I have a love/hate relationship with this game. I bught it, played it, gather all the information I was capable of, made my own maps of everything and take one weekend with my best pal (we were 13-14 at the time) to beat it, non-stop play until we finnished it. It took almost 18 hours of a day and a night but we were there, just three more steps and we'll have done it... and my father entered my room, yelled at us for having been so many time in front of the tv and shut the system off... fuck, I've never been so angry at someone in my life, I think I still have angry issues with him because of the SNES JP incident... So, having gone so far I and grasping the victory, we were defeated. I sold the game to a videogame store the next monday, leaving inside the box all the info stuff and the maps, step list, etc we had gathered. 15 years later, I came back to the city I lived as a boy and saw a SNES JP game in a pawn shop for only a couple euros. Nostalgia beat me and I bought it only to discover it was my original copy, with all my info stuff still inside, all my notes, my friend's drawings and the maps. Everything... plus every other player's info stuff that had the game after I sold it also inside that box. It even had corrections over things we did and we could had done better. At least 6 different writing beside mine and my friend's. Never played it again, but it still decorates my studio to this day.
Bought this game from Curry's one Boxing Day with my Christmas money, and100% agree, the lack of save/passwords ruined it for me. It would have been not too bad a game with them. It's a lot more tollerable in this day and age with emulators and save states!
It would have been a decent game-with a freaking save system. I still remember the first time I discovered the Triceratops and was promptly charged and stomped to death. When the game restarted with it's "Welcome to Jurassic Park" 16 bit voice, I was like "WTF!!!". Glad I only rented it but I had a cousin that bought it-he got it down to only 1 egg left but his parents made him quit after playing all day.
Ah, this game. I rented this game from a video rental store back when it was brand new and stayed up late into the night playing it. I got pretty far and had a technique down to where I wouldn't die. Anyway, I'm playing the indoor part where it's the FPS and my strategy of opening a door to see if there is a dino and backing out of the room if there was one betrayed me. As I was backing out the door closed and I got stuck in the geometry. I could see the next room and the dino which wasn't agro'd but I couldn't move and I couldn't open the door. To fix it I'd have to turn off my SNES and since there was no save system...well, you guessed it. So, I simply turned off the game, went to bed and promptly returned the game to the rental store the next day.
Ocean often used smaller cart sizes to save on production costs because the film license was crippling expensive to acquire. That along with tight deadlines meant varied graphics, sound and features like a save were all too expensive to implement.
As an adult, I got my hands on this game again using emulators, and figured, "Yay, now thanks to modern technology, I can beat this game! I can save and load when I want, it should be a breeze!" I was horribly wrong. After playing it for a while, and suffering serious mental trauma for re-experiencing my struggling childhood, I was getting near the end... but the game crashed at one of the last cave thingies and there was no way to get around it. Fuck this game. Great music though. The dungeon music gives me chills and the jungle music kicks ass.
It took a few years of practice but I did finally beat this game "in one mammoth session". I had to memorize the most efficient order to go to the buildings and where all the ID cards were. Takes ~6 hours when you get it all nailed down... at least it did when I was like 11 or something lol
6 hours? Think I managed to beat it in 3 once I got everything memorized. Then again, I actually found a secret room in a cliffside where I could stock up on bolas and rockets (the only worthwhile weapons) making the game significantly easier and thus reducing the playtime. That ending tho... So infuriating.
I played this a loooong time ago and did manage to beat it after not too long. When I knew I was at the end, I was looking so forward to seeing maybe a 16 bit version of something referencing the last scenes in the movie or hearing the theme song. The chopper flies away, you sit there staring at an empty helipad and it said ‘Congratulations’, more or less, and then you went back to the title screen. I’m sure there are some playthroughs on RUclips somewhere that show the exact ending, but I remember it was so lacking in anything. I turned it off and never played it again.
can't remember how long it took us but me and my brother beat the game by never turning the gaming system off and just turning off the tv between gaming sessions... we had hand drawn maps of all the buildings and then when you get to the end there isn't even a satisfying pay off... I think you board a helicopter and then a non 3d modeled island with the Jurassic park logo comes into view and the screen says the end... we did it but were definitely annoyed with the complete lack of a cut scene or anything.
