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''Big Al Game'' is a {{defunct online video game|s}} based on ''WesternAnimation/TheBalladOfBigAl'' from ''Series/WalkingWithDinosaurs''. It was created with the help of Alex Freeman.

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''Big Al Game'' is a {{defunct online video game|s}} based on ''WesternAnimation/TheBalladOfBigAl'' ''Series/TheBalladOfBigAl'' from ''Series/WalkingWithDinosaurs''. It was created with the help of Alex Freeman.
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Everythings Better With Dinosaurs is now a disambiguation page.


* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: Though numerous non-dinosaurs like crocodiles and frogs are featured.
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Cut trope per TRS


* SeldomSeenSpecies: ''Dryosaurus'', ''Ornitholestes'', and ''Othnielia''.
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* FragileSpeedster: The pterosaur isn’t much of a threat and provides a good meal, but good luck actually catching it - it's too fast for an adult or subadult Al to catch, and is only found in regions you’re supposed to visit as either of those age ranges.

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The game later received a ''Series/WalkingWithBeasts'' counterpart in which you control an evolving primate from shortly after the Cretaceous extinction to the Ice Ages.



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* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaursBullyingADragon: It can easily happen if you engage in a fight with a creature who is too large and has far too much energy for you to bring down on your own.
* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: Though numerous non-dinosaurs like crocodiles and frogs are featured.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Encouraged, as if you arrive in an area where something dangerous is that you have no chance of beating, you need to beat it or you’ll quickly have a Game Over screen.


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* MamaBear: The presence of Al’s mother in the first level is enough to ward off dangerous predators you would stand no chance against.
* NoEnding: After Al reaches adulthood, your only objective is to survive and rack up as many points as possible.


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* SparedByTheAdaptation: Al never reached adulthood, but the game reaches its conclusion (see NoEnding) when the Al you control does.
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''Big Al Game'' is a defunct online game based on ''WesternAnimation/TheBalladOfBigAl'' from ''Series/WalkingWithDinosaurs''. It was created with the help of Alex Freeman.

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''Big Al Game'' is a defunct {{defunct online game video game|s}} based on ''WesternAnimation/TheBalladOfBigAl'' from ''Series/WalkingWithDinosaurs''. It was created with the help of Alex Freeman.
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''Big Al Game'' has [[MissingEpisode since been taken down]] and replaced with the '''Planet Dinosaur' Game''. An unofficial [[http://www.jenniferedwards.co.uk/unitygames/BigAlGame/ remake]] has since been created.

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''Big Al Game'' has [[MissingEpisode since been taken down]] and replaced with the '''Planet Dinosaur' Game''. An unofficial [[http://www.jenniferedwards.co.uk/unitygames/BigAlGame/ remake]] has since been created.
created. Subsequently, a [[https://www.jenniferedwards.co.uk/unitygames/BigAlPort/ recreation]] of the actual game using the original assets and source code was released.

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''Big Al Game'' is a defunct online game based on ''The Ballad of Big Al'' from ''Series/WalkingWithDinosaurs''. It was created with the help of Alex Freeman.

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''Big Al Game'' is a defunct online game based on ''The Ballad of Big Al'' ''WesternAnimation/TheBalladOfBigAl'' from ''Series/WalkingWithDinosaurs''. It was created with the help of Alex Freeman.



* {{Xenofiction}}: You play as an ''Allosaurus'' dubbed Big Al.

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* {{Xenofiction}}: You play as an ''Allosaurus'' dubbed Big Al.Al.
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The number of moves to advance to each level depended on how quickly you grew and what you got to eat, which could vary between playthroughs.


The objective of the game is to survive as an ''Allosaurus'' (called "Big Al") in Late Jurassic North America. There are four levels that Al has: hatchling, juvenile, subadult, and adult. The game takes place on a 17x10 square map and is a text-based game. In each level Al has twenty moves.

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The objective of the game is to survive as an ''Allosaurus'' (called "Big Al") in Late Jurassic North America. There are four levels that Al has: hatchling, juvenile, subadult, and adult. The game takes place on a 17x10 square map and is a text-based game. In each level Al has twenty moves.
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''Big Al Game'' has [[MissingEpisode since been taken down]] and replaced with the '''Planet Dinosaur' Game''. [[http://www.jenniferedwards.co.uk/unitygames/BigAlGame/ And then a remake was made]]

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''Big Al Game'' has [[MissingEpisode since been taken down]] and replaced with the '''Planet Dinosaur' Game''. An unofficial [[http://www.jenniferedwards.co.uk/unitygames/BigAlGame/ And then a remake was made]]
remake]] has since been created.
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*EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs
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''Big Al Game'' has [[MissingEpisode since been taken down]] and replaced with the '''Planet Dinosaur' Game''.

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''Big Al Game'' has [[MissingEpisode since been taken down]] and replaced with the '''Planet Dinosaur' Game''.
Game''. [[http://www.jenniferedwards.co.uk/unitygames/BigAlGame/ And then a remake was made]]

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Diplodocus isn't particularly seldom-seen. Quetzalcoatlus wasn't in the game; there was only a generic pterosaur illustrated using the Walking with Dinosaurs Ornithocheirus.


* AnachronismStew: The pterosaur in the game is illustrated using the Cretaceous genus ''Ornithocheirus'', though it is not specifically identified as such.



* SeldomSeenSpecies: ''Diplodocus'', ''Dryosaurus'', ''Ornitholestes'', ''Othnielia'', and ''Quetzalcoatlus''.

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* SeldomSeenSpecies: ''Diplodocus'', ''Dryosaurus'', ''Ornitholestes'', ''Othnielia'', and ''Quetzalcoatlus''.''Othnielia''.
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''Big Al Game'' has [[Missingepisode since been taken down]] and replaced with the '''Planet Dinosaur' Game''.

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''Big Al Game'' has [[Missingepisode [[MissingEpisode since been taken down]] and replaced with the '''Planet Dinosaur' Game''.
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''Big Al Game'' has since been taken down replaced with '''Planet Dinosaur' Game''.

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''Big Al Game'' has [[Missingepisode since been taken down down]] and replaced with the '''Planet Dinosaur' Game''.
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''Big Al Game'' is a defunct online game based on ''The Ballad of Big Al'' from ''Series/WalkingWithDinosaurs''. It was created with the help of Alex Freeman.

The objective of the game is to survive as an ''Allosaurus'' (called "Big Al") in Late Jurassic North America. There are four levels that Al has: hatchling, juvenile, subadult, and adult. The game takes place on a 17x10 square map and is a text-based game. In each level Al has twenty moves.

The player has three statistics: score, weight (progress), and fitness (health). Losing all energy or fitness kills you. The player needs to constantly eat as even moving on the game's map loses weight. The older Al becomes the more energy he uses and needs to replenish. Fitness is also lost from an animal attacking Al or from a counterattack against Al.

''Big Al Game'' has since been taken down replaced with '''Planet Dinosaur' Game''.

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!!''Big Al Game'' provides examples of:

* LicensedGame: For ''Series/WalkingWithDinosaurs''.
* SeldomSeenSpecies: ''Diplodocus'', ''Dryosaurus'', ''Ornitholestes'', ''Othnielia'', and ''Quetzalcoatlus''.
* SimulationGame: You play as a dinosaur from birth to adulthood.
* {{Xenofiction}}: You play as an ''Allosaurus'' dubbed Big Al.

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