Dangerous Dave
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Dangerous Dave, Apple II title screen
Dangerous Dave is an Apple II game that was written by John Romero as an example game to accompany his article about his GraBASIC Applesoft BASIC add-on for the UpTime disk magazine.
Since the original 1988 publishing of Dangerous Dave on the UpTime disk magazine, there have been 3 sequels and 3 ports of the original to other platforms.
- Dangerous Dave, 1988, Apple II, 6-color, UpTime (the original)
- Double Dangerous Dave, 1990, Apple II, 16-color, Softdisk (16 color port of the 1988 original)
- Dangerous Dave in Copyright Infringement, 1990, PC, EGA, non-published (the demo that launched id Software)
- Dangerous Dave, 1990, PC (CGA, EGA, VGA), Softdisk (PC version of the 1988 original)
- Dangerous Dave GS, 1990, Apple //gs, never completed (//gs version of the 1988 original)
- Dangerous Dave In The Haunted Mansion, 1991, PC / EGA, Softdisk
- Dangerous Dave's Risky Rescue, 1993, PC, EGA, Softdisk
- Dave Goes Nutz! ,1993, PC, EGA, Softdisk
Trivia
Dangerous Dave is a hugely popular game in India's school system. Although computer technology in the schools lags significantly behind those found in more modernized states, the original PC version of Dangerous Dave is often within the limits of what is playable.
External links
- John Romero's site: The Saga of Dangerous Dave (http://www.rome.ro/article_saga_dave.htm)
- John Romero's site: The Apple II original Dangerous Dave (http://rome.ro/games_dangerous_dave.htm)
- John Romero's site: Dangerous Dave in "Copyright Infringement" (http://rome.ro/games_ddici.htm)
- Frenkel Smeijer's Dangerous Dave page (http://www.student.tue.nl/u/a.f.smeijers/sfp/default.htm)
- Dangerous Dave on The Underdogs (http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?gameid=2520)
- Dangerous Dave PC Walkthrough (http://db.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin/file/dangerous_dave.txt)