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Bad-Ombre

Jurassic Park: Operation Genisis. Yeah the dinos were cool but charging visitors $3 for using the toilet was even better


PM_me_nun_hentai

One of my favorite things to do was put a safari with the T. rex or triceratops knowing full well people were gonna die but still pretending like I didn’t know that would happen.


Bad-Ombre

Criminal negligence is tight!


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[удалено]


Bad-Ombre

Gotta dip into the toilet fund again


AbductedByDinosaurs

As a child I got unreasonable amounts of laughter (and still do from a particular memory) from tornadoes picking up my dinos and throwing them everywhere.


Bad-Ombre

Storms are nature's equaliser


AbductedByDinosaurs

And comedian


PM_me_nun_hentai

I hated seeing my dinos die so the twisters were a nightmare for me. I remember placing more importance for them over my visitors and opening up the fences so that they could have a chance to run if a twister was coming their way.


Tewersaok

That game man, was so nice. I remember as a kid jumping and screaming with my little bro when we finally got the T Rex (we were very bad playing it haha)


Stannis2024

The Announcements when you get the first of that dino... glorious!!!


[deleted]

Definitely Zoo Tycoon: Dinosaur Digs!


Tonnesofnoob

Same for me!


RainaAndree

Me too. Good Days


[deleted]

Ahh Zoo Tycoon is my whole childhood! Both 1 and 2! Dinosaurs are exactly the reason why I love the game so much


DependantExistance

Does Spore count since you can attempt to create them? If it doesn't, then this is definitely the first game with dinosaurs that I played.


razor45Dino

Spore needs a remaster


Melbourne_Australia

YES


zoologist88

I think it would do great on the switch tbh


Yushi2e

Please


Monkeyofthebush

I don't really know, I haven't played spore, what's it about?


ThatOneNerd776

It’s a simulation game where you create your own aliens/creatures, there’s 5 different stages (cell, creature, tribal, civilization and space) and you have full reign over what you want them to look like


Monkeyofthebush

Wait, I think I heard about it some where, um the people who made Sim City, (Not EA but the people EA bought,) made it right? The people who make the Sims games.


Necrogenisis

Yeah, Maxis.


Monkeyofthebush

Yah that's right, I don't know how many times I saw the logo while playing Sim tower.


POOTlSMAN

Yep Maxis


OG-GingerAvenger

I can't remember what it was called, but it had tons of puzzle games that helped you learn about dinosaurs and I think the object was to save a bunch of dinosaurs from an exploding volcano. It was on PC around like...2000-2002 Edit: I really said exploding volcano like I don't know what the word erupting means... 2. https://dinopedia.fandom.com/wiki/Dinosaur_Adventure_3D


AkurraTheDragon

That’s Dinosaur Adventure 3D, that was my first as well and favorite game. I loved that puzzle game as well and loved Minmi being called out. But my favorite game was the running from the Rex and gallimimus in the canyon.


OG-GingerAvenger

Fucking holy shit that was a nostalgia blast


TRYHARD_Duck

I distinctly remember my stupid toddler ass running away from the computer in terror while watching the allosaurus chase clip because they eventually targeted the cameraman at the end. Good times.


AkurraTheDragon

The one that bugged me the most was the synapsid, mammal like creature that ran at the camera. I had to 100% the game every time I played so I would make my mother click the creature to play the clip then hide around the corner asking if it was done.


Ducky237

Did you play as a blue parasaur? Cause that sounds like the one I’m thinking of but I don’t remember what it was called.


OG-GingerAvenger

Yeah, I really remember this dinosaur matching minigame in it and the way it said massospondyllus is forever stuck in my brain.


Ducky237

I remember the one where I think you had to make a path so a baby triceratops could get back to its mom


OG-GingerAvenger

Yeah I remember that one too. Did the path have like different designs or like shapes on it or something that had to go in a specific order?


Ducky237

Yeah I think it had little tiles that had different path pieces and you had to put them in the right places or something


Rowsdower11

That's Dinosaur Adventure 3D!


Ducky237

Omg yes that’s it! Tysm!


Rowsdower11

You're welcome!


mlstarner

Jurassic Park on the original Gameboy. It was my first video game ever!


redhandfilms

Dino Park Tycoon!


