In JumpStart Dino Adventure, players travel back in time to Dinosaur Land via a magical time machine. In order to return home, players must first help a mother pterodactyl find her lost eggs. As players explore the prehistoric terrain, they will discover five adventure-style games, each with three levels of gameplay, designed to build skills such as shape and pattern recognition, similarities and differences, memory, letters, and numbers. As players complete each of the challenges, they are rewarded with a dinosaur egg that was stolen from the pterodactyl nest.