Is Jurassic Park [SNES] Worth Playing Today? - SNESdrunk
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Most underrated snes soundtrack imo
Beavis and butthead
Agreed. This is one of the best game soundtracks ever. In fact I prefer this to Williams original movie score, although they can’t really be compared.
Triceratops Trot has a true early 90s vibe
@@JTSuter Gallimimus Gallop is right there too
I have a list of my top 15 all time favorite video game music. I´ve been planning to make a video about it since ages ago, but never got around to it. I also hate my own voice, which I would have to use to narrate. I´m just not a charming talker, my voice sounds more annoying than charming.
Anyway, one track from this game is #14 on that list. I think the official name for it is something with "Triceratops...", the song that plays when you´re in the mountains....
Man this game. This game.
I bought it as a kid but had to wait for the internet to be invented, find a .txt walkthru to beat it, and the ending *spoilers* is just the intro played in reverse.
Saaaaaaaaaame
One of the most disappointing ending ever .
i owned this game as a kid, and played it a lot. with each time i got better and progressed farther. One day, ive been playing the game for hours and got so far, ive collected most of the cards, i just remember being so close to the end but i was stuck on something. i couldnt figure it out, after exploring the whole island multiple times and looking everywhere, i couldnt find that kay card. I quit the game, and i never played it again because it took me for ever to get to the part where i was. He forgot to mention there is no continues, and shit. its a good game, but that major flaw was what made that game bad...
My brother beat it and got everything in it without the internet lol
Empire Lifts Back true story man. I remember this as well, you had to get some key card to enter a room on boat or some shit. Did finish yearsssss later though.
I played this for hours at my grandpa's house in '99, and it's a part of my life long love affair with the SNES
Me too
Same.
I've been waiting for this review! I loved this game as a kid but i had no idea what i was supposed to do. So instead, i role played someone trying to survive on the island. I'd hunt for food and supplies, make my own base, and generally make up my own goals.
And yeah, the music is fantastic.
I did the same thing. Whenever I hit locked doors I would always try to unlock them out of pure curiosity and nothing else.
2:05 those things are called bolos. They're like grenades on strings. Also if you can't find the key cards you need you'll be wandering around for hours.
Bolas*
They're not grenades on strings, they're snares. You'd use them to tangle the legs of something and prevent it from running away. They do not explode haha.
I got this when I was 8 and didn't beat it till I was 14 because of the no saving. I loved the game and music. And what I learned later when I read the book is some of the missions were straight from the book like the putting the nerve gas in the raptor nest. That was not in the movie, but it was in the book.
2:34 - That's how I prefer it. Memorization. That's why I am so good at remembering maps.
3:40 - I understand where you're coming from, but you're looking at it wrong here.
You should be thinking of the FPS sections in the term of a horror game, because they're damn good effective at that.
5:26 - If I'm not mistaking, the Chaos Continues was based on a Comic, or something. Also a great game.
I love this game myself. I absolutely think it's worth playing today.
With this game, it's not the ending that matters, it's the journey.
You don't even need to explore all of the island but you can, you absolutely can. And that's fantastic.
It's one of the rare cases where the game is actually better now then it was in it's time, since its biggest fault (no save system) is solved with emulator save-states.
I always loved this game too. I was obsessed with JP after I read the book, and the idea of an open-world adventure set in the JP universe was right up my alley. It felt like Zelda meets Wolfenstein 3D meets Jurassic Park. Hard to go wrong there.
And the music was so awesome, I actually recorded onto a cassette tape back in the day so I could listen to it anywhere. First time I ever did that with a video game soundtrack.
looks like the adams family game where u play as uncle fester for snes
The Jurassic Park collection that came out recently fixes a lot of these issues , you can save and it has a map, it's honestly a pretty good game
nostalgia for that music.... i remember renting this as a kid in the 90s and being blown away by the first person / third person transitions. I could not believe more people weren't talking about it. haha. great video.
This video brings back so many memories. Jurassic Park was the first SNES game that I ever played.
Totally unrelated but, the title music for the Gameboy port of this game was amazing, I still listen to it to this day.
