This was a really scary game to me when I was a kid. I'm sure the difficulty of it all added to that feeling. I never did get into playing as the Raptor though that much, probably would have been less frightening. I haven't really touched the game in 25 years or more other then to boot it up just hear the awesome Sega T-Rex roar. The game's graphics still look impressive/good to me though.
I loved this game as a kid, I remember I got it bundled with my Mega Drive. I tried playing it again a few years ago and well... when it's all you got, you play it and you enjoy it damnit! Now that I don't have to play it, it's not great.
I actually enjoyed it and still enjoy it. It’s a guilty pleasure. I know it’s not great, but I kept going and got pretty far into the game. Still own the cart and play on occasion.
Oooh, controversial opinion time. It's definitely a flawed game, but I think the things it does well, it does really, really well, like the graphics and the scope and size of the levels. It's more a game you play for the experience and wow factor rather than a concise, strictly qualitative affair.
I quite liked the MD game. It was atmospheric, had great sfx and playing as an overpowered raptor was the stuff of dreams as a kid. The other version I played the most was the game boy version.
Aww, Kim, why didn't you show any footage of the motorbike and raft segments of The Lost World? They're some of the most stunning graphics ever seen on the system!!!
A little surprised that there wasn't any footage of the more action-y parts of The Lost World. They feature some really impressive pseudo-scaling effects, and probably the single best Jeff Goldblum sprite that will ever be made. They have this wonderful demo scene feel to them, like the entire purpose of The Lost World was to get those sequences in with the rest of the top down exploration parts just to pad out the playtime.
Isn't that the one where your reward for completing the game is Jeff Goldblum telling you that you have way too much free time on your hands and to go outside?
I loved it as a kid but it definitely has flaws. It basically suffers from really bad jumping mechanics and the first couple of levels had some bad level design. But they really nailed the feel of the movie. The graphics are good and the dinosaurs look and sound exactly like the movie. The levels are varied enough in look and sense of adventure. The animations are great as well. I love the door kicking animation from Grant in the last level. I beat the game as a kid so it was not a very hard game at all.
Bro! It took me forever to beat that game. You had to attack the stones holding up the dino bones to knock Grant down. I think I called a tip line to find that out and my parents were pissed!
Loved it! Definitely played as the raptor more 😁 Then there was the PS1 game as well, where you could also play as a T-Rex, and compy 😆 Still have both games and systems!
I enjoyed this game and following sequels A LOT as a kid back in the day. This is exactly why you should just play a game and decide for yourself, not follow some critics in magazines or online.
I agree. I've had many instances where a game was considered to be okay but I've ended up loving it when I've played it. I always say that your own opinion is the most important one. You are the one buying the game and you are the one that's going to spend time playing.
I completely agree with you. JP is distinctly average with lots of awkwardness in the controls and levels. The one time it all comes together is with Grant in the visitor centre. Running down the halls, being chased by Raptors, and booting open doors, along with the perfectly suited music is what the whole game could have been.
Still have my copies of Jurassic Park and Rampage Edition (I prefer Rampage). As a kid I felt really proud for mastering the first game little by little. I'm pretty sure there was RAGE every now and then and my mom would make me turn off the console. There has definitely been frustration, but I persisted and loved it for what it is. I especially love the raft levels for both games and still play both a few times a year.
I loved this game when I was a kid, played it about five years ago too and still enjoyed it. Excellent graphics for the time. Challenging in parts, but not overly so. Quite surprised people don't like it to be honest
The Genesis games are great and captures many elements from the book. It suffers lag in the first one, mainly the first level/jungle but was corrected and fixed in Rampage for the most part. Just like most Retro games in that era it was pretty tough but beatable. I find these two games to be better than most movie based games.
It's awesome to watch and hear someone talk about theses games. I only played the first JP game on the emulators, but I had both Rampage Edition and The Lost World (got the former the same day I got Vectorman 2). I still play TLW, now in my 4KTV with the help of retroarch and my child plays on the second controller. Really love this Lost World game, the music is nice and I remember the feeling of playing it for the first time on my Mega Drive (I live in Brazil) and being totally blown away with its graphics in the same machine that I played Altered Beast.
Damn, I never had any idea about the Lost World game. The original mega drive game was one of my childhood ones our family had. It was definitely a mess yet I loved the aesthetic and found it memorable, playing as the raptor was an awesome novelty. I only played the rampage edition and other Jurassic Park games later on and have seen them across various videos. I'm keen to see more coverage from you!
I remember a friend of mine hated the Sega Genesis version of the game. Me, I saw someone play it at a babysitter’s house. I thought it was interesting. And, in regard to the game itself, it COULD have been worse: you could be playing The 3DO iteration of Jurassic Park...
Great video Kim. I was always jealous of the Mega Drive's JP game because it looked so "grown up" compared to the SNES version. Long story short, turns out I didn't really like any of the JP games, so I guess it didn't matter that much.
I used to love Jurrasic Park on the Mega Drive as a kid, but it hasn't ages well upon returning to the game years later! But... Jurassic Park Rampage Edition was the shit!
