Is Jurassic Park [SNES] Worth Playing Today? - SNESdrunk

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[@TrippyCommentaries]

Most underrated snes soundtrack imo

[@Curlyheart]

Beavis and butthead

[@RusskyMedved]

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.

[@TravisSurtr]

Triceratops Trot has a true early 90s vibe

[@kz1000ps]

@@TravisSurtr Gallimimus Gallop is right there too

[@chanceneck8072]

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....

[@AFnord]

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!

[@tgdm]

I still get flashbacks when hearing the TRex or the sound of the raptors indoors.

[@kevinr.3542]

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.

[@scottandrewhutchins]

The elevator music...

[@dollazNzentz]

AFnord same. My sister had to play those parts for me. I was too scared

[@enjoijjj]

AFnord scared me too

[@lennywright5655]

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 😅

[@TheM750]

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.

[@stapler942]

Say what you will, this game knows how to legitimately stress you out when the T-Rex is nearby.

[@7thangelad586]

I’m stressing just hearing it on the video.

[@markpapenfuss1111]

Yeah, scary game for its time

[@chrislowe2793]

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.

[@chrislowe2793]

Err...lunch.

[@scottandrewhutchins]

Always arm yourself with the tranquilizer gun and fire like crazy.

[@Larry]

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 >.>

[@equiinferno]

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...

[@antonioruizruiz8677]

@@equiinferno 🤣🤣🤣🤣👏👏👏soo true!

[@RusskyMedved]

I feel you 😂👍🏻

[@hmpz36911]

Still one of the best game soundtracks of all time.

[@KaiserKiller]

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.

[@LukeKyser]

Saaaaaaaaaame

[@armand4116]

One of the most disappointing ending ever .

[@floggyWM1]

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...

[@JSledge825]

My brother beat it and got everything in it without the internet lol

[@0906WEST]

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.

[@insanitist]

Hey, thanks for the VGM shoutout. Ever since KZbin 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.

[@FLABrowncoat]

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?

[@WindsSymphony]

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.

[@Luigiawesome13]

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.

[@hmpz36911]

It always sounded like Butt-Head to me

[@chrisschaefer9724]

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.

[@TheLyonkoke]

I would love to see a rom hack/improvement so we can have an in game world map and save features.

[@Rihcterwilker]

@MultiTarded and a proper little ending cutscene of an helicopter flying on thr horizon would also be nice.

[@califaern3sto]

And better fps in the indoor sections. Smooth like the really inside the vending machine level from toy story

[@lowerless]

i said the same thing

[@mikenelson5353]

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.

[@matthewminaya838]

Holy sh*t! Did that T-Rex say Sega?!

[@nateblack8669]

Yeah, that pretty much sums up the 90s.

[@DeckyStrikesBack]

AVGN reference FTW

[@Alianger]

That's blast processing for ya

[@Gruntvc]

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.

[@AleisterMeowley]

Dude I totally forgot about that

[@Larry]

Terrible endings are annoying, but the adventure is in the journey, not the destination.

[@joeydecesari8211]

Hello you. You're literally everywhere

[@rachelstout6186]

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

[@colt45jb]

Me too

[@StefanKainz94]

Same.

[@jrodtopo]

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.

[@enigmazach]

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.

[@manuginobilisbaldspot424]

Same gripe. Just hated the fact that you had to leave the damn SNES on to "continue".

[@kerred]

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.

[@DhinCardoso]

My parents only allowed me play in the weekend, imagine that. Sunday, half playthrough, paused... on the entire week...

[@dakkefernet8585]

@@DhinCardoso good times😂🍻

[@arootube]

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.

[@Curlyheart]

@@arootube Uhuhuuhuhu he sounds like a wuss. Uhuhuhuhuhuhuuuuhuhuuhu

[@DrSlick]

I could never figure out where to go in this game.

[@TurboSax]

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.

[@WilliamStewart-op2dz]

I did the same thing. Whenever I hit locked doors I would always try to unlock them out of pure curiosity and nothing else.

[@DeathToJihad]

JPII: The Chaos Continues is actually pretty great as a co-op game.

[@MrJodanlime]

I love this game. Its not easy, but pretty cool. Like contra with dinos

[@sgtsnokeem1139]

@@MrJodanlime with selective targets. You couldn't use lethal force on dinos but its ok for humans from memory

[@Gruntvc]

The opening intro cutscene was great for its time. Wish we'd gotten a good animated Jurassic Park show or anime. Game is great, but dang can it be brutal on hard. Gotta love those save states emulators give you now.

