DINOTRON!

[Cpt Kirks 2pay]

Just gimme a minute will ya? I WILL rule soon.

[DinoDeLaurentiis]

Tick-a-Tock...Tick-a-Tock...

[DinoDeLaurentiis]

Too bad for a the Uwe Boll, but it looks a like a the Burl, he's a back onna the top, no?

[silentbobafett]

DAMNI T DINO! YOU CAN RUN! BUT YOU CAN'T HIDE! I WANT MY INTERVIEW DAMN IT!

DINO & ME won't be complete with out it!

[Cpt Kirks 2pay]

Ahm cummin' to get Burl - and there's not a hotdamn thing that he can do about it.

Ahm cummin' to get Burl - I, I, I just wanted you to know that.

[DinoDeLaurentiis]

1. burlivesleftnut 2774410 0076
2. Arizona Risen 236490 0021
3. Arizona Risen 43460 0008
4. Ahm cummin' to get ya BURL!! 30410 0007
5. Yeah check my high score out!! 9610 0004
6. Ahm cummin' to get ya BURL!! 8900 0004
7. 8810 0004
8. 7900 0004
9. Noodles 2750 0002

Holy crappa Kirk, you gotta lot of a work ahead of a you, no?

[Cpt Kirks 2pay]

Yeah but all work and a no play makes Kirk a number one on a the board, no?
Yeah but all work and a no play makes Kirk a number one on a the board, no?
Yeah but all work and a no play makes Kirk a number one on a the board, no?
Yeah but all work and a no play makes Kirk a number one on a the board, no?
Yeah but all work and a no play makes Kirk a number one on a the board, no?
Yeah but all work and a no play makes Kirk a number one on a the board, no?
Yeah but all work and a no play makes Kirk a number one on a the board, no?
Yeah but all work and a no play makes Kirk a number one on a the board, no?

[Cpt Kirks 2pay]

Is it me Dino, or have you made Havoc easier to dodge?

[Cpt Kirks 2pay]

I hate this game! Even when I'm just practising, I stll get dragged into playing it for hours. DAMN MY FINGERTIPS ARE HURTING!!!!!

[DinoDeLaurentiis]

Is it me Dino, or have you made Havoc easier to dodge?

Hehehe... the game, she has a not a changed, eh? You must a just a be getting better, no?

[Cpt Kirks 2pay]

Well, I have been screaming and shouting at myself earlier on today trying to play it, but again, I wasn't in a mindset to go all those 70 levels for hours and hours of a marathon run so I weren't expecting to even beat Doc's poor score, but I still found that I could take out Havoc a lot easier than before. In fact, dodging and surviving the actual Bots themselves I found to be easier.

So... and I know you're never gonna read this Burl, but, just get ready for this Clubberlang to steal your Championship Belt away from you, Mr Rocky left nut.

[DinoDeLaurentiis]

Okay, so the mark of a the good producer is a to recognize ones foibles anna to learn from a the mistakes, no?

Anna upon a the reflection... the Dinotron, she's a not a the runaway success that was a the Dino Kong, eh? Anna so's a the Dino, he got a to thinking... why is it that a none of a you putzes are a playing the game, eh?

Perhaps it alla comes down a to release dates, no? Anna the release of a the Dinotron, she was a too close a to a the Zoner Quizmania, eh?

Or a perhaps a the game, she's a too complicated with a the left- anna right-handed controls, eh?

Or a perhaps a the game, she's a just a the no fun a to play, eh?

Or maybe it's a the combination of a the multiple factors, no?

Inna any event... the Dino, he would a like a to know what you liked anna dinna like about a the game, anna how we can avoid a the future box office disappointments, eh?

So come on, putzes... 'splain to a the Dino....

[Adam Balm]

Personally it was more fun for me to play than Dino Kong. So I don't think it was gameplay.

I blame Quizmania.

[Ribbons]

To be honest I liked it less than Dino Kong because it was harder...

[Flumm]

Personally it was more fun for me to play than Dino Kong. So I don't think it was gameplay.

I blame Quizmania.

Agreed, Zoner Quizmania was perhaps one Extravaganza too many...

Although I'm not sure I'd say D-Kong and D-Tron directly compare for me.

