I honestly think that Jurassic Park Operation Genesis should've been WAY higher, like in the Top 5 alongside the arcade games! Even to this day it's still an amazing game, and far ahead of its time! I'm not saying JPOG is better than Jurassic World Evolution, but speaking of which JW Evolution is actually a successor to JPOG, and it wouldn't be the amazing game that it is if JPOG hadn't existed, as JPOG set the foundation for just about everything great about JW Evolution! From the park building mechanics to the incredible dinosaur AI (which even in JPOG was very impressive for its time. Despite JPOG being older and having blockier textures, the dinosaurs were so lifelike in behavior and they genuinely felt like real living dinosaurs)
Man, The fact that 30% of these games start with "The lost world: Jurassic park" and just that, Must have been absolute hell for parents when one of their kids asked for a specific "Jurassic park" game
BLASPHEMY!!!! JP 93 on Sega was one of the best dino games ever made for consoles. Youre on crack to say that game wasnt fun. The Trex pops into the game at certain moments. Just a badass game for the time.
You know what's weird about Park Builder (GBA)? The game *ends* in the year 2020 and will not let you keep playing, it softlocks. That's some serious foresight from Konami, I'll say that much.
@@redwaldcuthberting7195 - The secret is to charge a lot for food. But what happens is that you can only save before* the credits roll, and after the credits and the game sends you to the title screen, that's why it softlocks.
I have to disagree with Trespasser. The game has a lot of good things and me as a JP fan did enjoy it. The voice lines by Rchard Attenborough are amazing and with a few mods it's quite a nice experience. P.S: Danger Zone was super fun!
Trespasser needs to be modded half to death to even run. It was well-written and very ambitious for the time but the tech just wasn't there. Klayton Fioriti has a playthrough on his channel.
If you play vanilla Trespasser... yeah, it's an awful game. But patched, modded, etc? It's not a bad game, and it was ahead of it's time. It's just a shame we got the one we got due to them wanting it out sooner then later.
I think the entry for Trespasser is a bit unfair with it for not recognising just how ambitious it was. If it had been made today, there's a chance it would have been the best Jurassic Park game by a country mile.
I absolutely agree. And if it wouldn't be for the one dam'n egg I wasnt able to find for years and the underwhelming end when I finally found it I'd even say that it isn't soo much in need of a save function.
I wish we'd get more than just park building simulators out of this franchise now. It was pretty neat to play as a raptor and t-rex in older JP games. And Jurassic Park 2: The Chaos Continues is probably my favorite one. Real shame we haven't gotten another Trespasser type FPS game today.
I’d say the xbox360 Turok game is your best bet, but that involves mowing them down, shooting at tons of dudes with guns, way to much emphasis on knifing things and Ron Perlman giving a performance that might as well be cardboard.
Agreed. A well-done Jurassic Park FPS (ideally set in or around the first movie) is still my dream game. Something Far Cry-esque. Doubt it's ever going to happen though.
Well, Trespasser did get a possibly unintentional spiritual successor in the form of Peter Jackson's King Kong. It had many of the same ideas in the FPS sections like HUDless gameplay and predators that could be distracted or lured away with food. Sadly, you can't find it anywhere these days, and only the console versions were any good anyway.
I have fond yet incredibly frustrating memories of Jurassic Park SNES. The T-rex popping out of the trees and the dark 10 fps Wolfenstein-esque indoor sections scared the crap out of me. Without any way to save the game I often left the system on overnight with the TV off so my parents wouldn’t notice so I could actually finish it 😂
Exactly the same here. The music too, the music! Not only were so many of the tracks real bops, but they actually made use of full stereo too, audio passing from left to right ear and back, which can be like ocean waves for the seashore track, or like you're being followed by something in the jungle track. Honestly crazy, I don't know of another snes game that played with audio like that.
I'm frustrated about the position in the ranking. It's an excellent game, way better than many of the top. With an emulator to save and the guide it's a really fun game. I've already played 3 times this year and right now I'm starting it agay😂
Yeah, I still like it a lot despite its shortcomings. My 9 year old self could have only dreamed of having save states and even a guide to make the game more manageable. Simple things we tend to take for granted nowadays.
As someone who has beaten Trespasser multiple times, I'm glad it's not on the very bottom. The game is definitely a mess, but I can't help but love the experience!
@@Gatorade69 I've used a mod that fixed some of the non gameplay bugs. Like an option menu glitch that screws up the screen so much that's it's impossible to play. I also goofed around with things like slow mo jumping dinosaurs! I've seen videos of a bunch of new maps and other conversions. This games has a great modding community
If you haven’t already you should watch RedScotGaming’s retrospective, his segment on Trespasser during the Jurassic Park Retrospective is hilarious 😂😂😂
I was about 11 when JPOG came out. I got it for my birthday and remember just being glued to it in my room for hours and hours. That game got me through a hard couple of years. I was being bullied at school and my parents were going through a pretty nasty divorce. Needless to say I didn't have many friends at the time, and felt generally very alone in life. But JPOG was always there waiting in my PS2 when I got home from a crummy day at school. I could just zone out and get lost in the little islands I would create and watch my dinosaurs roam free to a peaceful soundtrack, or wreak havoc upon the guests. This game really kept me going through all of that nasty business, and I have fond memories of hours of fun playing it. The fact that they barely touched on it, and how low it was on the list was fairly upsetting. JPOG will always be number 1! Also I played the living crap out of Scan Command. I thought the whole barcode thing was actually kind of fun. It felt that much more satisfying getting a new power-up for your T-Rex. lol
Tbf Tresspasser's plot and the voicework by Richard Attenborough alone should've qualified it in the top 20, not to mention, the mods do make the gameplay better
@@Gatorade69 Exactly. It was filled with loads of great ideas, but just could not deliver and was sort of limited by the hardware of its time. The commentary here clearly just goes by the headlines, and forgoes any real retrospect of the game. Just shows that somebody did not do their homework.
It's arguably the most innovative first-person game since Quake. Adaptive AI that could determine your threat level and attack/ignore/retreat accordingly, a fully-integrated physics engine (*6 years before Half-Life 2!*), huge open levels in an era of corridor shooters, HUD-less play, dynamic music, surface-differing sound effects, A-list voice actors, world-building via audio logs, actual writing... probably more I'm forgetting... Unfortunately it's also extremely content-poor, with many features badly implemented, close to the point of unplayability. But there's still value in Trespasser, and a poor game with ambition, technical merit and a fair bit of atmosphere surely deserves a higher ranking than at least half of this list. (I'd also put the Sega Megadrive/Genesis JP and Rampage Edition higher, and JPOG obviously. The latter would be #1 if built on modern software.)
I agree. Most of these are only viewed in a modern lens. Trespasser WAS groundbreaking, but now that the ground has been broken several more times, its mediocre. So its on the bottom. The fact that it has a active cult following STILL is quite impressive. Most of these graphics are awesome. *For their era.*. SNES was the funnest of the game, and its mind blowing how it had a first person section. (Again, at the time.) Most of his complaints are due to thinks like "Terrain not being varied enough." well, its a 16 bit console, with limited memory. Of course its going to repeat. Its still amazing for its time. And that is completely ignoring that, in the 90s, video game tie ins weren't given scrips, just an idea, and told to run with it. Its no wonder why the Genesis games went the way they did.
had some of the best world-building in any game ever with hammond's memoirs. i return to relisten to that every once in awhile. Lord Richard did an excellent job. A part of me wished some of that was taken into film canon...and that JP 4 was about the end of the islands once and for all instead of making a "working park" which went completely against Crichton's work. Oh well.
@@nickporter4279 To speak on adaptive gameplay--although I haven't played it in over a decade, i still have the official guidebook and there were even FRIENDLY dinosaurs. You could befriend or at the very least encounter completely docile velociraptors. Super unique for the time. Also holy cow we have the same taste. although Rampage edition is my all-time favorite JP game and JPOG is second or so...I did really love the first two arcade shooters (mostly the first one) and had soft spots for things like 3DO and Mega CD (although i know enough to not list them at the top.
