The 3DO Experience - Episode 31: Jurassic Park Interactive: An Unexpected Gem?

[00:00:00] Have you experienced there was some power of the Panasonic Reo 3DO system?

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[00:00:37] Wikipedia calling it an action game is very pushing it.

[00:00:44] I'm going to leave that in the start.

[00:00:46] Hello everybody and welcome back to the 3DO Experience, the 3DO retrospective podcast where we talk about all things 3DO, 3DO company and the console everything in between.

[00:00:56] I am Bill, this is Thrak. How you doing Thrak?

[00:00:58] I'm doing okay. Doing all right. I've been busy playing a lot of games.

[00:01:04] These game pass drops are going to be the end of me because the last one we had two games came into it that I really wanted to pull out.

[00:01:14] Well three games I think.

[00:01:16] Warhammer Bolt Gunn, which I've been playing a bit of. Still in the first chapter but it's really good.

[00:01:22] Number here is three is on the docket finally. I bought that when it came out and switched back in the day and I was like this doesn't run well and I was not getting good vibes because once we hit like the open world section, I'm like not this again.

[00:01:37] So I kind of bailed which is a shame because I really like number here is one and two.

[00:01:41] But it's on like the Xbox and PlayStation now and I saw it was in game pass and I'm like I need an excuse to play that finally.

[00:01:49] But right now it's kind of a comfort game but I saw a drop into game pass that was like and why not I'll get all the achievements for it. That is a battle for bikini bottom rehydrated.

[00:01:59] That is very good remake.

[00:02:01] I've 100% it the original in the remake together like at least three times. It's just a game I really enjoy playing. It's a comfort food game for me so I was like, why not give me a reason to play it all again.

[00:02:14] I'm already without even trying. Yeah, I have already over half the spatulas and like like and over half of the socks so I'm doing I'm doing all right.

[00:02:27] I probably have to go back in because there's a few socks I missed because there's always a couple that are kind of you know put in weird spots but you know I'll get there.

[00:02:37] The controls are actually the controls for that are actually a lot tighter of the only thing that I prefer the original.

[00:02:44] I like how low deer the original feels in control especially when a SpongeBob you do the double jump and then you would swing the the is I think it's the bubble wand to get a little extra like a lecture distance in your jump whereas in the rehydrate one you don't get that nearly as much you know.

[00:03:05] Like like mechanically I don't like rehydrated as much as the original but it is still solid and even the even if I prefer the original probably just for nostalgia reasons and it's just how I know the game rehydrated is not a bad way to play it at all.

[00:03:20] And I remember when I played it I was like man I really hope this purple lamp gets another shot at this with maybe something a little bit more original and they did with cosmic shake which I really enjoyed.

[00:03:32] I thought it was a lot of fun not a perfect game but it it fixed a lot of the issues that bikini bottom rehydrated had and I came out of it really really enjoying it and now they're doing that epic Mickey rebrush remake remaster thing that's them so like I'm like is purple lamp becoming like one of my favorite studios right now because they're just.

[00:03:54] You know like bringing back games that were all like holy shit they're bringing that back and the one original game they did I quite enjoyed so who knows maybe they'll do epic Mickey three can't be any worse than epic Mickey too.

[00:04:08] Yeah I still can't get over the fact that warns factor fucking worked on those games yeah that is crazy.

[00:04:15] And who knows what the battle for bikini bottom remake happening or happened and with the epic Mickey one happening and with Disney being a little bit more open about remakes from older stuff maybe we'll get the hit and run remake because that's like the one.

[00:04:33] Oh yeah Disney owns them now I forgot about this fox yeah but I know like Simpson's hit run is in a weird spot with with like the rights because it was published originally by the Vendy Universal which the Vendy became Activision I believe radical entertainment made that game.

[00:04:51] So it's rights are probably in a weird spot and if they were to remake it or remaster it or whatever it would probably have to take a lot of figuring it out which is kind of a similar situation to like golden I.

[00:05:06] Yeah but with golden I that was a certified classic that people loved and definitely wanted to come back where Simpson's hit run is more of like cult classic kind of game and I don't know if it would be worth bringing back and and also with golden I it had.

[00:05:21] You know Microsoft and Nintendo involved like two big companies who I think we're willing to work out the details I don't know if Disney wants to work out the details for this I don't suspect it probably yeah that's probably why it'll never happen which is a shame especially.

[00:05:37] Also involved Microsoft's involved goddamn also another thing of with Disney products that have been remastered lately uh they're not looking so great.

[00:05:50] Did you see the Star Wars Battlefront collection apparently is.

[00:05:55] That wasn't Disney that was that's a spy or like a spy or is kind of known for that you know for their like doing the most simple port job of all time wondering why it's such a big file size and then having issues I mean I think this one is more prominent because of the multiplayer aspect you know like say like if you get episode one racer

[00:06:18] right you're like it's just it's just the original game they barely did anything to it but it's fine and it's playable because it's a single player game you don't really think about it.

[00:06:28] But like Battlefront 1 and 2 being like 60 gigs why the fuck is that 60 gigs they didn't add that much to it and with the multiplayer server thing being really rough.

[00:06:39] That's a shame I'll probably get it when it's like at least half the price and they've actually put proper servers into it yeah so I will be too worried about it because I imagine there will be a small group of people who are dedicated to the playing this.

[00:06:54] I think the funniest part of that whole thing was Battlefront 2 was already on the switch and not switched the steam marketplace like the old version and still get it for like half the price.

[00:07:06] Yeah Battlefronts 1 and 2 the originals are on steam and I believe the servers were turned back on for those a couple years ago.

[00:07:15] Yes I played those then online it was awesome and both of those are also backwards compatible on Xbox and I'm not sure if those had servers or not couldn't say.

[00:07:27] So a PS2 copy has that like PlayStation like play online logo in the corner so it probably did at one point.

[00:07:35] Yeah well I didn't know if the servers are turned on for these like if you want to play on your series X there's no.

[00:07:42] I'm not sure on the Xbox side I know the PlayStation 2 games there's no official servers there might be some private servers out there probably no well for the original Xbox versions I think those had the Xbox live thing on them so I'm pretty sure they have online but that was more talking about if you wanted to play about a front one and two online.

[00:08:01] So I'm not sure if it was a series X the original versions before this collection.

[00:08:06] I don't know if it had servers or not no idea so it's a shame to see it go this way and it's causing some people to to start defending the battlefront the EA battlefront games and I'm like calm calm down buddy.

[00:08:21] I remember the releases of those I remember people fucking trashing them and I've played them and they're not they're not terrible games but it's not what I wanted and then it was more like all the loot box stuff that really.

[00:08:34] Yeah that was really putting on yeah so I don't have to just play Star Wars squadrons or or Jedi survivor when that eventually hits game pass which I think it's probably going to be soon I think it'd be in April sometime.

[00:08:49] So I think EA play like for game pass I think those games go in like a year later I think roughly so I played fall in order earlier this year and really loved it so really excited for survivors so hopefully when that drops in I will be playing that probably just stick to a road squadron two.

[00:09:11] Yeah fair enough well I want to try that Star Wars squadrons game that they did the flying game because I've heard it's an interesting game.

[00:09:19] My favorite part about Rogue Squadron 2 was one of the the bonus ships you could use was literally a Buick.

[00:09:26] Oh yeah I remember that I remember that just a Buick and all but also funnily enough with the Rogue Squadron it is part of a weird connection with the game that we're playing today which is the pull I mentioned

[00:09:39] because there is something very specific about this game that I recognized but we'll get to it in time.

[00:09:46] Yeah yeah not though nothing really big I've been kind of I haven't really been doing a lot of gaming I've just been so fucking tired lately like this weekend I finally did my damn taxes so those are done.

[00:09:59] Yeah I got my return not that long ago I need to double check on my local taxes I think I did them but I need to double check just to be on the safe side because my work stopped pulling my local tax so when it's time for that I have to fucking pay which is bullshit.

[00:10:17] Yeah so I smooth states so I kind of got screwed because I had taxes from both states so not the best year for tax returns but for the most part not not the worst I was expecting like bad so yeah the yeah the worst is when it's like oh I don't get a refund I have to pay like the sucks yeah.