Thank you for not mercilessly shitting on this game. I remember sitting down and beating this in one or two sittings back in the 90s and thinking how badly it needed a save or password option. Luckily emulators fix that problem, but the graphics definitely look dated in the FPS sections.
The music, like you mentioned, is awesome. Ocean did an outstanding job with this one, which is very unlike them at the time- typically cashing in on most licensed movie properties with half-assed games.
I always wanted to play the Sega CD JP game which took more cues from Myst, which was quite popular at the time, but thanks to RUclips I don’t have to slog through it.
Anyways, thanks for the video! And those weapons that kill everything in one hit are bolas BTW.
I love this game. I went through and beat it during 2020 using my Retron 5 for saving purposes. Such a fun experience.
Go for the DOS version, that one had passwords or a save IIRC. It was pretty similar to this, even down to the FPS mode. It also had better graphics.
I beat this as a kid back in the 90s by drawing my own maps to all the inside areas and just learning my way around the outside parts. It was an impressive feat for back then before the internet, and if im not mistaken, I had to leave the snes on overnight and while I went to school to come back to it and finish
I distinctly remember an Electronics Botique ad for games that year, that mentioned you could play as a raptor in the SNES version. Was really disappointed when I rented it and you couldn't. Apparently the just reprinted the text from the Genesis version for both versions. I remember the Game Gear JP was pretty fun.
You could switch between the primary weapon and the cattle prod by pressing select. That way you wouldn't have to waste your rockets on the really small enemies on the map. I would generally use the rockets on the raptors and pachysauruses, the explosive bolas (the ball thingy) on the spitters and dragonflies, and would just avoid the T-Rex like the plague.
Ah, the ONE game I remember that I don't mind using Save states on.
JPII: The Chaos Continues is actually pretty great as a co-op game.
I love this game. Its not easy, but pretty cool. Like contra with dinos
@@MrJodanlime with selective targets. You couldn't use lethal force on dinos but its ok for humans from memory
The opening intro cutscene was great for its time. Wish we'd gotten a good animated Jurassic Park show or anime.
Game is great, but dang can it be brutal on hard.
Gotta love those save states emulators give you now.
"Pretty great", you kidding? This game is a straight masterpiece in every facet. It's definitely a harder game, but nowhere near impossible when you take the time to learn the levels and get into the flow of the mechanics. Honestly, I only beat it on easy without infinite lives because it takes a flawless playthrough to get all the way to the end (no password system again). Best Jurassic Park game ever made! And one of the best run and guns on the system! Plus if your quick and nimble enough, you can learn the fine art of raptor dancing. Try dancing with two raptors for a challenge. This game rules! And I haven't even mentioned the soundtrack yet.
I remember one flamethrower guy would always come out of nowhere and completely ruin your day
This looks a lot like the gameboy Jurassic Park game, which is an alright but hard as balls game. The music in absolutely slaps though. I used to just turn it on as a kid to listen to the music, cos I couldn't get past level 2 anyway. It was only decades later that I learnt it's basically the exact same game as the NES one, just in black and white obviously. Nobody I knew had a NES (nobody really bought the NES in my country, we were master system and mega drive people) so I'd have had no idea of knowing
But yeah it's got the same top down view thing as this
Yeah. There's also Jurassic Park Part II: The Chaos Continues for Game Boy, which is a simple but fun side-scrolling shooter. It has some really neat levels and the music is killer.
Interesting how both the SNES and Genesis got sequel games before the movie sequel and that they were both more action orientated than the original games. The Genesis got Jurassic Park Rampage Edition which was built off the original game's engine, but much faster paced with way more enemies, also Grant used lethal weapons against dinos and humans.
Minor correction: Ocean’s _Untouchables_ game was based on the 1987 feature film, not the TV series (which aired from 1959 to 1963). Other than that, solid as always, NessDrunk!
Incorrect, the game was based on the 90s TV series reboot (which did not last long). That's why you see William Forsythe instead of any of the actors from the film.
Sorry, but that’s just not correct. Here’s the full story of the game’s development as a tie-in to the ‘87 film:
www.retrogamer.net/retro_games80/the-making-of-the-untouchables/
Um, that's the NES game, not the SNES game...
