Eyewitness Dinosaur Hunter - The Scary 90s Educational Game
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- Опубліковано 24 лис 2024
- Eyewitness Dinosaur Hunter is a 1996 point-and-click educational game set inside a dinosaur museum. This interactive learning adventure lets you bring long-extinct creatures back to life. Follow in the footsteps of famous paleontologists, travel the world in search of fossils, and even dig up and assemble your own animated dinosaurs. Explore the Eyewitness museum to discover 3D models, interactive exhibits, animations and videos.
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I was the lead designer on this game. Probably one of the happiest times of my life. Reading the comments really made me happy that I’d made a difference to so many kids. I wish we’d put a hidden team screen but we had no time in the end. Here’s to the team. Darren, Duncan, Ben I wish I could remember all your names but you know who you are. Shaun Adams
Awesome!
Because it's rare to thank someone for being a part of your childhood I'd like to take the time and give you a big fat thank you 😊
This along with Bill Nye on a Friday was the shit (in a good way) to a little kid 😂
Thanks for scaring the living daylights out of me as a 4 year old 😅. Jokes aside this game holds a lot of nostalgia for me, the sound, atmosphere and the visuals took me to another world. ❤
Oh my goodness as someone who played this and was an aspiring palaeontologist (was not meant to be 😢) from an early age I want to thank you so much ❤
Thank you for making part of my Childhood.
If you complete the excavation minigame the dinasours come to life and roam the museum.
And you could randomly encounter them later, just roaming
That was the thing that terrified me.
After bringing one dinosaur to life, for some reason I had a frightening vision that the moment I rounded the corner, that dinosaur would be there and eat me.
Young me was a dumb dumb, but just goes to show how unintentionally scary this game was.
Some say that Dilophosaur is still trying to catch that Hetrodontosaurus.
@@minicle426no need! He already had the nerd menu from jurassic park. We wont miss you dennis, rest on a dinner plate!
I knew I wasn't hallucinating! I remember being absolutely scared of these!
What's even cooler is that I strongly believe this was an inspiration for Sagan Hawkes' fictional dinosaur horror game Escape Triassic Hall, which was the subject of a masterpiece of an unfiction film on his channel just recently.
Just came from there 😂
People were disappointed to find out that wasn't an actual game, and I pointed them in the direction of this as a substitute.
It's not real?!
Lol I'm here from that video too lol
@@AlliroG98 remember his dream and the secret ending?
There the same =|
Who else completed the fossil game, watched them come to life and roam the dark halls and corners of the museum?
I played it endlessly as a kid inspired to become a Paleontologist.
Nostalgia Achieved! 🌟
Scared the crap out of me when you'd walk down the corridor and a trex would randomly charge past you
Fuck yes! God that was awesome
@@Blackhawk19892
Kind of wished there was more than 6 Dinos.
(raises hand)
I spent ages trying to get DK to put Dinosaur Hunter on newer versions of Windows but couldn't get any joy. It was, is, a wonderful thing. The visuals, animal sounds, music and shop were all amazing. Really wish it was downloadable.
omg that Eyewitness music brought back so many memories
It ressurected some long buried tunes in me. God damn did I forget some of these gems.
TierZoo uses this theme for his channel.
Same here, it gave me chills man, I had forgot about it totally.
Gh
The Eyewitness opening theme is one of the best ever.
Don’t click on the etchings in the walls, worst mistake of my life
The moon eventually burns bright
What happened?
@@Blue_snapdragons A video called No one can find this "creepy" dinosaur game...
@@FelixCattus huh wait, I thought that one was a fake one and this one was real?
@@Blue_snapdragonsyou're right. That one was fake.
