Jurassic Park Classic Games Collection Officially Announced

No Rampage Edition, no deal.

Hmmmmm….”Classics”…..

NES, SNES, and Game Boy only is the major dispointment here. If it had the Megadrive (& Rampage Edition) and Master System games I'd be all over this. (Game Gear & Mega CD would be nice while we're at it, but less essential).

I have a lot of nostalgia for how much I wanted to play the original top down Nintendo games (they looked so cool in magazine and TV previews!) but its really only the SNES version thats worth playing nowadays, and its an ambitious but very flawed game. Assuming its got save states, at least that will improve the experience compared to the original.

Chaos Continues is an ok run & gun, but not a patch on the Sega platform titles imo.

If the standard edition is non-limited, I'm sure I'll pick it up at some point, because I collect JP stuff. But its far from a must buy collection as-is, really paying £30 for one game that I'd actually play.

Bloody brilliant! I loved Jurassic Park on the SNES, yes it had the worst ending of all time but the experience was great. I assume there will be save states to make the game more managable too.

Digital day one.

Regarding the Megadrive games, weren't Sega directly involved in those games? So maybe they couldn't get a deal done to include them. Sort it Sega/LRG!

Day one for me, can't wait

If it had SEGA’s stuff, definitely. I never played the SNES JP.

That prehistoric edition sounds way overpriced. Or is that just me?

That's the loosest use of the word "classics" I've ever seen. LRG is a vile company. Please consider not giving them business and rewarding their scummy behavior.

Wow including a music CD, they really are going full retro.

Lame why not include the Sega ones (from Game Gear, Genesis, and Saturn) too, I know those are equally worst but at least they would round out the collection nicely.

So basically 2 titles? Any major differences between versions?

Because personally, as nice as it is to have the different versions for each platform, I rarely touch more than one. I played that Disney collection with Aladdin and literally just messed with the GB version for a few seconds. It just gets repetitive, imo. As cool as this is, the cost is way too much for me. Hoping there’s a cheap version digitally.

@Yosher $110 extra for a card, a CD of 8bit music, a framed bit of "art" and different packaging? Yeah I'd say thats pretty ridiculous.

Mind you I also think $35 extra for a steelbook and different packaging is ridiculous.

There was a time when special editions for those kids of prices included statues, plushes, metal keyrings / coins... and even then I thought they were mostly overpriced tat.

We're planning to Kickstart an "ultimate edition" for our Hazel game in the style of a PC/Amiga "Big Box" copy but it'll be lower price than these and with actually valuable and unique stuff included inside. We'll probably make $10 max profit per copy sold but its more about celebritating the work we've done and giving the fans something cool to actually own and display. If we can't find companies to manufacture the stuff we're planning cheaply enough to make it viable, we just won't put it out. I know we're hardly Jurassic Park but I'd be embarassed asking $175 for a CD and a picture frame.

If only there Genesis version was added…

@Waluigi451 For the first game, the NES and Gameboy are basically just a very stripped back version of the SNES title and not worth it other than for the novelty or if you have nostalgia for them.

The second title (a platform / run and gun) is different on the gameboy, and perhaps its my nostalgia or preference for cute/chunky sprites, but I actually think its better on Gameboy. As far as i'm aware there isn't a NES version of that one. Its still not a particularly great game but its worth trying out both versions to see which you prefer.

Hard pass on this.

No Lost World PS1 game? Not interested

Omg... I need this. 🤗

@Yosher not just you

Give us Trespasser, cowards!

....nah, they could have done better.

@samuelvictor gotcha. It’s hard to tell because some old games, like Mega Man or the Donkey Kong Land games, are very different on GB. And then others are just stripped down versions of the console lol

I remember thinking the SNES one was great as a kid. I was sorely mistaken

@Hck Came to say the same. If I can't run around kicking and snipping and whipping my tail as a raptor, then what's the point?

@SBandy1 Yup, Sega published Rampage Edition at least.

Why the hell are the Jurassic Park logo’s colors flipped?

This looks so wrong to me.

They all sucked. A lot. And the bonuses are BS...wtf

I find LRG to have bad predatory practices. Take game, sell it for a limited time, refuse to talk to the customer, don't ship it out for months, claim that your company is the champion of preserving physical games and no one would ever have any if it weren't for their business.

Yeeesss because no one has ever sold games at mass retail before, or shipped to their customers in a timely manner. * stares at stacks of games and rolls eyes *

@codebored There's always been 2 versions of the logo, one with red background and yellow outline (in the film, this is the main logo and used on the jeep) and one with yellow background and red outline (in the film, this is the version used in staff uniform, merchandise, and the green tour vehicles).

While the original movie poster used the red background, as far as merch goes, including the original 1993 toys, clothes etc, the yellow background is far more common, because it gives a higher contrast and makes the T-Rex stand out more, even if the printing quality is poor or the surface of the item is dull.

