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>>13 (OP) 
I loved dinosaurs as a kid, and yeah I'm pretty sure it was Jurassic Park that kickstarted the trend. Here's a few dinosaur-related things I remember from back then:
>Microsoft Dinosaurs - interactive educational software, loved those things as a kid
>Walking With Dinosaurs - BBC documentary from 1999, entirely CGI, was mind blowing back then
>The Lost World on Playstation - first PS1 game I ever owned, never got very far because it was hard as balls, don't think I even got to the next playable dino. Go fuck yourself brachiosaurus stampede section
>Extreme Dinosaurs - I had the t-rex toy and it was badass, there was a cartoon but I don't really remember it, quick internet search tells me it looked a lot worse than the toys did

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>>15

Walking With Dinosaurs was a masterpiece and still is. Saw it when it first premiered in the US on the Discovery Channel back in '99


Dino Crisis was another favorite of mine

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>>16
>Dino Crisis
I never played much of the first one, but I played the shit out of Dino Crisis 2. Excellent game with a really cool setting, it's a shame they never made another one or so I choose to believe.
https://invidio.us/watch?v=_bQkbGD6RKQ

I also had pic related. It looked like shit and was clunky as fuck, but it had a weird charm to it.

My favorite toy was the Triceratops that I killed all my plastic army men with. It was actually kind of a dangerous toy for a kid since the horns were sharp enough to poke out an eye with.

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>>15
>Extreme Dinosaur Figures
>No Bullzeye
What kind of pleb took that picture?

>>15
I had a similar piece of software called Dinosaur Hunter, although you never hunted any dinosaurs. Instead you just walked around a museum learning about them. You could play a little game where you dug into the earth for dinosaur bones to rebuild their skeletons, and when you finished one the dinosaur would be brought back to life and start roaming the museum.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2grEe_FW24

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I used to have a big toy of the guy on the left.
>>15
I definitely remember Extreme Dinosaurs but never had any of the action figures.

>>276
*the right

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Does anyone else remember 3D Dinosaur Adventure?

>>285
Don't know that game but I do recall stumbling upon it on the internet archive, might download it and give it a try...
I've recently developed a soft spot for vintage CGI and old games / interactive programs with pre-rendered 3D backgrounds, which is what I presume 3DDA to be. You could tell the developers tried their best to make the interfaces as interesting and appealing as possible, always tempting the user to interact and explore, not like today's sterile-looking interfaces that are predicable at best and minimalistic to the point of unusability at worst.

>>302
You should. I got to experience a bunch of old DOS games in the same manner as you described. I just wish I still had my 3D glasses from the game they ended up tearing by the end of the '90s. I wore them for various other 3D games I played throughout the decade. lol

As I'm sure you're aware it's a bit dated and may come off as cheesy but still enjoyable especially if you're "developing a soft spot" for the genre.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LaJIczoYHE
There's a video displaying most if not all of the aspects from it.

The music from the game is a treat as well.

The Lost World was written in 1912, but there was a big resurgence in the 80s.  The 90s were definitely the height of it.

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>>304
So I downloaded the anniversary edition and played it a bit. There's not much in the way of 3D renders save for a few animation clips, but the dino illustrations are simply sublime. Pics related are my favorites.
There's not much in the way of gameplay either, but it's understandable for a purely educational game.

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>>324
Very nice, I'm glad that you got the chance to experience it.
Yeah, it's more of just educational software in the end with a small bit of 3D being a part of it for an attempt to draw kids in and make it "cool". Still nonetheless an interesting piece of DOS history.

I had all of the Knowledge Adventure DOS "games".

It's not just you. Buried in my house somewhere is an enormous book of dinosaurs from that time, each with a colored "realistic" artistic rendering of a dinosaur. It had comic strip sections on the history of paleontology ("Bone Wars"), and other things I've forgotten. Hundreds of pages long, could use it like a doorstopper. Anyone else remember this?

Anyone else seen that Dinosaur documentary with stop motion narrated by Christopher Reeve?

You got the name (or better, file) for that? Sounds like it could be fun.

>>3502
My family had several books on prehistoric life as a kid, but I don't think any matched that description. I did have a thick hardcover one that talked about paleontology and everything rather than just listing dinosaurs, but I don't remember much of it. It really didn't hold my attention. It was too wordy for my tastes back then. I wanted something that was mainly focused on illustrations. There was one part that I remember finding fascinating, and that was a picture of a lifelike reconstruction of a woolly mammoth that must have been taken from a museum. If it wasn't for that picture, I think I would have forgotten about the book entirely. I also remember having a thick book on astronomy or the planets that I found boring except for some speculative ideas on what life on other planets could hypothetically look like.

I think my favorite book dealing with dinosaurs was a softcover one that was just called Prehistoric Animals (or something along those lines). It went into the usual dinosaurs and everything but also included weird Proboscideans that interested me even more.

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>>3511
Do you remember the author's name? I can talk Anna's Archive for it if you do.

As for the book with the comic, I found a piece of it. Now where's the rest?

>>3519
>Do you remember the author's name? I can talk Anna's Archive for it if you do.
I honestly have no idea who wrote any of the books I mentioned.
>As for the book with the comic, I found a piece of it. Now where's the rest?
Hopefully you can track it down. That looks like it would have been something I would have preferred as a kid over the paleontology book I mentioned. It was a smart idea to use the comic strip format to hold the attention of retarded children. My household had this retelling of the Bible when I was younger, I and ended up reading it over and over:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfM1_BHO5QA

>>3504
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYe3r-wH_1s
The recording is VHS tier but I'm not sure if there's better quality anywhere anyway.
This began life entirely as the stop motion shorts and they were so impressive that an entire special was built around them.
This doc is also notable because I think this was the first time that the asteroid theory was used for a documentary about the Dinosaurs. Or movie in general for that matter.