My best friend actually brought this game for me as a present on my 11th birthday. That Friday she and our other two best friends were sleeping over at my house and we spent about two hours of the night trying to beat the first level. All four of us tried, but we eventually gave up and played Streets of Rage instead. She actually apologised to me afterwards for buying it for me, we still joke about it to this day.
I made an amateur video saying this game sucks (different channel than I post from) I got SO much hate for not knowing how to play the first level... I'm glad to hear I wasn't alone
Excellent video, though I was really hoping that you would comment on the quality of those graphically stunning special stages in The Lost World. With some of the most impressive effects on the Mega Drive, surely they were worth at least mentioning? That one quibble aside, awesome video!
Also very noteworthy are the 4 special stages in Lost World, which all are quite impressive special effects feasts. (I can't put links into this comment, but just look for "The Lost World Jurassic Park (Sega) Site 1 Raptor Chase", "The Lost World Jurassic Park (Sega) Site 2 T-Rex Escape", "The Lost World Jurassic Park (Sega) Site 3 River Raft" & "The Lost World Jurassic Park (Sega) Site 4 The Pteranadons" on UA-cam and get ready to be impressed!) 😁
Hi Kim, great video as always! Forgive me if you mentioned it and I missed it, but incase you didn't realise, the Lost World Megadrive game has some absolutely incredible "3d" sprite scaling/rotation levels that are some of if not the most impressive graphics on the system - more akin to an early 32 bit title, or a far more powerful arcade machine, like Sega's own lightgun shooter JP1 game. An examples of these levels can be seen in these videos: v=xr03931gXCE , v=N2hODbUecqU , v=87XSAih_KgU
@PXLTRON Yeah, that's my other "go to" when I think of super impressive limit pushers for the system. GameHut did a really cool video on how the rotation and fmv were done 😎
@@TalesBarros *she. But yeah, its not obvious from initially playing the game that these more impressive bits happen later. I actually owned the game, played it a little bit to test it, then put it back on the shelf, only found out about the cooler stuff from seeing videos on "best Genesis graphics" or whatever later.
Am I the only person that beat this game? I did have to memorize it as a kid, but despite it's problems I actually had a lot of fun with it. When I wasn't cussing it out. The slow down and the controls will make you want to pull your hair out. But once you get a feel for it, it isn't so bad. I can think of a lot of beloved games out there that are just as guilty of the same issues as Jurassic Park. Not perfect, but not terrible either.
Sega's Lost World arcade game is still my favourite Jurassic Park game. Yeah, its Virtua Cop with Dinosaurs but it's a lot of fun. Such a shame it never got a home port. There is a Saturn lost world game, but it's just a port of the ps1 game.
Have better memories of the first game, considering it was one of my first Mega Drive games. After 5 years of the NES, the Mega Drive was like a stealth bomber in my living room. The music, graphics, game play all seemed light years ahead of the NES. I admit it was a tough game, but being stuck with 3 games till the next holiday it was mandatory to complete games before we got more. Took the difficulty on the chin and accepted the challenge the game presented. Rampage felt more like JP on steroids. Completed the game on the first weekend. Have never played the third game. Had graduated to the PC Gaming Master Race by then.
Great video. Burning the family house down would have been a humorous reaction for failing to beat Jurassic Park. I agree with alot of what you said. I owned this game back in the day and it was very frustrating. I really enjoyed it because I was so into the atmosphere at that time. I used to work on it with a friend. That said its a very mediocre game. At the very end of one of the campaigns the game suddenly throws an obscure puzzle at you for the final boss. I remember I had to call Sega to find out what the fuck to do. The game had no remotely similiar puzzle elements at all so this was not expected. The sequel, Rampage Edition was a complete freakshow. It feels like they just slopped together previous assets of the first game and threw enemies everywhere. The stages were all maze like and cumbersome to navigate. You can see the level of quality by the thick black outlines on all the characters. Like they couldnt even bother to crop that shit out properly, just shit the game out. I did a tutorial on the game here, with commentary : ua-cam.com/video/MzWeEHzo2O8/v-deo.html&ab_channel=TheConsoleKiller Its the type of game you have to pull alot of bullshit to beat.
Concerning the dinosaur intelligence, there’s a part of the game where you can get a Raptor to start climbing a wall to get to you, which is very unusual and doesn’t seem to be able to happen anywhere else in the game. I have never heard anyone else ever mention it but if anyone is interested, I can video and upload it?
IDK man. When this game came out I loved it. There was nothing else like it. It didn't age well, sure, but neither has Mario 64. They both seem like crap now, but if you played then when they came out your 10 year old mind would be blown!
In a way, the story of Jurassic Park and Aladdin almost feels like a kind of microcosm of what was going on in Western game development at the time. Jurassic Park is an example of the interesting failure that so many western developed side scrollers were in the 8-bit and early 16-bit games: games like the Beast trilogy, or even Another World. Games that were incredibly ambitious and tried to push the envelope, but ultimately fell short when it came to the established expectancies of console gamers when it came to a game's basics - the controls, quality of life issues, and the general flow of the gameplay, things Japanese developers generally felt more proficient at. At the other end of the spectrum is Aladdin, a western side scrolling game that manages to match the ambition of western game design at that time, with a great execution of the basics: good control, good ebb and flow of the gameplay, substance to match the pretty graphics and great atmosphere. Western game development was changing drastically at the time, and the story of Blue Sky, Jurassic Park, and Aladdin sort of feels like an annotated version of that change: Jurassic Park showed where Western game design was and had been, and Aladdin showed where it was going.