Rampage Edition on the Genesis is still fun even though I have no idea what's going on. Playing as a raptor in a side-scroller is just ridiculously satisfying.
I fucking remember this game. It was one of the only 3 games we ever had for SNES because we were poor AF. I had to *learn* to love it simply out of necessity.
Man, that video game was so frustrating to me... It came with my SNES and I played it for hours because back then I was a fan of dinosaurs and 'Jurassic Park' but, like you, I was completely lost most of the time, just wandering there, killing dinos and collecting eggs. The amount of lost hours and the lack of a saving option killed that game for me, so I abandoned it, and went to my computer and played one of the most awesome video games ever, 'Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis'. Great memories with that one.
Sniffing glue was one of the more popular pass-times in my home town, which is why completing this bastard of a game gave me such pride all those years ago.
I had this game and inevitably finished it a few times. It took me ages to figure out that to drop the nerve gas you just had to walk over the raptor eggs. I got that far a couple of times in the game only to give up because that info wasn't given. Also, you mentioned two of the three sins committed by this game. The lack of a save function and easily getting lost in buildings. But the biggest kick in the nuts was the ending. Just a caption, Congratulations. You have escaped Jurassic Park. The a helicopter view flying over the map of the island with a JP logo on it. Then roll credits. All that work. For such a shitty lazy ending. Makes me wish I had the megadrive version.
I recall my brother getting stuck in a door right before the end of the game after I had spent so many hours now wasted getting to that point; turned the game off and never played it again.
Damn i loved this game when i was 10, you'd probably love it too if the only other games you had were Dragon's lair, Battletoads and Tintin in Tibet xD Btw it's based on Crichton's book, and Muldoon actually blow up a raptor with a rocket launcher in it. Jurassic Park and the Lost word are great reads, way better than the movies in my opinion.
I played this game so much, and would relish just surviving and being able to explore. Also it scared the shit out of me on multiple locations. And the soundtrack and graphics were awesome. I suppose it's realistic, that many of the larger dinosaurs just crunch your little bones like dried spaghetti noodles, but it put me off of wanting to finish it with instant death lurking in almost any given screen.
If you think the lack of game saving sucks, just wait until you see the ending. A friend and I finished this game over a summer break back in high school. Definitely wasn't worth the effort.
The inability to save was so baffling and miserable. The lack of direction was worse. I was so angry when I finally found the terminal hidden behind a door, which had caused me to waste so many hours double-checking everything. And then, when I FINALLY reached the end, it was so anti-climactic I wanted to cry
I was obsessed with dinosaurs and animals, when I was a kid. I bought Sea Monsters on wii thinking that the game would be epic, boy was my young kid self so wrong... this video reminded me of that.
This game was actually the best Jurassic Park game I have played. If only there was the ability to save/password to continue it would be fine. There was also a glitch on the ship that crashed the game. I will play this on an emulator from time to time because I can Save State. This gives a Zelda/Metroidvania game a run for it's money in complexity, especially for the SNES. I can beat Super Metroid (a game I can save) in half the time it takes to play this. I would play a remaster of this if it ever came out.
Would you be surprised if I told you I completed this game on an actual SNES? That is after countless hours of practice, trial and error and just plain being young enough to have the time to commit to it and nothing else to do. Ask me to do it today, eyeah... no. Off the top of my head, things I can remember: turn on the generator at building A, reboot computers at B, kill raptors at a secret cave (yes, there are secret caves on this) and go to ship to call in a helicopter. Let me know if I missed anything.
You have to collect all the eggs. The events of the game are actually based on the book instead of the movie because Universal only gave Ocean the promo materials. Before they leave the island they had to rig the raptor nest with explosives. Even with the low detail, it was interesting to see the game renders for locations from the book that wasn't in the movie, like the inside of the raptor paddock.
Loved a later game, where you actually got to build the park. Of course, it would eventually get boring and you ended up trapping the tourists on the island and letting the dinos out !
