I had the Genesis at the time, so, I only knew the side-scrolling version of Jurassic Park. My brother and I still loved it. It's cool to see a different take on this franchise. Thanks, Aaron!
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That was one good thing about Genesis and SNES versions of games back then. They were often completely different games. I had the SNES and got a Megadrive (Genesis) after Sonic 3 had already released, but my friend was the other way around and got the Genesis first. As such, I had the SNES version of JP and he had the Genesis, giving us plenty of JP to go through. Just a side note but we also had all the toys and buildings between us too. Ahh all the days of killing Tim with the Triceratops slamming through the wall of the visitor centre.
The book had a really neat raptor nest infiltration/survival scene that was tailor made for a video game. In that scene, Grant infiltrated a raptor nest and counted all of the eggs before leaving the island, to advise the government the dinosaurs are breeding.
Hey, just want to tell you that your videos are amazing. I love both your personal stories about the games and the facts you bring up about them. Cheers.
I was 5 when this came out so it was back when games were still BRAND NEW to all of us and so magical... You still had to use your imagination to some degree with the graphics and capabilities of the games but man... Some of these were FASCINATING when they came out to a 90s kid haha
I was just 7 at the time, but my dad got a job to review this game for a newspaper. He usually only plays turn-baseds game or management sims, like Civilisation and Sim City, and he was frustrated beyond words by this game. For me as a child, it was almost worrying. I remember him sitting there for hours with hand-drawn maps of the interiors scattered across the couch, trying over and over, but he never really got very far before was run over by one raptor or the other. I think the illogical mazes, the poor controls and the randomness of dinosaurs jumping out of the bushes really got to him; while he was trying valiantly to complete the game so he could write a fair piece for the newspaper. In the end, the review he sent in consisted only of a comic drawing of himself, sitting in the couch all googly-eyed while being mocked by various dinosaurs hanging out around him. It's brilliant. I've got it framed on my wall.
I just found your channel the other day. You bring back so many fond.... and frustrating memories. Your voice rocks too. You deserve more likes and subscribers.
As much as I've never played the SNES Jurassic Park game (only the Genesis one and even then, only as the Raptor because the Hunter was hard to grasp), I really dig its music. Also first new review after subscribing, nice!
I love this game. Games got to easy. I love that you had to figure out what you need to do on your own and that there was no save. My dad would make maps of the areas so that you could go back to them.
at parts it echoes Monsters Ate My Neighbors..but with dinosaurs. BTW the perspective about just how big JP was back in the day is useful and well put. I also love the irony of how in the movie, if there's one thing Sam Neil's character would NOT have done, it's walk around the park killing dinosaurs...yet that's exactly what you do in the game.
Stumbled across your channel, and it became an instant subscribe! The video game history and retrospects are great! Look forward to binging the collection.
I play my favorite film on my favorite console, it was very emotional to have discovered it with my best friend. I never managed to finish it, I miss an egg and a card every time I try. I love the game's music. Incredibly nowadays, the 3D mode scared me so much that I didn't dare play.
I loved this game when it came out. It was obtuse and difficult and the lack of a save feature was a buzzkill, but it was open world and had one of the best 16-bit soundtracks ever, so I absolutely didn't care about any of its flaws. I don't know if I'd have the patience for it now, but perhaps I'll give it another chance at some point.
Drake Tungsten Jurassic Park on the Genesis was downright infuriating because Grant couldn’t fall more than 2 feet before dying. Playing as the Raptor was much more fun.
I like this game despite its flaws, perhaps too ambitious for its own good but I respect that because the developers didn't try to just cash in with this IP, you can notice and actual effort behind this game. My only two big complaints are the lack of battery or at least password and the awful ending wich is basically the intro but backwards.
I remember renting this game when I was younger. I thought the exploration of the island was fun but I was unsure what to do after finding all of the eggs.
I actually liked this game. It really only had one major defect. Lack of any save or password system. That oversight was severe. I have beaten it before on original hardware but it's a long haul. If you want to play it, emulate it and use save states. You can add a little meta gaming to it if you only allow yourself to save state at a computer terminal. That's just my recommendation if you really want to play it.
Love your channel my friend, been watching for a couple of years now. Just one thing...when editing your videos could you please equalize the audio volume between your narrated segments and the inserted gameplay audio/video segments? I tend to watch your videos late at night when the rest of the family is asleep and I set the sound for your narrated segments that begin your videos and then all of a sudden the Atari 2600 sound chip is blaring out of my TV speakers, then I adjust the volume for that and it goes back to a quieter tone again when you start chatting again. This seems to be a common issue with retro gaming vlog sites, Game Sack is another that does this. Other than that...top notch channel! Keep up the good work!
