
Jurassic Park stood out from other licensed film tie-ins of the time, but ultimately it's nothing too special. In this era, the dinosaurs were this particular Jurassic Park game's most unique selling point. Titled simply Jurassic Park, this game featured fairly standard adventure gameplay as the player explored Isla Nublar. Related: Dinosaur RPG Games With Jurassic Park-Style Settings Many later games in the franchise followed this gun-fueled trend, and Jurassic World eventually brought the somewhat widespread shooting of dinosaurs into the films. This was likely done out of a desire to empower the player in ways not present in the original movie - though years later, horror games like Alien: Isolation and Amnesia proved that disempowerment can make fantastic gameplay. These do not have to be collected, but picking them all up results in an extra life being awarded.The original Jurassic Park game on Nintendo's Game Boy and NES systems that released in 1993 is most responsible for the paradigm of featuring significantly more human-on-dinosaur violence than the actual films ever depicted.


In these, a T-Rex approaches from the left side of the screen which scrolls to the right automatically, allowing for little to no margin of error in choosing the right path. Set between the platforming levels are various boss fights against powerful enemies like a Triceratops, Pteranodon, Velociraptor and T-Rex, each of which requires a unique strategy to defeat.įurther variation from standard platforming comes in two T-Rex pursuit stages. When he gets hurt, he can heal himself through medkits that can be found lying about. When going for a swim, the gun turns into a harpoon. To defend himself, he has access to a gun as well as hand grenades, both with unlimited ammunition. Many different species of dinosaur stand in Grant's way: walking, flying and even the swimming kind. The goal in each level is to collect a number of magnetic ID cards which open up the level exit.

Alan Grant who returns to the dinosaur island one year after the events of Jurassic Park and must make his way through four zones of two levels each of side-scrolling platforming. 4 /5While sharing the name with the SNES title, the Game Boy version of Jurassic Park Part 2: The Chaos Continues has little in common with its bigger brother except the basic premise.