@SNES drunk Oh, you meant the SNES version exclusively? Didn’t realise that; sorry. That one’s a whole different kettle o’ fish, true (completely different from all other versions, for the reason you stated). To be honest, I’d forgotten that there even _was_ a SNES version. My apologies.
This game brings back great memories. I remember my dad drawing up all the maps himself and spending countless hours with my babysitter playing this and amazingly reaching that helipad one night. I never quite finished it myself, I got within 2 eggs of winning and got in a fight with my little brother. In an incredible act of stupidity I punished myself to punish him and shut the game off, destroying all progress. He had been watching me try to beat it and I knew this would make him mad too. I think I was around 8 at the time.
I played this when it was new and loved it so much but wow that ending was a kick in the nuts, especially after staying up all night to beat it.
Rented the snes jp back in the day and found it a pretty good game but the save/password/map issues tarnished it tbh. On the other hand, the megadrive jp. I bought it from a local games shop on sale and after playing through it, sold it to another local games shop a week or two later and ended up with profit. Wasn’t even planned lol, Total win!
If I could make a suggestion, @SNES drunk you have absolutely to play Jurassic Park on Master System: it was a really cool platformer game with some clever mechanics. Plus Jurassic Park 3 on GBA (the isometric one with a Resident Evil vibe).
Another trip down memory lane. Exact same for me rented this one and played it briefly the gen version at a friend house
the snes game was a solid rental back in the day. good memories. playing it w/ savestates now sounds pretty good!
uh-huh.
I had this back in the day. I played hours and hours and... i think it is the only snes game i couldn't beat! I could reach to some really advanced part almost with my eyes closed but then, i never discovered what i should do. No google, no maps, no guides at that time. I can tell the first person parts were really ejoyable in 93, at least they were for me!
Played this game for hours. Even once you figured out the first section the odds of surviving and making it through to even try and figure out the next sections were slim to none. Just a brutal game
NINTENDO POWER had a map and it helped...kind of but it was more fun wandering around aimless if you have a few hours to kill.
I remember renting that game from Blockbuster and too bad I never finished the game but I definitely enjoyed it.
Totally worth it! I finally finished the game these days, and took me hours! Its a complicated game that let you lost sometimes.
I didn't know fear until I played this game when I was a kid. When you're being chased by the triceratops and T-rex can really light a fire under your ass
The no save thing makes dying even more brutal. Love this game!!! Wish there wasn't so much hate for it.
God that music haunts me. This game as a 7 year old scared me haha
Jurassic park the Lost world for the genesis is one if the best jurassic park games ever IMHO
Man you should play the other 2 Jurassic Park games for the genesis. Jurassic Park Rampage Edition it has the same grafics as the JP you played on sega genesis, but is much more fun. And The lost Word, wich kinda looks like the game from this video but, again, is SO much better. It has 2 player co-op and many diferent "types" of levels that change the pase a little from the isometric kinda view.
Jurassic park is always worth playing. Takes me back to being 7/8 years old. Thanks.
My Brother and I played the hell out of this and would always see who could get the furthest, one weekend we said enough is enough and we sat in the basement and wouldn't stop until we wrapped it, 8 hours later we got it done
The real question to ask. Is Jurassic Park 2 The Chaos Continues still worth playing today? The game had great Co-Op, an amazing soundtrack, and was pretty challenging to boot.
Did you know the Gameboy version of Jurassic Park is basically this exact same game? I don't know if the levels are the same but it's overhead view like this. (Though I don't recall any first person points in the GameBoy port)
I have some major nostalgia for the PC MS dos version of this game.
The Super NES version of Jurassic Park looks and plays totally different from the Genesis version (the one I had).
This game doesn't hold up for the same reasons that the movie doesn't hold up.
1. DNA degrades too early for 66 million year old fossils to be of any use when cloning extinct species back to life. You'd have better luck de-extincting a passenger pigeon, woolly mammoth, aurochs, moa, dodo, or Tasmanian tiger. Non-avian dinosaurs are right out. There's also no way you'd extract blood from fossilized mosquitoes that old. Not even from the species shown in the movie, which doesn't suck blood. Not all skeeter species are bloodsuckers. The Caribbean islands don't produces fossils that old, not by a margin of a few dozen million years.