[@jcbrunz9164]

"Pretty great", you kidding? This game is a straight masterpiece in every facet. It's definitely a harder game, but nowhere near impossible when you take the time to learn the levels and get into the flow of the mechanics. Honestly, I only beat it on easy without infinite lives because it takes a flawless playthrough to get all the way to the end (no password system again). Best Jurassic Park game ever made! And one of the best run and guns on the system! Plus if your quick and nimble enough, you can learn the fine art of raptor dancing. Try dancing with two raptors for a challenge. This game rules! And I haven't even mentioned the soundtrack yet.

[@jojobaggins9224]

I remember one flamethrower guy would always come out of nowhere and completely ruin your day

[@jeffcox6539]

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.

[@califaern3sto]

Bolas*

[@Leatherman154]

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.

[@RaikenXion]

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.

[@ludothorn]

I love your channel: you are super fast and clear ❤️

[@wwjjdj]

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

[@papayacatproductions]

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...

[@retromemories8522]

Nice, soothing music before you open the door and a raptor kills you lol

[@ScootZMedia]

yea same beating it in one sitting way too much

[@Gunnerty85]

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.

[@cd8815]

I can still remember the elevator music in my head now and I haven't heard it for like 20 years.

[@ScootZMedia]

@@cd8815 I know the feel

[@joe42m13]

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.

[@jonesy7425]

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.

[@Sabishi1985]

2:05 It's called "Bola" or "Bola Bola". It's an australien tool made for hunting. :)

[@sherekhangamedev]

Similar to the Argentinean Gaucho's Boleadoras.

[@nateblack8669]

11?! Damn, I was 6. Finally, a gaming KZbinr who isn't a decade younger than me! :P

[@Azuris190]

Hehe me too, and i have this Game, i wasn't disappointed back than, but it was also not a lot of fun.

[@AFnord]

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.

[@daywalker3735]

I know what you mean....all these twenty year old KZbinrs lol

[@bryangarcia5599]

The AVGN is 39.

[@nateblack8669]

@@AFnord Yeah, I think the only gaming KZbinrs 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.

[@thesmuuuuggh]

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.

[@waaaaaaah5135]

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.

[@Deadbeautyqueen]

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 :(

[@Mchenrygames]

i have good memories of this one, a couple of friends and myself finished this epic over a marathonic session.

[@rpgaholic8202]

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.

[@ShaneSteward]

I quite enjoy the content on this channel. Reliving all these games I used to love. You got yourself a sub.

[@Rstraub12]

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.

[@jszekerj]

Yes! Been waiting for your review of this! Great video buddy

[@Robert-hc4vu]

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.

[@ActuallySanFrancisco]

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.

[@kuribojim3916]

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). 😎

[@GamerArcad]

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!

[@tamaroanimations5758]

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!

[@welcometothejungle3222]

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.

[@hezekiahramirez6965]

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

[@kri249]

It took me a while to beat this game as a kid. Mostly because I didn't know how to use the nerve gas on the raptor eggs until I accidentally walk into them and you did it automatically. But I just recently read the book and seeing these video clips of the game and other resurfased memories has made realise some elements from the book were incorporated in the game. Also, the spinning balls weapon are bolas.

[@chesspunk489]

The nerve gas on the raptor eggs is what stopped me from beating the game as a kid. I had no idea what to do.

[@michaelblewett8420]

How does the longer snnnnnesdrunk intro make me belly laugh? Keep doing you, you’re awesome!

[@tygrus3495]

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.

[@JanusHoW]

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?!

[@Silvergun_Raven]

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.

[@casedistorted]

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

[@wildndetroit]

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.

[@casedistorted]

@@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.

[@dimitrisbam5640]

This reminds me of true lies which was awesome!!!

[@gameboydadtm37]

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

[@MichaelZipkin]

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 KZbin 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.

[@mattwithoutyou]

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.

[@danielkwillers]

mattwithoutyou Your not missing much, if I remember correctly it is the intro reversed. That’s it.

[@SharpCinema]

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

[@chesspunk489]

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.

[@SisterOfFreya]

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.