Not sure, if I agree about Shadow Of The Beast (Amiga original of course). I love games like Beast, Wrath Of The Demon or Unreal, still do. I also love Turrican 1 and Turrican 2.
@@turrican4d599 I fully agree with Kim's review of Beast. It was a hugely ambitious game, with an incredible atmosphere and great artistic design. But the first two Beast games ended up stumbling over their own ambition by not having gameplay that matched the game's visual and sonic artistry. Also like Kim, I would say Beast 3 is by far the best game in the series in terms of pure gameplay, even though the fact that it was released several years later meant its graphics (which are still gorgeous, don't get me wrong) didn't have quite the same wow factor Beast 1 had back in 1989. I also love the Beast games, but mainly due to the graphics, the incredible music, and the game's amazing atmosphere. And a good dose of nostalgia too, I have to admit. I would say Turrican is a good example of another Western designed game where ambition was matched with solid gameplay. It's a great series. And one that preceded Aladdin by several years.
the other JP game for Genesis is also pretty odd some very tricky programming, but the end result is almost impressionistic on the fancy 3D stages "oh, those are supposed to be fish flying out of the water..."
Yes, the dinosaurs were the reason the movie was so successful, because I can imagine a movie called Jurassic Park, that didn't contain any dinosaurs, probably wouldn't do very well
I admit it doesn't hold up terribly well, but it was actually one of my first two games I ever owned (the other was Sonic 2) and it was the first game I ever beat (as both Grant and raptor). The raptor was OP, but the game suffered from needing to do leaps of faith to win.
This was one of the first games I ever played. It took me forever to beat because it's basically beginner traps the video game. Once you know everything that's going to be in front of you beforehand the game can be beaten in less than half an hour.
i dug out my old Mega Drive to mod for a larf in 2019 and picked up Jurassic Park for cheap, hoping to undo the damage from that weekend in the 90s. I did, but it wasn't worth it.
My memory of JP1 on the genesis was, "Wow... the grant levels are lame. But playing as the raptor is sometimes fun!" I can't believe we slogged all the way through this game. The thing I dislike about the raptor is how inconsistent the movement speed is. You either walk at 2 mph, or jump at 50mph.
For a second I was, what about Jurassic Park 2: the Chaos Continues? then I realized that was released by Ocean for the SNES only. All these games were interesting experiments, especially the "multimedia" 3D0 and Mega CD games.
Great Video Kim :) I was never a fan of the Jurassic Park games on the Mega Drive! I think the Master System version was the only one I had the slightest bit of interest in ha!
I was 14 when it came out and my mom took me to video central and played the graphics and sound hooked my 14 year old mind nowadays im 42 and its still fun to me lol I know it sucks but I like it for the time
Hadn't heard about that Aladdin, Blue Sky made the right choice, forcing Sega to make the better business decision. That's fair opinion, JP must have been a rush job since it definitely janky throughout, licensed game and all that. Likely a mistake the dual campaign of human and dino, each only gets 50% of the time resources that way, enough of an idea for a separate game. Despite the problems me and my cousin played the crap out of it, I think we even beat it, no controllers broken heh. Ah the 90s when developers got insecure about game AI for no discernable reason and then went down expensive rabbit holes that rarely paid off. Lesson learned, fun yes, smart not necessarily, and there isn't CPU speed left over for this advanced AI lol. Despite the pitfalls of GEMS and being a western developer Blue Sky was definitely top tier developer, objectively not the embarrassment others were. JP:RE is pretty sweet, a great example from the era of a developer actually taking all those complaints and trying to make good on it rather than just telling fans to STFU. Lol guns blazing yep, kind of like Alien 3, people just want to blast things, certainly the one I'd suggest newcomers play. Depth contrast isn't widely understood concept as even today with new retro on Steam you'll see incredibly noisy messy graphics that blend together. It's relatively simple to adjust color contrast between parallax layers but most just use the same color contrast on every layer/depth. :\ Yeah my JP fever was pretty cool by then so I never played LW. Simply amazing graphical effects on display in those bonus stages. The top down part is the main game but a shame you didn't show that extra stuff.
Correct me if I am wrong about one thing always bugged me: the story/scenarios of these 3 games. They're obviously borrowing visual inspiration from the movies, but I think the scenarios and the journey itself are taken from the books not the movies. The river stages are definitely based on the first book (which I read) with Rampage Edition being an upgrade and expansion. The Lost World game - apart from the looks of its human characters, Raptors, Stegosaurus and Triceratops - is nothing like the movie and we play as Roland Tembo and Ian Malcolm working together to fulfill the missions which I always thought are based in the events from the Lost World book, but I never read this one to be sure.