I actually reallly like the first few stages. Perhaps I am reading too much into it, but on first playing, I though the balance in the learning curve was subtley done. In that there's the obstacle putzes, that while undefeatable, further your co-ordination and newly found arrow-key skillz, while preparing you for the harder stages just around the corner.

Also the presentation is stronger than D-Kong, I really dug the arcade theme, the controllers, the score boards, all nice touches...


Personally, if I had to take a guess, I'd say perhaps that people are being discouraged by the enormously high scores.

Especially in comparrison to the two "halves" of the game.

I know, at one point, after those earlier stages, she kind of segways into the main deal, of the Havoc Vs The Kirk Vs The Pron, and that's the crux of the idea...

Yet, the skill-curve at this point (and I think there is one, as Kirk mentioned, finding your groove with the abundance of things on screen and such), but it's not so obvious, perhaps, and adds to the percieved dejection of all the peeps way up there in the scoring stratospheres.

Not that obvious is a good thing, but in a way, the achievements in gameplay are harder to register. Essentially, from that point, the game is over almost. Near enough 'tis like it's a the countdown untill it's done and dusted, and your just grabbing at points untill the game is over, waiting to see if you even made it do the scoreboard...

I don't know, maybe that isn't a bad thing.

Just observatin' as requested, Dino...


EDIT: Perhaps ia couple of more intermediary stage, maybe?

You know how the old arcade puzzle/scrollers would often steady escalate in difficulty of puzzles and foes...

One minute you're pushing one block here, jumping one putz there, shooting this putz there - there tends to be a graduation, and with each stage, a smaller sense of victory into the whole...

I 'spose also, that drip feeding of achievement, could be enforced a little more heavily at the end of round screens, maybe... instead of waiting to click through them, a little something to savour perhaps might help things along...

Ums.

That's all I gots, old man...

[The Todd]

Coming out at the same time as Quizmania definitely didn't help. But The Todd did try his hand at DinoTron and then Dino Kong. And The Todd has to admit that he prefers Dino King because it's easier to play. I feel like I have a chance to reach the high score board of Dino Kong, unlike DinoTron, where the high scores reached 7857439857348957483975893475 within the first few minutes of being up and running.

Why keep playing a game where the highest level I can get to is 11 when the high score list is populated with people in the 50s, 60s, and 70s? There's no fun in that.....

[Pacino86845]

You know in all the arcade games, the guy with the high score? It's always the same guy on every game, goes by "AAA". THAT WAS ME!!!! BWAHHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHA!!!

[DinoDeLaurentiis]

So... iffa the Dino, he understands a correctly, the Flumm's argument is a that a the game, she gets a too hard a too fast, anna the Todd, he says a 'cos of a the high scores, they are a so high, why even a bother to try, eh?

[The Todd]

So... iffa the Dino, he understands a correctly, the Flumm's argument is a that a the game, she gets a too hard a too fast, anna the Todd, he says a 'cos of a the high scores, they are a so high, why even a bother to try, eh?

Yes and yes.

And if you could throw some trivia questions in there that I know that answer to, but minstrel, LS, and KeepCoolButCare don't..... That would be awesome!

[vicious_bastard]

Sack your publicist, old man - I missed this completely. And who's this Havoc chap? Maybe I can help kick some life back into the game's already bloated, festering corpse and somehow get Burl beneath me.

Heheh. Nice work paisan. A splash of the grappa is all that's missing.

[DinoDeLaurentiis]

The Dino, he always a liked a you, eh paisan?

[Cpt Kirks 2pay]

I RRRROOOOOOOOOOOOLE!!!!!!!!

[DinoDeLaurentiis]

Bah!

The Dino, he says "BAH!"

Alla you goddamn putzes with a your little doodle pens anna scribbles... you donna know what it's a like a to pour a your heart anna goddamn soul inna'to a the game, eh?

You would a not know a the goddamn quality iffa it came uppa anna bit a you onna your studly anna pimply behinds!

::Consoles Dino.::

It's all right, man. I didn't vote for DINOTRON, but I was voting strategically on this category. And I made a donation the other day to your PayPal! Here's to your next masterpiece!

We need a more Zoners like a you paisan, hehehehe...

[papalazeru]

Bah!

The Dino, he says "BAH!"

