The game, due in October, features richly detailed graphics, an assortment of dinosaurs (including velociraptors and Spinosaurs) and five children who desperately need to be rescued.īut what sets ScanCommand apart from the crowded field of dino-video games is its use of bar codes to rev up the terrible lizards' strength, speed, intelligence and other winning qualities. More elaborate is Knowledge Adventure's ScanCommand: A Jurassic Park III Game, a CD-ROM computer game based on the latest ''Jurassic Park'' movie. Scannerz uses three AAA batteries and is expected to sell for $19.
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A program embedded in the device will transform the information received from the bar code into one of an array of monsters, sometimes friendly and sometimes hostile and ready for battle. That is accomplished by passing the device's built-in scanner over any bar code, which often may yield signs of life. The trick is getting the monsters into the machine.
Once the monsters are ''trapped'' in the device, they can be viewed on a tiny L.C.D. Intended for children 7 and older, the device is a virtual monster capture and combat game. Among the first, arriving in September, is a hand-held fantasy game called Skannerz, developed by a Dallas-based company called Radica. Meanwhile, bar codes are finding a place in electronic toys and computer games.
But as digital devices become smaller and smarter, electronics makers are looking to scanning technology to do everything from opening Internet sites to enabling refrigerators to reorder food when supplies run low. BAR codes are found on just about every item sold for the home, from food to kitchen cleansers to cosmetics, allowing the checkout register to identify an item and its price.
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