Risky Woods

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Description

Unusually for Electronic Arts in the early 90s, this was a platform -shooter game with little or no adventuring or strategy elements. The game scrolls sideways, and has sections where precision jumps are required, either to clear rivers or collect bonuses. You carry a dagger to deal with the enemies, and must avoid contact with them. When killed, they leave coins to be collected - these are spent in the shop sections. Death loses you most of your coins, but they can usually be retrieved if they land on solid ground - making it better to be killed in combat than by drowning.

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Alternate Titles

• "邪神ドラクソス" -- Japanese spelling
• "לוחמי המערות" -- Hebrew spelling
• "Jashin Draxos" -- Japanese title

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Critic Reviews

Atari ST User	Atari ST	Apr, 1993	84 out of 100	84
Mean Machines	Genesis	Dec, 1992	74 out of 100	74
Play Time	DOS	1992		70
Power Play	DOS	Jan, 1993	69 out of 100	69
PC Games (Germany)	DOS	Nov, 1992	68 out of 100	68
Amiga Format	Amiga	Aug, 1992	65 out of 100	65
Retrogaming.it	Amiga	Mar 14, 2008	6 out of 10	60
Sega-16.com	Genesis	Apr 28, 2011	6 out of 10	60
Amiga Joker	Amiga	Sep, 1992	60 out of 100	60
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt)	DOS	Mar, 1993	7 out of 12	58

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Trivia

Milestones

• Risky Woods was the last title developed by Dinamic Software before falling into bankruptcy.
• The Genesis/Mega Drive version was the first Spanish game to be ported to a console system.

Amiga graphics

The Amiga version of the game featured parallax scrolling with 16-colors in the back layer, which is quite an technical effort. The background was not implemented with the Amigas build in parallax scrolling possibilities, as this would not have allowed so many colors for the background -- other games with parallax scrolling featured 2 or 4 colors in the background, but these colors are usually changed in certain lines of the screens, creating the impression of more colors. Risky Woods work with an extensive Copper list (one of the Amiga custom chips), to create the complete background with sprite multiplexing (the limited amount of hardware sprites is constantly reused and synchronized with the cathode ray beam). This technique was very rarely used in commercial games.
Sources: Interview with developer Ricardo Puerto, Codetapper article about the sprite technique of Risky Woods