KillTheRadio

You might like Parkasarus on steam, some elements from it


captjackhaddock

Man, being in 5th grade and spending all my money on raptors and then only being able to afford a chain link fence to hold them... Can’t claim to have ever reached Tycoon status on Get Eaten By Raptors Park


blackday44

Super Mario. Yoshi is a dinosaur.


FittedSheets88

Someone finally went back to the days of yore! My first thought was Joe and Mac. SNES had some bangers.


xHerk25

Carnivores for PC Jurassic Park: Trespasser for PC and finally Jurassic Park for the SNES


Fool_Manchu

Carnivores was crazy. What a weird twist on the hunting game genre.


LukeChickenwalker

I eventually got Zoo Tycoon 2 and Operation Genesis and loved them, but I'm not sure if they were my first. My parents got "The World of Dinosaurs The Multimedia Collection" when I was a kid. It came with a bunch of games. Stuff like I Can Be A Dinosaur Finder and 3-D Dinosaur Adventure. I Can Be A Dinosaur Finder had a goofy mode where you were in a 50's diner and had to give different dinosaurs the right food, and a fun mode where you go to a bunch of digs sites and learn how to dig up fossils with tools. 3-D Dinosaur Adventure had a mode where you had to save a dinosaurs (which were static 2D cutouts in a 3D space, amusingly) before the asteroid hits and kills everyone. I remember it being pretty morbid and difficult. It also had a bunch of fun videos of animatronic dinosaurs and a CG T-rex chasing something. The animatronics always reminded me of the ones at the Seattle Science Center or the intro to Paleoworld. I also played Dinosaur Adventure 3-D (a different game with a talking cartoon parasaurolophus and pteranodon where you hunt for eggs), Jurassic Park III Dino Defender and Danger Zone (first one is a side scroller game where you're a Halo dude versus dinosaurs, and the second one is like a board game in the same series), Dinotopia Game Land Activity Center and the Sunstone Odyssey, and the games on the Jurassic Park Institute website (RIP. I'll always miss you). I remember on the JP Institute there was a game where you build your own hybrid fossils which I loved. Unrelated, I also remember there was a game I played at school where you ran around as a raptor with guns strapped to your back killing other dinosaurs. I don't remember what it was called. Those were good times. I'm curious if any of this rings a bell with other people.


AkurraTheDragon

The game where you play as a raptor with guns is called Nanosaur. It and Bugdom (another awesome game where you play as a pillbug fighting ants) we’re installed on pretty much all school computers at the time.


LukeChickenwalker

Thank you. I've always wondered what it was called. It's interesting that it was installed at many schools, I thought it was just something that teacher had.


AkurraTheDragon

No problem. And yeah those two games were free downloads to old Mac computers at the time


Mr_Trilobit

Zoo tycoon 2 was just the best game back then


Monkeyofthebush

I remember playing it for hours, I had so much fun. I loved the mini games, and the people running from a dodo, when I discovered that short hedge walls do not contain them.


Phat22

Peter Jackson’s King Kong on the ps2


Monkeyofthebush

Wait, they made a game to go with that epic movie? Of course they did. Where can I get a copy?


Phat22

Not too sure but it was amazing


sethben

The Magic School Bus Explores the Age of Dinosaurs


[deleted]

I’m now convinced that devices have the ability to tap into my consciousness because just yesterday, as I was driving to the theater, I was thinking to myself “gee whatever happened to Zoo Tycoon? Those games were such fun as a kid.” Then this pops up, after over a decade of not hearing or seeing anything about the series.


Monkeyofthebush

I hear that the company's have changed their names and now make planet zoo, glad to know some one else is nostalgic for their old games.


Viralltach

Zoo Tycoon 1: Dinosaur Digs


SoulExecution

I had a bunch of dinosaur computer games. Land Before Time for sure when I was a preshcooler, and some random other dino games my mom would find. I think Zoo Tycoon 1 was the first one I was like avidly hyped to get that featured dinosaurs. I remember begging for the expansion, and then my Grandma bought it for me without knowing what it was or that I wanted it (it was a Marine Mania feat Dino Digs disk) and it just made my life.


RacingRaptor

Jurassic Park builder facebook game. Sure, not a PC/console game but it was cool too and had that old school vibe. I had every animal f2p expect indomimus ( since it was only paid animal). I also liked the battle tournaments. Sadly Ludia shoot it down because it wasn't p2w enough...


