Evolution: Dino Dudes
Evolution: Dino Dudes — frequently asked questions
- What platforms is Evolution: Dino Dudes on?
- Evolution: Dino Dudes was released on Atari Jaguar, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Amiga, Amiga CD32, Atari Falcon, Lynx, Game Boy, DOS, Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
- When did Evolution: Dino Dudes release?
- Evolution: Dino Dudes was first released on February 1, 1994.
About Evolution: Dino Dudes
The gameplay of The Humans has similarities to Lode Runner and Lemmings. Your job in this action puzzler is to help prehistoric man to evolve by helping them discover tools, the wheel, weapons, or even fire. Each level in the game will have a given task to help in this, and you are allotted a number of characters who must accomplish the task. The player can switch from person to person while moving the characters around each scrolling puzzle, and teamwork is essential to success.
Summary via IGDB.
Evolution: Dino Dudes on Wikipedia
The Humans is a puzzle-platform game developed by Imagitec Design in Dewsbury, England and originally published by Mirage Technologies for the Amiga in May 1992. It was ported to other home computers and consoles. The goal of the game varies per level but usually revolves around bringing at least one of the player-controlled humans to the designated end area marked by a colored tile. Doing this requires players taking advantage of the tribe's ability to build a ladder and use tools such as spears, torches, wheels, ropes and a witch doctor in later levels.
Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA 4.0).
Game details
- Platforms
- Atari Jaguar, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Amiga, Amiga CD32, Atari Falcon, Lynx, Game Boy, DOS, Super Nintendo Entertainment System
- Developer
- Imagitec Design
- Publisher
- Atari Corporation
- Game modes
- Single player
Details via IGDB.
Every version compared
Prices, contemporary reception and the studio credited for each release
| Platform | Year | Loose | Complete | Sealed | Period reviews | Fake risk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atari JaguarDetails ↓ | 1993 | $25 | $43 | $81 | 5 reviews | Low |
| Sega GenesisDetails ↓ | 1992 | $10 | $16 | $142 | 11 reviews | Low |
The cheapest way to own it loose is the Sega Genesis version ($10).
Release timeline
- AmigaJun 6, 1992
- Sega Mega Drive/GenesisSep 1992
- DOS1992
- Game Boy1992
- Atari Lynx1993
- Atari JaguarFeb 1, 1994
- Super Nintendo Entertainment SystemMay 2018
- Xbox Series X|SFeb 3, 2022
- PlayStation 4Feb 3, 2022
- PlayStation 5Feb 3, 2022
- Nintendo SwitchFeb 3, 2022
- Xbox OneFeb 3, 2022
First release on each platform, from IGDB’s records of this game’s ports and editions. Remakes are separate games with their own pages, so they are not listed here.
We haven’t priced or authenticated the versions without a section on this page yet.
Prices are per version and are not interchangeable, and neither are the reviews: conversions in this era were often built by a different studio than the original, so a score earned on one machine says nothing about how another plays.
Collector value & authenticity
Atari Jaguar · PriceCharting sold data · Verified 2026-07-24
- Region
- NA+EU
- Released
- 1993
- Authenticity
- Low
The Atari Jaguar version
A rebranded Amiga puzzle game in the launch window of a console sold on a bit-count arms race.
This is Imagitec's 1992 game The Humans under a different name — same developer, same design, rebranded for the Jaguar. You lead a tribe of Cro-Magnons up the evolutionary ladder, Lemmings by way of Lode Runner: deliberate, fiddly, and one of your tribe is ending up as a step ladder. A decent puzzle game, and an extraordinarily strange choice for a launch window whose entire campaign was "Do the Math."
The launch context is the story: the November 1993 test market offered exactly two games, and by December the shelf held four — a flawed 3D tech demo, a mediocre shooter, a 1990 arcade port, and this. Nothing on it supported the marketing.
What the press said at the time
| Electronic Gaming Monthly | 7/10, 7/10, 6/10, 6/10, 6/10 | |
| GameFan | 85%, 84%, 85%, 82% | |
| Hyper | 62/100 | |
| ST Format | 78% | |
| ST Review | 81% |
Cartridge & preservation record
Cartridge ROM capacity 16 megabit (2 MB), measured from the preserved cartridge image.
Catalogue part number J9006
Cartridge data from the No-Intro preservation database (metadata only — names, sizes and checksums, no game data).
Worth knowing
- It is The Humans, translated and renamed. GamePro's April 1994 Jaguar Game Profile opened by asking readers to "remember the Humans? Not the species, the game!" — this is Imagitec Design's The Humans, a highly rated Genesis title, converted for the Jaguar and given a new name. GamePro judged the play nearly identical, with more detailed and colourful backgrounds, and concluded that it "didn't evolve too much from its Human state, but it's still a fun and addictive puzzler". Imagitec had made the original, which is how it reached the Jaguar at all.
- The stiffness was a first-generation problem, and GamePro said so. "Dino Dudes makes good use of the Jaguar's controller, but, like other first-generation Jag games, the movement feels stiff." Three fire buttons select and trigger actions and the numeric keypad swaps between your Dudes. The reviewer named the missing feature plainly — no cooperative or competitive two-player mode — and signed off with a line that reads differently three decades on: "With more games like this one, the Jag might yet evolve out of the Stone Age."
