Version 1.1
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Arcade) FAQ by Joshua Harring
(
[email protected])
Hello. Welcome to my FAQ for The Lost World. This is one of Sega's newest
shooting games and it's pretty good, especially with its gigantic, detailed
dinosaurs and surround-sound cabinet. This FAQ explains some general rules to
the game and gives some tips for the levels. I've actually only gone through
this whole game only once (although I've watched other people play it) and
it's quite a quarter-guzzler so I probably won't play it very much anymore
because there are better games that aren't 75 cents to start and continue. So
I might mess something up or leave something out and if you see that, don't
hesitate to email me at
[email protected]. I will be happy to update
the FAQ with your contribution. Thanks and enjoy.
Revision History
Version 1.1 - Many corrections and additions given courtesy of Doug Elder
(
[email protected]). His contributions include telling me that the
Triceratops is in Stage 1 instead of 2 (d'oh!), what happens if you fail the
dome shot in Stage 4, and several other things.
Version 1.0 - First release. Walkthrough written entirely from memory.
Needless to say, because I've only played through it once, I screwed up stuff.
:)
General stuff
If you've played Sega's House of the Dead in the arcades, you kinda know this
game already. There's no Virtua Cop-like big yellow target circle to tell you
what to shoot; you basically have to shoot any dinosaur you see. Of course,
don't shoot any innocent humans or you lose a life. You start with only three
lives and lose one each time you take a hit. You get five shots and have to
reload by shooting off the screen. Pretty standard shooter stuff.
The basic enemy in this game is a Raptor. You can usually see them rushing
towards you or jumping over something to get at you. They take one hit.
Sometimes they'll appear out of practically nowhere and you have almost no
reaction time. That's why you should usually keep your gun pointed at the
screen even when there appears to be a lull in the action.
There are other "normal" enemies like Spitters and Compys. Spitters fire
projectiles which you can't avoid so you must shoot them pretty quickly.
Compys are those little tiny annoying ones that are always in packs of a
couple dozen or so. They can be found jumping all over humans many times.
And then there are the really really big bosses. Here is where a new
technique is introduced in a shooting game. Against these bosses, little
circles appear on them as they're going to strike. These indicate target
points which you must shoot. The circles change color from white to green to
yellow to orange to red to flashing red. If you haven't shot all the circles
before at least one of them ends its flashing red stage, then you will get hit
by the dinosaur (or something else happens). If you are successful in
shooting them all, the dinosaur backs off and prepares for another strike.
Therefore shooting wildly against a boss isn't recommended. Precision is
better, although many times there won't be much time to shoot the circles. In
those cases, shooting rapidly into the general area where a circle is can
help.
As in House of the Dead, saving a human from death via dinosaur rewards you.
They either give you an extra life or a power-up. I've seen laser shot,
grenade, shotgun and lightning as power-ups. Laser shot puts a little red
sniper circle on the screen to show you where you're aiming. Grenade makes
your gun fire powerful shots that explode on contact. Shotgun makes your
gun's bullets have a wider range. Lightning makes your gun fire blasts of
lightning which I think makes accuracy easier. Every so often you will see a
little Powerbar on screen which you can shoot. Shooting three of these will
give you an extra life. Remember not to shoot the human you're trying to save
(surprising how easy it is to do).
As in the recent Sega shooting games, there are different paths you can take
through each level. What's different is you don't actually select where you
want to go. Where you go is determined by success or failure at certain
accuracy tests. Failing usually takes you on a harder path.
In two-player games, when you fight the bosses, sometimes if you fail to shoot
all the circles, the boss may pick up one of you and hold you in its teeth.
If this happens, the picked-up player must press Start repeatedly while the
other player must shoot circles. If you are successful, the boss drops you
and you escape damage; if you fail, you take damage.
And now for the game:
Stage 1
Starts off pretty basic. Shoot the Raptors running at you. You can shoot
barrels of Nitro on the screen to cause a big explosion and take out enemies
in the vicinity. After a minute or so you'll see a guy who's been wounded.
He'll point you towards more enemies running at you and then after that you'll
see him being dragged away. Shoot the dinosaur, not the guy. Sounds simple,
I know, but it's amazing how many people screw it up. Then after some more
shooting you'll see another guy who talks to you and then Spitters attack him.
Shoot them quickly before they release their deadly spit. After this section,
you hop in your car and start driving away. Shortly, you must shoot Raptors
on top of a Triceratops. If you fail this, your car goes flying. You're not
injured in the car crash, but now you must shoot Raptors coming at you. If
you succeeded, you drive to the part with Compys jumping all over a dead
Stegosauras and then some more Raptors. After this section you will then run
into a giant T-rex female. She's not a very difficult boss, you just have to
shoot the circles when you see them. Against this and every other boss, you
can shoot them at any time to cause very small amounts of damage with each
shot. But you could just as easily save your stamina and concentrate on
shooting the circles because they will never attack without the circles
appearing. Once she's dead you're off to the next stage.
Stage 2
At the beginning, you're in your car heading into a part with a lot of
Brachiosaurs. One of them will lift its feet up to stomp you. You must shoot
the circles on the foot before it comes crashing down, and then you must shoot
its tail right after this. Then you have to shoot the...uh...excrement coming
out of his...um...posterior, or else you will get stuck in it and have to
shoot Raptors before getting out. Then after this is a high-speed section
with Raptors running after you. During this scene is a part where a guy on a
motorcycle gets chased by them. Shoot to the left of the guy to take out the
Raptors running after him. He gives you the Shotgun power-up if you save him,
and right before him in a crate is the Grenade power-up. Then some more
Raptors appear, including a green one which takes three shots. Be careful.
