12 T-Rex Game Facts You Probably Didn't Know

Dinosaur Games · Updated 2026-10-17

You've jumped the cacti a thousand times — but how well do you know the little dinosaur? Here are twelve T-Rex game facts worth retelling, each one checkable in our longer guides. (And if the facts spark the itch, the dinosaur game is one tap away.)

The Facts

1. It's named after a rock star. The internal codename was "Project Bolan", for Marc Bolan of the band T. Rex — details in the history article.
2. The dino nearly roared. Designers considered roar and kick animations, then cut everything to keep it "prehistoric".
3. It was built to last 17 million years — a designer joke matching the T-Rex's reign on Earth, dissected in the ending article.
4. 270 million plays a month is its commonly cited traffic — more sessions than most blockbuster games see in a year.
5. Its biggest fans have the worst internet. Play concentrates in regions with costly or unstable data — the genre context of our no internet games piece.
6. The first version choked on old phones, forcing the December 2014 rewrite.
7. The score stops at 99,999 — the cap behind every world record discussion.
8. The speed stops climbing too — there's a hard velocity cap, measured in our speed article.
9. One console line makes it unbeatable — the famous invincibility command from the cheats guide.
10. The "pterodactyl" is really a pteranodon-style pterosaur — flying reptiles, not dinosaurs; our Flying Dinosaur Game stars one.
11. You can play it while online — the chrome://dino address skips the error page entirely (guide).
12. It spawned a genre — mirrors, mods, extensions and 3D remakes like our Dinosaur Game 3D all trace back to the error page.

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