Thank you for the kind words, William. I do appreciate feedback like this and take it seriously. I'm something of an audiophile and take great care to make sure my videos are as balanced as possible, but it's not an exact science and depends a lot of times on the game or system I'm capturing on. Atari 2600 and Sega Genesis (with that TWANG) are usually the toughest to get just the right balance between voice / game / background music. I'm always trying to improve on that and am typically listening in a pair of Sennheiser headphones when I go to cut the final mix. Hopefully someday I get it right!
No worries my friend...just thought I'd bring it to your attention in case you weren't aware of it. seemed like the balance was pretty much perfect on the TV Themes video you just released. But yeah, the 2600 ones are the most prominent from your past library of vlogs. But DO keep 'em coming! I'd actually like to see your take on many of the homebrew games out there for the Atari 2600, 5200 & 7800 not to mention homebrews for other vintage consoles. Some of these games are TRULY exceptional, Donkey Kong VCS being one of the best. Had they been released back when the 2600 and others were in their prime, who knows how much longer the life of those consoles may have lasted. Heck, the 1983 crash may never have happened! I know there have been many reviews done on homebrews, but you have a unique style that balances historical context & gameplay info with a highly entertaining flair. As an old-Atarian from 2600 to ST, and NES onward I definitely appreciate that! Thanks!!
I had this game back in the day and played through it quite regularly. Yes, it was flawed but I always remember enjoying the exploration. The added variety of the 1st-person sections was admirable and I think it worked in the game's overall favor, although they were obviously no substitute for Wolfenstein or Doom. But just the fact that the SNES could do that kind of thing really impressed me as a teen. The biggest drawback was the lack of a save/password feature for such a long game. I did eventually finish it, though, and I remember feeling a real sense of accomplishment when I did. Haven't played it since the mid-90's. I should go back for another try. If it says anything about me and my youth, I also had Jurassic Park on Sega CD and positively poured myself into that one as well. Point & Click + Jurassic Park? Yes, please! I was able to eventually finish it...with an incredible amount of patience.
The music is phenomenal!! I loved the game back then except it had no save option 😵 I played for about eight hours straight to finish the game. Did I mention the music?!
I liked the game back then for the music. NEver had access to the manual and this was before the interwebs, so I never got anywhere near the end of it. I picked up the japanese version years ago, then found out it's very hard to play due to a lot of the text being in japanese. I kind of remeber the Game Boy version, which might have been a port of the NES version, was a mostly different game but also very playable.
Late to the party here, but this was still the best Jurassic Park game out there, with a killer soundtrack. Shame about the lack of save feature, though. Great video!
I have never played the SNES version of this game. Its way different from the Genesis version which is what I got at a rental store that was clearing out its Genesis inventory. In that one, as you probably know you could either be the humans or a raptor. It was about as confusing with little idea of what you really needed to do as the game you played did. And since I got my game from a rental place, it didn't have a manual so it was just trial and error and that got boring pretty quick. But you're right, for a while Jurassic Park was THE film and the merchandise was literally everywhere.
Love this game. Bought it when it came out after renting it once. It is kinda confusing, but I made my own interior maps and used Nintendo power for the island map. Music is amazing for its era
I was a die hard Nintendo fan back in the day... But I had to concede that the Genesis version of Jurassic Park was much better. The SNES version reminded me of Fester's Quest with dinosaurs.
Thankfully had 6-7 other SNES games by the time we purchased Jurassic Park so could change things up. The gameplay was frustrating and interiors/utility shed sequences - suffered from early attempts at a first person experience. Still, I ultimately completed it two or three times. The first several attempts just to learn the worst offending dinosaur traps; it was tedious to find some less obvious path for the final eggs or key card. Backtracking necessarily teaches you to go back to the indoor areas and restock.. by which time you felt ready to advance far enough and save first aid kits for later try to complete it. At times enjoyable, great ambiance music, fun surprises, pretty faithful adaptation. I'd say a middle of the road title to try after you've poked about the SNES library a bit.