Just watched Cinefix's What's the Difference between TLW Book and Movie and got my answers. The Raptor chase scene on a bike in the forest is taken from the book and the Baby T-Rex and Capture missions also. Nothing was mentioned about hovercraft/antennas, cave rescue, Trex car fight and rafts (this is from the first book) missions.
just letting you know binge watching your videos is getting me through this work day. I quite liked this version, I just wish there was more of a stand off with the T-Rex but I much preferred the Master System version over this
I really loved this game when I was younger, but it is VERY frustrating and I’m sure hasn’t aged well. The graphics and atmosphere were awesome though.
Thank god. I hate the thing. And rampage edition. Everyone bangs on about how brilliant it is, and even the reviews at the time. I found it a poor man's flash back, and additional being colour blind I could barely transverse the levels initially as the colours are so confusing.
Thanks, great video. Currently I'm torn between getting actual games, a flash cart for my megadrive or getting a Raspberry Pi. I have a feeling though, that if I do get the Pi, I'll never sit through a full game again due to the sheer overwhelming choice; let along struggling through average games like JP.
Kim Justice with all respect but i was expecting from you to say a few words about the lost world's 3d levels (there are 4 if i recall), and multiplayer! It's a great game
Gross. No it wasn't, it was even worse than the Genesis game. It was just the master system version with a generic character. The game only basically had 1 song. Game Gear versions of anything are never fantastic....I've had every Sega system and I'll never get the "love" for Sega games, besides a short few they're all games made to be beaten in 15-20 minutes for 50-60 bucks.
@@lutherheggs451 It was a competent action game which is more than can be said for the Genesis one. Probably one of the best games for it's platform. At least you can beat it before the batteries die.
@@BlUsKrEEm Yeah I would've loved to see what the team behind the gg games would have done with a 16 bit title. The lost world game takes 20 minutes to beat and has more varied (and tighter) gameplay ideas than both genesis games combined.
For me....when it comes to JP games. 1. Thats 1997 The Lost World: Jurassic Park arcade ( way too many £1 coins spend on that bastard) 2. operation genesis ( thou I will admit thats rose tinted retro specs) 3. Jurasic world evolution. TBH the 2015 aracade shooter looks good...but never saw it in the wild and never played it. But you know....time and emulation *shush *
The game had DPA 'Dynamic Play Adjustment" sort of AI ... Thought the game was good for the time . Don't know what Kim's on about . Finished it many times ... Top game !
So, was this as annoying a game for you as it was for me?
This was a really scary game to me when I was a kid. I'm sure the difficulty of it all added to that feeling. I never did get into playing as the Raptor though that much, probably would have been less frightening. I haven't really touched the game in 25 years or more other then to boot it up just hear the awesome Sega T-Rex roar. The game's graphics still look impressive/good to me though.
I loved this game as a kid, I remember I got it bundled with my Mega Drive.
I tried playing it again a few years ago and well... when it's all you got, you play it and you enjoy it damnit!
Now that I don't have to play it, it's not great.
Yes. Yes it was.
I actually enjoyed it and still enjoy it. It’s a guilty pleasure. I know it’s not great, but I kept going and got pretty far into the game. Still own the cart and play on occasion.
any time i see anyone playing it, i just see an asshole jumping around...kind of like the way people play retro RPS
Oooh, controversial opinion time.
It's definitely a flawed game, but I think the things it does well, it does really, really well, like the graphics and the scope and size of the levels. It's more a game you play for the experience and wow factor rather than a concise, strictly qualitative affair.
Yeah, it definitely gives you feeling of experiencing and surviving through Jurassic Park.
Come on.... you have a dinosaur screaming "Sega" to you at the start, whats not to like?
As someone in the UK, where the whole ‘Sega scream’ thing wasn’t a thing, it was just weird and random.
I quite liked the MD game. It was atmospheric, had great sfx and playing as an overpowered raptor was the stuff of dreams as a kid. The other version I played the most was the game boy version.
Aww, Kim, why didn't you show any footage of the motorbike and raft segments of The Lost World? They're some of the most stunning graphics ever seen on the system!!!
He did the game a huge disservice.
@@Nathan-rb3qp I wouldn’t say “huge.” They do recommend playing it at least.
@@NGrevolutionary he recommends it. HE
@@Ner0mancer What the? Totally unnecessary
It's also coop. The Best coop Genesis game!
A little surprised that there wasn't any footage of the more action-y parts of The Lost World. They feature some really impressive pseudo-scaling effects, and probably the single best Jeff Goldblum sprite that will ever be made. They have this wonderful demo scene feel to them, like the entire purpose of The Lost World was to get those sequences in with the rest of the top down exploration parts just to pad out the playtime.
Isn't that the one where your reward for completing the game is Jeff Goldblum telling you that you have way too much free time on your hands and to go outside?
@@otaking3582 If true, Lost World is 10/10 goatee
I loved it as a kid but it definitely has flaws. It basically suffers from really bad jumping mechanics and the first couple of levels had some bad level design.
But they really nailed the feel of the movie. The graphics are good and the dinosaurs look and sound exactly like the movie. The levels are varied enough in look and sense of adventure. The animations are great as well. I love the door kicking animation from Grant in the last level.
