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Jurassic Park (snes) appreciation thread

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I think game is an extremley underrated snes game. I remember that JP didn't fare that well with the reviews. Needless to say, I loved the game. It had a Zelda overhead view mixed with a 1st person(gasp) view inside the buildings. The graphics was one of the finest on snes.

The park was a non-linear(unlike the megadrive version) world with various missions(etc collect keycards) you had to complete in order to advance and get to new areas. (and escape)

While the zelda view worked great, the 1st person view inside the buildings was great for its time. It was kind of spooky as the raptors could suddenly sneak up on you.

JP was a very tough game to conquer, and it had a big flaw, there was no save available! (eh why)

If you can live with that, I recommend this classic if you haven't played it.

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Jurassic Park on the SNES is the game that completely turned my younger brother off to videogames forever. I never really liked it all that much as I couldn't get a handle on the first person areas of the game. However, he was pretty good at it.

He spent all day one weekend playing the game since, as you said, there was no save (was there even a password feature?). He finally beat it, only to be presented with one of those stupid "Congratulations, you've escaped from Jurassic Park" text screen endings and that was it. He couldn't believe he'd played through the game for so little payoff in the end. He hasn't played a videogame since.
 
The game was ok, I wasn't a huge fan.

Jurassic Park 2 was the far better game, IMO, even though they are very different games. The co-op multiplayer was awesome.
 
I got it for my birthday back in the day, had to return it though because it only featured french on-screen text.
 
teiresias said:
He spent all day one weekend playing the game since, as you said, there was no save (was there even a password feature?). He finally beat it, only to be presented with one of those stupid "Congratulations, you've escaped from Jurassic Park" text screen endings and that was it. He couldn't believe he'd played through the game for so little payoff in the end. He hasn't played a videogame since.
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so basicly he stopped playing videogames because of a simple ending screen? wtf that is weird :lol
 
Jurassic Park on the SNES was officially my first FPS experience, so it was a pretty amazing experience for me, heh. I was totally blown away by the FPS parts when I saw my friend playing it at his house for the first time.
 
I never played the SNES JP, but I played the Gameboy one....other than the lack of first person view inside buildings, it looks like it was grounded in the similar concepts as the SNES (judging only based on the pics in this thread nad my memory of the game)....the genesis game was a sidescroller, right?

I remember the GB game being pretty damn hard. Limited ammo, and this damn rafting part, and the TRex stage where, I think, you had to stay still whenever the TRex popped on screen, but even then you could easily get stepped on and killed.......I think I got to the last level, but could never beat it.
 
i tried standing still iirc in the snes version when the trex came for me and i got eaten :lol

the next time i saw the trex i used about 30 tranq darts...

;(

man the game was fun tho
 
I only just finished it a couple of years ago due to an emulator...couldn't finish it before due to the lack of a save system (not even passwords WTF)

So I waited 8 years for that shitty ending.

:lol
 
teiresias said:
He spent all day one weekend playing the game since, as you said, there was no save (was there even a password feature?). He finally beat it, only to be presented with one of those stupid "Congratulations, you've escaped from Jurassic Park" text screen endings and that was it. He couldn't believe he'd played through the game for so little payoff in the end. He hasn't played a videogame since.
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Same thing happened to me. Only difference was it was arcade games. I beat a WWF game (of all things :lol), after seeing the little reward, I wondered why I popped so many quarters into the machine.
 
I got this because at the time I was a huge Jurassic Park fan (If you were a certain age when that movie came out, it was guaranteed) but I never had the patience for it. Probably because of the lack of save game feature. I spent most of my time shooting herds of Galimimuses(sp) with the shotgun. It was a pretty scary game with the raptors though, because they just came out of the forest out of nowhere.

I'm pretty sure there was an NES version of this game that was like this. Pretty interesting, because I would have thought that the NES was totally dead by this point.
 
One of my best friends loved this game back in the day. So he decided once and for all that he would sit down beat it. He played it for hours and hours, which if I remember correctly, were spread throughout a weekend or so. He came home one day to find that the SNES had been turned off by his brother, which prompted him to murder him*. He claims he was so close to the end, as well.. sucks, eh?



* Not really.
 
ManaByte said:
The Genesis version was more fun.
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Absoultely. And Rampage Edition, the sequel, also happens to be one of the most underrated 2D action/shooters around. I always have a hard time deciding which weapon I should grab the Bandolier with, as they're all just so much fun to crush your enemies with. :D
 
Well, I had the NES one. It was an okay game if I remember. It had an overhead view like the SNES version apparently. Some parts I remember from the game are fighting a T-Rex, constantly running away from raptors, and the rafting part (which was cool!). It seemed to be more based off the book than the movie.
 