Lack of save feature or password system, no ingame maps, no objective checklists; this game was an absolute bummer to play back then, they expect you to figure everything out in one sitting
I had this on the Amiga, I wanted it just for those FPS sections; I was crazy to get anything DOOM-like on my Amiga back in the day. So I imported a copy...fired it up...ground through all the levels and then...it would crash when I'd try to enter the first-person parts. You see, the Amiga, despite being a "personal computer" still relied heavily on TV sets for display, even if you had a monitor, so there were PAL vs NTSC differences, and even configuring your Amiga for PAL wouldn't get JP to run without crashing.
Funny story. I got this game when it came out, and a friend of mine got the Genesis one cuz he was a Sega guy while I was a Nintendo guy. He thought the SNES one was so horrible and the Genesis one was so great. Then, eventually, a sequel came out on both systems. The funny part is part 2 on SNES was a side scroller and far superior IMO to the first Genesis game, and the second Genesis game was similar to the SNES one but way way worse. Btw, I'm not talking about that other version of the first Genesis game with more missions or whatever, there was an actual part 2 that was top-down, and it was very bad.
Jurassic Park is my favorite movie of all time so I'm a bit biased but I always really loved this game. It's super annoying that there's no saves or passwords but I just really love everything else, even the FPS sections. I do think the Mega Drive/Genesis version might be even better though.
I had this growing up, I never finished it because it's so tedious. I retried like 10 years ago and still couldn't make it to the end without getting frustrated with the cards and knowing where to go. I know you can look it up now but I don't like to do it.
My cousin had this. I kept getting killed and never even remember getting to a first person view. The first movie game I remember playing that I hated. I had Batman for Gameboy where you shoot crooks with a gun but it was a good game as the first good one I remember.
I have such a love/hate for this game. I never owned it, I rented it from the local video store. Every weekend for I don't know how long I rented this damn game with the promise that I would beat it and I never did.
Great movie clip integration! I had a Genesis and my buddy had a SNES. We were both HUGE JP fans and so we had each respective game. We used to debate all the time which was better. This game is pretty fun, and although I own it physically, I think I would have to play it on an emulator for the game saving.
Tried playing the SNES version for the first time in college in the late 00’s when I first started really experimenting with emulators. Having only played the Genesis games and the PlayStation Lost World, the top down shooter gameplay really caught me offguard, and though I’d expected to enjoy it, being a Jurassic Park fan, it really just felt like a slog. I’ve also never liked FPS gameplay, so those segments were really the last straw for me.
I played it as a kid but never beat the game if i remember correctly i couldn't find a single egg or something. I watched a video of someone beating the game and never knew I was that close to the disappointing ending..
I always thought this game looked amazing but I could never get into it as much as I tried. It did a couple of weekend rentals though so I never had the manual
It is never gonna happen but I would love to see this remastered, or added to the Switch's Super Nintendo Online service, especially with it having save states there.
This game is pretty good, but of course with a few tweaks it could have been much better. I think what saves the game from being bad is how fun it is to blast dinosaurs, and of course the music, the music is just great. If it had a save system, a map, an inventory system, and less backtracking, it could have been much, much better. Hell, if you could save in those lamp posts, or they gave you a password so you could continue where you left off, it'd have been much better rather than having to beat the entire game in one sitting. Seriously, it takes between 2 or 3 hours to beat IF you know what to do and where to go, otherwise, takes more hours between getting lost and all the backtracking you have to do -.-
I have strong nostalgic feelings for this game, but I can’t play it today for more than 5 minutes. I had it as a kid when I was big into the movie and the book. Jurassic Park was really the reason I got into reading. So for me the big appeal of the SNES game was the immersion of being able to freely explore the park. Also, as badly as the first person sections have aged, I remember being really impressed because that was something you otherwise had to have a computer to experience. It felt like it was really stretching the capabilities of the SNES, even though today it just looks...bad. Maybe at some point there will be a hack to add a save feature, because otherwise I don’t see myself spending much time with it. I will always have fond memories of it though.
Just beat it 10 min ago OMFG!!! took me 7 hours 😫😫😫 had to download maps inside passages I mean EVERYTHING just to have a clear sense of what to do but overall finally got to bury something from my childhood 👍
I actually think this game is fine (great music, fun gameplay, etc.), but gosh did it need a save feature of some sort. Battery save, password, something.
I remember several years ago that the lack of saving was the biggest downfall. There were lots of bad reviews mainly how that made it harder to complete. However, thanks to emulation we can create the ability. But....it’s actually worse. You have to remember exactly what you were doing next and that would have made the game that much more difficult to the point of being annoying. The game would have to be redesigned and maybe not even fit on an SNES cartridge. I’d like to see a modern remake of this entire game.
