Jurassic Park is a 1993 science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg, based upon the novel of the same name written by Michael Crichton. The story involves scientists visiting an amusement park of genetically engineered dinosaurs on an island over one weekend. Sabotage sets the carnivorous dinosaurs on the loose, and technicians and visitors attempt to escape the island.
Ever since the announcement of the 1993 Jurassic Park feature film, based on the critically acclaimed novel by Michael Crichton, developer Ocean Software, Blue Sky Software and Sega of America were outsourced to produce games to be sold to coincide with the release of the film on the popular platforms of the time.
Jurassic Park is a video game based on the film and novel of the same name for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). The object of the game is to survive in the park where the dinosaurs have escaped.
Jurassic Park was a video game for the Super NES/Super Famicom based on the book by Michael Crichton. It was developed by Ocean Software and released in 1993. The player views everything from the top-down view for most of the game, but inside buildings he or she experiences the game from the first person view, arguably making it an early first-person shooter.
Jurassic Park is the name of a rail shooter arcade game developed by Sega in 1994. Gameplay has much in common with the classic rail shooter Operation Wolf, as players fend off their vehicle from dinosaur attacks with automatic weaponry. A follow up called The Lost World: Jurassic Park reached arcades in 1997.
Jurassic Park is a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic. It is a parody of "MacArthur Park" by Richard Harris, written as a humorous take on the film of the same name.
Jurassic Park is a techno-thriller novel written by Michael Crichton that was published in 1990. Often considered a cautionary tale on unconsidered biological tinkering in the same spirit as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, it uses the mathematical concept of chaos theory and its philosophical implications to explain the collapse of an amusement park showcasing certain genetically recreated dinosaur species. It was adapted into a film in 1993.
Jurassic Park was the twelfth project on which John Williams worked with Steven Spielberg. The score of the film lay as the benchmark for John Williams' modern composing, having just left a more tender era of his scores for such films as Home Alone 1 and 2 and Hook.
