I have a list of my top 15 all time favorite video game music. I´ve been planning to make a video about it since ages ago, but never got around to it. I also hate my own voice, which I would have to use to narrate. I´m just not a charming talker, my voice sounds more annoying than charming. Anyway, one track from this game is #14 on that list. I think the official name for it is something with "Triceratops...", the song that plays when you´re in the mountains....
8 year old me found those indoors sections really scary, and it made me stay away from them. Funny, I was fine with watching the Alien movies at that age, but SNES Jurassic park? Nope!
It's a different story when you're in the 'driver seat' and not just a passive observer. It's like the game Wolfenstein. The graphics are so basic yet you still sh*t your trousers when a Nazi appears out of nowhere.
It was the music! I loved it as a kid too, especially the first-person computer interaction. I thought it was the coolest, and I'll never forget the sound effects for those scenes.
Got this for Christmas as a kid, great game, but for the love of god this game needs a bloody save feature. Insane of Ocean not to include one, not even passwords >.>
Same here. There is a Highscore Screen though that shows after you run out of continues. So as a kid I thought there MUST be some kind of a save feature and I tried everything. It was bot until years later that I noticed that the Highscores also didn’t save. There is no save state battery in the cartridge. So what I did was what any sane kid would do: Keep the SNES on and make an effort of pretending to your mom that it’s switched off. This worked well and I got quite far into the game until my mom unplugged it to use the outlet for the vacuum. Oh how frustrating life as a kid can be...
Man this game. This game. I bought it as a kid but had to wait for the internet to be invented, find a .txt walkthru to beat it, and the ending *spoilers* is just the intro played in reverse.
i owned this game as a kid, and played it a lot. with each time i got better and progressed farther. One day, ive been playing the game for hours and got so far, ive collected most of the cards, i just remember being so close to the end but i was stuck on something. i couldnt figure it out, after exploring the whole island multiple times and looking everywhere, i couldnt find that kay card. I quit the game, and i never played it again because it took me for ever to get to the part where i was. He forgot to mention there is no continues, and shit. its a good game, but that major flaw was what made that game bad...
Empire Lifts Back true story man. I remember this as well, you had to get some key card to enter a room on boat or some shit. Did finish yearsssss later though.
Hey, thanks for the VGM shoutout. Ever since UA-cam really started to take off, it's been little more than a ghost town. Rey does update though, and we still take submissions via email. Oddly enough, I got this game for Christmas alongside my SNES. I remember bringing the manual to school until it got stolen. Obviously, I never beat it. I did however buckle down before my 29th birthday, bought another copy off eBay, and went the distance. It's doable, but took me about 6 hours nonstop blind. I had no idea this ending was missing from the site. I also have no memory of it outside of being picked up by the helicopter with the eggs. There was so much lost potential here. Eventually, there's an area along the beach where you investigate a wrecked ship (not THAT wrecked ship, another one) and the music outside is haunting in a peaceful way. Left an impact on me years ago.
Okay, hol up, hol' up, hol' up. I've played this game backwards and forwards, and know the entire map, indoors and out, by heart (except the raptor's nest, which is proof positive that the Velociraptors were brought back from extinction by splicing their genes with the DNA of M.C. Escher). I have *never* seen nor heard of a "second ship." Where in the name of all that is good and Firefly is it?
I swear I can still hear the "Welcome to Jurassic Park" voice whenever I hear this game get mentioned. That and the first person areas always creeped me out when I was a kid and despite not playing this game in years, it still kinda creeps me out as an adult. I don't remember actually playing this game that much, but I remember that I just preferred to watch my older siblings play half of the games we had for the SNES and PS1 back then. And hearing that there's not really an ending and having absolutely no way to save your progress makes me feel a little glad that no one in my family has ever bothered to even try and beat this game.
I loved watching my older siblings play SNES, 64 and PS1 games too! Of course I loved playing them myself, but there was just something so fun about sitting down, relaxing and watching them play.
I lived overseas when the movie came out and I remember my family driving a few hours to Frankfurt, a big city in Germany, so we could see it in English months before the base theater would get it. Thought I was the coolest kid ever! Played the game as well but could never beat it.
That and playing as a freakin Velociraptor is awesome. Jurassic Park Rampage Edition is the better game. But both pale to the PS1 Lost World Jurassic Park game. You get to play as a Velociraptor and T-rex in that 1.
I wonder if anyone tried to look into the game to see if a Save feature was left in the game, or if anyone interviewed a dev to explain why there was no save or password feature. My first guess a save feature was planned but Ocean didn't want to shell money for a battery in every cartridge. Or it was a way to discourage renting the game multiple times. Or a password system was attempted but couldn't work before the deadline. Or the devs turned out to make the game much longer than originally conceived.
My friend used to leave his PS1 Digimon game running in mid-battle overnight and through the day until he got home from school. The pure rage when he found out his mom had turned it off.
I've been waiting for this review! I loved this game as a kid but i had no idea what i was supposed to do. So instead, i role played someone trying to survive on the island. I'd hunt for food and supplies, make my own base, and generally make up my own goals. And yeah, the music is fantastic.
Your wish has been granted sir, they just released a compilation pack for all new systems with like 5 Jurassic Park games in it, this one included. It has save features, and an in game map that is pretty well detailed. Its called the Jurassic Park Classic Games Collection. Only took 4 years but its pretty good, check it out.
I love how many people are saying they had to leave the SNES on overnight to finish the game. We did that too, it’s nice to see we weren’t alone. The 1st person sections were awesome cuz you could go into the elevators and chill out to the smooth jazz before returning to the intense scary levels haha Also, because they were contemporaries, those 1st person sections always reminded me of Myst...
Yep had to leave my snes of for 2 night I believe. Had to get my mum to sit next to me and draw a map of the inside sections so I could remember where the cards were.
I actually like how challenging this game is, i remember weekend nights staying up late working on this game with my young bro and my mom. We would handle the walking around parts outside, and my mom would play all the bits inside the Visitor Centre and Generator rooms. My mom really got into this game, she would write down notes and directions or all the locations and where we picked up the Key cards. Good times, the high challenge of this classic game just kept bringing us back. Games today just dont really give you that.
I remember keeping my SNES on for days to play through this as a kid. As for navigating the HUGE map, I recall finding the map on page 11 of the manual marginally useful
2:50 The main thing I remember about this game, are the complicated indoor sections. In particular, the Raptor's nest was so complicated, that I had to create a detailed map on a sheet of paper in order to track where to go.
I totally get why many dont like it, but I still enjoy SNES Jurassic Park today. A lot of it is nostalgia. I saw it in Nintendo Power and bought it in 93 expecting it to be half Zelda, half Wolfenstein. I was a little disappointed but finally sat down for 6 hours and beat it on a snow day when school was cancelled. Yeah having no save feature in this game was idiotic.
2:05 those things are called bolos. They're like grenades on strings. Also if you can't find the key cards you need you'll be wandering around for hours.
They're not grenades on strings, they're snares. You'd use them to tangle the legs of something and prevent it from running away. They do not explode haha.
I guess it's down to what I watch and thus what youtube recommends, but most of the gaming focused youtube channels I end up finding are by people who are between their mid 30's and mid 40's.
@@AFnord Yeah, I think the only gaming UA-camrs I watch that are about my age are AVGN and ProJared; two of my favorites, I might add. But that doesn't mean that the gamers I usually watch are drastically younger than me, I guess I'm just always surprised to find out that a lot of them are in their early/mid twenties. Just makes me feel old lol.
my brother and i drew a map to keep track of all the raptor eggs. it took us literal years of playing before i accidentally found the last egg and our excitement was immediately eclipsed by disappointment at the ending. also, going through the levels of the ship was a huge headache, but that soundtrack definitely stood out. that t-rex music made me feel like i was gonna have a heart attack.