I remember going to a Gamestop back when that was a new store and seeing this in the used games bin. I had no idea what the gameplay was, and the image I had in my head was a simulated 3-D dinosaur hunting simulator, a DOOM clone basically. Getting mom to buy it for me, both of us acting on faith, I took it home and found out much to my surprise that the cartridge was broken and the game couldn't even start. Ever since that day I had this ideal fantasized dinosaur-hunting arcade shooter... even though in retrospect, Jurassic Park never really involved anyone shooting down the Dinosaurs and it wasn't realistic of me to expect that, despite the trend of SNES games completely and utterly bastardizing the core vision of the movies and shows they were based on.
I put countless hours into this game as a kid, and honestly, I thought it was fun. The no saves or passwords to catch up to a stage ruined the game. No way in hell would I ever sit for this game, end to end.
My mother and father played this a good bit when I was real real young, mother actually went so far as to make a comprehensive map and guide to the game, right down to where each enemy was in each room of each floor in each building. Dont own the game anymore, but still own the Cypher, will play it again one day.
Gods, I loved this game as a kid. I think I'm a masochist, though, as I can understand the frustration it causes. I beat it twice as a kid, and my family eventually made an event out of it. We'd leave the console on for a few days, trading turns at progression, made a notepad full of critical locations of id cards, raptor eggs, objectives, etc. Beat the game recently and I have to say it is so much easier on a Retron 5 with its pixel save feature.
This is the only video game my dad ever played and he got hooked....for one day. Played it for hours then said ok I'm good he never touched a video game again. I know your pain though. My sister and I would try to beat this and would leave the game on all day so we could try again at night but inevitably the power would go out or something. I have it on raspberry pi now so maybe I'll beat it someday but there nostalgia wasn't strong enough to care when I loaded up the game and the PTSD truly crushed any desire
Say what you want about the lack of saving options, but I think the grueling memorization and optimizing and map drawing did wonders for our developing neurons.
I fell for this game too. I even called the game creators and a guy on the phone tried to help me beat the game but I could never beat it because I couldn't save. I finally watched the ending a month ago on RUclips and wow was I disappointed and glad I never beat it as a child :)
i remember renting this game several times in a row from one of the Block Buster videos in the city. i also remember getting really annoyed by the fact that there was minimal direction, and very poor view range. The indoor sections were so frustrating, and repetitive that i eventually gave up.
I'll admit I was a Genesis (Mega Drive) kid back then and I might have made fun of some of my classmates for owning the SNES version of this game. It felt so good to have a solid win over those Mario-tards. SEGA FTW!!! I remember bragging that the Genesis version let you play as the MFing Velociraptor cause SEGA is just badass like that. The Genesis version sold so well they made a sequel. Console War flashbacks aside, the SNES JP game is a disaster and I can't for the life of me figure out why this unplayable trash ever got released. Those first person in-door areas.... EEEEEWWWWWWWWW!!! Who would buy such a game? Honestly, it would have been better to just not release any JP game than put this out and make your competitor look better.
I had this on Super NES I was a teenager man the memories I wish I could go back good times :) one thing I remember about this game was not knowing what to do where to go I don’t think I ever completed it
different approach : explore the map. kill dinos. locate places. Repeat. That's what I liked about that game, you explore first then you know what to do and get to uh, leave the island. but holy shit, having a way to save or use passwords/codes, still the ending was like "let's repeat the intro backwards"
More than 25 years later, I am still feeling the pain, the despair, the urge of throwing the whole damned snes through the window when after 3h your mum would call you out, you would stop paying attention en you had to start all over again right from the start
I bought the game back then and it was in French for some reason. A language I do not speak. Did manage to beat it one time only. After never played it again, ever.
Totally agree with you about the save system, but I did complete it, used to just pause the game, turn the TV off and leave my SNES on inbetween sessions. I estimated when I beat it that my last session took me about 4 hours total though, and no game should expect you to sit there playing it for that long in one go. If it's any consolation, the ending is horseshit, you just see a mode 7 version of the Jurassic Park logo on the last helipad spin and fade away, as if to simulate the view from a helicopter taking off and flying away from the island. Then that's it.
I own it, I've beaten it. Your reward is...well, remember the Mode 7 spiraling map from from the beginning? The "flying a helicopter to arrive at Jurassic Park" "intro"? You get that in reverse. Nothing else. No 'You get Win!' or "Thanks, Alan" from the other characters. It plays the intro in reverse.