For the 1st game, across all Nintendo platforms the yellow background was used for the North American box art, and red background for PAL. The Sega games all used the yellow background for all versions, IIRC.

@mattcoz @SBandy1 Yes Sega funded and published original games for Mega CD, Master System and Game Gear, and 2 unique versions for Megadrive (not to mention the Lost World games and the multiple arcade titles). All were unique games (although the Master System and Game Gear titles are fairly similar).

The Megadrive games were developed for Sega by BlueSky. Mega CD and 8bit games were first party but I don't know what teams.

@samuelvictor
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Good info, cheers!

@Yosher all of LRG'S editions have been getting absurdly overpriced for the last year and a half or so I've noticed slowly climbing up in price. It's gotten ridiculous.

@samuelvictor
Thanks for clearing that up!
I thought that there might be regional differences.

I still have a lot of my toys from the original movie but I can’t really remember what the packaging looked like at all.
Also, I’m from Europe, so there’s that.

I don’t know about this. It’s cool to see I guess, as it’s been a long time since I played this one but it didn’t blow me away then, it probably won’t now. I’d say the same thing for the gargoyles game coming out. I did love the licenses these were based off of but the games themselves didn’t move me much, I’ll save my money then. It’d be a little more tempting if I was able to get these releases sooner physically.

@codebored No worries! Yeah the European Nintendo games all had the red background, same as the movie poster. But the Sega games and pretty much all the toys had the yellow version. In the movie, its 50/50 whats on screen depending on the scene.

This trend of special editions being a pile of random stuff completely misses me. Bring back the days of the gold Zelda cartridge!!

No Genesis games?

The genesis Lost World was the best of the bunch (and it was multiplayer) . Too bad it's not in the collection.

I'm stunned anyone would pay such a ludicrous amount for the physical options. While the SNES Jurassic Park game was excellent, it doesn't need anything more beyond than added to the online subscription.

There's no Genesis versions so what's the point of them even putting this out?

Too bad these games suck. SEGA was where it was at for JP at the time. JP and LW for Genesis were great. However, my favorite was the Sega CD's point and click adventure. That game has great atmosphere. It really felt like you were exploring the abandoned park.

i still have my old Super Nintendo Jurassic Park game. years ago i had fun playing it and beat it once or twice.

Too bad the old game doesnt have a save feature

@Tempestryke Leave to LRG to release games from that 87% of "critically endangered classic games" no one asked for while also being part of the problem themselves. As in, release overpriced versions. I get you want to show off your product, but if you're gonna do a Collector's/Special/Limited Edition of each one of your games, I dunno, none will really stand out, at least for me.

@JackieCMarlow Yep, these are the guys who thought the Bill & Ted NES game counts as a "classic".

Are people really this stupid that they buy this overpriced physical media for multi decade old games? Come on.

Is there a digital release?

I liked the gameboy version and if i remember correctly the Nes version was exactly the same only in color. The snes one was cool but had no save feature or even passwords so if you died or shut it off you started from the beginning. major design flaw right there! I didn't play any of the others like the genesis games. Were those any good?

Hard pass. Games weren’t even fun in the 90s.

I had the Genesis game back in the day. Never played any of the Nintendo versions. They any good?

I know the Mega Drive game is flawed but for me it's a shame it's missing here. There were a few things i appreciated about it. While im glad to see more retro bundles popping up and hope we see more , this one isnt really for me.

I'll most likely grab this for the GB games (even if they turn out to be stinkers).

@HalBailman I'll buy it. I love JP and the money is a trivial amount for many of us.

Where are the Mega drive titles? In current day and age theresno reason not to present all 8 and 16 buit games from both console families in q package for IP like this....

LRG will never see a dime from me for their physical editions of games you won’t get for 6 months after release. I’m a physical release snob too, but not with these clowns.

For those prices and being emulation, it should include all the classic games. I love retro compilations and buy most of them but this is not the classic games collection it pretends to be.

I mean... It's not even complete. So... No.

I always preferred the Genesis versions of Jurassic Park.

I played the snes version. It was an absolute hot garbodor

"all to celebrate the 1993 movie's 30th anniversary"

Ha. This is Limited Run Games we're talking about here. You'll be lucky if you receive your Jurassic Park game before the film's 35th anniversary.

My copy of Day of the Tentacle has been 'ready' and 'unfulfilled' for almost three months. Maybe one day Limited Run Games will post me my game.

None of Sega's games...not good enough. Were any of these games in the collection any good?

The raptor cover art looks okay, but it'd be much better with the classic film logo. I'd argue JP fans want that more. I know I would prefer it.

Limited Run just sent an email that the collection is getting the genesis games. Copping it now!