I really love this game. I remember this from 90s. It was huge and dropped jaws with soundtrack and 3D! No save system and the ending... they are huge flaws damn :(
I remember playing this game as a kid, the first person sections freaked me out (especially when you were in darkness). Also you forgot to mention the T-Rex chase scene, that was pretty neat.
I always loved this game. Just wish it had a password/save system. The soundtrack is memorable, the world is pretty cool, and the first person buildings scared the shit out of me. Opening a door and a Velociraptor is staring you in the face.
I used to rent this as a kid. I got pretty deep into it as well, but there was one game breaking bug that stopped me. On the boat level which is a maze like mess of indiscernible floors, one of the quest is to kill off 50 raptors scattered around. When you do and you're trying to navigate your way back to the surface, there is a door that if you open, you can find yourself in a glitch where you cannot leave that spot. Your character just gets stuck. Without a save the only alternative is to turn off and start over FROM SCRATCH. That broke me as a kid. There was another place in one of the underground areas, that if you walk into the Jurassic Park logo on the wall, you can pass through into an area that is almost completely blank outside of a top half being black and the bottom half being gray, and you can get lost inside. I still really liked the game, but it felt like in the later parts no one really tested it because they didn't expect anybody to get that far. And the ending is as bad as you say. Go up in a plane, rotate around fly back down into the island, and get a message that says "you escaped the island." It is more fun with savestates.
Thank you for not mercilessly shitting on this game. I remember sitting down and beating this in one or two sittings back in the 90s and thinking how badly it needed a save or password option. Luckily emulators fix that problem, but the graphics definitely look dated in the FPS sections. The music, like you mentioned, is awesome. Ocean did an outstanding job with this one, which is very unlike them at the time- typically cashing in on most licensed movie properties with half-assed games. I always wanted to play the Sega CD JP game which took more cues from Myst, which was quite popular at the time, but thanks to UA-cam I don’t have to slog through it. Anyways, thanks for the video! And those weapons that kill everything in one hit are bolas BTW.
Man, I have a love hate relationship with this one. The soundtrack of this game is bangin'! I just felt it was just so obscure, I remember leaving the game on for 2 days at my mom's house as a kid to finish it.
Always had trouble gassing the raptor nest. I finally beat it on my Gateway in like 01. MSDOS days. Of course I looked it up though. I remember using Apocalyptica's Toreador, MB, and Harmageddon as a soundtrack during the ship interior setting
2:34 - That's how I prefer it. Memorization. That's why I am so good at remembering maps. 3:40 - I understand where you're coming from, but you're looking at it wrong here. You should be thinking of the FPS sections in the term of a horror game, because they're damn good effective at that. 5:26 - If I'm not mistaking, the Chaos Continues was based on a Comic, or something. Also a great game. I love this game myself. I absolutely think it's worth playing today. With this game, it's not the ending that matters, it's the journey. You don't even need to explore all of the island but you can, you absolutely can. And that's fantastic.
It's one of the rare cases where the game is actually better now then it was in it's time, since its biggest fault (no save system) is solved with emulator save-states. I always loved this game too. I was obsessed with JP after I read the book, and the idea of an open-world adventure set in the JP universe was right up my alley. It felt like Zelda meets Wolfenstein 3D meets Jurassic Park. Hard to go wrong there. And the music was so awesome, I actually recorded onto a cassette tape back in the day so I could listen to it anywhere. First time I ever did that with a video game soundtrack.
This really takes me back. I played this as a kid (just as a rental), but I think I was too young to get into it. I preferred the Genesis version because I find it easier (and cooler). 😎
Man I love this game. While having no saves does sick, the graphics and music are amazing. The interior sections looked incredible back then. I love that they tried something different.
The gameboy edition of Jurassic Park 'chaos continues' is the best of all these Ocean games - it's got great graphics, music, game play- the whole package
What a personal achievment it was when I understood what I had to do in this game, and an even bigger achievment when I was able to complete the game. It was so good.
I got this when I was 8 and didn't beat it till I was 14 because of the no saving. I loved the game and music. And what I learned later when I read the book is some of the missions were straight from the book like the putting the nerve gas in the raptor nest. That was not in the movie, but it was in the book.
The no-ending at all is legendary. Is good to know this since the beginning, that way if you decide to play the entire game (I enjoyed making my own maps) and push yourself to finish it (even knowing that you won't get an ending), you feel rewarded with a good level of satisfaction, no matter if it is only to see again the JP logo on the ground. Nice review.
Especially since you have to do it in ONE SITTING, or else leave the game on while you go do something else. Why, oh WHY didn't they include some sort of save feature?!
This game, as well as the game's soundtrack, will forever teleport me right back to my childhood! My mom played this game religiously and she still to this day has never beaten in. She actually did draw her own maps of the open areas as well as the first person sections. She almost beat it one time but as she was heading to the helicopter to leave the island, my brother accidentally tripped on the power cord and that was that. She left the SNES on for DAYS trying to get that far!
I remember playing this game on one of those hotel snes tv’s where the game controller was hard wired to the TV in the hotel room and you had to pay per hour to play their list of Snes games (later including N64 titles) That’s where I got to play this and Super Punch Out and F Zero and I loved them all. Problem was I thought not being able to save was such a dumb move and had to be an oversight. The first person shooter sections really scared me and eventually I got over it and tore through the inside FPS Doom sections but I was spooked by them for a while I think the FPS sections scared me because some interiors were pitch black and you needed night vision to be able to see, but this was a unique game for its time
U were lucky. My parents weren't paying extra to play a hotel snes. In retrospect it was probably for the best. Now i can put this bad boy on my snes classic.
@@wildndetroit Well it was def expensive for back then too, but I was very into video games so they knew I loved it. I always played Super Punch Out, Jurassic Park, and maybe F-Zero (games I never owned growing up until I got an SNES rom dumper in high school, Super UFO Pro 7 or something to floppy disk). But yeah, I always got maybe an hour of game time then it was done so I had to make the most of it.
I was waiting for this review just to gush about the music. This game is beyond worth playing with save states! I remember playing for eight hours straight back in the day to complete it! It remains creepy in each building with the music and sound effects. Have I mentioned the music is phenomenal?! Play awhile and listen during your deaths 😆
i, too, was 11 in 1993, and there ended up being one thing that year that made a bigger impact on me than any movie or game has ever had since: star fox. my neighbor had jurassic park though - i always enjoyed it but could never get very far.
I remember when my parents bought me Jurassic Park for Christmas. I was so excited but my expectations felt short because of the game itself. Back then I wasn't able to understand English and I didn't know what to do with the game. I keep wandering for two days, then I stopped playing. Now I think it's a decent adventure game with the flash SNES drunk described, worst of all the absolute absence of save points, then no in game map.
This brings back memories... because I found the hidden cave with the 1up and the floating D in it before it was in Nintendo Power. The D was part of letters strewn across the map to guide you to the hidden contest to decipher "Dr. Horner", one of the paleontologists that Dr. Alan Grant was based on.
nostalgia for that music.... i remember renting this as a kid in the 90s and being blown away by the first person / third person transitions. I could not believe more people weren't talking about it. haha. great video.
I got this for Xmas as a kid. It took me forever to beat and I remember leaving the SNES on over night for like a week while working my way through it. If this game ever got a remaster or port then save states would be a rare exception where I feel it would be an improvement. Edit: Well look what 2023 brought us. The re-release made me realise something...... The game is actually REALLY short. Once you know where you are going and have beaten it before, you can get through the whole game in under 2 hours. I see now why they didn't bust their nut to get a save feature. People would have beaten it within a few days.
I remember renting this game several times in my SNES days. It looks and sounds great, and I distinctly remember one time renting it that I left the system on all night because there was no way to save your progress. Fast forward and I remember seeing the ending for the first time on youtube, and I remember thinking "WTF?!"
My brother drew a map for this game in a near perfect way. He used colored pens, and ruler. He actually measured individual tiles with a ruler, and calculated/scaled it down when drawing it on grid/draft paper, and made an absolutely beautiful map for this game.
