Jurassic Park Longplay (Sega Genesis) [QHD]
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- Опубліковано 7 сер 2024
- Game Info
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Developer: BlueSky Software
Publisher: Sega
Year of Release: 1993
Game Review & Impressions
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With its ground-breaking visual effects and dynamic cast, Jurassic Park is one of the landmark movies from the early 1990s. The success of the movie spawned multiple sequels, which continue to be created to this day. Jurassic Park was a big deal, so it's unsurprising that a slew of video game tie-ins were made, to varying degrees of success. My only reference point had been the Commodore Amiga version of Jurassic Park, developed by Ocean Software, which was totally different to the Genesis game. I was curious to see what console owners had received back in the day, so I decided to give the Sega Genesis version a try.
The first curious thing about this game is the fact that players can choose to play either as Dr. Alan Grant, portrayed by actor Sam Neill in the movie, or as some random velociraptor. The fact that both characters play through levels using the exact same background graphics suggests that the developers were trying to bulk out the amount of content present in the game, but neither game mode is particularly enticing.
As Dr. Grant, you have to run and jump through levels that are sort of inspired by locations from the film, although the game references precious little from the film itself. None of the other members of the cast are even mentioned, and aside from the briefest of moments inside the park's visitor centre, there's little to distinguish this from some random jungle-themed platforming game. As for Raptor, the levels are practically identical, except you're trying to hunt down Dr. Grant, killing a bunch of park security guards along the way.
If I'm being totally honest, the game is a bit of a disaster. The gameplay is boring, uninspired platforming with dull levels and little to get your teeth into. The control system is abhorrent, featuring a glitchy animation system which makes precision movement and jumping extremely hard to achieve, which is especially frustrating when playing as Raptor, who controls more like an oil tanker, rather than the super-agile predator its meant to be.
In terms of bad design, a special mention must go to the the third level, where Grant has to pilot a gas-powered raft down a series of waterfalls, which is made virtually impossible by the presence of spikes and other hazards hidden out of sight, and only become apparent once the player is committed to travelling in a certain direction. Grant has to hop out of the boat to collect gas cans to keep the motor running, but merely coming into contact with the apparently ankle-deep streams on which the boat somehow manages to float results in instant death, kicking the player back to the start of the level.
The bottom line is that Jurassic Park on Sega Genesis sucks. The various glitches and quirks make it feel like an unfinished product, and makes for a disappointing experience. The fact that BlueSky developed and released an updated version -- Jurassic Park: Rampage Edition -- a year later suggests that they tried to fix some of the issues present in the original. I've yet to try it, but from what I can see Rampage Edition features different levels, and comments suggest the problems present in this version were resolved, or at least ameliorated to some extent; I'll definitely be checking it out in a future longplay.
Information & Trivia
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- Lead artist was Doug Tennapel, creator of Earthworm Jim
Video Notes
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- Includes complete playthroughs using Grant and Raptor characters
Related Longplays & Videos
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Chapters
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00:00 Grant playthrough
28:11 Raptor playthrough
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Kids today could never comprehend how scary and realistic this game was back in the day when we were kids...
i never thought any games back in the days looked realistic at all, i was always thinking why could they not have more awesome graphics, and chased graphical games, got my mind blown several times on "how far" we had come to reach the goals or ultra realistic, well it did take till this day, Unreal5 Engine, to make something look somewhat how i pictured it as a kid... still aint all there to be honest.
@@LeFingal 😂😂😂 your a mad guy!
@@ricoboi09 I just love the idea of for real realistic video games, like so realistic you can't actually tell the difference. Microsoft flight simulator with tons of addons and mods makes it hard to tell for some because they think its real, which i must say it looks fantastic but you can still see its not real so, we are not quite there yet =)
@@LeFingal ^^^^autistic^^^^
Que gracioso
This takes me back to Christmas morning, 1993. Pretty sure I spent 10x more time playing as the raptor than I did Grant.
I was stuck on the last level and didn't know how to beat the raptors. All it was I now learned is grenades to drop the bones on them. I can't believe I was so close to beating the game. 14 years old now 41. Thanks for this closure lol.