Shit, I thought the no save was just a standard thing every game of the 90s was missing. I tell my kids how back then you had to finish the game in one go. I had to do that with Game Boy Mortal Kombat and a Sega Shinobi game.
Should have played the megadrive version, that one was pretty good. The T-rex parts where it could jump scare insta kill you from holes torn on the side of the power station were fucking terrifying.
The cherry on top is the end game cutscene is one of the worst and most unrewarding experiences in gaming!! compared to the time and struggle to get through this game, its literally a first person view of a helicopter leaving the island, you dont even see the helicopter! I remember as a kid being like are you f*ing kidding me!!?!
Yeah, this game was fun but super frustrating, especially since it was impossible to beat. I played it all the time and still have no idea where to go after heading to the first few places.
This is so true, I’ve often thought about this game but couldn’t remember why I didn’t ever get very far on it. Now I know why so thanks for clearing that up for me. I too loved Jurassic Park but this game sucks balls big time
Well I finished it while being sick for two weeks, the Nintendo runs for almost 2 weeks straight. You have to get some poisen, then put the poison in the eggs and the it ended. It's like in the book with the poisen. The raptors eat the poisen eggs and die
I'll give you the one about the save function. Otherwise I thought it was a really good game. Awesome soundtrack too. Oh, but yeah, the ending does suck balls.
I have a love/hate relationship with this game. I bught it, played it, gather all the information I was capable of, made my own maps of everything and take one weekend with my best pal (we were 13-14 at the time) to beat it, non-stop play until we finnished it. It took almost 18 hours of a day and a night but we were there, just three more steps and we'll have done it... and my father entered my room, yelled at us for having been so many time in front of the tv and shut the system off... fuck, I've never been so angry at someone in my life, I think I still have angry issues with him because of the SNES JP incident... So, having gone so far I and grasping the victory, we were defeated. I sold the game to a videogame store the next monday, leaving inside the box all the info stuff and the maps, step list, etc we had gathered.
15 years later, I came back to the city I lived as a boy and saw a SNES JP game in a pawn shop for only a couple euros. Nostalgia beat me and I bought it only to discover it was my original copy, with all my info stuff still inside, all my notes, my friend's drawings and the maps. Everything... plus every other player's info stuff that had the game after I sold it also inside that box. It even had corrections over things we did and we could had done better. At least 6 different writing beside mine and my friend's. Never played it again, but it still decorates my studio to this day.
Why is it raining from my face?
@Manin PaperHat I've met some that can. it's a matter of choice, not inability.
awesome story. :)
This is front-page-of-Reddit-worthy.
Those fucking spitting lizard-dinosaurs
and the sound on the game still gives me shivers
What a well made SNES game
Bought this game from Curry's one Boxing Day with my Christmas money, and100% agree, the lack of save/passwords ruined it for me. It would have been not too bad a game with them.
It's a lot more tollerable in this day and age with emulators and save states!
Agreed, being able to save state a 2-4 hour long endurance race and come back to it later is bliss.
It would have been a decent game-with a freaking save system. I still remember the first time I discovered the Triceratops and was promptly charged and stomped to death. When the game restarted with it's "Welcome to Jurassic Park" 16 bit voice, I was like "WTF!!!". Glad I only rented it but I had a cousin that bought it-he got it down to only 1 egg left but his parents made him quit after playing all day.
Shrek explains his hatred for Jurassic Park on the SNES
Alan!!!
Ah, this game. I rented this game from a video rental store back when it was brand new and stayed up late into the night playing it. I got pretty far and had a technique down to where I wouldn't die.
Anyway, I'm playing the indoor part where it's the FPS and my strategy of opening a door to see if there is a dino and backing out of the room if there was one betrayed me. As I was backing out the door closed and I got stuck in the geometry. I could see the next room and the dino which wasn't agro'd but I couldn't move and I couldn't open the door. To fix it I'd have to turn off my SNES and since there was no save system...well, you guessed it.
So, I simply turned off the game, went to bed and promptly returned the game to the rental store the next day.
OttoMoBiehl played it for the entire week rental. Never even came close.