Disappointed the second game got short shrift: I would love to see a proper video on Jurassic Park 2: The Chaos Continues. The extra levels on Hard push the difficulty into the highest tier for run 'n guns on the SNES, provided no cheats; and the unusual balancing factors for a solid co-op mode are noteworthy. Being forced to split powerupsyet also able to equalize health and revive a downed partner is novel; and adding no difficulty except removing the player centering is a rather devious solution to co-op difficulties for these type of games. Lastly, the music-top shelf stuff.
Man, I wanted this game so bad for Christmas '93. I asked my mom and everyone I could to buy it for me. What I got instead was The Hunt For Red October (initially disappointing, but later found to be kinda fun.) A few days after Christmas, I rented this one, and was extremely glad that I didn't end up owning it. I do remember being sick with the flu, though, and after staying up late playing it through the weekend, I was starting to get those strange half-asleep fever dreams, thinking that raptors were literally chasing me as I woke up in a cold sweat.
I bought this game when it first came out and still have it. I loved it but, as you mentioned, I hated the fact you couldn't save or continue. The ending is terrible but I really enjoyed the game despite these issues. I beat it without having to look up how to beat it or without a map. It does take a bit to get used to in order to remember exactly where to go and especially where the T-Rex is because he will kill you in a second. Anyway, thanks for making a video on it. You were much more lenient on it that many others that review it who simply say the game is terrible because you can't save. Cheers!
Got this from a video rental shop back in the day. It was pretty fun, apart from the "no saving" thing....and yeah, emulation and save states are THE way to conquer this title.
It was awesome to see you cover a game from my childhood. We actually printed a walkthrough so we never actually had to figure it out on our own, which honestly we couldn't have XD The soundtrack though is still AMAZING. And it doesn't even have the movie theme!
"Any way you can" can certainly improve and give new life to old games that do some things right, but have major issues like no saves, or very limited continues and stuff like that. I've ended up enjoying quite a few games thanks to some modern comforts.
This game brings back great memories. I remember my dad drawing up all the maps himself and spending countless hours with my babysitter playing this and amazingly reaching that helipad one night. I never quite finished it myself, I got within 2 eggs of winning and got in a fight with my little brother. In an incredible act of stupidity I punished myself to punish him and shut the game off, destroying all progress. He had been watching me try to beat it and I knew this would make him mad too. I think I was around 8 at the time.
i loved this game as a kid, and a big part of that is the music (ocremix had some great versions of the songs). i have to say though i never got to see the ending, as i was never able to get through it in one shot.
Total length of video: 380 secs. Total length of "SNES Drunk": 12 secs.* 3.16% of the video was spent listening to "SNES Drunk." * I did 12 secs. since there is a "SNES Drunk" duet at 6 secs. each.
I like your thinking. I was like 6?! That’s actually great! But, with the harmonies we can fudge the numbers a little. Still, 6 is not bad. We’re getting there my friend.
As a kid this game terrified me but it was one of my childhood memories of spending an entire day with my mom and dad trying to beat this game together. I think we played it for over eight hours straight but the furthest we could get was the boat. To this day the portions that are first person perspective with the sound effects is scarier than some actual horror games.
You forgot to mention how brutal the backtracking is in this game lol. I have fond memories of this version but I never knew where to go or what to do, and generally got bored after an hour or two. Hopefully we get a good (non-park builder) Jurassic Park game someday.
I love this game but you’re absolutely right. It takes a long time just to get to the ship and even in a speed run, you need to do it 3 different times. Very tedious. The order in which you must complete objectives is BS too
Comment before watching the vid: Definately! Now I watch. edit: As I could not get my hands on the game on release I bought it a little later in France when I was 16 I think (i am from germany). Turned out the game was in french. It was ok since I learned it back then. I really loved JP, it´s a great adventure. Somehow you told nothing about the game. It is an adventure game but you shoot dinos on the way. You have to search the island for key cards and computers to work your way through, as stated by drunk it is a long way to walk and you probably need several attempts, but it is thrilling. Those key cards may be hidden in the first person sections, but some need other items to advance (nightvision goggles p.e.). The raptor cries before they attack gave me nightmares. And yeah, the music was great.
Heh... I've always had a love/hate relationship with this game. Like you, I didn't care much about JP swag, but the game box sold me and I paid for this with my hard earned allowance money new as a kid. I hated the fact that there was no save feature and frequently had to leave the SNES turned on with the game paused and a sticky note on it pleading with my parents to not turn it off while I was outside mowing the lawn or whatever on a Saturday afternoon. Eventually did beat the game on my own after several weeks of trial and error. One of the most annoying aspects to me was having to backtrack all over hell and creation looking for ID cards in this game. You'd get 2/3 of the way through a building only to realize you needed a specific card to open a door or operate a computer and then you'd have to backtrack halfway across the island and enter a different building to find that card. Lather, rinse, repeat. It's like they realized, well we need to make the game longer so let's throw in a few locked doors or computer terminals to make them have to backtrack. I've never tried this, but supposedly the dinosaurs won't wake up if you take the pacifist route and use the tranquilizer only on them in the overhead area. Combine that with the fact that dinos don't respawn at all in the buildings after you kill them with any weapon and theoretically after an hour or so of playing you'd just be walking through a dino ghost town looking for ID cards and operating computer terminals. All of that being said, the music and sound effects in this game are top notch. One major selling point on the box is the game boasting "Dolby Surround Sound." When I was a kid I used to have a CRT in my room along with this old stereo system with these giant box speakers that my parents didn't want anymore. It was kinda junky and old but perfect for my purposes - I had figured out how to run the RCA audio cables from the SNES to the receiver input so I was pretty hot shit with my stereo sounding SNES lol. Anyway this game really did have surround sound which to me, as a kid, blew my mind. When you were in a building and you'd hear a dinosaur, if it was to your left, you'd actually hear it out of the left speaker only - or whatever. That was really feckin' cool to me at the time. Also looking back, the game really follows the book more closely than the movie. The missions where you have to nerve gas the raptor nest and stop the raptors from escaping on the boat to the mainland were all lifted from the book. In hindsight, as great as the original movie was, I wish it had followed the book more closely instead of taking the kid friendly PG route because it could have been so much better.
I never did beat this as a kid, but I played it a ton. When I got older I got me an emulator, and played through the game in it's entirety, using save states of course. I didn't use any walkthroughs at all. I also timed myself playing it. It was almost 5 hours total for me to go in blind and beat the game. Pretty long for a game with no saves built in. lol But I still found it fun, and the music is some of my favorite on the SNES. The indoor sections actually freaked me out as a kid with it's survival horror sounding music.
I used to go into the first building over and over stocking up on shot gun ammo before I went on with the rest of the game. I had so much fun with this game but got lost in the raptor nest way too often.
Bola snare rifle. A bola is a set of weights hooked together by string; tossing it can stun and grapple a target from afar, though in this case, the weights are explosive.
I beat this as a kid, but only by leaving my SNES on between sessions. I had to draw a paper map of the raptor nest, too. The soundtrack is still stuck in my head to this day, and is easily the game's best quality.
I beat this as a kid back in the 90s by drawing my own maps to all the inside areas and just learning my way around the outside parts. It was an impressive feat for back then before the internet, and if im not mistaken, I had to leave the snes on overnight and while I went to school to come back to it and finish
Jurrassic Park II: The Chaos Continues was surprisingly good. I finished the whole game on an emulator about 10 years ago, while commuting by train in Denmark. I managed to play (and finish) a lot of old SNES and Sega Genesis games in that period.
My experience with Sega Genesis was very sporadic before 2k3, but I recall the Jurassic Park game being one of the 1st I'd ever played, along with like Ecco, Aladdin, and Lion King. I didnt play a sonic game until probably late 90s. Didnt even know about the SNES versions, learn new things everyday!