Easy to miss, but the "bone to pick with you" was the hint on how to defeat the raptors. I remember that I tried everything and in a matter of luck I chucked a grenade in just the right spot.
That T-Rex intro with the car in its mouth scared the crap out of me as a child lol! Also I always thought this first one was the better version than the sequel. Mainly because the level design was more interesting. If the controls were better it would've been a great game. It's still a good game nontheless. I remember renting this out from Blockbuster. Good times.
Man, these videos are always a blast. Fun to see games I never got to play but equally fun to see the games I did play.
For some of us who had “real life” keep us from playing, it’s a nice shot of nostalgia to ease the bumps of real life. His videos are always good.
Yea they're great. Always good when it's strictly the game with no stupid commentary lol
The BGM for the Visitor's Center was always one of my favorites growing up. I also loved the little map screen song.
I would love for them to work that into a better Jurassic Park movie than the ones we've been getting since the original.
The T-rex’s in this game scared the life out of me as a kid.
For some reason, there’s this calcified moment in my head where I was 5 years old playing this in my room. I was on the power plant level trying to beat it before or after my nap time. I remember I got to that waterfall level and lost my mind b/c I couldn’t believe I made it, but I never did see the end of that level or the game, lol. I can’t remember playing it any other time although I know I did. The music shook me, and I still love it to this day. When you’re young and unexposed to stuff, man the energy around everything is so much more profound.
you just discovered how children are preyed upon and sold new ideas and technologies to desensitize them to reality and make them easier to control.
This is the only JP game I've ever played that acknowledged how fucking scary this whole situation is. That was a monster movie, not some glorious science fiction movie
The dinosaur graphics scared me sooo much as a kid😂😂 the worst gift ever lol but I will always remember my sega genesis💯
Another part of my childhood right here; I used to electrocute the dinosaurs and then try to make a run for it when they got annoyed with my antics. The T-Rex was genuinely scary in this game at times, LOL.
As a kid back then this is one of my favourite games
This game scared the hell outta me when I was six. I was so scared of the roaring t-rex screen, I used to hide behind the couch when my parents played it. I was so proud of myself when I beat it at the age of ten. It was probably the first game I beat in my life
Thank you. This was one of the few memories I had with my older brother. This brought us inside from playing tag and riding bikes. Ya can't blame kids today for staying in, because video games did it to us back then too.
yo... props to the guy who did the spritework on the t-rex. looks just like it does in the movie.
This game gave movie fans what they wanted, to play as a dinosaur.
The raptor is arguably the best thing about this game
Awesome
It's cool how they adapted the book into this game while the movie was still in theaters. You can tell because the river scene was never in the movie.
Loved that the little dinosaurs were introduced in this game before lost world movie
Que buen vídeo! Muchas gracias, casi ni recordaba si le había dado la vuelta al juego... recuerdo que me tomó muchas vidas pasar el nivel del bote. Genial!
Classic doctor grant, armed to the teeth with trank darts and concussion grenades. Just like the movie.
An underrated comment!
more like the book!
Book, actually. These early JP games took a ton of inspiration from the books to fill in the gaps left by the film, Grant using largely less-lethal weapons is an example of this as in the book, InGen didn't see the dinosaurs as animals, rather as property and saw their harm/death as destruction of very valuable property. You thought the park staff were underequiped in the movie, all they had in the book were stun rods and dart guns.
Ah nostalgia! You can eat the Procompsognathus (the small green ones) as the raptor by pushing down and bite close to them, repleneshing health btw.
This game was no joke ... I couldn't do a damn thing on it when I had it ...
Hands down. The best Jurassic Park game untill today
I loved this game as a kid, and while I can see the faults with it as an adult, I still really like it. Most of the problems I feel come from the first level and a good chunk of the raptor's levels; they reek of old school troll platforming. Other than that, the music has remained stuck in my head for years and I love the spritework.
My biggest fascination, though, has always been how much inspiration these early games took from the book to fill in the gaps left by the film. So much stuff from the books is here and present, it's almost an adaptation of those rather than the film.