I absolutely loved this game and thank god the algorithm showed me that I wasn't the only one today. I came to this game late. I was born in 2001 and probably picked this game up when I was maybe 6 years old. My grandparents lived in a town 45 minutes away but we were all very close so I would sleep over at their house maybe every other weekend. Since we were in the same county, many times I would take library books out of their branch and then return them at mine when they were due. One of them was a GIANT DK dinosaur encyclopedia. It was like the eyewitness one but bulking, on steroids, and he just ate 2 other eyewitness books. I got it out every time. Eventually I noticed there was a CD in the back of the book. We put it in the computer and it was this game. The time came to return the book, so the book (and CD) were returned. But to my little child brain's wonder, the game did not run off the CD, but it was installed thru the CD and did not require the disc to boot. So I played this game without end. I vividly remember one specific entrance into the arena having the T-Rex jumpscare roar at your face, so I avoided said entrance at all costs. One day I wasn't paying attention and entered thru that door. and man let me tell you. There weren't many more times in my childhood where I cried as hard and long as I did then.
dw! i was born is 05 and was way too young to play this properly so i ended up returning it to the library
ngl the idea of a modern game with an actual dinosaur roaming the halls trying to kill you would be pretty cool, and a rouglite element of delving deep underground to uncover bones i would buy that.
Reminds me of that old but terrifying horror game about dinosaurs roaming a trench in WW1 - 1916, it was called.
@@mrviking2mcall212 Oh I love that game, always wished they got a bigger budget to really flesh out that idea. Metal Robotic Dinos in WW1 Trenches
Dino Crisis meets Indiana Jones?🤔
Maaaan, winding up in the Labyrinth levels of Nethack unprepared felt like that, lol. The Minotaur felt like a real predator when you were unprepared, just gunning for you, ruthlessly.
But there's plenty of folks who will argue that the first horror game WAS about being chased by a dinosaur- aka 3D Monster Maze
I have trust issues with these things after Triassic hall
I miss games like this being our first experience of a multimedia pc. Sat in the corner of the living room with the massive wooden computer desk with all the floppy/cd rom slots on the shelves, looking at that 'massive' 17" crt monitor your parents paid extra for, listening to the hard disk clacking away and the cd rom spinning really loudly in that big grey box of wonder. How much of a fanfare it was to dial into the internet and what adventures it will take you on.
Now? Tiktok, facebook, youtube, phub. All on a 7 inch phone screen
I used to have this game on my dad's pc and only played it once because that part with the close up view of the Tyrannosaurus skeleton scared me really badly. Since then I always thought I was just over reacting but seeing it again now as an adult with its freaky lighting and ambiance I can see why I found it so frightening as a small child.
Massive nostalgia hearing that opening theme song. Also, I find it incredible that in less than 20yrs we went from these static-snapshot "3D" prerendered environments (which took the best SGi hardware of the era many hours to render each single frame!) to realtime, true-VR 3D games that look better and move at 100+fps. Of course we seem to have hit a huge plateau the last decade or so, but still.
Apparently, everybody who played this during their childhood wanted to become a paleontologist (myself included). Jurassic Park was my fav movie.
Are you also me?
I am from Russia, and as a child I loved encyclopedias and films about dinosaurs very much. I don't remember how I got the CD with this game, but I was very fascinated by it. Unfortunately, the disc is lost, and in a fit of nostalgia, I decided to find it on the Internet, I found out the name only with the help of this video. Now I have found the game file, I will try to install it on Windows 10, I hope it will work. As for the game itself, it goes through some puzzles, I just listened to lectures, but I did not understand what kind of elevator was in the central hall, above the place of the scanner. Thanks to the developers for the childhood!
У меня до сих пор на полке стоит. :) Одна из немногих вещей, которые шли на моём первом канплюхтере без тормозов.
whered you download it? ive been wanting to play it but i dont want to pay or get it off a sketchy site 😭
I was actually searching for an entirely different old dinosaur game that I remembered from my childhood but somehow I ended up here and god, that is some nostalgia right there. Even though that place is tiny compared to what I thought was an enormous maze as a child, the second the music started and that weird excavation game didn't work *again* and the nice lady explained things that I couldn't read at the time since I was like, 5, it all came back to me xD
Did anyone else wish this was an actual real life museum you could go to?
