Nanosaur is a science fictionthird person shootervideo game developed by Pangea Software and published by Ideas From the Deep for Mac OS 9 and Microsoft Windows. The player takes on the form of a Nanosaur, a genetically engineered intelligent dinosaur from the future, sent back in time just prior to the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event.
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Story[edit]
The Nanosaur encounters a Stegosaurus during the first visit to the jungle area. None of the five eggs needed, nor any additional jetpack fuel, have been collected, and 19 minutes and 28 seconds remain in the game.
In the distant year of 4122, a dinosaur species, Nanosaurs, rule the Earth. Their civilization originated from a group of human scientists who experimented with genetic engineering. Their experimentation led them to resurrect the extinct dinosaur species; however, their victory was short lived, as a disastrous plague brought the end of their civilization itself. The few dinosaurs resurrected were lent an unusual amount of intelligence from their human creators, leaving them to expand on their growing civilization. However, as the Nanosaurs were the only species on Earth, inbreeding was the only possible choice of reproduction. This method largely affected the intelligence of the various offspring, and slowly began to pose a threat to their once-intelligent society.
The Nanosaur government offers a quest that involves time traveling into the year 65 million BC, where the five eggs of ancient dinosaur species must be retrieved and placed in a time portal leading to the present year. Their high-ranking agent, a brown Deinonychus Nanosaur, is chosen to participate in this mission. On the day of her mission, she is teleported to the past via a time machine in a Nanosaur laboratory.
The Nanosaur arrives in a lush jungle, with twenty minutes given to collect the eggs before the meteor that caused the initial extinction of the dinosaur race hits the Earth. After battling various Tyrannosaurus rex's, the Nanosaur enters a volcanic crater, where she must cross several stone formations in a river of lava in order to retrieve the eggs. After making her way across the river, the Nanosaur detects the final eggs in a canyonoasis, where various dinosaurs, namely Dilophosaurus and Stegosaurus, are attempting to hinder her progress in order to protect their eggs. After evading defeat, the Nanosaur beams the final egg into the time portal, and is carried along with it back to the present.
Following the completion of the Nanosaur's mission, the eggs are placed in nationwide laboratories, where the scientists intend on breeding them for their own purposes. Several months following this event, the eggs finally start to hatch.
Gameplay[edit]
The object of the game is to collect the eggs of five dinosaur and flying reptile species and deposit them in time portals to the future in twenty minutes; at the end of the countdown, the asteroid that caused the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event hits Earth. The Nanosaur is equipped with a 'fusion blaster' (a basic multi-purpose energy weapon), a jet pack allowing flight, a temporal compass for locating time portals, and a GPS locator for navigation.
The native animals will attack the Nanosaur when their eggs are threatened; species encountered include Tyrannosaurus rex, Stegosaurus, Triceratops, Dilophosaurus (who spits venom as in Jurassic Park), and the flying reptile Pteranodon. As well as hostile creatures, the Nanosaur must also avoid water and lava, environmental hazards which slow the player down (or kill it).
Legacy[edit]
The game was being ported to Linux by Three Axis Interactive, but the port was never completed.[2] Around 2003 the source code of the game was made available by the developer under a restrictive license.[3]
Nanosaur Extreme is another version of Nanosaur, released at a later time with heftier system requirements. It has many more enemies and weapons than Nanosaur, and it is described on the Nanosaur downloads page as 'what Nanosaur was meant to be - a total kill-fest'.
Nanosaur 2: Hatchling, a continuation of the original Nanosaur storyline, was released in March 2004 Nanosaur 2 is the first stereoscopic game released for the Mac.[4]
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Retrieved from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nanosaur&oldid=907581226'
notsoOKcorral:
I need help. I have been thinking about this old computer game I played (c. early 2000's, although the game had been around longer), [it was on a Mac(I know..), when they were colorful and as big as commercial air filters], and it has popped in and out of my mind for years but I am now determined to find it, or so help me god, I will not sleep tonight. The game was a bird's eye view RPG. You chose a team of MAX 4 characters and they could be human, feline, or reptile. It was medieval, melee, magic-related game.. with portals. I tried Google search to no avail. If anyone has a clue.. I'd be happy.
