I’d imagine most kids have a dinosaur phase of their life. I certainly had my own, with multiple books detailing difficult to pronounce dino’s from various eras that I poured over daily. I would also guess that those early years of fascination likely fades for most, but it’s clear based on the success of the Jurassic Park franchise as a whole that nobody ever truly falls out of love with gigantic bird lizards.
Growing up as a kid/teenager in the 90’s, I was introduced to Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park novel just a bit before the movie was released. Despite the confusing Chaos Theory segments with Ian Malcolm, I absolutely loved it, and was very excited for the upcoming film by the time that first trailer aired. Of course the film ended up being a smash hit, and once again reignited my love for all things dinosaurs. Thankfully video game developers and publishers were at the ready, unleashing a number of Jurassic Park games across multiple 8-bit, 16-bit, and handheld platforms.
From what I played of the games I grew up with, the emulation for these titles feels spot on to what I remember. While there aren’t a lot of bells and whistles here for retro enthusiasts, you do gain the ability to rewind time, save, apply a CRT filter, a border to fill out the edges or play in native resolution. Sadly, there are no bonuses outside of a soundtrack option for each game, allowing you to play through all the tracks for each release. I absolutely adore the music in Jurassic Park SNES, but I’d have loved to see manual scans, box art, and any additional info that could have been dug up on the history of these releases and the people behind them.
Note: Limited Run Games provided us with a Jurassic Park Classic Games Collection Switch code for review purposes.
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