I had Danger Zone when I was really small. Got it off a cereal box, and played it with my mom. Actually really liked it. Of course, kids that are like 6-7 years old will play almost anything with a smile!
Michael Crichton absolutely DID know Jurassic Park was going to be a pop culture juggernaut. It was designed to be. Spielberg acquired the rights before it was even published, and when a friend asked what he was working on, he replied, "The most expensive movie ever made."
I'm just glad Trespasser isn't at the bottom of the list. There are some nice mods for it that enhance it. I'd certainly have put it WAY higher on the list.
They really don’t like it for some reason. Most people I know really enjoyed it as kids and it’s still an enjoyable game today if you have a machine that can run it. It’s way better than games they put higher on the list. It had such an impact that it spawned an entire “janky” controls gaming genre.
@@slartybartfast1112 True. Younger people will always see it as a bad game. But at the time if you were young and it came out, it was ground breaking on many levels. Having a raptors chase you while you try to aim a gun is scary. And it's made worse when you being chased by a T-rex through warehouses and you feel your heart racing trying to find shelter. And with mods for it, the game plays and looks even better. Not perfect mind you, but better then it did. To be fair I have seen kids today say Half Life 2 looks "old and dumb!" Even though it set new standards for games back then.
I actually really enjoyed Dinosaur Battles. I was a child at the time, but it was one of the first games I enjoyed enough to actually finish the story.
(Before watching) I'm really hoping to see Jurassic Park Operation Genesis somewhere in this video. I have so many fond memories of playing it on both PC and PS2, IMO it's one of the greatest JP games of all time! I'm not just saying that out of blind nostalgia, even to this day it's still a super fun game to play and immerse yourself in for hours on end!
I’m a little sad that we have never really gotten a truly immersive Jurassic park experience that gives us some sort open world or open levels with a survival horror aspect. Trespasser seems like the only one who sort of wanted to do that and failed in every aspect. But that sort of idea, like some sort Aliens Isolation type deal but with dinosaurs would be amazing
I got the game on pc and would have it no other way, nothing against consoles but i just cant see how these kind of game work smooth with controllers. Just like rts you need mouse/keyboard for these kind of games.
@Blue Duke Why bc i cant see a controll scheme for this on consoles :/ im just as willing to admit that realistic racers work best with controller due to sticks and bumpers. And yes i believe pc is the best platform, dont mean consoles are bad. i own 3 gens of xbox and all kinds of ninty stuff. So if you wanna get it out of context thats fine but dont assume my thoughts.
Warpath was a great Jurassic Park Game and I’m sick of pretending it’s not, it was a solid fighting game for the PS1 and it still is! Many fond memories as a kid playing that game.
I really loved JP for genesis. I still play it. I felt rampage Edition was harder and I didn't really like the cartoonier graphics. To me this is and may possibly be one of the best JP games ever. I can beat both campaigns and love doing so. I also really enjoyed the JP arcade game(original) and have recently picked up JP evolution, but haven't played it yet.
Jurassic Park on SNES was and has always been my favorite Jurassic Park game. It roughly followed the story from the book and the first person stuff was genuinely scary back in the day.
@@doomraven0 When I was a kid I would always get to the part where you have to lay a gas bomb near the raptor eggs except I wasn't aware of what to do. I would spend hours getting that far only to have to turn off the game not knowing how to progress. As an adult I have now watched videos of how to get past that part and realized it was basically at the end of the game.
You know what's funny? Scan Command and Dinosaur Battles are actually the exact same game, but the former requires the included scanning device in order to progress. I still remember being "softlocked" in Scan Command as a kid because I ran out of new barcodes to scan around the house.
OMG the original Arcade Game….. my cousin and I played that thing so much at the local Chuck E. Cheese. It was so cool. Totally worth the cost in tokens, even if it didn’t give any tickets.
The 1993 Ocean version of Jurassic park was one of my favorite games growing up. The maps that made you get lost in a small space were really impressive. As were the “explain nothing, figure it out idiot” puzzles which made their simplicity still rewarding when completed. Also I’m convinced that the opening music in that game is more iconic of Jurassic Park than the film music. Yeah I said it. Fight me.
I only ever played 1 JP game, The lost World on ps1 (or 2 I'm not sure). I loved it, we all did. I remember a room of us all fighting over the controller to do the T-Rex bit...
@@lewcifer2465 it's not negativity it's fact, nothing wrong with park sims except that they are generic for the series. For as broken as it was trespasser was far better from a creative standpoint and the genesis game was the benchmark for what we wanted from a Jurassic park game as kids
@@justaguyonyoutube true.... except that JPOG was one of the first (if not THE first) game that allowed you to manage a park and having your own dinos. you may not like the game with that 2021 mentality, but back in 2003, the hype was real and it delivered up until that point, they were all generic platformers and shooters
Beat me to it. It's quite polished for a SNES game (with a voice-acted intro!) and it's fun to play in co-op. Triple Jump is a bit salty on this one, haha
@@Styrophoamicus I mean, nothing they said was WRONG, per se, the game is stupid difficult and has a hilariously unforgiving progression system even for the era, but I get what you mean.
I completely agree. It was very atmospheric and high tension. I liked how it was Contra-esque but ammo was limited and not all weapons worked for every enemy. You had to play smart. And yes it was hard and unforgiving but so were is so were a vast majority of games for the system at that time. if anything games today are too easy That's why there is such a demand for dark souls style games.
You missed a great one!! Jurassic Park on Sega Genesis in 1993. It was another platformer (like Lion King and Aladdin) that had similar timed releases to their SNES counter-part but produced a wildly different game, in this case the Sega version was so much better than the SNES one.
Having watched all your „Ranked“-videos I can safely say that this one is the most enjoyable as well as the best written. For a JP-fan who played both the abismal Ocean game as well as the Game Gear version back in my childhood, it is also the most nostalgic. Thank you!
The Lost World Gameboy game was the first video game that I ever bought with my own money. I saved up my allowance for weeks and weeks, until I had enough to buy a Game Boy Pocket - I went for the lime green, partially see-through one - and **one** game for it. And being a nine year old with a deep love of dinosaurs, I opted for The Lost World, Jurassic Park. .... In retrospect, it's a miracle that I didn't give up in gaming altogether.
I would put trespasser in first. The inovation and qualities of it easily overcompensate for its flaws, while still being a damn good game to experience.
If I ever had a time machine, I would like to go to 1997/1998 to warn Trespasser's developer team to not rush the game development, so we would finally get a 100% finished trespasser game.
Excellent video! Lots of games on here that I'd never heard of! Though I was surprised that you didn't mention that Jurassic Park: Dinosaur Battles (2002) was quite literally just JP: Scan Command without the scanner function. Right down to the crappy story with Dr Corte and Primo.
Trespasser is a game that is incredibly ambitious but without even a quarter of the execution to match the ambition. A physics-based first person game was basically unheard of at the time and if it were competent then it'd be fondly remembered.
Surprised to see Warpath for PSX down so low, I spent hours on that game and it’s the only fighter game. Also Scan Command which was somehow the worst just because of the scanner because you had the identical game way higher? I think The Lost World: Jurassic Park for PSX is rated pretty low since it was one of the best games for playing a dinosaur and had some cool bosses etc I have lots of good memories with the arcade game and happy to see it made it up so high, though. Overall, there is lots of missed potential in this franchise and hope to see similarly successful ventures as Jurassic World Evolution but in different genres.
this list is all kinds of messed up and filled with the bias you would put towards a game from nowadays. hitting a game from 1997 about its graphics is just dumb.
I actually loved Warpath because you play as the dinos aside from the usual T Rex and Raptor and there are a lot of options to choose from, maybe if the combat system was a bit more polished It would be Top 10.