2. Even if we forgave the problems with extracting dino DNA from fossilized skeeters, we couldn't suture the gaps in the animals' genomes with frog DNA. Modern amphibians a k.a. lissamphibians are too far removed from any dinosaur. The zygote wouldn't survive fertilization. You'd have better luck using bird DNA.
3. How the hell were Mesozoic PLANTS cloned back? Xylem cloning? NEVER EXPLAINED!
4. Jurassic Park? More like CRETACEOUS Park! Only two dinosaur genera shown in Jurassic Park actually lived during the Jurassic period, and even then at very different times. No brachiosaur or dilophosaur ever saw a T. rex or Triceratops.
5. Brachiosaurs. Oh boy. They wouldn't have eaten eucalyptus leaves, which would be as toxic to them as they are to most animals alive today. They slurped leaves off tree branches with very little chewing involved. They also didn't sneeze; only birds and mammals do that. Nor did real brachiosaurs shake the ground with their front feet.
6. Dilophosaurs did not have those neck frills, nor the structures to support them. There's no evidence that they spit venom. They were fast enough to outrun a T. rex.
7. T. rex did not have motion-based vision, and it didn't roar. It would have sounded more birdlike. T. rex also had huge olfactory bulbs and could SMELL you coming. Those kids in the Jeep should have died then and there.
8. The dromaeosaurs shown in the movie are more in line with Deinonychus. Real velociraptors were no bigger than turkeys and would have to fight a toddler to win a fight with a human. Also, WHERE ARE THE FEATHERS? These critters had quill knobs on their arm bones, feathers, four-chambered hearts, air sacs, hollow bones, pubis bone shifted to the avian position, traits we'd expect of the dinosaurs that still live today: BIRDS. Deinonychus and Utahraptor were significantly bigger than any Velociraptor was. They couldn't work door handles without breaking their wrists because their bones weren't evolved for that. They weren't particularly bright; the more birdlike Troodon had a bigger brain relative to body mass.
9. Triceratops shitting its own body weight? Physically impossible!
10. The sequels show pterosaurs grabbing things and people with their hind feet and perching on trees bipedally, like birds. Super impossible, no way. Pterosaurs' wing membranes and feet couldn't allow that. Pterosaurs had plantigrade (sole-walking, like us) feet and none are known to have had prehensile toes. Also, these critters were NOT dinosaurs. They were a sister clade to dinosauromorphs within the ornithodiran family of archosaurs. Not everything dead and big is a dinosaur, nor were all dinosaurs big. And we still have dinosaurs today: BIRDS. Ever eat fried chicken? You're eating a dinosaur.
If you have kids and they develop an interest in paleontology, avoid Jurassic Park. Don't show it to them unless you want to give them a lesson in how NOT to make movies and video games about prehistoric animals.
Your mystery weapon is a Bolas launcher.
My dad and I just left the snes running when we were playing through.
I had this game as a kid. I remember drawing maps of the first person sections so I wouldn't get lost. The ending is very disappointing. The only was I was able to beat it was to leave my SNES turned on from Friday after school all the way to Sunday evening, playing it on and off over the weekend.
Ahh SNES drunk is as old as I am...
Btw you sound sick..if so feel better.
I played the shit out of this when I first got my Super NES. Forgot how amazeballs the music was.
Dont you think Jurassic Park 2 looks like a mix of the SNES-Stargate-game and the SNES-Alien-game ?
I had this thing crash on me due to the system overheating MOMENTS before I believe I was to finish it (to the helipad?). It was a great game but the no-save/no code feature ruined it entirely.
Holy fuck... we're both 37......
Sucks doesn't it? Lol
Halo Reach came out today and it made me grin the entire time ;)
my brother was 10 in 93, i was 13, anyway my brother finished this game cos he was and still is a don when it comes to gaming
Someone at his school probably had a magazine with a walkthrough lol.
this is the game that has no save feature i remember playing this as a kid
I used to like playing this game as a kid. Just exploring and stopping the game at the first death. Looking at it now tho, it gives me Uncle Fester's Quest vibes.
8 year old me found those indoors sections really scary, and it made me stay away from them. Funny, I was fine with watching the Alien movies at that age, but SNES Jurassic park? Nope!