Agreed. Save states help but yeah, you may not remember what you were doing. You can touch those radar sensors that are scattered around the island and the other characters will give you some clues about what mission you're on, but even then you may not remember specifically where you were at in the mission - and there is no way in-game to know which key cards you've already collected. And without an automap feature, you'd have to meticulously check (or recheck) every building you've been in if you missed something. Or take really good notes. I think when I beat this as a kid I was drawing maps.
@@FridayNightArcade you can check your key cards and if you got the goggles by using the computers and check user inventory. The interiors needs some sort of map. Like you’d find in some other SNES games. The generic overused rusty wall interiors are horrible when you first play. Every wall and corridor looks the same and if you missed something like an ID, you have to go back and you just go in circles because there’s no dinosaurs to lead the way. The ship is a large map, but there’s enough difference in the rooms themselves, the size and those crane things to know what’s different despite every wall looking the exact same.
@@chriswelch9328 Ahhh that's right - I completely forgot about the computer terminals giving you the ID card info. Heh, still don't understand why the ship is the largest map in the game. I hated that level the first time I played it.
I can only imagine while this game was being devolved someone was like “hey we need a map system or at least a save feature” and some big wig was like…”nah”. At right then and there the game was fucked.
I thought it was a great game but I never finished it and would get lost, and start to wanna play another game or it was dinnertime. But its great for exploring and just having fun for abit and escaping reality for while!
Nice! Maybe someone could hack this game and fix its quirks, maybe add a password system too, who knows? People can do a lot of advanced stuff nowadays
I rented this game when it first came out, I found it pretty frustrating. While it wasnt bad, I think the pace and wandering around kinda got on my nerves after a while
Lack of save battery was honestly the dumbest technical decision this game suffers from.
Yup by 93 come on
I had my SNES hooked up to my dad's stereo as a kid. I still remember being blown away by Star Fox one particular snow day when school was canceled.
Blame SNESDrunk for making me want to revisit this cursed game again with his recent video lol...
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It's ok I blame him too for making me buy it 15$ CND
As a kid I thought the goal of this game was to get eaten by the T-Rex. Lol
I had the Genesis at the time, so, I only knew the side-scrolling version of Jurassic Park. My brother and I still loved it. It's cool to see a different take on this franchise. Thanks, Aaron!
@@slightlyevolved yeah, being a Nintendo owner at the time was hard to admit but it was superior. It also let you play as a raptor, very cool.
Hello, from.one MiSTie to another. If you haven't been algorithmed to SNESDrunk yet, he's a fellow MST/vintage game enthusiast (wait...is...is my chdhood vintage? This is a concerning development.)
That was one good thing about Genesis and SNES versions of games back then. They were often completely different games. I had the SNES and got a Megadrive (Genesis) after Sonic 3 had already released, but my friend was the other way around and got the Genesis first. As such, I had the SNES version of JP and he had the Genesis, giving us plenty of JP to go through.
Just a side note but we also had all the toys and buildings between us too. Ahh all the days of killing Tim with the Triceratops slamming through the wall of the visitor centre.
The book had a really neat raptor nest infiltration/survival scene that was tailor made for a video game. In that scene, Grant infiltrated a raptor nest and counted all of the eggs before leaving the island, to advise the government the dinosaurs are breeding.
It seems that the SNES is based on the book then. One objective is collect raptar eggs.
Hey, just want to tell you that your videos are amazing. I love both your personal stories about the games and the facts you bring up about them. Cheers.
Hey, thanks!
I was 5 when this came out so it was back when games were still BRAND NEW to all of us and so magical... You still had to use your imagination to some degree with the graphics and capabilities of the games but man... Some of these were FASCINATING when they came out to a 90s kid haha
Spared no expense!
Absolutely great episode, I love all Jurassic Park
I was just 7 at the time, but my dad got a job to review this game for a newspaper. He usually only plays turn-baseds game or management sims, like Civilisation and Sim City, and he was frustrated beyond words by this game. For me as a child, it was almost worrying. I remember him sitting there for hours with hand-drawn maps of the interiors scattered across the couch, trying over and over, but he never really got very far before was run over by one raptor or the other. I think the illogical mazes, the poor controls and the randomness of dinosaurs jumping out of the bushes really got to him; while he was trying valiantly to complete the game so he could write a fair piece for the newspaper. In the end, the review he sent in consisted only of a comic drawing of himself, sitting in the couch all googly-eyed while being mocked by various dinosaurs hanging out around him. It's brilliant. I've got it framed on my wall.
