Jurassic Park (8-bit)

For other games with the same name, see Jurassic Park.

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Master System Game Gear
Jurassic Park
System(s): Sega Master System, Sega Game Gear
Publisher: Sega
Developer: Sega CS
Licensor: Universal City Studios, Amblin Entertainment
Genre: Action
Number of players: 1
Official in-game languages: English English 日本語
Release Date RRP Code EU 1993 9030 PT 1993 PT (Purple) 1996 4,990$4,990 MSJ9030 UK 1993 £29.9929.99 9030 GR 199x AU 199x $79.9579.95 FJUR00SEC BR 199x 028330 JP 1993-07-30 ¥3,8003,800 G-3329 US 1993-08 $39.9939.99 2511 EU 1993 2511 UK 1993-11 £29.9929.99 2511 BR 199x 077050 KR 199x GH93003JG

The 8-bit version of Jurassic Park (ジュラシック・パーク) is an action game comprised of driving/shooting and platforming segments. It was released for the Sega Master System and Sega Game Gear.

Story

On a small island off the coast of Costa Rica, dinosaurs have been brought back to life for the theme park Jurassic Park. However, the fences that keep the creatures in place have lost power. Dr. Alan Grant has been asked to enter the park and tranquilize the dinosaurs so they can be returned to their areas.

Gameplay

Map screen

Pause menu

The first segment of each stage is a shooting segment with Dr. Grant in his Jeep. The Jeep drives automatically, and dinosaurs try to attack the vehicle. The player moves a crosshair around with the D-pad and fires with or . The road has rocks that cause the Jeep to bounce upward, which also causes the crosshair to jump. Some dinosaurs drop items that increase the length of Grant's life meter or restore lost points on his life meter. Shooting the Jeep when it hits a rock gives the player an item that restores one life point. The segment ends with a fight against a larger dinosaur.

The rest of the stage is played as a platform game. Dr. Grant is moved around with and and jumps with in the Master System version or in the Game Gear version. He crouches with and crawls with and . He can cling to ceilings and the bottom of platforms by jumping and pressing and then move along them with and . He can pull himself up a platform when clinging to it this way by pressing with the jump button. He can also drop down from platforms by pressing with the jump button. He enters doorways with .

Grant is equipped with multiple weapons, which are selected by pausing the game with  PAUSE  on the Master System or  START  on the Game Gear. He fires the weapon with on the Master System or on the Game Gear version. He can fire weapons from a crouching position or in midair while jumping. His weapons are a tranquilizer rifle that shoots a tall projectile horizontally, a concussion grenade that shoots at an upward angle and then explodes in the air and hits dinosaurs on the horizontal axis where it explodes, and a fireball grenade that is thrown in an arc and explodes when it hits a dinosaur or the ground.

In both the shooting and platforming sections, Grant's health is indicated by a life meter in the bottom-left of the screen. He loses bars on the meter when he takes damage from dinosaurs or hazards and loses a life when he loses the entire meter. He can restore his life by finding items or by using a First Aid Kit (which can be done through the pause menu, as with changing weapons). If he loses all of his lives, he must use a continue to continue the game. Continues are limited but can be gained by collecting ten Continue Credit items, which are sometimes dropped by dinosaurs when they are defeated.

Items

Shooting

	Extra Life Meter
	Extends Grant's life meter by one bar for the remainder of the stage (including the platforming portion), up to 5 total bars. Must shoot to collect.
	Power Regain
	Regenerates one bar of Grant's life meter. Collected automatically after it is released.

Platforming

	Jurassic Park Orb
	First Aid Kit
	Gives Grant another First Aid Kit, which can be used to fully restore his life meter at any point.
	Power Regain
	Restores 1 bar to Grant's life meter.
	Full Power Regain
	Restores 2 bars to Grant's life meter.
	Continue Credit
	Collect 10 to gain an extra continue.
	Negative Continue Credit
	Subtracts a continue from the player.
	Extra Life
	Gives the player an extra life.

Stages

The first four stages can be played in any order. The player can move the vehicle on the map screen to select any of the four. The player must complete these stages without using a continue in order to unlock the final stage and get the good ending.

	Pteranodon Area
	Brachiosaur Area
	Triceratops Area
	Velociraptor Area
	Tyrannosaurus Area

Versions

The Game Gear version has a completely different sprite from the Master System version for the player character, though the instruction manuals for the game identify the protagonist as Dr. Grant for both versions.

Production credits

• Director: Asohy
• Producer: Jun Tsu Chi
• Chief Programmer: ToToYo
• Programmer: Com Blue, Saku, Ken-San
• Art Work: Ei・Ei・O, Jyouoh A.K.K, Tez・Mania
• Sound Management: Lotty, N.Gee
• Planner: LLG, Suu Sang
• Special Thanks: Hase, James S., Jessy T., Steve B., Kazu

Source:

In-game credits

Magazine articles

Main article: Jurassic Park (8-bit)/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

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Game Gear KR print advert (with Power Strike II)

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Print advert in Beep! MegaDrive (JP) #1993-08: "August 1993" (1993-07-08)

Print advert in Beep! MegaDrive (JP) #1993-09: "September 1993" (1993-08-07)

Physical scans

Master System version

Sega Retro Average
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Publication Version Score Mega Fun (DE) PAL 70 Sega Magazin (DE) 71 Sega Power (UK) PAL 54

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Jurassic Park (8-bit)

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Master System, PT
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Master System, PT (Purple)
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Master System, AU
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Master System, BR
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Game Gear version

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Publication Version Score Beep! MegaDrive (JP) NTSC-J 55 Computer & Video Games (UK) 75 Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) NTSC-U 75 Famitsu (JP) NTSC-J 58 Game Power (IT) PAL 66 GamePro (US) NTSC-U 83 Hippon Super (JP) NTSC-J 30 Joypad (FR) PAL 64 Mega Force (FR) 90 Mega Fun (DE) PAL 70 Megazin (SI) 78 Mean Machines Sega (UK) PAL 35 Player One (FR) 72 Sega Magazin (DE) 71 Sega Power (UK) PAL 25 Sega Force (SE) 74 Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J 68 Sonic the Comic (UK) PAL 70 Todo Sega (ES) 63 Video Games (DE) PAL 58

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Jurassic Park (8-bit)

Game Gear, JP
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Game Gear, US
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Game Gear, EU
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Game Gear, BR
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Game Gear, KR
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Technical information

ROM dump status

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