"Raptor Rap" from Jurassic Park on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (1993)
Composer: Jonathan Dunn
Album: Jurassic Park Vol. 1-2 LP Vinyl Soundtrack
Label: Limited Run Games
Publisher: Ocean Software, Ltd.
Developer: Ocean of America, Inc.
I have a very fond and visceral memory of the Jurassic Park release on the SNES. The game was released in November 2013, and I received a copy of it about a month later during our family's Early Christmas (usually around the second week of December when my Dad's side of the family could get together in NorCal along with other close family friends, including Dr. Potts' family.
So that evening, after all of the presents had been opened, I plunked myself down in front of our TV and began playing Jurassic Park. Running around Isla Nublar as Alan Grant with an arsenal of weapons shooting dinosaurs left and right seemed rather bonkers, considering the source material, but the gameplay was still a lot of fun and the music, while nothing like John Williams' score, was a great accompaniment to what Ocean wanted this game to be. "Raptor Rap" will always make me feel like I'm 13 years old again, scouring a bizarre island maze that doesn't make a lick of sense and coming across a massive industrial stone bunker in the middle of a jungle. "Raptor Rap" isn't necessarily rap, but it is an alliteration, which is how most of the tracks by Jonathan Dunn are titled. I can respect that, and I can also appreciate the over-the-top dramaticness when the music goes full-on drama at 0:57 and with those James Bond-esque slapping MIDI orchestra hits.
I just love it.
~JWfW/JDub/The Faceplantman/Jaconian
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