I beat the game as a kid so it was not a very hard game at all.
I really liked this game as a kid especially playing the raptor. I never did beat the final level though
Bro! It took me forever to beat that game. You had to attack the stones holding up the dino bones to knock Grant down. I think I called a tip line to find that out and my parents were pissed!
Same for me! I got this game with my Genesis for Christmas...never did beat it
Loved it! Definitely played as the raptor more 😁 Then there was the PS1 game as well, where you could also play as a T-Rex, and compy 😆
Still have both games and systems!
@@AdamDeYoung lol oh man you really took me back with the tip lines! i forgot all about those
Same I like 👍
my dentist used to have a genesis with this game in their waiting room. Probably because most kids could fail pretty quick.
I enjoyed this game and following sequels A LOT as a kid back in the day. This is exactly why you should just play a game and decide for yourself, not follow some critics in magazines or online.
I agree. I've had many instances where a game was considered to be okay but I've ended up loving it when I've played it. I always say that your own opinion is the most important one. You are the one buying the game and you are the one that's going to spend time playing.
I remember my cousin unwrapping this game on Christmas Eve night. I was jealous.
I completely agree with you. JP is distinctly average with lots of awkwardness in the controls and levels.
The one time it all comes together is with Grant in the visitor centre. Running down the halls, being chased by Raptors, and booting open doors, along with the perfectly suited music is what the whole game could have been.
Still have my copies of Jurassic Park and Rampage Edition (I prefer Rampage). As a kid I felt really proud for mastering the first game little by little. I'm pretty sure there was RAGE every now and then and my mom would make me turn off the console. There has definitely been frustration, but I persisted and loved it for what it is. I especially love the raft levels for both games and still play both a few times a year.
Loved how they used photo capture (Grant/soldiers) and clay mation on Raptor and dinosaurs, similar to Mortal Kombat.
I loved this game when I was a kid, played it about five years ago too and still enjoyed it. Excellent graphics for the time. Challenging in parts, but not overly so. Quite surprised people don't like it to be honest
I am sure alot of people have said this already, But I loved this game as a kid! Good to hear your opinion! I cannot help but agree
Jurrasic Park on the master system was an amazing game.
The Genesis games are great and captures many elements from the book. It suffers lag in the first one, mainly the first level/jungle but was corrected and fixed in Rampage for the most part. Just like most Retro games in that era it was pretty tough but beatable. I find these two games to be better than most movie based games.
"I remember playing this. I couldn't get past the first level." ME.
It's awesome to watch and hear someone talk about theses games. I only played the first JP game on the emulators, but I had both Rampage Edition and The Lost World (got the former the same day I got Vectorman 2). I still play TLW, now in my 4KTV with the help of retroarch and my child plays on the second controller. Really love this Lost World game, the music is nice and I remember the feeling of playing it for the first time on my Mega Drive (I live in Brazil) and being totally blown away with its graphics in the same machine that I played Altered Beast.
Damn, I never had any idea about the Lost World game. The original mega drive game was one of my childhood ones our family had. It was definitely a mess yet I loved the aesthetic and found it memorable, playing as the raptor was an awesome novelty. I only played the rampage edition and other Jurassic Park games later on and have seen them across various videos. I'm keen to see more coverage from you!
I remember a friend of mine hated the Sega Genesis version of the game. Me, I saw someone play it at a babysitter’s house. I thought it was interesting. And, in regard to the game itself, it COULD have been worse: you could be playing The 3DO iteration of Jurassic Park...
Grant's (& human) scream always cracks me up
I like how the Rampage edition makes Grant fight armed soldiers with machine guns lol
Kinda suprised you didn't mention those sweet next-gen-like graphics of the special stages of The Lost World.
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Great video Kim. I was always jealous of the Mega Drive's JP game because it looked so "grown up" compared to the SNES version. Long story short, turns out I didn't really like any of the JP games, so I guess it didn't matter that much.
I used to love Jurrasic Park on the Mega Drive as a kid, but it hasn't ages well upon returning to the game years later! But... Jurassic Park Rampage Edition was the shit!
My best friend actually brought this game for me as a present on my 11th birthday. That Friday she and our other two best friends were sleeping over at my house and we spent about two hours of the night trying to beat the first level. All four of us tried, but we eventually gave up and played Streets of Rage instead. She actually apologised to me afterwards for buying it for me, we still joke about it to this day.
I made an amateur video saying this game sucks (different channel than I post from) I got SO much hate for not knowing how to play the first level... I'm glad to hear I wasn't alone
Excellent video, though I was really hoping that you would comment on the quality of those graphically stunning special stages in The Lost World. With some of the most impressive effects on the Mega Drive, surely they were worth at least mentioning?
That one quibble aside, awesome video!
