

If Grant loses a life, the player is restarted at the last motion sensor with which Grant came into contact. Motion sensors set up around the island allow characters in the game to communicate advice to the player, although some advice is deliberately malicious. Food and first-aid kits located throughout the game can replenish the player's health. Grant's health is represented by a red health bar. The player is given five lives, and two continues when all lives are lost.

The game features seven different dinosaur enemies, as well as giant dragonflies. The player controls Grant, and begins the game armed with a cattle prod, although the game also features five other weapons: tranquilizer gun, shotgun, bolas, gas grenade launcher, and missile launcher. Alan Grant and others become trapped at an island theme park, known as Jurassic Park, that is populated with dinosaurs. Following a computer system failure, paleontologist Dr. Jurassic Park is based on the novel and film of the same name.
