotten."

@DinoDiego16 Ай бұрын

Age isn't the only factor that can make something forgotten. And even if something was common back then, that doesn't guarantee it won't be forgotten now

@TheLoneCyclops6976 Жыл бұрын

I would love for you to do a video on Preadsaurs DNA Fusion, which, if you're wondering, is a toy series where the dinosaurs are fused together with other dinosaurs, some of which carry primitive weapons. It even had a website where you could play games and even fuse dinosaurs together; shit was awesome and played a part in my childhood.

@gemwolfz2860 Жыл бұрын

didn't expect the production troubles of a gundam movie to be involved here but it sure was interesting

@SuperMasterJefe Жыл бұрын

I remember finding this game years ago

@cdplus2339 Жыл бұрын

Char's Counterattack is a masterpiece!

@smith9747 Жыл бұрын

To make you feel better regarding the skill issues: I'm an experienced fighting game player who grew up with Street Fighter, Fatal Fury, DoA etc. but even I was not able to get pass stage 2 when I played Dino Rex on an emulator some time ago. It's controls are unbearable

@luisdiegohernandez2326 Жыл бұрын

I remember this game. The defuncted channel TheSw1tcher made a video playing this game. From what plays out, it seems like the four former friends enjoyed their time with it.

@ShadeMeadows 8 ай бұрын

*WE NEED A REMAKE.*

@johnsimon8457 10 ай бұрын

16:50 - even the little spinning animation of the figurine glitches if you keep watching it. I'm sure everyone's working 120 hour weeks to get this and another game out the door but it sounds like hell. 22:25 I've always hated those smoothing filters, but for once it actually improves things.

@vladkornienko7889 Жыл бұрын

A purple T-Rex? Yeeesss!

@Glitch-Gremlin Жыл бұрын

LOL LOOK AT THAT FAT PURPLE T-REX!!!

@someguywithawi-ficonnectio931 Жыл бұрын

That purple rex looks oddly unnerving... I like it ngl

@cameronjim2983 Жыл бұрын

This would make for a fun as hell movie.

@bloodrunsclear Жыл бұрын

Huh...Themberchaud made his debut in a video game O_O He was purple at the time though...

@RyllenKriel Жыл бұрын

Some may mock the plot of Dino Rex but after years of research there is truth to be found behind it. It's actually a work of non-fiction. Beware Mr. Ho Lee and train your dinosaur for the ultimate battle ahead!

@PaceFilmsProductions 4 ай бұрын

I think I would have loved this game if I came across it in an arcade as a kid.

@combatking0 Жыл бұрын

Big Purple T-Rex: I love food, you feed me, see me walking flabbily...

@thomasrdiehl Жыл бұрын

I love to think that when we see Mr. T wrangle a gator in his cartoon, he is actually preparing for programming work on Dino Rex.

@freshboy3968 27 күн бұрын

Oh, I love Metal Black! Hopefully Taito wasn't too harsh on its employees.

@Endocrom Жыл бұрын

This just in: Dino Rex is going to be on Taito Milestones 2 for Switch

@caucasoidape8838 Жыл бұрын

I think Data East's "Joe and Mac" is the best Harryhausen inspired video game.

@VictorianTimeTraveler Жыл бұрын

I think I've actually played this game. It's pretty good but I think we can all agree that the best fighting game of all time is Balls.

@Xenomoose Жыл бұрын

Oh hey, turns out Dino Rex is gonna be coming to the Switch as part of another Taito compilation. Dunno if it's coming to the west, but I know I'm down for it if it does, how about you all?

@lukeandfamilyvideos8234 Жыл бұрын

The Roars Sound Like A Pig Going Through A Wood Chipper (could that be a reference?)

@TheArkhamjester Жыл бұрын

FYI regarding 3 months to make a game, even in the atari 2600 era that was considered short. ET was developed in 6 weeks and the man who did it lived at his desk to pull it off, for a 9o's era game 3 months is absolutely nothing, the average was give or take 8 months dev time to a year, 2 for especially ambitious titles. It could be shorter if some of the groundwork was done (asset reuse, a viable game enging etc.)

@bootblacking Жыл бұрын

Taito =/= 🥔

@ChrissieBear Жыл бұрын

LMFAO, of all things I never would've guessed the plot of this game was "get amazussy".

@ShoshoDupers Жыл бұрын

can you do a retrospective on other dinosaur fighting games? like warpath jurassic park and the battle of giants series

@samwill7259 Жыл бұрын

Ah yes The pee pee monke True art

@JinzoCrash Жыл бұрын

I really do wish someone could remake this game, as it really had good things going on that even games now haven't expressed... The stumbling dinosaurs look great as they're knocked over, and there was OH so much funny vore moments with the humans.

@Triad3Force Жыл бұрын

Closest we'll get to having a Barney fighting game.

@b1merio Жыл бұрын

Po' Taito. They tried.

@ericf112 Жыл бұрын

All dinosaurs sounded like elk

@nonyabiz9487 10 ай бұрын

I LOVE the dinos in this game they remind me of the golden age of stop motion movies and the over all 80s B action movie vibe is great too.

@quantumsneak1773 Жыл бұрын

Prehistoric Isle Was my favorite dinosaur game

@Heccy_weccy Жыл бұрын

One of my favourite things about this game is that the title: dino rex in Latin translates to terrible king which I think is rather funny that they are fighting for the title.

@ginger-ham4800 Жыл бұрын

God, I *NEED* to know what model or toy they used for the T-Rex!

@Sxelo2 Жыл бұрын

This game is coming out in taito milestones 2 on the switch talk about perfect timing

@Godzilla00X Жыл бұрын

This would make a metal anime

@meg2249 Жыл бұрын

“ detached his elbow” and drew until his fingers practically stopped working!? Jeeze, I have never heard of such self destructive behavior for an animator!! Was/is that common in that industry??

@crossmirage Жыл бұрын

People get worked to the bone a lot , maybe not everyone had dislocated elbows but plenty almost certainly have suffered some form of injury

@Triad3Force Жыл бұрын

7:40 What that tongue doin Brac? O_O

@restionSerpentine Жыл бұрын

The Pachy sounds more like an elk

@baiwatch1 Жыл бұрын

Idk what’s funnier. Takatsuna Senba being fully aware of Barney when he animated this fat, purple, T. rex, or him being oblivious the whole time.

@billbull1JB-EH Жыл бұрын

Lmao, first time finding out about this game, the man has yet to talk about the game and im already laughing because of the obvious Barney reference one can make and the dorky visual aesthetic of the dinosaur fighter you play as in game 😂😂😂

@jeffsharp9416 Жыл бұрын

This game had a lot of potential too bad the developers didn't put any real effort into it this could have been one of the top best games of its time! They should try to remake this game with the modern CGI graphics we have today imagen how awesome a newer more updated version of this game would be like today?

@TylerRakstis Жыл бұрын

Where did you get the photos of the stop motion models for the dinosaurs? 8:55-9:10 Because I tried to look the up in a Google search, but couldn't find these exact photos.

@DinoDiego16 Жыл бұрын

I found them on an article on Internet Archive. web.archive.org/web/20070220044614/www6.ocn.ne.jp/~t-1008dx/drex.html

@TylerRakstis Жыл бұрын

@@DinoDiego16 Thank you.