Dinotopia The Timestone Pirates Game Boy Advance, Gameboy

by GameBoy

Product Features

• Five levels
• cool characters
• awesome power-ups
• excellent graphics
• single-player action

Product Details

• ASIN: B000063CJX
• Item Weight: 5 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #34,846 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Based on James Gurney's utopian society of humans and dinosaurs, "Dinotopia" for Game Boy Advance will take players on a colorful action-adventure where Clayton, the young hero, sojourns across land, sea and air on a quest to return stolen eggs to a fierce herd of tyrannosaurs, and ultimately claims the legendary Timestone.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

33 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Concerned about repetitive motion injuries!!, September 14, 2002

By 

Swim Mom (northeastern U.S.) - See all my reviews

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Dinotopia The Timestone Pirates Game Boy Advance, Gameboy (Video Game)

I bought this game for my nine-year-old son and he loves it. The graphics are outstanding. The game play is creative and varied, and generally a lot of fun; and the music is better than any I've yet heard coming out of a GBA game.

BUT...

My concern with this game, (and the only reason I've given it 3 rather than 5 stars), is that some of the levels require repeated, very fast pressing of the same button continuously in order to pass the level... The faster you repeatedly press the A button the faster you go, and if you don't go fast enough, you lose... and when you aren't needing to go fast enough to keep up, speedwise, you need to be manning the B button repeatedly to knock out the bad guys that are flying around, coming after you!... Then the next level requires repeated pressing of the A button again, just to make the guy move (again the faster you press, the faster he goes) I am concerned that our gaming kids may be setting themselves up for problems like repetitive motion injuries, down the road. The game is very compelling and the kids don't like to put it down... but you may want to enforce limited session times (especially when they are on levels requiring this repeated button hitting) just to give their poor cramped hands and wrists a break! (I'm really bummed they designed the control functionality this way, it seems so unneccessary and the game is otherwise quite good!)

That being said, many of the levels have control functioning that is not so stressful and more in keeping with what you may be used to from other GBA games. Anyway, this is just something I wish I'd known before I purchased Dinotopia.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Game Ever!!!!, July 12, 2002

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Dinotopia The Timestone Pirates Game Boy Advance, Gameboy (Video Game)

This is the best game ever! It has very good graphics and good music. If you have ever played Lady Sia and liked that game then you are bound to love this game. If you like this game then you should get Lady Sia. Very discriptive Instruction Manual. I really recomend this game. For the first two levels you fight the pirates on foot then dinos are what you ride on. This is a MUST HAVE for all video game players.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I love this game, January 20, 2003

By 

Lee A. Hollomon (Kitts Hill, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Dinotopia The Timestone Pirates Game Boy Advance, Gameboy (Video Game)

I bought this game for my son for Christmas. He loves Dino's so I thought this was perfect. Some of the levels are hard due to repeated action with the buttons.But overall it's a really great game. I am 34 and loved this game as much as my 7 yr old. I would reccomend this game to any GBA owner.