[00:10:41] Yeah but other than that though nothing too crazy do you have to finish your persona for replay now I'm like in the middle of it okay yeah I stopped playing it somewhere in the middle as well just again this is so many games and that's how I play persona for a year like I'll jump in do a little bit jump off do something else come back to it later.

[00:11:02] Yeah fair enough and and I have a little I guess I'm working on a little thing for Aaron over at the the super pod so I have to do like a handful of games for him so I'm also working on those on the side so it's a lot that's a lot.

[00:11:19] And then there's also my streams which I forgot to mention last week I guess I'll mention it now which is if you want to watch me play Sega Genesis games every Wednesday night you can tune into twitch.tv slash track 94 and watch me play some Sega Genesis games maybe you can even request some if you want I have a pin tweet on my Twitter if you want to look at it so it's a fun time.

[00:11:44] Yeah I'll throw the link to your YouTube I'll throw the link to your twitch in the description for this episode and all going forward yeah and the streams get archived on YouTube right after so yeah you can find tracks a YouTube channel in the featured channels on the jeans YouTube channels so yeah so if you want to hear me without bill there you go.

[00:12:08] I mean I'll pop in in the chat every now and then that you do that you do.

[00:12:12] But yeah so going into it now we uh this wasn't the original game we plan to do next but we decided as a little filler because this game's pretty simple we were gonna do this one in between our next game and for this episode we're going to be talking about Jurassic Park interactive.

[00:12:31] Look at it look at is it mayor does this whole look like an eye.

[00:12:38] Is it just is it just me because I've always viewed it as like an eye and then like he's smiling you know he's like hey but how you doing you know see like dinosaurs.

[00:12:50] I can't look at the Jurassic Park logo anymore without thinking of Al weird out Yankeviks like Al Paloza album yeah so where you just put his head on the yeah and he's waving and he's parody MacArthur Park of all songs a song that probably nobody thought about it.

[00:13:08] About like after it came out until weird out did the parody of it you know yeah some people call MacArthur Park at like a horrible song I think it's fine I've listed the original it's okay.

[00:13:21] I mean the whole cake in the rain like what's up with that but 60s who cares.

[00:13:26] I enjoyed living in the fridge that was my favorite song from that album.

[00:13:30] I enjoy um what's the Peter Gabriel parody on there.

[00:13:35] I'd have to adapt.

[00:13:37] Yeah yeah I like Alapalooza we could start a whole weird out podcast but like Alapalooza is one of his more forgettable records I think you know it was right after um off the deep and right before bad hair day.

[00:13:54] Yeah right in the middle yeah for for being an album in 1993 like kind of like that peak grunge era he doesn't really do a lot of grunge on here you know.

[00:14:03] Well he made it super big with the smells like Nirvana and then he kind of just dog from there.

[00:14:08] Yeah yeah did Jurassic Park which I mean I think he thought oh like it'd be cool to do some on this like big movie you know and then there's like you doing like AC DC like the album that had bedrock anthem which I think is like one of his.

[00:14:22] Yeah yeah the weird chili peppers parody which I think even Al says is one of his weaker ones and I think I know because please said he didn't care for either he's like he could have done better.

[00:14:32] Yeah because it's really not amazing.

[00:14:34] It's not and then there's like him parodying like achy breaky heart you think would work but again it falls kind of flat I do think Frank's 2000 inch TV is pretty good that's that's kind of a neat track and then the one thing that was waffle king which is him trying to do like sledgehammer right Peter Gabriel which I which I think is kind of cute.

[00:14:56] Harvey the wonder hamster.

[00:14:59] She never told me she was a mime which is that's a great title.

[00:15:04] It's still one of his like lesser albums in my opinion it's like an average album stuck in between two really good albums yeah yeah well off the deep end I don't think it holds up that well I love the UHF soundtrack I listen that's like prime I most played weird album these days like big spots

[00:15:25] wine and Minnesota.

[00:15:27] Hell yeah man love that fucking song his like Rolling Stones polka medley is great let me be your hog generic blues I love she drives like crazy.

[00:15:38] And then the good one.

[00:15:40] Yeah I think it also doesn't help to the after Alpilu he went on this like run of like just a couple really good albums after that.

[00:15:46] Oh yeah bad hair days fantastic I love whenever I call in sick I always think of his song calling in sick.

[00:15:54] Always do love that tune everything you know is wrong which is fan which is phenol love name IP giants his the alternative polka is great.

[00:16:04] And and actually the alternative polka originally had a buddy Holly from wezer in it but the last second wezer like record label pulled it so he had to quickly do an edit to take it out but people but he is uploaded like a rough little bit of that you have to be like oh here's where it would have been.

[00:16:23] And then somebody took that in a stitch it back in so you can now hear with buddy and that's the whenever I listen to it I think of the buddy Holly verse now because it perfectly fits.

[00:16:33] Um gump is great since you've been gone oh my god loves since you've been gone.

[00:16:39] Um and of course the night Santa went crazy fantastic.

[00:16:44] And then he called the phone calls is good that that's a surprisingly good one and then running with scissors dude that is it that's like his best album I think I was about to say that might be that might be because like

[00:16:58] it's weird that like a lot of the parodies on here did not age well no there's so day but they're good tunes you know like like the saga begins the star wars one is weird but

[00:17:09] he wrote that before the movie came out and I guess George Lucas listen to any thought it was the greatest thing ever.

[00:17:14] Yeah and people thought he was like spoiling the movie got mad but he just completely guessed right that's like the best part of it.

[00:17:21] Yeah yeah exactly then I love I love pretty fly for a rabbi love that.

[00:17:27] Oh so Jerry Springer is so badly dated but my god is it catchy?

[00:17:32] It's funny the weird he throws the weird out show theme on here which I like.

[00:17:37] Um germs is okay I think germs could have been better.

[00:17:41] His eye.

[00:17:42] The melody was good oh I love the poll I don't think he has a bad polka medley I think there's a bad one at all.

[00:17:48] Your horoscope for today dude that's the best scott song ever made like bar none there's not a better scott song than your horoscope for today you know.

[00:17:57] And you can't forget Albuquerque.

[00:18:00] Albuquerque's like it's all about the Pentiums that's a great one truck driving song is pretty funny but yeah Albuquerque is fire and that's probably his.

[00:18:11] That's probably his best song ever and and and he said he wrote it just because he wanted to do something fucking stupid he's like everyone's going to hate this like the joke as it goes on too long but then everybody loved it he's like people started requesting it and I'm like shit I have to learn this song now.

[00:18:26] That's like how we put it.

[00:18:29] Um but I love it too because the lyrics in the album he starts writing them out and then halfway through he just says fuck it and just puts a link to a website where you could find the lyrics yeah that's great.

[00:18:40] And then there I think it was live versions either at the time or around the time where he would get to the part where he loses train of thought live and he would say let's just start the song over and they would just restart the song.

[00:18:53] Get to that point again and he'd be like last my train of thought again and would finish the tune so it ended up being like a 20 plus minute.

[00:18:59] Yeah, frog epic or something it's amazing.

[00:19:02] I just love that one last thing before we finally get to our actual topic and we end the weird Alex variance.

[00:19:08] Hey hey hey weird Al is is the man he's the legend he's he is the goat if there is one goat in this entire universe it's weird.

[00:19:18] I just think the greatest thing is the fact that he's had the same band like backing him his entire career.

[00:19:24] They're all incredibly talented they can do so much weird stuff and yeah it's all great and I imagine working for weird Al is amazing.

[00:19:33] I mean like his his drum when he was working you know he doesn't really do anything anymore but he's earned his retirement if he is quote unquote retired I think he's earned it.

[00:19:45] Yeah like his his final album mandatory fun which I'm assuming is his final album the fact that it is the fact that it was a number one I think is like perfectly poetic.

[00:19:56] Well and it was the last album in his contract that he signed all the way back in the 80s it was the end of it was the end of the run.

[00:20:03] So I think he was like he felt that he didn't really need to sign another label like another like recording contract and he saw.

[00:20:13] By like 2014 he's like the old album format I was doing by the time these come out it's like these parodies are probably going to be kind of dated and he always throughout the idea of doing like more timely like singles for stuff.

[00:20:27] And it'd be interesting to see to hear him try to parody stuff going on now but I feel like the industry is like in a weird spot where it like I don't want to say it doesn't need a weird Al but I think the industry isn't a much different place now that it was.