I've kinda warmed up to the SNES Jurassic Park recently. I was at the age, when I got the game in 97, that I couldn't do it cause I just wasn't good enough. The game offers free roaming for you to discover new stuff the further you venture into the park, and it gets kinda exciting once you work out what to do. What would have "fixed" the game, to use critical terms, would be three very simple things: 1. A map. A Zelda style map to tell you where you are on the overworld map and in a building. The battery you find could serve not just to light up dark rooms, but to reveal the whole map and indicate where you are in the building. This would make returning to buildings for new stuff later much easier. I like the idea of starting a building without a map to increase the fear factor, which seems to be what they were going for, but it would REALLY help to find something to help you later on. 2. A status screen. Once you've collected an egg, after a while, unless you remember what Malcolm said, you're not gonna remember how many you still need to find. Also the screen could give an accurate number of weapons, lives, and which ID cards you have. Terminals tell you that last bit, but it would be nice to have that information at the push of a button. 3. A password feature. Imagine being able to see an auto password on the status screen. You turn the game off, come back, enter say, a 6 letter password, and you start at the gates with all the items you collected up to that point. Those 3 things would have made it a classic. Instead, its infuriating to those who don't have the time, patience or interest to do the whole thing in one sitting. A patch would be great if fans wanted to do it.
I'm genuinely convinced you didn't play ANY of these, Scan Command and Dinosaur Battles are literally the same game but you put SC dead-last and DB way higher. Also, good job getting filtered by the majority of legitimately good games here
Never mind putting Jurassic World Evolution above Jurassic Park Operation Genesis. JWE was shallow as hell, JPOG did a better job of being a Jurassic Park builder/manager 15 years prior.
I didn't fully agree with the list from start to finish. Trespasser was a so-so game but technologically ahead of it's time with it's physics engine and ideas, for that alone it should've been higher than any mini-game collection or browser games easily. Now, I love you videos but your placement for JPOG at 9th and Jurassic World Evolution as #1 is fucking madness. Evolution is a terrible game, looks pretty, but it's not even a park simulator and the biggest selling feature they pushed was making creatures fight, really, boring fights.
Now I was only born in 2000 so I wasn’t born in the 1990s. But my older brother had many sega games and I got to play them, I loved the Jurassic Park game for the Genesis and I still do, I had frustrating memories of it as I continuously got stuck on the game when I was younger but when I play it now I find it quite fun and I also liked the pixelated semi-3D donkey kong country type style of it, though it still has some annoyingly frustrating parts
Trespasser should be at the top of the list, yeah it might play like crap but the story, dialog and voice work alone especially from Richard Attenborough should make the game a must play for any Jurassic Park Fan.
I agree it should've been higher on the list, but definitely not at the top. Maybe top 10, because of everything it could've been. But hey, it's a list where there's two rail shooters near the top so you can't expect too much
I really enjoyed danger zone when I was a kid. Got it as a free gift when I bought a Mickey Mouse magazine and I played it all day long. On the other hand it was before I even got my first console. So maybe the bar wasn't all that high.
That first one with the barcode scanning reminds me so much of a game that I loved as a young one with a similar gimmick. The game was Monster Rancher 2 for PS1 where you would put in any discs in your house to create monsters. The game was just so very great.
@@heavymetalfishingla That's a cool dog name and yes, that game was fantastic. I remember the weekend I first got it, sitting in the living til 3 or 4 in the morning and trying every disc in the house. Great times
@@michaelgirodat1062 Me and my cousins would go through all our music disks and ps1 disks to see what we would get. I never got passed Grade B battling. I think me and the wife might set up and play that once we get burnt out on Stardew Valley
The Jurassic Park for the Genesis is the real OG ! That Game captured the Jurassic Park feeling, the jungle ambiance, the T-rex design was on point and the fact you could play as a raptor was the cherry on top ! So much nostalgia 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼
Man... we need an actual AAA survival horror Jurassic Park, one kinda like Alien Isolation. Imagine trying to sneak through a building or forest with raptors hunting you and other survivors. Maybe a wandering T-rex is around the open areas. You get tools to distract them, knock them out, and maybe sometimes kill them. Can maybe get them to fight each other while you escape in the confusion. Could be a very difficult but thrilling adventure.
They should make a Jurassic Park like Alien Isolation. You play as a guy or girl looking for the can Nedry dropped. You have to search the abandoned park trying to survive the dinosaurs and they should make gory like the novel with some scares.
I loved Chaos Island! When I got my first PC, this was one of the first games I played. I remembered the bonus stage when you control the T-rex in a city devouring humans. Good times!
Lost World: Jurassic Park Arcade Special was also in the states at a few big arcades. I actually have vivid memories of going into the special room and sitting in a themed jeep with my best friend infront of a MASSIVE screen and holding the guns sideways (because you do double damage when you do that, donchaknow...) and screaming things like "BREAK YO SELF!" and "YOU GOT KNOCKED THA F&%K OUT!" while the camera streamed us playing to the TV on the outside of the ride/game. People had so much fun watching us play, we were asked to play again several times so they could get others to watch.
I actually had a lot of fun with Scan Command. You didn't really have to scan barcodes, just anything with lines will eventually work. I remember scanning the arm of my couch constantly to build up power ups.
I played the HELL out of my Chaos island as a kid. I would save all the dinosaur eggs till the final level since they carried over and then build a dinosaur army hatching them all on that level. It was so fun XD
Trespasser was such an odd duck of a game. It’s one of the rare games that are more important for what they inspired and what they made possible than what the final product actually was. Look into any of the history of this game, any of the development before the rush, and you’ll see ideas that were started in Trespasser and weren’t properly refined until many years later. The NPC raptor tribes and their politics, Anne’s capabilities, the HUD-less experience, it’s all been part of a much grander scope of what gaming should be. And arguably, the best part of the game is something that really only caught on a decade later, the audio logs (which were going to include both David & Richard Attenborough together before getting cut to Richard alone), which really delve into the history of InGen and Jurassic Park, blending both the novel and the movie. And honestly, as good as Operation Genesis and Evolution are, I still enjoy Park Builder. As you said, it’s a neat version of a Zoo Tycoon type game, and it’s on GBA. How many good bite-sized Tycoon games are there which remain true to the core concept? I’d imagine it’s not a large number, and the only one I know for a fact is Park Builder. Outside of those two games, I agree. And regardless of my opinions, I thank you for this list!
I used to have the first SNES game that was mentioned. I had at one point made maps of all the interior areas marking where computers, id cards, ammo, and night vision were found, what areas needed an id card(and whose card was needed in those cases) or night vision, and what computers increased your security clearance. If I had one complaint about it, it would be that you couldn't save your progress to come back later. I also remember messing around with the web tie in for Jurassic Park the Ride, and the only advice to anyone who manages to find and be able to try it is that if the alert tab next to the map turns yellow then to back out of the area because the raptor that is loose is within 10 M of you, and hope that the same tab doesn't go red because that means that the raptor is within 5 M of your location. If the alert goes red, then good luck not running into the raptor. Other then the advice on avoiding the raptor, check everywhere and everything in any rooms that you visit to find tools you'll need elsewhere.
I grew up playing danger zone on my family’s pc, it was one of the first pc games I played. I remember my dad getting it at staples while my family was getting school supplies.
SNES Jurassic Park should have been higher. It can be a bit frustrating and tedious due to it's complete lack of any kind of map to view, and the lack of a save system, meaning that you have to finish it in one sitting, but once you do know where you're going it actually isn't that bad. It controls reasonably well, looks good, and has a great soundtrack. The first person indoor sections are pretty ropey by modern standards, but they move relatively smoothly and do convey some sense of immersion, which, given the limitations of the hardware, is really rather impressive
Operation Genesis was my childhood...the secondary open island to take photos while getting chased by dinos was awesome. And letting the dinos eat your guests was SICK
5:01 me who loves Jurassic park since age 2 and is very nostalgic from this exact gameplay shown in the video, since i watched it when i was like 5/6 12:59 how could i forget dino defender? Its one of the most nostalgic experience i remembered being is watching gameplay all day of the game, and then pretending i was in it when i got to go to the park in my town.
