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Flash Game: Dino Run

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

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If I had to choose THE best dinosaur related flash game to EVER be made (trust me, I haven’t played many), I would probably have to go with PixelJam’s Dino Run. This cute little side-scrolling platformer has an extremely simple gameplay concept - all you have to do is run away from the giant fiery tornado wall, in turn saving your species from extinction. Your little yellow velociraptor only neeeds your arrow keys to control him, up is jump, and left/right are to run in each direction.

One of the best parts of the game is the art style. It seems like every game these days has a pixelated look (which is not a bad thing, at all), but I feel like PixelJam pulls it off especially well with Dino Run. You really get a sense of speed and urgency with the quickly moving graphics. I don’t think that this game could have been pulled off if a different game company developed the game.

If you’re in the mood for some fast paced, indy dino running action, check out Dino Run, like now. You really won’t regret it.

What the heck IS Yoshi anyway?

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

We all know that Yoshi is a dinosaur, right? I mean, even his Wikipedia article states he is a “fictional Dinosaur”, but when I think of Yoshi, I don’t think of dinosaur, I think of just - Yoshi. It’s like over time, Yoshi has lost his Dinosaur image.

No, I retract that last statement. I don’t think that he was EVER a dinosaur to me. When I was a kid playing Super Mario World, I never said in my head, “I wish that I had a Yoshi Dinosaur to ride,” I always just said “I wish I had a real life Yoshi”. Like every other being in the Super Mario universe, he is his own thing.

You don’t call a Goomba a dog, or a Shy-Guy a hamster (save the Koopas, they’re turtles), you would call Yoshi a Yoshi.

Does this shortblog really make that much sense to you guys? Is Yoshi a dinosaur in your eyes, or will he alway be considered a part of the Yoshi species?