[00:20:42] And maybe weird Al sees his spot as like he's like I don't have to force myself into this instead i'm just going to kind of enjoy the success I've had and just kind of like tour every once in a while and just sort of enjoy in the success and he did that weird like biopic he they finally got it made fake trailer became a real movie and the movie is amazing it's so good.

[00:21:08] Yeah, I think it's still I think it's still free on the Roku channel so if you all haven't watched it you need to it is it's good it's no UHF UHF is a masterpiece but this is pretty good.

[00:21:21] Yeah but yeah so.

[00:21:25] I just want to weird hey I weird Al is one of those things where I'm always prepared to go on a tangent about him.

[00:21:32] He's such an interesting man he really is and he's great and he's great like you know like probably the song of his I listened to all the time is like eBay I listen to eBay for the month.

[00:21:45] I'm just like I can't listen to that song and it's so fucking good.

[00:21:50] Yeah but he's Jurassic Park Interactive.

[00:21:54] Well you're the one who brought it up I know I know that's why I'm trying to get right in the dark all the dinosaurs are running wild someone shut the fence off in the rain.

[00:22:05] I admit it's kind of eerie but it proves my chaos theory and I don't think I'll be coming back again oh no.

[00:22:11] I know my I know my weird Al.

[00:22:14] I love the fact that your box is like all nice and pristine and then mine is like covered in labels and has this big like scratch across it.

[00:22:20] Well when I bought it it actually also came in this like class.

[00:22:25] So whoever had it before me took really good care of it.

[00:22:30] I don't know why but they did because when I bought my 3DO this is one of the first games I bought for it and it was a good price who was in the box so I was like oh why not and I knew about this game you know I guess.

[00:22:44] Like did you know anything about this game before you played I knew about the EVG in episode and that's why I was kind of scared to play this at first because I was like it's going to be terrible.

[00:22:54] It was the same for me that I think it was in that Spielberg games episode he did.

[00:22:58] It was a better stuff.

[00:23:00] I think he might have done a Jurassic Park themed episode.

[00:23:02] It was one of the two like it was either in the Spielberg video which I think is one of his better videos or in like a separate Jurassic Park thing because he talks about like the NES Jurassic Park.

[00:23:13] Which isn't a good game and I think I had the Game Boy version of that back in the day since very familiar to me.

[00:23:20] I grew up on the rampage edition on Sega Genesis that game, which is fantastic and I'll be playing it on the show one of these days.

[00:23:29] And then there was another Jurassic Park there's a lot of Jurassic Park games.

[00:23:34] So it makes it makes sense we would get one for this console but I guess the idea that they had for this was not the same as the other Jurassic Park games that are around at the time because the other ones are more just like oh you're Alan Grant, shoot the dinosaurs and get out alive like fair enough like that's easy to make a game out of you know.

[00:23:41] And what I liked about the Genesis ones you could also play as a Raptor and like Raptor shit which is neat.

[00:23:47] It's much better than the Super Nintendo like smoky bear running around the backyard.

[00:23:52] And they don't like to make a game out of you know and what I liked about the Genesis ones you can also play as a Raptor yeah Raptor shit which which is neat.

[00:24:05] It's much better than the Super Nintendo like smoky bear running around the backyard.

[00:24:10] And then like those weird like first person segments yeah they're just like like like the worst like Wolfenstein clone of all time.

[00:24:20] Yeah you know when you know when it's worse than like Super Noah's Arc 3d that you I like that game.

[00:24:27] Like god damn I think yeah you can buy that game on steam.

[00:24:31] Yeah I bet you can and it's no because I bought it.

[00:24:34] I have it like it's right here in my steam account it's it requires 20 megabytes of space.

[00:24:40] Oh boy yeah the fact I'm just going to download it again real quick.

[00:24:45] But so fun thing to about this case it is one of the two games I own that has one of these weird cardboard.

[00:24:52] Kind of open up cases.

[00:24:54] This is nice though.

[00:24:56] It's very nice it has like that kind of like did your pack feel yeah which is weird yours is your manual on the top.

[00:25:05] No I don't I did not get a manual okay okay yeah my my disk is obviously in the thing behind me but I have mine came with the the nice CD booklet manual.

[00:25:15] Yeah these things suck man they're just so cumbersome to deal with.

[00:25:19] I know.

[00:25:21] When like they're not all the same height no they're not so like the shelf space I have for it like some of them just barely fit some of them I have to kind of squeeze in there it's I'm like man but I'm not adjusting this fucking show.

[00:25:35] So one thing I didn't notice too and I think because the only other game I own that has a case like this is way of the warrior.

[00:25:41] I believe this was custom for universal interactive studios.

[00:25:48] I think you're right hold on.

[00:25:54] Just pulled it out is right here yep universal interactive right there.

[00:25:59] So I was doing a little research I did not know this until we're just like a little while ago but this was actually the first game published by universal.

[00:26:08] I believe that.

[00:26:12] But interestingly enough universal did not make this this was made by 3DO themselves.

[00:26:20] Yes studio 3DO.

[00:26:24] And it makes sense you know because who made those all those other Jurassic Park games I have no idea I guess I've never thought.

[00:26:32] Sega Sega made the Genesis ones I believe well that explains why they're good.

[00:26:38] Because wait oh ocean did the bad did the NES one that's right.

[00:26:44] Kind of fucked it I remember that.

[00:26:48] Yeah this was actually also supposed to be the launch game for the 3DO.

[00:26:52] I could see that because the 3DO came out in 94 right and Jurassic Park came out in 93.

[00:27:03] Is that correct yes I believe so let's see June June of 93 that makes sense because I've heard people say the first Jurassic Park was sort of like the last of like the big blockbusters you know in that like sort of arrow like from like draws to Jurassic Park that sort of arrow blockbusters you know what I mean.

[00:27:22] Yeah I mean the first Jurassic Park game was a really interesting game.

[00:27:28] Yeah so this game itself is really interesting to me because it's kind of one of those games that's kind of hard to explain what kind of game it is.

[00:27:38] It's like a full motion video game combined with like mini game collection.

[00:27:43] It's like they had that they wanted to do something with the hardware you know like they looked at what the NES and the Genesis and the super Nintendo had to offer for Jurassic Park games right.

[00:27:56] And they were sort of more kind of action based games with some platforming or exploration and they're like well we could do something like that but it's already on the other set we want to stand out.

[00:28:05] And they probably looked at the F and V technology and seeing the games other games say taking advantage of like the Sega CD or something and what we could do something like this.

[00:28:16] You know but we have to try to put in some interactivity hence the name Jurassic Park interactive which almost makes it feel like a weird CD ROM program thing you know where it's like you put like a CD into your computer and then they're like oh look at these like stills in behind the scenes clips and like download these wallpaper.

[00:28:35] Or you know that kind of stuff and it just ends up being much like the park itself at the end of the first movie it comes off as a mess.

[00:28:46] Yeah, that being said though I actually found this game surprisingly entertaining.

[00:28:55] Well, I guess where we're going to do it's mildly entertaining like what when I say entertaining I mean it I when I went into this I thought I was going to hate everything.

[00:29:05] I was going to hate everything about this and I actually kind of like some of it.

[00:29:11] There is one thing I don't like there like of the mini games there is one specifically I do not like at all.

[00:29:20] But you know we can go into detail about those in a minute I guess but but yeah it is it I will say this it's better than the AVGN video presents itself.

[00:29:35] So I was expecting this to be like the worst thing I've ever played and yeah it's like when he did the when he was doing the Batman games and talked about Batman forever.

[00:29:45] And it's like yeah that game is garbage but I mean I played that game so much it's like to me it's nothing but there's a lot of things about that game they're just kind of weird it's like why why do they do this you know I just I never thought about it I guess as a kid.

[00:30:00] So yeah.

[00:30:03] So where I want to start with this guy so I guess the best way to explain it is kind of the basic what you do in the game it's it's kind of interesting the way they set it up is.

[00:30:15] It's kind of like the movie where like there's a bunch of people trapped in the park and your goal is you you kind of have this like FMV style like command center screen where you kind of have to pick.

[00:30:28] A number of different mini games will different people trapped in the park there's more depending on the difficulty you select.