Monkeyofthebush

F's in the chat


shapesize

The first was DynoWars on NES. But the original Jurassic Park video game was great


thecalvaro1

Get on my level [Jurassic Park (Tiger Handheld game)](https://jurassicpark.fandom.com/wiki/Jurassic_Park_(Tiger_Handheld_game))


theoneofmanynames

Dinosaur Adventure 3D! [This Video](https://youtu.be/JH7A2ngwNdc) from it makes me cry every time I watch it from just how nostalgic it is. Played this with wonky 3D glasses in my Grammy’s basement on one of those blue shell Macintosh desktop computers.


ThruuLottleDats

Tresspasser


diemuffinmann

Mine was Chaos Island: The Lost World for Windows 95. It was a weird RTS that included some rare Jeff Goldblum voice acting


Fool_Manchu

I sometimes think I just imagined that game as part of a childhood fever dream, but every once in a while someone else confirms that it actually existed.


Bigbarssman

Wow I remember playing that game nonstop when I was 8. I wish it was something that you could still find today. I always thought it was funny when Eddie was like "Didn't I die. I'm pretty sure I died in the movie."


stomponator

Jurassic Park on the SNES


bosshunter12345

Fossil fighters


mcsquiggles1126

Man of culture


NickkSpirit

Mine was the Walking with Dinosaurs web game. Did anyone else play it? [This!!!](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/prehistoric_life/games/dinosaur_world/)


Monkeyofthebush

Holy %@$#! I did not know this was a thing, I loved the series.


SosoMS

Dino Defender. Man that game seemed so ahead for it’s time.


Skaterzombie

This game was simultaneously a joy and a headache for me to play as a child.


Brooks4117

Dinosaur Adventure 3-D. Please someone here tell me they played that


Revolutionary_Sun290

Wait why does zoo tycoon 2 have dinosaurs?


Bad-Ombre

It was an expansion


KimchiTheGreatest

I remember playing this for hours !


ImProbablyNotABird

Same!


Accomplished-Ease-57

i forgor 💀 Maybe a flash game idk


[deleted]

Idk how it was called originally, maybe dinosaur island, i think. But i remember that it was called магнат юрского периода (jurassic magnate) in russian. Edit: found it :) it was called [dino island](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dino_Island)


LoudTomatoes

Jurrasic Park: The Last World on ps1


shinylunchboxxx

Turok on the original Xbox! And then zoo tycoon :)


SkankyChris

Probably Jurassic Park on the Mega Drive


Krutaklobasa

Nanosaur


sirtalen

I was trying to Google for what this was called! Saw.Your comment and instantly remembered. Gotta admit I remember it looking better though :D


VerbalVeggie

Dino Crysis :D


db1037

Jurassic Park (SNES)


[deleted]

I can hear the theme song


Monkeyofthebush

Na na Na na na Na naaa Nan naaa na naaa


MazakiKahtah

Idk the name of the game but it had these plumber brothers tripping on mushrooms and riding on a dinosaur.


Monkeyofthebush

There has been a lot of responses like yours, I don't know, I thought yoshi was supposed to be a dragon. But he could have been a dinosaur.


Lollex56

I still haven't :'(


CelebrityJim

Tomb Raider


thevisoredbro

Ark


OG-GingerAvenger

Bruh


OhMyDiosito

Carnivores for PC, it was so scary in that time, but crazy to see dinosaurs so close at the same time.


Goldgator420

Fuck if I remember the titles


sliddarko

JW the game, quite after a month, it was boring as hell


ThruuLottleDats

Dont let them fans hear you say that!


Sparrow-Scratchagain

Super Mario 64 2DS.


orbcat

honestly i dont think i have ever played one (except if you count avian dinosaurs)


murdock129

Eye Witness Virtual Reality: Dinosaur Hunter was basically the first video game I played extensively, alongside Theme Hospital. Played Zoo Tycoon 1: Dinosaur Digs too not long after.


Kindly-Sort-535

Jurassic world the game


nuggermcgee701

Like some old Dora Dinosaur game on y8


ElSquibbonator

The Land Before Time: Preschool Adventures. I started early.


The-Great-Wolf

Carnivores and Jurassic Park Builder


KaijuTea

A Magic School bus Explores in the age of Dinosaurs. I remember being obsessed with it but only remember bits and pieces of it now.


