""Jurassic Bone Battle", or some such..." Topic

OK, so this is not a boardgame, unless "Hungry, Hungry Hippos" and "Rock-em Sock'em Robots" qualifies.

When I was wee (late 70's), I had a game that featured two plastic T-Rex-esque dinos, red and green, mounted on slide & swivel bases on either side of a yellow plastic canyon. In the center was a pit filled with plastic dino bones- tricera skulls, rib cages, and, um, the archetypical femur bone. The players used the dinos tails as handles to maneuver the dinos to dip into the pit, and, with a lever on the dino's side worked its mouth- grab a bone or two out and drop them into a litle cave on its side of the canyon. Most points woth of bones wins. Skulls were worth the most points, so much of the game involved beating on your opponent to try to snatch it away for yourself. Good, clean, boyhood fun.

I played the heck out of this silly game with my dad (he was such a good sport back then…). It may be in out attic, I dunno, but what's really bugging me is what was it called!? There was a decal with the name on the side of the base, but I think I took it into the bath and it came off :P

Anyone out there remember this one?

I do. I played it all the time but more often used the bones for dinosaur set ups.

hungry hungry dinos?

Boardgamegeek.com would seem to be your best place to get this game identified. I just did a cursory search & turned up nothing that fits this description, but I'll bet someone there would know the game.

I searched BGG using likely keywords, but turned up nothing. Must be named 'Grossenlizardkrieg', or something.

I played seperately with the bones a lot, too. I remember rubber-banding the skull to some action figure's head like a ceremonial mask :D

I did that with He-man figures only it was to their chest typically.