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Video games and movies have always had a close relationship. It’s perfectly normal nowadays to see a movie based on a hit video game , and some of those movies are even good . Years ago, it was much more likely to see a video game based on a hit movie, and those games were almost always bad.
Although, the game based on The Lost World: Jurassic Park had one hell of an ending. The game for the original PlayStation based on The Lost World: Jurassic Park isn’t a particularly great game. Frankly, it's not exactly based on one of the best Jurassic Park movies to begin with, though it's far from the worst movie tie-in game ever made.
It does, however, have one of the most iconic endings in the history of the medium. A post containing the entire ending was recently put on Instagram , and it has continued to blow up, as more people discover a video of Jeff Goldblum congratulating them for beating the game, then telling them to turn off the machine and go outside. Check it out.
A post shared by CONSOLE HQ (@console_hq) A photo posted by on I have to say, if I spent hours of my life beating a video game, only to have a celebrity come on the screen and basically tell me I just wasted all my time and I should touch grass, I’d probably be upset. I certainly was when my parents said it. But somehow, when Jeff Goldblum does it, it doesn’t feel that bad.
I don’t even remember when I first saw this video. I don’t think I ever actually beat The Lost World game myself, but maybe I had a friend who did. Still, for the era of the original PlayStation, this is actually a great video game ending.
Getting a real video of one of the actors from the franchise, who looks like he filmed it during a break on the set, is the sort of thing that couldn’t have happened in previous console games. Today, video game tie-ins to big movies are a fairly rare occurrence. While they sometimes succeeded in selling well off of name recognition alone, they were frequently terrible due to often-shorted production windows and a frequent relief that since they had the name recognition, money simply didn’t need to be spent.
While a handful of games based on Jurassic World have come out over the years since the rebooted franchise launched, there was never a direct tie-in game that was based on the plot of any of the films. It makes me want to get a game based on the upcoming Jurassic World: Rebirth where Scarlett Johansson or Mahershala Ali tell me to go outside. That alone would be worth playing through it.
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