Jurassic Park is a video game based on the film

Jurassic Park (film)

Jurassic Park is a 1993 American science fiction adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Michael Crichton. It stars Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Martin Ferrero, and Bob Peck...

 and novel of the same name for the Nintendo Entertainment System

Nintendo Entertainment System

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 (NES). The object of the game is to survive in the park where the dinosaur

Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade and superorder Dinosauria. They were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic period until the end of the Cretaceous , when the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of...

s have escaped.

Plot

The player take the role of main character Dr. Alan Grant.

Much like the movie and novel which it is based on, he is trapped on a island that is a dinosaur amusement park. The power has been knocked out and the dinosaurs are roaming free. The player's goal is to protect the parks' owner, John Hammond, grandchildren Lex and Tim and completing a series of missions that will eventually lead to him escaping the island without being eaten.

Gameplay

The game is a top-down shooter.

The player must complete six levels/missions with objectives ranging from rescuing Hammond's grandchildren, destroying Velociraptor nests, turning the power back on and so forth. Each level consists of a varying amount of stages where the player must collect a certain amount of dinosaur eggs and access cards to advance further into the level. He must battle a varying amount dinosaur foes such as the Velociraptor, Dilophosaurus, Compy's and the T.Rex as a end boss of a couple of levels. In order to kill the the common dinosaurs, (not all dinosaurs can be killed by the player, only avoided) he must pick up certain types of ammunition all ranging in firepower. There are also "mystery boxes" scattered throughout the game ranging effects. Some will give him health, temporary invincibility or a free life. However some will end up being a bomb and instantly take half the player's life away. Several levels end with a boss fight where the player either have to rescue the kids from being ran over by stampeding Triceratops or being eaten by the T.Rex. The game gives him three lives and five continues.

The games' ending consists of the player walking around a small stage filled with the game developers names and an exit where the player can end the game.

Missions

• 1. Rescue Tim from Stampeding Triceratops Herd.
• 2. Rescue Lex from T.Rex Paddock
• 3. Restore Power to Jurassic Park
• 4. Destroy Velociraptor Nests
• 5. Radio for Help from Supply Ship
• 6. Get to the Helipad and Defeat T.Rex
• 7. Credits

Music

• The background music on the first level is a cover of Martin Galway
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  's Comic Bakery
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  background theme.

Reception

The game has received mixed to negative reviews. Released late in the NES' life, criticism has been given to it's average graphics, somewhat awkward and boring gameplay and difficulty. Many consider it to another average movie-to-game adaptation.