Me for sure
I live in Arizona and there is (or was, idk if it closed down) a really badass dinosaur museum that my grandparents took me to several times with animatronics and models of dinosaurs hung from the ceiling like they're flying or you're underwater. There was a section where there was some real life caimans or some small crocodilian and jungle ambience, it was really cool.
I miss the days of pre-rendered point-and-click games. There was always something special about them to me.
Same. They seriously need to make a massive comeback
Even just educational games in general. The kind that really go deep into the science and don’t talk down to kids.
It's called being nostalgic 😂
@@JobForAMaxboyGlad you learned a new word. My word of the day is "Mullion."
I played the crap out of this when I was a kid. Loved every second of it. Great review sir.
Thanks for making this, Human!! As a child I absolutely loved everything DK put out. Being a kid, I took it for granted that they always produced so much awesome media of such exceptional quality aimed at children. As an adult, I can see the passion and care that went into making this. They really could’ve phoned it in, but they made something special instead. The volume of information and sheer number of unique animations tell me that these people really cared about what they were making. It’s been years, but immediately I was humming right along with that intro music like I heard it yesterday.
Also, that Dino stationary was a pleasant surprise! I remember having tons of sheets of this in full color. I think DK must have sold it apart from the game, because I sure had a lot of it.
Thanks for the wonderful video, I always drop whatever I’m doing to see a new upload from you!
Keep a damn diary
@@CSM100MK2 have a wank you negative nelly
I am so glad the algorithm brought me here. I haven't thought about this game in so long, but it made my childhood. I remember playing it around 2000 or so, and it scared me. The atmosphere was so dark and gritty for a kids' museum tour, and completing the fossil minigame and having random encounters with the dinosaurs as you roamed the halls was so exhilarating! It got me deep into paleontology to the point that my favorite book was an encyclopedia of prehistoric animals (it included dinosaurs, but also had animals from the Paleozoic and Cenozoic).
Though ended up choosing a different STEM field as my major, I can only hope that future generations receive an experience that introduces them to scientific topics in a way that was as entertaining as Eyewitness.
This game was a huge part of my childhood. I absolutely loved it. Being able to put several dinosaurs back together and resurrect them back to life was so much fun.
Stuff like this was amazing back in the day. I lived in the middle of nowhere and couldn't even afford visiting any kind of museum. So when my parents managed to somehow get a few encyclopedia presentations like these, I felt like I was on a journey or quest. I most fondly remember two. One dinosaur themed, and one space themed. The second one introduced me to the majesty of the universe and was one of the most majestic things I saw when I was a kid.
Prerendered 90’s 3D graphics is my favorite CG aesthetic.
I wish there was a modern game that looked like this.
I received this game as a birthday gift from my grandparents for like my 7th birthday or something and I swear I was NEVER able to get it to run on any of the computers we owned, there was always some kind of error every time I tried where it would never let me past the opening narration before crashing so I never got to play this game. Now after having this pop up in my recommended videos I can experience it by proxy all these years later, thanks mate.
Funnily enough, this game never made me feel scared or even a little bit uneasy as a small child. I was obsessed with it, and played it over and over, convinced that the game was filled with so much hidden depth and had so many secrets to discover. I just did not believe what you saw on the surface was the entire game! I was like, there HAS to be something more. I guess not. Never did find any secrets. :(
Escape triassic hall is like the scary dlc version of this game
Someone needs to make it
Was reminded of the name of this thanks to that fake dino game vid. Shame you couldn't get the excavation game to work, I liked finding all the spots the released dinos were roaming around.
That music at the beginning gave me chills man.
So cool.
I used to play this !
This game had such an adventurous exciting feeling back then as a kid. I only had very vague memories of it but seeing it again now the vivid memories come back. Some of the dinosaur pictures (I specifically remember the Giganotosaurus picture) were the same as in a dinosaur book I remember reading a LOT as a kid and taking a lot of my dinosaur knowledge from.
