Nanosaur
Nanosaur is a third-person action game. The player must find each of the five types of eggs and bring them to time portals. The location of the nearest time portal is always indicated by an onscreen "temporal compass" arrow. The Nanosaur can fly with his jetpack, but the amount of fuel is limited. Pickups with ammunition, health refills, and energy shields can be found strewn about, and fuel can be recharged by standing near gas fissures.
For his defense against the wild dino populace, the Nanosaur is equipped with a "fusion blaster" weapon which has numerous attack modes, each using a different type of ammunition. Apart from the dinosaurs, the player must also watch out for other threats such as lava, rolling boulders, or spore shooting fungi.
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DeveloperPangea Software, Inc.
ReleasedApril 6, 1998
StatusReleased
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About This Game
A civilization of intelligent dinosaurs emerged in the far future and developed time travel. They sent an agent back to the prehistoric era with a specific mission: retrieve intact eggs from five distinct dinosaur species, preserving genetic material that would otherwise vanish. The complication is timing. The asteroid that ended the Cretaceous epoch is twenty minutes away when the mission begins. Every second spent on extraction is a second closer to an impact that will not spare the agent regardless of their temporal origin.