Disney's Dinosaur Activity Center

As you'd imagine, much of the film's personality is echoed here. You'll see the same moody prehistoric habitats, the same eye-popping dinosaur animations, the same stupid lemur jokes, and the same absence of scientific veracity. If you want a truly educational software program about dinosaurs, you'll have to look elsewhere (try the Magic School Bus or Dorling Kindersley CD-ROMs for true facts). With this program, you'll instead get loads of imagery, drama, and hypnotic games and activities rife with snarling Carnotaurs and Velociraptors.

There are five areas to explore in this CD-ROM: one cool puzzle-making activity that allows you to construct a dinosaur all the way down to its exact roar, one neat chesslike strategy game that pits carnivorous dinos against their vegetarian brethren, and three hypnotic games that don't offer much beyond compulsive multilevel arcade play. It's hard to figure out whom the ironic Dating Game-style "Lemur Love Match" is meant to appeal to, yet in all other cases, the games (no matter how basic) are so well stocked with massive, rumbling reptiles that any layman dinosaur fan is going to find them perfectly satisfying. (Ages 5 and older) --Jean Lenihan

Amazon.com Product Description
Enter a world ruled by the dinosaurs! Disney's Dinosaur Activity Center offers five multilevel activities that expand upon the film experience through arcade, creativity, logic, and strategy games. Featuring over 200 levels of gameplay, Disney's Dinosaur Activity Center challenges kids to match themselves against prehistoric beasts or even create their own dinosaur and e-mail it to a friend.

The software is easy to maneuver through and the Arcade-style games are both entertaining and challenging with some games offering up to 100 different levels!

I will agree that this game is a waste of money if you have an older system! We had several problems when we first bought the game, but have since updated our system and now have NO PROBLEMS at all!


Hours of Fun   December 26, 2001
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

My daughter is five and she loves this game. She first borrowed
it from the neighbor boy who is seven. I am embarrassed to say,
she played for four hours straight. She did not want to stop
even to eat. She has several other games she likes, such as
Adiboo, Barbie, Freddie the Fish, but this one realy holds her attention. Now I limit her computer time.


NOT ALL IT'S CRACKED UP TO BE   September 26, 2001
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

I AM DISAPPOINTED IN THIS GAME. THE GRAPHICS ARE NOT PART OF THE GAMES THEMSELVES,THEY ARE ONLY AT THE BEGINNING OF EACH SEGMENT.
BE AWARE THOUGH, THIS GAME TAKE UP ALOT OF SPACE FOR ANYONE WITH AN OLDER SYSTEM. THE ONLY PART MY 5 YEAR OLD SON ENJOYS IS THE DINOSAUR BUILDING GAME.


DISNEYS DINOSUAR ACTIVITY CENTER   June 20, 2000
JUDIANN A ECHEZABAL (USA)
24 out of 29 found this review helpful

FUN, EXCITING, EDUCATIONAL GAME, THE GRAPHICS ARE FANTASTIC,LOTS OF FUN FOR MY 8 YEAR OLD,