JonTron: "For all I know, DinoCity could have just crash landed in my backyard straight from space, because I've never heard of anyone owning it before or since."
Pixels or Death's Tom Auxier writes:
"1992 was also the unofficial start of an insidious trend, one that produced more terrible games than any other video game trend ever: “mascots with attitude”. Spawned by a worldwide attempt to copy video gaming’s coolest cat, Sonic the Hedgehog (a final explanation of the 90′s: Sonic the Hedgehog was considered beyond cool), and resulting in characters such as Aero the Acro-Bat and the imaginatively named Zool, a “gremlin ninja of the Nth dimension”, mascots with attitude games have one common MO: they suck. Most of them are dreck, while others submerge their heads in the pool of alright.
Few of them suck as badly as Dino City, though. But just look at that box art! It should be the video game equivalent of being thirteen in 1992, hanging out on a skateboard while your T-Rex friend (who didn’t want a T-Rex friend?) listens to The Lemonheads on headphones you only dreamed about your parents buying you. T-Rex had headphones, because T-Rex co...