"And, whatever this is here!" That is a Bolas. It is a throwing weapon that consists of essentially a cord connecting some weights. They often come in a variant that has just two weighted balls on the end of one length of cord, however there are also 3 ball versions, as seen in the game. They were often used to incapacitate and capture by entangling the targets limbs. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolas
Rented the snes jp back in the day and found it a pretty good game but the save/password/map issues tarnished it tbh. On the other hand, the megadrive jp. I bought it from a local games shop on sale and after playing through it, sold it to another local games shop a week or two later and ended up with profit. Wasn’t even planned lol, Total win!
Yep "anyway i can" is my way of playing snes games. I try not to use saves states a lot, but when you must do adult stuffs, is a good way to keep your progress. I played this in my childhood, rented from a vhs store in temuco chile, but i could not ended then. So, a couple years ago i went for a rematch. For some sort of old school ethics, went for the "draw the maps by myself", how many spend hours wasted haha. But yes, it was worth it. For me at least. The ending was...yep it is stupid. Especially after all the time invested. Great review.
I remember having this game as a kid and truly the first person shooter portions of the game were quite terrifying for me. But in a very thrilling way! Sometimes the T-rexes would just sneak the hell up on you and freak me out. The other dinos that just stood there were also creepy as well. Reminded me a bit of the little girls in The Shining lol. It was a fun game but I could never get through the whole thing because it really just goes on and on, like you said. So it was kinda relieving that I really didn't miss much if I *did* get past it. There was always a point when I'd get bored of the same things and just shut it off. Regardless, I still enjoyed it and it was a bit of a change-up from the stuff that I typically played like Disney or Mario games.
This looks a lot like the gameboy Jurassic Park game, which is an alright but hard as balls game. The music in absolutely slaps though. I used to just turn it on as a kid to listen to the music, cos I couldn't get past level 2 anyway. It was only decades later that I learnt it's basically the exact same game as the NES one, just in black and white obviously. Nobody I knew had a NES (nobody really bought the NES in my country, we were master system and mega drive people) so I'd have had no idea of knowing But yeah it's got the same top down view thing as this
Yeah. There's also Jurassic Park Part II: The Chaos Continues for Game Boy, which is a simple but fun side-scrolling shooter. It has some really neat levels and the music is killer.
Got this game either at Christmas, birthday, or paper route money. What's said here is 100% correct. It's a decent game, if only it had a save system it would be a bit better. Great music. I would always get very far in this game as a kid but gave up because I would run out of patience or time.
I did not care for the movie, but I loved this game. I did play it all the way through on the old SNES cartridge over 25 years ago. It's long and doesn't even have an ending, it just zooms away from the island decal in reverse. I was like ... WHAT?! It felt like a blatant FUCK YOU! which is funny now. So it's safe to assume they didn't finish it and improvised, they probably figured most players would not play it long enough to finish it even if there were a save feature. It was a movie release, a FAD item. Second favorite Jurassic Park game was the Sega CD game. I liked adventure games.
Yeah, while the game is a great experience, from what I understand the Developers Ocean suffered quite a bit from the heavy weight of making a game adaptation of such a big film release. I’m guessing towards the end of development there was some major rush and crunch time in order to release during the hype of the film release, that probably is what led to the lackluster ending. I agree that they did an admirable job though and I really love it. Ocean has also done some other movie adaptations as well, of varying quality, although almost all of their games have amazing music. Water world on SNES is one of their lesser games but the soundtrack is unreal, the songs go on for minutes without looping and are beautiful
I have never given up on a new game as fast as I did this one after receiving it for Christmas in 93. After playing it for 3-4 hours, not getting all that far, then coming to the realization there was no save of any type, I may have played it only a handful of times more.
I always found the limited view and clunky controls made the indoor sections actually nerve racking as a kid. Raptors felt really dangerous in an environment where you couldn't turn left and right quickly. Add in the look and feel, and the change from the funky overworld music to the creepy indoor music, and I think they were on to something special back then.
The only one problem this game has - No saves or passwords! After playing it so much as a kid though, I finally speed ran it in about 2 1/2 hours, knowing where all the eggs, keycards, and mission objectives were. I’d give it an 8/10, but it would be a 9/10 if it just had a save system.
I had a vendetta against this game as a kid, and it stayed with me as an adult. I tried so hard to beat it as a kid when we rented it, I even paused it all day as my family went to the mall. Still couldn't do it. Maybe 3 years ago, I busted this game out, and admittedly looked online only once for help...but I did it! One mark off my bucket list...
One of my all time favorite games. Played the hell out of this. The lack of save KILLED me, and I would leave the SNES on for days, constantly lost and stumped. The first person part was immersive as hell and incredible for its time. It was scary as shit too, you would constantly hear dino roars but not know where they were. The computer sequences were awesome too. And yeah soundtrack was epic! Thanks for the nostalgia. 🎉🎉
Luckily for you, this was one of the games included in the Jurassic Park Classic Games Collection. And it includes a save option, which means the SNES version is now more playable that way. ;)
I had the sequel on my SNES and my cousins had this one on their. I remember really liking it because we were able to play as the protagonist of the actual movie and the world looked so mysterious and fun to explore, but, when you realise there's no way to save progress, it's just a kick in the nuts. I didn't like the fps sections, not even in the day, but if only it had a password system, this game would have been considered a real video game experience lol
Most underrated snes soundtrack imo
Beavis and butthead
Agreed. This is one of the best game soundtracks ever. In fact I prefer this to Williams original movie score, although they can’t really be compared.
Triceratops Trot has a true early 90s vibe
@@JTSuter Gallimimus Gallop is right there too
I have a list of my top 15 all time favorite video game music. I´ve been planning to make a video about it since ages ago, but never got around to it. I also hate my own voice, which I would have to use to narrate. I´m just not a charming talker, my voice sounds more annoying than charming.
Anyway, one track from this game is #14 on that list. I think the official name for it is something with "Triceratops...", the song that plays when you´re in the mountains....
8 year old me found those indoors sections really scary, and it made me stay away from them. Funny, I was fine with watching the Alien movies at that age, but SNES Jurassic park? Nope!
I still get flashbacks when hearing the TRex or the sound of the raptors indoors.
It's a different story when you're in the 'driver seat' and not just a passive observer. It's like the game Wolfenstein. The graphics are so basic yet you still sh*t your trousers when a Nazi appears out of nowhere.
The elevator music...
AFnord same. My sister had to play those parts for me. I was too scared
AFnord scared me too
I loved this game as a kid! Looking back it’s hard to believe the first person sections put me on edge like I was playing a survival horror game 😅
It was the music! I loved it as a kid too, especially the first-person computer interaction. I thought it was the coolest, and I'll never forget the sound effects for those scenes.
Got this for Christmas as a kid, great game, but for the love of god this game needs a bloody save feature. Insane of Ocean not to include one, not even passwords >.>
Same here. There is a Highscore Screen though that shows after you run out of continues. So as a kid I thought there MUST be some kind of a save feature and I tried everything.
It was bot until years later that I noticed that the Highscores also didn’t save. There is no save state battery in the cartridge.
So what I did was what any sane kid would do: Keep the SNES on and make an effort of pretending to your mom that it’s switched off. This worked well and I got quite far into the game until my mom unplugged it to use the outlet for the vacuum.
Oh how frustrating life as a kid can be...
@@equiinferno 🤣🤣🤣🤣👏👏👏soo true!
I feel you 😂👍🏻
Man this game. This game.
I bought it as a kid but had to wait for the internet to be invented, find a .txt walkthru to beat it, and the ending *spoilers* is just the intro played in reverse.
Saaaaaaaaaame
One of the most disappointing ending ever .
i owned this game as a kid, and played it a lot. with each time i got better and progressed farther. One day, ive been playing the game for hours and got so far, ive collected most of the cards, i just remember being so close to the end but i was stuck on something. i couldnt figure it out, after exploring the whole island multiple times and looking everywhere, i couldnt find that kay card. I quit the game, and i never played it again because it took me for ever to get to the part where i was. He forgot to mention there is no continues, and shit. its a good game, but that major flaw was what made that game bad...
