Jurassic Park III is a light gun

Light gun

A light gun is a pointing device for computers and a control device for arcade and video games.Modern screen-based light guns work by building a sensor into the gun itself, and the on-screen target emit light rather than the gun...

 arcade game

Arcade game

An arcade game is a coin-operated entertainment machine, usually installed in public businesses such as restaurants, bars, and amusement arcades. Most arcade games are video games, pinball machines, electro-mechanical games, redemption games, and merchandisers...

 based on the 2001 movie of the same name

Jurassic Park III

Jurassic Park III is a 2001 American science fiction film and the third of the Jurassic Park franchise. It is the only film in the series that is neither directed by Steven Spielberg nor based on a book by Michael Crichton, though numerous scenes in the movie were taken from Crichton's two books,...

. Developed by Konami

Konami

is a Japanese leading developer and publisher of numerous popular and strong-selling toys, trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, slot machines, arcade cabinets and video games...

 and released in 2001, Jurassic Park III uses the same cabinet and motion sensor technology as Police 911

Police 911

Police 911 is a light gun arcade game that casts the player as either a "one man SWAT team" working for the Tokyo police, or an American police officer of the LAPD, working to take down members of the , an internationally based yakuza group.-Gameplay:The gameplay in Police 911...

, requiring players to dodge the oncoming dinosaur

Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade and superorder Dinosauria. They were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic period until the end of the Cretaceous , when the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of...

 attacks. It was preceded by The Lost World: Jurassic Park

The Lost World: Jurassic Park (arcade game)

The Lost World: Jurassic Park is a light gun arcade game from Sega. It was released in 1997. It was the follow-up to Sega's 1994 rail shooter based on Jurassic Park, itself named Jurassic Park...

in 1997, also a light gun game, but from Sega

Sega

, usually styled as SEGA, is a multinational video game software developer and an arcade software and hardware development company headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan, with various offices around the world...

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Gameplay

In the game, the player must kill dinosaurs by aiming at them and shooting them with the light gun. The player is given 8 bullets. The player must reload every time they use all 8 bullets. Reloading is done by shooting outside of the screen. After a boss is killed, the player is sometimes given more health if he or she did well killing the boss (or at random points you might get more health too) . A heath bar is shown. The bar gets smaller and smaller as the player receives damage. If the bar is gone, the game is over unless the player puts in more coins and hits the "start" or "continue" button. There are also two left and right arrow buttons on the dash of the console. Allowing players to "Run away" from the dinosaur(s) to avoid taking damage.(This feature is only allowed at boss battles.)

Plot

The game starts when two U.S Military Rangers land on Isla Sorna with orders by Alan Grant to rescue survivors that crashed on the island earlier on in the story (not shown). The Rangers soon see a pack of Compsognathus attacking one survivor. The player now has to fight Compsognathuses, dilophosauruses, and raptors until the survivor is found. Then a cinematic cuts to a nearby pond, revealing a sleeping spinosaurus (presumably the same individual from the movie), which suddenly opens its eye. It then bursts from the pond and charges the player who must repeatedly escape it while fighting more Compsognathuses, dilophosauruses, and raptors. This is the first boss. After several attacks on the dinosaur, the player reaches the landing area where the game started. However the spinosaurus follows them into the clearing. Although it is the same individual, it is generally counted as the second boss. The player must repeatedly dodge it by hiding behind crates and shooting. Eventually the spinosaurus gives up and the player and their teammates escape in an armored jeep. Another cinematic shows the spinosaurus fighting a tyrannosaurus, but the player drives away before a winner is revealed (although it is implied that neither wins, as both dinosaurs, presumably the same individuals, appear later in the game). The next level begins when the rangers find that there's more survivors in the hatchery (the one in the movie). The player stays in the car at this time, fighting an ankylosaurus, but the dinosaur quickly destroys the car. This is the third boss. After it is killed, the player reaches the hatchery, where several more survivors are rescued from a huge group of raptors. The player then exits the building, only to find one last survivor being menaced by a T.Rex. The player must fight it while avoiding being eaten. This is the fourth boss. There are weak points indicated by red crosshairs on certain body parts (usually the mouth and eyes) in this and other bosses. When you hit the crosshairs, a significant amount of damage is done. Right before each boss battle, a small picture of the boss, showing the crosshairs as red ares on the animal's body, appears in the bottom left corner of the screen. Once the tyranosaur is killed, the player begins heading for the coast.

On the way to the coast, the player must pass through the "Bird Cage" where the mutant Pteranodon were in the movie. After defeating a group of the flying creatures, as well as some more raptors, the player must fight the fifth boss, a giant (alpha) mutant pteranodon. After defeating it, the group head to the boat (like in the movie), fighting more Velociraptor along the way. As you make it across the river, you are assaulted by more Velociraptor, Compsognathus, Dilophosaurus, and Pteranodon. After surviving these attacks, you face off against the Spinosaurus which attacks while taking cover underwater. This is the sixth boss. When the group reaches shore, they make their way through another group of Velociraptor until night falls in and they reach their goal, the Marina. There, the spinosaurus attacks the group in a flaming background. This is the seventh and final boss. After defeating (and finally killing) the spino the group gets on a boat and leaves the island. The Rangers lean against the boat as dawn breaks over. The credits show a variety of dinosaurs in the game running along a computerized background (green grids along a black backdrop).