Human, Nephilim, Slithzerikai. Most certainly one of the excellent Spiderweb Software RPGs, either Exile series or Avernum series. Both deal with caves and portals and prisoners and the like. For nostalgia sake, my favorite was Exile II: Crystal Souls, but for some refinement to the game engine try Avernum 6 or Escape from the Pit.
If it's Exile you're after, running them can be a little tricky, they were never ported to Intel Mac, so you need a pre intel machine, a sheepshaver emulation environment (tricky to set up), or a machine running Windows XP. If you're looking for Avernum, lucky you, they're available for mac and pc, and the newest two (6 and Escape from the Pit) are available on iPad/Android.
Tiffany Pennycoff:
Hi there's this game I used to play on my pc in early 2000s I downloaded it for free off the internet. It starts out with the earth being created and a tribe of cavepeople then you have to build homes and jobs for them an army and the tribe progresses over time and you can cause these disasters to happen to them to see how they adapt like volcanoes earthquakes famine or kill them off and start over sometimes they kill themselves by their own technology the whole time playing like your God watching with an over head view them living on the earth
sounds like sim city 2000 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjiwVFG4Am4
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What version of Sim City 2000 did you have, with the earth being created and a tribe of cave people and sims killing themselves with their own technology?
The game she's looking for is most likely Black & White, a god sim from Lionhead Studios.
Bethany DiMiceli:
I've been looking for one for absolute ages! I played it on a very, very old PC when I was still a very small me. The main interface was actually an explorer's journal, you flipped through the pages and completed puzzles on them.. Some of the puzzles I remember were putting together an old flying machine out of various parts like a puzzle, guiding a caterpillar through a maze so it could chew a code in to a leaf, collecting various pictures like a hermit crab out of its shell (it had been living inside of a tape recorder, which you needed to record the voice of a parrot), playing solitaire in a dark cave to retrieve a set of gems, building a paddleboat and sailing it down the river avoiding arrows, and numerous others. I swear there were two games I had from the same series, and one of them focused on helping a small lizard escape from an island. The whole time, you were guided by the voice of the male explorer whose journal you were working in. Jcreator le 4.5 download. I NEED to find this game! I've lost sleep over this thing!
-Beth
That's going waaaaay back, but don't lose any more sleep over it, the game you're looking for is Uncle Albert's Mysterious Island! You are correct in that there are two in the series, the other being 'Fantastic Voyage' (there is a third..magic album, but it's for younger kids, not the same as the other two). It'll be tough to play though, buggy in XP, you'll need to get a copy of windows 95 or 98 running to play it with all the video cutscenes. Enjoy!
There were others in this thread I know, but I don't want to reply to years old posts, or read 300 pages to see if someone answered before me, if people are still stuck, I've got a pretty good handle on old school games (and by old school I don't mean '2004' like some of you tikes)
Anyway, here's mine..
1. I cannot remember what system it was on, either a Mac Performa or PC. (leaning towards mac, but not certain) 2. Year would be anywhere from 1991 to 1996 3. More than likely some kind of shareware app, bundle app, or demo. 4. Game story was 'vaguely' that you're some kind of elf and a wizard is evil, needs to be beaten..might have had something to do with avenging family/people 5. Gameplay is the top down view of a grid. You have a starting location, and you can click on any of the tiles around your location to see what event triggers (you are not an actual player character on the board, you just click tiles.the fact that you are an elf is apparently for your own internal role playing purposes) 6. Tiles have some event attached, could be an item, enemy, etc, but mostly, you're looking to get swords (which up your attack power) or wands (which ups your magic power?) or shield things (defense?) There may have been other items, I'm not sure. 7. The game is randomly generated every time, and you can run into the wizard after 20 moves (or something like that). The object is thus to gather enough attack and defense power and save enough hit points to defeat the wizard after you find him on the board.
Some other things I remember, this game was HARD (at least for little me), I only survived to the wizard once or twice, and he always killed me. The random generator was VERY random..some games you get your attack power pumped right away, others would see you face 3 hard monsters in a row, wiping you instantly.
What I can't remember is whether this was a game I played at home (so PC) or a game I played at school in computer lab (mac). This was pre internets, when I was playing any game I could get my hands on (I spent hours playing the mini games included in the damn Encarta Encyclopedia 95 disks that every Compaq ever came with..)
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