Jurassic Park (pinball)

There have been three pinball adaptations of the 1993 film Jurassic Park: a physical table released by Data East the same year the film came out, a virtual table developed by Zen Studios on the franchise's 25th anniversary and a new physical table released by Stern Pinball a year after. All three tables behave differently.

Jurassic Park
ManufacturerData East
Release dateJune 1993
SystemData East Version 3
DesignEd Cebula
Neil Falconer
Joe Kaminkow
ProgrammingNeil Falconer
ArtworkMarkus Rothkranz
Production run9008 [1]

Original Data East version

Gameplay

There are 11 gameplay modes, called "Computer Screens". They are started by shooting the right scoop, called "Control Room", when it is lit. These modes are stackable (i.e., one mode can be running while another mode is in progress). The Control Room is briefly lit by the right ramp or either inlane, and is permanently lit by shooting the Power Shed (the right scoop) on the upper-right side of the playfield.

  • Stampede
  • Escape Isla Nublar
  • Raptor Two-Ball: Lights the Boat Dock (saucer at the right loop) for Raptor Two-Ball multiball. Shooting the Raptor Pit collects the ball and gives 2 more.
  • Electric Fence: You have to hit the pop bumpers a certain number of times to get Timmy off the electric fence, before he gets electrocuted.
  • Spitter Attack
  • System Boot: Shoot the Bunker, the Control Room, and the Power Shed scoops to collect a maximum of 30 million points.
  • Raptors' Rampage
  • Mosquito Millions
  • Feed T-Rex: Shoot the T-Rex saucer to feed the "goat" (ball) to the T-Rex for 30 million points.
  • Bone Busting
  • Light Extra Ball: Extra Ball is lit at the Boat Docks.

Completing all Computer Screen modes lights the Control Room for System Failure, a six-ball "wizard mode" where all shots on the playfield are worth one million points. It lasts for 45 seconds.

Unboxing

In February of 2019 a new in box copy of the game was found. VPcabs Pinball posted an unboxing video of the machine which was in working order.

Later versions

In the late 2010s, two additional pinball adaptations of the film were released. The second pinball adaptation of Jurassic Park is a virtual table developed by Zen Studios as one of three tables in the Jurassic Park pinball pack, designed to celebrate the franchise's 25th anniversary, which is an add-on for Pinball FX 3 that was released on February 20, 2018.[2] Stern Pinball released a third pinball adaptation of the film a year later.[3]

Spin-off

In addition to developing a digital pinball adaptation of the film, Zen Studios also developed another pinball table that reflects on its aftermath, titled Jurassic Park: Pinball Mayhem, which is also one of the three tables in the aforementioned Jurassic Park pinball pack.[4]

References
  1. http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=1343
  2. Good, Owen (7 February 2018). "Jurassic Park comes to Zen Pinball with three tables in February". Polygon. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
  3. Sheridan, Wade (26 July 2019). "Stern releases 'Jurassic Park' pinball machine". Retrieved 7 November 2019.
  4. McLovin (20 February 2018). "Welcome to Jurassic World Pinball™!". Zen Studios. Retrieved 9 February 2020.

See also
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