[00:30:37] And you basically you select them and when you select them it leads you to a different mini game that you have to complete.

[00:30:45] I believe the whole games under a time limit as well yes.

[00:30:50] Is that change depending on the difficulty I can't remember you get less time and more people the heart of the difficulty.

[00:30:57] Okay because I played it well it's weird it says normal intermediate in advanced yeah which I thought intermediate normal with the same whatever right so I did normal.

[00:31:10] And I think I had like six people I think yeah and they're all like oh we have Lord during at home we have Jeff Goldblum at home we have.

[00:31:20] Yeah Wayne night at home you know or Richard Attenborough like it's all like they found like the best copycat they could find within within like a 50 mile radius of the studio.

[00:31:35] The best to is when you select one of them it plays a little FMV scene of them like in in peril in the forest.

[00:31:44] Yeah the other they're running around in like the woods behind the studio I mean I mean in Jurassic Park yeah and there's never a dinosaur on screen because those are all digitized so they like couldn't do it for the FMV.

[00:31:56] Number one except for one yeah my favorite is like they're just like running through the woods with like there are stuff and it's just like what is happening.

[00:32:06] Yeah and the narrator goes displaying video which can I can I get to my pull real quick since I brought the narrator like you that voice right that voice the narrator has it's a very kind of distinctive voice yeah it's like and I was like I know that voice where the hell if I heard that voice before and I was peeling through the back of my brain and I was like.

[00:32:28] That's the guy in like the Rogue Squadron games that's the narrator there who's like telling you how to play the game and everything I'm like that's the same guy and I'm like the hell is that guy's name and I looked it up and I found him his name is Denny delk.

[00:32:43] Oh Denny delk yeah yes yeah he he's I think he's probably most known for being Murray in monkey island yes and he's but he's also done stuff yeah I did like the Rogue Squadron stuff he did so quite a bit.

[00:32:58] Of other Star Wars stuff I used an agent double who's in 007 agent under fire he's in day of the tentacle fate of Atlantis like he did a lot of Disney Lucas art stuff which makes a lot of sense and I guess maybe that Lucas arts connection is how he got to be in this game I guess.

[00:33:17] And even then he has some like film credits he's in Howard the duck of course he is I guess I mean George Lucas worked on that so yeah I guess he's just one of those Lucas Arts.

[00:33:27] Life are kind of guys even though he's like more freelance and if you get a chance oh his.

[00:33:35] I'll link you his website it is it is a blast from the past that's what I'll say about it it's it's very like wow.

[00:33:47] Oh man I guess going into the mini games now because they're kind of the main.

[00:33:54] Game here some of them are kind of fun others are not.

[00:34:02] It's a weird mix of ideas because you have to set the mini games you have the ones that are being essentially done by like you know Laura Dern or whatever as they're escaping trying to get to the hell of pat I think.

[00:34:16] And then you have the other set that is you trying to gain higher security level access through Dennis Nedry's computer which I can't.

[00:34:28] I guess I didn't get far enough in the game to know did that even like help because I got to security level I got security level five.

[00:34:36] And I would do the fifth mini game there which is essentially asteroids but like a bad version asteroids and it would say like I'll get 20,000 points and I would get like 30,000 plus and we'd die and they'd say sorry try again.

[00:34:49] I was like was it is just because I'm at the max I don't see those ones I was less of a fan of because some of them are just very bizarre.

[00:34:59] They all were just like arcade games there's like space invaders.

[00:35:03] Gallagher asteroids but it was all like bad versions of those game yeah the one that I remember is the one where you're shooting like floppy disks that say dump on them.

[00:35:13] Yeah that's the asteroids one yeah it's like.

[00:35:18] The one I remember is when you're in the car and you're trying to shoot all the the trice air tops you know and if any add and to quote AVGN if you tap the D pad your car just goes flying.

[00:35:29] And then whenever you run into a trice air tops they just go.

[00:35:33] Yeah hell I have a human grunt there are a dinosaur yeah it's weird yeah those are all like super weird but they were super simple.

[00:35:43] You know you can knock them out relative I didn't have an issue getting to 20,000 points on any of them now they were they were like very unoffensive but at the same time they were just kind of like.

[00:35:54] Or man's arcade games basically yeah it felt like it was trying to.

[00:36:00] A piece that oh we have like the whole dentist and a security system thing it's like a computer program would probably want to.

[00:36:10] Like put in some games to play and so he would just make his own version of Gallagher with like tear actles I guess.

[00:36:19] Yeah it's an idea but I don't know if it's a good one.

[00:36:23] Those are the ones that AVGN really focused on during his review because I remember like the whole time I'm like wow this game looks like shit and then oh there's the one that's super glove ball.

[00:36:33] Yeah where it's the egg and you're bouncing like the weird picture of the T racks and like the music is like what the fuck is this see out of the three there the one that I like the most is the T racks that the train the Tyrannis or the ones that grunt I just found that fun the trice air tops trice air tops yet that that was funny well that's my favorite dinosaur.

[00:36:52] So do you have a favorite dinosaur bill.

[00:36:57] I wasn't really a dinosaur kid at back of the day I was I loved him.

[00:37:04] I always liked the Tyrannis or Rex but I think that was mostly because of Final Fantasy 8.

[00:37:10] That's it that's about very you answer Bill.

[00:37:16] I mean you could fight T Rex is in the garden it was fun it was in this weeb games I like this one yeah.

[00:37:23] I know I made you sound like that I'm sorry.

[00:37:27] But really the core mini games are the ones where you're trying to escape through the park and there are five remember correctly there's three of them yes there's the zapper one where you zap the spitters.

[00:37:42] And when you kill them they make the greatest they basically like they go like and they fly off screen it's great yeah which is really funny because when I first played this forever ago I didn't know what I was doing wrong.

[00:37:54] Because the game does not do a good job explaining anything to you about this.

[00:38:00] It says like it just says like oh you got to protect yourself from the spitters or whatever and I'm like but what are the controls what am I doing in the manual like the manual actually gives you like a decent.

[00:38:11] Instructions on how to do the stuff but.

[00:38:14] But you know us were modern gamers we don't need instruction manuals that tells us everything I mean what I know like the manual so handy.

[00:38:23] It's like opening up a PS5 case anyway.

[00:38:28] Yeah like the spitter shoot like here it actually like tells you what to do.

[00:38:32] It gives you all the controls and everything and once I figured out you could charge the gun yeah it was a breeze like no problem I never died.

[00:38:42] Though I don't know if you can hide from the spitshots I have no idea I tried there was like really nothing you could do I did like the effect though that every time you got hit the screen got a little darker.

[00:38:53] That was neat that was a neat little effect but and what I did was I basically just held our so I was just slowly drifting to the right and then I would just kind of move and charge shoot when I could.

[00:39:03] Kind of thing so yeah that one wasn't too bad the other one is the what the T Rex chase yeah the T Rex chase with the most stupid driving controls that they have ever seen in a video game.

[00:39:15] Yeah those are so.

[00:39:17] So you steer with R and L.

[00:39:20] And you hold up to drive forward yeah I have many issues with that setup.

[00:39:29] I'm sorry about the say I have many thoughts and none of them are good well in that too.

[00:39:35] I was just like because like it makes no sense like you'll be driving and you you swear you turned around something and then you'll just hit it and the car was.

[00:39:42] Yeah yeah because like the road is wide right and then you'll see like a little car or little pile of bones and you're like oh let me get over and you think you're over enough.

[00:39:53] Boom you're like the fuck and then like the turns are so sharp.

[00:39:58] You know you feel like but you can't really veer off road like not at all and the only thing you're trying to do is escape the T Rex it's that famous scene from the movie where they're driving in the T Rex and even on the side view mirror they have the objects of mirror close to them the appearance that little little notice which is which is nice but

[00:40:19] unless you have no idea what you're doing in this part you'll be just fine I think I got caught by him once.

[00:40:26] So I never did I like somehow like he just never got closer I think it's because I accept because there's an accelerator to it that like makes you move at fucking light speed.

[00:40:37] Oh I didn't know that yeah there's an acceleration button your car basically the only the screen doesn't change at all but the mirror does and you just see the T Rex in the background just go.