There was also a second CD where you could walk around in various 3D landscapes with dinosaurs.
That intro also gave me a nostalgia flash with the music.
Had a sudden flashback to this game from when I was about 6, that I thought was the coolest thing ever invented, spending hours getting sucked into the atmosphere, but couldn’t remember the name. I just searched “dinosaur fossil museum game from the 90s” and this is exactly that! The memory is as fresh as a daisy. I couldn’t quite figure out how to do the fossil game …
Thanks for this nostalgia trip!
This really was an Escape from Triassic Hall
I can never get enough of that eyewitness music.
I loved this as a kid, getting all those fossils built and having dinosaurs all over the museum is a core childhood memory. I think this game is primarily responsible for my love of the crunchy 90s PC vibe - especially where museums and tribal theming is concerned.
Gg
I remember going to the Royal Tyrrell Museum in 2018 and they still had computer kiosks set up to allow kids to play Microsoft Dinosaurs, a similar piece of edutainment software from 1993, despite the fact that all these titles are now factually out of date. We really need a modern equivalent.
I remember playing this game with my sis on our old computer when we were little kids . The dinosaurs were so terrifying and awesome when I was a little kid. I hope to replay this game one day .
I was literally just watching your vids. Great to see something new!
That intro had me reeling, if you can go into shock from nostalgic memories I think that was the closest I ever got!
I would LOVE to see a modern take on Eyewitness stuff. Just imagine that intro done with modern tech.
I’m guessing they can reboot the show and show it on either streaming services (I’m guessing Netflix, Disney+, or Apple TV+) or as a UA-cam series. Also, would like to see their take on mixed media in the reboot like in the OG series (a combination of live action, CGI, stop motion, 2D animation, and animatronics).
Holy shit I haven't seen footage of 3D Dinosaur Adventure in over 20 years. I used to play the shit out of that game as a kid. Thanks for reminding me of the name and giving me a nostalgia trip. This channel remains my favorite when it comes to old PC 90's content. Keep it up! :)
You mean _Dinosaur Adventure 3D,_ right?
I also had 3D dinosaur adventure and always would be playing that and the Eyewitness dinosaur hunter on the family computer. the game where you had to save the dinosaurs before extinction were like my time trials of the 90s and i probably had those “movies” they put in memorized
Eyewitness Dinosaur was my favorite of the Tv specials as a kid. Second only to Sharks.
Imagine a modern equivalent of this game but with state of the art VR and the up-to-date science on par with shows like Prehistoric Planet.
dude i forgot about this game rented it from the library and had so much fun with it!
definitely was made during the Jurassic Park era where people weren't worried about showing dinosaurs being real animals that also can be very terrifying.
This game was a key part of my childhood and a core memory. I remember playing it for hours on hours as a kid, never getting tired of all the mini games and exploring the museum hoping to see dinosaurs I'd brought back roaming the halls.
I also have fond memories of the Walking With Dinosaurs game that let you just explore a set Mesozoic scene.
Thanks very much for sharing this mate. I do feel strongly that DK should upload all there ol PC games on their website for free so that people and especially children and play around with these old games.
That 1993 3D Dinosaur Adventure was one of my most beloved and most feared CDs. It also had a Human Body companion CD that was maybe even scarier to 10 year old me.
Honestly I don’t remember having all that much trouble with the excavation sequences as a kid, but if I tracked it down as an adult and got it running I suspect it’d be a different story. Nostalgia comes for us all. (Then again Heterodontosaurus could be particularly tricky. Arm bones and teeth.)
Since you didn’t resurrect one of the dinos to demonstrate beyond that joking Dark Souls jumpscare, I’ll add that once you did manage it they would in fact roam around the museum and you could sometimes see a cutscene of one walking by when you entered a particular room. They’d leave you alone, but it always startled me even when I got a bit older and noticed they only appeared in specific spots. Dilophosaurus in particular spooked me, as I recall.