I just found your channel the other day. You bring back so many fond.... and frustrating memories. Your voice rocks too. You deserve more likes and subscribers.
"Where did it all go wrong?"
It's an Ocean game. That's it.
RoboCop 3 anyone?
As much as I've never played the SNES Jurassic Park game (only the Genesis one and even then, only as the Raptor because the Hunter was hard to grasp), I really dig its music. Also first new review after subscribing, nice!
Next do the second SNES JP game. It was great!
I love this game. Games got to easy. I love that you had to figure out what you need to do on your own and that there was no save. My dad would make maps of the areas so that you could go back to them.
Ocean put out some amazing soundtracks on the SNES. Some are borderline movie quality. Like Water World for instance which we never got in the US.
at parts it echoes Monsters Ate My Neighbors..but with dinosaurs. BTW the perspective about just how big JP was back in the day is useful and well put. I also love the irony of how in the movie, if there's one thing Sam Neil's character would NOT have done, it's walk around the park killing dinosaurs...yet that's exactly what you do in the game.
I had this game as a kid and never had an idea what to do but exploring was so much fun and the music is great
Owned this and could NOT beat it!!! Even the neighborhood "almost pro gamer" had problems with it! GOT DAYUM THIS WAS HARD!
Stumbled across your channel, and it became an instant subscribe! The video game history and retrospects are great! Look forward to binging the collection.
I play my favorite film on my favorite console, it was very emotional to have discovered it with my best friend. I never managed to finish it, I miss an egg and a card every time I try. I love the game's music. Incredibly nowadays, the 3D mode scared me so much that I didn't dare play.
I loved this game when it came out. It was obtuse and difficult and the lack of a save feature was a buzzkill, but it was open world and had one of the best 16-bit soundtracks ever, so I absolutely didn't care about any of its flaws. I don't know if I'd have the patience for it now, but perhaps I'll give it another chance at some point.
I played Jurassic Park on the Genesis, which I thought was cooler because you could be the raptor, but it wasn't a great game either.
Drake Tungsten Jurassic Park on the Genesis was downright infuriating because Grant couldn’t fall more than 2 feet before dying. Playing as the Raptor was much more fun.
@@hunam_1 For sure the raptor part was the only thing worth playing on the Genesis game.
also loved the integration of clips, well done!
I like this game despite its flaws, perhaps too ambitious for its own good but I respect that because the developers didn't try to just cash in with this IP, you can notice and actual effort behind this game.
My only two big complaints are the lack of battery or at least password and the awful ending wich is basically the intro but backwards.
Universal Presents, Licensed to Nintendo: Jurassic Park
I remember renting this game when I was younger. I thought the exploration of the island was fun but I was unsure what to do after finding all of the eggs.
Bro I realy love these videos :D
I actually liked this game. It really only had one major defect. Lack of any save or password system. That oversight was severe. I have beaten it before on original hardware but it's a long haul. If you want to play it, emulate it and use save states. You can add a little meta gaming to it if you only allow yourself to save state at a computer terminal. That's just my recommendation if you really want to play it.
Love your channel my friend, been watching for a couple of years now. Just one thing...when editing your videos could you please equalize the audio volume between your narrated segments and the inserted gameplay audio/video segments? I tend to watch your videos late at night when the rest of the family is asleep and I set the sound for your narrated segments that begin your videos and then all of a sudden the Atari 2600 sound chip is blaring out of my TV speakers, then I adjust the volume for that and it goes back to a quieter tone again when you start chatting again. This seems to be a common issue with retro gaming vlog sites, Game Sack is another that does this. Other than that...top notch channel! Keep up the good work!
Thank you for the kind words, William. I do appreciate feedback like this and take it seriously. I'm something of an audiophile and take great care to make sure my videos are as balanced as possible, but it's not an exact science and depends a lot of times on the game or system I'm capturing on. Atari 2600 and Sega Genesis (with that TWANG) are usually the toughest to get just the right balance between voice / game / background music. I'm always trying to improve on that and am typically listening in a pair of Sennheiser headphones when I go to cut the final mix. Hopefully someday I get it right!
