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Color a Dinosaur
Learn Color a Dinosaur on NES: choose among 16 pictures, use point-to-point or freehand coloring, switch palettes, apply patterns, and exit to select another dinosaur.
Browser play
Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) / Famicom — EmulatorJS controls
Default Player 1 keyboard mapping. Change keys in Controller Settings.
| Console button | Keyboard |
|---|---|
| ↑ / ↓ / ← / → | ↑ / ↓ / ← / → |
| A / B | Z / X |
| START / SELECT | Enter / V |
Open Controller Settings to configure your keyboard or gamepad. Touch controls are available on mobile.
How to Play Color a Dinosaur
Quick start
Press Start, move the cursor to one of the 16 dinosaur pictures, and choose it with A or B. In the coloring screen, select a palette and move the drawing cursor onto the area you want to change. Use A for point-to-point filling or B for freehand coloring. When finished, press Start to return to the dinosaur selection screen.
Controls
D-pad: move the dinosaur-selection or drawing cursor. A: choose a dinosaur, select point-to-point mode, and fill the selected enclosed area. B: choose a dinosaur, select freehand mode, and move the palette cursor. Select: change the displayed color palette. Start: begin from the title screen or exit the current dinosaur.
Color a Dinosaur — About this game
Color a Dinosaur turns the NES into a simple digital coloring book aimed at young children. After choosing one of 16 dinosaur drawings, players move a cursor around the picture and apply colors or animated patterns from several palettes. Point-to-point mode fills a bounded region automatically, while freehand mode lets the cursor paint directly. There are no enemies, timers, scores, or failure conditions, so the activity is entirely about experimenting with combinations and returning to choose another dinosaur.
Cheats
No cheats have been added for this edition.
Player verification and sources
Browser play was reviewed before this edition was published in the catalogue. The date below is the catalogue publication date, not the game’s original release date.
- Browser test and catalogue publication date
- Browsers and devices
- PC: Chrome, Edge and Firefox. Mobile: Chrome on Android and Safari on iPhone and iPad.
- Player engine and core
- EmulatorJS 4.3.0-pre · nes
- Tested by
- rwEmulator
Sources and editorial basis
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