But yeah, even with (or because of) the slightly ominous vibes of the museum, it was one of my favorite games for a long time. I appreciate your observations about how cool it was as a kid, because that was my experience as well. I would definitely go for a remake in VR with the paleontology updated - as one commenter said, the field has definitely moved on in the decades since, but you can’t fault DK for not knowing the future - and from what I recall it was pretty up-to-date with its research for 1996. (Actually, what would be really cool would be a release that updates all the science and such but keeps the mood and as many of the original exhibits and interactive bits as possible, albeit updated so that Iguanodon hand is now a breakdown of how its fingers form a hoof or the coelurosaurs all sporting feathers, and then there’s a second mode that’s the original in all its 5.2 MB of glory, itself turned into an exhibit in how our understanding has changed in this time.)
Hej
Anyone else here from escape Triassic hall?
More like Sagan Hawkes' video about it, but yes.
hoi
Rasise hand ✋️
A blessing from the algorithm
No. I was here long before that.
This reminds me of that lost media dinosaur pc game. The video is covered by Sagan Hawkes 😅 it's pretty interesting, y'all should look it up..
That game was fake, it even is stated at the end of his video
@minecad2828 Oh, I know, I just didn't want to spoil it. Lol
@@FamousAaron99 Oh, alright
So great to see another ARealHuman upload!
Dude my grandparents used to have a stack of these educational games and they hold a special place in my heart ❤️ growing up throughout the entire 90's was such a trip to experience. There was so many Fever Dream like experiences, creations, and multimedia projects 👍🏼
I just got my PhD studying dinosaur eggs. This game more than Jurassic Park or Walking with Dinosaurs sparked that interest. Brilliant looking back to see how excellent this really was. No dumbing down, interactive, it is startling similar to the Dueling Dinosaurs exhibit we just built in Raleigh’s NCMNS!
I remember playing this game as a kid in the 1990s; got it along with the book. The theme music is sp catchy, I still whistle it today.
Man, UA-cam’s been killing it with recommending me amazing small channels lately. This was really fascinating!!
This was a blast from the past, I had this as a kid and played it a ton!
Omg, I remember playing 3D Dinosaur adventure as well. It was amazing!
Growing up out in the sticks in the 90s, these were staples of entertainment for me. Along with The Magic School Bus series
I can't remember how many years I've been looking for this game and the intro music that accompanied it. It's been stuck at the back of my mind for so long and every now and then I got flashes of it but still couldn't remember, but then I stumbled upon your video. Thank you. 😂
This game scared the crap out of ne at 19 years old even more so than DOOM but my god I loved it, so immersive and well put together, it was ahead of its time.
Thay intro music was MY CHILDHOOD. I can't even describe the nostalgia I felt listening to it and watching this video
For some reason, when I was kid, I thought the dinosaurs that came to life were hunting you. It scared the crap out of me lmao.
Oh man, I never thought I'd see this old thing again, thanks for the memories
What made it more horrorific was this game... CHUGGING on my computer. Running in black and white.
That sounds absolutely terrifying
UA-cam recommendations unlocked a childhood memory!
Honestly, it felt like a fever dream.
I loved that game as a kid! Imagine if they made a modern version of it!
I loved these 3d dinosaur games when i was a kid, brings back memories. Glad to see you're still doing videos, keep it up!
jesus that intro slammed me with nostalgia
I use to play on this as a kid, Really helped me learn about some Dinosaurs I seen in Jurassic Park and discover ones I never heard of like Carnotaurus, I'm curious was there a Shark one as well since..... Well I use to Own the VHS of the Eyewitness Shark Documentary.
Plus the Eyewitness Books are solid as well.
It’s always wonderful seeing your video notification in my inbox great videos
I never thought it was scary I was absolutely enthralled with it as a kid. The graphics were cutting edge at the time lmaoo
This was easily the best dinosaur game ever made. I loved excavating the fossils and putting them together to make the dinosaur come to life. That was a stroke of brilliance.
