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Instruction booklet · November 1993

Jurassic Park

Point-and-clickShooterAdventure1 playerPre-ESRB

The story

Jurassic Park is an action-adventure video game for the Super NES based on the movie adaptation of the book by Michael Crichton. It was developed by Ocean Software and released in 1993 in North America and PAL regions, and published and released by Jaleco in 1994 for Japan. Most of the game is viewed from a top-down view.

Specifications

Released
November 1993
Developer
Ocean Software
Publisher
Ocean Software
Players
1
Genre
Point-and-click · Shooter · Adventure
Rating
Pre-ESRB
Series
Jurassic Park
Themes
Action · Science fiction · Horror
View
First person · Bird view / Isometric

What the magazines said

8
8
7
6
EGM · four reviewers
5
4
5
4
Famitsu · four reviewers
Players
59/100 (30 ratings)
Computer and Video Games
87/100
Edge
6/10
GameFan
{{ubl|95%, 95%|92%, 89%, | GMaster = 93%}}
Super Play
89%
Total!
84%
VGS
81%
Entertainment Weekly
A−
SNES Force
92%
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