I still get flashbacks when hearing the TRex or the sound of the raptors indoors.
It's a different story when you're in the 'driver seat' and not just a passive observer. It's like the game Wolfenstein. The graphics are so basic yet you still sh*t your trousers when a Nazi appears out of nowhere.
The elevator music...
AFnord same. My sister had to play those parts for me. I was too scared
AFnord scared me too
Say what you will, this game knows how to legitimately stress you out when the T-Rex is nearby.
I’m stressing just hearing it on the video.
Yeah, scary game for its time
Yeah they say careful turning Lind corners, you forget it, hit a dead end and it comes out faster than the raptors and you’re launch.
Err...lunch.
Always arm yourself with the tranquilizer gun and fire like crazy.
Got this for Christmas as a kid, great game, but for the love of god this game needs a bloody save feature. Insane of Ocean not to include one, not even passwords >.>
Same here. There is a Highscore Screen though that shows after you run out of continues. So as a kid I thought there MUST be some kind of a save feature and I tried everything.
It was bot until years later that I noticed that the Highscores also didn’t save. There is no save state battery in the cartridge.
So what I did was what any sane kid would do: Keep the SNES on and make an effort of pretending to your mom that it’s switched off. This worked well and I got quite far into the game until my mom unplugged it to use the outlet for the vacuum.
Oh how frustrating life as a kid can be...
@@equiinferno 🤣🤣🤣🤣👏👏👏soo true!
I feel you 😂👍🏻
I loved this game as a kid! Looking back it’s hard to believe the first person sections put me on edge like I was playing a survival horror game 😅
It was the music! I loved it as a kid too, especially the first-person computer interaction. I thought it was the coolest, and I'll never forget the sound effects for those scenes.
Terrible endings are annoying, but the adventure is in the journey, not the destination.
Hello you. You're literally everywhere
Still one of the best game soundtracks of all time.
I could never figure out where to go in this game.
I swear I can still hear the "Welcome to Jurassic Park" voice whenever I hear this game get mentioned. That and the first person areas always creeped me out when I was a kid and despite not playing this game in years, it still kinda creeps me out as an adult. I don't remember actually playing this game that much, but I remember that I just preferred to watch my older siblings play half of the games we had for the SNES and PS1 back then.
And hearing that there's not really an ending and having absolutely no way to save your progress makes me feel a little glad that no one in my family has ever bothered to even try and beat this game.
I loved watching my older siblings play SNES, 64 and PS1 games too! Of course I loved playing them myself, but there was just something so fun about sitting down, relaxing and watching them play.
It always sounded like Butt-Head to me
Same gripe. Just hated the fact that you had to leave the damn SNES on to "continue".
I wonder if anyone tried to look into the game to see if a Save feature was left in the game, or if anyone interviewed a dev to explain why there was no save or password feature. My first guess a save feature was planned but Ocean didn't want to shell money for a battery in every cartridge. Or it was a way to discourage renting the game multiple times. Or a password system was attempted but couldn't work before the deadline. Or the devs turned out to make the game much longer than originally conceived.
My parents only allowed me play in the weekend, imagine that. Sunday, half playthrough, paused... on the entire week...
@@DhinCardoso good times😂🍻
My friend used to leave his PS1 Digimon game running in mid-battle overnight and through the day until he got home from school. The pure rage when he found out his mom had turned it off.
@@arootube Uhuhuuhuhu he sounds like a wuss. Uhuhuhuhuhuhuuuuhuhuuhu
I would love to see a rom hack/improvement so we can have an in game world map and save features.
@MultiTarded and a proper little ending cutscene of an helicopter flying on thr horizon would also be nice.
And better fps in the indoor sections. Smooth like the really inside the vending machine level from toy story
i said the same thing
Your wish has been granted sir, they just released a compilation pack for all new systems with like 5 Jurassic Park games in it, this one included. It has save features, and an in game map that is pretty well detailed. Its called the Jurassic Park Classic Games Collection. Only took 4 years but its pretty good, check it out.
