It was released for Windows, Xbox, and PlayStation 2. I'm simply saying that life, uh, finds a way.Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis is a construction and management simulation video game based on the Jurassic Park series developed by Blue Tongue Entertainment and published by Universal Interactive, with the console versions being co-published with Konami.

Though clearly not everyone wants money - sadly JPOG isn't currently sold anywhere, so you'll need to scour the second-hand market. It also gets across the idea that the people behind it all are heartless bastards only interested in the bottom line: even after everything goes to hell, you'll recover, the park will recover and you'll do it all again. It leans towards this kid-friendly, naturally, but it does a great job of conveying that foolish collision of murderous giant lizards with a happy, clappy theme park, and the inevitable descent into disaster. In this instance, you are the park's manager, and so the inevitably-spilled tourist blood is on your hands.

Initially it's all cooing at delightful dinos, but rest assured that nature will find a way to bust the deadlier thunder lizards out before too long.

It follows the same arc as most things JP: the people in charge of the park are certain they're in control, until they're not. So, for me, the most Jurassic Parky Jurassic Park experience other than Jurassic Park is Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis, best described as 'theme park with dinosaurs.' Mad made-up monsters, no sense of an ecology, not even much time spent getting across that this was a super-safari park for nature's most startling creations. I just watched Jurassic World, and came away deflated that it was a dinosaur film in name only. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time.

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