History Pinball / JurassicPark

* ''Pinball/{{Jurassic Park|Stern}}'' (Creator/{{Stern}}, 2019)

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* ''Pinball/{{Jurassic Park|Stern}}'' (Creator/{{Stern}}, 2019)
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[[caption-width-right:311:If it's not Jurassic Park, it's Extinct!]]
->''A Pinball Adventure 65 Million Years in the Making.''

''Jurassic Park'' is a 1993 {{pinball}} machine by Creator/DataEast and Creator/JohnBorg, based on [[Film/JurassicPark the hit film of the same name.]]

It follows the movie rather closely, showing the park's opening and its subsequent fall to the dinosaurs, with several separate modes recreating specific scenes, before the WizardMode, "System Failure", recreates the most famous moment of all: the park's power failing and the dinosaurs escaping and wreaking havoc.

The game's main attraction is a toy T-Rex head that follows the ball, and if it lands in its designated saucer the T-Rex bends down to snatch it in its mouth, accompanied by a soundclip of a man panicking and screaming "No!"

It had a sequel, ''Pinball/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'', released in 1997 by [[Creator/{{Sega}} Sega Pinball]] (which had acquired Data East's pinball assets).

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!!This pinball demonstrate the following tropes:

* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: It's hard to see how the two sheds on the left function and start modes, complete with the Creator/PatLawlor-esque bumpers/loop between them, without thinking of ''Pinball/{{Whirlwind}}''.
** The control room and its [=CRTs=] are reminiscent of the mansion and its rooms in ''Pinball/TheAddamsFamily''.
* AntiFrustrationFeature:
** The Raptor shot propels the ball directly back at the flippers at high speed. If the ball drains immediately, a replacement is given to you.
** Some of the dinosaur targets necessary to light Tri-Ball are automatically collected when you lose balls.
* BigDoor: The front gates of Jurassic Park.
* CueTheRain: At the beginning of T-Rex Triball, to give you a heads-up that things are gonna get serious.
* EggMacGuffin: Shoot the captive ball to tap the dinosaur egg; after a number of taps, a baby dinosaur will emerge and an award will be given.
* GoldenSnitch: The jackpots in Chaos 6-ball multiball. Granted, [[NintendoHard it's not easy]], but done perfectly, this can net 1.2 billion points. Done poorly (but still ''done'', per se), 200-400 million. Both with the opportunity to restart it and collect the bonus '''again'''. This comes after a 3-ball multiball with a 15 million progressive jackpot (can be doubled), 10 million per letter of "CHAOS", and another 50 million with a shot to T-Rex. The 3-ball multiball is guaranteed to be lit at least once by your third ball. All this on a table where the wizard mode generally weighs in at around 150-300 million. There's reasons restarting tri-ball is generally far more important than actually playing through the game modes.
* GottaCatchThemAll: The player must collect all six dinosaur species to complete the map and enable T-Rex Tri-ball.
* HaveYouTriedRebooting: The "System Boot" mode, which requires the player to shoot Hammond's Bunker, Control Room, and the Power Shed to reboot the park's computer systems.
-->[-C:\PARK> SYS. BOOT-]
* MercyMode: Tri-Ball will always be lit on ball 3. The Smart Missile can even be used to immediately start it.
* MindScrew: When the "System Failure" WizardMode starts, the pinball machine itself briefly goes haywire before the mode starts, just like the lab computers in the movie.
* OffTheShelfFX: Anybody who's ever been to a museum gift shop will recognize the plastic pteranodons from the ''Carnegie Collection'' line of dinosaur toys.
* OminousMultipleScreens: The Control Room.
* ProgressiveJackpot: The T-Rex Bounty, which increases when the T-Rex is hit, up to 99.9 million points.
* RealSongThemeTune
* TheScream: Done in the soundclip that plays when the T-Rex eats a ball.
* ShockAndAwe: In "Electric Fence" mode, Timmy will become electrocuted if the player fails to hit the bumpers enough times to shut them off.
* SmartBomb: The Smart Missile button. Once a game, you can fire the Smart Missile to collect any currently lit shots.
* SkillShot: A dot-matrix-based one: waiting until the Velociraptor lines up with your crosshairs before shooting the ball.
* SpellingBonus: T-R-E-X starts the T-Rex Triball, and C-H-A-O-S starts a 6-ball multiball.
* SuperSpit: "Spitter Attack" has Nedry attacked by a Spitter dinosaur.
* TyrannosaurusRex: And he eats pinballs.
* VideoMode: At random times during the game, a dinosaur will walk across the screen. Fire the launcher gun rapidly to stun the dinosaur for 3 million points.
* WizardMode: "System Failure" - you've got six balls and every target is worth one million points.
* XRaySparks: Fail to hit the bumpers enough on the "Electric Fence" mode, and Tim's electrocution will be shown this way.
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-->'''Hammond:''' "How about another tour of the park?"
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* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: It's hard to see how the two sheds on the left function and start modes, complete with the Lawlor-esque bumpers/loop between them, without thinking of ''Pinball/{{Whirlwind}}''.

* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: It's hard to see how the two sheds on the left function and start modes, complete with the Lawloresque bumpers/loop between them, without thinking of ''Pinball/{{Whirlwind}}''.

** The [=CRTs=] are reminiscent of the mansion rooms in ''Pinball/TheAddamsFamily''.

* SkillShot[=/=]VideoMode: A dot-matrix-based one: waiting until the Velociraptor lines up with your crosshairs before shooting the ball.

It had a sequel, ''Pinball/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'', released in 1997 by [[Creator/{{Sega}} Sega Pinball]] (which had absorbed Data East beforehand).

!!Tropes:

* SkillShot: A dot-matrix-based one: waiting until the Velociraptor lines up with your crosshairs before shooting the ball.

* VideoMode: See SkillShot above.

* ShoutOut: The Smart Missile is apparently a homage to ''VideoGame/{{Defender}}''.

''Jurassic Park'' is a 1993 {{pinball}} machine by Creator/DataEast and Creator/JohnBorg, based on [[Film/JurassicPark hit film of the same name.]]

It follows the movie

''Jurassic Park'' is a 1993 {{pinball}} machine by Creator/DataEast, based on [[Film/JurassicPark hit film of the same name.]]

* SpellingBonus: T--R-E-X starts the T-Rex Triball, and C-H-A-O-S starts a 6-ball multiball.

''Jurassic Park'' is a 1993 {{pinball}} machine based on [[Film/JurassicPark hit film of the same name.]]

* SmartBomb: The Smart Missile button. Once a game, you can fire the Smart Missile to collect any currently lit shots.

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