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>>3520
Orbis Dinosaurs!, with a Dr. David Norman as a consultant.
https://archive.org/details/dinosaurs-001-tgmg/mode/2up?view=theater This is just a piece of it, but it has a comic with the exact artist and style at the end  about Iguanodon. Now I just have to find the original giant compiled edition, but even AA's looking at me blank. Where where where...

>visual Bible 
That would do it. I've seen some kid with an ActionBible graphic novel edition which looked good.


>>3521
Thank you for excavating that, anon. Another thing to put on the watchlist.

...Say, though, anyone know where I can find that one documentary on Prehistoric Sharks?
https://trakt.tv/shows/shark-week/seasons/1998/episodes/1 This thing. Grandpa taped it for me back then, had some of the funkiest shark designs I'd seen before or since.

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>>3522
> Dr. David Norman
That name definitely rings a bell. I'm pretty sure I've come across something from him in the past. I came across this book with his name on it, and I think there's a pretty decent chance I read this back in elementary school. I used to read stuff from this Eyewitness Books series from my school library, and a book on dinosaurs definitely would have been right up my alley.

At first I thought he might have done that hardcover book I mentioned, but none of the ones I've seen from him seem to match.

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>>3523
>Eyewitness
Oh no. Now it has to be posted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E0y5D5ab5c 1994! I remember that cute little clay dinosaur, as well as the brass section soundtrack.

 >Dr. Norman
https://annas-archive.gs/search?q=Dinosaurs%21+David+Norman He has plenty of entries, but none are the right one. Also, Dinosaurs! is seemingly a magazine, and what I had might've been a collection of the lot. By Orbis de Agostini Publishing Group. Where art thou, omnibus?

>>3524
https://annas-archive.gs/md5/7c43c8ca52d19b1f22b7692f93fdf2d0 I FOUND IT!

>The humongous book of dinosaurs 🔍
>New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1997

>“Describes all known dinosaurs from Abelisaurus to Zizhongosaurus, their world, and the scientists who study them. Includes special glasses for viewing the 3-D illustrations.

>>3524
Holy crap. That theme music has stuck with me for like 20 years now. All this time I've thought that it came from some Canadian documentary series I used to watch on PBS that I don't remember the name of.

The weird thing is that the only Eyewitness videos I ever remember seeing is one on gorillas I checked out once from the city library. Otherwise I just read the books. It wouldn't surprise me if I watched one or two other ones in class at some point though.

>>3526
Heh. And now you've found the whole series. Want to dive into it, and that book too?

I had no idea Martin Sheen was the narrator.

>>3521
Thanks for sharing this.  I actually remember watching this in school back in the late 80s.

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Surprised to see little mention of the Carnivores series or the Chased by DInosaurs/Sea Monsters mentioned. Shit was my jam as a kid. Also JPOG and Zoo Tycoon DIno Digs. I also had a shit ton of dino toys as a kid, like several bins full of them complimented my army men/assorted military stuff nicely. 

I kinda miss those early days back when I eagerly awaited the next episode of Walking With Dinosaurs on my grandparents shitty kitchen tv during summer vaction eating homemade cookies or rushing home from school to watch Prehistoric Planet.

>>3556
You know, I wonder, how hard would it be to get an educational tv stream from the retro period up?

>>3566
For cytube, no more difficult than any other stream there to set up. And if all your content is on YT, then it's even easier, since G*ogle handles all the content hosting.
>t. would watch'r

>>3568
Any specific requests?

>>3569
>Any specific requests?
Something like James Burkes 'Connections' (or one of his other, similar series) would be my pick. But obviously that's off-topic ITT since it's general, not dinosaur'y.

>>3573
Wayback archives:
https://archive.org/details/ConnectionsByJamesBurke

>>3574
Possibly better-quality:
https://concen.org/content/james-burke-connections-1-3-day-universe-changed

>>3575
That might be worth a look on its own. 
Though Sea Monsters might be appropriate to this thread.

>>3574
This show sounds interesting. I might have to give it a watch.

>>3585
Oh I love that show. It's a good watch.

Bit of a longshot, but there was a short cartoon with dinosaurs I recall watching a lot as a kid, but I can't remember the name of it.  It wasn't part of a series; more the kind of thing you'd get in a plastic VHS box and watch repeatedly.

I remember two teenage brothers talking to each other while raking leaves, and as they talked about dinosaurs the camera panned up to the sky.  There was a NASA space shuttle being launched up, and I think there was some kind of fade in to dinosaurs.  Maybe some kind of battle, or dinosaurs in space?  The details are fuzzy to me, but I distinctly recall the NASA space shuttle and the leaves.

>>3596
Sounds like a one-of-a-kind. Do you remember the artstyle?

>>3524
>that intro
Hits like a freight train.  Thanks for reminding me of a time when I could learn stuff by watching TV.

>>3597
It was very American cartoon-looking.  The character proportions reminded me of Captain Planet or the X-Men.  The boys raking leaves looked like standard white American boys in the 90s, and I think they may have been sitting in the back of a pickup truck at one point.

>>3617
My pleasure, anon. Looks like the whole series is on there for free if you want to bask and brush up on things.

>X-Men
I know what you mean. But are you sure it's not part of a series from back then or earlier? Weren't there dinosaue-themed action cartoons?

>>3619
I'm sure it wasn't part of an action or Saturday morning cartoon series.  I remember it being a one-off cartoon, perhaps something to do with the premise "what if Dinosaurs had lived into the present day and had modern technology?"  I think that's where the NASA space shuttle came in, since it was a symbol of scientific progress at the time.