DinoCity

DinoCity
North American cover art
DeveloperIrem
PublisherIrem
PlatformSuper NES
Release
  • JP: July 17, 1992
  • NA: September 1992
  • EU: 1992
GenresAction, platform
ModesSingle-player, multiplayer

DinoCity is a 1992 platform video game developed and published by Irem Corporation for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

The game is loosely based on the 1991 made-for-television film Adventures in Dinosaur City, and borrows many of the film's characters, settings, and basic plot while providing its own unique art direction and style. Initially released in July 1992 in Japan, the game was later made available in North America the following September. The game centers on two friends, Timmy and Jamie, young children who are accidentally transported to a world resembling prehistoric Earth populated by anthropomorphic dinosaurs. While a device which will allow them to return home exists in this environment, a critical component has been stolen by Mr. Big, leader of a gang of Neanderthals known as The Rockeys, leaving the player to guide Timmy or Jamie to his castle to retrieve it. They are assisted by Rex, a Tyrannosaurus, and Tops, a Protoceratops, each with their own play-styles.