It sounds like you ran into the infamous Ship Sub-Level 2 "freeze" glitch. ruclips.net/video/DBwIq77omRA/видео.html
"I picked a bad day to give up sniffing glue..."
Only the best can understand.
I picked a bad day to give up drinking 🤣
Jurassic Park on Sega Mega Drive was much better than the SNES version.
I only had the SNES but damn I loved the graphics and game play of the megadrive version.
It was actually one of the true gems of the console, in fact. And looked pretty spectacular for its era.
suuuuch a good game!!
I totally agree!
No.
Ocean often used smaller cart sizes to save on production costs because the film license was crippling expensive to acquire. That along with tight deadlines meant varied graphics, sound and features like a save were all too expensive to implement.
As an adult, I got my hands on this game again using emulators, and figured, "Yay, now thanks to modern technology, I can beat this game! I can save and load when I want, it should be a breeze!"
I was horribly wrong. After playing it for a while, and suffering serious mental trauma for re-experiencing my struggling childhood, I was getting near the end... but the game crashed at one of the last cave thingies and there was no way to get around it.
Fuck this game.
Great music though. The dungeon music gives me chills and the jungle music kicks ass.
It took a few years of practice but I did finally beat this game "in one mammoth session". I had to memorize the most efficient order to go to the buildings and where all the ID cards were. Takes ~6 hours when you get it all nailed down... at least it did when I was like 11 or something lol
6 hours? Think I managed to beat it in 3 once I got everything memorized.
Then again, I actually found a secret room in a cliffside where I could stock up on bolas and rockets (the only worthwhile weapons) making the game significantly easier and thus reducing the playtime.
That ending tho... So infuriating.
@@berryforce6017 Having seen speed runs and such since then I now realize 11 year old me had no concept of optimization lol
I remember renting this once, I don't think I ever figured out what I supposed to do, did not rent again.
I played this a loooong time ago and did manage to beat it after not too long. When I knew I was at the end, I was looking so forward to seeing maybe a 16 bit version of something referencing the last scenes in the movie or hearing the theme song. The chopper flies away, you sit there staring at an empty helipad and it said ‘Congratulations’, more or less, and then you went back to the title screen. I’m sure there are some playthroughs on RUclips somewhere that show the exact ending, but I remember it was so lacking in anything. I turned it off and never played it again.
can't remember how long it took us but me and my brother beat the game by never turning the gaming system off and just turning off the tv between gaming sessions... we had hand drawn maps of all the buildings and then when you get to the end there isn't even a satisfying pay off... I think you board a helicopter and then a non 3d modeled island with the Jurassic park logo comes into view and the screen says the end... we did it but were definitely annoyed with the complete lack of a cut scene or anything.
Rampage Edition on the Genesis is still fun even though I have no idea what's going on. Playing as a raptor in a side-scroller is just ridiculously satisfying.
It sucks now, but it was addictive back then.
I fucking remember this game. It was one of the only 3 games we ever had for SNES because we were poor AF. I had to *learn* to love it simply out of necessity.
Love the evolution of your voice...I was wondering for a minute if I was on the right channel
Man, that video game was so frustrating to me... It came with my SNES and I played it for hours because back then I was a fan of dinosaurs and 'Jurassic Park' but, like you, I was completely lost most of the time, just wandering there, killing dinos and collecting eggs. The amount of lost hours and the lack of a saving option killed that game for me, so I abandoned it, and went to my computer and played one of the most awesome video games ever, 'Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis'.
Great memories with that one.
You brought back awful memories of this game that 30 years later I’d forgotten. Thank you 😂
Sniffing glue was one of the more popular pass-times in my home town, which is why completing this bastard of a game gave me such pride all those years ago.
I had this game and inevitably finished it a few times. It took me ages to figure out that to drop the nerve gas you just had to walk over the raptor eggs. I got that far a couple of times in the game only to give up because that info wasn't given.
Also, you mentioned two of the three sins committed by this game. The lack of a save function and easily getting lost in buildings. But the biggest kick in the nuts was the ending. Just a caption, Congratulations. You have escaped Jurassic Park. The a helicopter view flying over the map of the island with a JP logo on it. Then roll credits.
