Product Overview
- Product Name: Turok: Dinosaur Hunter
- New or Used: Used
- In Box or Loose: Loose
- Overall Condition: Very Good
- Save Battery Status*: Not Applicable – Does Not Use Battery
- Notes:
Photos show actual product for sale — no stock images used.
What's Included
- N64 Game Cartridge: Yes
- Manual / Instructions: No
- Original Retail Box: No
- Extras:
Game Description
One wrong step could be your last! In Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, danger lurks around every corner of the Lost Land, a mysterious dimension where prehistoric beasts, ancient civilizations, and futuristic warriors exist side by side. As Tal'Set, the powerful warrior known as Turok, you'll fight your way through hostile jungles, treacherous temples, and forgotten strongholds where deadly creatures stalk the shadows. Raptors attack without warning, armed soldiers patrol dangerous territory, and massive prehistoric predators stand between you and survival. Armed with deadly weapons, lightning-fast reflexes, and an explorer's determination, you must uncover the secrets of this savage world before its greatest threat can unleash destruction beyond its borders.
The Lost Land is no place for careless adventurers! Venture through locations such as The Jungle, The Ancient City, The Catacombs, and The Treetop Village, where hidden switches, dangerous traps, and winding passages demand constant attention. Leap across crumbling platforms, scale towering cliffs, and plunge into mysterious underwater passages while searching for keys that open new areas. Your arsenal grows from a simple knife and bow into an incredible collection of explosive arrows, automatic weapons, grenade launchers, and devastating alien technology. Blast through hostile creatures, discover hidden ammunition and health pickups, and confront enormous bosses that transform ordinary firefights into desperate battles for survival.
Think you've conquered the Lost Land? There's always another hidden passage, dangerous enemy, or secret waiting to be discovered! Return to earlier stages to uncover missing keys, locate powerful weapons, and sharpen your skills against the game's toughest encounters. From the atmospheric ruins of forgotten civilizations to its frantic first-person firefights, Turok: Dinosaur Hunter delivers a distinctive combination of exploration, platforming, and relentless action. Its haunting environments, memorable creature designs, and challenging gameplay continue to make it a standout among classic Nintendo 64 shooters. Developed by Iguana Entertainment and published by Acclaim Entertainment in 1997, this physical Nintendo 64 cartridge release remains a thrilling adventure for FPS enthusiasts and collectors who appreciate the console's most ambitious early action games.
Gameplay Features
- Explore jungle ruins, ancient cities, catacombs, and treetop villages packed with hidden dangers.
- Battle raptors, hostile soldiers, cyborg enemies, and gigantic prehistoric predators.
- Master explosive Tek Arrows, automatic weapons, and grenade launchers in intense FPS combat.
- Navigate deadly traps, underwater passages, towering cliffs, and precision platforming challenges.
- Discover hidden keys, secret pathways, health pickups, and powerful weapons across eight levels.
- Challenge massive boss creatures and uncover the mysteries of the dangerous Lost Land.
Nintendo 64 Controller Pak Requirement — Saving Your Game
Turok: Dinosaur Hunter uses a Nintendo 64 Controller Pak (Memory Card) to save your adventure progress, collected keys, and other game data at designated Save Points. A compatible Controller Pak is required to save your progress between gaming sessions. The game can still be played without one, but your progress cannot be saved for later sessions.
Legacy and Influence
When Turok: Dinosaur Hunter arrived in 1997, it offered Nintendo 64 players a different kind of first-person adventure. Rather than relying exclusively on enclosed corridors and straightforward shooting galleries, Iguana Entertainment created expansive environments filled with vertical challenges, branching pathways, and secrets that rewarded careful exploration. Players needed to master both combat and movement, combining precise aiming with demanding jumps, swimming, and environmental navigation. This ambitious blend of first-person shooting, platforming, and exploration helped demonstrate how console FPS games could deliver adventures that extended far beyond traditional arena combat. Its distinctive structure became one of the defining characteristics of the early Turok series.
The game's unusual world also helped distinguish it from contemporary shooters. Dinosaurs roamed alongside heavily armed soldiers, ancient ruins concealed futuristic technology, and enormous environments created a sense of isolation rarely seen in early console action games. Turok's atmospheric world design and prehistoric science-fiction combat became hallmarks of the franchise, inspiring increasingly elaborate adventures in Turok 2: Seeds of Evil and Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion. Its success helped establish Iguana Entertainment and Acclaim as important contributors to the Nintendo 64's third-party library, while its combination of challenging gameplay and memorable enemies secured its reputation as a distinctive classic of the 1990s first-person shooter era.
Historical Trivia or Fun Fact
Turok: Dinosaur Hunter was one of the earliest Nintendo 64 games to demonstrate the console's potential for large, fully three-dimensional first-person environments, arriving in North America in March 1997. The game was developed by Iguana Entertainment in Austin, Texas, with a soundtrack composed by Darren Mitchell, whose atmospheric music helped give the Lost Land its mysterious personality. Interestingly, the game's extensive use of distance fog served a practical technical purpose by concealing the limits of the Nintendo 64's rendering distance, while also creating an eerie atmosphere as enemies suddenly emerged from the mist. That distinctive visual effect became one of the game's most recognizable characteristics and a memorable part of early Nintendo 64 gaming.
Additional Details
- Variant: Standard Release
- Genre: Shooter
- Year Released: 1997
- Publisher: Acclaim
- Developer: Iguana Entertainment
- ESRB Rating: M - Mature
- UPC: 021481640820
- SKU: 3945
- Format: Nintendo 64 Physical Video Game Cartridge
- Platform: Nintendo 64 System (N64 Video Game Console)
- Region: NTSC (North America, Canada)
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- *Save battery (if present) has been tested or replaced and is verified working at the time of listing.
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