Alla you goddamn putzes with a your little doodle pens anna scribbles... you donna know what it's a like a to pour a your heart anna goddamn soul inna'to a the game, eh?

You would a not know a the goddamn quality iffa it came uppa anna bit a you onna your studly anna pimply behinds!

::Consoles Dino.::

It's all right, man. I didn't vote for DINOTRON, but I was voting strategically on this category. And I made a donation the other day to your PayPal! Here's to your next masterpiece!

We need a more Zoners like a you paisan, hehehehe...

I know why you're pissed off...

You spent long and hard working on making a quality parody of one of the finest games of all time. All the elements were there; you had:

1) Great graphics
2) Great sound
3) Kirk
4) Havoc

You had a high score table that everyone on the zone could compete on and have fun and hours of wasted life on the zone. It was all going so well.........

Till a No0b turned up and said,

"Hey, Guess my film that I've drawn in 3 seconds with paint, then you have a go"


Somehow, all your hours seem wasted. Tangerine is Joker to your Batman. Such a simple plan to unravel your masterstroke of Zonie domination.

[Lord Voldemoo]

Not to rub it in or anything, though Papa...

besides. both games pale in comparison to Werewolves...

[Cpt Kirks 2pay]

I voted for Dinotron.

Gotta be better than that fucking Werewolf game.

[papalazeru]

Not to rub it in or anything, though...

I have no intention of rubbing it in considering I undeniably have a small penis...as has been proven in countless scientific studies.




(which I couldn't stop laughing about for days)

But then again Kirk should be one of my whores, or my ho's, or my bitches.

I wonder if he's got a better expression for what he would like to be called?

[Cpt Kirks 2pay]

Or your girls.

[Lord Voldemoo]

Not to rub it in or anything, though...

I have no intention of rubbing it in considering I 'mysteriously' had a small penis...or so it was written on one of my posts.




(which I couldn't stop laughing about for days)

HAHAHAHA, I saw that too...i swear it wasn't me.

I think it was probably Nick the admin.

[papalazeru]

Not to rub it in or anything, though...

I have no intention of rubbing it in considering I 'mysteriously' had a small penis...or so it was written on one of my posts.




(which I couldn't stop laughing about for days)

HAHAHAHA, I saw that too...i swear it wasn't me.

I think it was probably Nick the admin.

I know who it was and it was hilarious. I was expecting a 'certain someone' to comment after that post considering my 2 word answer. After a while I came back to it thinking that Dino might have posted something and then I found THAT!.

I couldn't be angry at such comedy.

[RaulMonkey]

Bad news, Kirk. The donation I made to DINOTRON? It was the fees I had saved up for my 2008 subscription to The Zone. I'm going to need more information about your variety of convenient payment plans.

And for those of you who may have missed it in Pacino's presentation to Dino of the DDL Lifetime Achievement Award...

Not to mention Dino's creations, The Zone's very own games. How many sites can lay claim to having their own games?

Dino Kong
Dinotron
<Announced Game> Dino's latest project that he was working on instead of trying to make Hannibal Rising a better film.

[papalazeru]

Bad news, Kirk. The donation I made to DINOTRON? It was the fees I had saved up for my 2008 subscription to The Zone. I'm going to need more information about your variety of convenient payment plans.

And for those of you who may have missed it in Pacino's presentation to Dino of the DDL Lifetime Achievement Award...

Not to mention Dino's creations, The Zone's very own games. How many sites can lay claim to having their own games?

Dino Kong
Dinotron
<Announced Game> Dino's latest project that he was working on instead of trying to make Hannibal Rising a better film.

Typical of old people. You give 'em everything you can....and they still bitch about how newbies get all the credit.

Someone buy Dino some cats, a hair net and a subscription to readers digest before the altzheimers sets in.

Poor thing, If only he knew he had altheimers, then he wouldn't have to worry about the altheimers.

[Zarles]

Big studly goose egg on my first try. Whoo!

[DinoDeLaurentiis]

<Announced Game> Dino's latest project that he was working on instead of trying to make Hannibal Rising a better film.

Yes, yes... it's a pretty much inna the can, eh? Anna I was a gonna to release it inna the early 2008. But only iffa you putzes are inna'tere$ted, eh?

Hehehehe...

[papalazeru]

[quote="Pacino86845" ]
<Announced Game> Dino's latest project that he was working on instead of trying to make Hannibal Rising a better film.