[00:40:47] Like crazy like that like I had one point where I was hitting stuff like crazy and I thought he was going to get me and looking at the mirror he's like he was like really close and then like a split second later he went back you know

[00:41:01] nothing changed he just got kind of glitch back and I was like okay does I like hit a point in a return or something I have no idea so I again it wasn't an issue.

[00:41:12] I got caught once just because I want to see what the death animation looked like because this game has some very interesting death animations which if you were a child that had like a fear of dinosaurs as a kid oh this game would terrify you.

[00:41:27] Yeah like the one I'm thinking of it's in the it's in the last mini game that one is kind of freaky that that whole mini game is kind of freaky honestly yes yes we'll get down I did I didn't know there was a crazy accelerate button I had no idea.

[00:41:41] Like there's a button to move the mirror which yeah that was I will say my favorite part of that mini game though is when you complete it you just get a little cutscene of the Jeep flying off the screen and you just it just goes like yeah.

[00:41:56] It's like and it was every character to the he is like it would have made sense for us just like gold bloom or whatever but no is everybody like even Alan Grant.

[00:42:05] Yeah which the guy they got for Alan Grant looks nothing like same Neil like nothing like them not even close like at least for the other ones they tried to do him up to look similar you know if you were squinting and you had your head tilts to the side and looked at him like 500 feet away maybe but here night yeah.

[00:42:24] So the final mini game this one legitimately is I think the best one in terms of design and what it does but also like the most fucking the one I dreaded doing is a fucking it is legitimately kind of creepy.

[00:42:38] The raptor maze I fucking hated this may so much so it to me was the most effective wanted actually being kind of like terrifying and like hence what oh my god I hated doing it.

[00:42:51] Oh it does its job but I think it suffers from just like like terrible control not having any real decent way to defend yourself and the game not giving you enough ways of being able to protect yourself to even make any progress.

[00:43:09] And it's just like and it's just completely confusing you know it's yeah it feels like it's the most involved like the one they spent the most time on but like I'd rather play plum the depths.

[00:43:25] Yeah yeah honestly freaking the glorified menu yeah I mean there's equally terrifying things in both so.

[00:43:35] Yeah but for different reasons yeah and the raptor that's basically the raptor maze is you are like in a building and you're trying to escape and you're trying to get all the keys to get out like there's like five of them or whatever all while you have a raptor chasing I think it's just one.

[00:43:54] And the game says oh you can trap them I have no idea how you would trap yeah I try literally have good.

[00:44:01] Yeah like the gate like you don't get enough.

[00:44:04] Like draw distance from the raptor you never have a good sense of geometry in this whole area like where you are.

[00:44:11] You know like the game doesn't give you a map of like any sort so you just kind of have to memorize the patterns and basically it's like it's one big hall with like the doors on the side at the very end is the door to get out.

[00:44:24] Right and you have to run into each one to grab the key and then get the and get out to go the next one right so the first one is super easy just go into one.

[00:44:34] Grab the key and just get out immediately but then the second one is its own maze in and of itself with all these like random doors and everything and because of how it's set up you don't really get any chance to learn these layouts you can't learn where anything is.

[00:44:50] Really outside of the first one like as soon as you walk in there's the key you go.

[00:44:54] But the raptor just like comes up to you like really fucking quick yeah you know like you'll hear the steps but that's all you have.

[00:45:02] You know there's no like real volume differentiation as far as I can tell.

[00:45:07] Yeah and it's a very realistic sprite wall for realistic based on what perception was at the time I don't think it's a sprite I think it's they got a dude in a fucking velociraptor like.

[00:45:19] Rubber suit looks like digitized that's what it looks like to me it literally looks like they got like a really nice rubber suit of a raptor I don't think they use those in the movie I could be wrong on Jurassic parks.

[00:45:33] I know the special effects and Jurassic Park or like a mixture of like really good CG and animatronics but I don't know if for the raptors if they ever used like people in rubber suits or anything like that like Godzilla style.

[00:45:47] But that's what this looks like to me like I can almost picture the dudes head in the neck because there's a little screenshot of him right there like it almost like to me like right.

[00:45:59] He should I can't do this like right here it almost looks like that's the dude's chin like where the atoms apple would be you know what I mean yeah which I think it's funny because I thought the raptors in the movie were female but whatever.

[00:46:12] In any case what's funny is all three of these mini games have a jump scare kind of thing whenever you get caught the spitter one is the spitter ones kind of lame they did the spitter just pops up on screen and sprays you again it's like yeah that's literally what they did during the mini game.

[00:46:29] It's like it's trying to recreate that bit in the movie when the spitter like gets in the van with Dennis and everything and that's seen as still like terrifying like they did a really good job of making that scary.

[00:46:41] Yeah here it just doesn't come anywhere close to that the T Rex one isn't really scary just because of how much you have to try to get caught by the damn thing yeah that many games so easy.

[00:46:54] That yeah you're never going to see it unless you're intentionally losing it or if you're just like that incompetent and even then like the jump scare itself is just kind of like it's D Rex.

[00:47:04] Yeah and then the raptor one is it's good like but you see it all the time and it literally looks like because when you see him on the map that's the that's the jump scare by the way if anyone's basically basically like it's that digitized.

[00:47:20] Sprite basically when you're in the maze it's just like doing the walk cycle right and then when it catches you it's like in the middle of the walk cycle it just goes back and then the camera just zooms in on it really quickly and it's a complete black background and everything my favorite part though is because the 3DO wasn't the best at loading at times when it catches you there's a brief pause.

[00:47:42] It's like it's like every time it's you kind of like waiting for and then it gets you're like good.

[00:47:50] And the worst is whenever I would do the maze and I feel like I was starting to make some progress it would like sneak up behind me I just be pissed like.

[00:48:00] See the behind the behind ones are worse because the system still pauses but like you're like what is it stuttering and then you can jump scare and you're like oh.

[00:48:09] Yeah yeah see I would love to play the mazes if there was like a way through like a cheat device or like a hack or something to just get rid of the raptor and just let me kind of explore.

[00:48:21] These mazes just so I could like get a feel for them I would love to try that because I'm just curious to these layouts and I'm sure there's videos online of people doing them no problem because of course there are like every game every game has like that one fucking weirdo who masters it and I'm sure there's one for this.

[00:48:38] And if you're watching hi how are you like but I couldn't imagine having the patience to deal with the mazes because yeah they are kind of like creepy but with like any sort of creepy thing if it keeps happening too much you just get to sensitize to it and then you're like this is a game I'm trying to figure out these mazes and I just can't get there unless unless there is some weird trick that we don't know how to get how to do that be amazing but I have no idea.

[00:49:07] Yeah it was really one of those things where I was kind of like this I feel like would be a really good idea if they fleshed it out more and actually like properly like I feel like there is like a lot of ideas in this game that were thrown it was kind of like they took the dark board they just kind of threw at it and saw to see what would stick.

[00:49:28] Yeah nothing is fleshed out but there's so much potential hidden in here which I think is the reason why it's kind of a annoying kind of game to play.

[00:49:39] It's a game that feels like they were more focused on the ambitions of the console then making a cohesive product for people and that they thought oh it'll have that logo on it so people will go out of their way to check it out

[00:49:57] and I'm sure there were but at the end of the day it just like I'm sure there are competent developers behind it like despite like some of the weirdness in the controls for certain things none of it ever felt like bad or unusable you know like it runs fairly decently.

[00:50:17] The graphical style is okay I guess like for 90s FMV game it's not bad.

[00:50:24] I've played for worse I think you have as well and yeah there's definitely something here but maybe it was just they didn't really have the right tech or just the right sort of game knowledge design knowledge to really make it work you know what I mean they're not Sega cranking out those really great Genesis Jurassic Park games so.

[00:50:46] Yeah this you can tell this was definitely one of the first in house games 3DO made which I have a weird suspicion like they didn't even want to publish this one because they weren't feeling it so they farmed it out to universal also.

[00:50:59] Well and the Jurassic Park license to but that's what i'm thinking I'm thinking it was like universal loan Jurassic Park so they wanted to you know be attached to this because I'm pretty sure they.

[00:51:11] They licensed the IP out to say ocean and Sega to make those games.

[00:51:16] And then those i'm pretty sure sold really well at the time because you know Jurassic Park was a huge juggernaut I think we're both too young to to really know so I think we're born after the movies came out or the first movie came out yeah but but I remember watching Jurassic Park like quite a few years later when I was still kind of relatively on the younger side it was always.

