40 Fun Facts About Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis

Which dinosaurs spit venom at their prey in Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis, just as they do in the first film?

Dilophosaurus spits venom here because the developers followed the films; they later found there is no evidence the real animal could do it.

Which dinosaurs in Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis were given an animation of climbing fences to escape?

Velociraptor packs scale the fences, and the developers kept them human-sized as in the films; they are also the only small carnivores rated five stars.

Which live animals are fed to carnivores at the feeding stations of Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis?

Cows and goats keep carnivores fed but not content: the game gives them an innate desire to hunt other dinosaurs, so livestock alone is never enough.

Besides fossils, what can dig teams unearth that yields dinosaur DNA in Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis?

Amber and fossils are the only DNA sources, and better specimens yield more; the silver, gold and opal that teams sometimes dig up can only be sold.

Whose film scores was the composer of Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis told to make the game's music resemble?

John Williams scored the first two films, and two of his own tracks play in the game beside ten new ones written in his style.

Which mode of Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis, with no fences or visitors, unlocks once every mission is completed?

Site B was added because the developers kept locking the camera on a favourite dinosaur and leaving the game running like a fish tank.

Which vehicle can players pilot themselves in Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis to sedate an escaped dinosaur?

A helicopter can also herd dinosaurs that stray too far from a viewing tower, and players who prefer to manage can leave the flying to an AI ranger.

Which weather hazard can destroy fences and stress dinosaurs into a rampage in Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis?

Tornadoes were a deliberate design choice: once players research stronger fences, a late-game park would otherwise feel too safe to be Jurassic Park.

Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis is often likened to SimCity and which 2001 management game from Microsoft?

Zoo Tycoon is the natural comparison: both have you pen animals, feed them and keep visitors happy, though here a broken fence can get guests eaten.

Which studio, fresh from making a Starship Troopers game, developed Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis?

Blue Tongue Entertainment, based in Australia, grew from a team of about 20 on its previous game to about 40 by the end of this one.

Which ensemble performed the ten original music tracks written for Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis?

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra's recording is credited as the first orchestral video game score to be recorded in Australia.

A version of Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis for which Nintendo console was planned, then cancelled in 2003?

GameCube owners were promised a version for later in 2003, but the team dropped it to concentrate on the three versions that did ship.

Which planned feature of Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis was dropped, ending ideas for a petting area?

Baby dinosaurs were tried by shrinking the adults, which looked wrong; doing them properly needed new models and AI, as much work as adding species.

Which animals seen in Jurassic Park III were cut from Operation Genesis in development, along with marine reptiles?

Pterosaurs and marine reptiles were the losses the team said it missed most when the planned roster shrank to species players knew from the films.

Which tiny dinosaur familiar to film fans was left out of Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis because of its size?

Compsognathus, the pack-hunting Compy of the second film, would have been very difficult to see from a park builder's camera, the developers decided.

Which giant herbivore's fossils can be found at more than one dig site in Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis?

Brachiosaurus turns up at both a Morrison Formation site and the Tendaguru Beds, which helps: it is one of only five dinosaurs with a five-star rating.

The Flaming Cliffs dig site in Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis is named after a real fossil region in which country?

Mongolia's Flaming Cliffs got their name from explorer Roy Chapman Andrews in the 1920s; in the game they are the dig for Homalocephale.

The Tendaguru Beds dig site in Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis is named after fossil beds in which African country?

Tanzania's Tendaguru Beds came to light in 1906, when a German mining engineer was shown enormous bones there; the game digs up Allosaurus from them.

Which Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis dig site, named after rocks near Jordan, Montana, yields Edmontosaurus fossils?

Hell Creek appears twice on the dig map, as groups A and B; the real formation stretches across Montana, the Dakotas and Wyoming.

Which small plant-eater is the only dinosaur with a one-star popularity rating in Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis?

Dryosaurus is the least popular animal with visitors, and its flocks scatter in all directions when a T. rex approaches, each one putting survival first.

