When it’s you and your fifty cents at stake, you know no such thing, making it so much sweeter when you pull it off. That never works in the movies because you know the hero will make it. It was the perfect arcade light gun game: fast moving, scene-changing, rewarding accurate shooting with bonus items and boss-encounters where a crack shot really was the difference between life and death. The game’s plot made some nonsense noises about using tranquilizers to calm the dinosaurs for later recovery, but it was easy to forget that as you blazed away at a T-Rex trying to eat an entire jeep with you inside it. The script might make pretend idiots plink away at an armor-plated eating machine with a pistol, but in the real world Jurassic Park would be the first place where security guards really were armed with rocket launchers. Shooters are an excellent option for Jurassic Park conversions, because it’s something they didn’t do in the movies, but absolutely what any real person would do if they were in the movie.