Also very noteworthy are the 4 special stages in Lost World, which all are quite impressive special effects feasts. (I can't put links into this comment, but just look for "The Lost World Jurassic Park (Sega) Site 1 Raptor Chase", "The Lost World Jurassic Park (Sega) Site 2 T-Rex Escape", "The Lost World Jurassic Park (Sega) Site 3 River Raft" & "The Lost World Jurassic Park (Sega) Site 4 The Pteranadons" on UA-cam and get ready to be impressed!) 😁
I loved this game as a kid lol. I remember it being pretty hard but I did complete it more than once :>
Hi Kim, great video as always! Forgive me if you mentioned it and I missed it, but incase you didn't realise, the Lost World Megadrive game has some absolutely incredible "3d" sprite scaling/rotation levels that are some of if not the most impressive graphics on the system - more akin to an early 32 bit title, or a far more powerful arcade machine, like Sega's own lightgun shooter JP1 game. An examples of these levels can be seen in these videos: v=xr03931gXCE , v=N2hODbUecqU , v=87XSAih_KgU
I'm kinda sad he didn't show these impressive effects. In fact, I think he didn't even see it, because I'm sure he would show them if he'd seen it.
@PXLTRON Yeah, that's my other "go to" when I think of super impressive limit pushers for the system. GameHut did a really cool video on how the rotation and fmv were done 😎
@@TalesBarros *she. But yeah, its not obvious from initially playing the game that these more impressive bits happen later. I actually owned the game, played it a little bit to test it, then put it back on the shelf, only found out about the cooler stuff from seeing videos on "best Genesis graphics" or whatever later.
The more I watch, the more I like your tastes - Shadowrun for Sega a favourite of mine also 👍
The original jurrasic park game for sega is so legendary that I barely found out there was a jurrasic park rampage game like 3 days ago 😭
Am I the only person that beat this game? I did have to memorize it as a kid, but despite it's problems I actually had a lot of fun with it. When I wasn't cussing it out. The slow down and the controls will make you want to pull your hair out. But once you get a feel for it, it isn't so bad. I can think of a lot of beloved games out there that are just as guilty of the same issues as Jurassic Park. Not perfect, but not terrible either.
Sega's Lost World arcade game is still my favourite Jurassic Park game. Yeah, its Virtua Cop with Dinosaurs but it's a lot of fun. Such a shame it never got a home port. There is a Saturn lost world game, but it's just a port of the ps1 game.
Loved the World Series baseball franchise.
Have better memories of the first game, considering it was one of my first Mega Drive games. After 5 years of the NES, the Mega Drive was like a stealth bomber in my living room. The music, graphics, game play all seemed light years ahead of the NES. I admit it was a tough game, but being stuck with 3 games till the next holiday it was mandatory to complete games before we got more. Took the difficulty on the chin and accepted the challenge the game presented. Rampage felt more like JP on steroids. Completed the game on the first weekend. Have never played the third game. Had graduated to the PC Gaming Master Race by then.
some people just missed this whole generation and aren't able to cope with it due to being born into much easier gaming times. lol
Great video. Burning the family house down would have been a humorous reaction for failing to beat Jurassic Park. I agree with alot of what you said. I owned this game back in the day and it was very frustrating. I really enjoyed it because I was so into the atmosphere at that time. I used to work on it with a friend. That said its a very mediocre game. At the very end of one of the campaigns the game suddenly throws an obscure puzzle at you for the final boss. I remember I had to call Sega to find out what the fuck to do. The game had no remotely similiar puzzle elements at all so this was not expected.
The sequel, Rampage Edition was a complete freakshow. It feels like they just slopped together previous assets of the first game and threw enemies everywhere. The stages were all maze like and cumbersome to navigate. You can see the level of quality by the thick black outlines on all the characters. Like they couldnt even bother to crop that shit out properly, just shit the game out. I did a tutorial on the game here, with commentary :
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Its the type of game you have to pull alot of bullshit to beat.
It's a game i have never beaten, Great graphics but just very challenging! I prefer the Nes and Snes versions.
Concerning the dinosaur intelligence, there’s a part of the game where you can get a Raptor to start climbing a wall to get to you, which is very unusual and doesn’t seem to be able to happen anywhere else in the game. I have never heard anyone else ever mention it but if anyone is interested, I can video and upload it?
IDK man. When this game came out I loved it. There was nothing else like it. It didn't age well, sure, but neither has Mario 64. They both seem like crap now, but if you played then when they came out your 10 year old mind would be blown!
In a way, the story of Jurassic Park and Aladdin almost feels like a kind of microcosm of what was going on in Western game development at the time. Jurassic Park is an example of the interesting failure that so many western developed side scrollers were in the 8-bit and early 16-bit games: games like the Beast trilogy, or even Another World. Games that were incredibly ambitious and tried to push the envelope, but ultimately fell short when it came to the established expectancies of console gamers when it came to a game's basics - the controls, quality of life issues, and the general flow of the gameplay, things Japanese developers generally felt more proficient at. At the other end of the spectrum is Aladdin, a western side scrolling game that manages to match the ambition of western game design at that time, with a great execution of the basics: good control, good ebb and flow of the gameplay, substance to match the pretty graphics and great atmosphere. Western game development was changing drastically at the time, and the story of Blue Sky, Jurassic Park, and Aladdin sort of feels like an annotated version of that change: Jurassic Park showed where Western game design was and had been, and Aladdin showed where it was going.