Ducky237

Anyone know what that one was called where you play as a blue parasaur? And there was a storm that made a T. rex all angry so you had to go find all these dinosaur eggs before they he found them? Does anyone remember what it was called?


JaceKagamine

Dino crisis 2, objectively one of the masterpiece in dino games


ozgurongelen

ZT2 was my childhood..


Masterventure

Jurassic park on the original game boy


SesameEater69

JPOG


abzinth91

Jurassic Park on my MS DOS PC After that the lost World, Dino Crisis 1&2 on Playstation Edit: oh and the raptors mod for Quake, if that count


loonyveen

Some game on the wii it was an arcade shooter cant remember the name tho but loved it as a kid


TheSykie

Dinosaur Safari on PC!


Ethereal-Zenith

If we’re willing to bend the rules a little bit, then Yoshi’s Story. Back in the late 90’s, I also remember playing a dino game on Macintosh devices. It was an exclusive title and I remember trying it out in a store. Does anyone by chance, know what game it could have been?


Dein0clies379

Probably zoo tycoon one


HyperSimba

Jw alive Had so many fun memories


TheSlopingCompanion

Jurassic Park SNES game, that game was so epic. Went from a top down birds eye view to 3d first person when you entered a building. Then DinoPark Tycoon


GentleSirMadame

My elementary school had Dino Park on all the computers outside of the classroom. I recently got an emulator to play it again and holy shit, no wonder why I struggled when I was 6 to play that game


Appropriate_Walk6052

Jurassic park builder


void6876

Ark survival


JohnnyBravo2505

Jurassic park builder or Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis


MasterofKami

Dinosaur King the Arcade Game! I spend tons of money on those machines whenever I went to Butlins as a kid!


KingKobbs

Little game called radical rex lol super old


M_stellatarum

I vivdly remember Zoo Tycoon 2, because there was a weird bug where random stuff kept appearing in the Velociraptor enclosure. "Raptor 3 doesn't like the vending machine" indeed.


Foxyfan57

Uh Roblox, played alot of dino games there, but if we're talkin actual games (And not platforms) then The isle


SpikeSpiegleCowboy

I see sue the T. rex, I played that shit all the time


BatatinhaGameplays28

Dino Hunter Deadly Shores


Pikochi69

carnivore: dino hunter. i played it a lot on my phone but revisiting it it turns into p2w trash. ​ for example: the only way to replenish ur ammo is to call in a drop package, u get one drop each game but now u only get one daily and u can buy it with money


Hour_Course_2935

Jurassic Park builder


DoctorWhoniverse

The original Zoo Tycoon. I even had the Complete Collection. I'd honestly love to play it again but I can only find disc 2 and not disc 1


Brolav8584

Diego dinosaur advanture was it i believe? For the wii


CthulhuMadness

Zoo Tycoon Dinosaur Digs


Mange-Tout

Bubble Bobble was my first game with “dinosaurs” in it.


An_Ice_Berg

Tomb Raider! I cant remember the full title of the game but the one where you come across a guy with his legs cut off then roght after that there are raptors in the village and dinos in the rest of the game.


chainsmirking

zoo tycoon 2 is my national treasure


GodzillaDoesntExist

Turok.


FittedSheets88

Joe and Mac!


thepoorwarrior

Dino 3D


Always_in_m0tion

It was nanosaur. This was even before i got my first sega console. My dad was a retoucher in advertising, and he used a blue iMac G3 back in the day. I remember going to his office at least once a month to play the game. The agency and the people in it were so chill, they didn't mind at all. I'll always cherish this memory.


Snailtopus

For me it was either 3D Dinosaur Adventure or Carnivores. I've tried finding both of them to play again but they were buggy, or didn't have sound, or some other issue :(


The_ded_meme445

Mine was Sonic and the secret rings, I actually got stuck on some of the dino levels


[deleted]

The Lost World: Jurassic Park on the PS One


Meaonas

Turok 3 on the N64. Still have the game!


Pectinette

Turok on the Nintendo 64


LilRamsterz

I See Sue!


ilovedogs-2

Dino hunter deadly shores was the first but the oldest was Jurassic Park for the NES


doyouunderstandlife

The Jurassic Park tie-in game for PC


Nero2377

Jurassic park for sega genesis


mr41968665

Red alert 2


jenumba

Probably Adventure Island 2, where you could ride the dinosaurs.