All that work. For such a shitty lazy ending. Makes me wish I had the megadrive version.
I recall my brother getting stuck in a door right before the end of the game after I had spent so many hours now wasted getting to that point; turned the game off and never played it again.
Yea I think my game froze during being on the boat.
Damn i loved this game when i was 10, you'd probably love it too if the only other games you had were Dragon's lair, Battletoads and Tintin in Tibet xD
Btw it's based on Crichton's book, and Muldoon actually blow up a raptor with a rocket launcher in it. Jurassic Park and the Lost word are great reads, way better than the movies in my opinion.
You're so negative I love it.
I played this game so much, and would relish just surviving and being able to explore. Also it scared the shit out of me on multiple locations. And the soundtrack and graphics were awesome. I suppose it's realistic, that many of the larger dinosaurs just crunch your little bones like dried spaghetti noodles, but it put me off of wanting to finish it with instant death lurking in almost any given screen.
If you think the lack of game saving sucks, just wait until you see the ending. A friend and I finished this game over a summer break back in high school. Definitely wasn't worth the effort.
The inability to save was so baffling and miserable. The lack of direction was worse. I was so angry when I finally found the terminal hidden behind a door, which had caused me to waste so many hours double-checking everything. And then, when I FINALLY reached the end, it was so anti-climactic I wanted to cry
Hell yes, I had this game as a kid. And I DID beat it... eventually. I remember instant death parts too, like when the T-Rex chases you around.
I was obsessed with dinosaurs and animals, when I was a kid. I bought Sea Monsters on wii thinking that the game would be epic, boy was my young kid self so wrong... this video reminded me of that.
This game was actually the best Jurassic Park game I have played. If only there was the ability to save/password to continue it would be fine. There was also a glitch on the ship that crashed the game. I will play this on an emulator from time to time because I can Save State.
This gives a Zelda/Metroidvania game a run for it's money in complexity, especially for the SNES.
I can beat Super Metroid (a game I can save) in half the time it takes to play this.
I would play a remaster of this if it ever came out.
HUFFING WAS GLORIOUS! A VALUABLE PAST TIME!
I beat the game but only using a walkthrough, otherwise it was impossible
Would you be surprised if I told you I completed this game on an actual SNES? That is after countless hours of practice, trial and error and just plain being young enough to have the time to commit to it and nothing else to do. Ask me to do it today, eyeah... no. Off the top of my head, things I can remember: turn on the generator at building A, reboot computers at B, kill raptors at a secret cave (yes, there are secret caves on this) and go to ship to call in a helicopter. Let me know if I missed anything.
You have to collect all the eggs.
The events of the game are actually based on the book instead of the movie because Universal only gave Ocean the promo materials. Before they leave the island they had to rig the raptor nest with explosives.
Even with the low detail, it was interesting to see the game renders for locations from the book that wasn't in the movie, like the inside of the raptor paddock.
Funny how memory works, I definitely remember playing it and enjoying it but no recollection of the lack of save or those indoor sections.
The day my parents surprised me with a Super Nintendo, was forever planted in my mind. I couldn’t believe it. That day, I was complete.
Loved a later game, where you actually got to build the park. Of course, it would eventually get boring and you ended up trapping the tourists on the island and letting the dinos out !
I remember going to a Gamestop back when that was a new store and seeing this in the used games bin. I had no idea what the gameplay was, and the image I had in my head was a simulated 3-D dinosaur hunting simulator, a DOOM clone basically. Getting mom to buy it for me, both of us acting on faith, I took it home and found out much to my surprise that the cartridge was broken and the game couldn't even start.
Ever since that day I had this ideal fantasized dinosaur-hunting arcade shooter... even though in retrospect, Jurassic Park never really involved anyone shooting down the Dinosaurs and it wasn't realistic of me to expect that, despite the trend of SNES games completely and utterly bastardizing the core vision of the movies and shows they were based on.
There's something called theHunter Primal...
I put countless hours into this game as a kid, and honestly, I thought it was fun. The no saves or passwords to catch up to a stage ruined the game.
No way in hell would I ever sit for this game, end to end.
You should've played this on Sega Genesis. That one was fun.