I have to strongly disagree on the SNES Jurassic Park (which you put at #27). First, objectively if you look at what it has, it actually works in a LOT of the elements from the book that weren't even mentioned or barely were mentioned in the film. Motion sensors, for instance, play a role, and they figure heavily into Malcolm figuring out in the book that the animals were breeding. You have compies in many parts of the island, which again the film ignores but they ARE in the book - in fact they kill Hammond. The nerve gassing of the raptor nests, also in the game. Raptors on the cargo ship, also in the game. So it's clear that whoever at Ocean made this thing actually DID read the book. Moreover, it has - I would argue - some of the best music the SNES ever had. I LOVED the scores on this, and still do. It isn't hyper-repetitive because it breaks itself up into different set pieces - you have the outside map, which can vary from rocky areas to jungles with rivers, coastlines, etc, but you also have stage sets like the raptor pen, the visitor center and the ships to offer different environments to explore - some areas you need to find batteries for the night vision goggles before you can even go in. So it has variety. It has a nice little scare factor to it in the buildings. Suddenly it's like you're in a DOOM game - and it is creepy as a kid. I don't know if you're too young to have been AROUND in 1993, but I was there, and believe me, as a kid, 8 or 9 years old at that time playing that game? That was TERRIFYING. Totally different than looking back on it with 2020s vision. I hated the buildings back then because they scared me. It was always really cool to find a new ID card or get into a computer though. Oh that's another thing from the book - the computer terminals you hack into always feature fractal designs - another thing taken from the book. Malcolm starts each chapter with a fractal and describes how the system is changing. I think that was a great touch. I'd put SNES Jurassic Park as one of the BEST to ever be made, actually, on that basis. Most JP games incorporate none of these elements and have no atmosphere. This one did. I think it deserves more respect than that for what they tried to do here. Now, I have to be fair too and say there ARE two big drawbacks to the SNES version: 1. No save states! You have no idea how many times as a kid back then I tried to beat the thing only to have someone knock into the cord and restart the system when I was making progress. The Jurassic Park classic games collection coming out from LImited Run Games HAS added a save feature so I did pre-order it. I never understood why they couldn't have a save on it - even Super Mario World had the ability to save your game. The motion detectors, I always thought, made perfect natural save points since you have them all over. 2. It's too short. I like a game to take a good long time to beat. Dozens of hours at least.
This movie is about dinosaurs. Oh, dinosaurs are great. Yes, they are. So I thought let's make a game about it. That's a sound business decision. I want it to be an educational game. Aren't those boring? Didn't all educational games fail in the past? Are they even games on a technical level? Yes, yes and I don't know. But this game will be different because "dinosaurs". Can't argue with that.
Exactly. I can see how people would have favourites, but even the almost universally panned JP3 isn't a BAD film. Saying that TLW was "terrible" at 18:40 genuinely pissed me off lol.
@@1218cody Well he made this to be a comedy video to get clicks. He didn't do this for the reviews. I really don't think he even played any of these considering every bit of footage in here is taken from other TH-cam videos. This is satire being passed off as a comprehensive list.
The Lost world 1997 on the Genesis was pretty fun. And you definitely nailed exactly what went wrong, it gets pretty long trying to find something or blowing up a generator. The ending was a bit underwhelming as well. Still fun the motorcycle scene
I honestly think that Jurassic Park Operation Genesis should've been WAY higher, like in the Top 5 alongside the arcade games! Even to this day it's still an amazing game, and far ahead of its time! I'm not saying JPOG is better than Jurassic World Evolution, but speaking of which JW Evolution is actually a successor to JPOG, and it wouldn't be the amazing game that it is if JPOG hadn't existed, as JPOG set the foundation for just about everything great about JW Evolution! From the park building mechanics to the incredible dinosaur AI (which even in JPOG was very impressive for its time. Despite JPOG being older and having blockier textures, the dinosaurs were so lifelike in behavior and they genuinely felt like real living dinosaurs)
I honestly dont believe they played it, they kinda glossed over it very quickly. Should have been way higher.
I checked the Metacritic scores for that game. Apparently, they are mixed, quite like Evolution when it first released.
It apparently has great mods these days aswell
I agree you can make the island any shape, unlike evolution. I still do like evolution though.
Modded JPOG definitely would be at the top.
Unmodded JPOG would still be among the top 3 in my book, despite the many knee-capping limitations.
Man, The fact that 30% of these games start with "The lost world: Jurassic park" and just that, Must have been absolute hell for parents when one of their kids asked for a specific "Jurassic park" game
Id say either that or fallen kingdom are the worst so ironic eh btw its an achievement to make a film about dinosaurs boring but it can be done
BLASPHEMY!!!! JP 93 on Sega was one of the best dino games ever made for consoles. Youre on crack to say that game wasnt fun. The Trex pops into the game at certain moments. Just a badass game for the time.
To be fair asking for any video game in the nineties was a bit of a luck of the draw situation
@@bradkirchhoff3751 He said "The Lost World: Jurassic Park".
@@dun0790 Jurassic Park : The lost world was a good movie, at least for me, in the level of the first movie
You know what's weird about Park Builder (GBA)?
The game *ends* in the year 2020 and will not let you keep playing, it softlocks.
That's some serious foresight from Konami, I'll say that much.
Seriously? :D
My parks never get as far as 2020. XD
@@redwaldcuthberting7195 - The secret is to charge a lot for food.
But what happens is that you can only save before* the credits roll, and after the credits and the game sends you to the title screen, that's why it softlocks.
Thanks COVID
Konami knew they were gonna abandon video games in under 20 years, huh?
I'm sad that The Lost World: Jurassic Park for the Playstation was rated so low. Same with Jurassic Park: The Game.
His opinion doesn't matter its one of the best ones
I have to disagree with Trespasser. The game has a lot of good things and me as a JP fan did enjoy it. The voice lines by Rchard Attenborough are amazing and with a few mods it's quite a nice experience.
P.S: Danger Zone was super fun!
But is a torture play it, even in 1998 was called one of the worst games ever made
Trespasser needs to be modded half to death to even run. It was well-written and very ambitious for the time but the tech just wasn't there. Klayton Fioriti has a playthrough on his channel.
If you play vanilla Trespasser... yeah, it's an awful game. But patched, modded, etc? It's not a bad game, and it was ahead of it's time. It's just a shame we got the one we got due to them wanting it out sooner then later.
Yeah, Trespasser is incredibly ambitious and would have been very impressive if they'd given it more time in development.
I think the entry for Trespasser is a bit unfair with it for not recognising just how ambitious it was. If it had been made today, there's a chance it would have been the best Jurassic Park game by a country mile.
Jurassic Park SNES is one of my most favorite games ever. I just wish I could save the game once in a while.
Just the music alone, that game was fucking great
It should rank a bit higher
It had great atmosphere. And the fps interior sections were godamn cool.
I absolutely agree. And if it wouldn't be for the one dam'n egg I wasnt able to find for years and the underwhelming end when I finally found it I'd even say that it isn't soo much in need of a save function.
A decent map system would've been nice too. I still wish this game was ranked higher.
I wish we'd get more than just park building simulators out of this franchise now.
It was pretty neat to play as a raptor and t-rex in older JP games. And Jurassic Park 2: The Chaos Continues is probably my favorite one.
Real shame we haven't gotten another Trespasser type FPS game today.
I’d say the xbox360 Turok game is your best bet, but that involves mowing them down, shooting at tons of dudes with guns, way to much emphasis on knifing things and Ron Perlman giving a performance that might as well be cardboard.
Agreed. A well-done Jurassic Park FPS (ideally set in or around the first movie) is still my dream game. Something Far Cry-esque. Doubt it's ever going to happen though.
We need a brutal JP survival horror game that takes elements of residential evil and mixez them with ark
@@blackthorn5709 yeah that would be cool as fuck , same with the Martix that needs a modern mmo game
Well, Trespasser did get a possibly unintentional spiritual successor in the form of Peter Jackson's King Kong. It had many of the same ideas in the FPS sections like HUDless gameplay and predators that could be distracted or lured away with food. Sadly, you can't find it anywhere these days, and only the console versions were any good anyway.