[00:51:39] On TV back then yeah which is crazy to think because that is a violent movie that's like that's a movie that you're like if they release that today it's like a PG people get pissed.

[00:51:51] Yeah that was always funny because like I when I when I first discovered like got my own.

[00:51:57] I'm going to date myself here got my own VHS player back in the day nice i was going through my parents had the VHS collection and they were like aren't you can't watch any of these ones.

[00:52:08] But these are fine to watch so I in there was Jurassic Park and I was like who can I watch this and they were like sure and oh my god it traumatized me as a kid.

[00:52:17] Yeah that's that's weird because also like I think it was famously the gremlins when that came out in the 80s like a lot of parents for pissed because they took their kids to see it's I think it was rated like PG.

[00:52:29] I think that was before PG 13 was a rating and like a lot of kids a lot of parents are pissed because gremlins the first gremlins is pretty that's some pretty gruesome shit in it.

[00:52:40] Yeah.

[00:52:41] At least for what it is and I think the sequel gremlins to makes fun of that but I'm pretty sure Jurassic Park was PG 13.

[00:52:48] I think it was because I remember like I they kind of split all the movies but from like PG and then like R and stuff and they were like you can watch any of these.

[00:52:57] Yeah because PG 13 was put in I think sometime in the 80s is when the PG 13 label so I think it was originally just g PG and R that was it.

[00:53:07] And then they had X was its own thing yeah and then they had to add the PG 13 because there were these movies like because Jurassic Park I wouldn't say isn't R like it's not that bad but it's definitely more in the PG like there's not a lot of like swearing or anything in that or anything like there no like sexual stuff but it is a fairly gruesome.

[00:53:26] Movie and I always love the part where like Luridern is trying to escape from that one dinosaur and then like that the arm plops on her shoulder you know that she's like that dude and it's just his dismembered arm like you can almost see like the prop hand guy like in the shadow just like plopping it on her shoulder now as that.

[00:53:46] Yeah yeah that got us though I just find it funny that that was only PG but then like anime films like Akira were like explicitly like listed as R but they were still putting the kid section anyways.

[00:54:00] Yeah people just didn't know back then let's see what it was rated PG 13 at the time that makes sense okay intense side science fiction terror.

[00:54:11] Yeah that's about it yeah that's about right you know I haven't watched Jurassic Park in a long time but for my memory of the first one it still a great film it holds up.

[00:54:23] I have yet to see like a YouTube video saying all this is like overrated and not that great I have yet to see one of those for this movie you know I think people are overall like yeah that was that's that's a good one that's a fun time.

[00:54:36] I've never seen hate for the original Jurassic Park I've seen a lot of hate for the recent releases.

[00:54:42] Well I think even the lost world people aren't too high on I'm not too high on lost world either I think it's just it's too long and it just it's pacing is just kind of rough like there are some high spots like I love the part where at the very end when the T-Rex goes to San Diego like you like sneaks aboard the ship and everything and the Japanese tourists are like running away saying I left Japan to get away from this you know that was always really funny.

[00:55:05] Yeah it was like right before that horrible Godzilla movie around the year the 2014 one no no the one from 98.

[00:55:14] Oh yeah yeah no the Godzilla from 2014 is really good I mean it's better than 98 one but yeah I remember like seeing lost world is just like as kind of whatever you know like that opening scene I thought was interesting.

[00:55:30] Jurassic Park 3 I will always defend that movie. I really like Jurassic Park 3 I wouldn't say it's a great film but it's like 90 minutes you're in and out it has like it brings back same neo which is cool it has William H. Macy in it of all people.

[00:55:45] I think it was the first time I ever saw him in a film and he was great and I enjoy that one for what it is you know like the heavy use of like the Spinosaurus and all that other stuff you know but that's a fine one and then yeah Jurassic World I saw that in theaters I think and it was alright.

[00:56:02] It was alright it was what you expected when it came to bringing back Jurassic Park you know too much Chris Pratt not enough dinosaurs but whatever and then fallen kingdom.

[00:56:14] Fallen kingdom was a complete if that's the one I'm thinking of is that the one that's complete dumpster fire I think it is or is it no no dominion dominions the complete dumpster fire.

[00:56:27] Gotcha because that's the one that brings everybody back everybody.

[00:56:32] Samuel or during Jeff Goldblum all them and it's awful.

[00:56:37] Oh boy yeah don't watch it unless unless you're curious.

[00:56:45] So there's not much left to say about the game itself in terms of gameplay I'm assuming you didn't finish this one.

[00:56:54] Well I got one of the characters to the hell I was able to get Lord her to the hell pad no problem because I was trying my best to avoid the raptor maze because I just every time I got there I was like I'm gonna fail this.

[00:57:08] Because you just get no time to really like every time I fucked up it just felt like the game was just punishing me for not knowing like a perfect clean run of it you know what I mean.

[00:57:18] Like everything else is so easy that this is like the one that's like ridiculously hard and it feels like it's unfair genuinely so with Laura I got lucky and kind of snuck through.

[00:57:29] And with everybody else I was trying my best but everybody else died in a raptor maze so the game.

[00:57:36] I got a score I think the game scores you at the end right for how many people you save or whatever and I did not get a really high score because I only got one person saved.

[00:57:47] So I just thought about this we didn't explain this the map screen where you pick your mini games essentially yes yes.

[00:57:55] The way it kind of works is there's the helipad at the bottom and you have to basically every time you complete a mini game they kind of move closer to it.

[00:58:04] Essentially you kind of have to keep doing mini games until you get them all there without them dying so it's kind of like it doesn't really the game does not explain this very well.

[00:58:15] So you just keep doing the mini games with the different characters until they get to the until they get to the helipad and that's kind of how you win.

[00:58:24] Exactly exactly.

[00:58:27] Because also the game wants you to like when you get somebody to the helipad also like call for the helicopter or something like it makes a reference to that.

[00:58:37] And I'm like looking through the manual and everything and I'm like where the hell are you supposed to do that even idea.

[00:58:43] Oh the power to call back the cargo ship that's in the engineering button I guess I don't know.

[00:58:52] The game is also like really obtuse because it has all these different like like it's like a mini game collection but also it's like has like survival mechanics and like also kind of like strategy stuff where you have to sort of divide your attention and all these like different areas and the manual says like as the time get.

[00:59:10] Ticks down the challenges get harder and harder so they like don't spend all your time in the computer getting the security links up because when you get to the mini games they might be too hard to do.

[00:59:20] I mean that may explain why the Raptor is super hard I don't know but it I don't know man.

[00:59:28] Yeah it's like there was a lot of good ideas here just nothing was really well executed.

[00:59:35] Yes exactly to it's not exactly one big pile of shit to coach Eiffelblum it's not exactly that but it is it is a disappointment.

[00:59:48] Yeah it's like there's a gem here but it's just covered in so much crap that you just you can't get to the actual gem inside exactly it felt like they were trying to cover as much ground as they could with like the movie references.

[01:00:04] But it just it's not enough you know it's like it's too unfocused in what it wants to be there were entertaining moments like I still got a kick out of the freaking.

[01:00:18] Some of the computer like arcade mini games and then the.

[01:00:23] The T-Rex chase as much as I did not like the controls I still got a laugh out of it every time it popped up just just the lyrics in the mirror is just funny to me like how he just can't seem to ever get you.

[01:00:33] Yeah and it's an into nice call back to an iconic scene in the original film.

[01:00:39] That in the the spinner is getting flung off the screen with the electric thing that was always kind of entertaining.

[01:00:45] Oh yeah that was good too.

[01:00:47] It's sad that the most ambitious part of this game to me is arguably the worst part of it just from a inherent design standpoint.

[01:00:58] Yeah exactly it's.

[01:01:01] It's a shame you're really is this might be a stretch but you know what the raptor mini game kind of reminds me of what's that it is an incredibly bare bones basic alien isolation.

[01:01:17] I feel like that's really doing alien isolation a disservice but I know what you mean.

[01:01:23] Like I'm saying like if you took like if you stripped everything from alien isolation that made it amazing and you took the basic core idea of that game that's kind of what the raptor game is.

