3D Monster Maze - The First Dinosaur Horror Game

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3D Monster Maze is considered to be one of, if not, the world’s first survival horror video games. And this game just so happens to also feature an unlikely enemy…
Join me on this Halloween special to take a closer look at this strange, yet terrifying game that, despite its obscurity, has still managed to maintain a fanbase over the years.
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[@DinoDiego16]

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[@rocksinaroll5727]

As it takes place in a carnival, maybe the T.rex is fake and it's just some guy in a cheesy dino suit? Imagine being in a scary circus maze and you are chased by Barney the dinosaur!🦖

[@Mattno.777]

Just add a Tophat and a Baseball Bat and its a Funny Horror game.

[@ahmedelaimani6855]

In the beginning of the game there's a text that says the the t-rex is real and that we as the player willingly go in the maze to see the t-rex. The boss:"Our customers are very loyal,they stay in and never ask for refunds".

[@mikehawk4388]

The text warnings are lowkey unsettling--it's cool how simultaneously simple & complex this is. Way way back in the 90s as a kid, I had a Land Before Time PC (MAC OS/maybe Win95) game that had a minigame a lot like this! You'd hunt for 'tree stars' in a maze & have to avoid the 'sharptooth' in certain areas where the music vanished. Scary but addicting for a lil dweeb. To think this game came nearly 15 years earlier is crazy, because the basic program was identical.

[@EvilCarrotSauce]

Hey, is there a chance you are talking about The Land Before Time Math Adventure? It featured a similar maze with scary music and a Rex that would wander the maze randomly if you were slow enough. I am almost thirty years old and that children's game still gives me nightmares.

[@thewolfgabe3656]

@@EvilCarrotSauce I actually think it was Land Before Time Activity Center. You basically were Cerah exploring a maze searching for items but you had to avoid Sharp Tooth who would make you start over if he caught you.

[@angryboi595]

Ngl but the way this game is so silent and then all of a sudden the text will say *”RUN”* is actually lowkey creepy. Plus all the warnings you get until it says *”HE IS BEHIND YOU”* is good horror, no loud annoying sounds or jumpscares or forced “scary” design, just complete silence until you see those messages and all of a sudden the t-rex appears in front of you with it’s creepy smile

[@Titanruler]

If someone remakes this now, all I want is that they don’t add jumpscares or noise. Sometimes pure silence is more terrifying than scary music

[@frederick0709]

So something akin to 1916: The Unknown War a forgotten dinosaur game that gives the feeling of watching an old era war movie, like early WW1 levels of old.

[@superpish9527]

🆁🆄🅽 HE IS BEHIND YOU I remember playing this on an emulator a while back and getting spooked. A true pioneer not just for dinosaur but horror games in general.

[@Adolphus_of-bysantanium]

what kind of emulator

[@Adolphus_of-bysantanium]

I'm asking so I can play

[@efu2046]

@@Adolphus_of-bysantanium You can check this video description for the emulator

[@Adolphus_of-bysantanium]

@@efu2046 thanks

[@sebastianthomsen2225]

😨 😜👍👍

[@nicostud916]

To me game looks like a very early Doom prototype to be honest

[@diebesgrab]

Everything looks like Doom, you just have to squint hard enough.

[@carriespencer4305]

It honestly reminds me more of dark deception.

[@JamesStudios]

Now imagine it being remastered by someone now. Feeling the TRUE fear with advanced graphics.

[@shaeby8123]

I actually think it would be less scary if it had better graphics. The dino's undefined silhouette with the contrasting bright white eyes and moth gives it that fear factor. If it was an actual model with details, it would be sillier then anything.

[@thetruenoobgod]

I made that in roblox and it can indeed give a heart attack. I also gave it a very brutal death animation.

[@bizarreutahraptor]

link?

[@handlename88]

Play 1916, it’s basically just 3D monster maze with the same concept as a black and white dinosaur chasing you with the only difference being that it’s set in WW1.

[@toastedprocastinator]

​@@thetruenoobgod AYO ROADBLOCKS?!???????

[@LovleyLemonade]

Walking around at nighttime in Ark Survival Evolved was one of the most terrifying things I have ever experienced in a non-horror game. It's sad that no sizeable game developers have explored horror game opportunities with dinosaurs. It would also be fitting as the first horror game EVER had a dinosaur chase you.

[@SaItogaming202]

this game is way more scary now than it was in 1982 cuz now its an analog horror game and it does this really well because its "organic" unlike modern analog horror which can be overdone into not being that scary

[@Dante_Zerubi]

Lol what kind of carnival finds a dinosaur and puts him in some weird maze?

[@DinoDiego16]

The best kind ever, that's what!

