It was an undertaking to translate the original Turok: Dinosaur Hunter into an 8-bit handheld game, yet somehow developer Bits Managers managed to make an experience that very much felt like the N64 classic. But how does one adapt a game like Turok: Rage Wars, a piece of software built around fast-paced, twitch multi-player action into a Game…
We learned last May that Night Dive Studios was working on updating the classic N64 shooter Turok: Dinosaur Hunter to modern PC’s by giving it an HD facelift. Now it appears that NDS is not only resurrecting Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, but it’s sequel Turok 2: Seeds of Evil as well. While it’s nice that Turok 2 is getting a second lease at…
A year after Turok’s first outing on the original Game Boy, Acclaim launched not only the sequel to Turok: Dinosaur Hunter on the N64, Turok 2: Seeds of Evil, but also a game by the same name on Nintendo’s freshly released Game Boy Color. With a year to make a new game and more powerful hardware with colour…
What do you do with any video game you intend to spawn into a series after a breakout hit? Why you spin it off into a handheld title of course. In the 90’s this meant making a Game Boy game, which is exactly what Acclaim did when they released Turok: battle of the Bionosaurs in late 1997.…
After the demise of Acclaim, the Turok IP was picked up by Buena Vista Interactive who commissioned Propaganda with rebooting the series on the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 which was release in 2008. A proposed sequel was in the works, but was cancelled as Turok didn’t meet Buena Vista’s acceptable sales figures. Propaganda was moved to the video game…
Looks like someone else has been craving a little Acclaim lately other than myself. In an interview with Techraptor, Samuel Villarreal, a level designer on games like Aliens: Colonial Marines and FEAR: Perseus Mandate stated he had claimed the rights to the classic N64 FPS and had been rebuilding it for modern machines with the help of Night Dive studios…
Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion, the last Turok game that appeared on the N64, ended in a cliffhanger making it seem like a no-brainer that when Acclaim moved their marquis franchise to the sixth generation of consoles it would be a continutation of that story, but despite having the word “Evolution” as a subtitle, the fifth entry in…
The year 2000. It use to sound so futuristic, but it’s hard to believe it was fifteen years ago. From the amount of things that were happening in the video game industry at the time, it really did feel like the future though: The Dreamcast was in its second year of life and championing online…
Nintendo took quite a hit in the mid-to-late 90’s due in no large part to the popularity of Sony’s PlayStation: games were cheaper to manufacture on disc and therefore cheaper to sell through to the consumer, a lot of Nintendo faithful third-parties from the 8-16 bit era abandoned ship to Sony’s platform and it had…
Not to take away from the quality of Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, because as expressed in my review, I think it’s a pretty awesome game that doesn’t get enough credit. That being said, I firmly believe that a lot of its success came down to how excellently timed its release was: It came out when there…
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