I wanted to play this so much as a kid, but it just didn't work on my PC. But I have such fond memories of the books and show. That TV intro song is still so amazing
12:10 This is what I had instead! 3D Dinosaur Adventure! The Doom clone game it had terrified me as a kid.
I fucking loved that game. Me and my siblings passed so many time in this game. I miss a lot that museum
You literally don’t understand how long ive been looking for this. One of those things where it was super vivid as a kid but i couldn’t remember what it was!
Glad it's not just me who found the excavation section really hard! Though it did teach me a lot of bone names I would never have normally heard as a 10 year old. Radius and ulna, tibia and fibula etc.
So happy you are back!
I had this game but was too scared to progress as a kid because of the single raptor that walks by the arena door at the beginning
This is wild. That intro theme jolt back old memories of me when I was a kid in computer club playing this game. Wow.
This was my first computer game and I completely forgot about it until recently, questioning if it was even real or just a dream. Thanks for reminding me of nostalgia I forgot I had.
I was not expecting this much nostalgia Dinosaur Adventure 3D was my shit as a child. Love your videos.
11:27 Yes! I remember if you had eyewitness cat, bird or both you could take the elevator to the next game!
Omfg! I loved Dinosaur Hunter. I still have all the dinosaur sounds imprinted in my head - no matter how bad they were even for that time's standards. I'm from Brazil and one thing that I found out much later in life was that they mistranslated Edmontonia to Edmontosaurus. When I first saw Edmontosaurus, I was like: 'That's not it???' XD
One of the first "video games" I had and loved. (I didn't get a game console until I was 12.)
Always great to see an upload from you, looking forward to your next one
I forgot all about that intro until it started playing. Nostalgia.
Very nice vid. I do need to check this out, if I can get my DOS box to work.
This game is very exactly "MYST but dinosaurs" and I am absolutely smitten with the combination and the execution. 🥰
LFG realhuman vids are top notch
3D dinosaur adventure! retexturing those dinosaurs was all I'd do. I was a simple child.
Gosh...when that intro played with the music and every thing...damn, that took me back. Used to watch all kinds of cool educational stuff as a kid. Eyewitness, The Most Extreme...simpler time, I guess.
Thanks for making this. You are one of my favorite channels.
One part that I do remember making me jump slightly was going into World of Dinosaurs and seeing the TRex display actually move and look down at you whilr roaring. God this brings me back...
Loved this, honestly. You're really good at making these kinds of batteries-included walkthroughs.
I am falling through time and rediscovering my will to live whenever I hear Eye Witness music. It's like I'm 6 yro and studying to be an archeologist again.
This brought back so many good memories, I played on my parent's lap since I was too scared when the dinosaur came running.
I loved this game as a kid! Especially the version of it where you could use 3D glasses!
This game scared the crap out of me. My dad was obsessed and used to print all the scans for me. I had a binder full of them.
Edit: I remember the 3D museum too! And the voices.
You know, I think you'd enjoy Titanic: Adventure Out Of Time. And *I'd* enjoy you doing a video on that game, so it works out really well!
These games were my childhood. Loved your review of them! It was incredibly nostalgic.
It's kind of astonishing now to look back and see how unnerving this game's atmosphere was, but I loved it so much that I don't think I ever even noticed as a kid. Microfolie's encyclopedia-games on prehistoric life (originally in French) were also great -- "The Ocean of Origins" was my favorite -- but much harder to find on the web. I wonder how many people went into life sciences thanks to these games? I sure did.
love your stuff from the first video and always stop what im doing to watch the most recent one. keep up the great work big future ahead for you my friend
We are blessed with a new upload less gooo
Damn, I remember this now! Our school's "gaming" computer has a bunch of educational point and click games, and this dinosaur game definitely had the reputation of being the scariest game by far.
Oddly enough, I don't remember if the language in the game got localized to Danish, so we might have been playing without being able to understand much of anything that was being explained. I guess all the dinosaur names are the same anyway, so we would have gotten the gist of it.