[TAS] Jurassic Park Arcade (2 players) (Sega 1993) 

====Description==== Jurassic Park is a rail shooter arcade game developed and released by Sega in 1994. It is based on the 1993 film of the same name. The game cabinet resembles the rear of the Ford Explorer tour vehicles used in the film. The player, equipped with a joystick, must shoot dinosaurs that appear on-screen throughout the game. The game includes a moving seat,[also used in Sega's 1991 light gun shooter Rail Chase. The seat is powered by hydraulic pistons to move the seat according to action on the screen. The game's graphics blend two-dimensional sprites and three-dimensional polygons to give the sense of movement. Jurassic Park was the first game of this genre to include 3D environments. From Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_Park_(arcade_game)

You know a game is rigged against the player when even the tas cant avoid taking damage

The T-rex sprites are incredibly sinister and unsettling. The artists did a great job.

This game was absolutely terrifying because on top of the unavoidable damage and jumpscares, the arcade version had you sit in a flight sim chair that could tilt along with what the car was doing in the game.

"So how many dinosaurs did you make for your park?" "About 30 thousand."

I remember as a kid I was at the local Chuck E. Cheese [sadly no longer around], and I was raging through the game down to my last coin. Out of nowhere, this other kid jumps in with a whole bag of coins and says "Let's do this!" It was the most 90's thing ever, and thanks to that kid and his seemingly limitless bag we beat the game. I even remember being upset at the developer oversight of giving Dr. Grant black hair, too, heh.

To me, this TAS represents the difference between a good arcade game, and a bad one. (At least for rail shooters.) For comparison, let’s look at the entire House of the Dead series, the time-tested approved way to make an arcade rail shooter. Even since the very first entry, a House of the Dead game is possible to complete with only one credit, and while it may be incredibly difficult, you can even clear the game without taking any damage. The games have an incredibly steep learning curve to them, but with some good aim and a little memorization, you can at least 1cc every single entry, even up to Scarlet Dawn. This game, however, there’s almost no point to practicing your aim. There’s almost no point to memorizing all the obstacles, or where the life power-ups are. The fact is there’s so much unavoidable damage that it’s near impossible to 1cc this game. I have seen it done by a human player, but they had to turn the difficulty down to the lowest setting. Even then, they only *barely* survived. Now, I know that at the end of the day, it’s an arcade game. I get that. I understand that the main job of an arcade machine is to make you pop in as many quarters as possible. What I’m saying is that there’s a difference between the way the HOTD series does this and the way that Jurassic Park does this. HOTD does this by offering difficult but legitimate challenges. Jurassic Park does this by straight up cheating. And that’s not even mentioning the fact that HOTD has had branching paths and secret rooms for score boosting items, also since the very first entry. Excellent TAS regardless, but seriously…what’s the point of starting the game with full health when the T-Rex unavoidably takes a third of that health away?

You know going up the brachiosaur's back at 5:57 looks really impressive for something rendered purely with 2D sprite scaling

Literally unavoidable damage. What a pile. Well done on the TAS, as always.

Gotta love how even the almighty TAS can’t outright obliterate the T-Rex. Still a really nice TAS though, and one I got excited for. Hope to see something similar to this for something like Rail Chase.

Me: What killed the Dinosaurs? TAS (Prog61): I DID!!!

I don't know why, but whenever I would see those two raptors pop onto the screen at 01:18 while playing this game, my mind wanders to them being radio personalities for a moment. "This is Bob and Ted in the morning, coming to you live from the cave!" I had a weird mind as a kid...still do, but not as much lol

I literally still have nightmares from this, this was in my local Chuck E. Cheese up until 2019, with the rocking chairs and how loud my Chuck E. Cheese set the music, I feel like I can’t even sit through this whole play through because I can feel the rocking. Like how hard the machine would rock you when the game would speed up as a poor little kid with the fast music man, I was about to shit my pants 😭😭 my mom was laughing the whole way through

It almost feels illegal for an arcade game from 1993 to look and sound this good. More still, that it never had a proper port to home. Holy heck, man...! Great job on the tas, for sure.

“Oh cool, another tas video. Wonder how easy the game is going to look” *run ends with both tases almost dead * “…that was a tas, right?”

TASさんの手にかかってもダメージ必須なところからどれだけ難しすぎるのかが分かる動画

The return trip to Jurassic Park was a whole lot crazier than they could've ever imagined.

1:55 -- Dude, this moment made me stop the video just so I can comment how bloody funny this situation is! Like, that's seriously how the next part gets started?! Like, what?! But honestly, this looks like a freaking awesome game I wish I'd played back in the day -- even this TAS sucks me into the action of the game, it's almost mesmerizing how much is going on at one time! Those T-Rex fights frighten me, admittedly, because, goddamn, those things look bigger than in the movies! XD Still, thanks for the upload!

