"Rocky Mountain News" wrote that the film "had all of the elements to make a video game classic. Too bad Sega didn't see that. In all of its 16-megabit, Spielberg-licensed, digitized, graphically detailed glory, the game still grates, bores and frustrates." William Schiffmann of the Associated Press favorably compared the game to "Flashback", and called it "a winner," writing that, "Playing Jurassic Park is as much fun as seeing the movie—maybe better. Graphics are great, control is excellent and the sound, both music and effects, is perfect." Joel Easley of Scripps Howard News Service considered the game too easy, and criticized the background graphics, although he praised the "awesome" designs of the main characters and "T. rex", as well as the "cool" ability to play as either Grant or the "Velociraptor".