Northstar Pinball Collective · Savage, MN · 105 games · first seen Dec 3, 2023 · last seen Nov 7, 2025
Strategy notes, tutorial videos, and outside resources.
DE Jurassic Park pinball machine has 105 recorded tournament games in Savage, MN. A game runs about 16m, the median of 105 timed games, so budget for that in a round with a clock on it. The better-ranked player loses here 53.8% of the time, which puts it at 34/100 for difficulty. That is a low-variance machine: scores hold up and the stronger player usually wins, so it rewards the favorite.
Get TriBall, shoot left loop for jackpot, hit all CHAOS shots, feed Rex, hit both loop and ramp for 2nd jackpot. Rinse-Repeat.
You have one Smart Missile per game. If TriBall is ready hitting the Smart Missile button will start multiball.
If the final ball is draining during the second phase of Tri-Ball (spell chaos) and you haven't used the smart missile yet, use it!
There is a short ball save after hitting the raptor pit, even if you drain out an outlane.
You will get tri-ball on ball 3 no matter what. Start control room modes on the middle scoop rather than shooting dinos for MB.
Smart missile is disabled once you hit an outlane switch or drain. If you're planning on using it as you drain you have to be very fast.
Shooting the egg from the bottom flippers is a suckers play, it will drain down the middle too often. Hit it from the top-right flipper.
Outside modes, a musical sting may introduce a T-Rex crossing left to right on the display, with an aimed pistol in the foreground. Pull the ball launch gun trigger repeatedly to kill it and score 10 million. (Don't drain trying!)
Lighting all 11 system CRTs enables System Failure, available at the Control Room scoop. Play a 6 ball multiball for 45 seconds. You are awarded 1 million per target hit.
Complete the video skill shot by killing the dinosaur with the ball launch gun trigger when it's in your sights. 'FIRE!' appears in the display corners as a timing helper.