Which relative of Tyrannosaurus is classed among the small carnivores of Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis?

Albertosaurus, a tyrannosaurid named after the Canadian province of Alberta, earns three stars in the small group while its bigger cousin tops the large one.

Which Jurassic Park III predator ranks with Tyrannosaurus among the most popular dinosaurs in Operation Genesis?

Spinosaurus and Tyrannosaurus draw the biggest crowds, but both need large pens with high-security fences and are prone to rampaging when stressed.

Which spiked relative of Stegosaurus is dug up at the Tendaguru Beds site in Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis?

Kentrosaurus really was found in those African beds, and the game makes it a two-star small herbivore beside its famous four-star cousin.

Which dinosaur from Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom was cut from Operation Genesis but is still named in its files?

Baryonyx is one of more than a dozen cut species whose names survive in the game's files, alongside Apatosaurus, Diplodocus and Iguanodon.

What does a higher percentage of recovered DNA give a dinosaur hatched in Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis?

A longer life is the reward: a species can be hatched once half its genome is recovered, but those animals die sooner than ones from a complete set.

Which real disease, a danger mainly to mammals, can strike the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis?

Rabies joins tick infestation, gastric poisoning and the invented Dino Flu, and each needs its own vaccine researched before a sick animal can be treated.

Which researched attraction in Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis carries visitors over the dinosaurs by air?

Balloon Tour rides can be taken over by the player for a look around the park, but only while a visitor is using one.

What is the in-game guide to its dinosaurs called in Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis?

Dinopedia entries give real dinosaur facts; where the films never showed how a species behaved, the developers turned to palaeontology textbooks.

Which character must players rescue from a visitor shelter in one Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis mission?

John Hammond, the park's founder, has to be collected by road, and the mission ends only when he is delivered safely to the park entrance.

Which British studio made Jurassic World Evolution, called a spiritual successor to Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis?

Frontier Developments released it in 2018 with a similar mix of building and managing, and followed it with sequels in 2021 and 2025.

Which version of Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis earned the best reviews, rated generally favorable on Metacritic?

PlayStation 2 reviews were the warmest; a Game Informer critic called that version one of the best console business sims he had played.

Which Japanese company, maker of Jurassic Park III: Park Builder, co-published Operation Genesis in Japan?

Konami's Park Builder was at the time the only other game to treat the licence as a park sim, and it came out after this one was already in development.

Which publisher asked that Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis be about creating dinosaurs instead of killing them?

Universal Interactive had watched the licence spawn many games about surviving dinosaurs and wanted players to build and manage a park instead.

Which guest building was cut from Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis along with a hunting platform and a vet station?

A hotel was on the list of lost buildings; some had worked in earlier builds before design changes or the consoles' memory limits removed them.

What must players take of dinosaurs to score points in the safari missions of Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis?

Photographs of dinosaurs hunting, fighting, playing and sleeping fill a calendar in one mission, a mode previewers compared to Pokémon Snap.

Besides company, what must surround herbivores to keep them happy in Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis?

Trees matter as much as food: a herbivore in a bare paddock grows unhappy however many bales of plant feed its feeding station holds.

Which AI technique lets Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis dinosaurs sort what they see into threat, friend or food?

A neural network sorts every object a dinosaur perceives, which lets the animals respond sensibly to creatures they have never met before.

Which animals' calls were used to voice dinosaurs in Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis that never appeared in the films?

Birds supplied unusual calls that needed little alteration, while the film stars kept their movie voices, including the familiar Tyrannosaurus roar.

Which dinosaur, famous for the first film's stampede scene, is a small herbivore in Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis?

Gallimimus needs little space and is easy to care for, the trade-off being that small herbivores are less of a draw for guests.

Which film character reports new fossil discoveries to the player in Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis?

Alan Grant oversees the fossil-hunting expeditions and announces each new shipment on the fossil market, while other film characters cover security, finance and research.