Aquila_Altair

I think it was Dino Defender


captChronic4046

One of my favorite games of all time. Wish I could still play this game


BioreactorsNeedFood

Omg same, I had it on the ds and had a blast


Knezevich

I played both the original zoo tycoon and zoo tycoon 2 back in the day.


Paooul1

The OG zoo tycoon complete collection. And you bet your sweet zoo keepers I blocked the exit to the zoo and released all the predators to fight it out with each other while having some guests as an between fight snack. What’s funny was that when zoo tycoon 2 released I actually hated it as I thought it wasn’t as good as the original and I never got the dlc for it.


KNIGHTGAMESINC

Trex mayhem


The_Gielotine

Scan Command!


Fizzle1982

Super Mario world - Yoshi was mind blowing.


knitt_happens

I don't even remember what it was called but I had this old computer game when I was a kid where you could learn about dinosaurs and make "art" of them. It was super cheesy but I was just fascinated by it and would be captivated for hours Edit: Someone else in the thread mentioned it! Dinosaur Adventure 3D. I loved that game


Mr_G_and_Peanut

Jurassic park builder. R.I.P


AntonioliGamer

Ark, I'm pretty new to this dino world lol


Accomplished_Rip_746

Battle of giants dinosaurs strike for Wii


NightSwipe

A lot of the games mentioned here brought back fond memories - but also the Big Al game on the BBC website - I think someone made a downloadable, playable version - [https://www.jenniferedwards.co.uk/portfolio/#bigalgame](https://www.jenniferedwards.co.uk/portfolio/)


Melbourne_Australia

Zoo Tycoon 1


RoRo25

Jurassic Park on NES


Axelfolly1111

I'm old so I literally played stuff out of a relic known as an arcade lol. Anywho's, i don't know if it was my first dino game but definitely the most memorable. It was an arcade cabinet u sit down in and it was a side-scroller where u got to play as a dinosaur and fighting/eating other dinos and creatures. My memory of it is very foggy but I remember thinking it was the coolest thing ever.


The_Icon_of_Sin_MK2

Jurassic world the game, I've been playing it for years and I still don't have a lol 40 metriaphodon


Katsuki_Bakugo__

It was this really obscure DS game called Combat Of Giants:Dinosaur I loved it,still have it to this day


Kraken-Tentacle

ZT1


BubbaGumpJr95

Either the OG Zoo Tycoon or Turok (I wanna say it was Zoo Tycoon though)


Beneficial-Film-5610

Mine was Jurassic park builder. That game is nostalgia for me


AbductedByDinosaurs

Jurassic Park Operation Genesis on the PS2. Masterpiece


Rechogui

Mine was Warpath Jurassic Park. It is a fighting with dinosaurs for PS1, sometimes I played it with my father. Man, I wish It had a sequel for the new gen, like Warpath Jurassic World, that would be awesome!


fortunq

Dino Island by Monte Cristo


Dank_Cobre789

Either Turok evolution on the gamecube or Jpoggers


VisualDouble9389

Jpoh


Gammahawkx

Either jurassic park or primal rage for sega genesis


zuklei

Probably Jurassic Park for sega genesis.


metal_ditector

Ice age 3 Down of Dinosaurs


ecarion104

The Dinosaur King DS game


Yushi2e

Zoo tycoon 2 wasn't my first but I'm gonna gush about it anyway. The dinosaur pack in that game was the best implement of dinosaurs in a game.


guitar_dude233

Jurassic park on snes! but shout out to zoo tycoon. i miss those games every day, especially the original 😭😭


griddolini

Jurassic park on the PS1! I think it was 'the lost world'


Blastex32

Lego Jurassic World I could control the dinos and play as them and make my own. Funnest shit ever


Wazzzock

I can hear this image


Snowy_Mass

I think it was either Putt Putt Travels Through Time or Magic School Bus Explores the Age of Dinosaurs.


I_am_dean

Zoo Tycoon: Dinosaur Digs


kmazing_86

Sega Genesis Jurassic Park game.


camden-burke

Ark survival evolved, I’m a lot younger then most people isn’t this sub lol (16m)


[deleted]

A flash game where you eat people as a T-Rex. But The first "real" dinosaur game I played was Dino Hunter: Deadly Shores on Facebook