Hey, thanks for the VGM shoutout. Ever since RUclips really started to take off, it's been little more than a ghost town. Rey does update though, and we still take submissions via email. Oddly enough, I got this game for Christmas alongside my SNES. I remember bringing the manual to school until it got stolen. Obviously, I never beat it. I did however buckle down before my 29th birthday, bought another copy off eBay, and went the distance. It's doable, but took me about 6 hours nonstop blind. I had no idea this ending was missing from the site. I also have no memory of it outside of being picked up by the helicopter with the eggs. There was so much lost potential here. Eventually, there's an area along the beach where you investigate a wrecked ship (not THAT wrecked ship, another one) and the music outside is haunting in a peaceful way. Left an impact on me years ago.
Okay, hol up, hol' up, hol' up. I've played this game backwards and forwards, and know the entire map, indoors and out, by heart (except the raptor's nest, which is proof positive that the Velociraptors were brought back from extinction by splicing their genes with the DNA of M.C. Escher). I have *never* seen nor heard of a "second ship." Where in the name of all that is good and Firefly is it?
Holy sh*t! Did that T-Rex say Sega?!
Yeah, that pretty much sums up the 90s.
AVGN reference FTW
That's blast processing for ya
That and playing as a freakin Velociraptor is awesome.
Jurassic Park Rampage Edition is the better game.
But both pale to the PS1 Lost World Jurassic Park game.
You get to play as a Velociraptor and T-rex in that 1.
Dude I totally forgot about that
I lived overseas when the movie came out and I remember my family driving a few hours to Frankfurt, a big city in Germany, so we could see it in English months before the base theater would get it. Thought I was the coolest kid ever! Played the game as well but could never beat it.
2:05 It's called "Bola" or "Bola Bola". It's an australien tool made for hunting. :)
Similar to the Argentinean Gaucho's Boleadoras.
I love your channel: you are super fast and clear ❤️
11?! Damn, I was 6. Finally, a gaming RUclipsr who isn't a decade younger than me! :P
Hehe me too, and i have this Game, i wasn't disappointed back than, but it was also not a lot of fun.
I guess it's down to what I watch and thus what youtube recommends, but most of the gaming focused youtube channels I end up finding are by people who are between their mid 30's and mid 40's.
I know what you mean....all these twenty year old RUclipsrs lol
The AVGN is 39.
@@AFnord Yeah, I think the only gaming RUclipsrs I watch that are about my age are AVGN and ProJared; two of my favorites, I might add. But that doesn't mean that the gamers I usually watch are drastically younger than me, I guess I'm just always surprised to find out that a lot of them are in their early/mid twenties. Just makes me feel old lol.
I really love this game. I remember this from 90s. It was huge and dropped jaws with soundtrack and 3D! No save system and the ending... they are huge flaws damn :(
I actually like how challenging this game is, i remember weekend nights staying up late working on this game with my young bro and my mom. We would handle the walking around parts outside, and my mom would play all the bits inside the Visitor Centre and Generator rooms. My mom really got into this game, she would write down notes and directions or all the locations and where we picked up the Key cards. Good times, the high challenge of this classic game just kept bringing us back. Games today just dont really give you that.
I remember keeping my SNES on for days to play through this as a kid. As for navigating the HUGE map, I recall finding the map on page 11 of the manual marginally useful
I totally get why many dont like it, but I still enjoy SNES Jurassic Park today. A lot of it is nostalgia. I saw it in Nintendo Power and bought it in 93 expecting it to be half Zelda, half Wolfenstein. I was a little disappointed but finally sat down for 6 hours and beat it on a snow day when school was cancelled. Yeah having no save feature in this game was idiotic.
This reminds me of true lies which was awesome!!!
2:50 The main thing I remember about this game, are the complicated indoor sections. In particular, the Raptor's nest was so complicated, that I had to create a detailed map on a sheet of paper in order to track where to go.
I drew maps of the buildings, but in the raptor maze I just followed the left or right wall until I'd inevitably run into the nest.
When you say Jurassic Park game, my mind goes to Game Boy somehow.
There was the Lost World: Jurassic Park on Gameboy, you may be thinking of that
That was a port of the NES version
I had Jurassic Park on GameBoy, top down with an ace soundtrack and involved a lot of power generators for what I remember
The gameplay of the Gameboy version is very similar to the SNES version.