I have fond yet incredibly frustrating memories of Jurassic Park SNES. The T-rex popping out of the trees and the dark 10 fps Wolfenstein-esque indoor sections scared the crap out of me. Without any way to save the game I often left the system on overnight with the TV off so my parents wouldn’t notice so I could actually finish it 😂
Yea, as a kid I could never beat this game. It's Nintendo hard with Ironman mode the only option.
Exactly the same here. The music too, the music! Not only were so many of the tracks real bops, but they actually made use of full stereo too, audio passing from left to right ear and back, which can be like ocean waves for the seashore track, or like you're being followed by something in the jungle track. Honestly crazy, I don't know of another snes game that played with audio like that.
@@CellidorThe music is pretty great; way better than you'd expect from a licensed movie tie-in game!
I'm frustrated about the position in the ranking. It's an excellent game, way better than many of the top. With an emulator to save and the guide it's a really fun game. I've already played 3 times this year and right now I'm starting it agay😂
Yeah, I still like it a lot despite its shortcomings. My 9 year old self could have only dreamed of having save states and even a guide to make the game more manageable. Simple things we tend to take for granted nowadays.
As someone who has beaten Trespasser multiple times, I'm glad it's not on the very bottom. The game is definitely a mess, but I can't help but love the experience!
@@Gatorade69 I've used a mod that fixed some of the non gameplay bugs. Like an option menu glitch that screws up the screen so much that's it's impossible to play. I also goofed around with things like slow mo jumping dinosaurs!
I've seen videos of a bunch of new maps and other conversions. This games has a great modding community
If you haven’t already you should watch RedScotGaming’s retrospective, his segment on Trespasser during the Jurassic Park Retrospective is hilarious 😂😂😂
@@Gatorade69 if they do I hope they don’t fix everything, the walking animations are hilarious 😂😂😂
@@LadyLeomon He's great! It's been a few years since I watched that video, so I don't remember what he said. Looks like I'll have to watch it again
@@PaperMacheThief13 oh definitely, his part on Trespasser and the “health bar” is the best part 😂😂😂 have a good one!
I was about 11 when JPOG came out. I got it for my birthday and remember just being glued to it in my room for hours and hours. That game got me through a hard couple of years. I was being bullied at school and my parents were going through a pretty nasty divorce. Needless to say I didn't have many friends at the time, and felt generally very alone in life. But JPOG was always there waiting in my PS2 when I got home from a crummy day at school. I could just zone out and get lost in the little islands I would create and watch my dinosaurs roam free to a peaceful soundtrack, or wreak havoc upon the guests. This game really kept me going through all of that nasty business, and I have fond memories of hours of fun playing it. The fact that they barely touched on it, and how low it was on the list was fairly upsetting. JPOG will always be number 1!
Also I played the living crap out of Scan Command. I thought the whole barcode thing was actually kind of fun. It felt that much more satisfying getting a new power-up for your T-Rex. lol
I saved up for an Xbox because of Halo and JPOG those were the only two games I wanted and the two I ended up playing the most.
Damm yap session
Tbf Tresspasser's plot and the voicework by Richard Attenborough alone should've qualified it in the top 20, not to mention, the mods do make the gameplay better
@@Gatorade69 Exactly. It was filled with loads of great ideas, but just could not deliver and was sort of limited by the hardware of its time. The commentary here clearly just goes by the headlines, and forgoes any real retrospect of the game. Just shows that somebody did not do their homework.
It's arguably the most innovative first-person game since Quake. Adaptive AI that could determine your threat level and attack/ignore/retreat accordingly, a fully-integrated physics engine (*6 years before Half-Life 2!*), huge open levels in an era of corridor shooters, HUD-less play, dynamic music, surface-differing sound effects, A-list voice actors, world-building via audio logs, actual writing... probably more I'm forgetting...
Unfortunately it's also extremely content-poor, with many features badly implemented, close to the point of unplayability. But there's still value in Trespasser, and a poor game with ambition, technical merit and a fair bit of atmosphere surely deserves a higher ranking than at least half of this list.
(I'd also put the Sega Megadrive/Genesis JP and Rampage Edition higher, and JPOG obviously. The latter would be #1 if built on modern software.)
I agree. Most of these are only viewed in a modern lens. Trespasser WAS groundbreaking, but now that the ground has been broken several more times, its mediocre. So its on the bottom.
The fact that it has a active cult following STILL is quite impressive.
Most of these graphics are awesome. *For their era.*. SNES was the funnest of the game, and its mind blowing how it had a first person section. (Again, at the time.) Most of his complaints are due to thinks like "Terrain not being varied enough." well, its a 16 bit console, with limited memory. Of course its going to repeat. Its still amazing for its time.
And that is completely ignoring that, in the 90s, video game tie ins weren't given scrips, just an idea, and told to run with it. Its no wonder why the Genesis games went the way they did.
had some of the best world-building in any game ever with hammond's memoirs. i return to relisten to that every once in awhile. Lord Richard did an excellent job. A part of me wished some of that was taken into film canon...and that JP 4 was about the end of the islands once and for all instead of making a "working park" which went completely against Crichton's work. Oh well.
@@nickporter4279 To speak on adaptive gameplay--although I haven't played it in over a decade, i still have the official guidebook and there were even FRIENDLY dinosaurs. You could befriend or at the very least encounter completely docile velociraptors. Super unique for the time.
Also holy cow we have the same taste. although Rampage edition is my all-time favorite JP game and JPOG is second or so...I did really love the first two arcade shooters (mostly the first one) and had soft spots for things like 3DO and Mega CD (although i know enough to not list them at the top.
I had Danger Zone when I was really small. Got it off a cereal box, and played it with my mom. Actually really liked it. Of course, kids that are like 6-7 years old will play almost anything with a smile!
Michael Crichton absolutely DID know Jurassic Park was going to be a pop culture juggernaut. It was designed to be. Spielberg acquired the rights before it was even published, and when a friend asked what he was working on, he replied, "The most expensive movie ever made."
I'm just glad Trespasser isn't at the bottom of the list. There are some nice mods for it that enhance it. I'd certainly have put it WAY higher on the list.
This!
They really don’t like it for some reason. Most people I know really enjoyed it as kids and it’s still an enjoyable game today if you have a machine that can run it. It’s way better than games they put higher on the list. It had such an impact that it spawned an entire “janky” controls gaming genre.
I don't think this guy or his team are old enough. Trespasser was buggy it's true but it was innovative as hell for it's time.
@@slartybartfast1112 True. Younger people will always see it as a bad game. But at the time if you were young and it came out, it was ground breaking on many levels. Having a raptors chase you while you try to aim a gun is scary. And it's made worse when you being chased by a T-rex through warehouses and you feel your heart racing trying to find shelter.
And with mods for it, the game plays and looks even better. Not perfect mind you, but better then it did. To be fair I have seen kids today say Half Life 2 looks "old and dumb!" Even though it set new standards for games back then.
Why should the review be based on inofficial mods? The original base game is plain awful.
I actually really enjoyed Dinosaur Battles. I was a child at the time, but it was one of the first games I enjoyed enough to actually finish the story.
(Before watching) I'm really hoping to see Jurassic Park Operation Genesis somewhere in this video. I have so many fond memories of playing it on both PC and PS2, IMO it's one of the greatest JP games of all time! I'm not just saying that out of blind nostalgia, even to this day it's still a super fun game to play and immerse yourself in for hours on end!
I'm hoping for Jurassic Park III Park Builder.
Dat was cool.
I'm just happy to see another Canadian here!
wyzeguy6 I'm also a Canadian
I remember finally getting operation genesis, and then having to buy a graphics card to play it, and then that never working out 😭
It’s literally ALL of the games ranked. Why wouldn’t your game be on the list…? It’s ALL of the games… ALL…
I loved Dino Defender as a kid, I won’t lie here.
Recently got it running on an emulator and uh yeah can’t really explain why now.
