Limited Run Games; PC, PS4/5, Switch, Xbox
The cult retro label has curated and updated a series of digital dino fossils for modern players and fans of the movie franchise who missed out first time round
For a period during the mid-1990s, it was ruled that no blockbuster movie was really complete until it had also been translated into a rock hard platformer or run-and-gun arcade adventure, seemingly designed to enrage and frustrate children everywhere. Disney’s wildly uncompromising Aladdin and Lion King tie-ins were shining examples as were Probe Software’s challenging Robocop 3 and Alien 3 titles.
But veteran Manchester-based publisher Ocean was also a key purveyor. The company spent the 1980s churning out TV and movie games such as Miami Vice, Top Gun and Highlander, but its Jurassic Park titles were among its most ambitious creations and this new collection from cult retro label Limited Run Games brings its NES, SNES and Game Boy translations of the 1993 film together, while also including sequel Jurassic Park 2: The Chaos Continues and two Mega Drive tie-ins created by Bluesky Software: Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park: Rampage Edition. That’s seven chunks of nostalgic dino chaos.
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