[01:01:35] Yeah yeah but thankfully that reminded me because I was in my head I was like for years I've always said the Jurassic Park game we need is like a survival horror game where you are trapped on the island with all these fucking dinosaurs around you're trying to escape.

[01:01:51] But it's like you know you're just kind of sneak around doing like stealthy survival or he kind of stuff you know like like a like a dino crisis that's not.

[01:02:01] Dino crisis you know and then I and then I was reminded it was I think it was late last year might even been at the game awards they announced that game finally Jurassic Park survival.

[01:02:13] It's being done by Saber and I know Saber is going through some changes at the moment but I imagine this game is probably still going to be doing just fine.

[01:02:21] And yeah they said it's it's set one day after the first the events of the first film you assume the role of a young in Gen scientist who was left behind on Eastland new bar.

[01:02:31] And it's in the first person perspective and you have to explore the island and avoiding its numerous dinosaurs who exhibit distinct and adaptive behavior player can outsmart the dinosaurs was stealth emphasized over combat.

[01:02:42] Like a survival horror Jurassic Park game that's if Saber can pull that off I think that game is going to be fucking amazing.

[01:02:51] Honestly like a concept like that should work it's just yeah like it's something that I think people have been clamoring for for a long time like it makes so much sense to make like a like a stealthy survival or Jurassic Park game makes so much sense you know because outside of that like I did praise the ones made by Sega on the on the Genesis I think those ones are pretty solid.

[01:03:16] There's a couple of PlayStation that are okay.

[01:03:19] I haven't played any of those I have one for like Game Boy Advance DNA factor I think in or or Island attack or one of those games from like Jurassic Park 3 that's not any good.

[01:03:30] There's like the Jurassic World evolution like the like the theme park builders for Jurassic Park which is cool.

[01:03:37] You know those are those are good if you have like a like an itch you need to scratch for that kind of stuff those games are perfect for that.

[01:03:46] But but those like they have the Jurassic Park name on them which is nice, but they don't feel like Jurassic Park games you know what I mean or even Jurassic World.

[01:03:57] Because you expect those to be more you know kind of like you know horror based or something whereas those are like all you're just taking care of the it's like frontier developments just like making a real costume tycoon but with dinosaurs.

[01:04:09] Dinosaurs yeah which which is a good idea they're doing what they do best and making simulators exactly exactly I love to see them make like some crazy RPG or something.

[01:04:22] That'd be fun.

[01:04:25] So just some final housekeeping this game does feature a lot of saving no memory manager so yeah.

[01:04:36] It's weird it has the saving because as far as I know it's like it gives you 24 minutes to do everything yes so I imagine if you're trying to sit down and play this game you might as well.

[01:04:47] Like deal with the 24 minutes or whatever it takes to get through it you know because yeah it's also fairly short so I imagine if you know how to do this if you know how to beat this game it probably wouldn't take you that long.

[01:05:00] I feel like this is a speedrunning game something like someone speed runs this not sure who has to be.

[01:05:08] As for reception it was very mixed.

[01:05:13] EGM gave it a 7.75 out of 10 so I guess they kind of liked it.

[01:05:20] Sure and then they later gave it a 9 out of 10 in the 1995 video buyers guide okay GM whatever.

[01:05:30] Did they still exist.

[01:05:33] That's good question.

[01:05:36] Yeah well I'll be going on no never mind their final issue was 2014 now okay that was a long time ago yeah and checking speed runs for Jurassic Park interactive there are three.

[01:05:51] Runs one was two years ago one was four years ago and the other was two months ago.

[01:05:58] I cannot pronounce this name I apologize exterior.

[01:06:05] I'm sorry it just looked weird to me sorry exterior Emma currently she has the record in Jurassic Park interactive at 41 minutes and 35 seconds.

[01:06:15] And you know what I may watch this because I need to see how you beat this fucking raptorship I need to know.

[01:06:23] And so if somehow exterior Emma finds this shout out to you and I think your avatar is I believe that's a reference to a Marillion album.

[01:06:36] Yeah I'm pulling Marillion out of my ass.

[01:06:41] So if anyone in our audience knows who Marillion is I'll be very fascinated and our and our canofobia from like 2001.

[01:06:50] Like the cover is like all these weird looking things or whatever here here I'll send the link to bill so he knows what the hell I'm talking about.

[01:07:00] Sound though if you know who Marillion are I know Marillion just not a huge listener.

[01:07:05] Yeah this is like deep in the hogarth era so this is like well like like we're not doing fish here.

[01:07:10] Yeah game pro game reviewed the game and asserted that the music was the only good aspect of it.

[01:07:18] I'm paying attention to the music yeah they also complained about the loading times and I didn't really think they were that long so.

[01:07:26] This could just be me but like going back to like these 3DO games and even some like 360 stuff I'm like loading on these things wasn't that bad.

[01:07:36] Yeah like when I think we just want like I feel loading times on the switcher worse.

[01:07:41] I don't know could just be me like to me like the worst loading times in a game I can think of are like sonico six is still pretty bad not for the load times those are bad.

[01:07:54] It's not even just how that helped that they're long it's more that like they just appear everywhere and well yeah the game is not well optimized.

[01:08:04] That's why you have all this crazy load times for just nothing.

[01:08:08] Entertainment Weekly reviewed this and they gave it a D called it one giant stab of slab of Prius store cheese.

[01:08:17] Good good I guess.

[01:08:20] Cheese is an interesting choice.

[01:08:23] Yeah.

[01:08:26] The first word called it the most they wired wrote the most exciting flick of 1993 has been turned into a bunch of extremely dull arcade sequences linked together by silly foam motion video clips of people running through jungle scenery.

[01:08:44] Was that at the time?

[01:08:46] Yeah that was okay when this came out.

[01:08:51] Fuck wired's been around that long yeah from 1994.

[01:08:56] First 1994 edge magazine called the game a decidedly average mixture of outrun off to Wolf and doom.

[01:09:06] That's giving this game way too much credit comparing it to all those games.

[01:09:11] I run a game got more seven out of tens than anything which I find I'm using it must have it must have been the standards were different back then yeah I mean it's not the worst thing ever but it's not.

[01:09:24] Great either that's the thing yeah like it exists that's all that's only that yeah retrospective reviews have been much harder basically referring to it as just like a mess or poorly designed or.

[01:09:39] Yeah I've been playing oh I found that wired article where it's like the like like silly full motion video clips like that's the first paragraph and at the end of it there's a paragraph saying.

[01:09:51] Like remember 10 years ago when it took only three or four programmers to turn a great movie into a terrible game.

[01:09:59] Yeah I appreciate that this game had ten people working on it.

[01:10:06] This it's a sure it's a sure thing I'm and up reading this because I'm kind of curious about it.

[01:10:14] Other than that though there's not much else to say so I guess we can transfer over to a must play okay stay away.

[01:10:22] Where do you think this ranks in the pantheon of Jurassic Park games I don't think either of us are experts in this field so I don't know if we can save for certain so I know a lot would probably say it's near the bottom.

[01:10:36] I wouldn't play this over the Genesis games I would play this over smokey bear simulator though.

[01:10:44] Those are like that one is at the very least it's kind of interesting yeah you know like it's a big collect the phone like why am I collecting eggs.

[01:10:54] Like there's a lot of weird stuff there but at the end of the day it is like a game and you can kind of like figure out these days play on emulator with safe states and just you could figure it out it's giant maze and I don't hate that per se but I'd rather just play the Genesis games.

[01:11:12] Yeah I mean even those aren't the greatest games ever made but I mean at least it's fun yeah I really enjoy those games I have I very fun memories of rampage edition and at the very end of the game when you're on like the raft trying to escape the giant t rex head.

[01:11:28] You know you're trying to shoot it while you're escaping through the waterfalls and all that is such a cool visual especially for that for that era you know what I mean hell I may play this game on stream tomorrow to prove it but I don't know.

[01:11:40] And then whenever the t rex like eats you and like grants legs are just kind of flying out of his mouth whatever like that's such a good visual like there's a lot of cool design elements with those games you know.

[01:11:51] Yeah this game this is a tough one for me because I don't want to say stay away just because I feel like there is things in here that should be experienced.

