The worst game of all time, (all time includes future video games).
Written: Jan 07 '07 (Updated Jan 07 '07)
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Pros: You can color a dinosaur
Cons: Who wants to color a dinosaur in a video game?
The Bottom Line: This game could be used for psychological warfare.
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| cobadee's Full Review: Color a Dinosaur for NES |
I've played some pretty awful games in my day. I've played some games that I thought nothing could surpass in suckiness. Many times have I given the “world's worst game” title, only to find a game that was worse. I have now stumbled upon a nearly unheard of Nintendo game that I can easily give the “Worst game ever made, (applies to games that come out in the future as well)” title.
And we thought that Snakes on a Plane was the first piece of entertainment that had an extremely self explanatory title. Well, Color a Dinosaur pretty much tells you everything about the game without even playing it. Do you know what you do in this magical game? You see that dino right there? Yeah, the one that has no color! Yes little Tommy, you're going to give that poor dinosaur some color.
Now lets talk about the technology that comes on this cartridge. Well, its no Photoshop CS2, but mighty close. Color a Dinosaur is equivalent to the paint bucket that is on Microsoft Paint. You have 10 colors or patterns you can choose from. The colors/patterns are: Red, baby blue, white, blue pokadot, red pokadot, purple pokadot, pink pokadot, blue vertical lines, red horizontal lines, and red bricks. With this limited selection, and ugly selection at that, there is really no way to make your dinosaur look cool. Sorry, this is no “Pimp My Dino.”
So here's how the game goes down. You start the game and soon see 16 poorly drawn dinosaurs. You have the choice of pterodactyl, T-rex, brontosaurus, stegosaurus, and some other dinosaurs that I don't know the names of. Once you get to the gameplay screen, you shall see a pencil on the screen. Pick which color you want and click the area you want to color of the dinosaur. The pencil does exactly what Paint's pain bucket does, so it colors in the whole area of the dinosaur that is closed in by lines. Paint's paint bucket is usually almost instantaneous. Well, color a dinosaur takes absolutely forever. It can seriously take up to twenty seconds for the cartridge to finish coloring that part of the dinosaur. Not only does it take forever, but it is an extremely buggy system. Sometimes the color will go outside of the dinosaur, sometimes color will just come in little blotches in the dinosaur, sometimes it will just color a small portion of the dinosaur that color. Its not like these glitches come up every once and a while, but literally every time you try to replace a color with another color. It is a game with very simple programming that should have been really easy to get right. The result of so little gameplay to the game is an absolutely worthless piece of junk.
Well, lets just say the graphics are poor on this. I am pretty much the worst drawing artist out there. I am the kind of person where people ask me what my drawings are, when I draw a smiley face. Though I may stink at drawing, I think that I could easily beat the people who drew these dinosaurs in a contest. It just looks like a poorly drawn dinosaur straight out of a dollar store coloring book with really pixelated edges. Yes, that's pretty much all you see in the game. The colors are really ugly making it impossible to make a cool looking dinosaur.
The sound isn't too bad in the game, luckily, because there really isn't a whole lot of sound in the game. Whilst coloring the dino, the game is silent, except the noise when you pick your color and pick where you want to place that color. They aren't very awful sounds, and putting music in the game would probably make it worse.
I try to be fair on kid's games and to take it from the kid's side. I really can't imagine any kid wanting to color the same dinosaur over and over again with 10 colors only to have their dino Rembrant gone when they turn off the system. No parent is going to hang a TV on the refrigerator and keep it and the NES turned on. The game has no redeeming qualities. It's a poor coloring book, with poor programming in an attempt to make the developers rich. Worst game of all time.
Recommended:
No
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