mewtwowarrior | Dinosaur King!

This is my first rambling about a certain topic. ^_^

I'm gonna talk about the arcade game Dinosaur King made by SEGA.

We discovered this little game at the Space Mountain arcade at the Magic Kingdom in Disney World in Florida.

It even has its own website. ^_^

The game system itself is small and orange.

It costs 75 cents to play.

Every time you play, you get a card!

You can use these cards to play the game. You scan it through a scanner on the machine.

There are three types of cards, Dinosaur Cards, Attack Cards, and Super Attack Cards.

Then, you have three buttons to push, Rock, Paper, and Scissors. ^_^

If you have a Dinosaur Card, you scan it to call a dinosaur. If you do not have a Dinosaur card, then you automatically get a Triceratops.

You can scan up to three Attack Cards. One for Rock, one for Paper, and one for Scissors.

The first time I played, I got an Attack Card, Tie Breaker.

I got all the way to the final boss, and lost. It looked like you had to play a lot and get good cards in order to win. XD

My Sister got a Dinosaur Card, Chasmosaurus. She used it and my Tie Breaker, but she didn't win either.

The second time we played, my Sister got another Dinosaur card, Tsintaosaurus. I got an Attack Card, Recovery.

The third time I played, I got an Attack Card, Quick Strike. I used Chasmosaurus, Recovery, and Quick Strike, and I managed to win! Yay! ^_^

My Sister played for several times afterwards, getting another Chasmosaurus, a shiny T-Rex looking dinosaur that was black with red-orange stripes, a blue-green dinosaur with a big mouth, and an Attack Card, Final Fury. She used the blue-green dinosaur, Recovery, Final Fury, and Tie Breaker, and she finally won. ^_^

The game is pretty simple, you hit Rock, Paper, or Scissors in order to attack your opponent. If you trump their attack, then you attack, if your attack is trumped by theirs, they attack, and if you tie, then you both take minor damage.

Then comes in the Attacks. If certain conditions are met, then you can use your Attacks for various sorts of extra attacks for more damage.

I'm not sure how the Special Attacks go, since we didn't get any of them.

The story is pretty simple, this kid named Max, his friend Rex, and this paleontologist guy go up against the Alpha Team, led by Dr. Z. I think the Alpha Team captured dinosaurs or something for their nefarious plans. You have to fight 3 minions of Dr. Z, then Dr. Z himself in order to win.

My favorite villian is Seth. He usually uses an Amargasaurus with Kamikaze Tackle and Haste. Though, I have seen him use a Giganotosaurus and an Irritator. Seth himself reminds me of a combination of Saix from Kingdom Hearts II and Kai from Beyblade. XD

What adds to the replayability of the game is that there are more than 3 minions, so they have different kinds of dinosaurs, and all the bad guys can swap up dinosaurs, so one guy might use T-Rex one round, and then next, an Ankylosaurus-looking one.

Even further is the range of dinosaurs and attacks you can use. You can use most basic attacks with any dinosaur, but even then, sometimes they're a little more effective with certain dinosaurs.

There's a huge variety of combinations of Attacks and Dinosaurs, and then the mixing up of the enemies and their dinosaurs, so it's hard to get bored.

75 cents is a great deal, considering you get a card every time.

The graphics are pretty awesome for the most part, some of the attacks looks a little weird, though.

I really hope that we can find the arcade game elsewhere, it was a lot of fun, and I look forward to getting more cards. ^_^

I have just found out that starting September 8th, on the 4Kids TV block on Fox, the Dinosaur King anime will start! Woot! I can't wait to see what it's like!

There's a small preview of it on the 4Kids website.

The Dinosaur King Wikipedia article has more good information about everything Dinosaur King. ^_^

I found two cool Japanese Dinosaur King websites:

http://kyoryu-king.com/

http://www.nagoyatv.com/kyoryu/index.sms

4Kids put up a section on Dinosaur King on their site. They also sometimes have the English episodes uploaded to their video section.

Someone on YouTube has posted Japanese episodes of Dinosaur King. Even though they have no subtitles, it's pretty easy to figure out what is going on.

Poster for the Dinosaur King arcade game.

SEGA's site for the arcade game, it has brochures and instruction manuals. XD