My mother and father played this a good bit when I was real real young, mother actually went so far as to make a comprehensive map and guide to the game, right down to where each enemy was in each room of each floor in each building. Dont own the game anymore, but still own the Cypher, will play it again one day.
The game may be bs, but the soundtrack was real great for it’s time
Gods, I loved this game as a kid. I think I'm a masochist, though, as I can understand the frustration it causes. I beat it twice as a kid, and my family eventually made an event out of it. We'd leave the console on for a few days, trading turns at progression, made a notepad full of critical locations of id cards, raptor eggs, objectives, etc. Beat the game recently and I have to say it is so much easier on a Retron 5 with its pixel save feature.
This is the only video game my dad ever played and he got hooked....for one day. Played it for hours then said ok I'm good he never touched a video game again. I know your pain though. My sister and I would try to beat this and would leave the game on all day so we could try again at night but inevitably the power would go out or something. I have it on raspberry pi now so maybe I'll beat it someday but there nostalgia wasn't strong enough to care when I loaded up the game and the PTSD truly crushed any desire
Say what you want about the lack of saving options, but I think the grueling memorization and optimizing and map drawing did wonders for our developing neurons.
It's funny how the best thing after the 1st Jurassic Park movie for the franchise was the 2015 Lego game😂
Not true there was good jurassic park games before that
Really hope you do more of these one day!!!
I fell for this game too. I even called the game creators and a guy on the phone tried to help me beat the game but I could never beat it because I couldn't save. I finally watched the ending a month ago on RUclips and wow was I disappointed and glad I never beat it as a child :)
Wow Mr. Negative! This game is great for its time. If you’ve read the book you might understand the premise.
*Allen Intensifies*
Wow! I had this game as a kid.
i remember renting this game several times in a row from one of the Block Buster videos in the city.
i also remember getting really annoyed by the fact that there was minimal direction, and very poor view range.
The indoor sections were so frustrating, and repetitive that i eventually gave up.
I'll admit I was a Genesis (Mega Drive) kid back then and I might have made fun of some of my classmates for owning the SNES version of this game. It felt so good to have a solid win over those Mario-tards. SEGA FTW!!! I remember bragging that the Genesis version let you play as the MFing Velociraptor cause SEGA is just badass like that. The Genesis version sold so well they made a sequel.
Console War flashbacks aside, the SNES JP game is a disaster and I can't for the life of me figure out why this unplayable trash ever got released. Those first person in-door areas.... EEEEEWWWWWWWWW!!! Who would buy such a game? Honestly, it would have been better to just not release any JP game than put this out and make your competitor look better.
How dare you! This is a classic and I still play it on my phone haha
I loved this Game for sega because you could choose to play as the people or dinosaurs
I remember picking the dinos and Grant was OP as hell
I had this on Super NES I was a teenager man the memories I wish I could go back good times :) one thing I remember about this game was not knowing what to do where to go I don’t think I ever completed it
I played this for a long time and it is one of the few I never finished. The damn T-Rex was a killer for me...got eaten a lot.
This was my exact experience with this game. Right down the glue.
different approach : explore the map. kill dinos. locate places. Repeat. That's what I liked about that game, you explore first then you know what to do and get to uh, leave the island.
but holy shit, having a way to save or use passwords/codes, still the ending was like "let's repeat the intro backwards"
You spoke so fast in your old vids. If I was drinking I’d be dizzy as hell! Aye!
My Mom got me this game for my birthday. Thank God she got it from the bargain bin.
Don't worry. I got Donkey Kong Country 2, also.
Donkey kong 2
The hardest of the DKs
I dont think I ever beat that game
1 and 3 yes
but not 2
Shit i might need to go do that
@@azmanabdula Yeah, I never actually beat Kaptain K. Rool, now that I think of it.
Welp, time to dust off the ol' Super Nes...
The Genesis port is so much better .
Finished it, takes 2 hours. Loved it back in the day.
Those dark rooms scared the piss out of me then.
Couldn't speak English back when my parents bought this for me, so even Nedry calling me a sucker caused some major confusion.
More than 25 years later, I am still feeling the pain, the despair, the urge of throwing the whole damned snes through the window when after 3h your mum would call you out, you would stop paying attention en you had to start all over again right from the start
Closest I got to beating was I think some kind of ship/dock area. Its been years.
