Rick Dangerous

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Description

You play Rick Dangerous, an Indiana Jones type who's on a quest to find the lost Coolu Amazon tribe. However, his plane crashes in the middle of a bunch of crazed Coolus. Hopefully, he's up to the challenge of escaping. If he is, he will find himself in the pyramid of Egypt with no easy way past leaders and their minions, and then engulfed in a web of traps in a Nazi base.

Rick Dangerous is a platform game across over 100 screens, in which Rick has his gun in one hand, and dynamite sticks in another. You must take a methodical approach to clearing each screen, as there are traps in place which will need memorizing and preempting where possible. Use the dynamite wisely, for enemies you can't get into the purely-horizontal range of your gun.

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Alternate Titles

• "Rick Dangerous: The Adventure Starts Here" -- Tag-lined title (Europe)
• "Rick Dangerous: Action... Adventure... all that neat stuff!" -- Tag-lined title (US)

Part of the Following Groups

• Protagonist: Treasure hunter
• Rick Dangerous series
• Setting: Egyptian

User Reviews

Cruel and unusual punishment	Amiga	Joakim Kihlman (275)
Who's your daddy, Lara Croft?	DOS	5u3 (197)
the best of core design before tomb raider !!!	DOS	CHARPENTIER DAVID (32)
A solid platform game	Amiga	Mark Papadakis (36)

Critic Reviews

ST Action	Atari ST	Mar, 1993	92 out of 100	92
Computer and Video Games (CVG)	Atari ST	Jul, 1989	87 out of 100	87
Computer and Video Games (CVG)	Amiga	Jul, 1989	87 out of 100	87
Computer and Video Games (CVG)	ZX Spectrum	Jul, 1989	87 out of 100	87
Retro Archives	Atari ST	Mar 01, 2019	17 out of 20	85
Retro Archives	Amiga	Mar 01, 2019	17 out of 20	85
Tilt	Amstrad CPC	Oct, 1989	17 out of 20	85
The Games Machine (UK)	Commodore 64	Jul, 1989	81 out of 100	81
GameTrip.net	Atari ST	Jun 18, 2006	8 out of 10	80
Retro Archives	DOS	Mar 01, 2019	10.5 out of 20	52

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Trivia

Cartoon

There is a cartoon about the story with the original game.

Awards

• Amiga Power
  • May 1991 (issue #00) - #71 in the "All Time Top 100 Amiga Games"
• Commodore Format
  • July 1993 (Issue 34) - Modern Classics: Arcade Adventure (Check 'em out)
• ST Format
  • January 1990 (issue #06) - Included in the list 50 Games of the Year

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