Then the car stops, and a bunch of head-butting dinosaurs charge at you.
(Well, most of them charge at you, but some run off to the side, so you can
ignore them.) Then you drive your car onto a skinny bridge. A few Raptors
run after you, and then the Deinosuchus boss appears in the lake. He will
float around underneath for a while and then raise up to strike. Shoot the
circles to make him fall back in the water. He then does this some more with
different timing each time. Once you get all his energy down, you start to
drive away, but then he suddenly appears behind you and charges towards you on
the bridge. You have to shoot the circles very quickly. Once you do this,
the boss plops into the lake and you drive off to the next stage.
Stage 3
This is the lab and it starts off with lots of Raptors charging you. At one
point a door opens and they charge out. Then you see a guy get knocked over
by one. You must shoot the Raptor to save him and get Lightning. Another
Raptor will jump on a ceiling fan and the blades will fall down. You must
shoot the circles on each blade to avoid harm. You'll then go up some stairs
while being attacked constantly. You'll round a corner and find a guy getting
pounced upon by Compys. Don't shoot crazily here or you are almost guaranteed
to hit the guy and kill him. Instead, pick off the Compys one by one with
accurate shots. If you see one in front of him facing you, shoot it first
because it's getting ready to jump at you. Don't worry too much about the guy
getting killed by them unless you're really slow. After this, you'll see some
Raptors inside a room and you must now lock the door. To do this, you have to
input the password. The game shows you the correct number sequence and then
you must shoot the numbers the exact same way. Count the numbers out loud as
they appear so that you remember them better. This isn't hard but many people
screw it up because they don't pay attention or understand what's going on.
If you are successful the door is locked and the Raptors don't come out. If
you fail, they bust through the door and you must shoot them. After that you
run down a tunnel. You must shoot the circles on each successive wall to
escape. If you fail this, the wall comes down and traps you. You must then
shoot the Raptors as they charge out of the very dark area. After this, you
then escape.
Stage 4
You then realize that Ian and Sarah have gone in the dome and decide to take a
shortcut. You must shoot the top of the dome in one shot to fire a rope that
catches on the top that you slide down. If you fail this, Raptors bust out of
the vent shafts on the building you're standing on, and after defeating them,
you will automatically fire successfully at the dome. You then start to slide
down, but Pteranodons appear. You have to shoot them in the head to take them
down. Shooting them in the wings doesn't do very much. After fending them
off, you then proceed down into the dome where you find Ian and Sarah. You go
down to them only to find they are running away from the Carnotasaurus boss.
This is a "chameleon-type dinosaur" that only appears when he's going to
strike. When he gets down to about half energy or so, you decide to get out
of here by taking the elevator. You take a lift up to the second level and
start running for the elevator. Before you make it though, you have to shoot
the circles on the dinosaur from long-range. If you fail this, he stomps the
ground, and part of the floor gives way, dropping you down to the lower level
again. You then run for the lift again and get back up to the second level
and run for the elevator again only to find that he busts through the floor
and appears right in front of you. Shooting him diverts him away and you make
it to the elevator, where a cleverly placed Raptor is right inside. Another
Raptor also tries to get inside before the doors close so shoot him. The
elevator then starts to move, but the boss stomps the ground again and causes
it to stop. The doors open and he's right there again. Shoot him some more
until he's dead. Then you escape.
Stage 5
There's another guy getting attacked by Compys in this stage so use the same
strategy as you did before to save him. Once you get inside the trailer
thing, you are in big trouble because the Mom and Dad T-rexes appear on either
side of you. You have to shoot each one to get them away from the windows.
Then the mom will rip off the top of the trailer and you have to shoot the
pieces as they fall down at you. Then you escape in your car and start driving
away only to have the T-rex female chase you. This part is dark but there's a
light where your gun is pointing. You'll see the female running after you
(fast, ain't she?) and you have to shoot the circles to make her back off each
time she's about to strike. Once you get all her energy down, she falls to
the ground, but just before she dies, she calls her mate. The T-rex male
starts to chase you now. Some people in front of you point you to the right
so you drive your car that way and stop. You then turn around to see the T-
rex run past you and then you hear it killing the people who were just there.
One of them escapes through the building obscuring your view but then the T-
rex busts through the building and turns to face you. You must now fight it.
It sees two parked cars in front of it, so you must shoot the circles each
time it looks at them. If you fail this, it picks up a car and flings it at
you, and you must then quickly shoot the circles on the car. After this,
you'll shoot it some more, and then drive away, only to find you're in a dead-
end. You'll then turn around to see the T-rex staring right at you, and if
you don't sense a bit of panic now, you're probably not human. Gunfire from
the tower next to you will distract the T-rex for a moment. You must then
shoot the circles which appear. If you fail this, the T-rex bangs his head
against the tower, causing it to fall on you, and you must shoot the circles
on it. Then it grabs the guy out of the tower and eats him, which is bad for
you because this HEALS the T-rex some. You then shoot it some more until it
gets down to its last sliver of energy. He will then appear to run away, but
after a moment he will bust through the building ahead of you, and then you
must shoot him in his throat one last time to kill him. You then escape via
helicopter. Yippee.
That's it! If you're an average-to-great shooter you'll probably beat this
game in under $10, even with the fact that it costs 75 cents/play.
This FAQ was written by me, Joshua Harring. If you spotted something missing
or incorrect about this game, feel free to email me at
[email protected]. You may not post this on any website unless it is
written in its entirety, including this disclaimer. Thanks to Jeff Veasey of
www.gamefaqs.com for posting this, and again to Doug Elder for his many fine
contributions.
Copyright 1998 Joshua Harring
The Lost World: Jurassic Park is copyright Sega.