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You could argue the Gameboy was experiencing peak popularity around the time of Jurrasic Park (1994) so it was the go to version for many.
It's crazy how different the SNES version is from the Genesis. has anyone noticed how similar this game is to that (genesis?) game Soldiers of Fortune? The top down view, the controls, and basic mechanics of both games are so alike. They feel and look like they're related somehow.
I remember playing this game as a kid, the first person sections freaked me out (especially when you were in darkness). Also you forgot to mention the T-Rex chase scene, that was pretty neat.
I always loved this game. Just wish it had a password/save system. The soundtrack is memorable, the world is pretty cool, and the first person buildings scared the shit out of me. Opening a door and a Velociraptor is staring you in the face.
The gameboy edition of Jurassic Park 'chaos continues' is the best of all these Ocean games - it's got great graphics, music, game play- the whole package
I agree. I just bought it and beat it a couple of days ago. It was way better than any other jp game I have ever played.
Man, I have a love hate relationship with this one. The soundtrack of this game is bangin'!
I just felt it was just so obscure, I remember leaving the game on for 2 days at my mom's house as a kid to finish it.
Always had trouble gassing the raptor nest. I finally beat it on my Gateway in like 01. MSDOS days. Of course I looked it up though. I remember using Apocalyptica's Toreador, MB, and Harmageddon as a soundtrack during the ship interior setting
I owned Jurassic park 2 as a kid, but it had no save state or password system either but it was pretty fun to play
This game scared the crap out of me as a youngster.
Heh... I've always had a love/hate relationship with this game. Like you, I didn't care much about JP swag, but the game box sold me and I paid for this with my hard earned allowance money new as a kid. I hated the fact that there was no save feature and frequently had to leave the SNES turned on with the game paused and a sticky note on it pleading with my parents to not turn it off while I was outside mowing the lawn or whatever on a Saturday afternoon. Eventually did beat the game on my own after several weeks of trial and error. One of the most annoying aspects to me was having to backtrack all over hell and creation looking for ID cards in this game. You'd get 2/3 of the way through a building only to realize you needed a specific card to open a door or operate a computer and then you'd have to backtrack halfway across the island and enter a different building to find that card. Lather, rinse, repeat. It's like they realized, well we need to make the game longer so let's throw in a few locked doors or computer terminals to make them have to backtrack.
I've never tried this, but supposedly the dinosaurs won't wake up if you take the pacifist route and use the tranquilizer only on them in the overhead area. Combine that with the fact that dinos don't respawn at all in the buildings after you kill them with any weapon and theoretically after an hour or so of playing you'd just be walking through a dino ghost town looking for ID cards and operating computer terminals.
All of that being said, the music and sound effects in this game are top notch. One major selling point on the box is the game boasting "Dolby Surround Sound." When I was a kid I used to have a CRT in my room along with this old stereo system with these giant box speakers that my parents didn't want anymore. It was kinda junky and old but perfect for my purposes - I had figured out how to run the RCA audio cables from the SNES to the receiver input so I was pretty hot shit with my stereo sounding SNES lol. Anyway this game really did have surround sound which to me, as a kid, blew my mind. When you were in a building and you'd hear a dinosaur, if it was to your left, you'd actually hear it out of the left speaker only - or whatever. That was really feckin' cool to me at the time.
Also looking back, the game really follows the book more closely than the movie. The missions where you have to nerve gas the raptor nest and stop the raptors from escaping on the boat to the mainland were all lifted from the book. In hindsight, as great as the original movie was, I wish it had followed the book more closely instead of taking the kid friendly PG route because it could have been so much better.
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This really takes me back. I played this as a kid (just as a rental), but I think I was too young to get into it. I preferred the Genesis version because I find it easier (and cooler). 😎
My brother and I would play this for hours when we were little and I don’t think we got passed the first area.
my brother and i drew a map to keep track of all the raptor eggs. it took us literal years of playing before i accidentally found the last egg and our excitement was immediately eclipsed by disappointment at the ending. also, going through the levels of the ship was a huge headache, but that soundtrack definitely stood out. that t-rex music made me feel like i was gonna have a heart attack.
I love how many people are saying they had to leave the SNES on overnight to finish the game. We did that too, it’s nice to see we weren’t alone.