No worries my friend...just thought I'd bring it to your attention in case you weren't aware of it. seemed like the balance was pretty much perfect on the TV Themes video you just released. But yeah, the 2600 ones are the most prominent from your past library of vlogs. But DO keep 'em coming! I'd actually like to see your take on many of the homebrew games out there for the Atari 2600, 5200 & 7800 not to mention homebrews for other vintage consoles. Some of these games are TRULY exceptional, Donkey Kong VCS being one of the best. Had they been released back when the 2600 and others were in their prime, who knows how much longer the life of those consoles may have lasted. Heck, the 1983 crash may never have happened! I know there have been many reviews done on homebrews, but you have a unique style that balances historical context & gameplay info with a highly entertaining flair. As an old-Atarian from 2600 to ST, and NES onward I definitely appreciate that! Thanks!!
Quite the informative video. I'll have to put some of those tips to the test next time I boot it up
I had this game back in the day and played through it quite regularly. Yes, it was flawed but I always remember enjoying the exploration. The added variety of the 1st-person sections was admirable and I think it worked in the game's overall favor, although they were obviously no substitute for Wolfenstein or Doom. But just the fact that the SNES could do that kind of thing really impressed me as a teen. The biggest drawback was the lack of a save/password feature for such a long game. I did eventually finish it, though, and I remember feeling a real sense of accomplishment when I did. Haven't played it since the mid-90's. I should go back for another try.
If it says anything about me and my youth, I also had Jurassic Park on Sega CD and positively poured myself into that one as well. Point & Click + Jurassic Park? Yes, please! I was able to eventually finish it...with an incredible amount of patience.
The music is phenomenal!!
I loved the game back then except it had no save option 😵 I played for about eight hours straight to finish the game.
Did I mention the music?!
I liked the game back then for the music. NEver had access to the manual and this was before the interwebs, so I never got anywhere near the end of it. I picked up the japanese version years ago, then found out it's very hard to play due to a lot of the text being in japanese. I kind of remeber the Game Boy version, which might have been a port of the NES version, was a mostly different game but also very playable.
I never played this one when I had an actual SNES, only via emulation. All I can say, is thank Glob for save-states!
Late to the party here, but this was still the best Jurassic Park game out there, with a killer soundtrack. Shame about the lack of save feature, though. Great video!
Always a thumbs up!!! Good job on explaining the game, my have to try this one out again, keep up the great work.......
Look forward to fna every Friday . Great video as always.
Your original video on this was one of the first videos I saw on your channel, so it's great seeing you revisit it.
lol we don't talk about that original video .....
The first person parts kinda seem like alien vs predator on the Atari Jaguar.
Jurassic Park and Soldier of Fortune were pretty fun times.
I remembered when I was little playing this with my cousin among other titles like Yoshi Island and Super Metroid
Have you ever played True Lies on the SNES? I had a lot of fun playing it as a kid. It was pretty good for a movie based game.
Wow. I was like 12 or 13 playing this. I nearly forgot about it, like it was just a fever dream lol
I have never played the SNES version of this game. Its way different from the Genesis version which is what I got at a rental store that was clearing out its Genesis inventory. In that one, as you probably know you could either be the humans or a raptor. It was about as confusing with little idea of what you really needed to do as the game you played did. And since I got my game from a rental place, it didn't have a manual so it was just trial and error and that got boring pretty quick. But you're right, for a while Jurassic Park was THE film and the merchandise was literally everywhere.
Most people don't talk about the bad FPS games. For every Wolfenstien or Doom, there were at least 3 FPS clones that didn't work at all!
Love this game. Bought it when it came out after renting it once. It is kinda confusing, but I made my own interior maps and used Nintendo power for the island map. Music is amazing for its era
One of my favourite SNES games, despite never finishing it! I think I hired it out 3 or 4 times all up!
Jurassic Park on the Sega CD was interesting.
My location the Super Nintendo version never made it to our shelves.
The lack of a save feature for this game destroyed it.
I was a die hard Nintendo fan back in the day... But I had to concede that the Genesis version of Jurassic Park was much better. The SNES version reminded me of Fester's Quest with dinosaurs.
Thankfully had 6-7 other SNES games by the time we purchased Jurassic Park so could change things up. The gameplay was frustrating and interiors/utility shed sequences - suffered from early attempts at a first person experience. Still, I ultimately completed it two or three times. The first several attempts just to learn the worst offending dinosaur traps; it was tedious to find some less obvious path for the final eggs or key card. Backtracking necessarily teaches you to go back to the indoor areas and restock.. by which time you felt ready to advance far enough and save first aid kits for later try to complete it. At times enjoyable, great ambiance music, fun surprises, pretty faithful adaptation. I'd say a middle of the road title to try after you've poked about the SNES library a bit.