My brother beat it and got everything in it without the internet lol
Empire Lifts Back true story man. I remember this as well, you had to get some key card to enter a room on boat or some shit. Did finish yearsssss later though.
Say what you will, this game knows how to legitimately stress you out when the T-Rex is nearby.
I’m stressing just hearing it on the video.
Yeah, scary game for its time
Yeah they say careful turning Lind corners, you forget it, hit a dead end and it comes out faster than the raptors and you’re launch.
Err...lunch.
Always arm yourself with the tranquilizer gun and fire like crazy.
Still one of the best game soundtracks of all time.
Hey, thanks for the VGM shoutout. Ever since UA-cam really started to take off, it's been little more than a ghost town. Rey does update though, and we still take submissions via email. Oddly enough, I got this game for Christmas alongside my SNES. I remember bringing the manual to school until it got stolen. Obviously, I never beat it. I did however buckle down before my 29th birthday, bought another copy off eBay, and went the distance. It's doable, but took me about 6 hours nonstop blind. I had no idea this ending was missing from the site. I also have no memory of it outside of being picked up by the helicopter with the eggs. There was so much lost potential here. Eventually, there's an area along the beach where you investigate a wrecked ship (not THAT wrecked ship, another one) and the music outside is haunting in a peaceful way. Left an impact on me years ago.
Okay, hol up, hol' up, hol' up. I've played this game backwards and forwards, and know the entire map, indoors and out, by heart (except the raptor's nest, which is proof positive that the Velociraptors were brought back from extinction by splicing their genes with the DNA of M.C. Escher). I have *never* seen nor heard of a "second ship." Where in the name of all that is good and Firefly is it?
I swear I can still hear the "Welcome to Jurassic Park" voice whenever I hear this game get mentioned. That and the first person areas always creeped me out when I was a kid and despite not playing this game in years, it still kinda creeps me out as an adult. I don't remember actually playing this game that much, but I remember that I just preferred to watch my older siblings play half of the games we had for the SNES and PS1 back then.
And hearing that there's not really an ending and having absolutely no way to save your progress makes me feel a little glad that no one in my family has ever bothered to even try and beat this game.
I loved watching my older siblings play SNES, 64 and PS1 games too! Of course I loved playing them myself, but there was just something so fun about sitting down, relaxing and watching them play.
It always sounded like Butt-Head to me
Terrible endings are annoying, but the adventure is in the journey, not the destination.
Hello you. You're literally everywhere
I lived overseas when the movie came out and I remember my family driving a few hours to Frankfurt, a big city in Germany, so we could see it in English months before the base theater would get it. Thought I was the coolest kid ever! Played the game as well but could never beat it.
Holy sh*t! Did that T-Rex say Sega?!
Yeah, that pretty much sums up the 90s.
AVGN reference FTW
That's blast processing for ya
That and playing as a freakin Velociraptor is awesome.
Jurassic Park Rampage Edition is the better game.
But both pale to the PS1 Lost World Jurassic Park game.
You get to play as a Velociraptor and T-rex in that 1.
Dude I totally forgot about that
I played this for hours at my grandpa's house in '99, and it's a part of my life long love affair with the SNES
Me too
Same.
Same gripe. Just hated the fact that you had to leave the damn SNES on to "continue".
I wonder if anyone tried to look into the game to see if a Save feature was left in the game, or if anyone interviewed a dev to explain why there was no save or password feature. My first guess a save feature was planned but Ocean didn't want to shell money for a battery in every cartridge. Or it was a way to discourage renting the game multiple times. Or a password system was attempted but couldn't work before the deadline. Or the devs turned out to make the game much longer than originally conceived.
My parents only allowed me play in the weekend, imagine that. Sunday, half playthrough, paused... on the entire week...
@@DhinCardoso good times😂🍻
My friend used to leave his PS1 Digimon game running in mid-battle overnight and through the day until he got home from school. The pure rage when he found out his mom had turned it off.
@@arootube Uhuhuuhuhu he sounds like a wuss. Uhuhuhuhuhuhuuuuhuhuuhu
I've been waiting for this review! I loved this game as a kid but i had no idea what i was supposed to do. So instead, i role played someone trying to survive on the island. I'd hunt for food and supplies, make my own base, and generally make up my own goals.
And yeah, the music is fantastic.
I did the same thing. Whenever I hit locked doors I would always try to unlock them out of pure curiosity and nothing else.
I would love to see a rom hack/improvement so we can have an in game world map and save features.
@MultiTarded and a proper little ending cutscene of an helicopter flying on thr horizon would also be nice.
And better fps in the indoor sections. Smooth like the really inside the vending machine level from toy story
i said the same thing
Your wish has been granted sir, they just released a compilation pack for all new systems with like 5 Jurassic Park games in it, this one included. It has save features, and an in game map that is pretty well detailed. Its called the Jurassic Park Classic Games Collection. Only took 4 years but its pretty good, check it out.
I love how many people are saying they had to leave the SNES on overnight to finish the game. We did that too, it’s nice to see we weren’t alone.
The 1st person sections were awesome cuz you could go into the elevators and chill out to the smooth jazz before returning to the intense scary levels haha
Also, because they were contemporaries, those 1st person sections always reminded me of Myst...
Nice, soothing music before you open the door and a raptor kills you lol
yea same beating it in one sitting way too much
Yep had to leave my snes of for 2 night I believe. Had to get my mum to sit next to me and draw a map of the inside sections so I could remember where the cards were.
I can still remember the elevator music in my head now and I haven't heard it for like 20 years.
@@cd8815 I know the feel
I actually like how challenging this game is, i remember weekend nights staying up late working on this game with my young bro and my mom. We would handle the walking around parts outside, and my mom would play all the bits inside the Visitor Centre and Generator rooms. My mom really got into this game, she would write down notes and directions or all the locations and where we picked up the Key cards. Good times, the high challenge of this classic game just kept bringing us back. Games today just dont really give you that.
I remember keeping my SNES on for days to play through this as a kid. As for navigating the HUGE map, I recall finding the map on page 11 of the manual marginally useful
2:50 The main thing I remember about this game, are the complicated indoor sections. In particular, the Raptor's nest was so complicated, that I had to create a detailed map on a sheet of paper in order to track where to go.
I drew maps of the buildings, but in the raptor maze I just followed the left or right wall until I'd inevitably run into the nest.
I totally get why many dont like it, but I still enjoy SNES Jurassic Park today. A lot of it is nostalgia. I saw it in Nintendo Power and bought it in 93 expecting it to be half Zelda, half Wolfenstein. I was a little disappointed but finally sat down for 6 hours and beat it on a snow day when school was cancelled. Yeah having no save feature in this game was idiotic.
2:05 those things are called bolos. They're like grenades on strings. Also if you can't find the key cards you need you'll be wandering around for hours.
Bolas*
They're not grenades on strings, they're snares. You'd use them to tangle the legs of something and prevent it from running away. They do not explode haha.
I could never figure out where to go in this game.
11?! Damn, I was 6. Finally, a gaming UA-camr who isn't a decade younger than me! :P
Hehe me too, and i have this Game, i wasn't disappointed back than, but it was also not a lot of fun.
I guess it's down to what I watch and thus what youtube recommends, but most of the gaming focused youtube channels I end up finding are by people who are between their mid 30's and mid 40's.
I know what you mean....all these twenty year old UA-camrs lol
The AVGN is 39.
@@AFnord Yeah, I think the only gaming UA-camrs I watch that are about my age are AVGN and ProJared; two of my favorites, I might add. But that doesn't mean that the gamers I usually watch are drastically younger than me, I guess I'm just always surprised to find out that a lot of them are in their early/mid twenties. Just makes me feel old lol.
my brother and i drew a map to keep track of all the raptor eggs. it took us literal years of playing before i accidentally found the last egg and our excitement was immediately eclipsed by disappointment at the ending. also, going through the levels of the ship was a huge headache, but that soundtrack definitely stood out. that t-rex music made me feel like i was gonna have a heart attack.