This game is really really cool even today. Great visuals, creative use of the dinosaurs, awesome levels. Even now as a grown adult I find myself rather thrilled. Bald as a kid this game was the coolest thing ever. But yeah. It really is designed to snatch quarters from kids huh? Rather cheap. But hey as far as scams go it’s really fun and we’ll designed

The final boss being almost entirely automatic has got to be the biggest con I've ever gone with these arcade machines. Seriously, too many times me and friends felt largely accomplished with beating this game and yet the final boss isnt even a real boss for the majority of it, that's so bizarre.

So many memories playing this game as a kid at Chuck E. Cheese. While the tas proves it to be rigged in terms of lost health and of course the T. Rex boss scenario’s, It was still an experience that had my heart pounding out of fear and thrill. I have come across many arcade shooters that will drain your tokens, play cards, etc. Awesome video, it was extremely satisfying to see the tas in action on this nostalgic Jurassic Park game.

Apparently the start of the second T-Rex encounter actually does damage it's very small but it's rather unique I didn't even notice it existed

Man, I used to play this game all the time with my dad at a Chuck E Cheese, I didnt even remember it being a pixelated game, thats just how good it looks for its time, and even now honestly

Maaaaan this machine is so cool but it feels so gratifying realizing that the game is just actual BS instead of me being bad, lol. Not directly related but I love sharing this story of this game: got to the end with a friend one time and the T-Rex glitched out at the end of the track. Instead of going into the "stop and charge" behavior it still acted as if we were running from it, including it's "corpse" flying off into the horizon despite us sitting still.

"Man it was really nice of John to give us these Mounted A.I powered High Caliber Tranquilizers to help us with this. He really spares no Expense"

The rex at 15:35: "Why didn't... You run... Outta tokens..."

For T-Rex finale, you have to make both players combine powers to him, make sure he glows static yellow than flashing yellow. Static yellow shots will make the T-Rex flinch instead of biting you. In short, you need to tap both players' triggers at the T-Rex's head to make sure he glows or not, when he glows static yellow, keep holding it.

7:32 I MADE IT! AND WITH ONE PIXEL LEFT OF LIFE! THANK YOU JE-

Actually impressed that all the 3D is done entirely via sprites, don't think I've seen that before

Great job as always!

What a bizzarely fantastic looking game. Thanks for this, it was a great watch!

for 1993 this game was awesome af

I didn't know in the final fight, few of the T-Rex health bars drains by itself whether you attack it or not.

Seriously, the set pieces are great! So much effort went into this game, it reminds me of Alien: Resurrection on the PS1 -- a technical marvel masking a purely evil core, dedicated to making your existence as painful as possible, heh! Okay, this game looks easier than Alien: Resurrection (PS1), but I get much the same feeling of technical prowess masking extreme difficulty! Once again, thanks for uploading this and making me aware of such an awesome game now relegated to the emulation era! (Dude, if you know anyone with a working cabinet, let me know -- I'm not looking to buy, I just wanna see it for myself XD )

Jesus this game is intense from the moment you put a coin in!

やっぱり難易度高すぎる… TASさんでもノーダメ無理だし最速・最適の攻撃でもかなりギリギリですね

TAS: I fear no man. but... that thing... T-Rex: **Exists** TAS: It scares me.

Love your vids. Just watched the Zaxxon one again 👍

Holy crap, it's a Super Scaler. Spectacular sprite work.

Thanks for this video that popped up! !! I was wondering what kind of game it was, but I was in trouble because I couldn't find it at all. It was a comical game in which a large number of dinosaurs appeared without hesitation with a strange voice like a Shocker combatant like this.

Boy, this game was a wallet eater back in the day... xD

Wow, I watched it all the way to the end. This game is insane...

I remember Chuck E. Cheese had that arcade game. memories

Oh how I’d love to play this game in person again… I haven’t seen this in ages.

9:10 So Hammond built a wooden log bridge inside of a volcano, and the Raptors still have the audacity to attack the 2 people and their indestructible jeep while jumping over a lava pit while bridge is collapsing? Now that is a level of awesomeness the next movie in the franchise has to measure up to. Also I have to admit, I have never seen anything past Stage 1 when I played this as a child. Thanks for showing me what I missed out on. :-D

Man, I remember playing this at Chuck.E.Cheeses waaay back in the day

Prog61, you are trully pro gamer of this. Salute 👍👍👍👍

This is the first time I saw TAS guy taking damage

It's nice to know that some of the damage is literally unavoidable

I was kinda disappointed when the TAS didn't mow down the entire gally herd. I was really looking forward to seeing that.

Who else remembers this a chuck e cheese

As for Arcade game, developers keep pretty good balance between fun for us and making money for them, LOVE IT

I remember the Pterodactyl horde at 3:48 being impossible even with two players. Of course, the car movement didn't help with accuracy either!

playing this at the arcade was amazing. and the star wars x wing fighter game, time crisis, man i miss arcades

I have never played this at my Chuck E. Cheese but instead I had the Simpsons arcade by Konami and I absolutely loved that one the best! This game looks fun but at the same time intense and I did remember seeing commercials for this at Chuck E. Cheese during Cartoon Network or Nickelodeon. Also fun fact for those of you who likes going to Chuck E. Cheese did you know you can watch the show tapes on RU-vid? (From the late 90s-2000s?)

honestly, dinos doing pikaboo was adorable.

