Jurassic Park

Jurassic Park fused Michael Crichton's cautionary techno-thriller with Steven Spielberg's gift for awe, and the 1993 film's first glimpse of a living dinosaur remains a benchmark for blockbuster wonder. Its premise is also its warning: a theme park of resurrected predators, run by people too dazzled by their own cleverness to ask whether they should. That tension between spectacle and hubris has powered the franchise ever since.

The series spans Crichton's source novels, the Spielberg-era films, the rebooted Jurassic World run, and a long line of games that let players either survive the parks or build them, from arcade shooters to the management-sim depth of the Jurassic World Evolution titles. Few franchises let you experience the same fantasy from so many angles: as victim, as visitor, and as the operator gambling that this time the fences will hold.

The Jurassic Park franchise spans 1 books, 8 games, 6 films in the CrossBinge catalog.