2:05 It's called "Bola" or "Bola Bola". It's an australien tool made for hunting. :)
Similar to the Argentinean Gaucho's Boleadoras.
I really love this game. I remember this from 90s. It was huge and dropped jaws with soundtrack and 3D! No save system and the ending... they are huge flaws damn :(
I remember playing this game as a kid, the first person sections freaked me out (especially when you were in darkness). Also you forgot to mention the T-Rex chase scene, that was pretty neat.
I love your channel: you are super fast and clear ❤️
I always loved this game. Just wish it had a password/save system. The soundtrack is memorable, the world is pretty cool, and the first person buildings scared the shit out of me. Opening a door and a Velociraptor is staring you in the face.
I used to rent this as a kid. I got pretty deep into it as well, but there was one game breaking bug that stopped me.
On the boat level which is a maze like mess of indiscernible floors, one of the quest is to kill off 50 raptors scattered around. When you do and you're trying to navigate your way back to the surface, there is a door that if you open, you can find yourself in a glitch where you cannot leave that spot. Your character just gets stuck. Without a save the only alternative is to turn off and start over FROM SCRATCH.
That broke me as a kid. There was another place in one of the underground areas, that if you walk into the Jurassic Park logo on the wall, you can pass through into an area that is almost completely blank outside of a top half being black and the bottom half being gray, and you can get lost inside.
I still really liked the game, but it felt like in the later parts no one really tested it because they didn't expect anybody to get that far. And the ending is as bad as you say. Go up in a plane, rotate around fly back down into the island, and get a message that says "you escaped the island."
It is more fun with savestates.
3:29-3:42 - In other words, they were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should
Thank you for not mercilessly shitting on this game. I remember sitting down and beating this in one or two sittings back in the 90s and thinking how badly it needed a save or password option. Luckily emulators fix that problem, but the graphics definitely look dated in the FPS sections.
The music, like you mentioned, is awesome. Ocean did an outstanding job with this one, which is very unlike them at the time- typically cashing in on most licensed movie properties with half-assed games.
I always wanted to play the Sega CD JP game which took more cues from Myst, which was quite popular at the time, but thanks to UA-cam I don’t have to slog through it.
Anyways, thanks for the video! And those weapons that kill everything in one hit are bolas BTW.
Man, I have a love hate relationship with this one. The soundtrack of this game is bangin'!
I just felt it was just so obscure, I remember leaving the game on for 2 days at my mom's house as a kid to finish it.
Always had trouble gassing the raptor nest. I finally beat it on my Gateway in like 01. MSDOS days. Of course I looked it up though. I remember using Apocalyptica's Toreador, MB, and Harmageddon as a soundtrack during the ship interior setting
2:34 - That's how I prefer it. Memorization. That's why I am so good at remembering maps.
3:40 - I understand where you're coming from, but you're looking at it wrong here.
You should be thinking of the FPS sections in the term of a horror game, because they're damn good effective at that.
5:26 - If I'm not mistaking, the Chaos Continues was based on a Comic, or something. Also a great game.
I love this game myself. I absolutely think it's worth playing today.
With this game, it's not the ending that matters, it's the journey.
You don't even need to explore all of the island but you can, you absolutely can. And that's fantastic.
It's one of the rare cases where the game is actually better now then it was in it's time, since its biggest fault (no save system) is solved with emulator save-states.
I always loved this game too. I was obsessed with JP after I read the book, and the idea of an open-world adventure set in the JP universe was right up my alley. It felt like Zelda meets Wolfenstein 3D meets Jurassic Park. Hard to go wrong there.
And the music was so awesome, I actually recorded onto a cassette tape back in the day so I could listen to it anywhere. First time I ever did that with a video game soundtrack.
looks like the adams family game where u play as uncle fester for snes
This really takes me back. I played this as a kid (just as a rental), but I think I was too young to get into it. I preferred the Genesis version because I find it easier (and cooler). 😎
Man I love this game. While having no saves does sick, the graphics and music are amazing. The interior sections looked incredible back then. I love that they tried something different.
The gameboy edition of Jurassic Park 'chaos continues' is the best of all these Ocean games - it's got great graphics, music, game play- the whole package
I agree. I just bought it and beat it a couple of days ago. It was way better than any other jp game I have ever played.
What a personal achievment it was when I understood what I had to do in this game, and an even bigger achievment when I was able to complete the game. It was so good.
I got this when I was 8 and didn't beat it till I was 14 because of the no saving. I loved the game and music. And what I learned later when I read the book is some of the missions were straight from the book like the putting the nerve gas in the raptor nest. That was not in the movie, but it was in the book.
The no-ending at all is legendary. Is good to know this since the beginning, that way if you decide to play the entire game (I enjoyed making my own maps) and push yourself to finish it (even knowing that you won't get an ending), you feel rewarded with a good level of satisfaction, no matter if it is only to see again the JP logo on the ground. Nice review.
Especially since you have to do it in ONE SITTING, or else leave the game on while you go do something else. Why, oh WHY didn't they include some sort of save feature?!
The Jurassic Park collection that came out recently fixes a lot of these issues , you can save and it has a map, it's honestly a pretty good game
This game, as well as the game's soundtrack, will forever teleport me right back to my childhood! My mom played this game religiously and she still to this day has never beaten in. She actually did draw her own maps of the open areas as well as the first person sections. She almost beat it one time but as she was heading to the helicopter to leave the island, my brother accidentally tripped on the power cord and that was that. She left the SNES on for DAYS trying to get that far!
I remember playing this game on one of those hotel snes tv’s where the game controller was hard wired to the TV in the hotel room and you had to pay per hour to play their list of Snes games (later including N64 titles)
That’s where I got to play this and Super Punch Out and F Zero and I loved them all.
Problem was I thought not being able to save was such a dumb move and had to be an oversight.
The first person shooter sections really scared me and eventually I got over it and tore through the inside FPS Doom sections but I was spooked by them for a while
I think the FPS sections scared me because some interiors were pitch black and you needed night vision to be able to see, but this was a unique game for its time
U were lucky. My parents weren't paying extra to play a hotel snes. In retrospect it was probably for the best. Now i can put this bad boy on my snes classic.
@@wildndetroit Well it was def expensive for back then too, but I was very into video games so they knew I loved it. I always played Super Punch Out, Jurassic Park, and maybe F-Zero (games I never owned growing up until I got an SNES rom dumper in high school, Super UFO Pro 7 or something to floppy disk). But yeah, I always got maybe an hour of game time then it was done so I had to make the most of it.
I love how you give little anecdotes about what you're talking about if you have a personal history with it. Adds a bit of charm
Another interesting thing about Jurassic Park 2 on the SNES is how technically impressive the opening cinema is.
The only thing I found memorable about it was "Go, go, GO!!!"
@@retromemories8522 Haha yes! Best part, but don't you mean: "Go, Go.....Geeoo!"
I was waiting for this review just to gush about the music. This game is beyond worth playing with save states! I remember playing for eight hours straight back in the day to complete it!
It remains creepy in each building with the music and sound effects.
Have I mentioned the music is phenomenal?! Play awhile and listen during your deaths 😆
i, too, was 11 in 1993, and there ended up being one thing that year that made a bigger impact on me than any movie or game has ever had since: star fox. my neighbor had jurassic park though - i always enjoyed it but could never get very far.
I remember when my parents bought me Jurassic Park for Christmas. I was so excited but my expectations felt short because of the game itself. Back then I wasn't able to understand English and I didn't know what to do with the game. I keep wandering for two days, then I stopped playing. Now I think it's a decent adventure game with the flash SNES drunk described, worst of all the absolute absence of save points, then no in game map.