Yeah some of the troll platforming was infuriating.
100% agree. So many blind jumps.
I'm not sure troll platforming is the way to describe it, lol. So many arcade games are about memorizing safe spots and what not the lead designer/s might've been inspired like that. I'm not a fan of it either but many people seem to still like that kind of that design.
they just released a collection of all the old JP games and this is one of the ones you can play
Сейчас моему сыну столько, во сколько я в нее играл. Я даже сейчас вижу что она сложная, я тогда первый уровень пройти не мог. Спасибо автору за ностальгию!
I’ll never forget the chuck e cheese Jurassic Park arcade game, it was so hard getting a spot to play because literally EVERYBODY wanted to play it lol
My favorite at Chuck e cheese was the mario pinball machine
I remember me and my freind playing this on his mega drive and his comments on how the music sounded like a cat with a hernia.
a classic from the 90 !
So basically...
Dr. Grant: I need to carefully navigate through a labyrinth and use an arsenal of weaponry to keep deadly dinosaurs off my back.
Raptor: **plays "Fuck This Shit I'm Out" by The Theme Song at max volume**
I like how the vehicle changes in the intro from the Jeep, to the tourist vehicle, back to the Jeep again lol.
This and the sequel were great though.
god i forgot how muchg this game chugged along like its gonna crap its pants any second
Wow! I remember my brothers playing this game when we were kids. And I'm quite surprised that you didn't eat any small dinosaurs as a Raptor when you could have eaten them. Still, nice playthrough!
I think I should play this today. One of my favorite movie based games of all time
Once you get used to the clunky controls, the game is really fun.
They are evil
The SNES version is better.
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You gotta keep in mind they were trying to go for some realistic controls for Genesis. They wanted Grant to feel like he had realistic weight and you gotta admit IT DOES FEEL LIKE THAT
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OMG.. I don't think I've ever seen past the 1st or 2nd level of this game, cool!
lo jugue de niño!! y todavia tengo el cassete!!
This game is still cool to this day and worthy of a remake. I played this in 1992 when i was a freshman in HS. I couldn't figure out what to do after i killed the 2 raptors at the end and i was stuck in that room trying to find a way out. Now i see you had to collapse the dinosaur skeletons completely.
how did you play this game in 92 when the game came out in 93? asking for a friend who has a time machine.
@@billypoker7822 maybe I'm mistaken... I know i borrowed the game. It must have been 93 or later.
@@billypoker7822 its 30years ago so its was 92 or 93 who care....
Lead artist was Doug Tennapal of Earthworm Jim and Twitter controversy!
The sound the raptors do when they get hit makes me want to protect them as if I was their mother
I loved this game when I was kid but the guy falling and other sounds always made me laugh lol
Thanks for this!
Awww man, i was hoping you can use T-Rex in the Raptor story just for once
Loved the part of the movie where Dr. Grant jumped up a mountain and shot everything in sight.
I miss playing this games bring's me back.
Crazy how different the Genesis and the SNES version were.
Always had fun trolling the Triceratops as Grant XD
I kinda like the graphics.
Getting electrocuted was amusing 😆
My first video game
Remember that scene in Jurassic Park when Dr. Grant ran around fragging dinosaurs with frag grenades?
This game was always so frustrating. Out of all the '90s JP games it did the best job of capturing the aesthetic of the movie, both visually and with its tense, almost survival horror-esque gameplay, but it's just so damn clunky with the finicky character control and blind jumps into pits. The sequel upped the WTF factor with Grant going around murdering everything, but it became infinitely more playable just by making the controls smoother and removing pits and fall damage.
My first Sega Genesis game. 😍
I loved this game as a kid.
If you look closely: the car that the rex has in his mouth in the intro movie is not the same car where Grant wakes up next to
at the beginning of the level.
I want my money back!!
Little bit of Genesis Trivia: Blue Sky Software would not long after this be involved in the Genesis version of “Shadowrun.”
I knew the sprite style, music, and sfx we're familiar..thanks
Didn't Blue Sky also eventually rename themselves Looking Glass Studios?
