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Jurassic Lark: Part 01

Ryan tags along as Patrick destroys his childhood memories one prehistoric game at a time.

Jan. 16 2013

Cast: Ryan, Patrick

Posted by: Vinny

In This Episode:

Jurassic Park

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woo

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DOWNLOAD FROM BETA SITE IS AN EXTRA 500 OR SOMETHING

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Something, something, clever girl.

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Oh this is going to be great!

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Welcome to it.

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I'm so watching this at work tomorrow.

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@BaconGames said:

DOWNLOAD FROM BETA SITE IS AN EXTRA 500 OR SOMETHING

That's a little odd. Anyone know why that would happen? To be clear: downloading HD video from seaserpent is 2.3GB file, downloading from here is 1.9GB.

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I've been looking forward to this.

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@jhardcopy said:

@BaconGames said:

DOWNLOAD FROM BETA SITE IS AN EXTRA 500 OR SOMETHING

That's a little odd. Anyone know why that would happen? To be clear: downloading HD video from seaserpent is 2.3GB file, downloading from here is 1.9GB.

To my knowledge the numbers dictate bit rates or something like that, which if the file has an extra 500, the size would be larger given the length of the video.

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Nice, I played the crap out of Jurassic Park for the Genesis when I was little. It was a bit frightening at times (especially the audio), but hey. I loved when the T-Rex would poke his head through the middle of a wall.

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Seems my memories of these games is pretty much in line with what I'm seeing here. Genesis game was utter shite, NES game was not good but you can play it, and the SNES game was impossible to figure out but had some interesting ideas marred by sluggish first person stuff.

Also man the music in the SNES game is pretty damn good.

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Love how fast this stuff goes from live stream to on-the-site, kudos!

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WOOOOOOOOO!

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Dat upload speed.

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Heck yeah, quick turnarounds.

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Was great live. Can't wait for more.

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I thought it was going to be something with Lark Anderson, and then I found it isn't.

:(

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The live stream was too laggy for my assy dsl connection so I wasn't able to watch this live. Thanks for getting this video up so quickly, Vinny.

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What is the name of that system that they're using to play the games? It looks pretty rad.

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Patrisaurus Rex

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Hold on to your butts.

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How do you make a Dodgson joke, and not say "Nobody Cares"? C'mon, Davis.

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YESYESYEYSYESYESYESYESYESYES

The Genesis game was my favorite, yes it was hard, you had to know the shit out of the levels, but i liked it.

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The Genesis JP game was my favorite. I though it was great IMHO.

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JP for the SNES is my shit!!

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So with all those pterodactyl's flying in from the side, what you're telling me is that Jurassic Park for the Genesis is basically Joust 3?

Edit: The objective for the SNES game is to collect all the Dinosaur eggs

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Ryan's here, Jurassic Nark would be more appropriate.

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Play the PC game it is great. My favourite as a kid.

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@blakekhealy said:

What is the name of that system that they're using to play the games? It looks pretty rad.

Looks like a Hyperkin RetroN 3.

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I think that the melody for the first game is the same as a back street boys song...

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@SomeDillweed: Maybe, but I think it's the same Retro Duo they used on the Famicom stream.

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Been looking forward to this. Missed it live. Thanks guys!

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I want a gif of the raptor kicking the door open.

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Edited By hatking

I think that first game was based on the book, not the first movie. That'd explain the rocket launcher, the rampant compsognathus (which were oddly absent in the movie), and the stampede part. Also, perhaps you aren't playing as Alan Grant here, but rather the true Jurassic Park badass, in the book at least, Robert 'clever girl' Muldoon?

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@MattClassic said:

@SomeDillweed: Maybe, but I think it's the same Retro Duo they used on the Famicom stream.

Don't think so. They used the same console for all three games, you can see the three different system controllers, and even the telltale circular feet of the RetroN.

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Is that NES version the same game as the Gameboy version?

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@TekZero: This is why China's winning.

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Man all these games are so horribly horrible in a great way.

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Can't wait for the Trespasser Endurance Run.

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I can't wait for Trespasser. I was so looking forward to and then disappointed with that game. It's probably 90% of the reason that I refuse to follow game development too closely now because I know how hard it can hurt. That said, I probably played the game three or four times. I also might still have the leaked beta somewhere. Man...

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gah, I still can't watch any of the premium video. For some reason GB player just doesn't work for me since the switch it only used 1/20 of my bandwidth. Sending email to support didn't do anything either...

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Thankfully I had the foresight to only rent the Genesis game back in the day. Even as a kid I thought that game was awful. Punishing difficulty, bad level design, performance problems. I can't believe the same developers that made that went on to make Vectorman, which is a fairly great game.

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The best Jurassic Park game is called Dino Crisis.

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Shame they didn't stumble onto more of the SNES game. It was one of my favorites.

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Jurrasic Lark? ROFL

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Is GB using new camera equipment? Lighting? Something looks different, in a good way.

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@Spiritof said:

Is GB using new camera equipment? Lighting? Something looks different, in a good way.

Vinny said they are using new lenses.

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Really enjoying this

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