Rampaging dinosaur thrills return with a series of all-new episodic Jurassic Park games, according to news from the latest issue of Game Informer magazine. The current masters of episodic gaming, Telltale Games, is on the job.
The developers of the similarly episodic Sam & Max, Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People and Tales of Monkey Island are tackling the dinosaur theme park property created by Michael Crichton. Telltale CEO Dan Conners tells GI the developer’s episodic Jurassic Park will “deliver on the tension and drama of the series creating the ultimate cinematic adventure”.
Previous Jurassic Park games have been largely forgettable, with the exception of Jurassic Park: Trespasser, which was memorable for the wrong type of reasons.
Who wants to bet we’ll hear more about Telltale’s plans at E3 next week?
Telltale Creating Episodic Jurassic Park Game [Game Informer]
MrBS
Wednesday, June 9, 2010 at 12:55 PMI actually owned the Jurassic Park game for the Mega Drive and liked it. I probably shouldn’t have admitted to that!
Benjamin Sutton
Wednesday, June 9, 2010 at 1:10 PMDon’t worry, you weren’t the only one. It’s sitting on the shelf behind me. It’s just a shame my console is fried :(
v4next
Wednesday, June 9, 2010 at 5:39 PMThe Master System version is the best – check it out if you haven’t. The MD version was a bit dodgy! Remember the Sega arcade games? – crazy cool!
Jon Randall
Wednesday, June 9, 2010 at 5:59 PMI bought it too! cost $120 in the early 90′s…
Ben
Thursday, June 10, 2010 at 11:26 AMgeez, I got my copy for 5 bucks at crazy clarks :P
Awesome game.
Jimu_Hsien
Thursday, June 10, 2010 at 9:54 AMI love JP MD, sweet game. You ever play the direct sequel? I think it was called JP Rampage Edition or sumsuch, Raptor could double jump or flip or something crazy!
sew
Wednesday, June 9, 2010 at 1:11 PMi really loved trespaser.. yeah it was flawed but way ahead of its time. Physics puzzles were unheard of back then
Thomas Baskerville
Wednesday, June 9, 2010 at 1:19 PMJurassic Park Operation Genesis imo.
Make a huge park and then just delete the fences and let everyone get eaten.
Kav
Wednesday, June 9, 2010 at 1:35 PMJurassic park 1 on the super nintendo was awesome. I played that game 100 times and loved every second of it.
lcb
Wednesday, June 9, 2010 at 2:16 PMThe original Jurassic Park on the NES was goddamn pro. I dont know what the hell your going on about….
Jeff Pearce
Wednesday, June 9, 2010 at 2:40 PMI quite liked the arcade Jurassic Park game with guns. It was like Virtua Cop with Dinosaurs and it rocked.
And the Pinball machine wasn’t bad either.
matt30822
Wednesday, June 9, 2010 at 2:58 PMReall enjoyed Operation Genesis as well. Am looking forward to what Telltale is going to do with the property. I do hope they don’t try and go off track and stick to the source material.
Dire Wolf
Wednesday, June 9, 2010 at 4:02 PMOne of my favorite movies. I remember playing the game on SNES when I was a kid. The music for the T-Rex terrified me.
Jonathan Betten
Wednesday, June 9, 2010 at 4:31 PMTheres a Jurassic Park mod for Crisis on MODDB, and its looks flippin brilliant, i’ll wager the MOD will be better than this.
Stephen Oxley
Wednesday, June 9, 2010 at 5:12 PMJurassic Park on Master System was better than the Mega Drive version… although I did enjoy that as well. I never did play Operation Genesis, I wonder if I can find it anywhere.
Thomas Thongvilu
Wednesday, June 9, 2010 at 6:46 PMfirst person shooter :O
notadouche
Wednesday, June 9, 2010 at 8:18 PMI loved Trespasser even though it had lousy pacing and shitty controls. It struck me as an ambitious experiment in letting people do whatever they feel like. So I find it hard to hate. The first time I played Half-Life 2 I was instantly reminded of Trespasser. The detail in level design was most impressive even if the graphics and frame-rate were shithouse. Far Cry 2 felt like yet another cool concept with a great sandbox that got squandered.
The pre-release materials (trailers, screenshots, etc) for Tresspasser were obviously mock-ups which disappointed the hell out of me when I got the actual game.
While I’m getting distracted, who’s sick of developers releasing doctored up images and passing them off as in-game? I’m looking at you Epic.. And Polyphony Digital. Lazy journos then include the same shots in their reviews.
Sam Sweeney
Thursday, June 10, 2010 at 1:04 PMWhat about Jurassic Park Operation Genesis? That’s one of my favorite games.
Daniel Murdolo
Thursday, June 10, 2010 at 10:18 PMIf Telltale can do with Jurassic Park what they did with ToMI then I will be a happy man