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Jurassic Park

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My first Video game system, the first game I bought was "Jurrasic Park" To this day I am still playing it. That shows how much fun it is. Jurrasic Park is one of the Genisis's lost gems that is quite possibly, the greatest Jurrasic Park game ever made. Warpath, the countless Game boy games and all the others have tried and failed to be as fun as this game. The premise is simple, play as Dr. Grant and escape the island while trying to avoid getting eaten. As the Raptor, fight to escape the island and reach the mainland. Each charachter is a lot of fun to play as. When you are grant you will traverse a river in a raft, romp through a volcano and more. As the raptor, you attack humans (So much fun!) eat compys and try to kill grant. Each charachter traverses through jungles, the power station, sewers, canyons and finially the visitors center. The graphics are outstanding, they still look good even today! The graphics for the dinosaurs are even more spectacular. You can see each blood vesel, every tooth, which means that these beasties are extreamlly lifelike. The raptors even learn from your actions and adapt in the later levels in the doctor grant stages! The music and sounds are also very good, with moody jungle music, exciting river music, and a very cool Visitors center track. The sounds of the dinosaurs are very good, they hoot, growl and roar (So realistically you will be terrified when you meet the T-rex !) Granted, this game is not without its problems. The main problem is dificulty. In the Grant levels, you have to fend off hords of dinos at once, figure out some nasty jumping problems and survive the final battle. The raptor's main problems is jumping. Some jumping sequences are very difficult to compleate (Especially in the nasty sewer level). The final battle for both charachters is extreamly difficult. With the raptors, you have to hit a certian area, which isint to hard after some experementing, but with the Dr Grant battle, its almost impossible to figure out what to do! It took me over 2 MONTHS to figure out what to do. Its that hard. Among the smaller problems is that there are no save points, so if you die only 1 step away from the end you have to go back to the begining (and the levels are very long) also the T-rex dosent show up enough. But this is still a classic game. Its reason enough to keep you genisis.

The good: Excelent graphics, music and sound. A lot of fun to play
The bad: Can get hard. No save points, the T-rex dosent show up enough
And the ugly: The final battle and the river level are extreamly hard

Ahh, do you remember 1993? Geuss not, huh? Well, anyways, it's wasthe same year a amazing film came out called "Jurassic Park". Sega Genesis was also the biggest game system on the block. So why not put them together? Ah, my friend. They did. Indeed they did...

Presenting JP on sega. this was a fun little game I played when I was a wee little lad. Ok, here's the basic idea: you either play Dr. Alan Grant, one of he many survivors on the island or you play ficious Velocoraptor, who is, well, hungry. Either way, you both have one mission...to get off the island alive. This game is great because the graphics are amazing and the sound is very realitic. Grant's movement is very cool along with his guns. The dinosaurs in the game almost look lik real ones, which makes the game so well done. But there are some flaws along the way. no saving points, weird tricks with the herbovores andit can get a little frustrating. But it is well done and is definately a game every Sega Genesis owner should have, espeacally with JP3 now out in theaters.

THE GOOD: Very good graphics, playable charecters, good "cut-scenes", beautiful landscape, nice sound.

THE BAD: Can be somewhat hard at times, herbovores act strange, no saving points????? T-Rex is bearly shown, Hard bosses.

AND THE UGLY: Tour car, the t-rex attacks in a cut scene, is constantly changing (first, is shows a gas jeep, then it goes look like the tour SUV, then back to the jeep!!! Not really that important in the game, but just noticeable).

overall, a good game

This game is one the best games ever. If you're a fan than buy this game.
Pros
Play as raptor or Grant
Levels are good
Play up to seven levels
Cons
Some levels are long
Raptor levels only have five.

Jurassic park for the sega genesis is so fun! The sound is kind of scratchy but the graphics are top noch. You can play as grant or the raptor. The only problem that most of the levels are really hard and there are no save points, only password. The game itself really doesn't follow the movie but it does contain a few locations like the jungle, electric station, vistors center etc. Despite its flaws its a pretty fun game. As Grant you get to tranquilize dinosours, solve puzzles and even drive a rubber raft! As the Raptor you get to attack humans, eat and kill other dinosours. The music of the game is decent and captures the atmosphere of the location. For example the pump station level has apropiatly creepy music. Overall it's a must have for fans of dinosaours all alike.


Pros: Graphics, Gameplay, You can play as Grant or a raptor, Decent Music and sound

Cons: Slippery control, Extremely hard(even on easy), no save points, too short

Overall: A decent game for the sega genesis that all fans of the movie should have.

Great game, It is cool to play as the Raptor swift and powerful!
Grant is kind of lame... They should have gave the Raptor 1 more level to keep it even.

Jurassic Park was a fantastic movie when it hit theaters. The wonder of dinosaurs with excellent animatronics and special effects coupled with solid acting and a fun scientific plot made this movie a major motion picture success. This was also around the time that many forms of entertainment that proved to be majorly successful (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Star Wars, etc.) would branch out into video games to further capitalize on commercial success and to appease a growing population of video game players. Jurassic Park was no exception, and the franchise saw multiple releases on different home consoles.

This is one of those titles that saw a release on both the Super Nintendo and the Sega Genesis. However, unlike most games that saw a release on both systems, the two games are vastly different. Also rare about this plight is that the Sega Genesis title is also widely considered to be very much superior to the Super Nintendo version. An 8-bit NES release also came out, but by then Nintendo was obsolete. I would venture to say that the Nintendo release (by Ocean Games, same as the Super Nintendo) is an attempt to be a harshly watered down version of the Super Nintendo release. However, it is extremely ugly and confusing, and not at all fun to play.

