Gameplay

Ian Malcolm and Sarah Harding go missing after landing on Isla Sorna to conduct an investigation. A rescue team is sent to the island. The player(s) control(s) one of two rangers, whose goal is to find Dr. Malcolm and Dr. Harding. Player(s) battle dinosaurs by disabling them with tranquilizer darts.

The game features five levels based on environments from the film, including a laboratory and a workers’ village. Four of the levels feature a boss battle that must be won to advance the game. Boss enemies include 2 large meat-eating dinosaurs which are Tyrannosaurus and Carnotaurus as well as the prehistoric crocodilian Deinosuchus. Velociraptors are also featured as enemies throughout the game. Compsognathus, Dilophosaurus, Pachycephalosaurus, and pterosaurs are also encountered throughout the game. At times, the game presents the player(s) with an opportunity to rescue a human who is being attacked by one or multiple dinosaurs. Saving the human results in the human rewarding the player(s) with either a temporary weapon upgrade or additional health.

Like some of Sega’s light gun rail shooters such as Virtua Cop and The House of the Dead, The Lost World: Jurassic Park features a dynamically adjusting difficulty system that will increase difficulty as the player progresses and decrease as they lose lives. As difficulty increases, dinosaurs attack quicker, more dinosaurs will try to attack the player simultaneously, and more target icons need to be shot to cancel a boss dinosaur’s attack. 

Source: Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_World:_Jurassic_Park_(arcade_game))
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