Evolution: Dino Dudes

Description

The Humans is a computer game published by GameTek, in which the player guides a tribe of humans through the course of evolution to modern man. Included on this quest is the discovery of spears, fire, wheels, rope, and torches. Anachronistically, one of the humans' main enemies are dinosaurs. The game bears a slight resemblance to the Lemmings series of games, even if this game is about direct control of the protagonists, rather than giving them tasks. The Jaguar and Lynx versions of The Humans were published by Atari, and were titled Evolution: Dino Dudes and Dinolympics respectively.

There are up to eight humans in a level, out of a possibly larger tribe. If a human dies, he is replaced by one from the tribe, if any are left. The amount of tribe members is set per game, not per level, thus it may be worthwhile to replay a level in order to get more humans through. If too few humans are left in the tribe, the game eventually ends as several levels require a minimum number of humans to be solved. Luckily, some levels have prisoners that you can rescue to add to your tribe.

The player controls one human at a time, and can switch back and forth. In many levels, the humans have equipment that they can pick up, use or throw.