The Turok trademark is dead

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The multiplayer of turok in N64 was the best, that moment when you saw your friends jumping around like crazy trying to save themselves from the Cerebral bore, was so much fun lol
 
There was also Rage Wars on the N64 which was a deathmatch-centred game and focused mainly on multiplayer modes:

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I've heard good things about it

Didn't have the chance to play much of it, but I remember liking Turok Rage Wars. It wasn't a game I was interested in at first since I didn't really want to play a multiplayer only Turok, but me and my friend had some good moments with it.

I hope somehow these games can find there way on Steam or someplace.
 
Come the fuck on Bish. Make it happen.

And please. Can we go back to him being a native indian dude in a jungle with a knife and plenty of dino's, lizard men, warp portals, platforming and crazy weapons with lots of epic sounding drum music. How hard can it be.

Yes! YESSSSS!

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Oddly enough I was thinking about this the other day- does anyone remember that some kids named Turok are out on the streets somewhere? I wonder how old they are today... And if they ever got their names changed.
 
I still remember my jaw hitting the floor when i got my £70 N64 game home and played it.
Most PC shooters were still using 2D sprites and Doom style block environments at the time, to say Turok put them to shame is an understatement.

Such a shame it has come to this, the IP had tons of potential, i mean who doesn't like dinosaurs?.
 
There was also Rage Wars on the N64 which was a deathmatch-centred game and focused mainly on multiplayer modes:

turw64002.jpg


I've heard good things about it

Rage Wars was fucking fun. I had as much fun in that game as GoldenEye and Perfect Dark.

You could play as a Raptor!
 
There was also Rage Wars on the N64 which was a deathmatch-centred game and focused mainly on multiplayer modes:

turw64002.jpg


I've heard good things about it

Yes. That was good. Played a lot of that with my brothers.

In 3, Joshua "Turok" Fireseed dies in the beginning and you pick his niece or nephew to play as. They have different characteristics and each has their own upgrade of weapons like a sniper vs a burst rifle as well as small splitting off paths. You even traverse a battle damaged version of T1's opening.
You later fight Turok and I forget if they made him come back to life or not.

Evolution had the Confederate who you fight (an old villain of Tal'set). T:Evolution on Game Boy Advance is qualty/hard side-scroller.

Ah, yes, the niece and nephew. I liked that stuff.

I never played Turok on GBA. Damn, Im going to try to find that. Play it on my micro. The only game in the series I didn't play... I think.
 
Rage Wars was fucking fun. I had as much fun in that game as GoldenEye and Perfect Dark.

You could play as a Raptor!

Raptor and they really had fun with guns...Cerebral Bore, Emanicipatator, Freeze Gun, Alien Embryo Gun, super hammer, all the classics, and I know I am missing another goodie.
 
The point is though people are free know to the name (the trademark) they can't use the IP

I'm just saying that an attempt to capitalise on the name would, in all likelihood, be contested due the pre-existence of Turok games.

Who has the rights to the original two games? Would love to see the original ports fixed up and released in Steam.

Looks like they would have to relicencse the games through Random House at this point.

Copyright.gov's database seems to only have listings related to Prima's guides, so my guess would be whichever state assumed Acclaim's debt (Wikipedia says New York, but there's no citation).

Can someone explain to me what Bish has to do with Turok?

He worked on the 2008 game way back when.
 
Yes. That was good. Played a lot of that with my brothers.



Ah, yes, the niece and nephew. I liked that stuff.

I never played Turok on GBA. Damn, Im going to try to find that. Play it on my micro. The only game in the series I didn't play... I think.

GBA title looked good:

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They made a GBC title for almost every Turok title.

-Battle of Bionosaurs
-Seeds of Evil
-Rage Wars
-Shadows of Obilvion
-Evolution (GBA)
 
Come the fuck on Bish. Make it happen.

And please. Can we go back to him being a native indian dude in a jungle with a knife and plenty of dino's, lizard men, warp portals, platforming and crazy weapons with lots of epic sounding drum music. How hard can it be.

He was still a native american in the reboot. He simply didn't have the Hollywood semi-racist caricature look to him.
 
He was still a native american in the reboot. He simply didn't have the Hollywood semi-racist caricature look to him.

I haven't played the first game in years so i could be wrong here but i'm pretty sure the game was set in the eighteen hundreds when Native Americans did wear stuff like Turok.
I believe Turok was taken through a portal or something.
 
Is it just me or is Turok 2 quite hard?

Pretty cool game but every time I play it I can only make slow progress
It is hard. After a while, I would just use the stun gun on creatures then switch to the shooty or assault rifle to finish them off. I think it was mostly the framerate that was responsible for my erratic aiming. I loved it though, in all of its hi-def, expansion pak goodness.


God dammit we really need N64 games on VC. So many games I'd love to replay.
 
Dinosaur FPS games usually aren't great, but man the old Turok games were an exception. I'm sad we never saw a sequel to Turok 08.

So, what Dinosaur games do we have to look forward to now.. Dino Crisis reboot..? New IP?
 
I haven't played the first game in yars so i could be wrong here but i'm pretty sure the game was set in the eighteen hundreds when Native Americans did wear stuff like Turok.
I believe Turok was taken through a portal or something.

All of the original Turok games on N64/GC/Xbox/PS2 was a born Native American from olden days going through a portal to the Lost Land. 2008 Turok was super future Native American soldier but would there still be pure blooded Native Americans that far in the future?
 
Dinosaur FPS games usually aren't great, but man the old Turok games were an exception. I'm sad we never saw a sequel to Turok 08.

