Every Jurassic Park Video Game, Ranked

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As a nearly 30-year-old film franchise, Jurassic Park has had more than its fair share of game tie-ins, spin-offs, and oddities. The pitch of «dinosaurs on an island» has been stretched to the point of breaking with the recently released Jurassic World Dominion, and dozens of games exist to fill in any gaps. The result is a truly strange patchwork of arcade, home console, and PC games that vary in quality and experience just as much — if not more — than the films do.

When the original Jurassic Park stomped onto the scene in 1993, game developers were quick to vie for the rights to create tie-in games for home consoles. These early games were anything but faithful to the movie, trading sci-fi thriller for run-and-gun shooter — despite Robert Muldoon's iconic line of «shoot her!», the first trilogy was remarkably light on killing dinosaurs. Still, battling dinosaur hordes quickly became the norm for any Jurassic Park game for the first decade of Jurassic Park games.

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Jurassic Park games tend to fall into a few different categories, from arcade shooters to full-blown park management sims. Comparing a 1993 NES release to a 2015 LEGO tie-in is debatably fruitful, but doable nonetheless. So, here's a list of every Jurassic Park game released, ranked from worst to best.

First and worst is Trespasser, a 1998 game developed by DreamWorks Interactive for Microsoft Windows and envisioned as a sequel to the film The Lost World. Trespasser was technically ambitious, but over two decades later it has a reputation for just how bad it is. The game's unintuitive controls, buggy physics systems, and poor performance on even high-end PCs all resulted in a frankly terrible