Jurassic Park (8-bit)
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- For other games with the same name, see Jurassic Park.
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System(s): Sega Master System, Sega Game Gear | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Publisher: Sega | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Developer: Sega CS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Licensor: Universal City Studios, Amblin Entertainment | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre: Action[1][2][3][4] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Number of players: 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 8-bit version of Jurassic Park (ジュラシック・パーク) is an action game comprised of driving/shooting and platforming segments. It was released for the Sega Master System and Sega Game Gear.
Contents
Story
On a small island off the coast of Costa Rica, dinosaurs have been brought back to life for the theme park Jurassic Park. However, the fences that keep the creatures in place have lost power. Dr. Alan Grant has been asked to enter the park and tranquilize the dinosaurs so they can be returned to their areas.
Gameplay
The first segment of each stage is a shooting segment with Dr. Grant in his Jeep. The Jeep drives automatically, and dinosaurs try to attack the vehicle. The player moves a crosshair around with the D-pad and fires with or . The road has rocks that cause the Jeep to bounce upward, which also causes the crosshair to jump. Some dinosaurs drop items that increase the length of Grant's life meter or restore lost points on his life meter. Shooting the Jeep when it hits a rock gives the player an item that restores one life point. The segment ends with a fight against a larger dinosaur.
The rest of the stage is played as a platform game. Dr. Grant is moved around with and and jumps with in the Master System version or in the Game Gear version. He crouches with and crawls with and . He can cling to ceilings and the bottom of platforms by jumping and pressing and then move along them with and . He can pull himself up a platform when clinging to it this way by pressing with the jump button. He can also drop down from platforms by pressing with the jump button. He enters doorways with .
Grant is equipped with multiple weapons, which are selected by pausing the game with PAUSE on the Master System or START on the Game Gear. He fires the weapon with on the Master System or on the Game Gear version. He can fire weapons from a crouching position or in midair while jumping. His weapons are a tranquilizer rifle that shoots a tall projectile horizontally, a concussion grenade that shoots at an upward angle and then explodes in the air and hits dinosaurs on the horizontal axis where it explodes, and a fireball grenade that is thrown in an arc and explodes when it hits a dinosaur or the ground.
In both the shooting and platforming sections, Grant's health is indicated by a life meter in the bottom-left of the screen. He loses bars on the meter when he takes damage from dinosaurs or hazards and loses a life when he loses the entire meter. He can restore his life by finding items or by using a First Aid Kit (which can be done through the pause menu, as with changing weapons). If he loses all of his lives, he must use a continue to continue the game. Continues are limited but can be gained by collecting ten Continue Credit items, which are sometimes dropped by dinosaurs when they are defeated.
Items
Shooting
Extra Life Meter | |
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Extends Grant's life meter by one bar for the remainder of the stage (including the platforming portion), up to 5 total bars. Must shoot to collect. | |
Power Regain | |
Regenerates one bar of Grant's life meter. Collected automatically after it is released. |
Platforming
Jurassic Park Orb | |
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Awards bonus points. | |
First Aid Kit | |
Gives Grant another First Aid Kit, which can be used to fully restore his life meter at any point. | |
Power Regain | |
Restores 1 bar to Grant's life meter. | |
Full Power Regain | |
Restores 2 bars to Grant's life meter. | |
Continue Credit | |
Collect 10 to gain an extra continue. | |
Negative Continue Credit | |
Subtracts a continue from the player. | |
Extra Life | |
Gives the player an extra life. |
Stages
The first four stages can be played in any order. The player can move the vehicle on the map screen to select any of the four. The player must complete these stages without using a continue in order to unlock the final stage and get the good ending.
Pteranodon Area | |
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Brachiosaur Area | |
Triceratops Area | |
Velociraptor Area | |
Tyrannosaurus Area | |
Versions
The Game Gear version has a completely different sprite from the Master System version for the player character, though the instruction manuals for the game identify the protagonist as Dr. Grant for both versions.
Production credits
Magazine articles
- Main article: Jurassic Park (8-bit)/Magazine articles.
Promotional material
Physical scans
Master System version
Sega Retro Average | |||||||||||||||||||
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65 | |
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Based on 3 reviews |
Master System, EU |
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Master System, GR |
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Game Gear version
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64 | |
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Based on 20 reviews |
Technical information
ROM dump status
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512kB | Cartridge (EU) | |||||||||||
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512kB | Cartridge (JP) | |||||||||||
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512kB | Cartridge (US/EU) |
References
- ↑ File:JurassicPark GG EU Box Back.jpg
- ↑ File:JurassicPark GG JP Box Front.jpg
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://sega.jp/history/hard/gamegear/software.html (Wayback Machine: 2018-12-07 04:57)
- ↑ File:JurassicPark SMS EU Box.jpg
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Sega Power, "May 1994" (UK; 1994-03-31), page 48
- ↑ Megazone, "February 1994" (AU; 1994-01-26), page 38
- ↑ Sega Force Mega, "September 1993" (UK; 1993-07-22), page 79
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 GamePro, "December 1993" (US; 1993-xx-xx), page 231
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Computer & Video Games, "December 1993" (UK; 1993-11-15), page 100
- ↑ File:Jurassic Park SMS credits.pdf
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Mega Fun, "11/93" (DE; 1993-10-20), page 91
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Sega Magazin, "November/Dezember 1993" (DE; 1993-11-03), page 22
- ↑ Beep! MegaDrive, "August 1993" (JP; 1993-07-08), page 24
- ↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "October 1993" (US; 1993-xx-xx), page 44
- ↑ Famitsu, "1993-08-06" (JP; 1993-07-23), page 42
- ↑ Game Power, "Novembre 1993" (IT; 1993-1x-xx), page 126
- ↑ Hippon Super, "September 1993" (JP; 1993-08-03), page 48
- ↑ Joypad, "Novembre 1993" (FR; 1993-1x-xx), page 107
- ↑ Mega Force, "Novembre 1993" (FR; 1993-11-10), page 112
- ↑ Megazin, "Letnik 1, Številka 3, November 1993" (SI; 1993-xx-xx), page 29
- ↑ Mean Machines Sega, "December 1993" (UK; 1993-10-xx), page 54
- ↑ Player One, "Novembre 1993" (FR; 1993-1x-xx), page 120
- ↑ Sega Power, "February 1994" (UK; 1994-01-06), page 62
- ↑ Sega Force, "7/93" (SE; 1993-11-04), page 26
- ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 88
- ↑ Sonic the Comic, "September 18th 1993" (UK; 1993-09-18), page 10
- ↑ Todo Sega, "Noviembre 1993" (ES; 1993-1x-xx), page 74
- ↑ Video Games, "10/93" (DE; 1993-09-29), page 119
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