[@dannyt9744]

8 year old me probably spent an hour just trying to figure out the raptor nest

[@nythepremier]

Great review. I had this game as a kid and always found the single play through and ending troubling.

[@CanePunisher]

This video brings back so many memories. Jurassic Park was the first SNES game that I ever played.

[@outsideredge]

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?!"

[@paulmiller7838]

I remember playing this game back on the SNES. I loved it. It was a lot of fun.

[@Alte.Kameraden]

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.

[@johndoe-bk3de]

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

[@christopherthibeault7502]

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.

[@TheBloodyNights]

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.

[@starwarsunfiltered7848]

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.

[@ezeepeezy]

I still listen to this soundtrack all the time! Really outstanding. Triceratops Trot, anyone?

[@awfulplayertv6351]

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.

[@despawn7663]

Another trip down memory lane. Exact same for me rented this one and played it briefly the gen version at a friend house

[@jeddysne]

I love this game. I went through and beat it during 2020 using my Retron 5 for saving purposes. Such a fun experience.

[@lt.pigeon]

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

[@ssjcosty]

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.

[@DukeNukem2417]

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.

[@GreyCartridge]

If you’re not aware, there’s a port of the building sections for PC called Visitor Center. Since it’s on PC, it runs at a very smooth framerate.

[@KryptKicker5]

Totally unrelated but, the title music for the Gameboy port of this game was amazing, I still listen to it to this day.

[@WishMaster2013]

I love this game, and especially the music. Great review!!!

[@7thangelad586]

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 😆

[@Zeithri]

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.

[@cj694x2]

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.

[@adrenalinex4]

looks like the adams family game where u play as uncle fester for snes

[@makrostheblack4791]

"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

[@stapler942]

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.

[@hodun8]

Yah I've got a cold too. MN has been shitty for weather over the weekend.

[@FridayNightArcade]

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.

[@heyhonpuds]

Hey, Friday Night Arcade’s here. I enjoy your vids too man. 👍

[@EdgedShadow]

I distinctly remember an Electronics Botique ad for games that year, that mentioned you could play as a raptor in the SNES version. Was really disappointed when I rented it and you couldn't. Apparently the just reprinted the text from the Genesis version for both versions. I remember the Game Gear JP was pretty fun.

[@lolwtnick4362]

love this game. loads of fun and worth the replay to try and finish. i memorized the map and drew out 2 shelters to find the quickest ways. i think i spent 7 to 8 hrs

[@InjusticeHater]

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.

[@TylerMusicBoi]

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.

[@matiassoto7797]

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.

[@ggbetz]

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!

[@ryanulrich2147]

I need to play this again, now that we have save states. It was just too long for me to finish, back when I would rent it from the store.

[@fourlokouva]

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

[@banonKING]

(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.

[@Dancarnate]

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.

[@hmpz36911]

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

[@84pots]

Got it CIB. Love the music in this game, not an easy one folks. Enjoyed the video.

[@bildo1977]

Another interesting thing about Jurassic Park 2 on the SNES is how technically impressive the opening cinema is.

[@retromemories8522]

The only thing I found memorable about it was "Go, go, GO!!!"

[@jcbrunz9164]

@@retromemories8522 Haha yes! Best part, but don't you mean: "Go, Go.....Geeoo!"

[@danielzimmermann4569]

I read somewhere that the lamp posts outside the main building are the save game spots, but never tested it. I played on emulator and used save states.

[@ronin84]

I enjoyed this game as a kid mainly for the music - I still hum the tunes in my head. Jurassic Park 2 at least had Co-op, which made the difficulty bearable.

[@someoneout-there2165]

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.

[@JoeyJ0J0]

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

[@Cerebrum123]

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.

[@Efreno]

Eyy i still play and own this game i remember there is a secret bunker looking place that has a bunch of extra lives over by the area at 2:35 you dont see it because all you see are rocks but if you keep pressing into them youll eventually find it its like an under ground base of some sort btw that elevator music is my jam lol

[@zenoslime]

the snes game was a solid rental back in the day. good memories. playing it w/ savestates now sounds pretty good!

[@zenoslime]

uh-huh.

[@jubsy]

I played this when it was new and loved it so much but wow that ending was a kick in the nuts, especially after staying up all night to beat it.

[@justingoers]

The size of this game was daunting to me as a kid. And the inside parts were super creepy to me as well. Great video!

[@zaustus1500]

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.