Jurassic Park needs no introduction. The early 90s movie ushered the era of CGI in movies. It was wildly successful and has become a classic. For example, when the movie premiered on network television in 1995, 68 MILLION people tuned in, a 36% of all available viewers that night.
The Jurassic Park Ride begun development a few years before the movie was even released, in November of 1990. Development of the ride took 6 years, as it opened on June 15, 1996. The ride cost $110 million, almost twice as much as the movie it was based on!
The ride first opened at Universal Studios Hollywood. The ride actually is considered part of the movie plot. John Hammond was contracted to rebuild the part inside a theme park. Universal would later build a whole mini-theme park dedicated to Jurassic Park in their Islands of Adventure property in Orlando.