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Buzz Junior Dinos for PlayStation 2
Buzz Junior Dinos for PlayStation 2 brings four young dinosaurs together for 35 short contests in a colourful prehistoric world. Each participant chooses a dinosaur and one of four colours. The challenges value timing, attention and quick reactions over complicated button combinations. Activities include riding a T-Rex, sliding through mud, ice fishing and pelting running cavemen with rotten eggs. A short explanation appears before every activity, making the rules clear for each round.
The game uses the special Buzz controllers: every player has one large red button and four coloured buttons. Some challenges ask you to press the red button at exactly the right moment, while others require the colour shown on screen. You can play alone against computer-controlled dinosaurs or with up to four people at once. The computer fills empty positions, so the same set of games remains playable when fewer than four people use the Buzz controllers.
Alongside the regular contests, Dinos contains ten challenges for two teams of two. Team-mates work together to collect points or stay ahead of their opponents. You choose a tournament of five, ten, fifteen or twenty-five events, after which the total score determines the winner. Slapstick scenes involving tumbling dinosaurs, mischievous cavemen and prehistoric obstacles connect the separate games. The focus remains on short local rounds that can immediately be restarted with a different selection of activities.
Region and language
Our PlayStation 2 games are PAL editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Buzz Junior Dinos requires wired Buzz controllers for PlayStation 2; the game does not work with a standard DualShock controller. This offer concerns the game. Buzz controllers are included only when the product explicitly says so.
Manual
Buzz Junior Dinos for PlayStation 2 includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of Buzz Junior Dinos
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe released Buzz Junior Dinos for PlayStation 2 in February 2008. Cohort Studios developed this fourth European Buzz Junior entry after Jungle Party, Robo Jam and Monsters. The series used the same wired Buzz controllers as the familiar quiz games, but replaced trivia questions with short skill-based challenges. Dinos continued that approach with four playable dinosaurs, a Stone Age setting and 35 separate games.
The main new feature was team play. Ten challenges divide four participants into two pairs, whereas the earlier contests mostly pit everyone against each other. Contemporary reviews also described the series' established basis: the red button for timing, coloured buttons for choices and computer-controlled characters when human players are missing. Sony sold the game both separately and in a bundle with Buzz controllers. That distinction matters because a standalone game case does not automatically include the controllers.
Dinos arrived late in the PlayStation 2's life, when Sony still used the console for local party games with recognisable accessories. The comic dinosaurs gave the established format a new theme, while the team rounds introduced a different division of points and cooperation. A digital PlayStation 3 adaptation followed in December 2009 with support for standard wireless controllers and trophies. Those later features do not belong to this original PS2 disc; this version uses the wired Buzz controls.
Similar games for PlayStation 2
Buzz Junior Robo Jam uses the same Buzz controllers on PlayStation 2 and lets up to four participants play short skill games. Its colourful robots fire rockets, jump and react to targets in a training camp. Dinos replaces that mechanical setting with young dinosaurs, cavemen and prehistoric obstacles. The clearest difference is Dinos' set of ten two-versus-two challenges; Robo Jam focuses its 24 contests mainly on individual scores within the same group.
Buzz Junior Monsters likewise lets one to four players compete with the red button and coloured keys. Its 25 challenges take place around a comic haunted house with customised monsters, pumpkins and strange experiments. Dinos offers 35 games in an open prehistoric setting. Both depend on timing and colour recognition, but Dinos adds ten dedicated team contests in which two pairs work together directly.
Buzz Junior Jungle Party began this child-focused spin-off series on PlayStation 2. Four monkeys take part in short contests among jungle plants and animals, controlled with the same large red button and four coloured keys. Dinos keeps the direct local format but swaps the monkeys for dinosaurs and uses activities such as T-Rex riding, ice fishing and egg throwing. Its team events also add cooperation that the first entry did not place at the centre.
Buzz The Big Quiz uses the same controllers and also rewards quick reactions, but asks trivia questions with answers assigned to the four coloured buttons. Buzz Junior Dinos has no regular quiz rounds: you perform short actions such as hitting a target or avoiding an obstacle at the right time. Both work as local tournaments with a total score. The choice is therefore mainly between answering questions and playing prehistoric skill games.
EyeToy Play also bundles short party games on PlayStation 2, but tracks body movements with a separate EyeToy camera. You move in front of the screen to hit objects and complete tasks. Buzz Junior Dinos sticks to physical buttons and gives each participant a Buzz controller. Both explain rules quickly and keep rounds short, but their required accessories and play styles differ completely: camera movement versus timing and colour selection.
