UK Machine Record
Stern · 2019 · at 18 UK venues.
Keith Elwin's Jurassic Park is one of Stern's modern classics and one of the machines that makes a UK pinball trip worthwhile if you find one in good condition. It takes the 1993 film and turns it into a rescue mission around Isla Nublar, with four ramps, three flippers, the Jungle Explorer vehicle and the enormous T-Rex dominating the playfield. The Premium and LE go considerably further with the motorised T-Rex and interactive Raptor Pen. The artwork is by Johnny Bergeron, better known as Johnny Crap.
This is a game about controlling the chaos. You are constantly trying to work through the park map, qualify modes and build towards the bigger multiballs, while the layout gives you plenty of opportunities to lose a ball while attempting something ambitious.
It is also one of those machines where the Pro can be the better choice for some players. The Premium's T-Rex is spectacular, but the underlying game is already excellent without it. Before you start firing at everything that moves, work out where you are on the park map.
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Silverball guide · Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park asks you to save the park staff and catch the dinosaur, and it is entirely possible to do the first so well that the second becomes impossible. The staff are bait as much as they are points.
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The head craning over the top left corner of the playfield, and the thing the whole machine is built around getting the attention of.
The stalled Explorer in the upper middle. Hit it three times and you start a T. rex hurry-up, which is the way into the multiball.
The caged structure down the left. Trap balls in it and keep hitting it to start Raptor Tri-Ball; on a Pro it cannot hold them, but it is the same shot in the same place.
The island painted across the lower half, and a scoreboard rather than decoration. Spell MAP on the lit arrows and the left ramp takes you into a paddock.
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Strategy tips written by players on PinTips , not by Silverball. Best-voted first.
Secret Skill Shot: Short Plunge > Control Room (‘C’ shot) (6 or 8 mil) Secret Skill Shot: Short Plunge > Chaos MB Standup Target (10 mil)
T-Rex Events (from spelling T-REX by hitting the Truck) and Control Room modes can be valuable. Start them right before starting a MB.
To maximize value earned during TREX MB, shoot for the red arrow (e.g., spell CHAOS sequentially); Double JPs for each red arrow in order.
Extra Balls can be lit by rescuing 6 staff members and by capturing the T-Rex in the T-Rex Paddock. Collect them on the right ramp.
Spell map by shooting white arrows to light paddock modes. During the mode rescue staff by shooting rescue shots to get traps, hit the yellow lit targets to lay them down, then shoot the dinosaur to collect the bounty.
Standard Skill Shot: Full Plunge > TRex Ramp > Pteranodon Ramp > Tower Side Ramp
MXV Skill Shot (named after Stern employee Mike Vinikour): Full Plunge > TRex Ramp > Pteranodon Ramp > Left Orbit -> Tower Side Ramp
Ultra Super Skill Shot (audio) / Secret Super Skill Shot (video): Full Plunge > TRex Ramp > Pteranodon Ramp > Tower Side Ramp > O Lane
Spell CHAOS in order to light Chaos multiball at the standup behind the pop bumpers.
Keep shooting the raptor cage/gate to eventually start a 3-ball multiball. While in MB, hit both ramps, then all CHAOS letters to add another 3 balls and light super jackpots.
TREX MB: first shoot all the yellow arrows quickly, then TREX. Then red jackpot arrows: N+1 times JP value for previous N red arrows.
Each set of 3 side standups in the Raptor Pit advances Red-Yellow-Green to light locks for Raptor MB. The rear target spots a whole set.
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Close-ups of the Jurassic Park playfield, with our note on what each one is showing you.
The moulded T-Rex, breaking through the electric fence.
2X PLAYFIELD SCORING, lit at the edge of the paddock map.
The paddock map inserts you work across: MAP NAVIGATION, RESCUE, T-REX.
The wire ramp curving back over the top of the playfield.
Photographs via the Internet Pinball Database. The captions are ours.
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How Jurassic Park was sold to operators — Stern, 2019. The back is the feature list the manufacturer led with, which is a fair record of what the machine was meant to be famous for.
Flyer scan via the Internet Pinball Database. The artwork is Stern’s.
One reviewer's opinion, not a Silverball verdict, and not a guide to playing.
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