[@andrewsheppard1940]

This game was WAY ahead of anythng else that was around back then on what was a pretty puny computer (low res graphics, no sound, no colour and a base memory of 1k (upgradable to 16k with a wobbly external RAM pack - which founder Clive Sinclair advised owners to stabalise with a bit of bluetack!). Ahhh good times

[@JustAPersonWhoComments]

The graphical view, animated in real time at around 6 frames per second, is composed of 8×8 pixel black-and-white characters, so the view is roughly square, taking a 25×24 area on the 32×24 text screen. Sub-character resolution of the ZX81 pseudo-graphics character set makes the resolution doubled in each dimension (making the view consist of 50×48 "larger pixels"). Using the 6 pseudo-graphics with a dithering pattern also made it possible for the game author to incorporate a third colour (grey) in the black-and-white picture. Part of the screen is reserved for the score count, and a one-line status message is occasionally overlaid at the bottom of the graphical view. The player always runs along the corridor's centreline, and looks in the current direction only, which simplifies the rendering task.

[@maximosaurus042nd]

This is good content, and a good game. If you have any time I’d like to see you play more dinosaur horror games on stream.

[@argon2532]

Me too.

[@ChrissieBear]

Hearing someone call it a "Zee Ex" instead of "Zed Ex" feels surreal to me. xD

[@Stofferex]

I would like a modern take on this. Like, take something like FNaF or Poppy Playtime, but the antagonists are dinosaurs. I would play the hell out of that

[@airfryer2793]

I kind of messed with that idea and kinda want to work on it. Alot of people don't see it working.

[@robrice7246]

1:24 Ah yes, GamingBeaver's favorite.

[@ATOMIC_ALLIGATOR]

this game probably scared the pants off the kids in the 80's

[@andrewsheppard1940]

I can confirm it did! (well for me at least)

[@rocksinaroll5727]

Why does the more pixelated silent black and white original feels more creepy to me than the colorized remake?

[@DinoDiego16]

lack of sound and coloring probs emphasize more of the tense tones is probably what helps it feel more creepy

[@theant2266]

Probably bc the Lack of sound and Color makes the Atmosver more Tense as there less things distracting you, putting the Focus between you and the Creature

[@kuitaranheatmorus9932]

Well this is some dope Dino history

[@BeautifulNorfolk]

An amazing game that was way ahead of it's time. I still have the original cassette... maybe one day it'll be a desirable antique!

[@anejat629]

The first horror video game was a game where two players move white squares, with decorators and cards turning it into a hounted house horror game.

[@KingofTheGojiras]

This video was super cool thanks for telling me about this game I'm actually tempted to go play it now lol.

[@ScorchedGT]

The crewpyest thing about this is when rex seea you its just a couple of pixles but he gets closer and its just shapes and black then eyes and teeth, just a shadow

[@saulrosales5329]

Looks like Im going to search for a way to play the original game while at work today

[@DinoDiego16]

No need. Check out the description and under "credits" should be a link to an emulator of the original game

[@saulrosales5329]

Awesome!! Thanks!!

[@zachg2229]

Im suprised this was never ported or remade for like the ps1 or something. Closest thing to this on the ps1 was a very obscure horror fps games called dark messiah (or hellnight in Europe)

[@chichiboypumpi]

The first Dinocrisis from the PS1 should be remade for the current gen gaming consoles and pcs

[@sheilaburrowes9081]

No, I don't want another survival horror classic turned into an action game with some horror in it.

[@chichiboypumpi]

@@sheilaburrowes9081 I understand your sentiment, I just don't want my entertainment get wokealized.

[@MrEmilable]

Been watching a lot of videos on retrospective on FNAF and FNAF fan game reviews and monster maze’s blood line is in those games.

[@nixvet]

I love how many remastered versions this game has

[@orionparish9858]

Here's my question. Which dino games do we know are coming? Instinction is one. But that's several years away at best.

[@jessesilrus8910]

I love this channel. You do good work and should be proud of what you have built here.

[@galaburdakirill2]

Starting from MINOS'ES BULL, monsters in the labyrinth is a classical story. In ХИЩНЫЕ ВЕЩИ BЕКА by STRUGATSKY such a dangerous mase was used to entertain its victims

[@rainbow-qn6um]

id like to see people try to speedrun this

[@Megalon-qc8pf]

The game’s cover drawing is creepy

[@sonicloverlol2]

I REALLY hope that someone will make a fatefull remake of the game, and the t-rex will look based on the drawing that is on the box of the game.

[@karenboy1005]

What's the Suchomimus video at the end from? That looks really familiar.