@@ryguy9876 They did but shut down in 2000. Paul Neurath later went on to form Underside Entertainment.
@@theodorehsu5023 Yeah, that's what I thought. Cool that the people who made this would go on to contribute to System Shock and Theif.
Still in my top ten Sega Genesis games list 😂
🤣🤣
Amazing sound design. And my bones would snap in lvl 1, lol
thaz all we had kids 🙂
was cool back then
I wish the movie was as action packed as this
No you don't. The new movies are terrible because of it. Unless you don't care about the writing.
20:03 T-bag?! 😂
I played this as a kid and now I'm 42 years old, why am I just finding out this game was ONLY 40 MINUTES LONG??!!!!
The title screen always got me so nervous as a kid
I doubt it will happen, but I'd like a remaster of this game can't really do fan remasters because of the copyright but at this gem remains a reminder of the old days
so nostalgic.. i borrowed my friend cartidge to play this game
My closed captions was on and the T-rex at the beginning was translated to "Thank you", but he says "Sega" right? Now I'm confused.
says SEGA
UGH i played this musty game so enthusiastically as a larva
the visitor center bgm do slap tho
Why Raptor's health doesn't recovered even when she's eating?
It does recover, but the amount of health gained is ridiculously small
SO FUN LONGPLAY - TO JURASSIC PARK 1993 SEGA GENESIS !!!
I love this game!
I have finished the game in hard. But many many many practice for winning !
his movements reminds me of Gameboy games, i love it. I'm totally buying snes and sega genesis. i still gotta buy batman returns on snes.
The T-Rex looks good here.
Cool
havent played this since i was 4 back in 2001
Love this game
It amazes me how since the first JP no piece of media has gotten the raptors right. Just an opinion but there you go
unfortunately wasn't able to find your review for Rampage edition...
I used to be really scared playing this game.
I had a nightmare on this, I remember
I don't know why but when I searched for this I thought it had a neo geo cd pott
I mean, the music is really creepy. As a kid, just hearing it made me leave the room.
4DV410AV - I still remeber hehe. I love this game.
i rented this from blockbuster. sega was great for wacky stuff but i know nintendo would never put out low quality stuff like this
T-Rex said “Radarrr”
for anyone who wants to play this game its in a collection they just released on modern consoles its 29.99
un clasico de la infancia
Lol when I was a kid and I played this game it made no sense why he had rockets. Then I read the book when I was older then the game made more sense lol
This game looks amazing for the Genesis!! But I guess the trade off is that it looks really short?? Is this one of those super hard games that takes forever to pass until you get really good at it??
Yes. It took me FOREVER to beat this game when I was a kid. Now I can do it at least as fast as this guy.
@@LordClydeofOMAR thanks. Now i really want to try it out. Take care!!
It's short but sweet
Also there are 2 characters and the raptors levels are laid out differently so that's twice as many levels right there
@@THEGREATMAX I wouldn't say "Twice as many." The Raptor's campaign skips all the in-between stages, only going through all the main locations. He only does five.
Still good though.
@@THEGREATMAX This game is basically one long sequence of beginner's traps. That's how it pads itself out.
Doug TenNapel doing animation on the raptor
I'd kill to have a remake or a remaster of that game. Easily one of the best megadrive game.
I can actually say I’ve beaten this game in 1994. (With the help of my dad tho)
Congratulations Bruce lee
"DID THE TREX JUST SAY.. SEGA?"
Yes
Did...did that T-Rex just say traitor right now? 😮 And if so what did I do?
Man this one is better than the SNES version . I always thought that SEGA was not a good console , I don't know what I was thinking and missing and to have both consoles I guess SNES was just my favorite console cuz my friends had one , but in all reality SEGA was the shit ....
Sega = inferior version
As a raptor you can eat the little compys for health.
Wonder if Sam Neill ever played this game
shouldve hired the team that made pitfall the mayan adventure
Only game in history where you play as Sam Neil.
if it isn’t the only game you can stamp the word ‘dumb’ or “stupid” on your forehead
This looks and sounds like it was made for DOS lol