This brings back memories... because I found the hidden cave with the 1up and the floating D in it before it was in Nintendo Power. The D was part of letters strewn across the map to guide you to the hidden contest to decipher "Dr. Horner", one of the paleontologists that Dr. Alan Grant was based on.
i have good memories of this one, a couple of friends and myself finished this epic over a marathonic session.
nostalgia for that music.... i remember renting this as a kid in the 90s and being blown away by the first person / third person transitions. I could not believe more people weren't talking about it. haha. great video.
I got this for Xmas as a kid. It took me forever to beat and I remember leaving the SNES on over night for like a week while working my way through it. If this game ever got a remaster or port then save states would be a rare exception where I feel it would be an improvement.
Edit: Well look what 2023 brought us. The re-release made me realise something...... The game is actually REALLY short. Once you know where you are going and have beaten it before, you can get through the whole game in under 2 hours. I see now why they didn't bust their nut to get a save feature. People would have beaten it within a few days.
I remember renting this game several times in my SNES days. It looks and sounds great, and I distinctly remember one time renting it that I left the system on all night because there was no way to save your progress. Fast forward and I remember seeing the ending for the first time on youtube, and I remember thinking "WTF?!"
My brother drew a map for this game in a near perfect way. He used colored pens, and ruler. He actually measured individual tiles with a ruler, and calculated/scaled it down when drawing it on grid/draft paper, and made an absolutely beautiful map for this game.
(Started this video because I wanted to know if you'll mention THAT theme song. Starts the video... IMMEDIATELY that song starts.) You nailed it.
This reminds me of true lies which was awesome!!!
This video brings back so many memories. Jurassic Park was the first SNES game that I ever played.
Disappointed the second game got short shrift: I would love to see a proper video on Jurassic Park 2: The Chaos Continues. The extra levels on Hard push the difficulty into the highest tier for run 'n guns on the SNES, provided no cheats; and the unusual balancing factors for a solid co-op mode are noteworthy. Being forced to split powerupsyet also able to equalize health and revive a downed partner is novel; and adding no difficulty except removing the player centering is a rather devious solution to co-op difficulties for these type of games. Lastly, the music-top shelf stuff.
Man, I wanted this game so bad for Christmas '93. I asked my mom and everyone I could to buy it for me. What I got instead was The Hunt For Red October (initially disappointing, but later found to be kinda fun.) A few days after Christmas, I rented this one, and was extremely glad that I didn't end up owning it. I do remember being sick with the flu, though, and after staying up late playing it through the weekend, I was starting to get those strange half-asleep fever dreams, thinking that raptors were literally chasing me as I woke up in a cold sweat.
I bought this game when it first came out and still have it. I loved it but, as you mentioned, I hated the fact you couldn't save or continue. The ending is terrible but I really enjoyed the game despite these issues. I beat it without having to look up how to beat it or without a map. It does take a bit to get used to in order to remember exactly where to go and especially where the T-Rex is because he will kill you in a second. Anyway, thanks for making a video on it. You were much more lenient on it that many others that review it who simply say the game is terrible because you can't save. Cheers!
My brother and I would play this for hours when we were little and I don’t think we got passed the first area.
I owned Jurassic park 2 as a kid, but it had no save state or password system either but it was pretty fun to play
Got this from a video rental shop back in the day. It was pretty fun, apart from the "no saving" thing....and yeah, emulation and save states are THE way to conquer this title.
I still listen to this soundtrack all the time! Really outstanding. Triceratops Trot, anyone?
It was awesome to see you cover a game from my childhood. We actually printed a walkthrough so we never actually had to figure it out on our own, which honestly we couldn't have XD
The soundtrack though is still AMAZING. And it doesn't even have the movie theme!
"Any way you can" can certainly improve and give new life to old games that do some things right, but have major issues like no saves, or very limited continues and stuff like that. I've ended up enjoying quite a few games thanks to some modern comforts.
Ah, the ONE game I remember that I don't mind using Save states on.
This game brings back great memories. I remember my dad drawing up all the maps himself and spending countless hours with my babysitter playing this and amazingly reaching that helipad one night. I never quite finished it myself, I got within 2 eggs of winning and got in a fight with my little brother. In an incredible act of stupidity I punished myself to punish him and shut the game off, destroying all progress. He had been watching me try to beat it and I knew this would make him mad too. I think I was around 8 at the time.
i loved this game as a kid, and a big part of that is the music (ocremix had some great versions of the songs). i have to say though i never got to see the ending, as i was never able to get through it in one shot.
mattwithoutyou Your not missing much, if I remember correctly it is the intro reversed. That’s it.
Total length of video: 380 secs.
Total length of "SNES Drunk": 12 secs.*
3.16% of the video was spent listening to "SNES Drunk." * I did 12 secs. since there is a "SNES Drunk" duet at 6 secs. each.
I like your thinking. I was like 6?! That’s actually great! But, with the harmonies we can fudge the numbers a little. Still, 6 is not bad. We’re getting there my friend.
Nicely done.
As a kid this game terrified me but it was one of my childhood memories of spending an entire day with my mom and dad trying to beat this game together. I think we played it for over eight hours straight but the furthest we could get was the boat. To this day the portions that are first person perspective with the sound effects is scarier than some actual horror games.
You forgot to mention how brutal the backtracking is in this game lol. I have fond memories of this version but I never knew where to go or what to do, and generally got bored after an hour or two. Hopefully we get a good (non-park builder) Jurassic Park game someday.
Jurassic park 2 for the gameboy is what I would consider a good game.
I love this game but you’re absolutely right. It takes a long time just to get to the ship and even in a speed run, you need to do it 3 different times. Very tedious. The order in which you must complete objectives is BS too
Comment before watching the vid: Definately! Now I watch.
edit: As I could not get my hands on the game on release I bought it a little later in France when I was 16 I think (i am from germany). Turned out the game was in french. It was ok since I learned it back then. I really loved JP, it´s a great adventure.
Somehow you told nothing about the game.
It is an adventure game but you shoot dinos on the way. You have to search the island for key cards and computers to work your way through, as stated by drunk it is a long way to walk and you probably need several attempts, but it is thrilling. Those key cards may be hidden in the first person sections, but some need other items to advance (nightvision goggles p.e.).
The raptor cries before they attack gave me nightmares. And yeah, the music was great.
Heh... I've always had a love/hate relationship with this game. Like you, I didn't care much about JP swag, but the game box sold me and I paid for this with my hard earned allowance money new as a kid. I hated the fact that there was no save feature and frequently had to leave the SNES turned on with the game paused and a sticky note on it pleading with my parents to not turn it off while I was outside mowing the lawn or whatever on a Saturday afternoon. Eventually did beat the game on my own after several weeks of trial and error. One of the most annoying aspects to me was having to backtrack all over hell and creation looking for ID cards in this game. You'd get 2/3 of the way through a building only to realize you needed a specific card to open a door or operate a computer and then you'd have to backtrack halfway across the island and enter a different building to find that card. Lather, rinse, repeat. It's like they realized, well we need to make the game longer so let's throw in a few locked doors or computer terminals to make them have to backtrack.
I've never tried this, but supposedly the dinosaurs won't wake up if you take the pacifist route and use the tranquilizer only on them in the overhead area. Combine that with the fact that dinos don't respawn at all in the buildings after you kill them with any weapon and theoretically after an hour or so of playing you'd just be walking through a dino ghost town looking for ID cards and operating computer terminals.
All of that being said, the music and sound effects in this game are top notch. One major selling point on the box is the game boasting "Dolby Surround Sound." When I was a kid I used to have a CRT in my room along with this old stereo system with these giant box speakers that my parents didn't want anymore. It was kinda junky and old but perfect for my purposes - I had figured out how to run the RCA audio cables from the SNES to the receiver input so I was pretty hot shit with my stereo sounding SNES lol. Anyway this game really did have surround sound which to me, as a kid, blew my mind. When you were in a building and you'd hear a dinosaur, if it was to your left, you'd actually hear it out of the left speaker only - or whatever. That was really feckin' cool to me at the time.