Lack of save feature or password system, no ingame maps, no objective checklists; this game was an absolute bummer to play back then, they expect you to figure everything out in one sitting
They just released this game in a collection you can use save states, it is honestly better now
Anyone else notice the weird parallels this game shares with Fester's Quest?
I had this on the Amiga, I wanted it just for those FPS sections; I was crazy to get anything DOOM-like on my Amiga back in the day. So I imported a copy...fired it up...ground through all the levels and then...it would crash when I'd try to enter the first-person parts. You see, the Amiga, despite being a "personal computer" still relied heavily on TV sets for display, even if you had a monitor, so there were PAL vs NTSC differences, and even configuring your Amiga for PAL wouldn't get JP to run without crashing.
Funny story. I got this game when it came out, and a friend of mine got the Genesis one cuz he was a Sega guy while I was a Nintendo guy. He thought the SNES one was so horrible and the Genesis one was so great. Then, eventually, a sequel came out on both systems. The funny part is part 2 on SNES was a side scroller and far superior IMO to the first Genesis game, and the second Genesis game was similar to the SNES one but way way worse. Btw, I'm not talking about that other version of the first Genesis game with more missions or whatever, there was an actual part 2 that was top-down, and it was very bad.
Jurassic Park is my favorite movie of all time so I'm a bit biased but I always really loved this game. It's super annoying that there's no saves or passwords but I just really love everything else, even the FPS sections. I do think the Mega Drive/Genesis version might be even better though.
My main issue with this game was always running out of ammo! I never knew your ammo trick!!
I had this growing up, I never finished it because it's so tedious. I retried like 10 years ago and still couldn't make it to the end without getting frustrated with the cards and knowing where to go. I know you can look it up now but I don't like to do it.
Wonder if the game appeal will improve with the save states on the new collection.
My cousin had this. I kept getting killed and never even remember getting to a first person view. The first movie game I remember playing that I hated. I had Batman for Gameboy where you shoot crooks with a gun but it was a good game as the first good one I remember.
I have such a love/hate for this game. I never owned it, I rented it from the local video store. Every weekend for I don't know how long I rented this damn game with the promise that I would beat it and I never did.
There's an MSU 1 hack of this game which uses the John Williams soundtrack from the movie.
I remember renting it, and not liking it at all. I'm fairly certain I was lost and had no clue where I was going.
Great movie clip integration! I had a Genesis and my buddy had a SNES. We were both HUGE JP fans and so we had each respective game. We used to debate all the time which was better. This game is pretty fun, and although I own it physically, I think I would have to play it on an emulator for the game saving.
This game scared the piss out of me as a kid
Jurassic park, if you seen the intro, you seen the ending.
Tried playing the SNES version for the first time in college in the late 00’s when I first started really experimenting with emulators. Having only played the Genesis games and the PlayStation Lost World, the top down shooter gameplay really caught me offguard, and though I’d expected to enjoy it, being a Jurassic Park fan, it really just felt like a slog. I’ve also never liked FPS gameplay, so those segments were really the last straw for me.
Loved the Movie. Loved the toys. I was so excited for this game.....and then....meh.... Great video!
The tranquilizers are the only weapon that affects the T-rex
I played it as a kid but never beat the game if i remember correctly i couldn't find a single egg or something. I watched a video of someone beating the game and never knew I was that close to the disappointing ending..
It did have some kick ass audio for a snes game though.
You guys are gonna hate me but my favorite Jurassic Park port is for the Nes. I still boot it up every once in awhile😁
I always thought this game looked amazing but I could never get into it as much as I tried. It did a couple of weekend rentals though so I never had the manual
It is never gonna happen but I would love to see this remastered, or added to the Switch's Super Nintendo Online service, especially with it having save states there.
This game is pretty good, but of course with a few tweaks it could have been much better. I think what saves the game from being bad is how fun it is to blast dinosaurs, and of course the music, the music is just great. If it had a save system, a map, an inventory system, and less backtracking, it could have been much, much better.
Hell, if you could save in those lamp posts, or they gave you a password so you could continue where you left off, it'd have been much better rather than having to beat the entire game in one sitting. Seriously, it takes between 2 or 3 hours to beat IF you know what to do and where to go, otherwise, takes more hours between getting lost and all the backtracking you have to do -.-
I had a snes and was always jealous of the sega version!