Not sure, if I agree about Shadow Of The Beast (Amiga original of course). I love games like Beast, Wrath Of The Demon or Unreal, still do. I also love Turrican 1 and Turrican 2.
@@turrican4d599 I fully agree with Kim's review of Beast. It was a hugely ambitious game, with an incredible atmosphere and great artistic design. But the first two Beast games ended up stumbling over their own ambition by not having gameplay that matched the game's visual and sonic artistry. Also like Kim, I would say Beast 3 is by far the best game in the series in terms of pure gameplay, even though the fact that it was released several years later meant its graphics (which are still gorgeous, don't get me wrong) didn't have quite the same wow factor Beast 1 had back in 1989. I also love the Beast games, but mainly due to the graphics, the incredible music, and the game's amazing atmosphere. And a good dose of nostalgia too, I have to admit.
I would say Turrican is a good example of another Western designed game where ambition was matched with solid gameplay. It's a great series. And one that preceded Aladdin by several years.
New Kim Justice video? Just what the doctor ordered!
the other JP game for Genesis is also pretty odd
some very tricky programming, but the end result is almost impressionistic on the fancy 3D stages
"oh, those are supposed to be fish flying out of the water..."
first game-a beta demo on roids, playable but kicks you
rampage edition- the real deal
Ok, this got me feeling 90s, I'm ready for more jurassic park videos! :D
Love your content!! Always adds something special when you make your videos!!!
Yes, the dinosaurs were the reason the movie was so successful, because I can imagine a movie called Jurassic Park, that didn't contain any dinosaurs, probably wouldn't do very well
I admit it doesn't hold up terribly well, but it was actually one of my first two games I ever owned (the other was Sonic 2) and it was the first game I ever beat (as both Grant and raptor). The raptor was OP, but the game suffered from needing to do leaps of faith to win.
Lost world in co-op was a blast
This was one of the first games I ever played. It took me forever to beat because it's basically beginner traps the video game. Once you know everything that's going to be in front of you beforehand the game can be beaten in less than half an hour.
i dug out my old Mega Drive to mod for a larf in 2019 and picked up Jurassic Park for cheap, hoping to undo the damage from that weekend in the 90s. I did, but it wasn't worth it.
I came for "Waptor" and was not disappointed!
Back in the day I played through and beat the Sega CD Jurassic Park. THAT was a slog.
My memory of JP1 on the genesis was, "Wow... the grant levels are lame. But playing as the raptor is sometimes fun!"
I can't believe we slogged all the way through this game. The thing I dislike about the raptor is how inconsistent the movement speed is. You either walk at 2 mph, or jump at 50mph.
For a second I was, what about Jurassic Park 2: the Chaos Continues? then I realized that was released by Ocean for the SNES only. All these games were interesting experiments, especially the "multimedia" 3D0 and Mega CD games.
It looks really pretty damn cool- didn’t know this even existed until yesterday
Great Video Kim :) I was never a fan of the Jurassic Park games on the Mega Drive! I think the Master System version was the only one I had the slightest bit of interest in ha!
I can't wait for the Trespasser video. What a time to be a PC gamer.
The player sprites look ugly in Rampage Edition with its thick black outlines. Why did they change that from the first game?
I was 14 when it came out and my mom took me to video central and played the graphics and sound hooked my 14 year old mind nowadays im 42 and its still fun to me lol I know it sucks but I like it for the time
I like that game rampage edition. Perfect game. I use to beat it all the time
Good video and I am intrigued to see the other videos in this series. Are you going to be touching on the Amiga version of Jurassic Park?
Hadn't heard about that Aladdin, Blue Sky made the right choice, forcing Sega to make the better business decision. That's fair opinion, JP must have been a rush job since it definitely janky throughout, licensed game and all that. Likely a mistake the dual campaign of human and dino, each only gets 50% of the time resources that way, enough of an idea for a separate game. Despite the problems me and my cousin played the crap out of it, I think we even beat it, no controllers broken heh.
Ah the 90s when developers got insecure about game AI for no discernable reason and then went down expensive rabbit holes that rarely paid off. Lesson learned, fun yes, smart not necessarily, and there isn't CPU speed left over for this advanced AI lol.
Despite the pitfalls of GEMS and being a western developer Blue Sky was definitely top tier developer, objectively not the embarrassment others were.
JP:RE is pretty sweet, a great example from the era of a developer actually taking all those complaints and trying to make good on it rather than just telling fans to STFU. Lol guns blazing yep, kind of like Alien 3, people just want to blast things, certainly the one I'd suggest newcomers play.
Depth contrast isn't widely understood concept as even today with new retro on Steam you'll see incredibly noisy messy graphics that blend together. It's relatively simple to adjust color contrast between parallax layers but most just use the same color contrast on every layer/depth. :\
Yeah my JP fever was pretty cool by then so I never played LW. Simply amazing graphical effects on display in those bonus stages. The top down part is the main game but a shame you didn't show that extra stuff.
