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Dino Eggs

Playing a time traveller, "Time Master Tim," the player's objective is to collect dinosaur eggs and rescue hatchling dinosaurs while avoiding snakes ("proto-snakes"), gigantic spiders ("proto-spiders"), flying…

31 December 1983

Dino Eggs is a platform developed by Micro Fun, released 31 December 1983 on Apple II, Commodore C64/128/MAX and DOS.

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What Dino Eggs is

Dino Eggs is a platform game developed by Micro Fun and released in 1983. It is available on Apple II, Commodore C64/128/MAX and DOS.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Playing a time traveller, "Time Master Tim," the player's objective is to collect dinosaur eggs and rescue hatchling dinosaurs while avoiding snakes ("proto-snakes"), gigantic spiders ("proto-spiders"), flying creatures ("proto-pedes"), and the dinosaurs' mother (or "Dino Mom"). Physical contact with any creature will cause the player to be contaminated, and the player will experience "devolution" into a prehistoric spider (as a result of "contamination"), and lose a life, unless the player returns to the "time warp" transport force field before a de-evolution timer runs out. Contamination also destroys eggs and hatchling dinosaurs on contact, reducing the player's score. While within the…
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Dino Eggs launched on 31 December 1983, within three weeks of The Witness, Chuckie Egg, Atic Atac and Zoo Keeper.

Released around the same time: The Witness, Chuckie Egg, Atic Atac, Zoo Keeper.

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When did Dino Eggs come out?
Dino Eggs was released on 31 December 1983 for Apple II, Commodore C64/128/MAX and DOS.

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