So, what Dinosaur games do we have to look forward to now.. Dino Crisis reboot..? New IP?

New IPs at this point.
Not even a pip about that rumored reboot has come out. Maybe something based off jurassic world if its huge like were all hoping.
 
GBA title looked good:

_-Turok-Evolution-GBA-_.jpg



They made a GBC title for almost every Turok title.

-Battle of Bionosaurs
-Seeds of Evil
-Rage Wars
-Shadows of Obilvion
-Evolution (GBA)

That image link is messed up, but I looked it up and it looks like something I'd play. $10 on ebay. We'll see. Might be good for the ol' Micro.

I had no idea about all those GBC games. Jesus. I can't play all that. And here I was thinking I had a good grasp on the Turok video game series. There are more I haven't played than ones I have!
 
Now I am confused what this Turok on VC nonsense was all about?

It's entirely possible that DreamWorks/Random House/Classic Media does own the games, but owning a trademark doesn't necessarily indicate ownership of individual works (Bethesda doesn't own Wolf09, for example), especially in this case as Acclaim's comic publishing arm was sold off to a completely unrelated company. I can't seem to find any info on where the earlier games went following Acclaim's demise.

Edit: I've sent an e-mail to Classic Media's licensing address. If I receive a response worth posting, I'll do so.
 
New IPs at this point.
Not even a pip about that rumored reboot has come out. Maybe something based off jurassic world if its huge like were all hoping.

There's a potential JW Lego game inbound, but otherwise the only other game I know about is a JW park building sim for phones.

Hopefully the success of Alien Isolation and Shadow of Mordor will make games based upon film IPs more attractive.. but getting JP in game form would be rough.. it's never been about shooting/killing the dinosaurs, so it would have to be survival/adventure. I could see an Alien Isolation style working for something like the Raptors in the kitchen scene, so maybe there is potential somewhere..
 
There's a potential JW Lego game inbound, but otherwise the only other game I know about is a JW park building sim for phones.

Hopefully the success of Alien Isolation and Shadow of Mordor will make games based upon film IPs more attractive.. but getting JP in game form would be rough.. it's never been about shooting/killing the dinosaurs, so it would have to be survival/adventure. I could see an Alien Isolation style working for something like the Raptors in the kitchen scene, so maybe there is potential somewhere..

Yep hopefully something happens.
I'm still holding out for a Trespasser-esque game but done right.
Game had so much potential

I think if we learned anything from Turok 08 and Dino Crisis 3: Dinosaurs in Space doesn't work.

Turok 08 and Dino Crisis 3 can barely be compared to each other.
DC3 was just all around terrible with barely a single thing redeemable.
 
I remember when the N64 launched... Turok and Super Mario 64 blew my fucking mind!

I tried to go back and play Turok: Dinosaur Hunter earlier this year, but modern gaming has spoiled me and I just couldn't handle the controls anymore. I might give Turok 2 a shot and see if there's a control scheme in there that's do able.
 
I gave up on it after Turok 2. When Turok Evolution came out I expected someone else to play it. lol I always found it at a smoker's house or a guy who was a big dbag. I didn't even feel interested in it. What I didn't see the 2008 Turok doing was actually helping establish it. I saw a game that just had "Turok" written all over it regardless how much it sold. This was probably when everyone was watching new releases like a hawk because we were getting games that established that time period.

No one was talking about Turok 3. By that time I think I had my eyes off the N64.

Yet I say 2008 because some people were just getting into gaming. The graphics were letting people become professionals out of nowhere. I noticed people picking up a game because they got a 7 hour graphical story driven-gameplay extravaganza. It was at the time when people came in with big ideas. I think they do now, but now we criticize the game every which way.

In terms of news and looking up information, I was focused mostly on N64 to the DC to the PS2. I wasn't thinking about how amazing a new Turok game was. I saw it in just about every gaming mag and comic book I got my hands on. I think the press played more of Turok than a lot of us spending money out there. N64 was gone right when they started showing graphics for the new consoles.

Whoa, haha, I'm having a neck of a time trying to decipher this post.
 
Turok 1 and 2 were my most anticipated games at the time. Never beat either of them except part 1 with cheat codes. Never played 3, but I did have Evolution on the GameCube. Was the 2008 game any good?
 
That's a shame.

I still have fond memories of playing Turok 2 split screen on the N64 and shooting arrows into everyone's arse.

Good times.

And the cerebral bore.

Goodness, best weapon ever.
 
I haven't played the first game in years so i could be wrong here but i'm pretty sure the game was set in the eighteen hundreds when Native Americans did wear stuff like Turok.
I believe Turok was taken through a portal or something.

He was wearing stuff like a headband which natives have never worn. It's a product of Hollywood misrepresentation.

I don't mind having Turok wear period outfits; the devs should simply make sure it's an actual historical outfit by doing a modicum of research.

Yeah. That's why we identified with him. Because we are all racist. SMH.

That's one hell of a leap you did there.
 
Muthaf....

Now I'm going to boot up Turok 2 with my sweet ass memory pak and blaze through level 1 again. Game was painful slow, but damn good.

I remember whooping Turok 1 mostly with a knife. Never played 3, but now I kinda want to. There goes my game budget for Q4.
 
They each killed their series, that's what they have in common.

They planned a Turok 2 but disney was done with financing big games so they pulled the plug. It was a victim of circumstance.

DC3 really did kill it's series for being a mainline sequel that had nothing to do with the first 2 games both in story and gameplay. The fact it was Xbox only didn't help as well. Though with all of the decisions related to it. Any series with the shift DC3 took would have died.
 
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