[01:12:03] I'm just going to say stay away okay I don't think this game is worth your time it's really not sure it has some interesting ideas in there for sure but am I going to recommend people play this no no don't bother that's why I don't really want to recommend it but I also don't want to like say it's outright not a good game.

[01:12:26] We've played worse on this show yeah but but putting it in the stay away like putting it in that column to me feels right we can play at the top of that column like the best of the stay a ways if you want for me it's the best of those but I still like am I ever going to play this again after this no.

[01:12:46] No no like I don't I am either um.

[01:12:52] Yeah because it's not really okay either like it's it's better as a game quote unquote then say a plumbers don't wear ties but it's not nearly as memorable as that no yeah okay i'm going to say stay away at most watch a video on it.

[01:13:15] Maybe stay away with a question mark.

[01:13:17] Yeah i'm going to kind of say that and give you a question mark at me an exclamation point yeah that'll work yeah don't go out there.

[01:13:27] I was going to say like in the title for this episode I was confused on what the think of it because I was like yeah is it a hidden gem with a question mark and I was just like yeah.

[01:13:38] You're hopeful you're hopeful it is you know like you I think it's a game we that you play and you're like I want to like this.

[01:13:46] You know I want to try to like meet this game halfway and appreciate it but I feel like the game doesn't do enough to really.

[01:13:53] Give you that sort of feedback you know like respecting your wanting this to appreciate it you know what I mean.

[01:14:00] See I kind of came into it with like an opposite approach where I came into a thinking like I was going to hate this and then I kind of came out thinking like you know it wasn't as bad as I thought but it's still not very good.

[01:14:12] Yeah like when I played it for the first time and I got my 3DO it like any knowledge I had was the AVGN video and then being and then.

[01:14:21] Trying to play it I was like I'm not quite sure what's going on and so I'm trying to figure it out.

[01:14:27] And as I'm figuring out it's like okay I'm starting to get a hang of it but like is this any good not really and then playing it again to catch up to remind myself at least for the show.

[01:14:39] Again it's one of those like what do I don't.

[01:14:44] Like it's something here I want to like I like Jurassic Park I want to like this but it just doesn't.

[01:14:50] It doesn't work for me like this could have just been like a really well made like science grower action platformer and I think it would have been genuinely a good game or they put like say all their effort into actually making the Raptor things like fun.

[01:15:05] Yeah like if they had focused on one particular elements of this game I think it would have been fine.

[01:15:10] Like realistically if they had taken that Raptor me to game and flushed out and made it actually like a game and not just that this could have been a really good horror game.

[01:15:23] Yeah that would have been really neat actually if the right if they took the Raptor me as a made it a whole.

[01:15:28] Game I could have had something with that sure.

[01:15:31] Because it runs pretty good for the most part I mean the controls are shit but most games of this era control is kind of sucked.

[01:15:41] Yeah I didn't I never really complained about the controls when I was playing it so if that's anything they're just like slippery and like confusing so.

[01:15:51] At teeny bit but we've played worse.

[01:15:56] Yeah it's better than the P.O.D.

[01:15:59] Yeah you know who you are.

[01:16:04] That's actually funny funny little anecdote now this was supposed to be the 3DOS launch title.

[01:16:10] How would you compare this next to crashing burn the 3DOS actual launch title?

[01:16:22] Isn't that a tough one?

[01:16:24] God they're both not good but for completely different reasons.

[01:16:29] Like crashing burn is a game.

[01:16:32] Like I was like oh it's not a good but it's not a good one.

[01:16:34] No.

[01:16:37] I may regret this because I think in the future we might do like a tier list or ranking of all the games we've played but I think for at this point in time

[01:16:46] I would be willing to say Jurassic Park Interactive is the better game.

[01:16:51] It's not by much but I think it's the closest just because I think it's more competent.

[01:17:00] And we know that Crystal Dynamics is capable of better.

[01:17:04] I know it's funny though when we look when we end up looking back at the games and we kind of rank them like that it's going to be funny to look at our

[01:17:13] Must play okay stay away is to see how much we agree with them like later

[01:17:17] Yeah that will be interesting with the passage of time how will it feel?

[01:17:24] Yeah so I imagine there's going to be at least one game that we bring up and I'm going to be like oh we play that I completely forget.

[01:17:31] Yeah it's going to be at least one I can guarantee it.

[01:17:34] And I think like too like we were harsh here on some of the games earlier on and we've played so much worse like since

[01:17:40] But I think our I think our brains have become like 3DO Pilled

[01:17:45] Yeah a little bit

[01:17:47] Yeah we've we've been tripped

[01:17:52] Yes we've been tripped by the Hawkins

[01:17:58] But uh yeah so next week as the like we promised we're going to be finally covering Gek's

[01:18:04] Like the big ones speaking of lizards

[01:18:07] We're finally like I've been wanting to play this game since we started the show

[01:18:12] Like this is the one I've wanted to play it was like that and plumbers and we've got plumbers out of the way so we might as well cover Gek's now

[01:18:20] I this is me I just this is for me. I want to do this man. I really want to do this one especially because there's like

[01:18:26] Four platformers on the 3DO and then even then that's probably generous

[01:18:30] Yeah and and I want to beat this I want to see this to the end. I'm going to complete. I'm going to beat this game

[01:18:35] I'm I'm saying it now. I promise I will beat this game

[01:18:40] Yeah

[01:18:41] Honestly, I want to replay it too because Gek's such a

[01:18:44] It's such an interesting platformer that I feel like gets kind of forgotten because it's later entries are more well known

[01:18:50] But not as interesting in a sense

[01:18:53] He looks like a mascot for like a soft drink

[01:18:57] kind of does

[01:18:59] Just looking at him

[01:19:01] He's gonna be staring at me now

[01:19:03] Well, I'm trying to finish battle for bikini bottom again. He's going to be looking at me like you should play me

[01:19:08] You should play me and I'm like dude this I'm trying to feel comfort

[01:19:14] He's he's gonna talk about his jazour size class

[01:19:19] Oh, no not not jazour size. He's his new to funker size

[01:19:23] That's that's not oh god

[01:19:25] Like

[01:19:26] I'm gonna be trying to sleep at night

[01:19:28] I'm just gonna hear that fucking voice and it's like dude. Please just let me sleep

[01:19:32] My good old good old danigold

[01:19:35] What is Gek's short for

[01:19:37] Gek sing tin

[01:19:40] Who knows

[01:19:42] There could be Gek sing tin or

[01:19:45] Or a Gekst defer

[01:19:48] Or

[01:19:49] Gek sig I don't know. I'll figure it out. Let us know everybody what is Gek's short for so I feel like that's a shorthand then

[01:19:59] But yeah, so next week we're gonna be covering Gek's and in the meantime guys

[01:20:04] Once again, thanks for joining us on the 3DO experience

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[01:20:08] 3DO experience on all the major podcasting platforms particularly Apple podcasts and Spotify

[01:20:12] You can also find out the episodes fully on youtube now with occasional no

[01:20:16] With video versions for every podcast. This is the one show we do that has video versions for every podcast

[01:20:21] I guess because I'm not a coward

[01:20:24] Well, actually no geek addicts. We've been doing videos for everyone too recently

[01:20:29] Um, well, you know who I'm talking about

[01:20:32] And she's not gonna listen to this social never know

[01:20:35] Nope, nope, we don't we don't interact at all so I can talk all the shit I want because I will never hear anything about it

[01:20:44] Yep

[01:20:46] But uh hi Alex but anyways

[01:20:48] um

[01:20:50] And speaking of reminder tune into my streams

[01:20:53] The day this comes up which I believe is on Wednesday that evening around 7 pm. I will be on twitch

[01:20:59] streaming Sega Genesis games

[01:21:01] So if you all want to hop in and say hi and reference the 3DO or whatever go go for it go for it

[01:21:08] It'll be a good time. I'll stream for about two two and a half hours

[01:21:11] Think last time I went over three and I'm like that was probably little too much

[01:21:14] So I think I'll trim it down good to like two two and a half

[01:21:17] so

[01:21:19] And uh, yeah, you can find all the links at link tree slash the barb who games and if you'd like

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[01:21:32] Hi snicker man

[01:21:34] subgevin um

[01:21:36] And with that we'll see you all later

[01:21:40] Bye-bye

[01:21:42] If you're not playing on a 3DO system

[01:21:53] What are you playing with