[@DinoDiego16]

Its from an upcoming dinosaur game called Instinction

[@karenboy1005]

@@DinoDiego16 Aight thanks. I knew that Sucho looked familiar.

[@trexboy269]

These maze games remind me of the backrooms

[@diebesgrab]

For what it’s worth, this is just horror, not survival horror. Survival horror includes action game elements, such as the ability to defeat enemies. Sorry to nitpick, it’s just that horror in gaming goes well beyond survival horror, even though that subgenre tends to attract the lion’s share of attention.

[@trexindominus8119]

Who said survival horror needed to include action game elements?

[@diebesgrab]

@@trexindominus8119 The natural evolution of the English language? Genres are defined much the same way any other new word or phrase is-by convention. Convention has demonstrated that games like Resident Evil 3 and Silent Hill are commonly considered to be survival horror, while games like Doki Doki Literature Club or D‘s Diner generally are not. I’m not saying that survival horror games feature heavy action elements-games like Resident Evil 6 or Castlevania are more action games with horror elements. That said, survival horror games generally feature ways for the player to actively fight back against threats, typically in the form of weapons; hence, some action elements.

[@sheilaburrowes9081]

Survival horror hasn't attracted the lion's share of anything in decades, unless you're including modern action-horror masquerading as survival horror. To me, the first real survival horror game was AitD and that's still the template for defining the genre (even if it was originally applied retrospectively). RE's devs can claim they were doing Sweet Home all they want but RE got its entire gameplay loop from AitD (and, tbf, they were honest about it). Survival horror can be defined either by abstraction or archetype. The former is what allows some people to claim that a horror-themed 2D RPG like Sweet Home is survival horror, and I think it's probably the definition to which you subscribe. The latter is a stricter definition that includes the 3D world, fixed camera angles (FCA), action-based combat, risk vs reward calculations, and various other elements shared by AitD, RE, SH, DC etc. By this definition, survival horror, though currently seeing an indie renaissance, much to my joy, "died" after about 2005 ("moribund" would be more accurate than "dead": really just relegated to niche status, akin to graphic adventure games). The latter is the definition to which I subscribe. After all, Capcom coined "survival horror" to describe the archetype created by AitD and solidified by RE1 -- the further we drift from the presentation and gameplay found in those games, the less we represent the coherence of SH as a major genre from 1992 to 2005. Some people moan about FCA being a criterion, but we have ample precedent for it: the FPS genre only makes sense from the first-person perspective, for example. To me, the horror-cinematic nature of SH given by its FCA is as intrinsic as the risk vs reward aspect, as it was for the namesake series. Though I agree with your central thesis that SH requires combat to facilitate resource usage in order to fulfil the major criterion of risk vs reward. In a universe where Monster Maze 3D is survival horror, what _can't_ be counted? That kind of broadening of the definition, which has led to some people calling games like Outlast or Amnesia "survival horror", is exactly why it should be quite specific. Frankly, the battle to stop runaway broadening was lost the moment that RE4 was labelled "survival horror". Great game, not SH. Even if you're not a FCA purist like me, the fact that there's enough ammo to kill everything twice over should be enough to put that debate to bed. Shame that it also killed the classic line of RE games and led to bullshit like RE5 & 6.

[@joshuamorris5931]

The clip of the T-Rex looking through the window of the camper. What game is that from?

[@rocksinaroll5727]

Aww I want to see the remake dino in this video!

[@SL-cl9gt]

All film/visual technology breakthroughs involve dinosaurs.

[@sega20x80]

Happy Friday the 13th

[@monke283]

1:10 MR TEEETH

[@Xilex90]

what games were the footage you used for the modern dinosaur games from?

[@Aliff_zachery]

This feels like smt

[@G.M.C2005]

I would play this game, my question is how to play it

[@SuperKingGhidorah]

Interesting. How does one play this game?

[@submarine6410]

its in the descirption

[@aebhosor4835]

Arcades

[@GreenTeaViewer]

@@aebhosor4835 nope. This was a home computer game.

[@aebhosor4835]

@@GreenTeaViewer Interesting

[@mihailpopa6051]

Had to take a break from the rest of the cringe on the internet to watch this

[@nathanwuchevich3734]

What are the other games he shows footage of?

[@ScorchedGT]

Creepyest

[@gerrardjones28]

Good

[@losingto604]

Wow meeee

[@fizzyfuzz5878]

What game is 1:25 from?

[@Definitely-The-Real-Niko]

I'm 70th comment not 69 waaaa(jk) anyway cool movie

[@ranukodape8405]

First

[@kaikonghotel1]

Last

[@bradabar2012]

Gosh, games were fun back then. ...NOT!!