Big disagree; Jurassic Park for the Genesis is a classic.
I’m a little sad that we have never really gotten a truly immersive Jurassic park experience that gives us some sort open world or open levels with a survival horror aspect. Trespasser seems like the only one who sort of wanted to do that and failed in every aspect. But that sort of idea, like some sort Aliens Isolation type deal but with dinosaurs would be amazing
Dino crisis series and King Kong the movie game got you there
Your wish came true :)
@@KonniBel This comment is actually what led me to just now seeing the trailer for it lol, that looks really promising
@@LoveSickWorld dammit, konni beat me to it
Just picked up JW: Evolution in a PlayStation sale. Absolutely loving it. Working on the platinum.
If you lobe jwe1 then your definitely gonna LOVE jwe2 when it comes out on the 9th of November .
@@joeswanson7634 yea already eyeing it up. Day after my birthday so will get someone else to pick it up for me 😁
I got the game on pc and would have it no other way, nothing against consoles but i just cant see how these kind of game work smooth with controllers. Just like rts you need mouse/keyboard for these kind of games.
@Blue Duke Why bc i cant see a controll scheme for this on consoles :/ im just as willing to admit that realistic racers work best with controller due to sticks and bumpers. And yes i believe pc is the best platform, dont mean consoles are bad. i own 3 gens of xbox and all kinds of ninty stuff. So if you wanna get it out of context thats fine but dont assume my thoughts.
If only you were around for Operation Genesis. Better than JWE in damn near every way. Here's hoping JWE2 helps rectify that.
Warpath was a great Jurassic Park Game and I’m sick of pretending it’s not, it was a solid fighting game for the PS1 and it still is! Many fond memories as a kid playing that game.
I really loved JP for genesis. I still play it. I felt rampage Edition was harder and I didn't really like the cartoonier graphics. To me this is and may possibly be one of the best JP games ever. I can beat both campaigns and love doing so. I also really enjoyed the JP arcade game(original) and have recently picked up JP evolution, but haven't played it yet.
Jurassic Park on SNES was and has always been my favorite Jurassic Park game. It roughly followed the story from the book and the first person stuff was genuinely scary back in the day.
It would be my favorite if it had a save function. Jurassic Park 2 for the gameboy is my favorite.
@@chesspunk489 Agreed on the save function, it is a rough game to try and finish in one sitting.
@@doomraven0 When I was a kid I would always get to the part where you have to lay a gas bomb near the raptor eggs except I wasn't aware of what to do. I would spend hours getting that far only to have to turn off the game not knowing how to progress. As an adult I have now watched videos of how to get past that part and realized it was basically at the end of the game.
@@chesspunk489 I'm so glad that wasn't just me then.
@@dhawkes5096 The feeling is mutual.
You know what's funny? Scan Command and Dinosaur Battles are actually the exact same game, but the former requires the included scanning device in order to progress. I still remember being "softlocked" in Scan Command as a kid because I ran out of new barcodes to scan around the house.
OMG the original Arcade Game….. my cousin and I played that thing so much at the local Chuck E. Cheese. It was so cool. Totally worth the cost in tokens, even if it didn’t give any tickets.
How spoiled have we become by current day licensed video games that Jurassic Park for the Sega, NES, and SNES are considered average by you guys?
The 1993 Ocean version of Jurassic park was one of my favorite games growing up. The maps that made you get lost in a small space were really impressive. As were the “explain nothing, figure it out idiot” puzzles which made their simplicity still rewarding when completed.
Also I’m convinced that the opening music in that game is more iconic of Jurassic Park than the film music.
Yeah I said it. Fight me.
I only ever played 1 JP game, The lost World on ps1 (or 2 I'm not sure). I loved it, we all did. I remember a room of us all fighting over the controller to do the T-Rex bit...
That might've been the first PSX game I ever played, one xmas. I didn't get very far, but was delighted nonetheless.
The fact that JP:OG isn't number 1 is an absolute travesty! I shall be logging an official complaint
it's alright but it is only a park sim, it's a bit generic of a genre for the JP series.
@@justaguyonyoutube I don't need your negativity today
Yeah most definitely can tell that they’re not huge JP fans. OG was a landmark.
@@lewcifer2465 it's not negativity it's fact, nothing wrong with park sims except that they are generic for the series. For as broken as it was trespasser was far better from a creative standpoint and the genesis game was the benchmark for what we wanted from a Jurassic park game as kids
@@justaguyonyoutube true.... except that JPOG was one of the first (if not THE first) game that allowed you to manage a park and having your own dinos. you may not like the game with that 2021 mentality, but back in 2003, the hype was real and it delivered
up until that point, they were all generic platformers and shooters
Took 23 minutes to get to a Billy and the Cloneasaurus reference. Impressive.
Honestly, I’d say that Apu’s reaction and going on a long rant about Jurassic Park (primarily the novel no less) is the best part of that scene.
I really liked trespasser as it was so "Imersive Sim"-Ish
While Trespasser definitely failed to be a fun game it is absolutely impressive for being extremely experimental.
Trespasser couldve been so great. At least the mod community fixed many of its problems
The Chaos Continues deserved to be higher on this list. Maybe I'm biased becuase I played it so much when I was a kid 🤷
Beat me to it. It's quite polished for a SNES game (with a voice-acted intro!) and it's fun to play in co-op. Triple Jump is a bit salty on this one, haha
@@Styrophoamicus I mean, nothing they said was WRONG, per se, the game is stupid difficult and has a hilariously unforgiving progression system even for the era, but I get what you mean.
I completely agree. It was very atmospheric and high tension.
I liked how it was Contra-esque but ammo was limited and not all weapons worked for every enemy. You had to play smart.
And yes it was hard and unforgiving but so were is so were a vast majority of games for the system at that time. if anything games today are too easy That's why there is such a demand for dark souls style games.
Same dude. I played that game religiously. I died a thousand times but I honestly enjoyed it. An it was two player!
You missed a great one!! Jurassic Park on Sega Genesis in 1993. It was another platformer (like Lion King and Aladdin) that had similar timed releases to their SNES counter-part but produced a wildly different game, in this case the Sega version was so much better than the SNES one.
Just picked JP and The Lost World for the Genesis - can'f wait to play them
27:34 in the video
Ah yes, that great lost world character character Roland Tempo. So called because he dances backwards into every scene and loves a good beat
Having watched all your „Ranked“-videos I can safely say that this one is the most enjoyable as well as the best written. For a JP-fan who played both the abismal Ocean game as well as the Game Gear version back in my childhood, it is also the most nostalgic. Thank you!
I actually loved Chaos Island back in the day, still is a great concept today tbh
I still have a PC that can play that game actually and I still play it off and on.
My first computer game. So glad I played and beat it. Such a fun game
Rampage edition was one of my favorite games to play. The T-Rex fight at the end is really intense.
Normally older 16 bit era games are super breezy when i revisit them and rampage edition is no different except that last fight. rex can still get me.
the trex in the genesis game used to scare the SHIT out of me.
I absolutely love Jurassic park on SNES. Game actually had a few secrets too!!
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The Lost World Gameboy game was the first video game that I ever bought with my own money. I saved up my allowance for weeks and weeks, until I had enough to buy a Game Boy Pocket - I went for the lime green, partially see-through one - and **one** game for it.
And being a nine year old with a deep love of dinosaurs, I opted for The Lost World, Jurassic Park.
....
In retrospect, it's a miracle that I didn't give up in gaming altogether.
I would put trespasser in first. The inovation and qualities of it easily overcompensate for its flaws, while still being a damn good game to experience.
Trespasser was terrible they went too far
I agree, and I played it like 10 years after it's release.
Even after thirty years, Jurassic Park is still the best film ever made
As a kid born in 86 I absolutely loved the Genesis games! The sound of those gas grenades exploding after you threw them is engraved in my memory.
If I ever had a time machine, I would like to go to 1997/1998 to warn Trespasser's developer team to not rush the game development, so we would finally get a 100% finished trespasser game.