You know what’s funny, on the final phase at 14:46, when I played it at galloping ghosts arcade, I was actually able to interrupt a couple of the T-Rex’s last attacks. I don’t know how though, there might be a setting in the game code that might calculate when an attack gets interrupted. I’m speculating though.

It's been since 2000's when I was a little kid playing this game at Chuck E Cheese's good Times Man 😎👍

6:05 I love how this part of area is synchronised with music sometimes

Welcome to Jurassic Park

Do you know how many quarters I lost playing this at the movie theater? This was ahead of its time.

Okay, after having watched that entire TAS start to finish, the only thing I can honestly say that needed work is the soundtrack -- it's... kinda repetitive, heh! Otherwise, holy shit, this was an awesome ride! Thank you so much for this experience, I'm so glad I got stoned just before watching this, so I could enjoy this so much! Still can't believe this game came out in 1993! Like, Doom 1 and Mortal Kombat 1 both came out that year, how TF did THIS manage to go unnoticed! Once again, thanks a ton!

I was super lucky to get the play this one at the local Chucky Cheese not too long ago. Lots of fun.

Seeing the car as the ride for this rail shooter. That must be one hell or a car.

This would make for one hell of a ride.

Childhood memories unlocked.

I never thought I'd see a Jurassic Park crossover with The Terminator, but here it is.

Literally anything in Jurrasic Park Arcade: *exists* TAS: SO YOU HAVE CHOSEN DEATH

i miss these old school arcade games

pretty bangin soundtrack

I like many remember this game at Chuck E. Cheese. God damn what a trip from the 90s.

you know the most advance thing for this game was the 4D type chair that you sat in and it tipped and tilted to the actual curves in the road/rail that the shooter went and it actually added a level of difficulty to it

This is like every human being alerted to the Terminator and try to kill him and not learning how dangerous he is. "I just saw this thing kill 100s of raptors, I think I can take him."

I don't think I ever saw this game before. It's actually kind of a strange one, but they definitely made good use of sprites.

Dinosaurs sure breed fast.

Of the 30 years ive been alive, never saw the ending to this game, always died during the stampede

Dude, I remember playing this game with a friend, we couldn't make it past the first cave. Granted, we were around 8 at the time, but that doesn't make that opening sequence any less horrible

My gooodddneeessss memory laneeeee

I spent too many quarters trying to beat this damn game! Could never beat it!!

0:22 T-Rex 1 1:15 Area 1 5:03 Area 2 7:31 T-Rex 2 8:35 Area 3 12:04 Area 4 13:23 Twin T-Rexes 15:33 Ending 16:00 Credits

Me encantó la forma en que les dispararon a los pterodactilos

This is like a fever dream

What? Even TAS can't avoid damage? What a hellish game this is! This and Data East's Dragon Gun may mark the start of extremely difficult rail shooters being released in large quantities!

3:18 That spin has more motivation power than the Dead Weight meme of DMC V, luv it.

Man the T-Rexes are unsettling - especially when you see their legs detach from their bodies momentarily.

ahhh good ol' memories

John Hammond: You killed HOW MANY DINOSAURS? Players: They had it coming, they where attacking us.

I remember playing this at Chuck E. Cheese with my dad back in the day. We never got past the triceratops.

*Gunshots powerful enough to blast rocks away* 15:35 "Tranquilisers. Honest."

I was frightened as a kid when going into area 3 of this game, you start going onto a log bridge surrounded by lava and jumping the missing gaps. That's scary.

This Jurassic Park is a lot more dramatic then I remember the movie to be.

Watching this with a newly bought 27 inch screen in full screen mode and 60fps is rather intense. 😂 😎

The only thing i really remember about this game as a kid was that the Rex gnashed his jaws like 10 times per second when you shot him

La musica compuesta en este arcade esta epica.

This used to be my shit back in 1998 at Chucky E Cheese. Man... I wanna see a port of this someday, I remember I could never get passed first area as a kiddo.

this game was the hot steel plate and my brain was the poor flesh branded with its image. in cinema fashion, some time back in the 90s, I could be heard yelling louder than the T-Rex and seen lunging from behind the curtain of the vibrating and moving monstrosity that was this arcade game at Chuck. E Cheese. Any time after that day, I didn’t set foot near that game until my adulthood in recent years, which at that point was much different and didn’t have the moving seat.

Music is so hyped, haha

No dinosaurs were harmed in the making of this game!

Great TAS, terribly difficult game... Honestly sorta wished you shot the triceratops with the color gun that was closest to them... Woulda been a fun touch

I remember this back in wunderland