The Super Nintendo version of the game is an extremely long and complex adventure from an overhead view where gamers take the role of Dr. Alan Grant. You search all over the island for dinosaur eggs and must also navigate some very confusing first-person shooter type corridors inside buildings to locate batteries for the night vision goggles, as well as ID cards to give you further access. Dr. Grant must also find computers to communicate with the ship...you know what, screw it. The game is notoriously long, confusing, difficult and not worth finishing and lots of people hate it.

Now the Sega Genesis game is a much simpler approach to what gamers want in a Jurassic Park game. It is an action platformer where Dr. Alan Grant must navigate his way through Jurassic Park by shooting dinosaurs, ultimately resulting in a daring escape from the island.

Was that so hard? This is what kids wanted in a Jurassic Park game. I feel like what Ocean tried with the Super Nintendo release was very ambitious and just kind of a concept ahead of it's time. With young gamers, all that was needed was a solid action platformer, and the Sega Genesis delivered.

I always enjoyed the opening sequence of the game. It starts off with Dr. Alan Grant's Land Rover breaking down during the storm in front of the T-Rex pen of the dinosaur tour. The view shows the T-Rex peering into the windshield of the car and you can see Grant's eyes widen in terror, then it shows the T-Rex mauling the car in his massive jaws as the music thumps horrificly and the darkness strobes. You then start off the game as Grant lost somewhere in the jungle.

Grant is an all-around action man. He can run, jump, throw grenades, shoot his weapons, climb, and hand-over-hand from vines. You encounter charging triceratops, spitting dilophosaurus, obstructive brachiosaurus, pestering compys, vicious raptors, and of course, the bloodthirsty T-Rex. Grant will fight his way through the jungle, survive the brutal power station, navigate the lethal jungle river ride (my personal favorite), figure out the puzzling pump station, blaze through the canyon and the scorching volcano, and then finally overcome the juggernaut that is the Visitor's Center. And it won't be easy.

Grant runs around collecting weapons to use to fight his way through the horde of dinosaurs. Some of the jumps require platforming mastery, and there is alot about the game that is trial and error. My favorite level, which is the river level, requires you to navigate many waterfalls which may or may not lead to safe passage or doom. All the while, you have to collect gas cans to keep the boat adequetely fueled. Running out of fuel renders you helpless to the current of the river, and unable to navigate the waterfalls.

The level designs and animations are pretty well done. All the dinosaurs look about as good as they are and are pretty representative of how they were portrayed in the movie. Although the Genesis does have it's graphical limitations, Jurassic Park even went above and beyond with the T-Rex, which has a remarkable graphical representation. Although you will never see anything but the T-Rex's head and neck, the appearance is stunning and looks great, and even was able to inspire some fear in old school gamers. Even the T-Rex roar sounds incredible and intimidating. Don't get too close or you will be instantly devoured.

I should also note that there is a second game included on the cartridge that allows players to play as the velociraptor in search for a tasty meal known as Dr. Alan Grant. To do that, you go through many of the same levels slaying other dinosaurs and numerous well-armed Jurassic Park guards to reach the end of each level. To be blunt, the controls for the raptor are significantly much stiffer than that of Dr. Grant's, and the game is much shorter and less fun.

The music is mediocre, and the sound effects are also mediocre. I would say that the graphics (particularly the T-Rex) are above average, but the game is severely hampered by frame-rate problems. In short, the game tends to slow down whenever there are either too many dinosaurs on the screen or the T-Rex appears, which is brutally annoying. The level design I would definitely call above average, particularly the river boat level, which is just an excellent treat on the eyes due to the smooth animation and definitely the mind due to the high level of challenege. Even if you die many times attempting this level, you will still find yourself persevering to figure out the waterfall solutions and solving the level. It is quite fun, I assure you.

So in the end, we see that this game, while it certainly isn't the greatest 16-bit achievement, definitely deserves substantial recognition because it is an above average action platformer that bears the name Jurassic Park. How unfortunate that Ocean attempted to get maybe "a little too creative" in the Super Nintendo attempt. While it isn't a bad game, too many flaws, such as an absurd littany of tasks with no password or save feature, really cripple this game. All gamers wanted at this point was a solid action platformer where you fought dinosaurs, and thus the Genesis version of the game is really the only version that delivered (especially when you consider the Sega CD's illogical and putrid effort at making a Jurassic Park game). Some graphical and audible flaws put a damper on the experience, but this is still a solid game with some substantial fun to be had. Also, this is one of the better entries in the Genesis library as well. Life finds a way...

If you like the movie, then y'all gonna LOVE the game! I give it overall A+ for cool graphics, fun, and yet challenging. Also, you could either play as Dr.GRANT OR THE RAPTOR which are awesome. I believe it's the best game out there that has to do with dinosaurs.

After this game the Jurassic Park game franchise has gone down. Savage had a very good Jurassic Park game for the Playstation 2 called Survival but it was cancelled by Universal only two weeks before its release. Even now ...with all the new technology this is still the best Jurassic Park game. You get to play as Allan Grant or a Raptor. Overall this is a very fun game. They should make a new 3D game just like this. Until they do I love this game.

I really enjoyed this game. The music sets the mood of what level you're on. The dinosaurs look and sound realistic and the game is just so dang amazing.
+ Nice graphics
+ Sweet animations
+Nice game play
- If you think there's something wrong with this game, you need to see a doctor.

hi my name is Joe this game is so fun that the first time i played it i played until 12:00!And in the morning i was still playing for 1 whole month!And that is how much i like
JURASSIC PARK OPERATION GENISIS!