Jurassic Park is a rail shooter arcade game developed and released by Sega in 1994. It is based on the 1993 film of the same name. The game cabinet resembles the rear of the Ford Explorer tour vehicles used in the film. The player, equipped with a joystick, must shoot dinosaurs that appear on-screen throughout the game. The game is notable for having a moving seat, also used in Sega's previous 1991 light gun shooter Rail Chase. The seat is powered by hydraulic pistons to move the seat according to action on the screen. The game's graphics blend two-dimensional sprites and three-dimensional polygons to give the sense of movement. Jurassic Park was the first game of this genre to include 3D environments.
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Super scaler, but like, the scales of a dinosaur? There’s something there, we’re circling it.
Played at Galloping Ghost Arcade.
Played at Galloping Ghost Arcade.
So this is what it feels like experiencing childhood bliss again
Wildly impossible quarter-muncher. But like, look how they animated that fuckin T-Rex! Chomp! big boy! Thing scared the bejeezus out of me at Chuck E Cheese, I can't not love this game.
Audiovisualmente el juego es una pasada, y ese T-Rex sigue luciendo espectacular.
Ahora, es un tragamonedas descarado y sin ningún tipo de vergüenza. Los arcades dependen en gran medida de la habilidad y, teóricamente, un jugador muy bueno o que se sepa el recorrido muy bien podría completarlos con una sola vida. Esto es imposible aquí, da igual lo bueno que seas, lo rápido que dispares o que un amigo te ayude. Vas a comer daño de forma inevitable durante todo el juego.
Emulado con un ratón y una precisión y cadencia de disparo mayor ya es descarado, en el propio arcade la experiencia ha de ser aún peor. Por suerte está el arcade de Jurassic Park 2: The lost world, que es una experiencia infinitamente más gratificante, variada y justa.
Ahora, es un tragamonedas descarado y sin ningún tipo de vergüenza. Los arcades dependen en gran medida de la habilidad y, teóricamente, un jugador muy bueno o que se sepa el recorrido muy bien podría completarlos con una sola vida. Esto es imposible aquí, da igual lo bueno que seas, lo rápido que dispares o que un amigo te ayude. Vas a comer daño de forma inevitable durante todo el juego.
Emulado con un ratón y una precisión y cadencia de disparo mayor ya es descarado, en el propio arcade la experiencia ha de ser aún peor. Por suerte está el arcade de Jurassic Park 2: The lost world, que es una experiencia infinitamente más gratificante, variada y justa.
Fast paced, wacky, and full of spectacle. There really isn't much in the way of verity, and its really short. It's also not actually a lightgun game because you play it with a joystick.
Pros: Absolute thrill ride from start to finish, grab a buddy and make sure you're playing on the original Arcade cabinet complete with that motorized bumpy Jeep seat! This is an on-rails action packed shooter complete with a very cool graphics style from previous Sega arcade games, like After Burner II, where there's multiple layers of 2D images, moving and zooming in to create the illusion of three-dimensional movement. There's something to it that, I dunno, is really fascinating, and as a novelty, more fun than legit 3D polygons! Especially when it's DINOSAURS!! The dinosaurs in this game are impressive too, using a very rudimentary cgi pre-rendering technique. Fields of triceratops rampaging towards you, driving alongside the neck of a brachiosaurus, firing on dilophosauruses before they get their venomous spit on the screen, and terrifying velociraptors surprise attacking your windshield. Though the stars of the show is of course, the T. Rex, who chases you just as she does in the film... MUST GO FASTER!
Cons: Short, very short, but for an arcade experience with a seat that's bounces you around this way and that, I'm cool with it. Also pretty mindless... Future arcade Jurassic Park games would be a bit more engaging. But I still prefer this one, just for the set pieces, thrills, cool graphic style, and general JP vibes. It's a winner.
What it means to me: This game was THE spot at Chuck E. Cheese. Next to TMNT the arcade game, this was the machine that I spent the most time at during my childhood, it was the best Jurassic Park game at the time, and in those days, the best most impressive video games, were only at the arcades. And for me, that experience was Jurassic Park.
Cons: Short, very short, but for an arcade experience with a seat that's bounces you around this way and that, I'm cool with it. Also pretty mindless... Future arcade Jurassic Park games would be a bit more engaging. But I still prefer this one, just for the set pieces, thrills, cool graphic style, and general JP vibes. It's a winner.
What it means to me: This game was THE spot at Chuck E. Cheese. Next to TMNT the arcade game, this was the machine that I spent the most time at during my childhood, it was the best Jurassic Park game at the time, and in those days, the best most impressive video games, were only at the arcades. And for me, that experience was Jurassic Park.