I beat it. Every key card, every egg. You get on the helicopter, game over. No unlocks, no cheats, no new modes. The end.
God pain of a game. No idea as kid what to do. No saves. I'll tell my kids this was hell.
I personally like the game. I found the milestones euphoric. Rocket launcher and bolo snare rifle are most certainly the best combo.
I have a lot of fond memories of this game. But then again, I played in on an emulator, which had a save function.
It was good but the no save really did suck.
I bought the game back then and it was in French for some reason. A language I do not speak.
Did manage to beat it one time only. After never played it again, ever.
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs was a great game with dinos that came out around the same time
Intant Thumps-Up for the headline....
Totally agree with you about the save system, but I did complete it, used to just pause the game, turn the TV off and leave my SNES on inbetween sessions. I estimated when I beat it that my last session took me about 4 hours total though, and no game should expect you to sit there playing it for that long in one go. If it's any consolation, the ending is horseshit, you just see a mode 7 version of the Jurassic Park logo on the last helipad spin and fade away, as if to simulate the view from a helicopter taking off and flying away from the island. Then that's it.
it took me years to finally find the last raptor egg, only to leave me with the most anti-climactic ending of all time.
I own it, I've beaten it. Your reward is...well, remember the Mode 7 spiraling map from from the beginning? The "flying a helicopter to arrive at Jurassic Park" "intro"?
You get that in reverse.
Nothing else. No 'You get Win!' or "Thanks, Alan" from the other characters. It plays the intro in reverse.
Holy shit that's wank.
I only had the the sega genesis version, i remember enjoying it
that one was good this one is meh
I actually really liked the SNES game..man it took forever to beat . movie was my childhood though
I played the Gameboy version of this. It's basically impossible.
Shit, I thought the no save was just a standard thing every game of the 90s was missing. I tell my kids how back then you had to finish the game in one go. I had to do that with Game Boy Mortal Kombat and a Sega Shinobi game.
Should have played the megadrive version, that one was pretty good. The T-rex parts where it could jump scare insta kill you from holes torn on the side of the power station were fucking terrifying.
I played it... Never beat it.
Huh, the Jurassic Park I played was on Sega genesis, and was a very different game. Still not actually GOOD mind you, but different.
Lex's full name is Alex Murphy? Holy shit
The Sega version was awesome
Got stuck when you got to the docks... but couldn't find a bloody keycard :P
Oh my god!!! Those first person stages!!!! Lmao... it’s one tough game
The game is not that bad, and I actually enjoyed not having any clue on what to do, it gives more mystery to the game. Never finished it though
The cherry on top is the end game cutscene is one of the worst and most unrewarding experiences in gaming!! compared to the time and struggle to get through this game, its literally a first person view of a helicopter leaving the island, you dont even see the helicopter! I remember as a kid being like are you f*ing kidding me!!?!
Had this game too. Had no idea how to play and I never beat it. And I was pissed off because it never saved anything
Yeah, this game was fun but super frustrating, especially since it was impossible to beat. I played it all the time and still have no idea where to go after heading to the first few places.
I still remember the Easter my brother and I got further than ever in this game. Curious how it ends!
Lol ohhhh trust me you didn't miss much!!
My dad beat this game as a kid. I loved it.
This is so true, I’ve often thought about this game but couldn’t remember why I didn’t ever get very far on it. Now I know why so thanks for clearing that up for me. I too loved Jurassic Park but this game sucks balls big time
Well I finished it while being sick for two weeks, the Nintendo runs for almost 2 weeks straight. You have to get some poisen, then put the poison in the eggs and the it ended. It's like in the book with the poisen. The raptors eat the poisen eggs and die
I've beat this game on three separate occasions.
Yeah, I remember this game. Luckily I was not a neive child, I had already been there, it was called ET...
I'll give you the one about the save function. Otherwise I thought it was a really good game. Awesome soundtrack too.
Oh, but yeah, the ending does suck balls.
This game was torture. I was scared of the first person sections where it got dark. Why did I keep playing it?
Haha, your review of the game is priceless!