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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Part of the Following Groups

• 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

Computer and Video Games (CVG)	Commodore 64	Jul, 1987	87 out of 100	87
Computer and Video Games (CVG)	ZX Spectrum	Jul, 1989	87 out of 100	87
Computer and Video Games (CVG)	Amiga	Jul, 1989	87 out of 100	87
Jeuxvideo.com	Atari ST	Aug 08, 2011	17 out of 20	85
Commodore User	Commodore 64	Jun, 1985	84 out of 100	84
Amstrad Action	Amstrad CPC	Jul, 1989	83 out of 100	83
Retro Archives	Commodore 64	Mar 01, 2019	16 out of 20	80
The Games Machine (UK)	Atari ST	Sep, 1989	78 out of 100	78
Zzap!	Commodore 64	Aug, 1989	73 out of 100	73
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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