The 1st person sections were awesome cuz you could go into the elevators and chill out to the smooth jazz before returning to the intense scary levels haha
Also, because they were contemporaries, those 1st person sections always reminded me of Myst...
Nice, soothing music before you open the door and a raptor kills you lol
yea same beating it in one sitting way too much
Yep had to leave my snes of for 2 night I believe. Had to get my mum to sit next to me and draw a map of the inside sections so I could remember where the cards were.
I can still remember the elevator music in my head now and I haven't heard it for like 20 years.
@@cd8815 I know the feel
Talks about how relaxing the soundtrack is while the T-rex theme music plays.
Me: (gets PTSD flashbacks)
"The map is huge and your going to be killing the same enemies over and over". Sounds like breath of the wild!
Total length of video: 380 secs.
Total length of "SNES Drunk": 12 secs.*
3.16% of the video was spent listening to "SNES Drunk." * I did 12 secs. since there is a "SNES Drunk" duet at 6 secs. each.
I like your thinking. I was like 6?! That’s actually great! But, with the harmonies we can fudge the numbers a little. Still, 6 is not bad. We’re getting there my friend.
Nicely done.
I remember playing this game on one of those hotel snes tv’s where the game controller was hard wired to the TV in the hotel room and you had to pay per hour to play their list of Snes games (later including N64 titles)
That’s where I got to play this and Super Punch Out and F Zero and I loved them all.
Problem was I thought not being able to save was such a dumb move and had to be an oversight.
The first person shooter sections really scared me and eventually I got over it and tore through the inside FPS Doom sections but I was spooked by them for a while
I think the FPS sections scared me because some interiors were pitch black and you needed night vision to be able to see, but this was a unique game for its time
U were lucky. My parents weren't paying extra to play a hotel snes. In retrospect it was probably for the best. Now i can put this bad boy on my snes classic.
@@wildndetroit Well it was def expensive for back then too, but I was very into video games so they knew I loved it. I always played Super Punch Out, Jurassic Park, and maybe F-Zero (games I never owned growing up until I got an SNES rom dumper in high school, Super UFO Pro 7 or something to floppy disk). But yeah, I always got maybe an hour of game time then it was done so I had to make the most of it.
Disappointed the second game got short shrift: I would love to see a proper video on Jurassic Park 2: The Chaos Continues. The extra levels on Hard push the difficulty into the highest tier for run 'n guns on the SNES, provided no cheats; and the unusual balancing factors for a solid co-op mode are noteworthy. Being forced to split powerupsyet also able to equalize health and revive a downed partner is novel; and adding no difficulty except removing the player centering is a rather devious solution to co-op difficulties for these type of games. Lastly, the music-top shelf stuff.
Another interesting thing about Jurassic Park 2 on the SNES is how technically impressive the opening cinema is.
The only thing I found memorable about it was "Go, go, GO!!!"
@@retromemories8522 Haha yes! Best part, but don't you mean: "Go, Go.....Geeoo!"
I used to rent this as a kid. I got pretty deep into it as well, but there was one game breaking bug that stopped me.
On the boat level which is a maze like mess of indiscernible floors, one of the quest is to kill off 50 raptors scattered around. When you do and you're trying to navigate your way back to the surface, there is a door that if you open, you can find yourself in a glitch where you cannot leave that spot. Your character just gets stuck. Without a save the only alternative is to turn off and start over FROM SCRATCH.
That broke me as a kid. There was another place in one of the underground areas, that if you walk into the Jurassic Park logo on the wall, you can pass through into an area that is almost completely blank outside of a top half being black and the bottom half being gray, and you can get lost inside.
I still really liked the game, but it felt like in the later parts no one really tested it because they didn't expect anybody to get that far. And the ending is as bad as you say. Go up in a plane, rotate around fly back down into the island, and get a message that says "you escaped the island."
It is more fun with savestates.
i have good memories of this one, a couple of friends and myself finished this epic over a marathonic session.
Man I love this game. While having no saves does sick, the graphics and music are amazing. The interior sections looked incredible back then. I love that they tried something different.
I still listen to this soundtrack all the time! Really outstanding. Triceratops Trot, anyone?
Omg the nostalgia!!!