News
August 12, 1998: Dino Hunt Gets Its Own Mailing List!
Want to discuss Dino Hunt or dinosaur topics with other Dino Hunters? Or trade some duplicate cards for ones you don't have? Send email to [email protected] with "subscribe dinohunt" in the message body (unsubscribing is just as easy). Check out Steve Jackson Games Mailing Lists to find out about other mailing lists.
July 23, 1998: Now Mauling a Mall Near You!
This Christmas season, The Discovery Channel/Nature Co. will feature Dino Hunt in its line of specialty stores.
We're very excited about the game being introduced to the shopping-mall retail environment. Check out your local The Nature Co. store in October.
June 23, 1998: Dino Hunt – The Parents' Choice & Dinosaur Society!
Dino Hunt is a 1998 Parents' Choice Silver Honor award winner! The Parents' Choice Foundation has been reviewing childrens' games, books, videos, magazines, software, just about everything for the last nineteen years. They publish a guide, and single out a few products to honor for helping children develop their skills, character, and problem solving ability.
Previous honors for Dino Hunt include making the Games 100 list for 1997, and the Dinosaur Society seal of approval.
January 20, 1998: Pterosaur Home Page
Dave Peters' Pterosaur Home Page is a great new spot for all us flying reptile fans. Among other things, Dave has a paper pterodactyl you can cut out and build, and the plans can be seen online!
December 7, 1997: Megaraptor!
A huge claw, about 15 inches long, was shown in public for the first time Tuesday at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. Unearthed in Patagonia, it is 54% larger than the claw of Utahraptor. The discoverer has named the new dinosaur Megaraptor namunhuaiquii ("foot-lance" in the Mapuche Indian language). From the claw and a few leg bones (all that have been found to date), he estimates that it was some 25 feet long and stood 14 feet high. Further expeditions to the site are planned.
October 6, 1997: Auction of Sue, the T. rex
On October 4, Sotheby's auctioned the skeleton of Sue, the T. rex. On behalf of the Chicago Field Museum of Natural History, Richard Gray, President of the Art Dealers Association of America, made the winning bid of $7.6 million dollars. The money came from a group of sponsors, in cluding McDonald's Corporation and Walt Disney World Resort. The fossil will be on display at the museum and so will stay in the US. You can find great info and pics about the auction at The Dinosaur Interplanetary Gazette.
October 4, 1997: Review
Dino Hunt is reviewed in Kulkmanns G@mebox (Reviews of English and German Games and Boardgames and Collectibles Corner). This review includes a discussion of the German version, which uses a gameboard.
September 30, 1997: Dino Hunt Named to Games 100
Dino Hunt, the acclaimed family card game of time travel and dinosaur hunting from Steve Jackson Games, has been honored by Games Magazine as one of their "Games 100," the finest games of the year.
"It's a tremendous honor," Dino Hunt designer Steve Jackson said. "Dino Hunt is a game I've been wanting to do for a long, long time, and I'm thrilled that other people are enjoying the game as much as I had hoped."
Dino Hunt is not the first Steve Jackson Games product to be honored in the "Games 100." Car Wars, Illuminati, Toon and GURPS have all been named to the list in years past.
September 18, 1997: Fossil Find
A paleontologist working in Montana has found what might be the biggest T. rex yet, or possibly, he says, a new and bigger species! Dr. Keith Rigby, from Notre Dame, has unearthed a 52-inch pubis; the same bone in the largest T. rex known is only 48 inches. It isn't yet known how complete the new find is.
August 25, 1997: New Dino Hunt Rules Variant
John and Fran Ickes ([email protected]) have created a Dino Hunt variant called Two by Two. The object is to collect two dinosaurs from each time period. This and other optional rules are on the variant page.
August 3, 1997: Dino Hunt in German!
It's actually been out for quite a while, from Pegasus, but we just now got copies. (Not their fault. Long story.)
A very pretty production. It's in a BIG box, with a big gameboard, and slightly modified rules to use the board. German family games, it seems, have to have boards.
It's got 80 dinos and 29 specials, the same one that our basic game does (I think . . .) There are no booster packs yet, but someday, maybe!
We'll be putting three copies on the auction Real Soon Now.
July 27, 1997: Tinysaurs
I picked up a few of Tamiya's 1/35 dinosaur dioramas at the hobby shop. Awesome. Good detail, proper anatomy (tails off the ground) and lots of those little goodies that diorama builders like. I'm going to have fun building these . . . if they come out well, you may see a BIG diorama in a Dino Hunt display at a convention sometime.
PS . . . Hey, if anybody out there is sitting around with any of these in unassembled, or even salvageable/kitbashable state, and wants to swap for some Dino Hunt cards or something, drop me a line . . .
July 16, 1997: New Dino Goodies
Our auction moves into Dino Hunt territory, with three full sets of the 1996 limited edition of Dino Hunt, including the ten gold foil Ultra-Rare dinosaurs. Check out the auction page to bid!
And we also have more goodies for Dino Hunt fans: a set of dinosaur icons for the Macintosh, created by Kjeld Mahoney. Enjoy!
June 25, 1997: Half Bird, Half Dinosaur
A new discovery from Argentina seems very close to the "missing link" between birds and dinosaurs. Standing about four feet tall, it looks like a running dinosaur – but its "arms" seem to have been designed to flap like wings.
The new creature has been named Unenlagia comahuensis, meaning "half bird from northwest Patagonia." The species name is not Latin; it is from the local Indian language.