I always play Jussic park 2015 version the most by my local Arcade place when I go with friends. Good times.
The best part of the mega drive Jurassic park game was the dinosaur saying sega at the start instead of the normal voice
Imo thats the best game in the franchise. I played that one for years…
Excellent video! Lots of games on here that I'd never heard of! Though I was surprised that you didn't mention that Jurassic Park: Dinosaur Battles (2002) was quite literally just JP: Scan Command without the scanner function. Right down to the crappy story with Dr Corte and Primo.
Trespasser is a game that is incredibly ambitious but without even a quarter of the execution to match the ambition. A physics-based first person game was basically unheard of at the time and if it were competent then it'd be fondly remembered.
Ben's love for Jurassic Park III: Island Attack (2001) for the GBA really shines through in his voice over for the game in question. 10/10
Surprised to see Warpath for PSX down so low, I spent hours on that game and it’s the only fighter game. Also Scan Command which was somehow the worst just because of the scanner because you had the identical game way higher?
I think The Lost World: Jurassic Park for PSX is rated pretty low since it was one of the best games for playing a dinosaur and had some cool bosses etc
I have lots of good memories with the arcade game and happy to see it made it up so high, though.
Overall, there is lots of missed potential in this franchise and hope to see similarly successful ventures as Jurassic World Evolution but in different genres.
this list is all kinds of messed up and filled with the bias you would put towards a game from nowadays. hitting a game from 1997 about its graphics is just dumb.
Trespasser was my first experience with a trailer that was completely different from the game.
I actually loved Warpath because you play as the dinos aside from the usual T Rex and Raptor and there are a lot of options to choose from, maybe if the combat system was a bit more polished It would be Top 10.
That game actually taught me some things about dinosaurs I didn’t know as a kid. Albeit very surface level info.
(Before watching) If the game that starts with the t rex roaring "SEGA" isn't number 1 the list is invalid!
Take off the nostalgia goggles. That game has not aged well.
@@michaeljahanian9765 who cares about the gameplay the t rex roars SEGA! that's all you need in life
@@mullaoslo i want to hear this!
I've kinda warmed up to the SNES Jurassic Park recently. I was at the age, when I got the game in 97, that I couldn't do it cause I just wasn't good enough. The game offers free roaming for you to discover new stuff the further you venture into the park, and it gets kinda exciting once you work out what to do.
What would have "fixed" the game, to use critical terms, would be three very simple things:
1. A map. A Zelda style map to tell you where you are on the overworld map and in a building. The battery you find could serve not just to light up dark rooms, but to reveal the whole map and indicate where you are in the building. This would make returning to buildings for new stuff later much easier. I like the idea of starting a building without a map to increase the fear factor, which seems to be what they were going for, but it would REALLY help to find something to help you later on.
2. A status screen. Once you've collected an egg, after a while, unless you remember what Malcolm said, you're not gonna remember how many you still need to find. Also the screen could give an accurate number of weapons, lives, and which ID cards you have. Terminals tell you that last bit, but it would be nice to have that information at the push of a button.
3. A password feature. Imagine being able to see an auto password on the status screen. You turn the game off, come back, enter say, a 6 letter password, and you start at the gates with all the items you collected up to that point.
Those 3 things would have made it a classic. Instead, its infuriating to those who don't have the time, patience or interest to do the whole thing in one sitting.
A patch would be great if fans wanted to do it.
I'm genuinely convinced you didn't play ANY of these, Scan Command and Dinosaur Battles are literally the same game but you put SC dead-last and DB way higher. Also, good job getting filtered by the majority of legitimately good games here
I feel like he only seen the first movie and nothing else from the franchise.
Someone who is a JP Fan should do this list
Never mind putting Jurassic World Evolution above Jurassic Park Operation Genesis. JWE was shallow as hell, JPOG did a better job of being a Jurassic Park builder/manager 15 years prior.
I feel like he didn't like any of these games I mean come on Warpath was a fun game for the time. It was a Jurassic Park fighter.
It is based on critic scores
The Sega Genisis one where you can play as Dr. GRANT or the Raptor. That's the best one.
Trespasser
I didn't fully agree with the list from start to finish. Trespasser was a so-so game but technologically ahead of it's time with it's physics engine and ideas, for that alone it should've been higher than any mini-game collection or browser games easily. Now, I love you videos but your placement for JPOG at 9th and Jurassic World Evolution as #1 is fucking madness. Evolution is a terrible game, looks pretty, but it's not even a park simulator and the biggest selling feature they pushed was making creatures fight, really, boring fights.
The Sega Genesis was actually known as the "Mega Drive" in Europe. Just a random fact.
Warpath will always have a place in my heart.
Now I was only born in 2000 so I wasn’t born in the 1990s. But my older brother had many sega games and I got to play them, I loved the Jurassic Park game for the Genesis and I still do, I had frustrating memories of it as I continuously got stuck on the game when I was younger but when I play it now I find it quite fun and I also liked the pixelated semi-3D donkey kong country type style of it, though it still has some annoyingly frustrating parts
Trespasser should be at the top of the list, yeah it might play like crap but the story, dialog and voice work alone especially from Richard Attenborough should make the game a must play for any Jurassic Park Fan.
I agree it should've been higher on the list, but definitely not at the top. Maybe top 10, because of everything it could've been.
But hey, it's a list where there's two rail shooters near the top so you can't expect too much
I really enjoyed danger zone when I was a kid. Got it as a free gift when I bought a Mickey Mouse magazine and I played it all day long. On the other hand it was before I even got my first console. So maybe the bar wasn't all that high.
OH YEAH, HERE WE GO, DINOSAUR TIME!!!!!
Jp 2 chaos continues on SNES was great with co op . Very memorable Trex chase and some of the scariest velociraptors ever
That first one with the barcode scanning reminds me so much of a game that I loved as a young one with a similar gimmick. The game was Monster Rancher 2 for PS1 where you would put in any discs in your house to create monsters. The game was just so very great.
Monster Rancher was my favorite game back in the late 90s. Best Christmas present I ever got. Even named my old dog after Mooche
@@heavymetalfishingla That's a cool dog name and yes, that game was fantastic. I remember the weekend I first got it, sitting in the living til 3 or 4 in the morning and trying every disc in the house. Great times
@@michaelgirodat1062 Me and my cousins would go through all our music disks and ps1 disks to see what we would get. I never got passed Grade B battling. I think me and the wife might set up and play that once we get burnt out on Stardew Valley
The Jurassic Park for the Genesis is the real OG ! That Game captured the Jurassic Park feeling, the jungle ambiance, the T-rex design was on point and the fact you could play as a raptor was the cherry on top ! So much nostalgia 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼
Man... we need an actual AAA survival horror Jurassic Park, one kinda like Alien Isolation.
Imagine trying to sneak through a building or forest with raptors hunting you and other survivors. Maybe a wandering T-rex is around the open areas. You get tools to distract them, knock them out, and maybe sometimes kill them. Can maybe get them to fight each other while you escape in the confusion. Could be a very difficult but thrilling adventure.
"We recommend the Gameboy Version, as it is easier to drop it into a sewer". Didn't see that coming lol
They should make a Jurassic Park like Alien Isolation. You play as a guy or girl looking for the can Nedry dropped. You have to search the abandoned park trying to survive the dinosaurs and they should make gory like the novel with some scares.
jurassic park: the game already went with the nedry's barbasol plot
however, they are indeed making an alien isolation JP game 😄
Man, I had the Monday work blues and in between meetings I watched/listened to this. I feel a lot better. Thanks for all that you do!
Ok, hands down the JP 3: island Attack rant actually had me howling with laughter 🤣
I loved Chaos Island! When I got my first PC, this was one of the first games I played. I remembered the bonus stage when you control the T-rex in a city devouring humans. Good times!
That about Richard Attenborough being dead and sparing no expense was in poor taste IMO.
Yeah that was really out of pocket.