The NES one is similar only in basic gameplay (ie, top down, run around shooting dinosaurs) but the SNES one had more of an adventure feel to it. I REALLY REALLY liked this game. I was of "the Jurassic Park" age Zaxxon mentioned. This was one of those weird games that you played for short spurts, never to get very far, then suddenly decided to finish one day in one sitting. One long, fairly tortuous sitting, because the FPS levels turn into a battle of whether you have enough ammo to snipe the raptors/dilos and whether you have the memory to remember exactly where everything is in every building, since backtracking was a big part of the game. I remember feeling extraordinarily dazed and spaced after finishing it (and seeing the lame-ass ending, which I believe consisted of a picture of the Jurassic Park logo on an island scaling out then rotating to signify you being on a helicopter flying away).

I liked it because it was pretty unique. It had basic overhead shooter gameplay crossed with a bit of Zelda, a (little) bit of platforming and basic FPS-ing -- it was unique enough to stick in your memory. It also really managed to suck you into the Jurassic Park world. The Park was HUGE, and the building/dungeons were also pretty damned massive (multiple floors and all). And it was also scary as hell. Whether it's the raptors attacking on the roof of the visitor's centre (cue OH SHIT OH SHIT WHERE ARE MY ROCKETS) or the infamous T-Rex or hearing a raptor behind you in the FPS bits, man, that game could really make you jump.

And hey, remember that this was one of the first mouselook FPSes? :-)
 
I prefered the Genesis JP, even though that was more of an action sidescroller. I just didn't think the SNES game was very well done. It had those cool night vision goggle segments, which probably scared me as a little kid, but I really can't remember.
 
I have read crappy reviews of the Genesis JP, but I remember loving to play it. Years later I got a used SNES and bought its Jurassic Park mentioned in this thread. Although the graphics are much more sophisticated than the Genesis one, I could not really get into it. I remember it started getting hard in the first person mode... I died and quit.

I would have been impressive back in the day, wish I'd have tried it then.
 
Yeah, the no save thing pissed me off. I played the thing in the one sitting...nearly got to the end until my mum came in angry as a bull because of the amount of time I had spent playing it, and hit the power button. It was a very sad day...I still cry myself to sleep.
 
To this day, no game has scared me as much as SNES JP. The first person parts were freaky as hell for its time, and I was a lot younger then so the effect left a much deeper impression. The fact that you couldn't save only made the damn thing scarier. I paticularly remember one indoor area with like 7 or 8 sublevels and tons of night vision rooms that freaked me out every time. I was always dashing through without any life left, hoping I wouldn't die.

And the T-Rex popping out of the trees on the overhead view was always worth a jump or to as well.

Also of note is the game's music, it was spectacular.

The worst part about it was that horrid egg hunt at the end. My brothers and I played without guides at the time and we had to search for every one of those things before beating it. Took us all weekend, and just like someone else mentioned, the ending screen was definitely not worth it.

But the game itself was very cool, and I have always considered it to be WAY ahead of its time. Was loads better than the forgetable linear Genesis side scroller which let you play as OMG a raptor!!

Did anyone else ever try playing the first person areas with the Mario Paint mouse?

I don't remember it working to well, but our mouse was busted, too.
 
I have very fond memories of the JP arcade machine. It was one of the first arcade games I played that actually tossed you around. What a great game.

I remember playing the SNES JP game, and I still have the NP issue with the strategy guide for the game, but I always liked the Genesis version better. The SNES version was just too clunky for my liking, but then again, the hit detection on the Genesis game was just as atrocious. :lol
 
SNES Jurassic Park was cool... it was like a blend of Fester's Quest and Zelda. And Wolf3D. WITH DINOSAURS!

SNES Jurassic Park II was very difficult to me for some reason. I hit a wall on one of the earlier stages and was never able to progress.
 
I played it with the mouse. Wasn't too bad, but it was also a bit awkward.

The arcade Lost World was AWESOME. I remember a bunch of us sneaking out during a slow bit in our high school prom (speeches, blah fucking blah blah) to hit the arcades for some 8 player Daytona and various shooters. I picked Lost World :-)
 
I liked the awful PSone JP game in which I could be a T Rex and eat people to replenish health.


That was awesome.
 
I remember being very frustrated by SNES Jurassic Park. I played it a fair bit, but got stuck at one point which I couldn't get past despite multiple tries (I was young, and probably sucked). The mix of top-down and first-person views was a novel mix for me at the time, though.
 
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