Ha ya me too
Played this for RetroAchievements, ship glitch got me twice. Could have been decent with password system or battery. And better framerate in FPS mode.
I have strong nostalgic feelings for this game, but I can’t play it today for more than 5 minutes. I had it as a kid when I was big into the movie and the book. Jurassic Park was really the reason I got into reading. So for me the big appeal of the SNES game was the immersion of being able to freely explore the park. Also, as badly as the first person sections have aged, I remember being really impressed because that was something you otherwise had to have a computer to experience. It felt like it was really stretching the capabilities of the SNES, even though today it just looks...bad.
Maybe at some point there will be a hack to add a save feature, because otherwise I don’t see myself spending much time with it. I will always have fond memories of it though.
Heh, Jurassic Park was the first novel I willingly read too. Yeah at the time the interior levels seemed like a really big deal for an SNES game.
I still have that game. I actually like the first person part of it. It doesn't appear all that great but what do you expect from SNES?
I think they combined Muldoon and Dr Grant on this protagonist
I wish I had the SNES version but I was stuck with the GB version and OH how I suffered. Still it was fun for what it was but I also like Jaws (NES).
Just beat it 10 min ago OMFG!!! took me 7 hours 😫😫😫 had to download maps inside passages I mean EVERYTHING just to have a clear sense of what to do but overall finally got to bury something from my childhood 👍
I actually think this game is fine (great music, fun gameplay, etc.), but gosh did it need a save feature of some sort. Battery save, password, something.
I also had a love/hate relationship with this game when it came out. I was really mad with the lame ending. I only beat it once.
That nedry is such a jerk hahhaahhaahaha touch the fence for a free life hahahahha
I remember several years ago that the lack of saving was the biggest downfall. There were lots of bad reviews mainly how that made it harder to complete.
However, thanks to emulation we can create the ability. But....it’s actually worse. You have to remember exactly what you were doing next and that would have made the game that much more difficult to the point of being annoying. The game would have to be redesigned and maybe not even fit on an SNES cartridge.
I’d like to see a modern remake of this entire game.
Agreed. Save states help but yeah, you may not remember what you were doing. You can touch those radar sensors that are scattered around the island and the other characters will give you some clues about what mission you're on, but even then you may not remember specifically where you were at in the mission - and there is no way in-game to know which key cards you've already collected. And without an automap feature, you'd have to meticulously check (or recheck) every building you've been in if you missed something. Or take really good notes. I think when I beat this as a kid I was drawing maps.
@@FridayNightArcade you can check your key cards and if you got the goggles by using the computers and check user inventory. The interiors needs some sort of map. Like you’d find in some other SNES games. The generic overused rusty wall interiors are horrible when you first play. Every wall and corridor looks the same and if you missed something like an ID, you have to go back and you just go in circles because there’s no dinosaurs to lead the way. The ship is a large map, but there’s enough difference in the rooms themselves, the size and those crane things to know what’s different despite every wall looking the exact same.
@@chriswelch9328 Ahhh that's right - I completely forgot about the computer terminals giving you the ID card info. Heh, still don't understand why the ship is the largest map in the game. I hated that level the first time I played it.
I can only imagine while this game was being devolved someone was like “hey we need a map system or at least a save feature” and some big wig was like…”nah”. At right then and there the game was fucked.
Now on PS4 and Switch......with SAVE features and maps! 😅
Is the narrator intentionally impersonating Richard Dreyfuss from Stand by Me in this video?
Best it as a rental and the ending made me realize I had just wasted a portion of my life.
2x, X'D.
Why hasn't there been a Jurassic Park survival horror game yet?
Zombies ate my dinosaurs! 🤣
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No Save function meant I never got farther than the third task.
I thought it was a great game but I never finished it and would get lost, and start to wanna play another game or it was dinnertime. But its great for exploring and just having fun for abit and escaping reality for while!
Hard earned allowance money haha. I just caught that.
Nice! Maybe someone could hack this game and fix its quirks, maybe add a password system too, who knows? People can do a lot of advanced stuff nowadays
I rented this game when it first came out, I found it pretty frustrating. While it wasnt bad, I think the pace and wandering around kinda got on my nerves after a while
I wish there was no first person in this game!They are the reason i will always prefer Nes version of JP!
Dr. Grant!!!