Before you buy
Common and cheap. Included in Atari 50. Search all three names when hunting listings: Evolution: Dino Dudes, Dino Dudes, and The Humans.
Authenticity & condition — Atari Jaguar
Specific to the format this title shipped in
Buying a Jaguar cartridge
Cartridges are the durable half of this library — the risk is provenance, not decay. The platform has an active post-commercial scene, so the question is usually which era a cartridge is from rather than whether it still works.
- Ask for a photo of the label edge and the cartridge back. Reproductions are usually printed on adhesive photo stock and sit proud of the label recess.
- Donor shells are the common trick: sanding marks on the back, or adhesive ghosting where an older label was lifted, are the strongest signals.
- Cartridges are region-free on this platform, so a cheaper PAL copy plays on a North American console — a price difference is not evidence of a fake.
Collector value & authenticity
Sega Genesis · PriceCharting sold data · Verified 2026-10-29
How often it sells
- Loose: about once a month
- Complete: about 2 times a month
- Sealed: about once a year
Prices marked “few sales” rest on about one recorded sale a year, so treat them as a rough guide: the next copy could sell well above or below. Expect to wait for one to come up.
Sales frequency from PriceCharting's completed-sale records, as of 2026-10-29.
Price over time
- Loose
- Complete
A loose copy sold for about $1.29 in Oct 2009, $9.66 five years ago, and $9.99 as of Oct 2026.
Show as table
| Month | Loose | Complete |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 2010 | $0.75 | — |
| Jan 2011 | $2.98 | — |
| Jan 2012 | $2.16 | — |
| Jan 2013 | $3.99 | — |
| Jan 2014 | $4.50 | $6.99 |
| Jan 2015 | $4.99 | $5.00 |
| Jan 2016 | $6.99 | $11.99 |
| Jan 2017 | $4.25 | $10.00 |
| Jan 2018 | $6.99 | $10.77 |
| Jan 2019 | $5.79 | $10.93 |
| Jan 2020 | $4.71 | $13.75 |
| Jan 2021 | $6.15 | $11.99 |
| Jan 2022 | $9.99 | $15.41 |
| Jan 2023 | $12.74 | $19.38 |
| Jan 2024 | $11.73 | $21 |
| Jan 2025 | $8.01 | $20 |
| Jan 2026 | $8.75 | $19.99 |
| Oct 2026 | $9.99 | $15.55 |
Monthly price estimates from PriceCharting's completed-sale records, sampled quarterly, through Oct 2026.
Release record
| Territory | Date | Product number | Barcode |
|---|---|---|---|
| North America | 1992 | T-83046 | 043948003023 |
- Region
- NA
- Released
- 1992
- Authenticity
- Low
The Sega Genesis version
A slow, patient Lemmings-style puzzler that suits caveman-tribe fans and few others, and a cheap cart.
The Genesis cartridge is called The Humans. It is a puzzle-platform game from Imagitec Design, published on the Genesis by GameTek in North America in 1992. You steer a tribe of cavemen toward an exit by working together, building ladders and using tools such as spears and torches.
GameFan's E. Storm reviewed the Genesis version in May 1993 and thought a patient puzzle player would put it at the top of the list, but that its learning curve and slow pace would appeal to hard-core puzzlers only, without the crossover audience Lemmings had.
What the press said at the time
| Electronic Gaming Monthly | 7/10, 7/10,7/10, 6/10 | |
| GameFan | 70%, 74%, 72%, 69% | |
| Video Games & Computer Entertainment | 6/10 | |
| Mega | 81% | |
| Mega Action | 71% | |
| Mega Drive Advanced Gaming | 80% | |
| MegaTech | 76/100 | |
| Sega Force | 83/100 | |
| Sega Power | 88% | |
| Sega Pro | 86% | |
| Sega Zone | 68/100 |
“Humans really shines. The slapstick antics of the little cave dudes will keep you laughing.”
Undated scores are from the review table in the game's Wikipedia article, limited to reviews of the Genesis version.
Also on other platforms
Amiga · CD32 · Atari Falcon · Jaguar · Lynx · Game Boy · MS-DOS · Super NES
| Amiga | Imagitec Design |
- Amiga. The Amiga launch was well received by magazines, with praise for originality, presentation and audio.
How the other versions reviewed
| Amiga | Amiga Action | 92% |
| Amiga | Amiga Computing | 92% |
| Amiga | Amiga Format | 72% |
| Amiga | Amiga Power | 70% |
| Amiga | Amiga User International | 91% |
| Amiga | Amiga Mania | 93% |
| Amiga | CU Amiga | 84% |
| Amiga | The One Amiga | 80% |
These are the other versions’ scores, not this one’s. Ports of this era were frequently built by different studios, so they do not transfer.
Before you buy
Among US carts this one sits below the middle, so it is an easy cart to pick up. A complete US copy means the case, cartridge and manual.
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