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Purple Dinosaur Massacre

Overview

John Dondzila wrote a homebrew game for the ColecoVision in 1996 which involved killing Barney. Called Purple Dinosaur Massacre, it was originally written for gaining sprite programming experience on the ColecoVision, but was released to the web via ClassicGaming.com in 1997 and gained some popularity among the readers of the website. It is a crosshairs shooter and all your targets are Barney.

Developers
John Dondzila
Publishers
Classic Gaming
Platform
ColecoVision
Genre
Shooter
Alternate Names
No information available
Wikipedia
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Media

Box - Front

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World -  169 x 298

Clear Logo

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Screenshot - Gameplay

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