Correct me if I am wrong about one thing always bugged me: the story/scenarios of these 3 games. They're obviously borrowing visual inspiration from the movies, but I think the scenarios and the journey itself are taken from the books not the movies. The river stages are definitely based on the first book (which I read) with Rampage Edition being an upgrade and expansion. The Lost World game - apart from the looks of its human characters, Raptors, Stegosaurus and Triceratops - is nothing like the movie and we play as Roland Tembo and Ian Malcolm working together to fulfill the missions which I always thought are based in the events from the Lost World book, but I never read this one to be sure.
Just watched Cinefix's What's the Difference between TLW Book and Movie and got my answers. The Raptor chase scene on a bike in the forest is taken from the book and the Baby T-Rex and Capture missions also. Nothing was mentioned about hovercraft/antennas, cave rescue, Trex car fight and rafts (this is from the first book) missions.
just letting you know binge watching your videos is getting me through this work day. I quite liked this version, I just wish there was more of a stand off with the T-Rex but I much preferred the Master System version over this
I really loved this game when I was younger, but it is VERY frustrating and I’m sure hasn’t aged well. The graphics and atmosphere were awesome though.
JP2 game on Megadrive, same year as Tomb Raider on PC/PSX... fun times..
I actually enjoyed this game. Could have been better, but it does enough right to be an overall fun and positive experience.
I liked it also😂
I remember people thinking the opposite. I think because 1st person games weren't as popular at the time as platformers.
The real trouble with this game is it playability. But if you train it for some time you can easily beat the game.
I bought this game even though I don't have a Mega drive. Purely because I am an Uber Jurassic Park fan
Thank god. I hate the thing. And rampage edition. Everyone bangs on about how brilliant it is, and even the reviews at the time. I found it a poor man's flash back, and additional being colour blind I could barely transverse the levels initially as the colours are so confusing.
I knew Lost World got a Game Gear game but I didn't know a Genesis version existed. Looks pretty fun.
That Aladdin game was soooooo much fun.
BTW, JP... shotty, kind of poor platformer or not, i remember having fun with it.
Thanks, great video. Currently I'm torn between getting actual games, a flash cart for my megadrive or getting a Raspberry Pi. I have a feeling though, that if I do get the Pi, I'll never sit through a full game again due to the sheer overwhelming choice; let along struggling through average games like JP.
This is the first I've heard of the Lost World Genesis game. Is it just me, or does it feel very "Amiga" (like a lot of Apaloosa's Genesis output)?
Kim Justice with all respect but i was expecting from you to say a few words about the lost world's 3d levels (there are 4 if i recall), and multiplayer! It's a great game
Like the background of the company etc. Well done.
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Wait, huh, I don't get it...
What is the easter egg?
Is it the thumb?
"sometimes I leak a black, frothy syrup from my prolapsed blungus," - Ian Malcom X
I loved the atmosphere of the game, great tunes and graphics. Gameplay though.. it’s rough.
Honestly...i thought this game was awesome. Had it as a kid and played the hell out of it over and over again.
The Game Gear Jurassic Park was fantastic!
Gross. No it wasn't, it was even worse than the Genesis game. It was just the master system version with a generic character. The game only basically had 1 song. Game Gear versions of anything are never fantastic....I've had every Sega system and I'll never get the "love" for Sega games, besides a short few they're all games made to be beaten in 15-20 minutes for 50-60 bucks.
@@lutherheggs451 It was a competent action game which is more than can be said for the Genesis one. Probably one of the best games for it's platform. At least you can beat it before the batteries die.
The Game Gear Lost World wasn't a bad game either.
@@BlUsKrEEm Yeah I would've loved to see what the team behind the gg games would have done with a 16 bit title. The lost world game takes 20 minutes to beat and has more varied (and tighter) gameplay ideas than both genesis games combined.
For me....when it comes to JP games.
1. Thats 1997 The Lost World: Jurassic Park arcade ( way too many £1 coins spend on that bastard)
2. operation genesis ( thou I will admit thats rose tinted retro specs)
3. Jurasic world evolution.
TBH the 2015 aracade shooter looks good...but never saw it in the wild and never played it. But you know....time and emulation *shush *
I loved this game as a kid and still do but you do have valid points
The game had DPA 'Dynamic Play Adjustment" sort of AI ... Thought the game was good for the time . Don't know what Kim's on about . Finished it many times ... Top game !
Only really played the Amiga version which was different again to the Snes and MegaDrive, though closer to the snes which wasn't often the case.
James Brown - GET UP! GET ON UP!
I didn’t play this version but had a very good time with the Master System Jurassic Park platformer
SEGA's Jurassic Park isn't very good?!?!? I'LL KILL YOU! I'LL KILL YOU!! i'LL......okay, fair enough.....yeah, I guess that's true.... ;)
Ah, I was thinking of the SNES Jurassic Park, which you've just mentioned.
Now I really want to see a raptor fight Scar from the Lion King.
The original and rampage edition feel like SEGA was ready to benefit with profits from any who bought both games
Mega CD version is definitely the best JP game for me. Short but very sweet, and sincerely panic-inducing at times.
One of my fav games on the Mega Drive when i was little.
I guess, because they were the only two games you had? :)))
I actually very much enjoyed the Genesis game when I was a kid. XDD