Lost World: Jurassic Park Arcade Special was also in the states at a few big arcades. I actually have vivid memories of going into the special room and sitting in a themed jeep with my best friend infront of a MASSIVE screen and holding the guns sideways (because you do double damage when you do that, donchaknow...) and screaming things like "BREAK YO SELF!" and "YOU GOT KNOCKED THA F&%K OUT!" while the camera streamed us playing to the TV on the outside of the ride/game. People had so much fun watching us play, we were asked to play again several times so they could get others to watch.
I actually had a lot of fun with Scan Command. You didn't really have to scan barcodes, just anything with lines will eventually work. I remember scanning the arm of my couch constantly to build up power ups.
The best part of a lot of the games you rank is that we get to crack up at your witty sassy and angry humor insulting it now
Warpath was great fun, what are you on about. And Operation Genesis and TLW ps1 should be waaay higher
Some kid in the neighbourhood had the SNES game and I'll never forget seeing it for the first time.
The narration of this channel is awesome 😂
I played the HELL out of my Chaos island as a kid. I would save all the dinosaur eggs till the final level since they carried over and then build a dinosaur army hatching them all on that level. It was so fun XD
Trespasser was such an odd duck of a game. It’s one of the rare games that are more important for what they inspired and what they made possible than what the final product actually was. Look into any of the history of this game, any of the development before the rush, and you’ll see ideas that were started in Trespasser and weren’t properly refined until many years later. The NPC raptor tribes and their politics, Anne’s capabilities, the HUD-less experience, it’s all been part of a much grander scope of what gaming should be. And arguably, the best part of the game is something that really only caught on a decade later, the audio logs (which were going to include both David & Richard Attenborough together before getting cut to Richard alone), which really delve into the history of InGen and Jurassic Park, blending both the novel and the movie.
And honestly, as good as Operation Genesis and Evolution are, I still enjoy Park Builder. As you said, it’s a neat version of a Zoo Tycoon type game, and it’s on GBA. How many good bite-sized Tycoon games are there which remain true to the core concept? I’d imagine it’s not a large number, and the only one I know for a fact is Park Builder.
Outside of those two games, I agree. And regardless of my opinions, I thank you for this list!
I used to have the first SNES game that was mentioned. I had at one point made maps of all the interior areas marking where computers, id cards, ammo, and night vision were found, what areas needed an id card(and whose card was needed in those cases) or night vision, and what computers increased your security clearance. If I had one complaint about it, it would be that you couldn't save your progress to come back later.
I also remember messing around with the web tie in for Jurassic Park the Ride, and the only advice to anyone who manages to find and be able to try it is that if the alert tab next to the map turns yellow then to back out of the area because the raptor that is loose is within 10 M of you, and hope that the same tab doesn't go red because that means that the raptor is within 5 M of your location. If the alert goes red, then good luck not running into the raptor. Other then the advice on avoiding the raptor, check everywhere and everything in any rooms that you visit to find tools you'll need elsewhere.
I grew up playing danger zone on my family’s pc, it was one of the first pc games I played. I remember my dad getting it at staples while my family was getting school supplies.
SNES Jurassic Park should have been higher. It can be a bit frustrating and tedious due to it's complete lack of any kind of map to view, and the lack of a save system, meaning that you have to finish it in one sitting, but once you do know where you're going it actually isn't that bad. It controls reasonably well, looks good, and has a great soundtrack. The first person indoor sections are pretty ropey by modern standards, but they move relatively smoothly and do convey some sense of immersion, which, given the limitations of the hardware, is really rather impressive
His voice changes on whether he is happy with a game or not
Had no idea this could be a list but my god I am glad it is!
Operation Genesis was my childhood...the secondary open island to take photos while getting chased by dinos was awesome. And letting the dinos eat your guests was SICK
5:01 me who loves Jurassic park since age 2 and is very nostalgic from this exact gameplay shown in the video, since i watched it when i was like 5/6
12:59 how could i forget dino defender? Its one of the most nostalgic experience i remembered being is watching gameplay all day of the game, and then pretending i was in it when i got to go to the park in my town.
The original JP on the SNES was immersive survival horror.
I remember me and my sister played Danger Zone pretty much all the time when we were kids. We loved that game.
It may not be a good game, but the music for the SNES Jurassic Park absolutely slaps.
That ocean theme… 👌🏻
Jurassic Park on the mega drive was awesome
I have to strongly disagree on the SNES Jurassic Park (which you put at #27). First, objectively if you look at what it has, it actually works in a LOT of the elements from the book that weren't even mentioned or barely were mentioned in the film. Motion sensors, for instance, play a role, and they figure heavily into Malcolm figuring out in the book that the animals were breeding. You have compies in many parts of the island, which again the film ignores but they ARE in the book - in fact they kill Hammond. The nerve gassing of the raptor nests, also in the game. Raptors on the cargo ship, also in the game. So it's clear that whoever at Ocean made this thing actually DID read the book.
Moreover, it has - I would argue - some of the best music the SNES ever had. I LOVED the scores on this, and still do.
It isn't hyper-repetitive because it breaks itself up into different set pieces - you have the outside map, which can vary from rocky areas to jungles with rivers, coastlines, etc, but you also have stage sets like the raptor pen, the visitor center and the ships to offer different environments to explore - some areas you need to find batteries for the night vision goggles before you can even go in. So it has variety. It has a nice little scare factor to it in the buildings. Suddenly it's like you're in a DOOM game - and it is creepy as a kid. I don't know if you're too young to have been AROUND in 1993, but I was there, and believe me, as a kid, 8 or 9 years old at that time playing that game? That was TERRIFYING. Totally different than looking back on it with 2020s vision. I hated the buildings back then because they scared me. It was always really cool to find a new ID card or get into a computer though.
Oh that's another thing from the book - the computer terminals you hack into always feature fractal designs - another thing taken from the book. Malcolm starts each chapter with a fractal and describes how the system is changing. I think that was a great touch.
I'd put SNES Jurassic Park as one of the BEST to ever be made, actually, on that basis. Most JP games incorporate none of these elements and have no atmosphere. This one did. I think it deserves more respect than that for what they tried to do here.
Now, I have to be fair too and say there ARE two big drawbacks to the SNES version:
1. No save states! You have no idea how many times as a kid back then I tried to beat the thing only to have someone knock into the cord and restart the system when I was making progress. The Jurassic Park classic games collection coming out from LImited Run Games HAS added a save feature so I did pre-order it. I never understood why they couldn't have a save on it - even Super Mario World had the ability to save your game. The motion detectors, I always thought, made perfect natural save points since you have them all over.
2. It's too short. I like a game to take a good long time to beat. Dozens of hours at least.
This movie is about dinosaurs.
Oh, dinosaurs are great.
Yes, they are. So I thought let's make a game about it.
That's a sound business decision.
I want it to be an educational game.
Aren't those boring? Didn't all educational games fail in the past? Are they even games on a technical level?
Yes, yes and I don't know. But this game will be different because "dinosaurs".
Can't argue with that.
As a kid to went to the arcade every weekend to play the Lost World arcade game.
Oh man, I remember my dad and I going absolutely nuts on the Lost World arcade game. We loved it so much. Miss those days.
Honestly trespasser was way beyond its time to even be functional. It’s trying to be like half life 2 running on windows 98.
I'm gonna keep it real with you chief. If you absolutely hate all the jurassic films aside from the first one you really aren't a fan.
Exactly. I can see how people would have favourites, but even the almost universally panned JP3 isn't a BAD film. Saying that TLW was "terrible" at 18:40 genuinely pissed me off lol.
@@alexg1778 it just doesn't make sense to make a jurassic park video if you hate all but 1 movie
@@1218cody Well he made this to be a comedy video to get clicks. He didn't do this for the reviews. I really don't think he even played any of these considering every bit of footage in here is taken from other TH-cam videos. This is satire being passed off as a comprehensive list.
The Lost world 1997 on the Genesis was pretty fun. And you definitely nailed exactly what went wrong, it gets pretty long trying to find something or blowing up a generator.
The ending was a bit underwhelming as well. Still fun the motorcycle scene