Your thoughts on Sega's "Jurassic Park: The Lost World"

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Your thoughts on Sega's "Jurassic Park: The Lost World"

I might have a lead to pick one of these up cheap. Is it a fun game? What would be considered a fair price?
 
I'd say around $1600-$1700 for a really nice one. It's not as good of a game as JP.
 
It's neat...has some nice shots and features. Cool JP music. Art kinda looks like rainbow sherbet though.

How cheap is cheap? I've bought Segas before cuz they were CHEAAAAP. If it's priced like a B/W game, just get one of those! :)
 
I'd say around $1600-$1700 for a really nice one. It's not as good of a game as JP.

There was one for sale locally and he couldn't get $1,500 for it for forever. Ended up trading it. It is not a great game. It is night and day different from Jurassic Park which is a good game. Scoring is unbalanced and it is not super fun to play. Ball lock is cool though. For the money, there are so many better games out there.
 
There was one for sale locally and he couldn't get $1,500 for it for forever. Ended up trading it. It is not a great game. It is night and day different from Jurassic Park which is a good game. Scoring is unbalanced and it is not super fun to play. Ball lock is cool though. For the money, there are so many better games out there.

It's a fairly simple and incredibly fast game. No real stacking, not deep but a tough "player's" game that requires you to make all shots on the pf to do well.

I disagree strongly with your comment of 'unbalanced' scoring. The scoring is among the MOST balanced of any modern game. No 17-gazillion-point mega-jackpot shot here. 5 modes that have to be started and then completed (several timed) and one 3-lock mb. If you finish a mode you get 1M points plus what you earn in the mode. And, there is not a single common shot shared between any two of the 5 modes! So you need to finish 2-3 modes to get a solid score--not easy. The mb gives jackpots for ramps, then orbits, then a tough inner loop with variable value. No mega-stacking secret-strategy shortcut to huge points here; you have to earn the points mode by mode, and that requires accuracy.

When clean, this game is ridiculously fast. Seasoned players really like it here. Tough but fair game. I've had one since I got it NIB in '98, so I know it well.
 
It's a fairly simple and incredibly fast game. No real stacking, not deep but a tough "player's" game that requires you to make all shots on the pf to do well.

I disagree strongly with your comment of 'unbalanced' scoring. The scoring is among the MOST balanced of any modern game. No 17-gazillion-point mega-jackpot shot here. 5 modes that have to be started and then completed (several timed) and one 3-lock mb. If you finish a mode you get 1M points plus what you earn in the mode. And, there is not a single common shot shared between any two of the 5 modes! So you need to finish 2-3 modes to get a solid score--not easy. The mb gives jackpots for ramps, then orbits, then a tough inner loop with variable value. No mega-stacking secret-strategy shortcut to huge points here; you have to earn the points mode by mode, and that requires accuracy.

When clean, this game is ridiculously fast. Seasoned players really like it here. Tough but fair game. I've had one since I got it NIB in '98, so I know it well.

What I meant by unbalanced scoring is that when you are not in a mode, you get nothing for points. Not that there are super duper mega jackpots that score 17 billion.
 
What I meant by unbalanced scoring is that when you are not in a mode, you get nothing for points. Not that there are super duper mega jackpots that score 17 billion.

OK. Starting modes is critical, but pretty much every pf shot works toward starting some mode. The scoring is more 'linear' and directly related to your accuracy, which is how I define 'balanced.' You won't get mega points by accident in this game; you need to go for the different objectives, which are nall straightforward (and printed on the rules card!).
 
This was my first pin. I loved it. Fairly fast, a great starter DMD pin. I bought and sold mine for $1100, and it was fairly clean. The T-rex egg and Humvee snagger toys are common issues
 
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