Jurassic Park slot: the launch of August 2014 at Platinum Play
This article was written in 2014 and we keep it as a record of how the online casinos of that time presented their games and promotions. The operators, offers and figures it mentions may no longer exist or may have changed, and nothing on this page is a current offer. 18+.
On Wednesday 6 August 2014 Microgaming put the Jurassic Park slot, built under licence from the studio that owns the film, in the lobbies of its casinos, and Platinum Play (an operator of 2004 which is still among those we work with) announced it with the release that this page keeps. The text promised "the greatest online gaming 65 million years in the making", which was the tone of that summer.
The quote attached to the launch came from Harry von Schlussel, presented as manager and spokesperson of Crazy Vegas, a Microgaming casino of the Vegas Partner Lounge group (VPL) whose name the address of this page still carries. The same release, evidently, served more than one brand, as was the custom. He expected "big things" from a game drawn from "such an iconic film", and called it "a definite winner" before anyone had played it.
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What the game was
Jurassic Park was a slot with five reels and 243 "ways to win" (a combination pays when the symbols fall on adjacent reels, whatever the row), with scenes of the film (1993) in the graphics and five free spins bonuses, one for each dinosaur, which the release called "nail-biting" and did not describe. The "T-Rex Alert" mode, which was triggered at random in the base game, added 35 extra "wild" symbols (the symbol standing in for the others) to the reels.
The release summed it up as "bigger is always better". A feature that adds wilds at random does not change the theoretical return of the game (the "RTP" printed in the help panel), because the return already includes it; what it changes is the rhythm, with long dry spells and a few loud minutes, which is what a film about dinosaurs deserves.
Our slot reviews, played in demo mode, start from that panel rather than from the brochure, and a player who met the game in 2014 had no such page to read. The help panel of the game itself, however, already told what the release did not, if you took the trouble to open it before the reels.
The casino and its offers at the time
Platinum Play claimed the eCOGRA certificate, the "128-bit" encryption and the licences of the Lotteries and Gaming Authority of Malta (the name of the Malta Gaming Authority until 2015) and of the Kahnawake Gaming Commission, with web wallets, cards and bank transfers, which it took in several currencies, and multilingual support 24/7. The release offered new players a "3-tier" deposit bonus of $500 over the first three deposits.
The tiers were 100 per cent up to $150 on the first, 200 per cent up to $100 on the second and 50 per cent up to $250 on the third, so that a player who wanted the whole $500 had to deposit $700 of his own money (150, 50 and 500). The 200 per cent of the middle tier was worth exactly $100 to anyone who deposited $50 or more!
The "wagering" (the volume of bets required before a withdrawal) was in the terms of the time, which nobody can read today, and the reassurances about banking and support were claims reported here as the casino made them, since the casino was not tested in 2014. The Platinum Play review tells how it was tried in demo mode and what its current package is.
Seen from 2026
Platinum Play is still on the list of this site, and the invitation to discover the world of Jurassic Park at the casino still leads to it (an affiliate link, as the box above says), although the 3-tier bonus and the figures above belong to 2014 and no longer exist, and the operator's own page prevails. Crazy Vegas, whose manager signed the quote, is not among the operators we work with today.
Microgaming's games, Jurassic Park among them, have been published by Games Global (since 2021-2022), and the slot still exists in that catalogue; the slot reviews page lists the games of that family played in demo mode. The other launches of those years, including the two slots launched at Golden Riviera in March 2014, are kept in our news archive.
A launch is news for a week. The current "free spins" offers, with the wagering counted, are on our free spins page, and the no deposit bonuses of today on the world list (the same method, applied to another kind of offer), where you will find the calculations rather than the adjectives, which is the only way we know of reading a casino's announcement, old or new.
By the Online-Casinos.ws editorial team · Online since 2002 · Last updated: 9 October 2026