Also looking back, the game really follows the book more closely than the movie. The missions where you have to nerve gas the raptor nest and stop the raptors from escaping on the boat to the mainland were all lifted from the book. In hindsight, as great as the original movie was, I wish it had followed the book more closely instead of taking the kid friendly PG route because it could have been so much better.
Hey, Friday Night Arcade’s here. I enjoy your vids too man. 👍
I never did beat this as a kid, but I played it a ton. When I got older I got me an emulator, and played through the game in it's entirety, using save states of course. I didn't use any walkthroughs at all. I also timed myself playing it. It was almost 5 hours total for me to go in blind and beat the game. Pretty long for a game with no saves built in. lol But I still found it fun, and the music is some of my favorite on the SNES. The indoor sections actually freaked me out as a kid with it's survival horror sounding music.
I used to go into the first building over and over stocking up on shot gun ammo before I went on with the rest of the game. I had so much fun with this game but got lost in the raptor nest way too often.
8 year old me probably spent an hour just trying to figure out the raptor nest
Bola snare rifle. A bola is a set of weights hooked together by string; tossing it can stun and grapple a target from afar, though in this case, the weights are explosive.
I beat this as a kid, but only by leaving my SNES on between sessions. I had to draw a paper map of the raptor nest, too. The soundtrack is still stuck in my head to this day, and is easily the game's best quality.
I beat this as a kid back in the 90s by drawing my own maps to all the inside areas and just learning my way around the outside parts. It was an impressive feat for back then before the internet, and if im not mistaken, I had to leave the snes on overnight and while I went to school to come back to it and finish
Jurrassic Park II: The Chaos Continues was surprisingly good. I finished the whole game on an emulator about 10 years ago, while commuting by train in Denmark. I managed to play (and finish) a lot of old SNES and Sega Genesis games in that period.
How does the longer snnnnnesdrunk intro make me belly laugh? Keep doing you, you’re awesome!
My experience with Sega Genesis was very sporadic before 2k3, but I recall the Jurassic Park game being one of the 1st I'd ever played, along with like Ecco, Aladdin, and Lion King. I didnt play a sonic game until probably late 90s. Didnt even know about the SNES versions, learn new things everyday!
"And, whatever this is here!" That is a Bolas. It is a throwing weapon that consists of essentially a cord connecting some weights. They often come in a variant that has just two weighted balls on the end of one length of cord, however there are also 3 ball versions, as seen in the game.
They were often used to incapacitate and capture by entangling the targets limbs.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolas
I guess it doesn't help matters that the game makes it look like you're firing them from your gun and that they explode on contact.
Rented the snes jp back in the day and found it a pretty good game but the save/password/map issues tarnished it tbh. On the other hand, the megadrive jp. I bought it from a local games shop on sale and after playing through it, sold it to another local games shop a week or two later and ended up with profit. Wasn’t even planned lol, Total win!
Yep "anyway i can" is my way of playing snes games. I try not to use saves states a lot, but when you must do adult stuffs, is a good way to keep your progress.
I played this in my childhood, rented from a vhs store in temuco chile, but i could not ended then. So, a couple years ago i went for a rematch. For some sort of old school ethics, went for the "draw the maps by myself", how many spend hours wasted haha. But yes, it was worth it. For me at least. The ending was...yep it is stupid. Especially after all the time invested. Great review.
I remember having this game as a kid and truly the first person shooter portions of the game were quite terrifying for me. But in a very thrilling way! Sometimes the T-rexes would just sneak the hell up on you and freak me out. The other dinos that just stood there were also creepy as well. Reminded me a bit of the little girls in The Shining lol. It was a fun game but I could never get through the whole thing because it really just goes on and on, like you said. So it was kinda relieving that I really didn't miss much if I *did* get past it. There was always a point when I'd get bored of the same things and just shut it off. Regardless, I still enjoyed it and it was a bit of a change-up from the stuff that I typically played like Disney or Mario games.
I had the same experience as a kid seeing JP in theatres opening weekend. The last good time at the movies I had with my family
This looks a lot like the gameboy Jurassic Park game, which is an alright but hard as balls game. The music in absolutely slaps though. I used to just turn it on as a kid to listen to the music, cos I couldn't get past level 2 anyway. It was only decades later that I learnt it's basically the exact same game as the NES one, just in black and white obviously. Nobody I knew had a NES (nobody really bought the NES in my country, we were master system and mega drive people) so I'd have had no idea of knowing
But yeah it's got the same top down view thing as this
Yeah. There's also Jurassic Park Part II: The Chaos Continues for Game Boy, which is a simple but fun side-scrolling shooter. It has some really neat levels and the music is killer.
This game scared the crap out of me as a youngster.
Got this game either at Christmas, birthday, or paper route money. What's said here is 100% correct. It's a decent game, if only it had a save system it would be a bit better. Great music. I would always get very far in this game as a kid but gave up because I would run out of patience or time.
I did not care for the movie, but I loved this game. I did play it all the way through on the old SNES cartridge over 25 years ago. It's long and doesn't even have an ending, it just zooms away from the island decal in reverse. I was like ... WHAT?! It felt like a blatant FUCK YOU! which is funny now. So it's safe to assume they didn't finish it and improvised, they probably figured most players would not play it long enough to finish it even if there were a save feature. It was a movie release, a FAD item.
Second favorite Jurassic Park game was the Sega CD game. I liked adventure games.
Yeah, while the game is a great experience, from what I understand the Developers Ocean suffered quite a bit from the heavy weight of making a game adaptation of such a big film release. I’m guessing towards the end of development there was some major rush and crunch time in order to release during the hype of the film release, that probably is what led to the lackluster ending. I agree that they did an admirable job though and I really love it. Ocean has also done some other movie adaptations as well, of varying quality, although almost all of their games have amazing music. Water world on SNES is one of their lesser games but the soundtrack is unreal, the songs go on for minutes without looping and are beautiful
I have never given up on a new game as fast as I did this one after receiving it for Christmas in 93. After playing it for 3-4 hours, not getting all that far, then coming to the realization there was no save of any type, I may have played it only a handful of times more.
I always found the limited view and clunky controls made the indoor sections actually nerve racking as a kid. Raptors felt really dangerous in an environment where you couldn't turn left and right quickly. Add in the look and feel, and the change from the funky overworld music to the creepy indoor music, and I think they were on to something special back then.
The only one problem this game has - No saves or passwords! After playing it so much as a kid though, I finally speed ran it in about 2 1/2 hours, knowing where all the eggs, keycards, and mission objectives were. I’d give it an 8/10, but it would be a 9/10 if it just had a save system.
I had a vendetta against this game as a kid, and it stayed with me as an adult. I tried so hard to beat it as a kid when we rented it, I even paused it all day as my family went to the mall. Still couldn't do it. Maybe 3 years ago, I busted this game out, and admittedly looked online only once for help...but I did it! One mark off my bucket list...
Totally unrelated but, the title music for the Gameboy port of this game was amazing, I still listen to it to this day.
One of my all time favorite games. Played the hell out of this. The lack of save KILLED me, and I would leave the SNES on for days, constantly lost and stumped. The first person part was immersive as hell and incredible for its time. It was scary as shit too, you would constantly hear dino roars but not know where they were. The computer sequences were awesome too. And yeah soundtrack was epic! Thanks for the nostalgia. 🎉🎉
Luckily for you, this was one of the games included in the Jurassic Park Classic Games Collection. And it includes a save option, which means the SNES version is now more playable that way. ;)
Go for the DOS version, that one had passwords or a save IIRC. It was pretty similar to this, even down to the FPS mode. It also had better graphics.
I had the sequel on my SNES and my cousins had this one on their. I remember really liking it because we were able to play as the protagonist of the actual movie and the world looked so mysterious and fun to explore, but, when you realise there's no way to save progress, it's just a kick in the nuts. I didn't like the fps sections, not even in the day, but if only it had a password system, this game would have been considered a real video game experience lol