Dinosaur video games

[Paleomimi]

I was surprised to see there wasn't a topic for that already so here it is, the topic to discuss dinosaurs in video games in general! Not just dinosaur themed video games, but also games that just happen to have dinosaurs in them.

I'll start with two platformers that I discovered recently and pleasantly surprised me! Jet Kave Adventure and Marsupilami Hoobadventure. Both are solid platformers with thigh controls and good level design. I also find them to be quite beautiful in their art direction, both are highly stylised. And also both cost almost nothing during discounts.


Jet Kave Adventure: The entire game is prehistoric themed


Marsupilami Hoobadventure has a dinosaur themed world in it

[Spinokaprogorgon]

Anyone else ever played Dino hunter: deadly shores? Im at region 12 right now. I've also completed carnivores 4 times, and I'm at level 44 in jurassic world the game.

[Torvosaurus]

"Carnivores", including "Carnivores 2" and "Carnivores: Ice Age". It is, or was, a first person shooter game where you hunted dinosaurs. There was a 2nd hunting game, "Prey" maybe(?), that was more or less the Carnivores games with better graphics.

Torvo

[Pachyrhinosaurus]

I've played:

Zoo Tycoon: Dinosaur Digs
Zoo Tycoon 2: Dino Danger Pack/Extinct Animals
Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis
Carnivores, Carnivores 2, and Carnivores: Ice Age
Primal Carnage/Extinction
Dino D-Day
Jurassic World: Evolution
Prehistoric Kingdom

[Carnotaurus]

My favorite of my childhood was The Lost World: Jurassic Park for PSX; then Operation Genesis and now Path of Titans! so much fun!
This last one reallly give me some Carnivores feeling (kind of...); i think because of the landscape. Great games the Carnivores series.

Greets!

[Halichoeres]

I've played:

Zoo Tycoon: Dinosaur Digs
Zoo Tycoon 2: Dino Danger Pack/Extinct Animals
Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis
Carnivores, Carnivores 2, and Carnivores: Ice Age
Primal Carnage/Extinction
Dino D-Day
Jurassic World: Evolution
Prehistoric Kingdom

I also played Zoo Tycoon many years ago! I think there were one or two species I was never able to contain. Maybe that was the point?

[ZelSeraph]

I remember playing Sea Monsters ages ago.
You played as a prehistoric animal and I think you could hunt others and get hunted, I barely remember much... I must have not liked it much because my most vivid memory is learning how to put stuff on eBay to sell it


Dino Island however was a game I liked to play, it's a zoo sim like Zoo Tycoon etc but more comedic and you could create and fuse dinosaurs and get some crazy results.


And I also played Land before our Time and Dinosaur on the Game Boy back then, I remember liking them both quite a lot.

[Stegotyranno420]

@ZelSeraph dude you reactivated nostalgia in me that I didnt even know existed. The second game, those designs look similar to those shorts of the dinosaurs and that pig that used to surface on YT in the early 10s

[ZelSeraph]

@ZelSeraph dude you reactivated nostalgia in me that I didnt even know existed. The second game, those designs look similar to those shorts of the dinosaurs and that pig that used to surface on YT in the early 10s

Oh yes! Those were actually from this game. I think if you finished certain missions or the campaign, you got a new video featuring a pig and the dinosaurs. All I remember is the T-Rex using the pig as a basketball or something... for that time, it was hilarious 

[Giganotosaurus]

List of Jurassic video games I have:

Jurassic Park (Gameboy)
Jurassic Park (SNES)
Warpath (PS1)
Operation Genesis (PS2)
Lego Jurassic World (PS4)
Jurassic World Evolution (PS4)
Jurassic World Evolution 2 (XBOX Series X)

Other games containing dinosaurs:

Disney's Dinosaur (Gameboy)
Zoo Tycoon and Zoo Tycoon II, all expansions
The Land Before Time: Big Water Adventure (both PC and PS1)

[Nehalennia]

I've been playing videogames for decades and tried a good bunch of dinosaur-related ones, but for some reason none of those games has ever truly captured my imagination. The recent Jurassic World: Evolution games were actually pretty good, but it still didn't hit that specific spot for me so many other classic games have.

Perhaps Trespasser has given me the most joy, but then again mostly from a theoretical point of view, the potential of the game and what it tried to achieve - it was a broken game in many regards.

A pity, as you'd think the source material would offer developers plenty of opportunities to go wild and create truly memorable games! But perhaps I'm just too picky, or I haven't played the right games yet.

[Paleomimi]

Did you know there is a Schleich dinosaur video game?



I did play it expecting a simple but fun game but unfortunately it wasn't very good. The game consists almost entirely of traveling back and forth a large but mostly empty map to fulfill fetch quests.

[Paleomimi]

I've been playing videogames for decades and tried a good bunch of dinosaur-related ones, but for some reason none of those games has ever truly captured my imagination. The recent Jurassic World: Evolution games were actually pretty good, but it still didn't hit that specific spot for me so many other classic games have.

Perhaps Trespasser has given me the most joy, but then again mostly from a theoretical point of view, the potential of the game and what it tried to achieve - it was a broken game in many regards.

A pity, as you'd think the source material would offer developers plenty of opportunities to go wild and create truly memorable games! But perhaps I'm just too picky, or I haven't played the right games yet.

I feel exactly the same way. Considering how popular dinosaurs are, it's surprising there is so few great dinosaur games out there. There are some that I like such as the Combat of Giant series but none that are truly amazing games.

[Joliezac]

I used to have Jurassic Park Builder and Jurassic World the Game on my tablet when I was younger. I still have my Jurassic World the Game account although my ipad no longer works.

Recently I have been playing Path of Titans. I've been having fun with it, it can be relaxing or stressful and tense depending on how you play. It is constantly being updated which is great.

[Noideaforaname]

DinoPark Tycoon was my jam way back in the day. Despite the intent to teach money management skills, I quickly found out the real estate office handed out infinite refundeds for no particular reason. 

Also featured a super secret dino that you could never get since its egg was always dropped...


(Goes without saying, but I thoroughly enjoyed its spiritual successors, JPOG and JWE.)



The vaguely Pokemon-esque Jurassic Park Dinosaur Battles is a game I remember soley because my "starter" Velociraptor was somehow obscenely overpowered. As in, every enemy down to the final boss could be taken down in just a few hits -- at no point did my Raptor level up or anything, it was just that good. The game occasionally forces you to switch dinos, and stats/abilities are determined by a sort of Tetris minigame, but nothing came close to the stater raptor.