Yes, yes... it's a pretty much inna the can, eh? Anna I was a gonna to release it inna the early 2008. But only iffa you putzes are inna'tere$ted, eh?

Hehehehe...

[/quote]

Make the game Dino. Please.

I'm well up for another zoner game.

[DinoDeLaurentiis]

Make the game Dino. Please.

I'm well up for another zoner game.

Funny you should a mention that, eh paisan?

[papalazeru]

I won't say anymore more than.

I. Love. The. Dino.

[RaulMonkey]

Make the game Dino. Please.

I'm well up for another zoner game.

Funny you should a mention that, eh paisan?

Hooray!

The screenshot from the new game reminds of that Pipe Dream game from Lucasarts. Are you using that as an inspiration, Dino?

And I like what you've done with the IPAMPILASH site. In theory, it now acts as a Zoner recruitment tool, should any wandering gamers happen across it. I'm not sure I like the new backround for DINO KONG... it may just take some getting used to. But at least the original version is still up for us purists.

And BTW, all of the high scores on DINOTRON should have asterisks next to them, because they were achieved before the game was rejigged, were they not? I'd like to see burl get to Wave 76 in the current version.

[Pacino86845]

Hey Raul, we've been eagerly anticipating your Zone statistics project, what ever happened to that?

[DinoDeLaurentiis]

The screenshot from the new game reminds of that Pipe Dream game from Lucasarts. Are you using that as an inspiration, Dino?

Bah! Inspiration Schminspiration, eh? The Dino's new game, she is a NOTHING like a the goddamn Pipe a Dream, eh? That was a where a you hadda to connect alla the pipes a before a the water, she flows through, no?

Meh... the new game, she has a nothing to do with a the water flowing through a the pipes... she is a totally Zone-inna'spired, eh? What with a the transition to a the new forum software anna such...

[Bob Samonkey]

Hey Raul, we've been eagerly anticipating your Zone statistics project, what ever happened to that?

That just what I was wondering too!!

[Bob Samonkey]

The screenshot from the new game reminds of that Pipe Dream game from Lucasarts. Are you using that as an inspiration, Dino?

Bah! Inspiration Schminspiration, eh? The Dino's new game, she is a NOTHING like a the goddamn Pipe a Dream, eh? That was a where a you hadda to connect alla the pipes a before a the water, she flows through, no?

Meh... the new game, she has a nothing to do with a the water flowing through a the pipes... she is a totally Zone-inna'spired, eh? What with a the transition to a the new forum software anna such...

As it says merged at the bottom I figured we would be merging threads and keeping the Zone running...

[DinoDeLaurentiis]

As it says merged at the bottom I figured we would be merging threads and keeping the Zone running...

Only a the time, she will a tell, eh? Now iffa only I can a secure a the funding to complete a the project, hehehehe...

[RaulMonkey]

Hey Raul, we've been eagerly anticipating your Zone statistics project, what ever happened to that?

That just what I was wondering too!!

Yeah, thanks for your anticipation on this project. I finished my cataloguing on Feb. 1st, unfortunately coinciding with the start of one of the busiest times of my work year, and the loss of some staff. The grueling festival we put on extended past the first week of March, and I've since been the only person in our box office who knows what's going on and have had a lot of extra fires to put out. Our next show is expected to be extremely popular, so I fear a recurrence of what happened in February might be upon me, and I'm honestly worried about my mental health a little bit. I've been interrupted at least six times just writing this dinky little post, and that's with declaring myself to be on lunch and ignoring the phone. Aack!

But I don't consider Zone stuff to be a demand on my faculties in the same way work stuff is, so I'm going to go ahead and try to have my write-up done for a week from today, next Friday. I can't put a promise behind that ETA, but it is something that I want to have wrapped up, and the sooner the better since the information I pulled is becoming increasingly out-of-date.

[Wolfpack]

Ah, the link to this game is now dead. As is the link to Dino Kong. Is teh Dino to be swept under the rug for all eternity?

[so sorry]

Holy crappa!

[papalazeru]

Ah, the link to this game is now dead. As is the link to Dino Kong. Is teh Dino to be swept under the rug for all eternity?

Damn shame! I loved competing with Zoners for the top score.